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Faculty of Classics

 

Publications

Key publications: 

Books

(2025) The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity (University of California Press)
(2024) Rome’s Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas (Princeton University Press)
(2012) Horace Satires I, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (Cambridge University Press)
(2007) Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond, ed. with William Fitzgerald (Cambridge Classical Journal Supplementary Volume (Oxbow Books)
(1993) The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature (Oxford University Press)

Recent articles, etc.

(2024) Foreword, The Doctors’ Dinner Party, by Ibn Butlan, ed. P. Kennedy and J. Farrell, Library of Arabic Literature, NYU Abu Dhabi.
(2023) “Are Trees Really Like People?”, in F. Martelli and G. Sissa, eds, Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination. London (Bloomsbury), 103-24.
(2021) “Ancient Rome as Melting Pot: Cooking goes Global”, in Ex-Position 45: 103-16.
(2021) “Afterword: Lights Out”, in T. Geue and E. Giusti, eds., Unspoken RomeAbsence in Latin Literature and its Reception. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 324-33.
(2021) “Pun-Fried Concoctions: Wor(l)dplay in the Roman Kitchen”, in M. Fantuzzi, H. Morales and T. Whitmarsh, eds, Reception in the Greco-Roman World:  Literary Studies in Theory and Practice. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 241-65.
(2021) “Lucan’s (G)natal Poem: Statius’ Silvae 2.7, the Culex, and the Aesthetics of Miniaturization”, Classical Antiquity 40: 45-75.
(2020) “Why isn’t Homer in Virgil’s Underworld? – and Other Notable Absences”, in C. Gladhill and M. Myers, eds., Walking Through Elysium: Aeneid 6 and the Poetics of Tradition. Toronto (University of Toronto Press), 206-23.
(2019) “Knight’s Moves: The Son-In-Law in Cicero and Tacitus”, Classical Antiquity 38: 2-35.

 

 

Professor of Latin Literature
Fellow of St John's College

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St John's College
Cambridge
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335150 (Faculty); 337869 (College)
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AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship Acquiring the Mediterranean: exploring local agencies in the acquisition of antiquities from Greece and the Ottoman Empire by Charles Newton at the British Museum, 1861–1886. The Faculty of Classics and the British Museum are excited to announce a fully funded...

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The Faculty of Classics would like to congratulate our Early Career Researchers who have secured new positions elsewhere in the UK and abroad. We thank Il-Kweon, Michael, Tom and Ludo for all their contributions to our Classics community and wish them the very best for the next steps in their careers. Dr Il-Kweon Sir has...

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This year Professor Dame Mary Beard is due to give The Sir Robert Rede's Lecture on Friday 3 May 2024. She will speak on the topic 'The boy who breathed on the glass at the British Museum': what, or whom, is the past for?' If you would like to attend the event, you are most welcome but booking is essential: register for...