Philip Hardie
Philip Russell Hardie, FBA is a specialist in Latin literature at the University of Cambridge. He has written especially on Virgil, Ovid, and Lucretius, 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 and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was Corpus Christi Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, and since 2006 he has been Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Professor of Latin at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 2000 he was elected a fellow of the British Academy. In 2014 he was elected as an honorary fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and in spring 2016 was the 102nd Sather lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a member of the Academia Europaea.Selected works
Major works
- The Last Trojan Hero. A Cultural History of Virgil's Aeneid,
- Rumour and Renown: Representations of Fama in Western Literature,
- Lucretian Receptions: History, the Sublime, Knowledge,
- Ovid's poetics of illusion,
- Virgil,
- The Epic Successors of Virgil. A Study in The Dynamics of a Tradition,
- Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium,
Edited works
- Classical Literary Careers and their Reception,
- Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture,
- Conington's Virgil. Edited by John Conington and Philip R. Hardie. Set of Six Volumes. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool 2009.
- : Cambridge Companion to Lucretius,
- Cambridge Companion to Ovid,
- : Ovidian Transformations. Essays on Ovid's Metamorphoses and Its Reception,
- Virgil: Critical Assessments,
Commentaries
- Virgil, Aeneid Book IX,
