Current Research
I am currently working on a commentary on the complete poems of Catullus, for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series. Also in progress is a volume of essays entitled Texts and Violence in the Roman World, which I am editing jointly with Professor David Scourfield of NUI Maynooth. In addition to these two large projects, I am writing or planning articles on Catullus, Lucretius, Propertius, Virgil and Manilius.
Selected Publications
Books
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura V, edited with translation and commentary (Aris and Phillips, 2009)
Lucretius and the Didactic Epic (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2001)
Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Edited books
Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Lucretius (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2004)
Articles and Book Chapters
‘Lucretius and Previous Poetic Traditions’, in S. Gillespie and P.R. Hardie (edd.),
The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
‘Lucretius’, in J.M. Foley (ed.),
A Companion to Ancient Epic (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 440–51
‘Avia Pieridum loca: Tradition and Innovation in Lucretius’, in M. Horster and C. Reitz (edd.),
Wissensvermittlung in dichterischer Gestalt (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2005), 175–91
‘Didactic Epic’, in S.J. Harrison (ed.),
A Companion to Latin Literature (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 101–15
‘Introduction: Genre, Tradition and Individuality’, and ‘The Story of Us: A Narratological Analysis of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura’, in M.R. Gale (ed.),
Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2004), xi–xxiii and 49–71
‘Arms and the Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and the Classical Epic’,
Omnibus 48 (2004), 29–31
‘Poetry and the Backward Glance in Virgil’s Georgics and Aeneid’,
TAPA 133 (2003), 323–52
‘Etymological Word-Play and Poetic Succession in Lucretius’,
CP 96 (2001), 168–72
‘War and Peace in Lucretius and the Georgics’,
PVS 23 (1998), 101–28
‘The Shield of Turnus (Aeneid 7.783–92)’,
G&R 44 (1997), 176–96
‘Propertius 2.7: Militia Amoris and the Ironies of Elegy’,
JRS 87 (1997), 77–91
Virgil’s Metamorphoses: Myth and Allusion in the Georgics’, PCPS 41 (1995), 36–61 (To be reprinted in K. Volk (ed.)
Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Vergil’s Georgics (Oxford, 2008) 94-127
‘Lucretius 4.1–25 and the Proems of the De Rerum Natura’,
PCPS 40 (1994), 1–17
‘Man and Beast in Lucretius and the Georgics’, CQ 41 (1991), 414–26
(Reprinted in P.R. Hardie (ed.),
Virgil: Critical Assessments (London, 1999), 41–57)
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