Herz, Zachary

Research

research overview

Professor Herz studies the role of law in Roman political discourse, and in particular how the philosophical and political commitments that we now think of as constituting 'the rule of law' express themselves in Roman legal writing.

Publications

selected publications

chapter
- The Epistemology of the Courthouse Classical Antiquity in American LGBT-Rights Litigation. 29-58. 2024
- How to Do the History of Elagabalus. 408-422. 2023
journal article
- STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT CURVED HORNS AND GAY MARRIAGE: A NEW READING OF JUVENAL'S SECOND SATIRE. Classical Quarterly. 822-836. 2023
- The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Gent, June 21-24, 2017). Classical Review. 462-464. 2020
- Precedential Reasoning and Dynastic Self-Fashioning in the Rescripts of Severus Alexander. Historia: Zeitschrift fuer Alte Geschichte. 103-125. 2020
- The Effect of Bankruptcy on Roman Imperial Credit Markets. 207-249. 2015
- The Marrying Kind. Tennessee law review. 83-159. 2015

Teaching

courses taught

CLAS 1061 - The Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2024
Surveys the rise of ancient Rome in the eighth century B.C. to its fall in the fifth century A.D. Emphasizes political institutions, foreign policy, leading personalities, and unique cultural accomplishments. No Greek or Latin required. Same as HIST 1061.
CLAS 1120 - Power and Passion in Ancient Rome
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2020
Read about mythological heroes and historical individuals from Romulus to Catiline and the emperors Augustus and Nero. Explore why Roman authors told stories the way they did and what those stories might have meant and might mean to us. Ancient texts in English translation.
CLAS 2110 - Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Rome
Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Spring 2023
Uses art, archaeology, and literature to study, from a contemporary feminist point of view, the status of women in works of Roman art and literature, the development of attitudes expressed toward them, and their daily life. No Greek or Latin required. Same as WGST 2110.
CLAS 3400 - Special Topics in Classics
Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
Topics in Greek, Latin or Classical civilization. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours for different topics. Note that the topics "Classics and Film", and "Swords and Sandals on Screen" cannot both be taken for credit.
CLAS 4761 - Roman Law
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020
Studies the constitutional and legal history of ancient Rome; emphasizes basic legal concepts and comparisons with American law. No Greek or Latin required. Same as CLAS 5761 and HIST 4761 and HIST 5761.

CLAS 4852 - Honors Thesis
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024

CLAS 5761 - Roman Law
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020
Studies the constitutional and legal history of ancient Rome; emphasizes basic legal concepts and comparisons with American law. No Greek or Latin required. Same as CLAS 4761 and HIST 4761 and HIST 5761.

HIST 1061 - The Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2024
Surveys the rise of ancient Rome in the eighth century B.C. to its fall in the fifth century A.D. Emphasizes political institutions, foreign policy, leading personalities, and unique cultural accomplishments. Same as CLAS 1061.

HIST 4761 - Roman Law
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020
Studies the constitutional and legal history of ancient Rome; emphasizes basic legal concepts and comparisons with American law. No Greek or Latin required. Same as HIST 5761 and CLAS 4761 and CLAS 5761.

LATN 2124 - Intermediate Latin 2
Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
Selections from Virgil's Aeneid with attention to literary form and context as well as advanced grammar and syntax. Recommended prerequisite: LATN 2114.

LATN 3014 - Introduction to Latin Prose
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019
Author or topic in Latin specified in the online Schedule Planner (e.g., Cicero, Livy, Pliny). May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours for different topics. Formerly CLAS 3014.

LATN 3024 - Introduction to Latin Poetry
Primary Instructor - Spring 2022
Author or topic in Latin specified in the online Schedule Planner (e.g., Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, Horace). May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours for different topics.

LATN 4014 - Topics in Latin Prose
Primary Instructor - Spring 2023
Author or topic in Latin specified in the online Schedule Planner (e.g., Roman historians, Roman epistolography, Cicero, Roman novel). May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours for different topics. Recommended prerequisites: LATN 3014 and LATN 3024. Same as LATN 5014.

LATN 4044 - Topics in Latin Poetry
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021
Author or topic specified in Latin specified in the online Schedule Planner (e.g., Roman elegy, Neronian poetry, Lucretius, Roman satire). May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours for different topics. Same as LATN 5044. Recommended prerequisites: LATN 3014 and LATN 3024.

LATN 5014 - Topics in Latin Prose
Primary Instructor - Spring 2023
Author or topic in Latin specified in the online Schedule Planner (e.g., Roman historians, Roman epistolography, Cicero, Roman novel). May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours for different topics. Same as LATN 4014.

LATN 5044 - Topics in Latin Poetry
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021
Author or topic specified in Latin specified in the online Schedule Planner (e.g., Roman elegy, Neronian poetry, Lucretius, Roman satire). May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours for different topics. Same as LATN 4044.

LATN 5404 - Special Project: Teaching
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020
Trains students to prepare classroom-ready materials, which are then tested in the students' own classroom. Required of master's candidates (teaching of Latin option). Formerly CLAS 5404.

LATN 7014 - Graduate Seminar in Latin Literature
Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
May be repeated up to 7 total credit hours. Formerly CLAS 7014.

PHIL 5040 - Latin Philosophical Texts
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021
Selected readings in classical and medieval philosophy, in the original language, with a focus on achieving fluency in reading philosophical Latin.

WGST 2110 - Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Rome
Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Spring 2023
Uses art, archaeology, and literature to study, from a contemporary feminist point of view, the status of women in works of Roman art and literature, the development of attitudes expressed toward them, and their daily life. No Greek or Latin required. Same as CLAS 2110.

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