Brian Turner

Fields of Expertise:

Ancient Mediterranean world, especially Roman history; military history; mapping and worldview
(Potential Roman MA students should read the expanded field description)

Select Publications:

• Pliny the Elder's World (Cambridge 2022) (translated with Richard J. A. Talbert) 
• Brill's Companion to Military Defeat in Ancient Mediterranean Society (Brill 2018) (edited with Jessica H. Clark)
• “Celebrating ‘Bloodless Victories’ in the Roman World.” Journal of Military History 86.2 (2022): 277-298.
• “From Batavian Revolt to Rhenish Insurgency.” In Brill’s Companion to Insurgency and Terrorism in the Ancient Mediterranean, eds. Lee Brice and Timothy Howe (Brill 2016), 282-311. 
• “War Losses and Worldview: Re-Viewing the Roman Funerary Altar at Adamclisi.” American Journal of Philology 134.2 (2013): 277-304.

Teaching:

• HST 309U: Roman Republic
• HST 310U: Roman Empire
• HST 315U: Greek History
• HST 390U: Global History of Warfare
• HST 416: Geography and Worldview in the Ancient Mediterranean
• HST 416: Roman Imperialism
• HST 491/492: The Julio-Claudians
• HST 491-492: Augustus and the Early Empire