Department of Classics

New publication from T. Corey Brennan features long-lost scholarship

The journal History of Classical Scholarship in its series of Supplementary Volumes has published Friedrich Münzer: Essays on Roman History and Historiography, co-edited by T. Corey Brennan. Münzer (1868-1942) remains one of the most important historians of the Roman Republic and was the most prominent scholar of antiquity killed in the Holocaust. In the late 1960s, two leading ancient historians, Ernst Badian (1925-2011) and Robin Seager (born 1940), collaborated to translate nine of Friedrich Münzer’s most important journal articles into English, but their collection failed to see publication. Brennan edited and indexed their original typewritten manuscript, adding the translation of a tenth item, Münzer’s last (1939) article, long thought lost but which he found among Badian’s papers held at Rutgers Classics.