MPhil in Ancient Languages and Literature, St Hilda’s College
BA/LLB (Law & Literature), Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
I study how religion, status, and tradition shape Greek political thought and institutions, especially ideas of aristocracy and their interactions with monarchy, tyranny, and democracy. My MPhil examined Theognis and Solon and early negative views of tyranny from an aristocratic perspective; in my DPhil I extend this approach to Pindar, Plato, and Xenophon to trace how aristocratic ideals are theorised, contested, and legitimised across genres (elegy, lyric, philosophy). I am also interested in intellectual history (history of ideas) and in the reception of the classics in Latin American political and philosophical thought.
Working DPhil title: Aristocracy in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought: from Homer and Hesiod, to Plato, and Xenophon
Research interests
- Greek political thought: aristocracy, tyranny, legitimacy
- Archaic poetry (elegy and lyric), esp. Theognis, Solon, Pindar
- Plato and Xenophon on constitutions and elites
Tradition, status, and religion in the construction
