Staff Research Interests and Publications
Full-time Staff:
Keith Hopwood, MA (Cantab)
Research Interests:
Classical and Byzantine Asia Minor; early Ottoman Turkey; the later Roman empire; crime and criminal law in the Roman empire
Selected Publications:
‘Mudara’, in Singer (ed.), Aspects of Ottoman History (Magnes Press, 1994); Organised Crime in Antiquity (Duckworth, 1999); ‘The Byzantine/Turkish Frontier c. 1250-1300’ in M. Köhbach, G. Procházka-Eisl and C. Römer (eds), Acta Viennensia Ottomanica: Akten des 13. CIEPO-Symposiums (Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes)(Vienna, 1999); ‘Ammianus Marcellinus on Isauria’ in J. Drijvers and D. Hunt (eds), The Late Roman World and its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus (Routledge, 1999), 224-35.
He is at present working on a chapter on Turkey 1250-1350 for the Cambridge History of Turkey.
Meriel Jones, MA (Swansea)
Research Interests:
Ancient Fiction; Gender in the ancient world, ancient magic.
Selected Publications:
‘The wisdom of Egypt: base and heavenly magic in Heliodorus’, AN 4, 79-98; ‘Heavenly and pandemic names in Heliodorus’ Aithiopika’, CQ 56.2 (2006).
She is co-editing Philosophical Presences in the Ancient Novel for Ancient Narrative.
Mirjam Plantinga, BA (Amsterdam), PhD (St Andrews)
Research interests:
Hellenistic poetry, Greek and Roman Epic, Augustan poetry
Selected Publications:
‘The Supplication motif in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica’ in M.A. Harder et al. (eds), Hellenistica Groningana 4. Apollonius Rhodius (Leuven) (2000); ‘Ou kata kosmon: acting ‘inappropriately’ in Apollonius Rhodius’ book four’, Cosmos (2004); ‘A Parade of Learning: Callimachus’ Hymn to Artemis (lines 170-268), in M.A. Harder et al. (eds), Hellenistica Groningana 6. Callimachus (2004).
Ian Repath, MA (Oxon), PhD (Warwick)
Head of Department
Research Interests:
Second sophistic prose fiction, especially the Greek novel; the use of names and allusions in fiction; ancient physiognomy. Literary aspects of Plato.
Selected Publications:
‘The Naming of Thrasyllus in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses’, Classical Quarterly 50 (2000), 627-30; ‘Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Cleitophon: What Happened Next?’, Classical Quarterly 55 (2005); A translation, with notes and introduction, of Adamantius’ Physiognomonica, A translation, with notes and introduction, of Anonymi de Physiognomonia Liber Latinus (both in S. Swain [ed.] Physiognomy in the Ancient World [forthcoming, OUP 2006]); Playing with Plato: Platonic Allusion in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Cleitophon (OUP provisionally, forthcoming 2007), Blackwell Handbook to Petronius (forthcoming, Blackwell, 2008, ed. with J.R.W. Prag).
James Richardson, BA, MA (Auckland), PhD (Exeter)
Research interests:
The historiographical tradition of the Roman Republic; the historians of the Roman Republic; Early Rome
Selected publications:
‘Dorsuo and the Gauls’, Phoenix, (2004), 284-97. He is currently working on a number of articles on early Rome and a book focusing on Rome in the early to mid-fourth century BC.
Federico Santangelo, BA (Bologna), PhD (London)
Research interests:
Late Roman Republic; Rome and the Hellenistic World; Romanisation of Italy; Ancient Historiography; History of Modern Historiography of the Ancient World
Selected publications:
‘Memnone di Eraclea e il dominio romano in Asia Minore’, Simblos 4 (2004), 247-61; ‘The Religious Tradition of the Gracchi’, Archiv fuer Religionsgeschichte 7 (2005), 198-214; ‘George Grote’s Early Papers on Roman Culture’, Quaderni di storia 63 (2006), 57-109; ‘Demagoghi romani e fiorentini in Machiavelli’, Latomus 65 (2006), 155-67; ‘Pompey and Religion’, Hermes (forthcoming); ‘Cicero and Marius’, Athenaeum (forthcoming); ‘Sylla et l’Égypte’, Revue de Philologie (forthcoming)
Part-time Staff
Tony Brothers, MA, MPhil (Oxon.)
Research Interests:
Roman comedy; Greek and Roman architecture; Roman religion
Selected Publications:
Terence: The Self-Tormentor (Aris and Phillips, 1988)
Terence: The Eunuch (Aris and Phillips, 2000)
‘ Buildings for Entertainment’ in I. M. Barton (ed.), Roman Public Buildings (University of Exeter Press, 1988) and ‘Urban Housing’ in a companion volume on Roman Domestic Buildings (1996)
Geoffrey Eatough, MA (London), AKC
British Representative on the scientific committee of the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Piceni, Sassoferrato
Research Interests:
Ethnographical literature of the Latin tradition, especially of the early modern period; Greek anthropology
Selected Publications:
Fracastoro: Syphilis (F.Cairns Press, 1984); Selections from Peter Martyr: De Orbe Novo (Brepols, 1998); ‘Peter Martyr’s account of the first contacts with Mexico’, Viator 30 (1999); ‘Fracastoro’s beautiful idea’ in Y. Haskell and P. Hardie (eds), Poets and Teachers (Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Society for Neo-Latin Studies) (Bari, 1999), 105-23;‘Peter Martyr’s Egyptian Embassy’, Studi Umanistici Piceni XXI/2001, 265-78; ‘In the borderlands of humanism: Mathias de Miechow’s De duabus Sarmatiis, Studi Umanistici Piceni XXII/2002, pp. 227-36; 'Putting Wales on the map' Grazer Beiträger Supplementband IX/2005, pp. 41-54; article on Thomas Paynell in the New Dictionary of National Biography.
He is currently preparing an edition of Martyr’s De nuper repertis insulis on the first contacts with Mexico, and working on the British antiquarians, Humphrey Lhuyd, the Welsh antiquarian and his contemporaries. He is also collaborating on a collection of articles on Late Latin.
David Noy, BA, PhD (Reading)
Research Interests:
Jews and other minorities in the Roman world; Roman social history; death in the ancient world; Medieval Latin documents for local history
Selected Publications:
Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe vols I and II (CUP, 1993, 1995); Foreigners at Rome: Citizens and Strangers (Duckworth, 2000); Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis vols I and III (Mohr-Siebeck, 2004); Court Books of the Manor of Winslow, 1327-1377 and 1423-1460 (forthcoming); ‘Half-burnt on an emergency pyre: Roman cremations which went wrong’, Greece and Rome 47 (2000), 186-96; ‘Building a Roman funeral pyre’, Antichthon 34 (2000), 30-45.