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{{short description|Latin philologist and emeritus professor of classics}}
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▲| alma_mater = University of California at Berkeley
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▲| thesis_title = "Petri Diaconi Ortus et vita iustorum Cenobii Casinensis"
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* Works by Palladius and Columella
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'''Robert Howard Rodgers''' (born 1944) is
Reviewers have appreciated the thoroughness of his work, which he has combined with many bold emendations and conjectures in order to make texts with difficult and contested histories more coherent and readable. Some, however, have wished that he had done more to acknowledge alternative perspectives on Roman technical literature which would have added an extra layer of interest to his work.
==Early life==
[[File:Petri Diaconi Ortus et vita, iustorum cenobii casinensis.jpg|thumb|Rodgers's edition of ''Petri Diaconi Ortus et vita, iustorum cenobii casinensis'', 1972.]]
Robert Rodgers was born in 1944.<ref>[http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84075001/ Rodgers, Robert H. (Robert Howard) 1944.] WorldCat. Retrieved
==Career==
[[File:Frontinus De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae.jpg|thumb|Rodgers's edition of ''Frontinus De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae'', 2004.]]
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
His first major work, after the publication of his dissertation, 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
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
[[Marco Formisano]] noted in ''[[The Classical Review]]'' that due to the complex textual history of the ''De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae'', it had received four editions in the twentieth century alone, but Rodgers's comprehensive commentary was the first since the Italian engineer [[Giovanni Poleni]]'s edition of 1722. Combined with the very competent re-editing, this made Rodgers's version the likely future reference edition of the work. Formisano wished, however, that Rodgers had done more 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 Saastamoinen]] in ''[[Classics Ireland]]'' also noted the bold emendations and 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>
In 2010, Rodgers published his edition of [[Columella]]'s ''Res Rustica'' in the Oxford Classical Texts series along with the ''Liber de Arboribus'' but with the latter marked as ''incerti auctoris'' (by an unknown hand). Reviewing the text for ''[[Gnomon (journal)|Gnomon]]'', David Butterfield appreciated the boldness with which Rodgers had crafted his "radical" version of the text with over 350 new conjectures which included more than 200 emendations of the ''Res Rustica''.<ref name=but/> But also noted that Rodgers had been more conservative with the ''Liber de Arboribus'' by adopting the view of Will Richter that the work is of uncertain authorship, rather than a juvenile work of Columella.<ref name=but>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/23502225 Review: ''L. Iuni Moderati Columellae Res Rustica. Incerti auctoris Liber de arboribus'' by R. H. Rodgers], David Butterfield, ''Gnomon'', 85. Bd., H. 6 (2013), pp. 561-564.</ref>▼
▲In 2010, Rodgers published his edition of [[Columella]]'s ''Res Rustica'' in the [[Oxford Classical Texts]] series along with the associated ''Liber de Arboribus'' but with the latter marked as ''incerti auctoris'' (by an unknown hand). Reviewing the text for ''[[Gnomon (journal)|Gnomon]]'', David Butterfield appreciated the boldness with which Rodgers had crafted his "radical" version
==Selected publications==
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* ''L. Iuni Moderati Columellae: Res Rustica''; Incerti Auctoris: Liber de Arboribus. [[Oxford Classical Texts]]. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010. ISBN 9780199271542
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