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Professor Edward Watts presenting: Roman decline, renewal, and how to talk about political change productively.
One of the most common themes that Romans express across more than 1600 years of their history is that their state is in a decline. Often, this is said for opportunistic reasons. In the Republic, ambitious politicians attacked the establishment by promising to end a Roman decline these figures supposedly permitted. Under the empire, new imperial dynasties attacked the figures they replaced by blaming them for Rome's problems. But Romans also sometimes used a different rhetoric that emphasized a collective effort to repair problems in their society. While the rhetoric of decline promoted division, this Roman rhetoric of renewal encouraged cooperation and affirmed the unity of Rome. Professor Watts received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 2002. His research interests center on the intellectual and religious history of the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire. His first book, City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria (University of California Press, 2006), explains how the increasingly Christian upper class of the late antique world used a combination of economic and political pressures to neutralize pagan elements of the traditional educational system. City and School received the Outstanding Publication Award from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in 2007.
His latest book is titled “Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny” (Basic Books, 2018). In addition to authoring, Dr. Watts has worked in co-editing five other volumes.
He has also authored more than 40 articles on topics ranging from the Old Academy in the fourth century BC to the relationship between orality and textuality in the early Byzantine period. He is currently preparing a monograph tracing the Romanization and de-Romanization of the Mediterranean world between 96 and 850 AD (The Rise and Fall of the Roman Nation, [Oxford University Press, forthcoming]) and is co-authoring a volume introducing the historical and classroom uses of Roman imperial coins. Watts, Edward. Political Change in the Roman World & Today #UCSD #Oceanids #SoundingBoard #NellieHighIredale #LaJolla