Michael J. Carter

Department of Classics

Associate Professor, Roman History and Latin
BA, MA (Queen's), PhD (McMaster)

Mailing Address:
Department of Classics
Brock University
St Catharines ON L2S 3A1 CANADA

Phone: 905 688 5550 ext 3796
Fax: 905 984 4859
Email: mjcarter@brocku.ca

Teaching 2012-2013:

• CLAS/HIST 3P03: History of Early Greece (fall)
• CLAS 2P40: Ancient Sport (fall)
• CLAS/HIST 3P04: History of Classical Greece (winter)
• CLAS/HIST 3P06: History of the Early Roman Empire (winter)
• CLAS/VISA 4V37: The Age of Augustus: Images and Monuments (winter)

Research:
My primary research interest relates to the social and cultural significance of gladiatorial contests and similar (Roman) spectacles in the Greek, eastern provinces of the Roman Empire.  I am concerned especially with the impact the adoption and adaptation of such thoroughly Roman spectalces in the Greek world had on Greek society and identity.  I am also interested in Roman history more broadly, Romanization, Topography of Rome, Greek and Latin epigraphy, and historiography.

Select Recent Publications:

• Forthcoming, 2012. "Romanization through Spectacle”," in D.G. Kyle and P. Christesen (eds.) Companion on Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Wiley-Blackwell).
• Forthcoming, 2012. "Persuade the People: Violence and Roman Spectacles in the Greek East”," in S. Ralph (ed.) The Archaeology of Violence (Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology).
• Forthcoming. "Amphitheaters and Arenas." In M. Gagarin (ed.) The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford).
• 2011. "Blown Call? Diodorus and the Treacherous Summa Rudis," ZPE 177: 63-69.
• 2009. "Gladiators and Monomachoi: Greek Attitudes to a Roman Cultural Performance." International Journal of the History of Sport 29.2:  298-322.
• 2009. "Accepi Ramum:  Gladiatorial Palms and the Chavagnes Gladiator Cup." Latomus 69: 139-143.
• 2008. "Livy, T. Manlius Tarquinius and the Gladiatorial Prolusio." Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 151: 313-325.
• 2008. "(Un) Dressed to Kill:  Views of the Retiarius ".  In J. Edmondson and A. Keith (edd.), Roman Dress and the Fabrics of Roman Culture (Toronto) 113-135. 
• 2006. "Gladiatorial Combat with 'Sharp' Weapons (tois oxesi siderois)." ZPE 155: 161-175.