Wrigley Fellow, Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics at Girton College
Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics
Cambridge
CB3 0JG
Areas of expertise
Research Interests
Greek and Roman intellectual culture, especially responses to Hesiod and to Plato; 'apocalyptic' and eschatological literature in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds.
Key Publications
Books
Eschatology in Antiquity (ed., with Marlow, H. & Pollmann, K.) (forthcoming 2021) Routledge. [43 chapters]
Playing Hesiod: The 'Myth of the Races' in Classical Antiquity (2015). Cambridge.
Articles and chapters
‘Locating Hesiod's daimones: above and below, near and far’, in Bakola, E., & Lunn-Rockliffe, S. (eds.) (forthcoming 2020) Locating the daimonic: daimones, space and place in the ancient Greek world. CHS/Ashgate.
‘Didactic and apocalyptic turns: clarity and obscurity, Homer and Hesiod in the Sibylline Oracles’, in Canevaro, L-G., & O’Rourke, D. (eds.) (2019) Didactic Poetry of Greece, Rome and Beyond: Knowledge, Power, Tradition. Bloomsbury. 179-202
'The Ecology of the Sibylline Oracles’, in Hunt, A. & Marlow, H. (eds.) (2019) Ecology and Theology in the Ancient Word: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives. Bloomsbury. 25-40
‘Hesiod transformed, parodied and assaulted: Hesiod in the Second Sophistic and early Christian thought’, in Loney, A. & Scully, S. (eds.) (2018) The Oxford Handbook of Hesiod. Oxford. 395-410
'Philosophical traces in the Sibylline Oracles', in Klostergaard Peterson, A. & van Kooten, G. (eds.) (2017) Religio-Philosophical Discourses in the Mediterranean World. Leiden. 103-25
'Aratus', in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics. Ed. Dee Clayman. Oxford University Press, 25-11-2011. http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/. Update published 28-3-2014.
'Hesiod’s Races and your own: Socrates' 'Hesiodic' project', in Boys-Stones, G. & Haubold, J. (eds.) (2010) Plato and Hesiod. Oxford. 179-99
'Aratus' Maiden and the Source of Belief' in Harder, M.A., Regtuit, Regtuit, R. F. & Wakker, G. C. (eds.) (2009) Nature and Science in Hellenistic Poetry. Leuven. 255-75
Museum book
The Lawrence Room at Girton College (2019, ed. with the Lawrence Room Committee). Girton College, Cambridge.
Outreach publication
'Long-range perspectives in the Iliad’, (2015) Omnibus 69.4-6
