The Australian National University

School of Language Studies

A Classics Program Seminar

Tuesday 22 July at 5.30pm

Milgate Room, first floor, AD Hope Building

Professor Philip Hardie

(Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Latin)

The self-divisions of Scylla:

Virgil to Milton

(Virgil, Ovid, and their reception)

Philip Hardie is one of the UK's most distinguished Latinists. His major publications are Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (Oxford 1986); The Epic Successors of Virgil (Roman Literature and its Contexts. Cambridge 1993); Virgil Aeneid 9  (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1994); (as editor) Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge 2002); Ovid's poetics of illusion (Cambridge 2002); (as co-editor with Stuart Gillespie) Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (Cambridge 2007).

Professor Hardie's current research interests are: the history of rumour and renown, from Homer to Alexander Pope; the reception of ancient literature in the English Renaissance.