Terry Corey Brennan (born November 24, 1959) is a

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at Rutgers University-New Brunswick ( USA). Under the stage name Corey "Loog" Brennan he was a

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ist and

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involved with several bands, including

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-based bands

Bullet LaVolta Bullet LaVolta was an alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in January 1987 by four college disk jockeys: Clay Tarver (guitar, now of Chavez), Bill Whelan (bass), Corey "Loog" Brennan (guitar) and Chris "Cruster" Guttmacher ( ...

and The Lemonheads, and the

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-based Superfetazione.

Biography

He was born in 1959 to Terry F. and Colonel David N. Brennan. He married Antonia Catherine Fried, daughter of

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and Anne Fried, on 5 January 1991. Brennan was graduated summa cum laude from the

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with a

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(A.B.) and was a member of

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. A

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of the

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, he continued to earn a

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(A.M.) from the

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and a

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(Ph.D.) from

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in 1990. Alongside his career as an academic, he has pursued a parallel career as a musician with several bands, playing with the Italian band Superfetazione while at the American Academy in Rome, and

while at Harvard. Brennan also worked as a

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, the Harvard radio station, where he met

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of The Lemonheads. Brennan, known in those days as "Corey Loog Brennan", toured with The Lemonheads, opening their shows with his own band,

and soon after joined the Lemonheads in 1988. A highly accomplished

soloist, he continued touring with them until 1991. During this period, Brennan co-wrote the tracks "Li'l Seed", "Cazzo Di Ferro" and "(The) Door". The latter track formed part of the band's sole session for

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'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 the

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-based Survival Records. Contributors included Clay Tarver and Chris Guttmacher (both ex-Bullet LaVolta),

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(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

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from 1990 to 2000, until joining the faculty at Rutgers in 2000. Brennan is the editor of the ''

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''. As a scholar of

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, Brennan has appeared on several documentaries and television programs, including ones for the

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, and

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. He also has been working as a disc jockey focusing on

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, soulful house and

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music under the name DJ Korenelius. From July 2009 – 2012 T. Corey Brennan served a three-year term as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the School of Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome."Rutgers Roman Historian T. Corey Brennan Appointed to American Academy in Rome. Scholar who mixes love of ancient history with alternative rock wins position" https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-roman-historian-t-corey-brennan-appointed-american-academy-rome He currently lives in

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with his wife and their three children.

Works

Books

* ''The Praetorship in the Roman Republic: Origins to 122 BC Volume I'' (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). * ''The Praetorship in the Roman Republic: 122 to 49 BC Volume II'' (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). * ''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). * ''Sabina Augusta: an Imperial Journey'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) * ''The Fasces: A History of Ancient Rome's Most Dangerous Political Symbol'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022)

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. * "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

- ''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

at Rutgers University

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