Nationality New Zealander Name Denis Feeney Role Professor | Known for The Gods in Epic | |
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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 | ||
Professor denis feeney ovid as a literary historian housman lecture 2014
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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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.