Simon Corcoran

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Simon Corcoran is an ancient historian and senior research fellow at University College, London. He received his D.Phil from St. John's College, Oxford in 1992. He was awarded the Henryk Kupiszewski Prize for his book The Empire of the Tetrarchs in 1998.

He is working on Projet Volterra which aims to produce an extensive on-line database of law (Roman, Germanic or ‘barbarian’, and ecclesiastical) for the period AD193-900. He is a member of the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.

Greed is a motive everyone can understand. Lactantius includes greed and avarice as a notable part of the tetrarchic maladministration practised by Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, and Maximinus, and indeed the cause of the inflation the edict seeks to curb. Thus it is Diocletian's greed that gives rise to the Prices Edict itself.

– Simon Corcoran , Empire of the Tetrarchs

Contents 1 Bibliography of works 1.1 Books 1.2 Selected Publications 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] Bibliography of works

[edit] Books

• Corcoran, Simon (2000). The Empire of the Tetrarchs, Imperial Pronouncements and Government AD 284-324, 2nd Ed., Oxford University Press, 440 pages. ISBN 0-19-815304-X. 

[edit] Selected Publications

• Corcoran, Simon (2007), “Two tales, two cities: Antinoopolis and Nottingham”, in Drinkwater, John & Salway, Benet, Wolf Liebeschuetz reflected: Essays presented by Colleagues, Friends, and Pupils, BICS Supplement 91, University of London, School of Advanced Study, Institute of Classical Studies, pp. 193-209, ISBN 9781905670048 
• Corcoran, Simon (2006), “The Tetrarchy: policy and image as reflected in imperial pronouncements”, in Boschung, Dietrich, Die Tetrarchie: Ein neues Regierungssystem und seine mediale Präsentation, ZAKMIRA Schriften 3, Reichert Verlag: Wiesbaden, pp. 31-61, ISBN 389500510X 
• Corcoran, Simon (2006), “Emperor and citizen in the era of Constantine”, in Hartley, Elizabeth, Constantine the Great: York’s Roman Emperor, Lund Humphries, pp. 41-51, ISBN 0853319286 
• Corcoran, Simon (2006), “Before Constantine”, in Lenski, Noel, The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine, Cambridge University Press, pp. 35-58, ISBN 9780521521574 
• Corcoran, Simon (2000), “The sins of the fathers: a neglected constitution of Diocletian on incest”, Journal of Legal History (Routledge) 21.2: 1-34, ISSN 0144-0365 

[edit] See also

• Professor Michael Crawford

[edit] External links

• Volterra Project at UCL
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.8.4 Review of The Empire of the Tetrarchs