Dr Luke Pitcher BA MA MSt DPhil PGCert

Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Somerville College. CUF Lecturer, Faculty of Classics, Somerville College

Somerville College
Oxford,
OX2 6HD

Research Interests

Historiography, Reception

Selected Recent Publications

2009: "Classical War Literature", in K. McLoughlin (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to British and American War Writing, Cambridge University Press, 71-80.
2009: "Saying 'Shazam': The Magic of Antiquity in Superhero Comics", in New Voices in Classical Reception Studies, 4.
2009: Writing Ancient History: An Introduction to Classical Historiography.
2011: "Ronald Syme and Ovid’s Road Not Taken", Histos, 5, 232-46.
2011: "The Stones of Blood: Family, Monumentality, and Memory in Velleius' Second Century", in E. Cowan (ed.), Velleius Paterculus: Making History, Classical Press of Wales, 253-64.
2012: "War Stories: The Uses of the Plupast in Appian", in J. Grethlein, C. Krebs (edd.), Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: the ‘Plupast’ from Herodotus to Appian, Cambridge, 199-210.

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