Jeffrey Tatum

JEFFREY TATUM is Professor of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington. He the author of over a hundred papers and book chapters and has written or edited seven books, including The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher (1999), Always I am Caesar (2008), Plutarch: The Rise of Rome (2013), Quintus Cicero: A Brief Handbook on Canvassing for Office (2018), Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society (2018), and A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the...See more

JEFFREY TATUM is Professor of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington. He the author of over a hundred papers and book chapters and has written or edited seven books, including The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher (1999), Always I am Caesar (2008), Plutarch: The Rise of Rome (2013), Quintus Cicero: A Brief Handbook on Canvassing for Office (2018), Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society (2018), and A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic (2024). He has been a visiting fellow or guest lecturer at universities and learned institutions in Australasia, China, Europe, and North America; was the Visiting Professor of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens; and the recipient of a Royal Society Marsden Grant. He has won several local and national teaching and engagement awards in the USA and New Zealand, including the American Philological Association's Excellence in Teaching Award. He is currently chair of the editorial board of the Clarendon Ancient History Series. See less