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Mr John S.C. Eidinow MA

Bodley Fellow and Lecturer in Latin, Merton College
Fellow and Tutor in Classics, St Benet's Hall

St Benet's Hall
Oxford,
OX1 3LN

Tel: (01865) 286341

john.eidinow@stb.ox.ac.uk



Research Interests

Latin Poetry of the Augustan Period, especially Horace

Selected Recent Publications

1995: 'Horace’s Epistle to Torquatus', Classical Quarterly, 45, 191-99.
2000: 'A Figure in a Landscape', Review of Virgil’s Experience (R.Jenkyns, Oxford, 1998), Classical Review, 50, 440-1.
2000: 'Purpureo bibet ore nectar: A Reconsideration', Classical Quarterly, 50, 463-71.
2003: 'Dido, Aeneas, and Iulus: heirship and obligation in Aeneid 4', Classical Quarterly.
2009: "Horace: critics, canons and canonicity" in Houghton L.B.T and Wyke, M. (eds), Perceptions of Horace: A Roman Poet and His Readers, (Cambridge, 2009), 80-95.