BA, University of California, Berkeley 1967

BA, Cambridge University 1972

MA, Cambridge University 1975

Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University 1977

Lecturer in Classics, Birkbeck College, University of London 1978-89

Senior Lecturer, King’s College London 1989-1996    

Professor of Classics, King's 1996- date

My research has centred round Latin literature and Roman culture more generally. My main publications are commentaries on texts (Lucan, Horace, Tacitus, Seneca), but my writing for journals ranges across a much wider spectrum of interest (philological, literary history, reception). I am currently writing a book on Tacitus in collaboration with Professor D. W. Rathbone (King's College London).

• Latin literature
• Roman culture

Horace, Odes I (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012. Ix + 246 pp

‘Vivere secundum Horatium: Otto Vaenius’ Emblemata Horatiana’, in Hourghton, L. B. T.  & Wyke, M. (edd.), Perceptions of Horace: a Roman poet and his Readers      (Cambridge 2009), 200-18

‘Roman Tragedy’ in E. Bispham, T. Harrison, B. Sparkes (edd.), The Edinburgh  Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University  Press, 2006), pp. 295-8

‘Pastoral after Virgil’ in M. Fantuzzi and T. Papanghelis (edd.), A Companion to  Latin Pastoral (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp. 451-66

 ‘Oratory in Tacitus’ Annals’, in Berry, D. & Erskine, A. (edd.), Form and  Function in Roman Oratory (Cambridge, 2010), Chapter 17, pp. 281-93

‘Ipsa verba: Tacitus’ verbatim quotations’, in Nelis, D. & Führer, T. (edd.) Acting with  words (Heidelberg : Winter, 2010), pp. 129-42

My teaching is usually focused on language acquisition (both Greek and Latin), and text-based courses, both at BA and MA levels. I also teach non-language courses on the social and cultural aspects of Roman drama and the theatre, and on the culture of Nero’s reign.

My current research student is producing a study of family relationships in Statius’ Thebaid.