Duncan MacRae

Job title: 
Associate Professor of Classics
Department: 
Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
Research interests: 

Roman cultural and social history, from late Republic to late antiquity; religious history of Roman world; early Christianity; Second Temple Judaism; Latin epigraphy.

Affiliated Faculty: 
Faculty

Recent Publications

  • “Capitoline Futures: The Location of Roman Futurity,” Transactions of the American Philological Associations 156 (2026), 27–59.
  • “The Predictions of P. Nigidius Figulus,” in K. Volk (ed.), Nigidius Figulus: Roman Polymath (2024), 51-65.
  •  “Reading the Roman-Jewish Treaty in 1 Maccabees 8: Narrative, Documents, and Hellenistic Historical Culture," Hermathena 200/201 (2016 [2022]), 73-93.
  • “Roman Hegemony and the Hasmoneans: The Construction of Empire,” in A. Berlin and P. Kosmin (eds.), The Middle Maccabees: Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom (2021), 331-345.
  • “Ludibrium Paulinae: Historiography, Anti-Pagan Polemic, and Aristocratic Marriage in De excidio Hierosolymitano 2.4,” Journal of Late Antiquity 14.2 (2021), 229-56.
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