Department: Faculty of Classics
Supervisor: Dr Christopher Whitton
College: Corpus Christi
Thesis: The Reception of Seneca the Younger, c.60s-c.160s CE
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Biography:
I was an undergraduate at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, where I took the intensive Greek course (2015-18). I then completed my MPhil. (2018-19), where I worked primarily on Latin poetry and wrote a thesis on the role of illusion in Vergil's Aeneid. My PhD research now focuses on the work of Seneca the Younger and how the writers in the one hundred or so years after his death (chiefly the author of the Octavia, Quintilian, Pliny the Younger, and Tacitus) responded to and used him in their own texts.
Other academic interests
Poetic quotation & allusion in Seneca's prose.
Ancient philosophy: pre-Socratics, Epicureanism, Stoicism.
Classics in the 21st century: the 'new Stoic' movement; Seneca & Stoicism on social media.
From Michaelmas 2020, I have supervised Latin literature for both Prelim. and IA students, and Greek language for IA.
