The 21st Fowler Lecture will be delivered by Monica Gale, Professor in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. Professor Gale will speak to the title ‘Five Ways of Reading Catullus’ in the lecture theatre of the Ioannou Classics Centre at 5pm on Thursday 4 May 2023.
Professor Gale’s research centres on the poetry of the Late Roman Republic and the Augustan period (especially the works of Catullus, Lucretius, Virgil and Propertius), with a focus on issues of genre and intertextuality. Her books include Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (CUP 2000), and Lucretius and the Didactic Epic (Bristol Classical Press 2001), and she has co-edited with David Scourfield (a former Fowler Lecturer) Texts and Violence in the Roman World (CUP 2018). She is currently writing a commentary on the complete poems of Catullus for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.
Attendance at the lecture is free, and all are invited to drinks afterwards in the Classics Centre. Dinner with the speaker in Jesus afterwards (three courses with wine, at a cost of £50) is available on application: please email armand.dangour@jesus.ox.ac.uk.