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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

Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2024

18 October 2024

The Faculty is delighted to announce that both Dr Lea Niccolai and Dr Henry Spelman have been awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the 2024 competition. Professor Anna Vignoles, Director of the Leverhulme Trust, said: “Now in its twenty-third year, this scheme continues to attract applications from extraordinarily high...

Elen Wynne Vanstone Award

3 October 2024

The Faculty would like to congratulate Sólveig Hilmarsdóttir for winning the The British Federation of Women Graduates' Elen Wynne Vanstone Award for her work Talis homo qualis oratio: social status and its connection to the language of Roman writers. Sólveig works on the interface between Latin linguistics and Latin...

Exhibition awarded 5 stars

23 July 2024

The new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Paris 1924: Sport, Art, and the Body , Co-curated by Classics' Carrie Vout has been awarded 5 stars by the Guardian. "Timed to coincide with next week’s return of the Olympics to the French capital – is a revelation from first to last. You soon begin to realise that those Games...