Stephen Harrison | |
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| Born | 31 October 1960 |
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| Education | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Thesis | A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10 (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | R. G. M. Nisbet |
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| Discipline | Classics |
| Institutions | Corpus Christi College,Oxford |
| Main interests | Horace Vergil |
Stephen Harrison (born 31 October 1960) is a British classicist and a professor of Latin at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the poetry of Virgil and Horace.
Having read Classics at Balliol College,Harrison has taught Latin literature at the University of Oxford since 1987. [1] In addition,he has been an occasional visiting professor at the universities of Copenhagen and Trondheim. While his research focuses on the poetry of Virgil and Horace,he has also written on the reception of classical literature and the Roman novel. He is a fellow of Corpus Christi College,Oxford. [2]
In 2022 he was bestowed an honorary doctorate from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. [3]
Apuleius was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer,Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He was born in the Roman province of Numidia,in the Berber city of Madauros,modern-day M'Daourouch,Algeria. He studied Platonism in Athens,travelled to Italy,Asia Minor,and Egypt,and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries. The most famous incident in his life was when he was accused of using magic to gain the attentions of a wealthy widow. He declaimed and then distributed his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magistrates convened in Sabratha,near Oea. This is known as the Apologia.
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Eduard David Mortier FraenkelFBA was a German classical scholar who served as the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1935 until 1953. Born to a family of assimilated Jews in the German Empire,he studied Classics at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen. In 1934,antisemitic legislation introduced by the Nazi Party forced him to seek refuge in the United Kingdom where he eventually settled at Corpus Christi College.
Elaine Fantham was a British-Canadian classicist whose expertise lay particularly in Latin literature,especially comedy,epic poetry and rhetoric,and in the social history of Roman women. Much of her work was concerned with the intersection of literature and Greek and Roman history. She spoke fluent Italian,German and French and presented lectures and conference papers around the world—including in Germany,Italy,the Netherlands,Norway,Argentina,and Australia.
Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam is an American classicist specializing in Latin literature,but has also studied literature written in many other languages. Putnam has been particularly influential in his publications concerning Virgil‘s ‘’Aeneid‘’. He is the son of politician and businessman Roger Putnam. Putnam received his B.A.,M.A.,and Ph. D. from Harvard. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1959 he taught at Smith College for a year. He then moved on to teach at Brown University and serving as W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and a professor of comparative literature for 48 years before retiring in 2008. He was awarded the 1963 Rome Prize,and was later a Resident (1970) and Mellon Professor in Charge of the Classical School (1989-91). He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the American Philosophical Society in 1998.
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Robert George Murdoch Nisbet,FBA,known as Robin Nisbet,was a British classicist and academic,specializing in Latin literature. From 1970 to 1992,he was Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford.
William James Niall Rudd was an Irish-born British classical scholar.
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Tobias Reinhardt is a German classical scholar,specialising in Latin literature and ancient philosophy. Since 2008,he has been the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College,Oxford.
Richard John Tarrant,is an American classicist and Emeritus Pope Professor of Latin at Harvard University. He is an expert on the textual criticism and the transmission of Latin poetry.
Julia Haig Gaisser is an American classical scholar. She is Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus of the Humanities and Professor of Latin at Bryn Mawr College,Pennsylvania. She specializes in Latin poetry and its reception by Renaissance humanists.
Sasha-Mae Eccleston is a classicist and the John Rowe Workman Assistant Professor of Classics at Brown University. She is an expert on reception studies and the works of Apuleius. She is the co-founder of Eos,an academic network which focuses on Africana receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome.
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