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Professor Tim Whitmarsh

Ancient Greek Literature
Ancient Greek Religion
Greek Culture of the Roman Empire
Late Antique and Byzantine Literature

Biography

Tim is Regius Professor of Greek, having previously held the positions of A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture (Cambridge) and Professor of Ancient Literatures (Oxford). 

Research

Tim works on all areas of Greek literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on the culture of Greeks under the Roman Empire. He has also written on religion and atheism in the ancient world, and on identity issues.

Publications

Key publications: 

He has written a number of books including Greek Literature and the Roman Empire (2001), The Second Sophistic (2005), Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel: Returning Romance (2011), Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism (2014), Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World (2015), Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel (2018), Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon I–II: Edited with Commentary (2020) and Rome's Age of Revolution: Christians in a Classical World (2026). He was a member of the Postclassicisms Collective, who published Postclassicisms (2020). He is the series editor of Collected Imperial Greek Epics, 3 vols. (2026–8).

Other publications: 
  1. ‘Cynicism and Cynosarges’. In P. Destrée and A. Kachuck eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Cynics (Cambridge, forthcoming).
  2. ‘Influential walks and claggy liminalities’. In D. Hanigan and E. Strazdins eds. Terraqueous Topographies in Postclassical Greek Literature (forthcoming).
  3. ‘Finding Thule: Herulian allotopias’. In C. Jackson and K. ní Mheallaigh eds. Antonius Diogenes, The Wonders Beyond Thule. Critical Studies with Text and Translation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
  4. ‘The classical biome’. In M. Telò ed. A Philology of the Future: Studies in Honor of James Porter (London: Bloomsbury, 2026): 249–62.
  5. ‘Seriously pederastic: Amores and the sexual politics of Roman Greece’. In E. Bowie and C. Maciver eds. The Fabric of Hellenism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).
  6. ‘Foreword’. In Silk, M. S. Interaction in Poetic Imagery: With Special Reference to Early Greek Poetry. 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024): vii–xi.
  7. ‘Greek poetry and the Roman Empire’. In D. Potter ed. A Companion to the Roman Empire (Chichester: Wiley, forthcoming). Co-authored with Emily Kneebone.
  8. ‘Coming up for air: immersion, authorship and the “Augustine paradox”’. Classical Philology 120 (2025): 511–30.
  9. ‘The bastards of Cynosarges and the invention of virtue: Antisthenes against Athens’. In G. Gelardini, K. S. Fuglseth and Per Jarle Bekken (eds.) Bridging Educational Virtues and Values: Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Early Christian Paideia and its Relevance in Past and Present (Münster, 2025).
  10. ‘The sensory text: Lucian’s Adversus indoctum’. In T. Geue, C. Jackson and F. Middleton eds. Triangulationships: Authors, Texts and Readers in the Roman Empire (Hermathena supplement, forthcoming).
  11. ‘Religion, problematising’ (co-authored with Jörg Rüpke). (Leiden: Brill = Der neue Pauly, supplement, forthcoming).
  12. ‘Posthuman style: syzygic affirmations in Achilles Tatius’.  In Thorsen, T. S., Augoustakis, A. and Frangoulidis, S. eds. Classical Enrichment: Greek and Latin Literature and its Reception (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2024): 323–35.
  13. ‘Believing in Lucian: the religious polemics’. In S. Goldhill ed. The Cambridge Companion to Lucian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024): 99–114.
  14. ‘Gastromancers and sympoets: the politics of co-authorship in Attic drama’. In T. Kearey, M. Leventhal and T. Nelson eds. Collaboration in Ancient Literature (forthcoming).
  15. ‘Greek epic in a Christian empire: grit in the eye’. In E. Greensmith ed. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Epic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024): 381–99.
  16. ‘Nonnus’ Crete: warped space and untold tales in the Dionysiaca’. In D. Yatromanolakis ed. Cultures and Palimpsests: Essays on Graeco-Roman Antiquity and its Reception (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming).
  17. ‘Frogs and watersnakes: Dio(genes) in action’. In L. Viidebaum and R. Hunter eds. The Politics of Writing: Literary Form and Philosophical Engagement in Dio Chrysostom and the Early Empire (Forthcoming).
  18. ‘Nonnus, Amymone and the poetics of hydrology’. In E. Sistakou ed. In the Mists of Time: Writing Pastness in Ancient Literature (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024): 79–90.
  19. ‘Masterly feelings: slavery and literary aesthetics.’ In J. Coogan, J. Howley and C. Moss eds. Writing, Enslavement and Power in the Ancient World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024): 227–31.
  20. ‘Whitish supremacy: thinking with skin in Roman Greece.’ In R. Andújar, E. Giusti and J. Murray eds. The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).
  21. ‘The body as proof: a cultural history of ancient scars’. In M. Leonard and T. Whitmarsh eds. Thinking with Classical Matter (Oxford: The British Academy, 2025): 87–100.
  22. ‘The anti-black theme in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca.’ In M. Cariou and N. Zito eds. Μάρτυρι μύθῳ: Poésie, histoire et société aux époques impériales et tardives (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2024): 85–101.
  23. Justin, Tatian and the quest for a Christian voice’. Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 28 (2024): 123–44.
  24. ‘A tree named for friendship: reading Homer’s phylia through Nonnus’. In M. Aloumpi and A. Augoustakis eds. LUX: Studies in Greek and Latin Literature in Honor of Lucia Athanassaki (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2024): 279–92.
  25. ‘Finding Oppian’. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 227 (2023): 21–4.
  26. ‘Anachronism and untimeliness in the Letters of Theano’. In E. Marquis and P. von Möllendorff eds. Brief und Macht. (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2024): 221–33.
  27. ‘When oracles don’t come true: Oedipus Tyrannus and oracular crisis’. In M. Kölv, M. Läänemets, K. Droß-Krüpe and S. Fink eds. Crisis in Early Religions (Berlin: Springer, 2023): 119–32.
  28. ‘Divine metonomy: theology and rhetoric’. In K. Beerden, C. de Jonge and F. Naerebout eds. Coping with Versnel (Leiden: Brill, 2023): 105–23.
  29. ‘Foreword’. In F. E. Brenk, Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-Roman Religion, Jews and Christians (Leiden: Brill, 23): xiv.
  30. ‘Plutarch on superstition, atheism and the city’. In L. Athanassaki and F. Titchener eds. Plutarch’s Cities (Oxford, 2022): 293–309.
  31. ‘The third corpse: IG XII 8.92’. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 223 (2022): 10–14.
  32. ‘Big data and Dionysiac poetics’. In B. Verhelst ed. Nonnus in Context 5 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022): 169–92.
  33. ‘Introduction: Reading Heliodorus’. In T. Whitmarsh and I. Repath eds. Reading Heliodorus’ Aethiopica. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022): 1–6.
  34. ‘The mustering of the Delphians’. In T. Whitmarsh and I. Repath eds. Reading Heliodorus’ Aethiopica. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022): 102–15.
  35. ‘Sphragis I: To infinity and beyond’. In T. Whitmarsh and I. Repath eds. Reading Heliodorus’ Aethiopica. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022): 246–55.
  36. ‘Ancient Greece’. In S. Bullivant and M. Ruse eds. The Cambridge History of Atheism. Volume 1: Atheism from Antiquity to Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021): 84–99.
  37. ‘Less care, more stress: a rhythmic poem from the Roman Empire’. Cambridge Classical Studies 67 (2021): 135–63.
  38. ‘Emotions and narrativity in the Greek romance’. In M. de Bakker, B. van den Berg and J. Klooster eds. Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond (Leiden: Brill, 2021): 633–49.
  39. ‘Altered states: cultural pluralism and psychosis in ancient literary receptions’. In M. Fantuzzi, H. Morales and T. Whitmarsh eds. Reception in Greco-Roman Antiquity: Studies in Theory and Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021): 1–19.
  40.  ‘Ancient Greece and Rome in the twenty-first century’. In Y. Kasai and V. Cazzato eds. Challenges of Classics (Koten no Chosen) (Toyko: Chisen Shokan, 2021): 533–40 (in Japanese).
  41. ‘Oedipus the atheist: apotheosis, chrēsmologia and scepticism in 420s Athens’. In A. Vicente Sanchez and V. Ramón Palerm eds.  ASÉBEIA. Estudios sobre la irreligiosidad en Grecia / ASÉBEIA. Studies in irreligiosity in Greece (Madrid: Signifer Libros, 2020): 293–308.
  42. ‘The invention of atheism and the invention of religion’. In B. Edelmann-Singer, T. Nicklas and J. Spittler eds. Insider doubt: Sceptic and believer in ancient Mediterranean religions (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020): 37–51.
  43. ‘(Not) talkin’ ‘bout a revolution: Managing constitutional crisis in Athenian political thought’. In J. Klooster and I. Kuin eds. After the crisis: Remembrance, re-anchoring and recovery in ancient Greece and Rome (London: Bloomsbury, 2020): 15–29, 199–201.
  44. ‘The violence of boukolēsis in the literature of Roman Greece’. Aitia 19.1 (2019): internet publication.
  45.  ‘Institutional developments in Greek linguistics’ (with Brian Joseph and Ianthi Tsimpli). Journal of Greek Linguistics 19: 215–26.
  46. ‘Hellenistic and early imperial continuities’. In D. S. Richter and W. A. Johnson eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018): 11–23.
  47. ‘Pancrates’. Oxford Classical Dictionary, 5th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Online.
  48. ‘Theomachy and theology in early Greek myth: the case of the Aeolids’. Philosophie Antique 18 (2018): 13–36.
  49. ‘How to write anti-Roman history’. In D. Allen, P. Christesen and P. Millett (eds.) How to Do Things With History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018): 365–90.
  50. ‘Sappho and cyborg Helen’. In F. Budelmann and T. Phillips (eds.) Textual Events (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018): 135–49.
  51. ‘The flowers of the meadow: intrageneric intertextuality in Achilles Tatius 1–2’. In T. S. Thorsen and S. J. Harrison eds. The dynamics of ancient prose (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018): 115–30.
  52. ‘Quantum classics: literature, historicism, untimeliness, uncertainty’. In J. Grethlein and A. Rengakos (eds.) Griechische Literaturgeschichtsschreibung (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017): 30–45.
  53. ‘“Away with the atheists!” Christianity and “militant atheism” in the second century CE’, in J. Carleton-Paget and J. Lieu (eds.) Christianity in the second century AD (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017): 265–80.
  54. ‘Atheism as a group identity in ancient Greece’. Religion in the Roman Empire 3 (2017): 50–65.
  55. ‘The archaeology of atheism in ancient Athens’. Biblical Archaeology Review, August 2016 (online).
  56. ‘Diagoras, Bellerophon and the siege of Olympus’. Journal of Hellenic Studies 136 (2016): 182–6.
  57. ‘The mnemology of empire and resistance: memory, oblivion and periegesis in imperial Greek culture’. In K. Galinsky and K. Lapatin eds. Cultural memories in the Roman empire (Los Angeles: Getty, 2016): 49–64.
  58. ‘Atheistic aesthetics: the Sisyphus fragment, poetics and the creativity of drama’. Cambridge Classical Journal 60 (2014): 1–18.
  59. ‘Greek novel and local myth’. In Futre Pinheiro, M. P., Bierl, A. and Beck, R. Intende, lector: Echoes of myth, religion and ritual in the ancient novel (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013): 39–42.
  60. ‘Euhemerus, the Sacred inscription, and philosophical fiction’. In R. Webb ed. La fiction dans l’antiquité (Paris: Picard, 2013): 179–191.
  61. ‘Addressing power: fictional letters between Alexander and Darius’. In E. Bracke, O. Hodkinson and P. Rosenmeyer eds. Epistolary narratives in ancient Greek literature (Leiden: Brill, 2013): 169–186.
  62. ‘Resistance is futile? Greek literary tactics in the face of Rome’. In P. Schubert, P. Ducrey, and P. Derron eds. Les Grecs héritiers des Romains: huit exposés suivis de discussions. Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique, 59 (Vandoeuvres:  Fondation Hardt, 2013): 57–78.
  63. ‘Radical cognition: metalepsis and classical drama’. Greece and Rome 60 (2013): 4–16.
  64. ‘Philostratus’. In I. J. F. de Jong ed. Space in ancient Greek literature (Leiden: Brill, 2012): 463–79.
  65. ‘Joseph et Aséneth: réligion et érotisme’. In B. Pouderon and C. Bost-Pouderon eds. Les hommes et les dieux dans l’ancien Roman (Lyon: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, 2012): 229–43.
  66. ‘Hellenism, nationalism, hybridity: the invention of the novel’. In G. Bhambra, D. Orrells and T. Roynon eds. African Athena: new agendas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011): 210–24.
  67. ‘Pharaonic Alexandria: Ezekiel’s Exagoge and political allegory in Hellenistic Judaism’. In E. Subias, P. Azara, J. Carruesco and R. Cuesta eds. The space of the city in Graeco-Roman Egypt: Image and reality (Tarragona: Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica, 2011): 41–8.
  68. ‘Greek poets and Roman patrons in the late Republic and early Empire: Crinagoras, Antipater and others on Rome’. In T. Schmitz and N. Wiater eds. The struggle for identity: Greeks and their past in the first century BCE (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2011): 189–204.
  69. ‘Metamorphoses of the Ass’. In F. Mestre ed. Lucian of Samosata: Greek writer and Roman citizen (Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, 2010): 73–81.
  70. ‘Epitomes of Greek novels’. In M. Horster and C. Reitz eds. Condensing texts – condensed text (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2010): 307–20.
  71. ‘Domestic poetics: Hippias’ house in Achilles Tatius’. Classical Antiquity 29 (2010): 327–48.
  72. ‘The Greek novel’. Oxford Bibliographies Online (Oxford: Oxford University Press), ca. 5000 words.
  73. ‘Lucian’. In M. Gagarin et. al. eds The Oxford Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome (New York: Oxford University Press).
  74. ‘The second sophistic’. In M. Gagarin et. al. eds The Oxford Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome (New York: Oxford University Press): 1.263–7.
  75. ‘Thinking local’. In T. Whitmarsh ed. Local knowledge and microidentities in the Roman Greek world (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010): 1–16.
  76. ‘Roman Hellenism’. In A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel eds The Oxford handbook of Roman studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010): 728–47.
  77. ‘Prose fiction’. In M. Cuypers and J. Clauss eds. A companion to Hellenistic literature (Oxford: Blackwells, 2010): 395–411.
  78. ‘An I for an I: Reading fictional autobiography’. Cento Pagine 3 (2009): 56–66 (http://www2.units.it/musacamena/centop.php). Repr. in A. Marmodoro and J. Hill eds. The author’s voice in classical and late antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014): 233–47.
  79. ‘Divide and rule: segmenting Callirhoe and related works’. In M. Paschalis et al. eds Readers and writers in the ancient novel (Groningen: Barkhuis, 2009): 36–50.
  80. ‘Reframing satire: Lucianic metalepsis’. In M. Çevik ed. Uluslararasi Samsatli Lucianus Sempozyumu (Adıyaman: Adıyaman Üniversitesi, 2009): 69–75.
  81. ‘Greece and Rome’, in G. Boys-Stone, P. Vasunia and B. Graziosi eds. The Oxford handbook of Hellenic studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009): 114–28.
  82. ‘Desire and the end of the Greek novel’. In I. Nilsson ed. Plotting with eros: Essays on the poetics of love and the erotics of reading (Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen Press, 2009): 135–52.
  83. ‘Performing heroics: language, landscape and identity in Philostratus’ Heroicus’. In E. Bowie and J. Elsner eds. Philostratus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009): 205–29.
  84. ‘Ancient history through ancient literature’. In A. Erskine ed. A companion to ancient history (Oxford: Blackwells, 2009): 77–86.
  85. ‘Samuel Butler e l’erudizione classica’. In R. Lo Schiavo ed. La scrittura dell’ occhio: utopisti e veristi dalla penna alla lastra (Trapani: Libera Università dell’ Terza Età, 2008): 69–80.
  86. ‘Rhetoric of the second sophistic’. In W. Donsbach ed. The international encyclopedia of communication (Oxford: Blackwells, 2008): 4344–5.
  87.  ‘Narrative’ (co-written with Shadi Bartsch). In T. Whitmarsh ed. The Cambridge companion to the Greek and Roman novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008): 237–57.
  88. ‘Class’. In T. Whitmarsh ed. The Cambridge companion to the Greek and Roman novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008): 72–87.
  89. ‘Introduction’. In T. Whitmarsh ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008): 1–14.
  90. ‘Josephus, Joseph and the Greek novel’. Ramus 36 (2007): 78–95.
  91. ‘Philostratus’. In I. de Jong and R. Nünlist eds. Time in ancient Greek literature (Leiden: Brill, 2007): 413–30.
  92.  ‘Introduction’ (co-written with Jason König). In J. König and T. Whitmarsh eds. Ordering knowledge in the Roman empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007): 3–39.
  93. ‘Prose literature and the Severan dynasty’. In S. Swain, S. Harrison and J. Elsner eds Severan culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007): 29–51.
  94. ‘Dion og kejserne’. In T. Bekker-Nielsen and J. Majbom Madsen eds Dion fra Prusa (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2007): 29–44.
  95. ‘This in-between book: language, politics and genre in Tacitus’ Agricola’. In B. McGing and J. Mossman, eds The limits of ancient biography (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2007): 305–33.
  96. ‘The sincerest form of imitation: Plutarch on flattery’. In D. Konstan and S. Saïd eds. Greeks and Greekness: the construction and uses of the Greek past among Greeks under the Roman empire (Cambridge: CCJ supplements, 2006): 93–111.
  97. ‘True histories: Lucian, Bakhtin, and the pragmatics of reception’. In C. Martindale and R. Thomas eds. Classics and the uses of reception (Oxford: Blackwells, 2006): 104–15.
  98. ‘The Greek novel: titles and genre’. American Journal of Philology 126 (2005): 587–611.
  99. ‘Quickening the classics: the politics of prose in Roman Greece’. In J. Porter ed. Classical pasts: the classical traditions of Greco–Roman antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005): 378–406, 622–30.
  100. ‘The lexicon of love: a note on Longus and Philetas’. Journal of Hellenic Studies 125 (2005): 145–8.
  101. ‘Heliodorus smiles’. In S. Harrison et al. eds. Metaphor and the ancient novel (Groningen: Barkhuis, 2005): 87–105.
  102. ‘The harvest of wisdom: landscape, description and identity in the Heroicus’. In E. Aitken and J. Maclean eds. Philostratus’ Heroicus (Atlanta: Society for Biblical Literature, 2005): 237–49.
  103. ‘Dialogues in love: Bakhtin and his readers on the Greek novel’. In R. B. Branham ed. The Bakhtin circle and ancient narrative (Groningen: Barkhuis, 2005): 107–29.
  104. ‘The Cretan lyre paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian and the poetics of patronage’. In B. Borg ed. Paideia: the world of the second sophistic (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2004): 377–402.
  105. ‘Lucian’. In I. J. F. de Jong, R. Nünlist and A. Bowie eds. Narrators, narratees and narratives in ancient Greek literature (Leiden: Brill, 2004): 465–76.
  106. ‘Dio Chrysostom’. In I. J. F. de Jong, R. Nünlist and A. Bowie eds. Narrators, narratees and narratives in ancient Greek literature (Leiden: Brill, 2004): 451–64.
  107. ‘Aelius Aristides’. In I. J. F. de Jong, R. Nünlist and A. Bowie eds. Narrators, narratees and narratives in ancient Greek literature (Leiden: Brill, 2004): 441–7.
  108. ‘Philostratus’. In I. J. F. de Jong, R. Nünlist and A. Bowie eds. Narrators, narratees and narratives in ancient Greek literature (Leiden: Brill, 2004): 423–39.
  109. ‘Introduction’ to Samuel Butler, The authoress of the Odyssey (Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2004): vii–xxviii.
  110. ‘Reading for pleasure: narrative, irony, and erotics in Achilles Tatius’. In S. Panyotakis and M. Zimmerman eds. The ancient novel and beyond (Leiden: Brill, 2003): 191–205.
  111. ‘Written on the body: perception, deception and desire in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica’. Ramus 31 (2002): 111–24.
  112. ‘What Samuel Butler saw: Classics, authorship and cultural authority in late Victorian England’. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 48 (2002): 66–86.
  113. ‘Alexander’s Hellenism and Plutarch’s textualism’. Classical Quarterly 52 (2002): 174–92.
  114. ‘Greece is the world: exile and identity in the Second Sophistic’. In S. Goldhill ed. Being Greek under Rome (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001): 269–305.
  115. ‘The poetics and politics of parasitism’. In D. Braund and J. Wilkins eds. Athenaeus and his world (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000): 304–15.
  116. ‘Greek and Roman in dialogue: the pseudo-Lucianic Nero’. Journal of Hellenic Studies 119 (1999): 142–60.
  117. ‘The writes of passage: cultural initiation in Heliodorus’. In R. Miles ed. Constructing identities in late antiquity (London: Routledge, 1999): 16–40.
  118. ‘The birth of a prodigy: Heliodorus and the genealogy of Hellenism’. In R. Hunter ed. Studies in Heliodorus (Cambridge: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society supplements, 1998): 93–124.
  119. ‘Reading power in Roman Greece: the paideia of Dio Chrysostom’. in Y. L. Too and N. Livingstone eds. Pedagogy and power (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998): 192–213.

Teaching and Supervisions

Research supervision: 

He is a specialist in Greek literature and culture of all periods, but particularly the Roman Empire.

Other Professional Activities

He chairs the British Academy's Classics Section, and sits on the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Classics.

He co-edits the book series Classics in Theory (Oxford University Press) and Cambridge Classical Studies (Cambridge University Press).

Until 2025 he was Editor in Chief of the fifth edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary.

He is an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Regius Professor of Greek

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