Dr Parshia Lee-Stecum

Biography

Qualifications: BA Hons (Tas.), PhD (Cantab.)

After studying at the Universities of Tasmania and Cambridge, Parshia worked for three years in Dublin before joining the Centre in 1998.

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Research

Research areas
His main research and teaching interests include Roman poetry of the Augustan period (especially Roman erotic elegy), magic in the Greco-Roman world, the circulation of ideology in Roman culture, Roman myth and self-identity.

Current Project
The boundaries of Roman ethnicity: an examination of elite Roman ethno-cultural identity in the late-Republican and early-Imperial period (55 BCE – 120 CE)
Type of Project: ARC Project
Collaborator: Dr Rhiannon Evans
This project investigates what it meant to be 'Roman' during the vital period of transition from Republic to Empire (55 BCE - 120 CE). It focuses specifically on the Roman elite's own representation of their ethnic identity, and seeks to establish whether a coherent ethno-cultural identity existed and how this identity varied and/or changed over time.

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Select publications

Books

• Lee-Stecum, P. Powerplay in Tibullus: Reading Elegies Book 1 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; 1998)

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