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Richard Jenkyns (professor)

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Richard Jenkyns (born 1949) is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford University and an historian and literary critic who has written widely on Classical and other matters.

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Jenkyns was a King's Scholar at Eton College, where he won the Newcastle Scholarship in 1966 (the Newcastle Medal, for the second-placed candidate, being awarded in that year to Simon Hornblower), before reading Greats at Balliol College, Oxford.

Academic career

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Following his undergraduate career, Jenkyns was awarded a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford in 1972.[1] Jenkyns presently serves as Emeritus Professor of the Classical Tradition,[2] He also remains an emeritus Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford,[3]

Selected bibliography

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  • “The Victorians and Ancient Greece” (Oxford, Blackwell, 1980)
  • “Three Classical Poets: Sappho, Catullus and Juvenal” (London, Duckworth, 1982)
  • “The Legacy of Rome: a New Appraisal (Oxford University Press, 1992)
  • “Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance” (London, HarperCollins, 1992)
  • “Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil” (Bloomsbury, 1992)
  • “Virgil’s Experience” (Oxford University Press, 1998)
  • “A Fine Brush on Ivory: an Appreciation of Jane Austen” (Oxford University Press, 2004)
  • “Westminster Abbey” (Profile, 2004)
  • “God, Space & City in the Roman Imagination” (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  • “Classical Literature” (London, Pelican, 2015)

References

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  1. ^ All Souls’ College website (accessed on 8 October 2022)
  2. ^ Oxford University Faculty of Classics website (accessed on 8 October 2022)
  3. ^ Lady Margaret Hall website (accessed on 8 October 2022).