David Samuel Levene
David Samuel Levene (born April 14, 1963 ) is a British classical philologist .
Life
Levene earned a BA in Literae humaniores (1985) and a Ph.D. in Classics (1989) at Brasenose College of the University of Oxford . He was then Edward White Bate Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College from 1990 to 1993 and Lecturer in Classics at the University of Durham from 1993 to 2000 . From 2000 to 2006 he taught as Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Leeds . David Samuel Levene has been Professor of Classics at New York University since 2006 .
His areas of interest are Latin prose literature , Roman religion, and the history of the Roman Republic .
Fonts (selection)
- Religion in Livy . Leiden 1993, ISBN 90-04-09617-5 .
- as editor: Tacitus : The histories . Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-19-283158-5 .
- as editor with Damien Nelis : Clio and the Poets. Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography . Brill 2002, ISBN 90-04-11782-2 .
- Livy on the Hannibalic War . Oxford 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-815295-8 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Levene, David Samuel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levene, David; Levene, David S .; Levene, DS |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1963 |