Dr Jack Lennon
Lecturer - Ancient History
School/Department: Archaeology and Ancient History, School of
Email: jjpl1@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
Research
Publications
(2017) ‘Contaminating touch in the Roman world’ in A. Purves (ed.) Touch and the Ancient Senses (Routledge) 121-33.
(2015) ‘Victimarii in Roman religion and society’ Papers of the British School at Rome (83) 65-89.
(2015) ‘Dining and obligation in Valerius Maximus: the case of the sacra mensae’ Classical Quarterly (65.2) 719-31.
(2014) Pollution and Religion in Ancient Rome (Cambridge University Press Cambridge).
(2012) ‘Pollution religion and society in the Roman world’ in M. Bradley (ed.) Rome Pollution and Propriety: Dirt Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity (Cambridge University Press Cambridge) 43-58.
(2010) ‘Menstrual blood in ancient Rome: an unspeakable impurity?’ Classica et Mediaevalia (61) 71-87. (2010) ‘Jupiter Latiaris and the Taurobolium: inversions of cleansing in Christian polemic’ Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte (59.3) 381-384.
(2010) ‘Pollution and ritual impurity in Cicero’s De Domo Sua’ Classical Quarterly (60.2) 427-45."
Supervision
I am happy to supervise students in most aspects of Republican and early Imperial cultural and political history and I am especially interested the following subject areas:
- Roman religion
- Marginalisation in antiquity
- Ancient magic
Teaching
I am involved with a wide range of teaching within the School (both campus-based and distance learning) and currently co-ordinate the following modules:
AH1009 - Approaching Ancient Evidence: Roman
AH2023 - The Roman Principate
AH2038 - The Roman Family
AH2041 - Religion in the Roman World
AH3081 - The Fall of the Roman Republic
AH3083 - An Empire Reborn: Justinian and his Age