Fiachra Mac G贸r谩in

Associate Professor of Classics

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Office hours: usually Mondays 11.15-13.00, and听by appointment. 最准的六合彩论坛 students please book a slot .

Research interests: Latin literature, especially Augustan poetry; Roman authors' use of the past, including the literary past; Virgil and his reception; Dionysus; Ireland and the Classics.

Research supervision: I am interested in supervising research students in Roman literature and culture and their reception. I value theoretically informed and interdisciplinary approaches, and have co-supervised with colleagues in other departments at 最准的六合彩论坛. I would be interested in co-supervising with colleagues at KCL, RHUL, the Warburg Institute, and the ICS.

I am currently co-supervising PhD theses on Dionysus in Rome;听the reception of Virgil's Arcadia;听and narrative in Euripides' Trojan trilogy.听I have recently co-supervised PhD theses on the imperial cult in Augustan poetry; Philodemus and Virgil; the modern reception of Greek tragedy;听narrative in Petronius; animals in Valerius Flaccus; and prophecy in the epic tradition.

I completed a BA in Classics at Trinity College Dublin, and masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Oxford.

My research interests range widely over Latin literature and the history of interpretation. I find it fascinating to explore how we use and understand antiquity, sometimes with modern lenses, and sometimes with ancient ones.

I am particularly interested in Dionysus in the ancient world, and in the later reception of the god, and was the historical consultant for a BBC documentary with entitled , which also featured Phiroze Vasunia.

At present I am working on two book projects:听Virgil: A Very Short Introduction; and听Virgil's Dionysus.

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Publications:

'Virgil's Bacchus and the Roman Republic.' In Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic, ed. D. Nelis and J. Farrell, (Oxford, 2013), 124鈥�145.
In Vergilius 59 (2013), 81鈥�110.
'Speeches' and 'Dialogue.' In The Virgil Encyclopedia, ed. R. F. Thomas and J. M. Ziolkowski (Harvard, 2014).
In Incontri di filologia classica XII (2012-13; publ. 2014), 191鈥�238.
In Dictynna 11 (2014).
'The Argo: Archaic Wonder and Innovation.' In Maia 67.2 (2015), 233鈥�251.
'Dionysus in Rome.' In A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology, ed. V. Zajko and H. Hoyle (Malden, 2017), 323鈥�336.
In Oxford Bibliographies in Classics. Ed. Dee Clayman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edited by Valentina Arena and Fiachra Mac G贸r谩in. BICS 60-2 (2017).
'The Poetics of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid.' In (2017), 383鈥�427.
. In Classical Philology 113.4 (2018), 423鈥�448.
'Vergil's Sophoclean Thebans.' Vergilius 64 (2018), 49鈥�74.
. Edited by Fiachra Mac G贸r谩in and Charles Martindale (Cambridge, 2019).
'Authority.' In听 (Second Edition), edited by Fiachra Mac G贸r谩in and Charles Martindale (Cambridge, 2019), 445鈥�458.
'Virgil: The Future?' In (Second Edition), edited by Fiachra Mac G贸r谩in and Charles Martindale (Cambridge, 2019), 472鈥�477.
. Edited by Fiachra Mac G贸r谩in. (De Gruyter, Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes; ISBN听978-3-11-067156-8; Berlin and New York, 2020).
'Introduction. Dionysus and Rome: accommodation and resistance.' In听.听Edited by Fiachra Mac G贸r谩in (Berlin and New York, 2020),听1鈥�37.
'The Ancient Reception of Euripides' Bacchae from Athens to Byzantium.'听听and Fiachra Mac G贸r谩in. In听.听Edited by Fiachra Mac G贸r谩in (Berlin and New York, 2020),听39鈥�84.听
'Virgilian Commentary.听Juan Luis de la Cerda (1558/60鈥�1643), on Aeneas' First Appearance in the听Aeneid.' In , edited by Gesine Manuwald, Daniel Hadas, and Lucy R. Nicholas (London: Bloomsbury,听2020).
'Dinneen's Irish Virgil.' In听, edited by Isabelle Torrance and Donncha O'Rourke听(Oxford,听2020), 136鈥�54.
'.'听Proceedings of the Virgil Society听30 (2020), 1鈥�26.
'.' In听Aevum Antiquum听N. S. 20 (2020), 235-58.
'Augustus and the Neoi Dionysoi.'听In , edited by Filip Doroszewski and Dariusz Kar艂owicz (London: Routledge, 2021), 89-102.
Revisions (2022) to '', D. & P. Fowler,听Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford, 2015.听
Mac G贸r谩in, Fiachra, & (2022). ,听Mnemosyne 75(4), 566-588. doi:听
'Envoi: The Infinite View.' A response to Ahuvia听Kahane, 'Political Geometries.' In听Walking in Cities. Navigating Post-Pandemic Urban Environments. Edited by听Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Ahuvia Kahane, Simon King, and Esther Leslie听(New York and Oxford, 2024), 45-47.
'Turnus Donning Tragedy: The听Baldric in Virgil's听Aeneid.' Forthcoming 2024: publication details upon request.听
'Virgilius superat Calabrum: La Cerda on the "imitation"听of Quintus of Smyrna in the Aeneid.'听In听, edited by Sergio Casali (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, forthcoming听2024).
'La Cerda on Virgil's Camilla.' Forthcoming: publication details upon request.