Dr Rhiannon Ash is Fellow and Tutor in Classics and Merton College,
Oxford University. She has published widely on Tacitus' Histories
(including a monograph, Ordering Anarchy: Armies and Leaders in
Tacitus' Histories (1999) and a commentary on the Latin text of
Tacitus Histories Book 2 (2007). She is interested in all Latin
prose literature of the imperial period, including Pliny the Elder
and Pliny the Younger.