Output details

The Fragments of the Roman Historians

Contribution to an edited book:

While the general editor of the volumes is T.J. Cornell, Bispham was on an editorial committee of four overseeing the production of a three-volume work of almost 2000 pages in all. His editorial responsibilities included reading all submissions on all authors, and providing feedback to the other eleven members of the team, and discussing submissions at plenary meetings; managing the accumulation of data and developing guidelines for its harmonisation and presentation; this work was strategic, editorial but also methodological, involving complex questions (what is a fragment? for example) which generated complex debates and ongoing revisions to the material.

Justification for taking as single output:

Bispham contributed several entries to, and served on the editorial committee of, a new edition of the fragmentary Roman historians. His co-authored contributions are: sections on Asconius i.38-39; Cicero i.53-60; Strabo i.124-5; introduction, text, translation, and commentary on: Fabius Pictor i.160-178, ii.42-105, iii.13-49; Cincius i.179-83, ii.106-21, iii.50-8; Acilius i.224-6, ii.272-81, iii.185-91. Bispham drafted all these entries, and collaborated on the revised drafts returned by co-authors (Cornell, Rich, Northwood). We propose these entries as a single output in that they are together part of a coherent new edition in which Bispham had a leading editorial role (described elsewhere in the submission).

Bispham began working on this project in 1999, and it occupied the entire census period. For individual entries texts were established from a wide range of citing authors (requiring all team members to extend their research expertise), and then given translation and commentary; exchange of criticism and feedback between co-authors for text, apparatus, translation, introduction and commentary continued across the time-frame of the project. His personal contribution amounts to 200 pages; it covers introduction, texts, translations and commentaries for three fragmentary authors and introductions on three source texts. He also had a heavy editorial role (described elsewhere in the submission).