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Dr Tom Stevenson: Publications
PhD Thesis (1990)
STEVENSON, T.R. The Emperor as Father in the Ideology of the Roman Principate (University of Sydney
1990) (http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/6644)
Publications (1991 onwards)
(a) Books:
STEVENSON, T.R. Julius Caesar and the Fall of the Roman Republic (Longman World Library of Biography
series, forthcoming)
(b) Edited Books and Collections:
STEVENSON, T.R. (ed.) The Leadership of Augustus (= QHistory, papers by Hugh Lindsay, Robert Hannah,
Bridget Buxton, Edwin Judge, Tom Stevenson), Brisbane: Queensland History Teachers Association, 2012.
STEVENSON, T.R. et al. (eds.) The Statue of Zeus at Olympia: New Approaches, Newcastle, UK: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2011.
STEVENSON, T.R. and WARDLE, D. (eds.) Vespasianus (= Acta Classica vol. 53), Cape Town: Classical
Association of South Africa, 2010.
STEVENSON, T.R. and WILSON, M.J. (eds.) Cicero’s Philippics: History, Rhetoric and Ideology (= Prudentia
vols. 37 and 38), Auckland: Polygraphia, 2008. Reviewed by J. Henderson in Bryn Mawr Classical Review
2010.3.16 = Review 16 of March 2010 (‘this worthwhile collection enhances the suite of speeches, individually
and as a concatenation’); cf. J. Ramsey in Classical Review 61.1: 109-12, 2011 (110: ‘an important body of
work’; 112: ‘a splendidly produced set of contributions’); A. Stelow in Religious Studies Review 37.1: 52, 2011
(‘Students of the Philippics and of late Republican intellectual history alike will find the volume of use in
becoming familiar with the current terms of the debate on this still indisputably great corpus of speeches’).
(c) Refereed Journal Articles:
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘On Interpreting the Eclectic Nature of Roman Sculpture’, Scholia 19: 53-78, 2010 (publ.
Dec. 2011).
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Women of Early Rome as Exempla in Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, Book 1’, Classical World
104.2: 175-89, 2011.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Antony as “Tyrant” in Cicero’s First Philippic’, Ramus 38.2: 174-86, 2009.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘On Dating the Frieze of Trajan’s Column’, Mediterranean Archaeology 21: 43-58, 2008.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘What Happened to the Zeus of Olympia?’, Ancient History Bulletin 21.1-2: 65-88, 2007.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Roman Coins and Refusals of the Title Pater Patriae’, Numismatic Chronicle 167: 119-
141, 2007.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Readings of Scipio’s Dictatorship in Cicero’s De Re Publica (6.12)’, Classical Quarterly
55: 1, 140-52, 2005.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Cavalry Uniforms on the Parthenon Frieze?’, American Journal of Archaeology 107: 4,
629-54, 2003.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘On Personifications and Male Attitudes in Ancient Greece’, Classicum 28: 1, 2-10, 2002.
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STEVENSON, T.R. ‘On Trajan’s Column: Readings, Functions and Symbolism’, Ancient History: Resources for
Teachers 31: 1, 28-68, 2001.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Parens Patriae and Livy’s Camillus’, Ramus 29: 1, 27-46, 2000.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Parthenon Frieze in Recent Scholarship: Problems and Interpretations’, Ancient
History: Resources for Teachers 30: 1, 42-67, 2000.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘An Ideal Leader: Xenophon’s Hipparchikos (How to be a Cavalry Commander)’,
Classicum 26: 2, 2-5, 2000.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Death of Penthesilea by Exekias: A New Look at BMC Vases B210’, Ancient World
30: 2, 141-53, 1999.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The “Problem” with Nude Honorific Statuary and Portraits in Late Republican and
Augustan Rome’, Greece and Rome 45: 1, 45-69, 1998 (cf. Wikipedia, ‘Heroic Nudity’; BMCR 2006.03.19 [B.
Ridgway]).
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Visual Images of Augustus’, Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 27: 2, 125-53, 1997.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The “Discovery” of the “Tomb” of Alexander the Great’, Classicum 23: 1, 8-15, 1997.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Social and Psychological Interpretations of Graeco-Roman Religion: Some Thoughts on
the Ideal Benefactor’, Antichthon 30, 1-18, 1996.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Personifications in Greek Art’, Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 26: 1, 13-22,
1996.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Ideal Benefactor and the Father Analogy in Greek and Roman Thought’, Classical
Quarterly 42: 2, 421-36, 1992.
(d) Chapters in Books:
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Imaginations of Ancient Rome in 19 th Century Historical Novels’, in P. McKechnie (ed.),
Lines of Interpretation (forthcoming).
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The “Succession Policy” of Augustus, in P. Burton (ed.), Festschrift for Erich Gruen (=
Antichthon) Sydney: Australasian Society for Classical Studies (forthcoming).
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Appian on the Pharsalus Campaign: Bella Civilia 2.48-91’, in K. Welch (ed.), Appian,
Swansea: Classical Press of Wales (forthcoming).
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Reverberations of Empire: Cicero, Caesar and the Post-Sullan Empire’, in B.D. Hoyos
(ed.), Brill’s Companion to Roman Imperialism, Leiden: Brill (forthcoming).
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Leadership of Augustus’, in The Leadership of Augustus (= QHistory, papers by Hugh
Lindsay, Robert Hannah, Bridget Buxton, Edwin Judge, Tom Stevenson), Brisbane: Queensland History
Teachers Association, 2012.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The “Succession Policy” of Augustus, in The Leadership of Augustus (= QHistory, papers
by Hugh Lindsay, Robert Hannah, Bridget Buxton, Edwin Judge, Tom Stevenson), Brisbane: Queensland
History Teachers Association, 2012.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Introduction’, in J. McWilliam, S. Puttock, T.R. Stevenson, R. Taraporewalla (eds.), The
Statue of Zeus of Olympia: New Approaches, Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 1-8, 2011.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Fate of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia’, in J. McWilliam, S. Puttock, T. Stevenson, R.
Taraporewalla (eds.), The Statue of Zeus of Olympia: New Approaches, Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 155-71, 2011.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Vespasian: Power and Presentation’, in T. Stevenson and D. Wardle (eds.), Vespasianus (=
Acta Classica vol. 53), Cape Town: Classical Association of South Africa, 95-9, 2010.
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STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Personifications on the Coinage of Vespasian, AD 69-79’, in T.R. Stevenson and D.
Wardle (eds.), Vespasianus (= Acta Classica vol. 53), Cape Town: Classical Association of South Africa, 181-
205, 2010.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Acceptance of the Title Pater Patriae in 2 BC’, in L. and P. Watson (eds.), Roman
Byways: Papers from a Conference in Memory of Charles Tesoriero (= Antichthon Volume 43), Sydney:
Australasian Society for Classical Studies, 97-108, 2009.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Visual Images of Augustus’, in B. Marshall (ed.), Res Romanae, Sydney: Macquarie
Ancient History Association, 153-80, 2009.
STEVENSON, T.R. and WILSON, M.J. ‘Cicero’s Philippics: History, Rhetoric and Ideology’, in T.R.
Stevenson and M.J. Wilson (eds.), Cicero’s Philippics: History, Rhetoric and Ideology (= Prudentia vols. 37 and
38), Auckland: Polygraphia, 1-21, 2008.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Tyrants, Kings and Fathers in the Philippics’, in T.R. Stevenson and M.J. Wilson (eds.),
Cicero’s Philippics: History, Rhetoric and Ideology (= Prudentia Volumes 37 and 38), Auckland: Polygraphia,
95-113, 2008.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Parthenon Frieze as an Idealized, Contemporary Panathenaic Festival’, in D. Phillips
and D. Pritchard (eds.), Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World, Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 233-
80, 2003.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The “Divinity” of Caesar and the title Parens Patriae’, in T.W. Hillard, R.A. Kearsley,
C.E.V. Nixon, A.M. Nobbs (eds.), Ancient History in a Modern University: Proceedings in Honour of Professor
E.A. Judge, Vol. 1: The Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Cambridge, UK:
Eerdmans, 257-68, 1998.
BLYTH, D.J., STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Personification and Allegory in Greek Literature and Art’, in Megan
Jenkinson, Under the Aegis: The Virtues, Auckland: Fortuna Press, 116-23, 1997.
(e) Review Articles:
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘War as Addiction’, review of K. Raaflaub and N. Rosenstein (eds.), War and Society in the
Ancient and Medieval Worlds, in Scholia 12, 114-19, 2003.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Enlightened Imperialism or Oppression?’ review of C. Ando, Imperial Ideology and
Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, in Scholia 11, 122-8, 2002.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Classical in Greek Art’, review of M.D. Fullerton, Greek Art, in Scholia 10, 125-29,
2001.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Recent Scholarship on the Late Roman Republic: Where Have All the Romans Gone?’,
review of M. Beard and M. Crawford, Rome in the Late Republic: Problems and Interpretations, 2nd edn. 1999,
in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 30: 2, 133-63, 2000.
(f) Refereed Encyclopaedia Articles:
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Scipio Aemilianus’, Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Ancient History (forthcoming).
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Patria Potestas’, Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Ancient History (forthcoming).
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Gaius Julius Caesar: Life and Works’, The Literary Encyclopedia,
http://www.litencyc.com.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Civile (Civil War) / Commentarii De Bello Civili
(Commentaries on the Civil War)’, The Literary Encyclopedia, http://www.litencyc.com.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Gaius Julius Caesar, Bellum Gallicum (Gallic War) / Commentarii De Bello Gallico
(Commentaries on the Gallic War)’, The Literary Encyclopaedia, http://www.litencyc.com.
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STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Re Publica (On the State / On the Commonwealth)’, The
Literary Encyclopedia, http://www.litencyc.com.
(g) Non-Refereed Publications:
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Two Champions of the Ancient Olympics’, in QHistory, Brisbane: Queensland History
Teachers Association, 2011.
DORFIELD, S. (with Tom Stevenson, Amelia Brown) ‘Society is becoming ever more secular but Christmas is
never going to go away’, Courier Mail, 80, 12-13 November 2011.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Saturnalia’, Nova: The Journal of the Friends of Antiquity, January, 7-8, 2012.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Family Religion in Ancient Rome’, Nova: The Journal of the Friends of Antiquity,
October, 9-11, 2011.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Augustus and Family Religion’, Nova: The Journal of the Friends of Antiquity, October,
11-12, 2011.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Some Misconceptions about Roman Portraiture’, Nova: The Journal of the Friends of
Antiquity, May, 5-10, 2011.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Imaginations of Ancient Rome in 19 th Century Historical Novels’, Nova: The Journal of
the Friends of Antiquity, May, 12-18, 2011.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Public Entertainments of Pompey and Caesar’, QHistory (Queensland History Teachers
Association Journal), 30-35, 2011.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Public Entertainments of Pompey and Caesar’, Nova: The Journal of the Friends of
Antiquity (University of Queensland) Issue No. 1, 5-6, 2011.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Hannibal’s Invasion of Italy: A Turning Point in Roman History?’ Nova: The Journal of
the Friends of Antiquity (University of Queensland) Issue No. 4, 7-8, 2009.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Olympic Games (776 BC – AD 394)’, in Historical Atlas: A Comprehensive History of
the World, Sydney: Millennium House, 58-9, 2008.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Roman Disaster at Cannae, 216 BC’, Nova: The Journal of the Friends of Antiquity
(University of Queensland) Issue No. 2, 8-9, 2006.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Statue of Zeus at Olympia’, Nova: The Journal of the Friends of Antiquity (University
of Queensland) Issue No. 4, 4-5, 2005.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘How to Interpret the Frieze on Trajan’s Column?’, NZACT Bulletin 30: 1, 14-18, 2003.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Barberini Togatus: Patrician or “New Man”?’, NZACT Bulletin 29: 3, 97-101, 2002.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘The Arch of Constantine as a “Composite” Monument’, NZACT Bulletin 28: 1, 20-3, 2001.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Cleopatra’s mind much sharper than her looks’, New Zealand Herald, Monday 26 March,
A1, 2001.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Chatterbox: Expert Opinion on Gladiator’, Weekend Herald (NZ), 5-6 August, D3, 2000.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Rome 2000: The Eternal City Gets a Facelift’, NZACT Bulletin 27: 2, 74-5, 2000.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Q & A: Why do amphorae have pointed bases?’, New Zealand Herald, Saturday 9 October,
22, 1999.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘A Walking Tour of Rome (2)’, NZACT Bulletin 24: 2, 53-62, 1997.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘A Walking Tour of Rome (1)’, NZACT Bulletin 24: 1, 9-17, 1997.
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STEVENSON, T.R. ‘On the Two Approaches to Teaching Bursary Latin: An Appreciative Reply to Hal
Marryatt’, NZACT Bulletin 22: 2, 58-9, 1995.
STEVENSON, T.R. ‘Visual Images of Augustus’, NZACT Bulletin 18: 2, 15-17, 1991.
(h) Web and Film Publications:
WILSON, M., STEVENSON, T.R., DONOVAN, B. and BILLOT, F. ‘Pompeii, Insula I.9.’
Website publication of Pompeian archaeological site: http://www.proxima-veritati.auckland.ac.nz/insula9.
Also: http://www.bsr.ac.uk/BSR/sub_arch/BSR_Arch_02Pomp.htm (‘Pompeii Links - Virtual Tour’). 2002.
STEVENSON, T.R. Ancient History and Ancient Coin Types:
I. ‘Coins of Ancient Greece’, c. 15 mins.;
II. ‘Coins of the Roman Republic’, c. 17 mins.;
III. ‘Coins of the Roman Empire’, c. 19 mins.
Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Auckland TV Studio, 1993.
(i) Book Reviews:
STEVENSON, T.R. W.J. Tatum, Always I am Caesar, in Scholia Reviews 18: 3, 5 pp., 2009.
STEVENSON, T.R. J.T. Ramsey (ed.), Cicero: Philippics I-II, in Classical Review 58: 2, 448-50, 2008.
STEVENSON, T.R. R. Hannah, Greek and Roman Calendars, in Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 35: 2,
183-6, 2005 (publ. May 2007).
STEVENSON, T.R. C. Williamson, The Laws of the Roman People, in Classical Review 57: 1, 170-2, 2007.
(+ c. 70 others)
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