Philip Russell Hardie, FBA (born 13 July 1952) is a specialist in Latin literature at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

. He has written especially on

Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 7021 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: t ...

Ovid Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō (; 20 March 43 BC – 17/18 AD), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the th ...

, and

Lucretius Titus Lucretius Carus ( , ; – ) was a Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem ''De rerum natura'', a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which usually is translated into En ...

, and on the influence of these writers on the literature, art, and ideology of later centuries. Philip Hardie was educated at

St Paul's School, London (''By Faith and By Learning'') , established = , closed = , type = Independent school Public school , religion = Church of England , president = , he ...

and

Corpus Christi College, Oxford Corpus Christi College (formally, Corpus Christi College in the University of Oxford; informally abbreviated as Corpus or CCC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1517, it is the 12t ...

. He was Corpus Christi Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

(2002–6), and since 2006 he has been Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor of Latin at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

. In 2000 he was elected a fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...

. In 2014 he was elected as an honorary fellow of the

Australian Academy of the Humanities The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia. It operates as an independent not-for-profit organisation partly funded by the Australia ...

, and in spring 2016 was the 102nd Sather lecturer at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. He is also a member of the

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Selected works

Major works

*''The Last Trojan Hero. A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid'' (Tauris 2014), *''Rumour and Renown: Representations of'' Fama ''in Western Literature'' (Cambridge University Press 2012), *''Lucretian Receptions: History, the Sublime, Knowledge'' (Cambridge University Press 2009), *''Ovid's poetics of illusion'' (Cambridge 2002), *''Virgil'' (Greece & Rome. New surveys in the classics, Bd. 28; Cambridge University Press, 1998), *''The Epic Successors of Virgil. A Study in The Dynamics of a Tradition'' (Roman Literature and its Contexts; Cambridge 1993), *''Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium'' (Oxford 1986),

Edited works

*(with Helen Moore) ''Classical Literary Careers and their Reception'' (Cambridge University Press 2010), *''Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture'' (Oxford University Press 2009), *''Conington's Virgil. Edited by John Conington and Philip R. Hardie.'' Set of Six Volumes. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 2009. *(with Stuart Gillespie): ''Cambridge Companion to Lucretius'' (Cambridge 2007), *''Cambridge Companion to Ovid'' (Cambridge 2002), *(with Alessandro Barchiesi and Stephen Hinds): ''Ovidian Transformations. Essays on Ovid's Metamorphoses and Its Reception'' (Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume no. 23, 1999), *''Virgil: Critical Assessments'' (Routledge 1999),

Commentaries

*''Virgil, Aeneid Book IX'' (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1994),

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hardie, Philip 1952 births People educated at St Paul's School, London Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Scholars of Latin literature Corpus Christi Professors of Latin Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge English classical scholars Living people