Philip Hardie

Philip Hardie

Philip Russell Hardie FBA (born July 13, 1952 ) is a British Latinist and Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College , Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Latin at Cambridge University .

Hardie was a professor of Latin at Corpus Christi College , Oxford , from 2002 to 2006 . In the winter of 2010, Hardie Webster is Distinguished Lecturer and Visiting Professor in the Department of Classics at Stanford University .

Hardie works mainly on Latin poetry of the Republican and Imperial Era, in particular Virgil (Hardie has re-edited the Vergil Commentaries by John Conington , among other things ), and is one of the main promoters of the philological Ovid Renaissance in the 20th century. He is currently concerned with the history of fama , rumor and fame in literature from Homer to Alexander Pope and the reception of ancient literature in the English Renaissance .

In 2012 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea . He is an honorary doctor of the University of Thessaloniki .

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Monographs

• The Last Trojan Hero. A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid (Tauris 2014), ISBN 978-1-78076-247-0
• Rumor and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature (Cambridge University Press 2012), ISBN 978-0-521-62088-8
• Lucretian Receptions: History, the Sublime, Knowledge (Cambridge University Press 2009), ISBN 0-521-76041-0
• Ovid's poetics of illusion (Cambridge 2002), ISBN 0-521-80087-0 ; Review by: Garrett A. Jacobsen, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.11.20 [1]
• Virgil (Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics, Vol. 28; Cambridge University Press, 1998), ISBN 0-199-22342-4
• The Epic Successors of Virgil. A Study in The Dynamics of a Tradition (Roman Literature and its Contexts; Cambridge 1993), ISBN 0-521-41542-X
• Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (Oxford 1986), ISBN 0-198-14036-3 ; Review of: WR Johnson, in: The Classical Journal Vol. 83.3, 1988, pp. 269-271; Kenneth J. Reckford , in: Classical Philology Vol. 85.1, 1990, pp. 72-77

Editorships

• (Ed., With Helen Moore): Classical Literary Careers and their Reception (Cambridge University Press 2010), ISBN 0-521-76297-9
• (Ed.): Conington's Virgil. Edited by John Conington and Philip R. Hardie. Set of Six Volumes. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 2009.
• (Ed.): Paradox and the Marvelous in Augustan Literature and Culture (Oxford Univ. Press 2009), ISBN 0-199-23124-9
• (Ed., With Stuart Gillespie): Cambridge Companion to Lucretius (Cambridge 2007), ISBN 0-521-61266-7
• (Ed.): Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge 2002), ISBN 0-521-77528-0 ; Review by: Joseph Farrell, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.12.21 [2]
• (Ed., With Alessandro Barchiesi and Stephen Hinds ): Ovidian Transformations. Essays on Ovid's Metamorphoses and Its Reception (Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume no.23 , 1999), ISBN 0-906-01422-0
• (Ed.): Virgil: Critical Assessments (Routledge 1999), ISBN 0-415-15245-3

Comments

• Virgil, Aeneid Book IX (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1994), ISBN 0-521-35126-X ; Google Books [3]

Web links

• Page at the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge University [4]
• Page at Trinity College, Cambridge [5]
• Page at Stanford University [6]
• Livian plots of fama (Presentation January 19, 2010), Stanford University [7]

Individual evidence

1. ^ Membership directory: Philip Russell Hardie. Academia Europaea, accessed November 10, 2017 .