University of St Andrews

"Enrich the soldiers and scorn all other men": Monarchical Power and Severan Historiography

Academic History:

2011 - 2015: Bachelor in History and Classics: University of Southern Denmark with a year abroad at University of St Andrews

2015 - 2016: Master of Philosophy in Classics: University of Glasgow

2017 - present: PhD in Classics: University of St Andrews

Supervisors:

Dr Myles Lavan

Professor Jason König 

Professor Catherine Steel

Research Interests:

“Cassius Dio, Competition and the Decline of the Roman Republic” at University of Glasgow.

Scholarships:

• Doctoral scholarship at University of St Andrews (£42,900 - offer accepted)
• Doctoral scholarship at University of Exeter (£43,659 - offer declined)
• Doctoral scholarship at Durham University (£43,659 - offer declined)
• SGSAH doctoral scholarship at University of St Andrews (£12,585 - offer accepted)
• Northern Bridge doctoral scholarship at Durham University (£12,585 - offer declined)
• SWW doctoral scholarship at University of Exeter (£12,585 - offer declined)
• The Danish Institute of Athens: One-month research stay in November 2016, and provided with a grant of 3200 kroner (ca. £400)
• The Danish Institute of Rome: accepted for a two-month research stay in spring 2017 and provided with a grant of 21.000 kroner (ca. £2600)

Awards:

The Deans' List Award for "Academic Excellence" at University of St Andrews

Publications:

• ‘Reading Diachronically: A New Reading of Book 36 of Cassius Dio’s Roman History, under review in Histos.
• ‘Dio the Deviant: Comparing Dio’s Late Republic and the Parallel Sources’ in Osgood, J. (ed.) Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic. Leiden: Brill. Accepted for publication.
• ‘Exploiting Conventions: Dio’s Late Republic and the Annalistic Tradition’ in Lange, C. and Madsen, J. (eds.) Cassius Dio the Historian: Methods and Approaches. Leiden: Brill. Accepted for publication in 2018.
• Burden-Strevens, C. and Lindholmer, M. (eds.) Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome. Leiden: Brill. Provisionally accepted for publication in 2018.
• ‘Competition in Dio’s Republic’ in Burden-Strevens, C. and Lindholmer, M. (eds.) Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome. Leiden: Brill. Accepted for publication in 2018.
• ‘Introduction’ in Burden-Strevens, C. and Lindholmer, M. (eds.) Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome. Leiden: Brill. Accepted for publication in 2018.
• ‘The Assassination of Philip II: An Elusive Mastermind’ in Palamedes 11. Accepted for publication in 2017.
• Cassius Dio, Competition and the Decline of the Roman Republic. Thesis, University of Glasgow
• ‘Folkemord i Antikken – en moderne illusion (Genocide in Antiquity – a modern illusion)’ in Rubicon 1. 2016: 68-84.
• ‘Sextus Pompeius – en misforstået opportunist (Sextus Pompey – a misunderstood opportunist)’ in AIGIS 14, 2. 2014: 1-35.

Contact Details:

Address: School of Classics, Swallowgate, Butts Wynd, St Andrews Fife KY16 9AL

Work Tel No: +4526852690

Email: mol@st-andrews.ac.uk

First published: 25 September 2017