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Entries have been read by a panel of preliminary judges
which selected the five best works.
The five best works have been judged by two final judges,
one being a professional novelist and one being an expert
in Roman history. The final judges of the first edition
of the Certamen Petronianum were Dr. Colleen McCullough
and Prof. Dr. Peter Wiseman.
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Australian writer Colleen McCullough enjoys
worldwide renown, and her novels are bestsellers in
a multitude of languages. She is the author of Tim
(1974), The Thorn Birds (1977), An Indecent
Obsession (1981), A Creed for the Third Millennium
(1985), The Ladies of Missalonghi (1987); The
First Man in Rome (1990), The Grass Crown
(1991), Fortune's Favorites (1993), Caesar's
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Caesar (1997), The song of Troy (1998),
Morgan's Run (2000), The October Horse
(2002), The Touch (2003) and Angel Puss
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Peter Wiseman is Emeritus Professor of Roman
History at the University of Exeter, UK. He is a Fellow
of the Society of Antiquities (1977), Fellow of the
British Academy (1986), and holds an Honorary DLitt
(Durham, 1988). He was President of the Roman Society
(1992-3) and Vice-President of the British Academy
(1992-4).
He is author of Catullan Questions (1969),
New Men in the Roman Senate: 139BC-AD14 (1971),
Cinna the Poet and other Roma Essays (1974),
Titus Flavius and the Indivisible Subject (1978),
Clio's Cosmetics: Three Studies in Greco-Roman
Literature (1979), Julius Caesar. The Battle
for Gaul (1980), Roman Political Life 90BC-AD69
(1985), The Inheritance of Historiography 350-900
(1986), Catullus and his world, a reappraisal
(1987), A short history of the British School
at Rome (1990), Talking to Virgil. A Miscellany
(1992), Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World
(1993), Historiography and Imagination. Eight
essays on Roman culture (1994), Remus. A Roman
Myth (1995), Roman drama and Roman history
(1998), Classics in Progress. Essays on Ancient
Greece and Rome (2002), The myths of Rome (2004).
Prof. Wiseman is also the author of a translation
and introduction to Death of an Emperor by
Flavius Iosephus (1991).
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