R. H. Rodgers | |
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Born | Robert Howard Rodgers 1944 (age 79–80) |
Occupation | Professor of classics |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of California at Berkeley |
Thesis | "Petri Diaconi Ortus et vita iustorum Cenobii Casinensis" |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Institutions | University of Vermont |
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Robert Howard Rodgers (born 1944) is an American philologist who is emeritus professor of classics at the University of Vermont. His edition of Frontinus's De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae on Roman aqueducts was the first detailed commentary on the work for almost 300 years. He has also produced notable editions of works on ancient agriculture by Palladius and Columella.
Reviewers have appreciated the thoroughness of his work, which he has combined with many bold emendations and conjectures in order to make texts with difficult and contested histories more coherent and readable. Some, however, have wished that he had done more to acknowledge alternative perspectives on Roman technical literature which would have added an extra layer of interest to his work.