Francis Cairns

Francis Cairns (* 20th century) is a British classical philologist .

Life

After completing his MA in Classics in 1961 at the University of Glasgow , Cairns moved to Oxford University , where he obtained a BA in Literae humaniores at Balliol College in 1963 . In the same year he became Assistant Lecturer in Humanity (Latin) at the University of Edinburgh , from 1966 to 1973 he was a lecturer there. In 1968, meanwhile, he obtained an MA from Oxford University. From 1974 to 1988 he was Professor of Latin (established Chair) at the University of Liverpool . In 1982 he received his doctorate there . From 1989 to 1999 he was Professor of Latin Language and Literature at the University of Leeds , and from 1999 to 2001 Research Professor of Latin Language and Literature there. Since 2000 he has been Professor of Classical Languages ​​at Florida State University .

Cairns conducts research on Roman poetry from the Republican and Augustan periods ( Catullus , Horace , Virgil , Roman Elegy, Tibullus , Properz ), Hellenistic poetry ( Callimachus , Apollonios of Rhodes , Theocritus , epigram ), Medieval Latin and Renaissance Latin and epigraphy the Greek island of Euboia . He also deals with computer-aided learning.

Cairns has also been running Francis Cairns Publications since 1976 .

Fonts (selection)

• Generic Composition in Greek and Roman Poetry. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1972. Revised Edition, reprinted Ann Arbor, MI, Michigan Classical Press, 2007.
• Tibullus. A Hellenistic Poet at Rome. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1979. Reprinted in paperback, Cambridge University Press 2007.
• Virgil's Augustan Epic. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1989. Reprinted in paperback, Cambridge University Press 2008.
• Sextus propertius: The Augustan Elegist. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006. Reprinted in paperback, Cambridge University Press 2009.
• Papers on Roman elegy (1969-2003). (= Eikasmos . Quaderni Bolognesi di Filologia Classica. Studi 16). Patròn, Bologna. 2007.
• Novel lyric. Collected papers on Catullus and Horace. (= Contributions to antiquity 301). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012.
• Hellenistic epigram: Contexts of exploration. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016.

Editorships

• Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar 1976ff.
• Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar (with Malcolm Heath ) 1990ff.
• Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar (with Elaine Fantham ) 2003ff.
• ARCA Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 1976ff.

Web links

• Personal page at Florida State University
• Homepage of Francis Cairns Publications