Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Dr Emily Gowers 

Dr Emily Gowers is a University Senior Lecturer in Classics and Fellow and Director of Studies at St John's College

Contact:
St  John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP

Email: eg235@cam.ac.uk

Tel. 01223  (3)35159 (Faculty) (3)37869 (college)

Major publications:

Horace Satires I (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 2012)

Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond, ed. with William Fitzgerald (Cambridge Classical Journal Supplementary Volume, 2007)

The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature (Oxford, 1993)

Recent articles:

"Trees and family trees in the Aeneid", Classical Antiquity 30 (2011) 87-118.

"Augustus and 'Syracuse'", Journal of Roman Studies 100 (2010) 69-87.

"Dangerous sailing: Valerius Maximus and the suppression of Sextus Pompeius", Classical Quarterly 61 (2010) 446-9.

“The ends of the beginning: Horace, Satires I", in Perceptions of Horace: A Roman Poet and his Readers, ed. L. Houghton and M. Wyke, Cambridge (2009) 39-60.

“A cat may look at a king: difference and indifference in Horace, Satire 1.6", in Ordine e sovversione nel mondo greco e romano
, Atti del convegno internazionale, Fondazione Niccolò Canussio,Cividale del Friuli, 25-27 September 2008, ed. G. Urso, Pisa (2009) 301-16. 

"Eupolitics: Horace, Satire 1, 4", in Per attentam Caesaris aurem:Satire-Die unpolitische Gattung?, ed. F. Felgentreu, F. Mundt and N. Rücker, Berlin (2009) 85-98.

"Introduction" to Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond  (2007) i-v.

"The cor of Ennius”, in Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond (2007) 17-37.

Other Faculty positions:

Academic Secretary for Undergraduate Affairs (from January 2012)

Co-editor, Cambridge Classical Journal