Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Dr Christopher Whitton 

Dr Christopher Whitton is a University Lecturer in Latin Literature and Fellow of Emmanuel College. He is also Treasurer of the Cambridge Philological Society and Supplements Editor of the Cambridge Classical Journal.  For the academic years 2012/13 and 2013/14 he is on research leave as an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the Freie Universität, Berlin.

Contact
Email: clw36@cam.ac.uk

Research Interests
Latin literature of the early Roman empire, especially prose and Trajanic literature. His commentary on Pliny Epistles 2 is forthcoming in the Cambridge ‘green and yellow’ series; his next book project is a study of Cicero’s reception in the early empire.

Recent and forthcoming publications

‘Pliny, Epistles 8.14: poetics, politics and the Agricola’, JRS 100 (2010) 118–39

‘Dubitatio comparativa: a misunderstood idiom in Pliny (N.H. 7.150), Tacitus (H. 4.6) and others’, CQ 61 (2011) 267–77

 ‘“Let us tread our path together”: Tacitus and the Younger Pliny’, in V. E. Pagán, ed. Blackwell companion to Tacitus, Malden (2012) 345–68

‘Trapdoors: false closure in Pliny’, in F. Grewing and B. Acosta-Hughes, edd. The door ajar: false closure in Greek and Roman literature and art, Heidelberg (fthc. 2012)

 ‘Juvenal (D. Iunius Iuvenalis)’, in Blackwell encyclopedia of ancient history, Malden (fthc. 2012)

‘Seneca, Apocolocyntosis’, in E. Buckley and M. T. Dinter, edd. Blackwell companion to Nero, Malden (fthc. 2013)

Krebs, C. B. 2005. Negotiatio Germaniae: Tacitus’ Germania und Enea Silvio Piccolomini, Giannantonio Campano, Conrad Celtis und Heinrich Bebel. Hypomnemata 158, Göttingen. BMCR 2005.12.17

Giua, M. A., ed. 2007. Ripensando Tacito (e Ronald Syme): Storia e storiografia, Florence. BMCR 2008.09.53

Marchesi, I. 2008. The art of Pliny’s letters. A poetics of allusion in the private correspondence, Cambridge – New England Classical Journal 36.1 (2009) 65–8

Rimell, V. 2008. Martial’s Rome. Empire and the ideology of the epigram, Cambridge – New England Classical Journal 36.4 (2009) 300–2

Sailor, D. 2008. Writing and empire in Tacitus, Cambridge – Phoenix 65 (2012) 194–6

Braund, S. 2009. Seneca: De Clementia, Oxford – Classical World 104 (2011) 368–9

Carlon, J. 2009. Pliny’s women: constructing virtue and creating identity in the Roman world, Cambridge – Classical Review 60.2 (2010) 463–5

Lefèvre, E. 2009. Vom Römertum zum Ästhetizismus: Studien zu den Briefen des jüngeren Plinius, Berlin – Classical Review 61.1 (2011) 147–9

Krebs, C. B. 2011. A most dangerous book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich, New York – Times Literary Supplement 24.2.2012, p.24

Roche, P. A., ed. 2011. Pliny’s Praise: The Panegyricus in the Roman World, Cambridge – Classical Review 62.2 (2012) 521–3

Zehnacker, H. and N. Méthy. 2011. Pline le Jeune Lettres. Tome II: Livres IV–VI, Paris – Classical Review 63.1 (fthc. 2013)

Glare, P. G. W., ed. 2012. Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford – Times Literary Supplement 20.7.2012, p.28