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Nationality
  
New Zealander

Name
  
Denis Feeney

Role
  
Professor


Alma mater
  
Known for
  
The Gods in Epic

Fields
  
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Education
  
University of Auckland, University of Oxford

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Ti, Literature and Religion, The Gods in Epic: Poets an

Residence
  
United States of America

Institutions
  

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Denis C. Feeney, FBA (born 1955) is Professor of Classics and Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University. He was born in New Zealand and educated at St Peter's College, Auckland and Auckland Grammar School. He received his B.A. (1974), MA in Latin (1975) and MA in Greek (1976) from the University of Auckland and a D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1982. He has also been a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge and New College, Oxford.

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Denis Feeney Professor Denis Feeney Ovid as a literary historian Housman

Professor Feeney is especially known for his highly influential book The Gods in Epic on the interaction between Roman literature and religion, and his recent book Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History (University of California Press, 2008). In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

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Books

  • The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition. Oxford UP. (1991)
  • Literature and religion at Rome: Cultures, contexts, and beliefs. Cambridge UP. (1998)
  • Traditions and Contexts in the Poetry of Horace. Cambridge UP. (2002)
  • Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History. California UP. (2008)
  • Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature. Harvard UP. (2016)
  • References

    Denis Feeney Wikipedia


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