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'''Robert Howard Rodgers''' (born 1944) is aan LatinAmerican [[philologist]] andwho is [[Emeritus Professor|emeritus professor]] of [[classics]] at the [[University of Vermont]]. He is an authority on Latin literature relating to agriculture. In 2004 he published hisHis edition of [[Frontinus]]'s ''De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae'', on [[Roman aqueduct]]s was the first detailed commentary on the work for almost 300 years. He has also publishedproduced majornotable workseditions of works on ancient agriculture by [[Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius|Palladius]] and [[Columella]].

Robert Rodgers was born in 1944.<ref>[http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84075001/ Rodgers, Robert H. (Robert Howard) 1944.] WorldCat. Retrieved 12 September 12, 2022.</ref> He completed his PhD at the [[University of California, Berkeley|University of California]] at Berkeley with an edited edition of Petri Diaconi ([[Peter the Deacon]])'s ''Ortus et vita iustorum Cenobii Casinensis'' which was subsequently published by the University of California Press in 1972.<ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/title/602540556 Petri Diaconi Ortus et vita iustorum Cenobii Casinensis Petri Diaconi Ortus et vita iustorum Cenobii Casinensis.] WorldCat. Retrieved 12 September 12, 2022.</ref> Rodgers's work was welcomed by Braxton Ross of the [[University of Chicago]] as turning what had previously been seen as a "collection of pious stories" into a "cultural document".<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/267661 Review: ''Petri Diaconi "Ortus et Vita Iustorum Cenobii Casinensis'' by R. H. Rodgers], Braxton Ross, ''[[Classical Philology (journal)|Classical Philology]]'', Vol. 72, No. 1 (Jan., 1977), pp. 80-82.</ref>

Rodgers has spent his career at the [[University of Vermont]] where he is now emeritus professor of classics.<ref>[https://www.uvm.edu/cas/classics/profiles/robert-h-rodgers Robert H. Rodgers.] University of Vermont. Retrieved 12 September 12, 2022.</ref> He was a [[Guggenheim fellow]] in classics in 1986.<ref>[https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/robert-h-rodgers/ Robert H. Rodgers.] John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 12 September 12, 2022.</ref>

His first major work, after the publication of his dissertation in 1972, was ''An introduction to Palladius'' which was published as a supplement to the University of London's [[Institute of Classical Studies]] ''Bulletin'' (BICS) in 1975. In the same year, he published an edition of [[Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius|Palladius]]'s]] ''Opus Agriculturae'' in the Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana series. Reviewing both for ''[[L'Antiquité Classique]]'', Raoul Verdière saw the ''Introduction'' as the essential companion to the edited edition of ''Opus Agriculturae'' and wished the former could have served as the preface to the latter. He noted the extensive textual choices that Rodgers had made to make his edition coherent andwhich inhad soproduced doing,an producing a commentaryedition of the highest importance. He didn'tdid not agree with all of RodgerRodgers's decisions, however, particularly over the dating of the work, and felt that the source material was so contested that other editions with different conclusions remained possible.<ref name=Rod1977>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41650999 Review: ''An Introduction to Palladius'' by R. H. Rodgers and ''Palladii Rutilii Tauri Aemiliani viri inlustris opus agriculturae, de veterinaria medicina, de insitione'' by Robert H. Rodgers], [[Raoul Verdière]], ''L'Antiquité Classique'', T. 46, Fasc. 1 (1977), pp. 284-285.</ref>

In 2004, Rodgers published his edition of Frontinus's ''De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae'', the first detailed commentary on the work for almost 300 years.<ref name=kon/> Reviewed by [[Alice König]] in the ''[[Journal of Roman Studies]]'' along with a related work by [[Michael Peachin]], König began by reflecting on the ongoing reevaluation of a work that had once been seen simply as a factual guide to Rome's aqueducts, or, as Frontinus had described it, an administrative handbook for his work. The more scholars investigated the text, however, the more baffled they were as to its true purpose and meaning, seeing elements of political propaganda and auto-encomium (self praise) in it but reaching no firm conclusions.<ref name=kon>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/20430529 Review: ''Frontinus: De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae'' by R. H. Rodgers & ''Frontinus and the Curae of the Curator Aquarum'' by M. Peachin], Alice König, ''The Journal of Roman Studies'', Vol. 96 (2006), pp. 262-265.</ref> König noted that Rodgers had given his own interpretation of the work, balanced between the various competing theories, but wished that he had explored the competing theoriesthem in more depth which would have added extra interest to his already exhaustive commentary and notes.<ref name=kon/> [[Marco Formisano]] noted in ''[[The Classical Review]]'' that due to the complex textual history of the work, there had been four editions of the text in the twentieth century alone, but Rodgers's commentary was the first since the Italian engineer [[Giovanni Poleni]]'s edition of 1722. The addition of the comprehensive commentary plus Rodgers's very competent re-editing meant that his was likely to be the future reference edition of the work. Formisano felt, however, that Rodgers had not done enough to put the text in the context of the debate about the position of Roman technical literature that had been taking place in scholarly circles in the twentieth century.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3873555 Review: ''Frontinus. De aquaeductu urbis Romae'' by R. H. Rodgers], Marco Formisano, ''The Classical Review'', New Series, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Apr., 2006), pp. 132-135.</ref> [[Ari Saastamoine]] in ''[[Classics Ireland]]'' also noted the bold emendations and the impressive commentary.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/25528464 Review: ''Frontinus: De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae'' by R. H. Rodgers], ''Classics Ireland'', Vol. 13 (2006), pp. 131-134</ref><ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/27693938 Review: ''Frontinus. De aquaeductu urbis Romae''], [[Widu-Wolfgang Ehlers]], ''Gnomon'', 78. Bd., H. 7 (2006), pp. 604-608.</ref>

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