Greek and Latin texts

Researching Greek and Latin texts is fundamental to many areas of Classical Studies. Academics at the OU work on a wide range of genres, from drama, forensic speeches, and the earliest epic and lyric poetry, to philosophy, history, medical texts, Latin poetry and epigraphy.

Selected recent publications:

Sappho and the Gods (2021-03)​
Swift, Laura​
In: Finglass, Patrick and Kelly, Adrian eds. The Cambridge Companion to Sappho. Cambridge Companions to Literature (pp. 209-222)​
ISBN : 9781316986974 | Publisher : Cambridge University Press | Published : Cambridge​​

Homer’s Thebes: Epic Rivalries and the Appropriation of Mythical Pasts (2020-01)​
Barker, Elton T. E. and Christensen, Joel P.​
Hellenic Studies​
ISBN : 9780674237926 | Publisher : Harvard University Press​​

Suicide in Homer and the Tale of the Heike (2020-11-05)​
Yamagata, Naoko​
Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic, 4 (pp. 72-94)​​

The Role of Quintus Dellius in the meeting of Antony and Cleopatra at Tarsus (2020)​
Fear, Trevor​
Phoenix, 74(1-2) ((In press))​​

Octavia: a Roman mother in mourning (2020)​
Hope, Valerie​
In: Sharrock, Alison and Keith, Alison eds. Maternal conceptions in classical literature and philosophy​
ISBN : 9781487532017 | Publisher : University of Toronto Press​​

Homicide in the Attic Orators: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Context (2020-02-03)​
Plastow, Christine​
ISBN : 9780429027031 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London​​

Archilochus: The Poems: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (2019-02-19)​
Swift, Laura​
ISBN : 9780198768074 | Publisher : Oxford University Press

Researchers:

• Professor Elton Barker
• Dr Emma Bridges
• Professor Chris Emlyn-Jones
• Dr Trevor Fear
• Professor Judith George
• Dr Jan Haywood
• Dr Jasmine Hunter-Evans
• Dr Valerie Hope
• Dr Jessica Hughes
• Dr Paula James
• Professor Helen King
• Dr David Noy
• Dr Joanna Paul
• Dr Christine Plastow 
• Dr Doris Post 
• Professor James Robson 
• Dr Laura Swift 
• Dr Astrid Voigt
• Dr Alexandra Wilding
• Dr Naoko Yamagata

Current and recent research students:

Catherine Jackson, What’s Hebuca to Him or He to Hecuba? (2012)​

Paul Jackson, De natura deorum Epicureorum (2015)​

Sandra Moncur, Unveiling the Ancient Greek Tragic Mask​

Jacqueline Peake, Tragic Apollo in Fifth-Century Athens: Texts and Contexts (2011)​

Doris Post, Choral Authoritativeness in Sophocles (2018)​

Kim Pratt, Beauty and the Beast: Rethinking Monsters and the Monstrous in Classical Antiquity and Beyond​

Sophie Raudnitz, Tracing the Establishment of Political Society: Remembering and Forgetting in Ancient Greek Literature (2018)​

Pauline Rochelle, Using and Abusing Children in Greek Tragedy (2012)​

Bijon Sinha, Crete and the Cretans of Euripides: Perceptions and Representations (2016)​

Dominic Solly, A Comparison, in Terms of Both Literature and History, of Virgil's Treatment of Augustus and Claudian's Treatment of Stilicho​

Elizabeth Webb, Audience Sensory Experience in Thucydides’ 'History of the Peloponnesian War'​