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Classical Studies

Dr Trevor Fear

Lecturer and Staff Tutor

Research Interests

Roman Elegy, Latin and Greek lyric poetry, critical theory, classics and popular culture.

Publications

“Of Aristocrats and Courtesans: Seneca, De Beneficiis 1.14” Hermes, Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, 135.4, 2007.

"Roman Elegy and the inscription of the liminal male," in Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry, edited by Ronnie Ancona and Ellen Greene, John Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Guest editor, with Cindy Benton, "Center and Periphery in the Roman World," Arethusa, 36.3, Fall 2003.

Guest editor: "Fallax opus: Approaches to Reading Roman Elegy," Arethusa 33.2, Spring 2000.

"The Poet as Pimp: Elegiac Seduction in the Time of Augustus," Arethusa 33.2, Spring 2000.

"Through the Past Darkly: Elegy and the Problematics of Interpretation," Arethusa 33.2, Spring 2000.

"Another note on Catullus 68a, 34f.," Liverpool Classical Monthly, Vol. 18.1, Jan. 1993.

"Catullus 68A: Veronae Turpe, Catulle, Esse," Illinois Classical Studies, Vol. 17.2, Fall 1992.

"Catullus: a poet in transition," Liverpool Classical Monthly, Vol. 15.2, Feb. 1990.

In progress:

"Propertius 2.23: Roman Elegy and the Drama of Callimachean Aesthetics"

"Propertius 2.11 and the elegiac interdictio ingenio"

"Love's Economy: Aesthetics, Exchange and Youthful Poetics in Roman Elegy," book length manuscript on Roman Elegy

See also Open Research Online for further details of Trevor Fear’s research publications.

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