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Josiah Osgood is a historian of Rome. Osgood attended Yale University, from which he earned a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy. As of 2026, he is a professor of classics at Georgetown University.[1]
Publications
[edit]Books authored
[edit]- Caesar's Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press. 2006.[2][3]
- A Suetonius Reader: Selections from the Lives of the Caesars and the Life of Horace. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. 2011. ISBN 978-0-865-16716-2.
- Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire. Cambridge University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-521-88181-4.[4]
- Turia: A Roman Woman's Civil War. Women in Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-983238-5.[5]
- Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE-20 CE. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 2018. ISBN 978-1-107-02989-7.[6]
- Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic. 2022. ISBN 978-1-5416-2011-7.[7][8]
- Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome. Basic Books. 2025. ISBN 978-1-5416-0425-4.[9][10]
Books edited
[edit]- Braund, Susanna; Osgood, Josiah, eds. (2012). A Companion to Persius and Juvenal. Wiley-Blackwell.[11]
- Osgood, Josiah; Morrell, Kit; Welch, Kathryn, eds. (2019). Alternative Augustan Age. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-190-90140-0.[12]
- Osgood, Josiah; Baron, Christopher, eds. (2019). Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic. Historiography of Rome and Its Empire. Vol. 4. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-40505-9.
- Suetonius (2020). Osgood, Josiah (ed.). How to Be a Bad Emperor: An Ancient Guide to Truly Terrible Leaders. Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-19399-1.
- Sallust (2022). Osgood, Josiah (ed.). How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic. Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers. Princeton University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv218m6sg.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Josiah Osgood". Georgetown University. Retrieved 13 April 2026.
- ↑ Novillo López, Miguel Ángel (23 September 2024). "Reseña de: Osgood, Josiah: César contra Catón: la rivalidad que destruyó la República romana". Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua (37): 245–248. doi:10.5944/etfii.37.2024.41921. ISSN 2340-1370.
- ↑ Ferriès, Marie-Claire (12 September 2008). "Josiah Osgood, Cesar's Legacy. Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 440 p., indices.:". Revue historique. 646 (2): 383a–486a. doi:10.3917/rhis.082.0383a. ISSN 0035-3264.
- ↑ Barrett, Anthony A. (2010). "Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire by Josiah Osgood (review)". Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada. 54 (3): 461–463. doi:10.1353/mou.2010.0068. ISSN 1913-5416.
- ↑ Miączewska, Anna B. (16 December 2015). "Josiah Osgood, Turia: a Roman Woman's Civil War, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014, pp. 215". Res Historica (39): 321. doi:10.17951/rh.2015.39.321. ISSN 2082-6060.
- ↑ Novillo López, Miguel Ángel (7 November 2019). "Reseña de: Osgood, Josiah, Roma: La creación del estado mundo". Espacio Tiempo y Forma. Serie II, Historia Antigua (32): 297. doi:10.5944/etfii.32.2019.25900. ISSN 2340-1370.
- ↑ "Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato's Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic by Josiah Osgood". Publishers Weekly. 16 September 2022. Retrieved 13 April 2026.
- ↑ Lendon, J. E. (2 June 2025). "Josiah Osgood, Uncommon Wrath. How Caesar and Cato's Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2022". Historische Zeitschrift. 320 (3): 712–714. doi:10.1515/hzhz-2025-1125. ISSN 2196-680X.
- ↑ Watts, Edward (19 August 2025). "The best troll Rome ever knew". LA Review of Books. Retrieved 13 April 2026.
- ↑ Romm, James (2 February 2025). "'Lawless Republic' Review: A Society in Decay". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 13 April 2026.
- ↑ Connors, Catherine M. (2013). "A Companion to Persius and Juvenal by Susanna Braund and Josiah Osgood". Phoenix. 67 (3/4): 407. doi:10.7834/phoenix.67.3-4.0407.
- ↑ Jurkowski, Marek (30 December 2021). "Apologia sroki albo August i dziedzictwo optymatów [Rec. The Alternative Augustan Age, eds. Kit Morrell, Josiah Osgood, Kathryn Welch, New York 2019]". Wieki Stare i Nowe (in Polish). 16 (21): 191–204. doi:10.31261/WSN.2021.21.12. ISSN 2353-9739.
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