Rex E. Wallace, PhD
Rex E. Wallace is professor of classics and associate dean for research at the University of Massachusetts, where he has been teaching since 1985. He received his PhD in historical and comparative linguistics from The Ohio State University in 1984. His major research and teaching interests are Greek and Latin linguistics, historical linguistics, and English morphology and lexicography. Wallace has also authored or coauthored over 30 articles on Italic linguistics, Etruscan, and ancient Greek. Wallace is the author of An Introduction to Wall Inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2005), Res Gestae Divi Augusti (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2000), and Zikh Rasna: A Manual of the Etruscan Language and Inscriptions (Beech Stave Press, 2008).
Books by Rex E. Wallace, PhD
An Introduction to Wall Inscriptions from Pompeii and Herculaneum
- 570X
- 978-0-86516-570-0
This edition is a representative selection of the various types of inscriptions, from political manifestos to gladiatorial announcements, found in the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. These inscriptions, painted and incised on the walls of public and private buildings, document aspects of daily life in the first century CE. Inscriptions, particularly graffiti, were often written by less educated members of society, and as such provide a rare glimpse of common Latin.
Res Gestae Divi Augusti
- 455X
- 978-0-86516-455-0
This unadapted Latin text of the emperor Augustus' autobiography is designed to allow the intermediate/advanced student at the high school or college level to read Latin rapidly, without having constantly to consult a dictionary or grammar. The facing vocabulary and comprehensive grammar notes facilitate a rapid read. The Res Gestae reveals as much about Augustus and his accomplishments through what it omits as what it contains. This primary document allows students rare access to non-literary historical Latin, to the most impressive of all Latin inscriptions: the Res Gestae of Rome's first emperor, his accomplishments as he sought to have them presented.
