{"id":1019,"date":"2010-03-09T11:14:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/?page_id=1019"},"modified":"2025-03-14T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T18:19:09","slug":"roland-jeffreys","status":"publish","type":"cu-people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chum\/people\/roland-jeffreys\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland Jeffreys"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Biography<\/h4>\n<p>Born and brought up in Wales; attended university in England (University College London) and Canada (McMaster); early in career taught at University of Krakow (Poland), University of London, St. Patrick&#8217;s College (University of Ottawa); full-time faculty member at Carleton from 1967 -2005; served as Chair of Classics Dept twice, also as Graduate and Undergraduate Supervisor of Classics and as Director of School of Languages, Literatures and Comparative Literary Studies; since retirement (2005) have taught as contract instructor.<\/p>\n<h4>Research Interests<\/h4>\n<p><strong>In general<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Latin literature in its historical context.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong> In particular<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the literary patronage of Messalla;<\/li>\n<li>concepts of truth and bias in ancient historiography;<\/li>\n<li>Seneca.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Publications<\/h4>\n<p>Articles and papers on : Augustan poetry and the regime; Messalla; Tibullan Corpus; Lucretius; Tacitus. 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