Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton
Broughton in 1939.
Born	(1900-02-17)February 17, 1900 Corbetton, Ontario, Canada
Died	September 17, 1993(1993-09-17) (aged 93) Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Toronto (B.A., 1921) Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1928)
Occupation(s)	professor, classical scholar, Roman historian, author
Known for	Latin prosopography;Magistrates of the Roman Republic

Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton,FBA (/ˈbrɔːtən/; 17 February 1900 – 17 September 1993) was aCanadianclassical scholar and leadingLatinprosopographer of the twentieth century.^[1] He is especially noted for his definitive three-volume work,Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1951-1986).^[2]

Broughton was born in 1900 inCorbetton, Ontario. He attendedVictoria College at theUniversity of Toronto. There he received aB.A. in 1921 with honors in classics. He earned his M.A. in 1922. After studying at theUniversity of Chicago, he was made a Rogers Fellow atJohns Hopkins University, where he received aPh.D. in Latin in 1928, having studied under the famed ancient historianTenney Frank (1876-1939).^[3]

He began his teaching career atVictoria College, Toronto. Broughton would go on to teach atAmherst College,Bryn Mawr College (1928-1965) and, later, serve asGeorge L. Paddison Professor of Latin at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1965-1971), where theLibrary Epigraphy Room, created at his behest, remains a seminal resource. Although he retired from UNC in 1971 (then aged 71), he would continue to work and advise students until he died in 1993.^[1]

In 1931, he married Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton ofNorfolk, Virginia. They had two children, Margaret Broughton Tenney andT. Alan Broughton (b. 1936), a poet and pianist and professoremeritus of theUniversity of Vermont. Mrs. Broughton died on September 19, 2005, inCharleston, South Carolina.^[4]

Broughton's main scholarly work was his massive, three-volumeMagistrates of the Roman Republic (commonly abbreviatedMRR), published from 1951 to 1986 and requiring more than 30 years to complete.^[5] The project provides an unparalleled accounting of the names of men elected to office during theRoman Republic and has become a standard reference work. It provides a year-by-year list of all known office-holders, including not only the magistracies of thecursus honorum fromconsul toquaestor, but also promagistracies and military commands in theprovinces,legates (both official and ad hoc), military prefects, priesthoods, and special commissions. Each entry is documented with ancient sources and selected works of modern scholarship. An index by name, listing each man's known offices, appears in volume 2.

In 1953 theMagistrates of the Roman Republic were recognized with the Charles J. Goodwin Awards of Merit from theAmerican Philological Association.^[6]

Broughton's career included a variety of academic appointments and awards: visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, Simon F. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, holder of a Fulbright research grant to Italy and professor in charge of the School of Classical Studies of theAmerican Academy in Rome.

Broughton served aspresident of the American Philological Association and as vice president of theInternational Federation of Societies of Classical Studies for 10 years. He was a member of theAmerican Philosophical Society, a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary member of theSociety for the Promotion of Roman Studies, a corresponding member of theGerman Archaeological Institute and a corresponding Fellow of theBritish Academy. Three universities awarded him honorary LL.D. degrees: Johns Hopkins University in 1969, the University of Toronto in 1971 and UNC in 1974.

After Broughton's death in September 1993, a Colloquium was organised for November 1994 at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in honour of his memory. The papers delivered on this occasion, including those by eminent scholars such asT.P. Wiseman,Erich S. Gruen, andErnst Badian, later formed the basis of the honorific volumeImperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic, edited byJ. Linderski.^[7]

• [dissertation]The Romanization of Africa Proconsularis (1929, reissued 1968).^[8]
• 1936. "Was Sallust Fair to Cicero?"Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 67:34-46.^[9]
• Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1951-1986).^[10]
• 1934. "Roman Landholding in Asia Minor."Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 65:207-239.^[11]
• "Roman Asia Minor", in Tenney Frank,An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome IV (1938)
• 1946. "Notes on Roman Magistrates. I. The Command of M. Antonius in Cilicia. II. Lucullus' Commission and Pompey's Acta."Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 77:35-43.^[12]
• 1991. "Candidates Defeated in Roman Elections: some ancient Roman 'also-rans'"Transactions of the American Philological Association 81.4: 1-64.^[13]

• 1969. Packard, Jane.Official Notices in Livy’s Fourth Decade: Style and Treatment. Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[14]
• 1969. Wade, Donald W.The Roman Auxiliary Units and Camps in Dacia. Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill^[15]
• 1971. Houston, George W.Roman Imperial Administrative Personnel During the Principates of Vespasian and Titus (AD 69-81). Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[16]
• 1973. Goldsberry, Mary.Sicily and its Cities in Hellenistic and Roman Times. Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[17]
• 1974. Harrison, James Geraty.The Official Priests of Rome in the Reigns of Trajan and Hadrian. Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.^[18]

• Jerzy Linderski inBDNAC pp. 64–66.
• George W. Houston in J. Linderski (ed.),Imperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic (1996) pp. 1–30, 35–42.
• Brennan, T. Corey, T. Alan Broughton, Ryan C. Fowler, Andrew G. Scott and Kathleen J. Shea (edd.).Autobiography: A scholar's life by T. R. S. Broughton (1900-1993). Piscataway, N.J.:Gorgias Press, 2008 (American Journal of Ancient History, n.s., vol. 5 2006 [2008]).

• Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton at the Database of Classical Scholars
• Volume 1 ofThe Magistrates of the Roman Republic, hosted by Hathi Trust Digital Library

• Canadian classical scholars
• American classical scholars
• Corresponding fellows of the British Academy
• Prosopographers of ancient Rome
• 1900 births
• 1993 deaths
• Classical scholars of Johns Hopkins University
• Classical scholars of Bryn Mawr College
• Classical scholars of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 20th-century Canadian historians
• Members of the American Philosophical Society

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