The Department of Classics

Dunstan Lowe

Dunstan Lowe

Visiting Assistant Professor (Lecturer in Classics, University of Reading)

Latin poetry / bodily abnormality in antiquity / Classics in popular culture (esp. video games)

BA Birmingham University
MPhil Birmingham University
PhD University of Cambridge

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Co-editor, with Kim Shahabudin, Classics For All: Re-Working Antiquity in Mass Cultural Media (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

"Burnt offerings and Harpies at Nasidienus' dinner-party (Horace, Satires 2.8)," forthcoming in C. Deroux (ed.), Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History (Collection Latomus)

"Medusa, Antaeus, and Caesar Libycus," forthcoming in Nicola Hömke & Christiane Reitz (eds.), Lucans Bellum Civile zwischen epischer Tradition und ästhetischer Innovation (de Gruyter)

"Playing With Antiquity: Videogame Receptions of the Classical World" in Lowe & Shahabudin (eds.)

"Personification allegory in the Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses," Mnemosyne 61 (2008)


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