Robert H. Rodgers, Lyman-Roberts Professor of Classics

• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1970
• Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Area of expertise

Latin literature, textual criticism, Graeco-Roman agriculture and technology

Contact Information

Email: robert.rodgers@uvm.edu
Phone: (802) 656-4626
Office: Room 103, 481 Main Street
Office Hours: Fall 2010 - M- 1:00-2:00; W- 9:00-10:00; F- 1:30-2:30 and by appointment

I teach Greek and Latin language and literature at all levels, including Myths and Legends of the Trojan War (CLAS 24), and also (with Jeff Marshall, Special Collections at Bailey-Howe) a course in the history of writing and book-production.

My research focuses on language and style, primarily in the technical literature of antiquity. I have worked extensively the aqueduct system of ancient Rome and on the agricultural treatises of the Graeco-Roman world. I have produced new critical editions of ancient authors based on a fresh appraisal of the medieval manuscript evidence for the text. In the area of New England history, I have published articles on family history and am at work on an eight (or more)-volume series of the 17th-century probate records of Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

My educational preparation (A.B., 1966, Ph.D., 1970, both Harvard) is long in the background. I taught at University of California, Berkeley, from 1970-1980, and have been at UVM since.

Selected Publications

Books

• Columella Res rustica. Oxford Classical Texts. Oxford, forthcoming, 2010)
• Frontinus De aquaeductu urbis Romae. Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries. Cambridge: University Press, 2004
• Translation of Frontinus On the Water-Management of the City of Rome, in Journal of Roman Archaeology 18 (2005), 514-534
• Middlesex County in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, Records of Probate and Administration, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society [Vol. 1] October 1649-December 1660 (1999) [Vol. 2] March 1660/61-December 1670 (2001) [Vol. 3] March 1670/71-December 1675 (2005)
• New Haven in Vermont, 1761-1983. Town of New Haven, 1984.
• An Introduction to Palladius. Univ. of London, Inst. of Classical Studies, Bulletin Supplement 35. London 1975
• Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Opus agriculturae, De veterinaria medicina, De insitione. Leipzig: Teubner, 1975
• Petri Diaconi Ortus et vita iustorum cenobii Casinensis, edited from the autograph manuscript and with a commentary. Univ. of California Publications: Classical Studies, vol. 10. Berkeley 1972

Articles

• "Birds and Bees: Textual Notes on Columella, Books 8 and 9," Eranos 103 (2005) 101-120
• "Kêpopoiïa: Garden-Making and Garden Culture in the Greek Geoponica," in Byzantine Garden Culture, ed. A. Littlewood et al. (Washington, 2002), 159-175
• "The Black Population of Chittenden County Identified in Federal Census Returns", 1791-1860," Vermont Genealogy 5 (2000) 1-22
• "Sidestepping the Long Shadow of Frontinus," Journal of Roman Archaeology 9 (1996), 395-408
• "Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo: The Roman Reward for Public Service," New England Classical Newsletter & Journal 19/4 (1992), 24-27
• "An Administrator's Hydraulics: Frontinus Aq. 35-36.2," in Future Currents in Aqueduct Studies, ed. A. Trevor Hodge (Leeds, 1991), 15-20
• "Copia Aquarum: Frontinus' Measurements and the Perspective of Capacity," Transactions of American Philological Assn. 116 (1986) 353-360
• "Curatores Aquarum," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 86 (1982) 171-180 "Hail, Frost, and Pests in the Vineyard: Anatolius of Berytus as a Source for the Nabataean Agriculture," Journal of American Oriental Society 100 (1980) 1-11
• "Yûniyûs o Columela en la España medieval" Al-Andalus 43 (1978) 163-172 "The Apuleius of the Geoponica," California Studies in Classical Antiquity 11 (1978) 197-207
• "Varro and Virgil in the Geoponica" Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 19 (1978) 277-285

Faculty Directory

• M. D. Usher
• Jacques A. Bailly
• Angeline C.Chiu
• John C. Franklin
• Barbara Saylor Rodgers
• Robert H. Rodgers
• Brian T. Walsh

Adjunct Faculty

• William Mierse

Emeriti Faculty

• Z. Philip Ambrose
• Jean Davison
• Francis Bliss

Staff Directory

• Pam Cunov