Research Fields

• Latin poetry
• Intellectual life in Rome
• The interplay between literature, philosophy, values, and social and political ideology

About

Senior lecturer in Classics

 

Selected Publications

The Worlds of Aulus Gellius, eds. L. Holford-Strevens and A. Vardi (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

“Diiudicatio Locorum: Gellius and the History of a Mode in Ancient Comparative Criticism”, Classical Quarterly2 46 (1996), 492-514

“An Anthology of Early Latin Epigrams? A Ghost Reconsidered”, Classical Quarterly2 50 (2000), 147-158

 

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Catuulus

Vergil's Ecl., Vergil's. Georgics, Vergil's Aeneid

Cicero, de Officiis, Cicero, de Oratore, Cic. de Amicitia, Cic. in Cat. I, Cicero, pro Archia, Cicero and Pliny, E

pistles

Roman Historians

Plautus, Menaechmi, Plautus, Catptivi

Terence, Adelphoe

Ovid, Met

Master's degree courses seminars

The Self in Seneca the younger and Pliny the youger

Horace, Odes; Horace satirre

Intellectua life at Rome

Love in Roman Elegy

The concept of Decline in Tacitus' dialogus de oratoribus