Ash completed undergraduate study at Oxford. She subsequently studied for an
MA in Toronto, before obtaining a
DPhil from the University of Oxford.[2]
Her primary area of research interest is Latin prose literature of the
Imperial Era, especially that of
Tacitus,
Pliny the Elder, and
Pliny the Younger.[3] She has published commentaries on book 15 of the
Annals and book 2 of the
Histories.[4][5] She has also written extensively on ancient epistles, Greek and Roman biographies, and battle narratives, among other subjects.
2012 (ed.): Oxford Readings in Tacitus (Oxford University Press).
2018: Tacitus Annals XV (Cambridge University Press).
Book chapters and journal articles
2009: 'Fission and Fusion: Shifting Roman Identities in Tacitus' Histories', 85-99 in A.J. Woodman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Cambridge University Press).
2010: 'Fighting Talk: Dillius Vocula's Last Stand (Tacitus Histories 4.58)', 211-31 in D. Pausch (ed), Stimmen der Geschichte: Funktionen von Reden in der antiken Historiographie (De Gruyter).
2010: 'Rhoxolani Blues (Tacitus Histories 1.79): Virgil's Scythian Ethnography Revisited', 141-54 in J.F. Miller and A.J. Woodman (eds), Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire (Brill).
2010: 'Tarda Moles Ciuilis Belli: The Weight of the Past in Tacitus' Histories', in Citizens of Discord: Rome and its Civil Wars, 119-31 in B.W. Breed , C. Damon, and A. Rossi (eds.), (Oxford University Press).
2010: 'The Great Escape: Tacitus on the Mutiny of the Usipi (Agricola 28)', in Ancient Historiography and its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A.J. Woodman, 275-93 in C.S. Kraus, J. Marincola, and C. Pelling (eds.), (Oxford University Press).
2011: 'Pliny the Elder's Attitude to Warfare', 1-19 in R.K. Gibson and R. Morello (eds), Pliny the Elder Themes and Contexts (Brill).
2012: 'War Came in Disarray...' (Thebaid 7.616): Statius and the Depiction of Battle', in C. Newlands and W. Dominik (eds), Blackwell Companion to Statius (Blackwell).
2012: 'Women in Imperial Roman Literature',442-52 in S. James, S. Dillon (eds), A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (Blackwell).
2013: 'Tacitean Fusion: Tiberius the Satirist?', 433-47 in T.D. Papanghelis, S.J. Harrison, and S. Frangoulidis (eds), Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature: Encounters, Interactions, and Transformations (De Gruyter).
2014: 'Fractured Vision: Josephus and Tacitus on Triumph and Civil War', in R. Rees and J. Madsen J (eds.) Double Vision (Brill).
2014: 'Act like a German! Tacitus' Germania and National Characterisation in the Historical Works’, 183-98 in O. Devillers (ed.), Les opera minora de Tacite: étapes pour l’écriture de l’Histoire (éditions Ausonius).
2015: 'At the End of the Rainbow: Nero and Dido's Gold (Tacitus Annals 16.1-3)', 269-84 in R. Ash, J. Mossman and F. Titchener (eds),Fame and Infamy: Essays on Characterization in Greek and Roman Biography and Historiography (Oxford University Press).
2015: 'Shadow-Boxing in the East: The Spectacle of Romano-Parthian Conflict in Tacitus', 139-56 in V. Hope and A. Bakogianni (eds.), War as Spectacle (Bloomsbury).
2016: 'Tacitus and the Poets: In Nemora et Lucos … Secedendum est (Dialogus 9.6)?', 13-35 in P. Mitsis and I. Ziogas (eds), Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry (De Gruyter).
2016: 'Drip-Feed Invective: Pliny, Self-Fashioning, and the Regulus Letters', in A. Marmodoro and J. Hill (eds), The Author's Voice in Classical Antiquity (Oxford University Press).
2016: 'Never Say Die! Assassinating Emperors in Suetonius Lives of the Caesars', in K. De Temmerman and K. Demoen (eds.), Fictional Lives. Ancient Biography and Fictionality, (Cambridge University Press).
2017: 'Rhetoric and Roman Historiography', in M. MacDonald (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies (Oxford University Press), 195-204.
2021: 'A stylish exit: Marcus Terentius’ Swan-Song (Tacitus, Annals 6.8), Curtius Rufus, and Virgil', Classical Quarterly, vol. 71, 330-46
Ash completed undergraduate study at Oxford. She subsequently studied for an
MA in Toronto, before obtaining a
DPhil from the University of Oxford.[2]
Her primary area of research interest is Latin prose literature of the
Imperial Era, especially that of
Tacitus,
Pliny the Elder, and
Pliny the Younger.[3] She has published commentaries on book 15 of the
Annals and book 2 of the
Histories.[4][5] She has also written extensively on ancient epistles, Greek and Roman biographies, and battle narratives, among other subjects.
2012 (ed.): Oxford Readings in Tacitus (Oxford University Press).
2018: Tacitus Annals XV (Cambridge University Press).
Book chapters and journal articles
2009: 'Fission and Fusion: Shifting Roman Identities in Tacitus' Histories', 85-99 in A.J. Woodman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Cambridge University Press).
2010: 'Fighting Talk: Dillius Vocula's Last Stand (Tacitus Histories 4.58)', 211-31 in D. Pausch (ed), Stimmen der Geschichte: Funktionen von Reden in der antiken Historiographie (De Gruyter).
2010: 'Rhoxolani Blues (Tacitus Histories 1.79): Virgil's Scythian Ethnography Revisited', 141-54 in J.F. Miller and A.J. Woodman (eds), Latin Historiography and Poetry in the Early Empire (Brill).
2010: 'Tarda Moles Ciuilis Belli: The Weight of the Past in Tacitus' Histories', in Citizens of Discord: Rome and its Civil Wars, 119-31 in B.W. Breed , C. Damon, and A. Rossi (eds.), (Oxford University Press).
2010: 'The Great Escape: Tacitus on the Mutiny of the Usipi (Agricola 28)', in Ancient Historiography and its Contexts: Studies in Honour of A.J. Woodman, 275-93 in C.S. Kraus, J. Marincola, and C. Pelling (eds.), (Oxford University Press).
2011: 'Pliny the Elder's Attitude to Warfare', 1-19 in R.K. Gibson and R. Morello (eds), Pliny the Elder Themes and Contexts (Brill).
2012: 'War Came in Disarray...' (Thebaid 7.616): Statius and the Depiction of Battle', in C. Newlands and W. Dominik (eds), Blackwell Companion to Statius (Blackwell).
2012: 'Women in Imperial Roman Literature',442-52 in S. James, S. Dillon (eds), A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (Blackwell).
2013: 'Tacitean Fusion: Tiberius the Satirist?', 433-47 in T.D. Papanghelis, S.J. Harrison, and S. Frangoulidis (eds), Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature: Encounters, Interactions, and Transformations (De Gruyter).
2014: 'Fractured Vision: Josephus and Tacitus on Triumph and Civil War', in R. Rees and J. Madsen J (eds.) Double Vision (Brill).
2014: 'Act like a German! Tacitus' Germania and National Characterisation in the Historical Works’, 183-98 in O. Devillers (ed.), Les opera minora de Tacite: étapes pour l’écriture de l’Histoire (éditions Ausonius).
2015: 'At the End of the Rainbow: Nero and Dido's Gold (Tacitus Annals 16.1-3)', 269-84 in R. Ash, J. Mossman and F. Titchener (eds),Fame and Infamy: Essays on Characterization in Greek and Roman Biography and Historiography (Oxford University Press).
2015: 'Shadow-Boxing in the East: The Spectacle of Romano-Parthian Conflict in Tacitus', 139-56 in V. Hope and A. Bakogianni (eds.), War as Spectacle (Bloomsbury).
2016: 'Tacitus and the Poets: In Nemora et Lucos … Secedendum est (Dialogus 9.6)?', 13-35 in P. Mitsis and I. Ziogas (eds), Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry (De Gruyter).
2016: 'Drip-Feed Invective: Pliny, Self-Fashioning, and the Regulus Letters', in A. Marmodoro and J. Hill (eds), The Author's Voice in Classical Antiquity (Oxford University Press).
2016: 'Never Say Die! Assassinating Emperors in Suetonius Lives of the Caesars', in K. De Temmerman and K. Demoen (eds.), Fictional Lives. Ancient Biography and Fictionality, (Cambridge University Press).
2017: 'Rhetoric and Roman Historiography', in M. MacDonald (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies (Oxford University Press), 195-204.
2021: 'A stylish exit: Marcus Terentius’ Swan-Song (Tacitus, Annals 6.8), Curtius Rufus, and Virgil', Classical Quarterly, vol. 71, 330-46