Literature and Languages
Staff Information
Dr Robin Sowerby
Publications
Articles and chapters on Chapman’s Homer, Hobbes’s Thucydides, Dryden’s Virgil, Dryden’s Homer, Pope’s Homer, Rowe’s Lucan, Pope and Horace, the reception of Homer, Virgil and the ancient historians.
Editor of Dryden’s Aeneid: a Selection with Commentary (1986); Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose (1988). Translator of Thomas Campion, On the Gunpowder Plot (1987).
Author of introductory studies of Virgil, The Aeneid (1984); Homer, The Iliad (1985); Plato, The Republic (1985); Homer, The Odyssey (1986), Antony and Cleopatra (1998) and As You Like It (1999); and of The Classical Legacy in Renaissance Poetry (Longman 1994); The Greeks: An Introduction to their Culture (Routledge 1995); The Augustan Art of Poetry: Augustan Translation of the Classics (Oxford, 2006)
Work in Progress
An edition of Sir John Denham’s Virgil translation; essay on the reception of Horace for inclusion in an Oxford History of Classical Reception.