Richard John Tarrant
Richard John Tarrant (* 1945 in Brooklyn ) is an American classical philologist .
Life
He studied at Fordham University (BA 1966) and Corpus Christi College , Oxford ( DPhil 1972). He taught at the University of Toronto from 1970 to 1982 before moving to Harvard University . There he has been the Pope Professor of Latin Literature since 1993.
His main interests are Latin literature (mainly, but not exclusively, poetry), Roman drama (mainly the tragedies of Seneca ), and the history of transmission and the editing of ancient Latin texts.
Fonts (selection)
- (Ed.): Seneca: Agamemnon . Cambridge 1976, ISBN 0-521-20807-6 .
- (Ed.): Seneca's Thyestes . Atlanta 1985, ISBN 0-89130-870-9 .
- (Ed.): P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses (= Oxford Classical Texts ). Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-814666-3 .
- Texts, editors, and readers. Methods and problems in Latin textual criticism . Cambridge 2016, ISBN 0-521-15899-0 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tarrant, Richard John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tarrant, RJ |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American classical philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn |