J. G. W. Henderson

John Graham Wilmot Henderson ( born 1948 ) is a British Latinist, Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

After earning a MA and a DPhil Henderson was initially Assistant Lecturer (1975-1978), then a lecturer (1978-1996) and Reader in Latin Literature (1996-2003) at the University of Cambridge. In 2003 it a personal Chair of Classical Philology was transferred there.

Henderson works with both Latin prose writers of antiquity ( Phaedrus, Pliny the Elder, Seneca ) and medieval ( Isidore of Seville ) and for Latin poetry, especially for the comedy of Plautus and Satire of Juvenal, the relationship between art and literature in ancient Rome and the reception history. Together with Mary Beard, he has written a well translated into German introduction to the ancient science and a representation of the reception of Greek art in Rome. In recent years he has taken. Figure in the classic commentary in the Oxford Classical Commentaries, especially Cicero and Virgil Comments by Roland Gregory Austin, also deals with the history of classical philology

Writings (selection )

Monographs

  • The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville: Creating Truth through Words, Cambridge 2006
  • Oxford Reds: Classic Commentaries on Latin Classics, Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd 2006
  • Plautus Asinaria: the one about the asses, Madison, Wisconsin 2006
  • Løve in København: The triumph of art at Thorvaldsen's Museum, Museum Tusculanum, University of Copenhagen Press 2005
  • Morals and Villas in Seneca 's Letters: Places to Dwell, Cambridge, 2004
  • HORTVS: The Roman Gardening Book, Routledge 2004
  • Aesop's Human Zoo: Roman Stories about our Bodies, 2004 Chicago
  • Pliny 's Statue: The Letters, Self - Portraiture, and Classical Art, Exeter 2002
  • ( with Mary Beard ): Classical Art from Greece to Rome. 2001, ISBN 0-19-284237-4.
  • Telling Tales on Caesar: Roman Stories from Phaedrus, Oxford 2000
  • Writing down Rome: Satire, Comedy and other Offences in Latin Poetry, Oxford 1999
  • Fighting for Rome. Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War, Cambridge, 1998
  • Juvenal 's Mayor: The Professor who Lived on 2D. a Day, Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume, 1998
  • A Roman Life: Rutilius Gallicus on Paper and in Stone, Exeter 1998, ISBN 978-085989565-1.
  • Figuring out Roman Nobility. Juvenal 's Eighth Satire, Exeter 1997
  • ( with Mary Beard ): Classics: A Very Short Introduction. 1995, ISBN 0-19-285313-9. Dt. Übers: Paul G. Bahn, Mary Beard, John Henderson: Ways to antiquity. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01683-8.

Article

  • The way we were: RG Austin, In Caelianam, in: RK Gibson, AD Shuttleworth Kraus ( ed.), The classical commentary: histories, practices, theory. Brill, Leiden 2002 ( Mnemosyne, Supplementa, Vol 232), ISBN 9004121536, Google Books
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