Dr Ruth Parkes DPhil, MSt, MA (oxon)

Lecturer in Classics, Wadham College

Wadham College
Oxford,
OX1 3PN

ruth.parkes@classics.ox.ac.uk

http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/fellows-staff/academics/dr-ruth-parkes-2.html

Research Interests

Epic; Roman Late Antiquity; Reception

Selected Recent Publications

2008: ‘The Return of the Seven: Allusion to the Thebaid in Statius’ Achilleid’, American Journal of Philology, 129.3, 381-402.
2009: ‘Sed tardum (Ach. 1.47): Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica as prequel to Statius’ Achilleid’, Materiali e discussioni, 63, 291-297.
2009: ‘Who’s the father? Biological and literary inheritance in Statius' Thebaid’, Phoenix, 63, 24-37.
2009: ‘Hercules and the Centaurs: Reading Statius with Vergil and Ovid’, Classical Philology, 104.4, 476-494.
2010: 'Dealing with ghosts: literary assertion in Statius' Thebaid', Ramus, 39.1, 14-23.

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