Melina McClure is a DPhil student in Classical Languages and Literature, a Clarendon Scholar and recipient of the Merton College Humanities Scholarship. Her research focuses on fragmentary early Latin poetry and she is writing her thesis on Ennian aesthetics and their ancient scholarly reception. Forthcoming publications include articles on Plautine metre and the textual criticism of Ennius’ tragic works. She has also published a translation of Ovid’s Heroides.
Articles and Chapters
Taylor, B. and McClure, M. 2026 (forthcoming). ‘Ennian Poetics and Aesthetics’, in J. Nethercut and S. La Barbera (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Ennius. Oxford.
McClure, M. 2026 (forthcoming). ‘Metrical Embedding in Plautus and Ennius’, in M. McClure and G. Pezzini (eds.), special issue of Studi italiani di filologia classica.
Edited Volumes
McClure, M. and Pezzini, G. (eds.). 2026 (forthcoming). Special issue of Studi italiani di filologia classica on early Latin poetry and its reception.
Translations
McClure, M. and Lombardo, S. 2024. The Heroides of Ovid. Hackett Publishing.
McClure, M. 2022. ‘Book 27’, Tales of Dionysus: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis, edited by Stanley Lombardo and William Levitan. University of Michigan Press.
McClure, M. 2022. ‘Book 46’, Tales of Dionysus: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis, edited by Stanley Lombardo and William Levitan. University
