Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Professor John Henderson 

Professor John Henderson is Emeritus Professor of Classics and a Fellow of King's College.

Contact:

Email: jgh1000@cam.ac.uk  
Tel: 01223 (3)31317  (College)

Books:

2009
Plautus.  A Reader. Bilchazy-Carducci.

2006 
The Medieval World of Isodore of Seville: Creating Truth through Words, Cambridge
Oxford Reds: Classic Commentaries on Latin Classics, Duckworth
Plautus Asinaria: the one about the asses, Wisconsin
2005
Løve in København: The triumph of art at Thorvaldsens Museum, Museum Tusculanum, UCopenhagen Press
2004 
Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters: Places to Dwell, Cambridge
HORTVS: The Roman Gardening Book, Routledge 
Aesop's Human Zoo: Roman Stories about our Bodies, Chicago
2002
Pliny's Statue: The Letters, Self-Portraiture, and Classical Art, Exeter
2000
Telling Tales on Caesar: Roman Stories from Phaedrus, Oxford
1999
Writing down Rome: Satire, Comedy and other Offences in Latin Poetry, Oxford
1998
Fighting for Rome. Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War, Cambridge
Juvenal's Mayor: The Professor who Lived on 2D. a Day, Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume
A Roman Life: Rutilius Gallicus on Paper and in Stone, Exeter
1997
Figuring out Roman Nobility. Juvenal's Eighth Satire, Exeter

Current research interests:

Elementary Latin

Recent PhD topics supervised (2004-present)

Valerius Flaccus , Lucan, Classics and 2nd World War, Apuleian corpus, Fronto, Monsters in Augustan Poetry, Lucan, Frontinus, Tacitus, Cicero, Mothers in Latin Poetry, Propertius, Quotation in Latin oratory, Silius, Juvenal