John Graham Wilmot Henderson MA DPhil is a retired Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
Henderson has worked within the Classics Faculty since 1975, as Assistant Lecturer (1975–1978), Lecturer (1978–1996) and Reader in Latin literature (1996–2003). He was awarded a personal professorship in Classics in 2003. Following retirement he has the status of emeritus professor.
His publications include collaborations with Mary Beard, his Cambridge colleague.
Books by John Henderson.
The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville: Creating Truth through Words, Cambridge 2006Oxford Reds: Classic Commentaries on Latin Classics, Duckworth 2006Plautus Asinaria: the one about the asses, Wisconsin 2006Løve in København: The triumph of art at Thorvaldsens Museum, Museum Tusculanum, University of Copenhagen Press 2005Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters: Places to Dwell, Cambridge, 2004HORTVS: The Roman Gardening Book, Routledge 2004Aesop's Human Zoo: Roman Stories about our Bodies, Chicago 2004Pliny's Statue: The Letters, Self-Portraiture, and Classical Art, Exeter 2002Telling Tales on Caesar: Roman Stories from Phaedrus, Oxford 2000Writing down Rome: Satire, Comedy and other Offences in Latin Poetry, Oxford 1999Fighting for Rome. Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War, Cambridge, 1998Juvenal's Mayor: The Professor who Lived on 2D. a Day, Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume, 1998A Roman Life: Rutilius Gallicus on Paper and in Stone, Exeter 1998Figuring out Roman Nobility. Juvenal's Eighth Satire, Exeter 1997