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Faculty of Classics

 

Biography

I am the Centenary Research Fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge (2025-8), having completed my BA (2019), MPhil (2020), and PhD (2025) at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. My doctoral study was jointly supported by Corpus Christi College and by the Richard Claverhouse Jebb Fund.

Research

My research focuses on Hellenistic, Imperial, and late-antique Greek literature. I work on poetic texts in ancient Greek composed and collected over multiple centuries, focusing on the experience of temporal layering and dissonance within them as well as the formation and transformation of literary traditions and canons.

My doctoral research centred on the Greek Anthology, a Byzantine compendium of epigrams on love, death, and offerings to the gods written over the course of more than a millennium. I am expanding my doctoral thesis, The Collective Moment: Reading Time in the Greek Anthology, into a monograph, while embarking on a new project on the poetics of anthologised prophecy in ancient Greece.

I have also published on the history of classical scholarship and the text of archaic lyric poetry.

Publications

Key publications: 

Articles:

‘Sappho 1.18-19 Revisited’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 225: 3–12. (2023)

 

Book chapters:

‘Washed in the Cobalt of Oblivions: Ecologies of Memory in Hellenistic Funerary Epigram’ in D. Hanigan, E. Strazdins (eds.) Terraqueous Topographies in Postclassical Greek Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming)

‘Why Cambridge Needs Greek: Richard Croke, Orationes duae’ in G. Manuwald, L. Nicholas (eds.) Anthology of Neo-Latin in British Universities, 59-87. London: Bloomsbury. (with Aaron J. Kachuck, 2022)

 

Reviews:

Richard Hunter, Greek Epitaphic Poetry, in The Classical Review 73: 43–5. (2022)

Teaching and Supervisions

Teaching: 

I supervise papers in Greek and Latin literature and language. I am also the Director of Studies in Classics at Selwyn College for the academic year 2025-6.

Contact Details

Selwyn College Cambridge CB3 9DQ
bm505@cam.ac.uk
Not available for consultancy

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