Tim Whitmarsh

Timothy John Guy Whitmarsh (born January 23, 1970 ) is a British classical scholar.

Life

Whitmarsh graduated from the University of Cambridge .

From 2001 to 2007 he taught at the Department of Classical and Ancient History at the University of Exeter , where he is an honorary member. He then served as EP Warren Praelector , Fellow and Tutor in Greek at Corpus Christi College Oxford and Professor of Ancient Literatures at Oxford University.

In October 2014 he succeeded Paul Cartledge as Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University .

In 2020 Whitmarsh was elected to the British Academy .

Whitmarsh mainly works on the Greek novel and the Second Sophistic . Most recently he presented a monograph on the forms of atheism in Greco-Roman antiquity.

Fonts (selection)

• Greek literature and the Roman empire. The politics of imitation . Oxford 2001, ISBN 0-19-924035-3 .
• Achilles Tatius : Leucippe and Clitophon . Oxford 2001, ISBN 0-19-815289-2 .
• The second sophistic . Oxford 2005, ISBN 0-19-856881-9 .
• Narrative and identity in the ancient Greek novel. Returning romance . Cambridge 2011, ISBN 0-521-82391-9 .
• Battling the gods. Atheism in the ancient world. Faber and Faber, London / Knopf Vintage, New York 2015.

Web links

• Professor Tim Whitmarsh