Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College
Honorary Professor of Latin
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
Areas of expertise
Research Interests
Latin literature, esp. poetry. The reception of Latin literature, esp. in the Renaissance. Neo-Latin poetry.
Key Publications
The last Trojan hero. A cultural history of Virgil's Aeneid (I. B. Tauris 2014)
Rumour and renown. Representations of fama in western literature (Cambridge 2012)
Classical literary careers and their reception, co-edited with Helen Moore (Cambridge 2010)
Lucretian receptions. History, the sublime, knowledge (Cambridge 2009)
(ed.) Paradox and the marvellous in Augustan literature and culture (Oxford 2009)
Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, co-edited with Stuart Gillespie (Cambridge 2007)
Ovid's poetics of illusion (Cambridge 2002)
(ed.) Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge 2002)
Virgil Aeneid 9 (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1994)
The Epic Successors of Virgil (Roman Literature and its Contexts. Cambridge 1993)
Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (Oxford 1986)
