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Faculty of Classics

 

Research

Ancient philosophy: Aristotle's biological works; Greek commentaries on Aristotle's Categories; the history of philosophy in the first century BC. Ancient intellectual history more broadly, including the work of scholars based at the great Library of Alexandria; ancient theories on language and grammar.

Publications

Key publications: 

Monograph

Potamo of Alexandria and the Emergence of Eclecticism in Late Hellenistic Philosophy, CUP 2011

Articles

‘Poetry, science and scholarship: the rise and fall of Nicander of Colophon’, in M.A. Harder, R.F Regtuit., G.C. Wakker (eds.), Nature and Science in Hellenistic Poetry, Hellenistica Groningana 15, Leuven-Peeters 2009:19-40

‘Plutarch: the Philosophical Writings’, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. M. Gagarin, OUP 2010: Volume 5, 333-5.

‘Antiochus’ biography’ in D. Sedley (ed.) The Philosophy of Antiochus, CUP 2012: 9-30

 ‘The texts of Plato and Aristotle in the first century BC’ in M. Schofield (ed.) Plato, Aristotle and Pythagoreanism in the First Century BC, CUP 2013: 1-27. Reprinted as ‘The texts of Plato and Aristotle in the first century BCE: Andronicus’ canon’ in: R. Sorabji (ed.) Aristotle Re-Interpreted. New Findings on Seven Hundred Years of the Ancient Commentators, London-Bloomsbury 2016: 81-102.

‘Ashes to ashes? The Library of Alexandria after 48 BC’, in J. König, K. Oikonomopoulou and G. Woolf (eds.) Ancient Libraries, CUP 2013: 167-182.

‘Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian Library’, in J. König and G. Woolf (eds.), Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance. CUP 2013: 64-83.

‘Andronicus of Rhodes and the construction of the Aristotelian corpus’, in A. Falcon (ed.) Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity. Leiden-Brill 2016: 81-100.

‘Strabo’s philosophy and Stoicism’, in D. Dueck (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Strabo. Abingdon & New York – Routledge 2017: 9-21.

‘Stoicism and Platonism in “Arius Didymus”’, in T. Engberg-Pedersen (ed.) From Stoicism to Platonism. The Development of Philosophy, 100 BCE – 100 CE. CUP, 2017: 80-99.

‘Text and wisdom in the Letter of Aristeas’, in B. Chrubasik and D. King (eds.) Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean. OUP, 2017: 155-176.

‘Bodily and external goods in relation to happiness’, in. W.W. Fortenbaugh (ed.) Arius Didymus on Peripatetic Ethics, Household Management, and Politics. Routledge, forthcoming 2018.

 

Senior Lecturer in Classics (Ancient Philosophy)
Fellow and Director of Studies at Homerton College

Contact Details

Homerton College
Cambridge
CB2 8PH
mh303@cam.ac.uk
01223 747301 (College) / 335160 (Faculty)
Not available for consultancy

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.

Teaching Associate in Classics

17 October 2025

The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint a Temporary Teaching Associate in Classics (Ancient Greek Literature) starting from the earliest date possible until 30 September 2026. See link for further details . Closing date: 31 October 2025

Museum and Collections Assistant

7 October 2025

The Faculty invites applications for a Part-Time Museum and Collections Assistant in the Museum of Classical Archaeology. The closing date is 22 October 2025. For further details please follow the link given below: Museum and Collections Assistant (Part Time) | University of Cambridge

“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 -...