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LUCE, Torry James, Jr.

  • Luce, Torry James, Jr.
  • Date of Birth: August 28, 1932
  • Born City: Elmira
  • Born State/Country: NY
  • Parents: Torry James, a salesman and statistician, & Frances Carpenter L.
  • Date of Death: May 29, 2021
  • Death City: Tinton Falls
  • Death State/Country: NJ
  • Married: Marvin Mandelbaum, April 30, 2015.
  • Education:

    Elmira Free Academy; A.B., Hamiton College, 1954; Ph.D. Princeton, 1958.
  • Dissertation:

    “Appian’s Exposition of the Roman Republican Constitution” (Princeton, 1958).
  • Professional Experience:

    Asst. prof. to assoc. prof, Princeton, 1958-74; Proctor & Gamble Faculty Fellow, 1959-60; prof., 1974-7; Kennedy Foundation Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, 1977-95; asst. dean, college, 1965-70; chair, dept., 1977-81; Latin Scribe, 1963-95.
  • Publications:

    “Appian's Magisterial Terminology,” CP 56 (1961) 21-8; “Appian's Egyptian History,” CP 59 (1964) 259-62; “The Dating of Livy's First Decade,” TAPA 96 (1965) 209-40; “A Note on Livy ix,9,2 intercalatae poenae usuram,” Hermes 95 (1967) 383-4; “Political Propaganda on Roman Republican Coins, circa 92- 82 B. C.,” AJA 72 (1968) 25-39; “Marius and the Mithridatic Command,” Historia 19 (1970) 161-94; “Design and Structure in Livy, 5.32-55,” TAPA 102 (1971) 265-302; Livy. The Composition of His History) (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1977); “Tacitus on ‘History's Highest Function’: praecipuum munus annalium (Ann. 3. 65), ANRW 2, no. 33, 4 (1978) 2904-27; Ancient Writers, Greece and Rome, I-II (ed.) (New York: Scribners, 1982); “Tacitus' Conception of Historical Change: The Problem of Discovering the Historian's Opinions,” in Past Perspectives. Studies in Greek and Roman Historical Writing. Papers Presented at a Conference in Leeds, 6-8 April 1983, ed. L.S. Moxon, J.D. Smart, & Anthony John Woodman (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 1986) 143-58; “Ancient Views on the Causes of Bias in Historical Writing,” CP 84 (1989) 16-31; “Livy, Augustus, and the Forum Augustum,” in Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and His Principate, ed. Kurt A. Raaflaub & Mark Toher (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1990) 123-38; “Structure in Livy's Speeches,” in Livius: Aspekte seines Werkes, ed. Wolfgang Schuller (Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1993) 71-87; “Reading and Response in the Dialogus,” in Tacitus and the Tacitean Tradition, ed. with Anthony John Woodman (Princeton: Priceton U. Press, 1993) 11-38; “Livy and Dionysius,” in Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar. 8,: Roman Comedy, Augustan Poetry, Historiography, ed. Roger Brock & Anthony John Woodman (Leeds: Cairns, 1995) 225-39; “P. Vat. gr. 52: trasporto di vino dall'Egitto a Costantinopoli nel VII sec. d.C.,” ZPE 114 (1996) 153-6; The Greek Historians(London: Routledge, 1997; trans. as Die griechischen Historiker (Düsseldorf & Zürich: Artemis und Winkler, 1998); Livy: The Rise of Rome, Books 1–5, (trans.) Oxford World's Classics (New York & Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1998).