{"id":5765,"date":"2016-03-31T12:47:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T11:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=5765"},"modified":"2017-06-15T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T09:33:01","slug":"congratulations-to-michael-nash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/03\/31\/congratulations-to-michael-nash\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Michael Nash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/index.html\">Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies<\/a> is delighted to announce that Michael Nash has successfully defended his MA by Research in Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies, under the supervision of Professor Ray Laurence, with a thesis entitled &#8216;<em>Qua Re Qui Possum Non Esse Popularis<\/em>: The Representation of \u2018Populares\u2019 in the Late Roman Republic&#8217;<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The thesis is an evaluation of trends exhibited by politicians in the Late Roman Republic. It traces the employment and development of approaches typically labelled as\u00a0<em>popularis <\/em>or\u00a0optimate\u00a0to demonstrate that these terms were flexible and could be used to define a diverse range of politicians and their strategies. This is followed by an analysis of Cicero&#8217;s works to show how the discussed politicians were perceived a generation later and how this could be exploited within Late Republican oratory for a political advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations to Michael.<\/p>\n<p>For more details of research programmes in Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies see: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/postgraduate\/index.html\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/postgraduate\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Classical &amp; Archaeological Studies is delighted to announce that Michael Nash has successfully defended his MA by Research in Classical &amp; Archaeological &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/03\/31\/congratulations-to-michael-nash\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":5767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18564,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5765"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7507,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5765\/revisions\/7507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}