Department of Classical Studies

• Ancient Greek literature and culture
• Homeric epic
• Homeric scholia
• Ancient Greek literary criticism

My research explores Homeric epic and its reception in antiquity. My forthcoming book, The Iliad and the Trojan War: Ten Years in Troy, Fifty-One Days at Ilios, examines the Iliad’s depiction of the first nine years of the Trojan War and situates Achilles’ wrath in the mythological context in which it was intended to be understood. Alongside my work on the Iliad, I have also been involved in several projects focused on the ancient scholia to the Iliad, including The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad: Exegesis and Interpretation (Oxford, 2021) and The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad: A Translation, vol. 1: Books 1–2 (Cambridge, 2025). Links to several of my publications can be found on my Academia page.

• Ancient Greek Culture
• Readings in the Greek Novel
• Homer/Readings in Greek Epic
• Classical Epics
• Intermediate Greek
• Survey of Greek Literature
• Classical Mythology
• Greek Literature in Translation
• Classical Drama

Books

The Iliad and the Trojan War: Ten Years in Troy, Fifty-One Days at Ilios (Cambridge, forthcoming)

The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad: A Translation, vol. 1: Books 1–2 (Cambridge, 2025).

The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad: Exegesis and Interpretation (Oxford, 2021). Co-edited with Adrian Kelly and Tom Phillips.

Articles and Book Chapters

“‘Through this, Homer teaches’: The Exegetical Scholia on the Lessons of the Iliad.” Classical World 119.1 (2026) 1–26.

“The Exegetical Scholia on Factual, Aesthetic, and Ethical Problems in the Iliad.” Aevum Antiquum 25 (2025) 53–77.

“How Did Homer’s Troilus Die?” The Classical Quarterly 73.2 (2023) 495–507.

“Homer’s Verbal Mimesis in the Iliad’s Exegetical Scholia.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 63 (2023) 78–102.

“Harshing Zeus’ μέλω: Reassessing the Sympathy of Zeus at Iliad 20.21.” American Journal of Philology (2022) 359–384.

“Doorways and Diegesis: Spatial and Narrative Boundaries in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.” Classical Philology (2022) 706–19.

“Reading for Achilles in the bT-Scholia to the Iliad,” in B. Beck, A. Kelly, and T. Phillips (eds) The Ancient Scholia to Homer’s Iliad: Exegesis and Interpretation (2021) 48–58.

“Reassessing the Scholiastic Evidence for the Cretan Odyssey Theory.” Transactions of the American Philological Association (2020) 357–78.

“Lost in the Middle: Story Time and Discourse Time in the Iliad.” Yearbook of Ancient Greek Epic (2017) 46–64.

"Causas Memora: Epic Etiology and Vergil’s Aeneid.” Vergilius 62 (2016) 57–78.