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Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton , FBA ( ; 17 February 1900 – 17 September 1993 ) was a Canadian classical scholar and leading Latin prosopographer of the twentieth century . He is especially noted for his definitive three-volume work , Magistrates of the Roman Republic ( 1951-1986 ) . Life and career . Broughton was born in 1900 in Corbetton , Ontario . He attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto . There he received a B.A . in 1921 with honors in classics . He earned his M.A . in 1922 . After studying at the University of Chicago , he was made a Rogers Fellow at Johns Hopkins University , where he received a Ph.D . in Latin in 1928 , having studied under the famed ancient historian Tenney Frank ( 1876-1939 ) . He began his teaching career at Victoria College , Toronto . Broughton would go on to teach at Amherst College , Bryn Mawr College ( 1928-1965 ) and , later , serve as George L . Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( 1965-1971 ) , where the Library 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 his death in 1993 . In 1931 , he married Annie Leigh Hobson Broughton of Norfolk , Virginia . They had two children , Margaret Broughton Tenney and T . Alan Broughton ( b . 1936 ) , a poet and pianist and professor emeritus of the University of Vermont . Mrs . Broughton died on September 19 , 2005 , in Charleston , South Carolina . Magistrates of the Roman Republic . Broughtons main scholarly work was his massive , three-volume Magistrates of the Roman Republic ( commonly abbreviated MRR ) , published 1951 to 1986 and requiring more than 30 years to complete . The project provides an unparalleled accounting of the names of men elected to office during the Roman 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 the cursus honorum from consul to quaestor , but also promagistracies and military commands in the provinces , 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 mans known offices , appears in volume 2 . In 1953 the Magistrates of the Roman Republic was recognized with the Charles J . Goodwin Awards of Merit from the American Philological Association . Achievements and awards . Broughtons 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 the American Academy in Rome . Broughton served as president of the American Philological Association and as vice president of the International Federation of Societies of Classical Studies for 10 years . He was a member of the American Philosophical Society , a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , an honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies , a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a corresponding Fellow of the British 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 Broughtons death in September 1993 , a Colloquium was organised for November 1994 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in honour of his memory . The papers delivered on this occasion , including those by eminent scholars such as T.P . Wiseman , Erich S . Gruen , and Ernst Badian , later formed the basis of the honorific volume Imperium Sine Fine : T . Robert S . Broughton and the Roman Republic , edited by J . Linderski . Works . - [ dissertation ] The Romanization of Africa Proconsularis ( 1929 , reissued 1968 ) . - 1936 . Was Sallust Fair to Cicero ? Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 67:34-46 . - Magistrates of the Roman Republic ( 1951-1986 ) . - 1934 . Roman Landholding in Asia Minor . Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 65:207-239 . - 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 Pompeys Acta . Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 77:35-43 . - 1991 . Candidates Defeated in Roman Elections : some ancient Roman also-rans Transactions of the American Philological Association 81.4 : 1-64 . Students . - 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 . - 1969 . Wade , Donald W . The Roman Auxiliary Units and Camps in Dacia . Ph.D. , Department of Classics , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - 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 . - 1973 . Goldsberry , Mary . Sicily and its Cities in Hellenistic and Roman Times . Ph.D. , Department of Classics , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . - 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 . Sources . - Jerzy Linderski in BDNAC 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 scholars 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 ] ) . External links . - Volume 1 of The Magistrates of the Roman Republic , hosted by Hathi Trust Digital Library