Timothy Joseph Moore

Timothy Joseph Moore (* 1959 ) is an American classical philologist .

Life

Moore attended the American Academy in Rome in the summer of 1983 and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the summer of 1985. He received a BA, summa cum laude, Latin and History from Millersville University in 1981 and a PhD Classics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , 1986 with the dissertation Roman Virtues in Livy with the reviewer Jerzy Linderski (* 1934). From 1981 to 1984 he was a research assistant for L'Année philologique at the University of North Carolina. From 1983 to 1986 he was a teaching assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill .

In the summer of 1988 he taught as an assistant professor in the study center in Italy at Texas A&M University . In the summer of 1989, he was visiting professor at the University of Colorado Boulder . From 1986 to 1991 he was an assistant professor at Texas A&M University. From 1991 to 1992 he was a Mellon Faculty Fellow at Harvard University . From 1991 to 1998 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin .

From 2002 to 2004 he held a chair in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin (1998–2005: Associate Professor and 2005–2012: Professor). In 2011, he conducted research at the Ruhr University Bochum as a DAAD visiting professor. From 2012 to 2017 he held a chair in the Department of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis . Since 2012 he has been the John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis.

His research interests are ancient music, Roman theater, Roman historiography, modern views of the Romans, history and theory of theater, vocal music and musical theater, and Japanese Kyōgen comedy.

Fonts (selection)

• Artistry and ideology. Livy's vocabulary of virtue (= Athenaeum's monographs. Classical studies. Volume 192). Athenaeum, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-610-09018-9 (also dissertation, Chapel Hill 1986).
• The Theater of Plautus. Playing to the audience . University of Texas Press, Austin 1998, ISBN 0-292-75217-2 .
• Roman Theater . (= Cambridge learning. Greece & Rome: Texts and contexts ). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 0-521-13818-3 .
• Music in Roman Comedy . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 1-10-700648-1 .
  • Music in Roman Comedy . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2016, ISBN 978-1-107-53528-2 .

Web links

• Washington University in St. Louis