Denis Feeney

Denis C. Feeney (born October 16, 1955 ) is a New Zealand Classical Philologist and Professor of Classics and Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University .

Feeney graduated from the University of Auckland , New Zealand with a BA in 1974 . In 1982 he was awarded the D.Phil. At Oxford University with an unpublished commentary on the first book of the Punica by Silius Italicus . PhD. He was a Fellow of Magdalene College (Cambridge) and New College (Oxford) . In the academic year 2003/2004 he was Sather Professor at the University of California at Berkeley . In 2016 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an external member of the British Academy .

Feeney works on the interrelationships between Roman literature, especially poetry, and Roman religion. His monograph The Gods in Epic , a critical consideration of the meaning of the " apparatus of gods " in the Greek and Roman epic poems, is considered a standard work in this field. Another monograph is devoted to Roman concepts and representations of time .

Fonts (selection)

• Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History. California University Press, 2007 (Sather Classical Lectures, Vol. 65).
• Literature and Religion at Rome: Cultures, Contexts, and Beliefs . Cambridge University Press, 1998; Italian translation: Letteratura e religione nell'antica Roma: culture, contesti e credenze , trad. Claudio Salone, ed. Piergiorgio Parroni. Salerno Editrice, Rome 1999.
• The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition . Oxford University Press, 1991.

Individual evidence

1. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences : Newly Elected Fellows. In: amacad.org. Retrieved April 22, 2016 . 

Web links

• Personal page at Princeton University, with photograph
• Denis Feeney: Sather Professor for Spring 2005 . University of California, archived from the original onJune 9, 2007; accessed on June 13, 2018(English, original website no longer available).