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Professor James Diggle

Professor James Diggle is Emeritus Professor of Greek and Latin and a Fellow of Queens' College.

Contact:

Queens' College, Cambridge, CB3 9ET 
Email: jd10000@cam.ac.uk
Tel. 01223 335527 

 

 

 

A former pupil of Sir Denys Page, he is the world's leading expert on the text of Euripides; he is editor of the three-volume Oxford Classical Text. He has also worked on the text of many other Greek and Latin authors, e.g. Ovid and Corippus, has edited The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman.  His latest work is an edition of the Characters of Theophrastus. He is our resident expert on Greek and Latin metre.

Major publications:

Odysseus Unbound: the search for Homer's Ithaca (with R. Bittlestone and J. Underhill) (Cambridge, 2005)
Theophrastus Characters (Cambridge, 2004)
Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta (Oxford, 1998)
Euripidea: Collected Essays (Oxford, 1994)
Euripidis Fabulae (3 vols, Oxford 1981-1994)
Cambridge Orations 1982-1993 (Cambridge, 1994)
The Textual Tradition of Euripides' Orestes (Oxford, 1991)
Studies on the Text of Euripides (Oxford, 1981)
The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman (with F. R. D. Goodyear) (Cambridge, 1972)
Flavii Cresconii Corippi Iohannidos (with F. R. D. Goodyear) (Cambridge, 1970)
The Phaethon of Euripides (Cambridge, 1970)

Recent graduate research topics supervised:

Greek and Latin Literature and Textual Criticism

Other Faculty Positions:

Joint Editor of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon Project