Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Ailsa Hunt

Ailsa Hunt is an Isaac Newton Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College.

Contact Details
Fitzwilliam College
Storey’s Way
Cambridge
CB3 0DG

Email: agm46@cam.ac.uk

Research Interests

Roman cultural history; Roman religion; the sacrality of trees in Roman culture; the word numen; Greco-Roman ecological thinking; divine names; history of scholarship on Roman religon; intellectual interaction between Judaism, Christianity and paganism in antiquity; classical reception in 20^th and 21^st century poetry. My PhD thesis is entitled Rooted in Religion: the Roman sacred tree.

Publications

‘Elegiac Grafting in Pomona’s Orchard: Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.623-771’ MD 65 (2010) p.43-58

‘Priapus as wooden god: confronting manufacture and destruction’ CCJ 57 (2011) p.29-54

‘Keeping the memory alive: the physical continuity of the ficus Ruminalis’ in Bommas, M., Harrisson, J. & Roy, P. eds. Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World (2012) (Continuum) p.111-128

‘Acorn’, ‘Clitumnus’, ‘Hammon’ and ‘Quercens’ in The Virgilian Encyclopedia (forthcoming) (Wiley-Blackwell)

Editor of Tellus (ISSN 2042-9010), an annual magazine for contemporary poetry engaging with ancient worlds; Issue 1 (March 2010), Issue 2 (March 2011), Issue 3 (March 2012)

Review of Coombes, A.J. The Book Of Leaves: a leaf - by - leaf guide to six hundred of the world’s greatest trees in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (forthcoming 2012)