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Stephen Harrison (classicist) 
Summary
Stephen Harrison (born 31 October 1960) is a British classicist and a professor of Latin at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the poetry of Virgil and Horace.
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| Born | 31 October 1960 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Thesis | A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10 (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | R. G. M. Nisbet |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Institutions | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Main interests | Horace Vergil |
Life and career edit
Having read Classics at Balliol College, Harrison has taught Latin literature at the University of Oxford since 1987.[1] In addition, he has been an occasional visiting professor at the universities of Copenhagen and Trondheim. While his research focuses on the poetry of Virgil and Horace, he has also written on the reception of classical literature and the Roman novel. He is a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[2]
In 2022 he was bestowed an honorary doctorate from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.[3]
Selected publications edit
References edit
- ^ "Professor Stephen Harrison". Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Professor Stephen Harrison". Corpus Christi College. Retrieved 24 October 2020.
- ^ "Doctoral awards ceremony 2022 - NTNU". www.ntnu.edu. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ Finkelpearl, Ellen. "Framing the Ass: Literary Texture in Apuleius' "Metamorphoses." by S. J. Harrison". Classical Philology. 110: 283–8. doi:10.1086/681713. JSTOR 10.1086/681713.
- ^ Johnson, Patricia. "A new commentary on Horace's "little" book of Odes" (PDF). The Classical Review. 68 (2): 406–8. doi:10.1017/S0009840X18000677. S2CID 165779622.