John Lobur

Professor of Classics

Email:
jalobur@olemiss.edu
Office Location:
1848 University Circle
Phone:
662-915-1151

John Lobur is a Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics at the University of Mississippi.

Publications

2021, University of Michigan Press

Cornelius Nepos

A Study in the Evidence and Influence

From the publisher:

Roman author Cornelius Nepos wrote at a very dynamic time in Roman history, but oddly enough little has been said about what his surviving work as a whole can tell us about that period. In the scholarship of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the author was much maligned as inaccurate, simple-minded, and derivative, and thus it has been hard to make the case that the evidence he provides is important or even useful. John Lobur’s work rehabilitates Nepos to show that in fact he should be understood as an emblematic member of the Italian intelligentsia, one well-positioned to write narratives of great potency with respect to the ideological tenor of emerging Roman imperial culture.

Selected Book(s):

Consensus, Concordia and the Formation of Roman Imperial Ideology (2008, Routledge)

The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War, Chapter 5: Civil War and the Biographical Project of Cornelius Nepos (2019, Brill)

Selected Article(s):

Festinatio (Haste), Brevitas (Concision), and the Generation of Imperial Ideology in Velleius Paterculus