Biography
I was an undergraduate and graduate student at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College. Since 2009 I have been a Fellow of Girton College and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics. In 2020-22 I was a COFUND Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University.
Research
Greek and Roman intellectual culture, especially responses to Hesiod and to Plato; hexametric poetic traditions in antiquity; 'apocalyptic' and eschatological literature in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds.
Publications
Books
Eschatology in Antiquity (ed., with Marlow, H. & Pollmann, K.) (2021) Routledge. [42 chapters]
Playing Hesiod: The 'Myth of the Races' in Classical Antiquity (2015: paperback edn. 2019). Cambridge.
Articles and chapters
‘Locating Hesiod's daimones: above and below, near and far’, in Bakola, E., & Lunn-Rockliffe, S. (eds. forthcoming 2024) Locating the daimonic: daimones, space and place in the ancient Greek world. CHS/Ashgate.
'Anti-Roman Sibyl(s)', in Jolowicz, D. & Elsner, J. (eds. 2023) Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire. Cambridge. 185-203
'"Vergil and Homer opened my books": the Sibylline Oracles and the non-Jewish canon', Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha 32 (2022) 167-86
'Introduction' (co-authored with Marlow, H. & Pollmann, K) in (eds. 2021) Eschatology in Antiquity. Routledge. 1-15
'Hesiodic rhapsody: the Sibylline Oracles', in Fantuzzi, M., Morales, H. & Whitmarsh, T. (eds. 2021) Reception in the Greco-Roman World: Literary Studies in Theory and Practice. Cambridge. 344-70
‘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/. Substantial updates published 28-3-2014 and 26-8-2020.
'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. [Survey of its rationale and contents: https://issuu.com/girtoncollege/docs/the_year_2018-19_final_sc/s/156828 ]
Magazine publications
'The Sibylline Oracles: recyclable responses to crisis', Crisis: iPerspectives 3 (2023) 42-45
'Long-range perspectives in the Iliad’, (2015) Omnibus 69.4-6
