Supervisor: Professor Caroline Vout
College: Christ's College
Thesis Title: The Mythology of Ecphrasis in Rome and Roman Greece (50 BC - 500 AD)
Email:
atb43@cam.ac.uk
Biography:
- MA Classics (2012-2016), St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford
- MPhil Classics (2016-2017), Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
- PhD Classics (2018-), Christ’s College, University of Cambridge
Research Interests
- Ecphrasis and visual-verbal relations
- Philostratus’ Imagines
- Phantasia in rhetoric and philosophy
- Optics and aesthetics
- The historiography of Graeco-Roman art
- Gaze theory
Research Supervision
I teach Greek language and reading classes for the Faculty of Classics as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (undergraduate and MPhil); and Greek and Latin language and literature for Christ’s College.
Other Professional Activities
Co-convenor for Writing the Embodied Experience in Imperial Ecphrasis (September 2019): https://embodiedecphrasis.weebly.com/
Key Publications
Bates, A. (forthcoming, 2021). ‘Philostratus Visualises the Philosophical: Imagines 2.23, Hercules furens and the Cataleptic Impression’. American Journal of Philology.
