Elizabeth E. Keitel
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1977

531 Herter Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
413.545.5777 office
413.545.6995 fax
eek@classics.umass.edu

Research Interests
Greek and Roman historigraphy and biography; rhetoric; women in antiquity.

Recent Publications
2006. Sententia and Structure in Tacitus Histories 1.12-49. Arethusa 39: 219-244.

2007. Feast Your Eyes on This: Vitellius as a Stock Tyrant (Tac. Hist. 3.36–39). In J. Marincola (ed.), A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography, pp. 441–446. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2008. The Virgilian Reminiscences at Tacitus Histories 3.84.4. Classical Quarterly 58.2: 705-708.

(with Jane W. Crawford), Cicero, pro Caelio (Focus Press 2010)
“Is Dying So Very Terrible? the Neronian Annals" in A. J. Woodman, ed, The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Cambridge University Press 2010) 127-143

“The Art of Losing: Tacitean Disaster Narrative “in C.S. Kraus, J. M. Marincola, C.B.R. Pelling, edd., Ancient Historiography and its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A.J. Woodman (Oxford University Press 2010) 331-352