T. Corey Brennan

T. Corey Brennan (born 1959) is an associate professor of Classics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, (USA) and was a guitarist and songwriter involved with several bands, most notably the alternative rock band The Lemonheads.

Biography

The son of Colonel David N. and Terry F. Brennan, T. Corey Brennan was born in 1959. He married Antonia Catherine Fried, daughter of Charles and Anne Fried, on 5 January 1991.

Brennan was graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, he continued to earn a Master of Arts (A.M.) from the University of Oxford and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from Harvard University in 1990.

While at Harvard, Brennan worked as a Disc Jockey at WHRB a Boston college radio station, when he met Evan Dando of The Lemonheads. Brennan, known in those days as "Corey Loog Brennan", toured with The Lemonheads, opening their shows with his own band, Bullet LaVolta and soon after joined the Lemonheads in a brief stint from 1988 to 1989. A highly accomplished guitar soloist, he continued touring with them until 1991. During this period, Brennan co-wrote the tracks Li'l Seed, Cazzo Di Ferro and the epic (The) Door. The latter track formed part of the band's sole session for John Peel's radio show, and on this track Brennan assumed lead vocal duties. The performance led Peel to remark "that's the closest we've come to guitar hero stuff in quite a season".

He assembled a band under the name Loog for a solitary album, Meltdown House, which was released in 1995 on Holland-based Survival Records. Contributors included Clay Tarver and Chris Guttmacher (both ex-Bullet LaVolta), Chris Brokaw (ex-Come and Codeine), Dana Everson, Alexis Jimmy Vira and Imke Wagener (ex-Satellite City and latterly a graphic designer)

He was on the faculty of Bryn Mawr College from 1990 to 2000, until joining the faculty at Rutgers in 2000.

Brennan is the editor of the American Journal of Ancient History. As a scholar of Roman and Greek history, Brennan has appear on several documentaries and television programs including on the Discovery Channel and the History Channel.

He also has been working as a disc jockey focusing on funk, soulful house and salsa music under the name DJ Korenelius.

Works

Books

• The Praetorship in the Roman Republic: Origins to 122 BC Volume I (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). ISBN 0-19-511459-0
• The Praetorship in the Roman Republic: 122 to 49 BC Volume II (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). ISBN 0-19-511460-4
• Wisdom from the Ancients: Enduring Business Lessons from Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and the Illustrious Leaders of Ancient Greece and Rome (with Thomas J. Figueira, and Rachel Hall Sternberg) (New York: Perseus, 2001). ISBN 0-7382-0373-4

Articles and chapters

• "Power and Process under the Republican 'Constitution'", in Flower, Harriet I. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) 31-64. ISBN 0-521-80794-8
• "Principes and Plebs: Nerva's Reign as Turning-point?" in American Journal of Ancient History (2000) 40-66.
• "The Poets Julia Balbilla and Damo at the Colossus of Memnon", in Classical World 91.5 (1998) 215-34.

Albums

• Bullet LaVolta - The Gift (1989), on guitar
• The Lemonheads - Lick (1989), on guitar
• The Lemonheads - Lovey (1990), on guitar
• Loog - Meltdown House (1995), on guitar

References

External links

• Rutgers University
• Department of Classics at Rutgers University
• T. Corey Brennan's website at Rutgers University
• American Journal of Ancient History