Dr J. Lea Beness
BA Hons 1 and PhD University of New England
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Profile
Educated at the University of New England , Dr Lea Beness is Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History. She is currently the editor of Macquarie 's journal Ancient History: Resources for Teachers . Her research interests focus primarily on the politics of the Late Roman Republic . She is chief investigator of the Macquarie Dictionary of Roman Biography with her partner Associate Professor Tom Hillard.
External Appointments
Visiting Research Fellow, Norwich University , Northfield , Vermont
Awards
Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006)
Macquarie Gale Travelling
Fellowship in Graeco-Roman Ancient History (2006)
Fieldwork
Has participated in the underwater excavations at Caesarea Maritima in
Israel and at Torone in the Chalkidiki, northern Greece .
Selected Publications
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Links
- Department of Ancient History:
http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/
The Tribunate from Saturninus to Sulla: 103-88 B.C. ( Turnhout , Belgium , Brepols Publishers) Studia Antiqua Australiensia series (forthcoming)
Book Chapter
'Postclassical Effects on Classical Shoreline Sites: 'The "Harbor" at Torone?', in S. Swiny, R.L. Hohlfelder and H.W. Swiny (eds), Res Maritimae. Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium "Cities on the Sea" Nicosia , Cyprus , October 18-22, 1994 American Schools of Oriental Research. Archaeological Reports 4 (ed. L.G. Herr) Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute Monograph Series 1 (Atlanta, Georgia, Scholars Press, 1997), pp. 142-151 (with T.W. Hillard)
Articles
'Tribunician Agitation and Aristocratic Reaction, 80-71 BC', Athenaeum. Studi di Letteratura e Storia dell'Antichità 65 (1987), 361-378 (with B. Marshall)
'The Tongues of the Common Mouth? Tribunician Activity from Saturninus to Sulla (103-88 B.C.)', Classicum 16 (1990), 18-22
'The Death of Lucius Equitius on December 10th, 100 BC', Classical Quarterly NS 40 (1990), 269-272 (with T.W. Hillard)
'The Urban Unpopularity of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus', Antichthon 25 (1991), 1-30
'Sulpicius (tr. pl. 88 B.C.) and the Pompeii ', Electronic Antiquity 1.3 (1993) (6 pages)
'The Underwater Survey of Torone: A Preliminary Report of the 1993 Season', Mediterranean Archaeology 8 (1995), 89-100; Plate 9 (with C. Samiou et al. )
'When the Punishment Rivals the Crime: The Sack Treatment and the Execution of C. Villius', Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 28.2 (1998), 95-112
'The Punishment of the Gracchani and the Execution of C. Villius in 133/132', Antichthon 34 (2000), 1-17
'Romans in Upper Egypt in 116 B.C.', The Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 12 (2001), 25-33 (with T.W. Hillard)
'The Theatricality of the Deaths of C. Gracchus and friends', Classical Quarterly 51.1 (2001), 135-140 (with T.W. Hillard)
'The First Romans at Philae ( CIL 1 2 .2.2937a)', ZPE 144 (2003), 203-207 (with T.W. Hillard)
'Ancient History, archaeology and classical studies', in M. Spongberg, B. Caine and A. Curthoys (eds), Companion to Women's Historical Writing (Houndmills, Basingstoke , Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 5-15 (with T.W. Hillard)
'Scipio Aemilianus and the Crisis of 129 B.C.', Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte 54.1 (2005), 37-48
'Carbo's Tribunate of 129 and the Associated Dicta Scipionis ', Phoenix (forthcoming)
Reviews
'Rape in the Greek and Roman World: A Review Article', Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 29.2 (1999), 159-183 (with T.W. Hillard)
'Review of S. Dixon , Reading Roman Women. Sources, Genres and Real Life ', Classicum 28.1 (2002), 30-31
Biographical entries
Seven entries for From Polis to Empire -The Ancient World, c. 800 B.C. - A.D. 500. A Biographical Dictionary ed. A.G. Traver, Interdisciplinary Biographical Dictionaries. Vol. I. (Westport/London, Greenwood Press, 2002): 'Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius (163/162-133 B.C.)', 172-174; 'Gracchus, Gaius Sempronius (154/153-121 B.C.)', 174-176; 'Saturninus, Lucius Appuleius (c. 132-100 B.C.)', 342-343; 'Glaucia, Gaius Servilius (c. late 2nd century B.C.)', 171-172; 'Marius, Gaius (c. 157-86 B.C.)', 244-245; 'Drusus, Marcus Livius (c. 123-91 B.C.)', 142-143; and 'Sulpicius Rufus, Publius (124/123-88 B.C.)', 368-369
Two entries for Companion to Women's Historical Writing eds M. Spongberg, B. Caine and A. Curthoys (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005): 'Harrison, Jane Ellen 1850-1928', 235-237; 'Taylor, Lily Ross 1886-1969', 549-550 (both with T.W. Hillard)
Editor of journal issues
Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum A Special Issue of Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 35.1 (2005)
Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 35.2 (2005)
Pylos and Sphakteria (1990) during
a survey of ancient harbours
Division of Humanities:
http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/
Macquarie University:
http://www.mq.edu.au/