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Faculty of Classics

 

Publications

Key publications: 

Books

(2025) The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity (University of California Press)
(2024) Rome’s Patron: The Lives and Afterlives of Maecenas (Princeton University Press)
(2012) Horace Satires I, Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics (Cambridge University Press)
(2007) Ennius Perennis: The Annals and Beyond, ed. with William Fitzgerald (Cambridge Classical Journal Supplementary Volume (Oxbow Books)
(1993) The Loaded Table: Representations of Food in Roman Literature (Oxford University Press)

Recent articles, etc.

(2024) Foreword, The Doctors’ Dinner Party, by Ibn Butlan, ed. P. Kennedy and J. Farrell, Library of Arabic Literature, NYU Abu Dhabi.
(2023) “Are Trees Really Like People?”, in F. Martelli and G. Sissa, eds, Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Environmental Imagination. London (Bloomsbury), 103-24.
(2021) “Ancient Rome as Melting Pot: Cooking goes Global”, in Ex-Position 45: 103-16.
(2021) “Afterword: Lights Out”, in T. Geue and E. Giusti, eds., Unspoken RomeAbsence in Latin Literature and its Reception. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 324-33.
(2021) “Pun-Fried Concoctions: Wor(l)dplay in the Roman Kitchen”, in M. Fantuzzi, H. Morales and T. Whitmarsh, eds, Reception in the Greco-Roman World:  Literary Studies in Theory and Practice. Cambridge (Cambridge University Press), 241-65.
(2021) “Lucan’s (G)natal Poem: Statius’ Silvae 2.7, the Culex, and the Aesthetics of Miniaturization”, Classical Antiquity 40: 45-75.
(2020) “Why isn’t Homer in Virgil’s Underworld? – and Other Notable Absences”, in C. Gladhill and M. Myers, eds., Walking Through Elysium: Aeneid 6 and the Poetics of Tradition. Toronto (University of Toronto Press), 206-23.
(2019) “Knight’s Moves: The Son-In-Law in Cicero and Tacitus”, Classical Antiquity 38: 2-35.

 

 

Chair, Faculty Board of Classics
Professor of Latin Literature
Fellow of St John's College

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St John's College
Cambridge
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335150 (Faculty); 337869 (College)
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Latest news

Dr Ben Gray, Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History)

20 October 2025

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Ben Gray ( Birkbeck, University of London) as Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History) from 1st January 2026.

“Decoding the Desert” and “Middleton’s Architectural Odysseys” now on CUDL

29 September 2025

Two collections from the Faculty Archives, the photographs of archaeologists Richard Norton and Richard Goodchild in Libya, and notebooks of Victorian architect J. H. Middleton, have been digitised and are available to view on the Cambridge University Digital Library. A gift from the family of Professor Joyce Reynolds -...

Cambridge Classics tops Guardian University Guide 2026

15 September 2025

The Faculty has been ranked first in the UK for Classics and Ancient History in the Guardian University Guide 2026 . This reflects our longstanding commitment to academic excellence, rigorous teaching, and student support. The Guardian rankings are based on a range of indicators, including student satisfaction, teaching...

Aldborough study reshapes our view of post-Roman Britain

11 September 2025

A study published today in the journal 'Antiquity' from the Universities of Cambridge and Nottingham has overturned long-held assumptions about Britain’s post-Roman economy. Contrary to the popular belief that industrial activity collapsed after the Romans left around 400 AD, researchers have uncovered compelling evidence...