Calum A. Maciver

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Calum Alasdair Maciver (* 1981 in Edinburgh ) is a British classical philologist and lecturer in Classical Languages ​​and Literature at the University of Edinburgh in Great Britain.

Raised in Glasgow as the third youngest of eight siblings, he studied and obtained his doctorate in Edinburgh . Calum Maciver researches and publishes primarily on Greek literature from the Roman Empire . His main interests are epic poetry and the ancient novel . Awards for his academic work have included a Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Classical Philological Seminar at the University of Zurich (2008–2009), teaching grants for Graecistics and Latin Studies at the Universities of Edinburgh (2009–2011) and Leeds (2011–2012) and aAlexander von Humboldt fellowship at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen (2013-14).

His annotated translation of Quintus von Smyrna is due to appear in 2017 . He is currently researching the influence of the ancient Homer exegesis on the epics of Statius .

Publications (selection)

  • Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity. Brill, Leiden / Boston 2012.
  • with John Marincola, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras (= Edinburgh Leventis Studies. Volume 6). Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2012.
  • as editor: Greek Music, Drama, Sport, and Fauna. The Collected Classical Papers of EK Borthwick. Francis Cairns Publications, Cambridge 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief curriculum vitae at the University of Edinburgh
  2. ^ List of publications in the Edinburgh Research Explorer
  3. ↑ Brief curriculum vitae at the University of Edinburgh
  4. ^ List of publications at the University of Edinburgh
personal data
SURNAME Maciver, Calum A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maciver, Calum Alasdair (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British classical scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh