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Committee of Honour, a tradition of that congress, whereby at each
convention notables of Roman army studies are singled out for their
significant life-time achievements.
At his passing he was preparing for his annual pilgrimage north. He had
become essentially a regular summer fixture at the Institute of Classical
Studies in London and other major western European libraries, such as that
at the Römisch-Germanische Kommission in Frankfurt. He often traveled
light. The memory of his gigantic rucksack remains, as does the sound of
his accent, so distinct to a North American ear. Others may chronicle his
official appointments, extensive service to editorial boards, and memberships in scholarly organizations. But, when asked in 2010 to write in
support of renewal of his travel funds, this writer could only be amazed at
the prolific productivity of conference papers and reviews. Denis was still
going at full pace, when others of his age might have been slowing down.
At the preliminary festivities to the closing banquet of the Limes
Congress in Newcastle (2009), Professor Saddington was seated with
myself and the late Colin Wells. A young German scholar with a strong
interest in provincial fleets approached. Soon he and Denis sequestered
themselves for an intense discussion. With amusement and fondness, I
turned to Professor Wells and commented something to the effect that
here we were at that congress’s banquet, a time for frivolity and merrymaking, but Denis was holding ‘office hours’. Professor Wells smiled in
agreement. But that was Denis Saddington – ever the devoted and friendly
teacher.
Everett L. Wheeler
CurriculumVitae
Denis matriculated at Parktown Boys’ High School in Johannesburg before
taking a BA with majors in English, Latin and Greek, and then an Honours
degree in Classics (First Class). He thought about a career in teaching and
completed a Higher Diploma in Education at the Johannesburg College of
Education. However, the award of a Rhodes Scholarship took him to
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he chose to work with Frank
Lepper. While he did not complete his degree at Oxford, Denis retained
strong links with the university and his subsequent academic development
bears the imprint of another scholar of colonial origins, Sir Ronald Syme:
Denis and Ursula Vogel were the greatest exponents of prosopography in
South Africa.
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On returning to South Africa Denis served for one year as a lecturer in
Classics at the then University of Natal before taking up a lectureship at
the University of the Witwatersrand in 1958. His first major piece of
research was an MA thesis entitled The Function of Education According to
Writers of the Latter Part of the Fourth Century A.D., accepted for the degree
in 1963; this was followed by a PhD awarded in 1970 for his dissertation,
Problems in the Development of the Auxiliary System in the Roman Army of
the Late Republican and Early Imperial Period. In 1967 Denis moved to the
then University College of Rhodesia in Salisbury (Harare) to succeed
Harold Guite; he remained there through the difficult years of the freedom struggle into the early years of the independent Zimbabwe, rising to
full Professor of Classics in 1978 and editing the Proceedings of the
Classical Association of Africa (PACA). From 1983 to his first retirement
in 1993 he was ad hominem Professor of Roman History at the University
of the Witwatersrand and thereafter he held a senior lectureship at the
University of South Africa from 1994 to 1996. From 1997 to his death in
2011 Denis was Honorary Professorial Research Fellow and Professor
Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand.
List of Publications
‘Roman attitudes to the externae gentes of the North’, AClass 4 (1961) 90-102.
‘The function of education according to Christian writers of the latter part of the
fourth century A.D.’, AClass 8 (1965) 86-101.
‘The Classics in South Africa’, Euphrosyne 2 (1968) 215-220.
‘The education of an ideal man. The views of Plato, Cicero, Augustine’, Akroterion
15 (1970) 5-16.
‘The Roman auxilia in Tacitus, Josephus, and other Early Imperial writers’,
AClass 13 (1970) 89-124.
‘The city in Classical antiquity’, Akroterion 17 (1972) 14-22.
‘The educational effect of catechetical instruction in the fourth century A.D.’,
Euphrosyne 7 (1972) 249-271.
‘Towards the dating of early inscriptions recording Roman auxiliary regiments’, in
Akten des VI. Internationalen Kongresses für Griechische und Lateinische Epigraphik, München 1972 (Munich 1973) 538-540.
‘Race relations in the early Roman Empire’, in W. Haase & H. Temporini (edd.),
Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt, vol. 2.3 (Berlin 1975) 112-137.
‘The development of the Roman auxiliary forces from Augustus to Trajan’, in W.
Haase & H. Temporini (edd.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt,
vol. 2.3 (Berlin 1975) 176-201.
‘Notes on two passages in Tacitus (Ann. 4.24.3 and 15.25.3)’, CQ 28 (1978) 330332.
‘Prefects and lesser officers in the Roman auxilia of the Early Imperial period’,
PACA 15 (1980) 20-58.
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The Development of the Roman Auxiliary Forces from Caesar to Vespasian (49 B.C.A.D. 79) (Mount Pleasant, Harare 1982).
‘The auxiliary prefect Glabrio and the introduction of the duovirate at Perusia’,
Athenaeum 61 (1983) 264-266.
‘Praefecti fabrum of the Julio-Claudian period’, in E. Weber & G Dobesch (edd.),
Römische Geschichte, Altertumskunde und Epigraphik. Festschrift für Artur Betz
zur Vollendung seines 80. Lebensjahres (Vienna 1985) 529-546.
‘The stationing of auxiliary regiments in Germania Superior in the Julio-Claudian
period’, in D. Planck (ed.), Studien zu den Militärgrenzen Roms, III: 13. Internationaler Limeskongress, Aalen 1983. Vorträge, Eric Birley zum 80. Geburtstag
gewidmet, 12. Januar 1986 (Stuttgart 1986) 779-781.
‘St. Ignatius, leopards, and the Roman army’, JThS 38 (1987) 411-412.
‘A new Julio-Claudian auxiliary decurion?’, ZPE 68 (1987) 261-262.
‘Some unpublished Hispano-Roman coins in the Mann Collection in the Cultural
Museum in Cape Town’, Akroterion 32 (1987) 94-98.
‘Praefecti classis, orae maritimae and ripae of the second triumvirate and the Early
Empire’, JRGZ 35 (1988) 299-313.
‘The origin and nature of the German and British fleets’, Britannia 21 (1990) 223232.
‘The origin and character of the provincial fleets of the early Roman Empire’, in V.
Maxfield & M.J. Dobson (edd.), Roman Frontier Studies 1989: Proceedings of the
XVth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies (Exeter 1991) 397-399.
R.M. Ogilvie, ‘An interim report on Tacitus’ Agricola’ with an addendum by D.B.
Saddington & L.J.F. Keppie; and a note on viri militares in the Agricola by D.B.
Saddington, in W. Haase (ed.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt,
vol. 2.33.3 (Berlin 1991) 1714-1740.
‘Tacitus and the Roman army’, in W. Haase (ed.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der
Römischen Welt, vol. 2.33.5 (Berlin 1991) 3484-3555.
‘The parameters of romanization’, in V. Maxfield & M.J. Dobson (edd.), Roman
Frontier Studies 1989: Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Roman
Frontier Studies (Exeter 1991) 413-418.
‘Felix in Samaria: a note on Tac. Ann. 12.54.1 and Suet. Claud. 28.1’, AClass 35
(1992) 161-163.
‘The armed forces and the equestrian administrators of Early Imperial Sardinia and
Corsica’, in Sardinia antiqua: studi in onore di Piero Meloni in occasione del suo
settantesimo compleanno (Cagliari 1992) 265-270.
‘Preparing to become Roman: the ‘romanization’ of Deiotarus in Cicero’, in U.
Vogel-Weidemann (ed.), Charistion C.P.T. Naudé (Pretoria 1993) 87-97.
‘A context for a dedication by five cavalry regiments to a Cornelius Scipio in
Rome?’, ZPE 104 (1994) 73-77.
‘Problems in military ranks and military personnel in Josephus’, in Y. Le Bohec
(ed.), La hiérarchie (Randordnung) de l'armée romaine sous le Haut-Empire:
actes du congrès de Lyon (15-18 septembre 1994) (Paris 1995) 53-55.
‘Roman and military administrative personnel in the New Testament’, in W.
Haase (ed.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt, vol. 2.26.3 (Berlin
1996) 409-2435.
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‘Early Imperial praefecti castrorum’, Historia 45 (1996) 244-252.
‘The relationship between holding office in a municipium or colonia and the militia
equestris in the Early Principate’, Athenaeum 84 (1996) 157-181.
With U.R.D. Vogel, ‘An unpublished coin of Pontius Pilate and some speculations
about his career’, Akroterion 42 (1997) 23-29.
‘The witnessing of pre- and early Flavian military diplomas and discharge
procedures in the Roman army’, Epigraphica 59 (1997) 157-172.
‘The “Politics” of the auxilia and the forging of auxiliary regimental identity’, in
W. Groenman-van Waateringe et al. (edd.), Roman Frontier Studies 1995
(Oxford 1997) 493-496.
‘The working of the Roman Empire, and Roman officialdom in the Early Patristic
period’, APB 9 (1998) 103-114.
‘Civil violence: review article’, Scholia 8 (1999) 120-126.
‘Roman soldiers, local gods and interpretatio Romana in Roman Germany’, AClass
42 (1999) 155-169.
‘Military tribunes in the Roman military and administrative system in the preFlavian period’, in Atti del XI Congresso Internazionale di Epigrafia Greca e
Latina: Roma, 18-24 settembre 1997 (Rome 1999) 297-314.
‘Honouring Tiberius on inscriptions, and in Valerius Maximus: a note’, AClass 43
(2000) 166-172.
‘The sorts of names used by auxiliaries in the Early Principate’, in G. Alföldy, B.
Dobson & W. Eck (edd.), Kaiser, Heer und Gesellschaft in der römischen
Kaiserzeit: Gedenkschrift für Eric Birley (Stuttgart 2000) 163-178.
‘The Roman naval presence in the East, the Classis Syriaca and the Roman
approach to the Euphrates’, AKB 31 (2001) 581-586.
‘A Roman inscription in Cape Town’, Akroterion 46 (2001) 99-100.
‘Some Roman coins from Regensburg in Johannesburg’, Akroterion 46 (2001) 9398.
‘An Ala Tungrorum?’, ZPE 138 (2002) 273-274.
‘The level of literacy and education assumed in the catechetical writings’, Ekklesiastikos Pharos 83 (2002) 188-91.
‘Roman auxilia in the East – different from the West?’, in P. Freeman et al. (edd.),
Limes XVIII: Proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress of Roman
Frontiers Studies held in Amman, Jordan (September 2000) (Oxford 2002) 879882.
‘Paideia, politeia and hegemonia: a route of social advancement in the Early Roman
Empire’, in A.F. Basson & W.J. Dominik (edd.), Literature, Art, History: Studies
on Classical Antiquity and Tradition in Honour of W.J. Henderson (Frankfurt
2003) 323-339.
‘An Augustan officer on the Roman army: militaria in Velleius Paterculus and
some inscriptions’, in J.J. Wilkes (ed.), Documenting the Roman Army: Essays in
Honour of Margaret Roxan (London 2003) 19-29.
‘C.L. in the titulature of the coh. II Tungrorum’, Britannia 35 (2004) 244-248.
‘Local witnesses on an Early Flavian military diploma’, Epigraphica 66 (2004) 7579.
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‘A further Latin inscription and an amphora in Cape Town’, Akroterion 49 (2004)
111-112.
‘Suetonius on military matters: the Julio-Claudian period’, REMA 1 (2004) 23-43.
‘Suetonius on military matters: A.D. 68/9 and the Flavian period’, REMA 2 (2005)
89-104.
‘Two notes on Roman Germany’, AClass 48 (2005) 195-199.
‘Ways in which provincials entered government service in Rome’, in F. Beutler &
W. Hameter (edd.), Eine ganz normale Inschrift  und Ähnliches zum Geburtstag von Ekkehard Weber Festschrift zum 30. April 2005 (Vienna 2005) 111-124.
‘The Roman government and the Roman auxilia’, in Z. Visy (ed.), Limes XIX:
Proceedings of the XIXth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, Pécs
Hungary 2003 (Oxford 2005) 63-69.
‘The centurion in Matthew 8’, JBL 125 (2006) 140-142.
‘A note on the rhetoric of four speeches in Josephus’, JJS 58 (2007) 228-235.
‘Career grade variations and nomenclature patterns used in the inscriptions of fleet
personnel’, in C. Crowther & S. Mitchell (edd.), Acts of the 13th International
Congress of Epigraphy (Oxford 2007) 29ff.
‘The witnesses on yet another Early Flavian diploma: a note’, Epigraphica 70
(2008) 351-352.
‘A possible context for the career of the first known Princeps Peregrinorum’, in
M.L. Caldelli et al. (edd.), Epigraphica 2006. Atti del 14 rencontre sur l’epigraphie in onore di Silvio Panciera (Rome 2008) 1171-1176.
‘Problems in the nomenclature of the personnel and the question of marines in the
Roman fleets’, BICS 52 (2009) 123-132.
‘Client kings’ armies under Augustus: the case of Herod’, in D.M. Jacobson & N.
Kokkinos (edd.), Herod and Augustus. Papers presented at the IJS Conference
21st-23rd June 2005 (Leiden 2009) 303-323.
‘Deities chosen for worship by soldiers in a provincial army: the case of Roman
Britain’, in C. Wolff (ed.), L'armée romaine et la religion sous le Haut-Empire
romain: actes du quatrième congrès de Lyon, 26-28 octobre 2006 (Paris 2009) 8798.
‘Recruitment patterns and ethnic identities in Roman auxiliary regiments’, in W.
Hanson (ed.), The Army and the Frontiers of Rome, Papers offered to D.J. Breeze
(Portsmouth, R.I. 2009) 83-89.
‘Mens exercituum: the pathology of Roman soldiers in conflict’, in P. Bosman (ed.),
Mania: Madness in the Greco-Roman world (Pretoria 2009) 54-68.
‘A possible context for the definitive establishment of the classes Perinthia and
Pontica’, ZPE 175 (2010) 239-240.
‘How Roman did auxiliaries become?’, in A.M. Cerdan (ed.), Limes XX: International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies, León 2006 (Madrid 2010) 10171024.
‘Culture shock: what did auxiliaries face on entering the Roman army?’, in C.
Deroux (ed.), Corolla epigraphica: hommages à professeur Yves Burnand
(Brussels 2011) 638-646.
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‘The deployment of auxilia and their use in battle in the Roman army of the Early
Principate’, in B. Cabouret et al. (edd.), Visions de l’Occident romain. Hommages à Yann Le Bohec (Paris 2012) 595-601.
Forthcoming
Entries on ‘African auxiliaries’, ‘Allies’, and ‘Britons/Brittones’) in Y. Le Bohec
(ed.), Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of the Roman Army (Malden 2013).
D. Wardle
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