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Prof. Tim Whitmarsh MA MPhil PhD



Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College

Corpus Christi College
Oxford,
OX1 4JF

Tel: (01865) 276707

tim.whitmarsh@ccc.ox.ac.uk

http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Fellows/f/22/


Research Interests

post-classical Greek literature and culture; the 'Second Sophistic' and the Greek novel; the relationships between Greek and near-eastern narrative fiction in the classical and Hellenistic periods; atheism in antiquity; literary theory and reception

Selected Recent Publications

2004: Ancient Greek Literature, Cambridge.
2005: The Second Sophistic, Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics.
2009: (ed.) The Cambridge companion to the Greek and Roman novel, Cambridge.
2010: (ed.) Local knowledge and microidentities in the imperial Greek world, Cambridge.
2010: 'Domestic poetics: Hippias' house in Achilles Tatius', Classical Antiquity, 29 (2), 327-348.
2011: Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel: returning romance, Cambridge.