John Graham Wilmot Henderson

John Graham Wilmot Henderson (* 1948 ) is a British Latinist , Professor of Classical Philology at Cambridge University and Fellow of King's College , Cambridge .

After earning an MA and a DPhil , Henderson was first Assistant Lecturer (1975–1978), then Lecturer (1978–1996) and Reader in Latin Literature (1996–2003) at Cambridge University. In 2003 he was given a personal professorship for Classical Philology there.

Henderson works both on Latin prose writers of antiquity ( Phaedrus , Pliny the Elder , Seneca ) and the Middle Ages ( Isidore of Seville ) as well as on Latin poetry, in particular on the Comedy of Plautus and the satire of Juvenal , on the relationship between art and literature in the ancient world Rome and the history of reception. Together with Mary Beard , he has written an introduction to classical studies, which has also been translated into German, and a presentation of the reception of Greek art in Rome. In his younger years he has also dealt with the history of classical philology in the form of commentary on classics in the Oxford Classical Commentaries , particularly the Cicero and Virgil commentaries by Roland Gregory Austin .

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Monographs

• The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville: Creating Truth through Words , Cambridge 2006
• Oxford Reds: Classic Commentaries on Latin Classics , Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd 2006
• Plautus Asinaria: the one about the asses , Wisconsin 2006
• Løve in København: The triumph of art at Thorvaldsens Museum , Museum Tusculanum, University of Copenhagen Press 2005
• Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters: Places to Dwell , Cambridge, 2004
• HORTVS: The Roman Gardening Book , Routledge 2004
• Aesop's Human Zoo: Roman Stories about our Bodies , Chicago 2004
• Pliny's Statue: The Letters, Self-Portraiture, and Classical Art , Exeter 2002
• (with Mary Beard ): Classical Art from Greece to Rome . 2001, ISBN 0-19-284237-4 .
• Telling Tales on Caesar: Roman Stories from Phaedrus , Oxford 2000
• Writing down Rome: Satire, Comedy and other Offences in Latin Poetry , Oxford 1999
• Fighting for Rome. Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War , Cambridge, 1998
• Juvenal's Mayor: The Professor who Lived on 2D. a Day , Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume, 1998
• A Roman Life: Rutilius Gallicus on Paper and in Stone , Exeter 1998, ISBN 978-085989565-1 .
• Figuring out Roman Nobility. Juvenal's Eighth Satire , Exeter 1997
• (with Mary Beard): Classics: A Very Short Introduction . 1995, ISBN 0-19-285313-9 . German Translated into: Paul G. Bahn, Mary Beard, John Henderson: Paths to antiquity . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-476-01683-8 .

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• The way we were: RG Austin, In Caelianam , in: RK Gibson, Chr. Shuttleworth Kraus (Ed.), The classical commentary: histories, practices, theory . Brill, Leiden 2002 ( Mnemosyne , Supplementa, Vol. 232), ISBN 9004121536 , Google Books [1]

Web links

• Page at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge [2]
• Cambridge University database - biographies of individuals [3]
• Cambridge University Reporter, Personal Professorship [4]