Patrick J. Finglass is a British classicist of

Ancient Greek literature Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are ...

and the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

and former Fifty-Pound Fellow at

All Souls College Oxford All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full members of t ...

. His field of research includes

Greek lyric poetry Greek lyric is the body of lyric poetry written in dialects of Ancient Greek. It is primarily associated with the early 7th to the early 5th centuries BC, sometimes called the "Lyric Age of Greece", but continued to be written into the Hellenisti ...

and

Greek tragedy Greek tragedy is a form of theatre from Ancient Greece and Greek inhabited Anatolia. It reached its most significant form in Athens in the 5th century BC, the works of which are sometimes called Attic tragedy. Greek tragedy is widely believed t ...

, with a particular interest in the authors

Sophocles Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or co ...

Euripides Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian Tragedy (from the grc-gre, τραγῳδία, ''tragōidia'', ''tragōidia'') is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful e ...

Pindar Pindar (; grc-gre, Πίνδαρος , ; la, Pindarus; ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is ...

, and

Stesichorus Stesichorus (; grc-gre, Στησίχορος, ''Stēsichoros''; c. 630 – 555 BC) was a Greek lyric poet native of today's Calabria (Southern Italy). He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres, and for some ancient traditions abou ...

. He is a current editor of

The Classical Quarterly ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

,The Classical Quarterly
/ref> and has penned numerous articles and critical editions of Greek texts with extensive commentary.

Selected published works

*2021 - ''The Cambridge Companion to Sappho'' (Cambridge, with Adrian Kelly) *2020 - ''Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy'' (Cambridge, with Lyndsay Coo) *2019 - ''Sophocles'' (Cambridge) *2018 - ''Sophocles: Oedipus the King'' (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries) *2015 - ''Stesichorus in Context'' (Cambridge, with Adrian Kelly) *2014 - ''Stesichorus: The Poems'' (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, with

Malcolm Davies Malcolm Davies may refer to: * Malcolm Davies (darts player) * Malcolm Davies (rugby) See also * Malcolm Davis, American ornithologist {{hndis, Davies, Malcolm ...

) *2011 - ''Sophocles: Ajax'' (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries) *2007 - ''Sophocles: Electra'' (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries)

Selected published works

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