Jaclyn Neel

Jaclyn Neel received a BA in Classics from Columbia University in 2005 and a combined MA/PhD in Classics and Ancient History from the Collaborative Program in Ancient History at the University of Toronto in 2012. During that time, she also received a TESL-Canada diploma (2011). Her research centres on Roman mythology and political discourse, and she is also interested in the afterlife of antiquity.

Research and Teaching Interests
- Roman history and historiography
- Greco-Roman mythology
- Kingship and tyranny
- The ancient world and modern culture

Publications

Books
- Early Rome: Myth and Society. Wiley, 2017.
- Legendary Rivals: Collegiality and Ambition in the Tales of Early Rome. Brill, 2014

Chapters and Articles
- “Tarpeia the Vestal.” JRS 109 (2019), 103-30.
- “Cicero’s Rhetoric of Terror.” Mouseion 17.3 (2017), 437-53.
- “The Vibennae: Etruscan Heroes and Roman Historiography.” EtrSt. 20.1 (2017), 1-34.
- “Response.” La Saga di Romolo. ed. G. Cairo. Online (2016).
-“Epic Rumors: Cicero’s Target in Dom. 92.” Phoenix 69 (2015), 100-121.
- “P.Mich.inv. 3935a.” BASP 52 (2015), 43-58.
- “Reconsidering the affectatores regni.” CQ 65 (2015), 224-41.
- Diodorus, Deuteronomy, and Egyptian Agriculture.” VT 62 (2012), 646-51.