Dr Geoff Nathan

Memberships:

American Philological Association

Australasian Society for Classical Studies

Australian Association for Byzantine Studies

Phi Alpha Theta

Professional Appointments;

Executive Board, Australasian Society for Classical Studies

Executive Board, Australian Association for Byzantine Studies

Editorial board, De Imperatoribus Romanis, an online encyclopaedia of Roman emperors

Editorial Board, Byzantina Australiensia

Books

--Basileia. Empire and Culture in Byzantium. Papers in  Honour to Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, Byzantina Australiensa 17, ed. with Lynda Garland (Melbourne 2011)

--Family in Late Antiquity.  The Rise of Christianity and the Endurance of Tradition, Routledge (London 2000)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

--“The Vienna Dioscorides’ dedicatio to Anicia Juliana,” in G. Nathan and L. Garland, eds., The Emperor and Culture in Byzantium. Papers in Honour to Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, Byzantina Australiensa 17 (Melbourne 2011)

--“‘Woe to those making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless’: Christian Ideals and the Obligations of Stepfathers in Late Antiquity,” in Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity, S. Huebner and D. Ratzan, eds. (Cambridge 2009)

--“Remapping the Landscape:  Early Christianity and the Graeco-Roman World.  A Review Article,” Journal of Religious Studies Journal of Religious Studies 32, 2008

-- “Pothos ton Philoktistou”:  Anicia Juliana’s Architectural Narratology,”, Byzantine Narrative.  Papers in Honour of Roger Scott, Byzantina Australiensia 16, John Burke et al..eds. (Melbourne 2006),

--"Pudicitia Plebeia Womanly Echoes in the Struggle of the Orders," in “Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History,” Collection Latomus, vol. 11 (2003)

--"The Rogation Ceremonies of Late Antique Gaul:  Creation, Transmission and the Role of the Bishop," Classica et Mediaevalia 49 (1998)

--"Medicine and Sexual Practices in Late Antiquity," Epoche 18 (1993)

--"The Last Emperor:  The Fate of Romulus Augustulus," Classica et Mediaevalia 43 (1992)

Unpublished Papers Given at Refereed Conferences/Workshops:

--“ Extended Family in the Experiences of Ausonius and Libanius” Symposium of the FASS Research Cluster on Imperial, Colonial and Transnational Histories, UNSW, September 2013

-- “Bettini, Saller, and the Taxonomy of Extended Family in Ausonius’ Parentalia”  Workshop on the Mediterranean Household and Family, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Röstock, Germany, May 2012

--“The Ideal Male in Late Antiquity and the Example of Flavius Stiicho” International Medieval Conference 13, Leeds, UK, July 2011

--“Of Veiian Entrails and Falerian Children,” Annual Meeting of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies, Perth, February 2010

--“Anicia Juliana, domesticity among aristocratic women, and the Vienna Dioscurides manuscript” Annual Meeting of the ASCS, Sydney, February 2009

--“The Vienna Diosorides’ dedicatio to Anicia Juliana:  a usurpation of imperial patronage?” XV Biennial AABS Conference, Sydney, February 2008

--“Public Womanhood and Anicia Juliana,” Sydney Classical Association, Sydney, September 2005

--“Control of Nature and Controlled by Nature:  Anicia Juliana, Aristocratic Women, and the Vienna Dioscurides Manuscript,” Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, Banff, May 2005

-- “Pothos ton Philoktistou”:  Anicia Juliana’s Architectural Narratology,” XIV Biennial AABS Conference, Melbourne University, August 2004

--“Fledgling Mothers of the Church,” SSEC Annual Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, May 2004