John Henderson (British classicist)

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John Henderson (J G W Henderson) MA DPhil is Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He has written widely on all aspects of Latin literature and is commonly regarded as one of the most subversive and idiosyncratic Latinists of his generation.

[edit] Publications

Books by John Henderson^[1].

The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville: Creating Truth through Words, Cambridge 2006
Oxford Reds: Classic Commentaries on Latin Classics, Duckworth 2006
Plautus Asinaria: the one about the asses, Wisconsin 2006
Løve in København: The triumph of art at Thorvaldsens Museum, Museum Tusculanum, University of Copenhagen Press 2005
Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters: Places to Dwell, Cambridge, 2004
HORTVS: The Roman Gardening Book, Routledge 2004
Aesop's Human Zoo: Roman Stories about our Bodies, Chicago 2004
Pliny's Statue: The Letters, Self-Portraiture, and Classical Art, Exeter 2002
Telling Tales on Caesar: Roman Stories from Phaedrus, Oxford 2000
Writing down Rome: Satire, Comedy and other Offences in Latin Poetry, Oxford 1999
Fighting for Rome. Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War, Cambridge, 1998
Juvenal's Mayor: The Professor who Lived on 2D. a Day, Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume, 1998
A Roman Life: Rutilius Gallicus on Paper and in Stone, Exeter 1998
Figuring out Roman Nobility. Juvenal's Eighth Satire, Exeter 1997