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Roger Rees (1)

Author of Diocletian and the Tetrarchy (Debates and Documents in Ancient History)

For other authors named Roger Rees, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

Roger Rees is a Welsh-born actor and director who became famnous on stage as Nicholas Nickleby and later played English multi-millionaire Robin Colcord on the TV Show "Cheers". He was an accomplished stage star who won Tony and Olivier Awards in 1982 for his role as the title character in the Royal show more Shakespeare Company's The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickelby. He was familiar to television audiences as Robin Colcord, a millionaire love interest for Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley) in 1980s comedy Cheers and more recently as British ambassador Lord John Marbury in cult US political drama The West Wing from 2000 to 2005. Among his other credits was an appearance as the Sheriff of Rottingham in Mel Brooks¿ slapstick comedy Robin Hood: Men in Tights in 1993. Roger Rees passed away in his home in New York on July 10, 2015. He was 71. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Works by Roger Rees

Diocletian and the Tetrarchy (Debates and Documents in Ancient History) (2004) 12 copies

Layers of Loyalty: Latin Panegyric 289 - 307 (2002) 6 copies

Oxford Readings in Latin Panegyric (2012) — Editor — 5 copies

Ted Hughes and the Classics (2009) — Editor — 2 copies

Roman rule in Greek and Latin writing : double vision (2014) — Editor — 2 copies

Arethusa (vol 46 no 2): Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity — Guest Editor — 1 copy

Associated Works

A Companion to Roman Rhetoric (2007) — Contributor — 33 copies, 1 review

Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity (2012) — Contributor — 24 copies

Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography (2007) — Contributor — 18 copies

The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus (1999) — Contributor — 14 copies

A Companion to Late Antique Literature (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (2018) — Contributor — 13 copies

Pliny's Praise: The Panegyricus in the Roman World (2011) — Contributor — 9 copies

Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh Studies in Law) (2007) — Contributor — 8 copies

Form and Function in Roman Oratory (2010) — Contributor — 6 copies

The Roman Paratext: Frame, Texts, Readers (2014) — Contributor — 6 copies

Epic Visions: Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception (2013) — Contributor — 5 copies

The Poetics of Late Latin Literature (2016) — Contributor — 5 copies

Herakles and Hercules : exploring a Graeco-Roman divinity (2005) — Contributor — 4 copies

The Julio-Claudian succession reality and perception of the "Augustan model" (2012) — Contributor — 3 copies

Imagining Emperors in the Later Roman Empire (Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean) (2018) — Contributor — 3 copies

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Gender: male
Education: University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College)
University of St. Andrews
Occupations: Reader in Latin
Organizations: University of St Andrews
Nationality: UK
Associated Place (for map): UK

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Works: 6
Also by: 14
Members: 28
Popularity: #471,396
Rating: ½ 3.5

ISBNs: 16

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