Stephen Harrison (classicist)

Stephen Harrison (born 31 October 1960) is a British classicist and Professor of Latin Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has published widely on the poetry of Virgil and Horace.

Stephen Harrison
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

Having studied 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 focusses 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]

Selected publications

• Apuleius : A Latin Sophist, Oxford University Press, 2000.
• A Companion to Latin Literature, ed. Blackwell, 2005.
• Framing the Ass: Literary Form in Apuleius Metamorphoses, Oxford University Press 2013.[3]
• Horace: Odes 2, Cambridge University Press, 2017.[4]

References

1. "Professor Stephen Harrison". Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
2. "Professor Stephen Harrison". Corpus Christi College. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
3. Finkelpearl, Ellen. "Framing the Ass: Literary Texture in Apuleius' "Metamorphoses." by S. J. Harrison". Classical Philology. 110: 283–8.
4. Johnson, Patricia. "A new commentary on Horace's "little" book of Odes" (PDF). The Classical Review. 68 (2): 406–8.