Dr Jane L. Lightfoot

Fellow, New College
Titular CUF Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature, Faculty of Classics

Research Interests

Hellenistic and later Greek literature

Selected Recent Publications

'Pilgrimage To The Holy City (Hierapolis/Membij)', in Seeing the Gods: Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity, ed. J. Elsner and I. Rutherford, Oxford University Press.
1998: 'The Bonds of Cypris: Nonnus' Aura', Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies, 39, 293-306.
1998: 'An early reference to Perfect Numbers? Some notes on Euphorion SH 417', Classical Quarterly, 48, 187-94.
1999: Parthenius of Nicaea: The Poetic Fragments and the Erotica Pathemata edited with an Introduction and Commentary, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
2000: 'The Roots of Daphne', Hermathena, 168, 11-19.
2000: 'Partheniana Minora', Classical Quarterly, 50 (I), 303-05.
2000: 'Romanised Greeks and Hellenised Romans: Later Greek Literature', in Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds, ed. O. Taplin, Oxford University Press, 257-84.
2000: 'Sophisticates and Solecisms: Hellenistic Literature' in Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds. ed. O.Taplin, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 217-56.
2001: 'Galli in the Cult of the Dea Syria', in Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond, ed. S. Tougher, Classical Press of Wales/ Duckworth, 71–86.
2001: 'Mambogaios', Epigraphica Anatolica, 33, 113-18.
2002: 'Nothing to do with the Artists of Dionysus?', in Actors and Acting in Antiquity, edd. E. Hall and P. A. Easterling, Cambridge University Press, 211-26.
2003: Lucian, On the Syrian Goddess: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, Oxford University Press.

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