Dr Stephen Heyworth

Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Wadham College
CUF Lecturer in Classical Languages, Faculty of Classics

Wadham College
Oxford,
OX1 3PN

Tel: (01865) 277945

stephen.heyworth@wadh.ox.ac.uk

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Stephen Heyworth has been Bowra Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Wadham College since 1988; throughout this period he has taught textual criticism and Latin palaeography to undergraduates and Masters students as well as giving lectures and classes on Latin literature (especially poetry of the first century B.C.). He attended Collyer’s Grammar School in Horsham, and then did his undergraduate and doctoral studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, before teaching at the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds. His doctorate was an examination of the manuscript tradition of the Latin elegist Propertius, which led on to an Oxford Classical Text of the poet together with a detailed textual commentary entitled Cynthia. More recently (with his Wadham colleague, James Morwood) he has published a commentary for students on Propertius 3 (Oxford, 2011). His current work concentrates on the text, manuscript tradition and contexts of Ovid’s Fasti, and will lead to a commentary on Book 3 (CUP) and an OCT of the whole poem. He was editor of Classical Quarterly from July 1993 to November 1998.

Research Interests

Latin Poetry, Propertius, Ovid, Textual Criticism

Selected Recent Publications

2007: Classical Constructions, Papers in memory of Don Fowler, Classicist and Epicurean, Oxford.
2007: Cynthia: a companion to the text of Propertius (edited volume), Oxford.
2007: Sexti Properti Elegi, Oxford Classical Text.
2009: 'Housman and Propertius', in D. Butterfield & C. Stray (eds), A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar, London, 11-28.
2010: 'An elegist's career: from Cynthia to Cornelia', in Philip Hardie & Helen Moore (eds) Classical Literary Careers and their Reception, Cambridge, 89-104.
2011: (with James Morwood) A commentary on Propertius, Book 3, Oxford.

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