Tim Whitmarsh

Tim Whitmarsh is a British classicist and the second A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge. He is best known for his work on the Greek literary culture of the Roman Empire, especially the Second Sophistic and the ancient Greek novel.

Academic career

Whitmarsh took his undergraduate degree and doctorate at the University of Cambridge.

From 2001 to 2007 he taught in department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter where he remains an honorary fellow.^[1] He then served as E. P. Warren Praelector, Fellow and Tutor in Greek at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Ancient Literatures at the University of Oxford.^[2]

In October 2014, he succeeded Paul Cartledge as the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge.^[3]

His publications include Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation,^[4] Ancient Greek Literature,^[5] The Second Sophistic,^[6] and Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel: Returning Romance,^[7] Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism.^[8]

Classics Confidential

Whitmarsh appears in the Classics Confidential series in conversation with various classical scholars:

Exploring Abrahamic Religions—in conversation with Guy Stroumsa, 30 July 2013
The Philosophy of Ancient Atheism—in conversation with David Sedley, 9 August 2013
Monotheism, Disbelief and the Hebrew Bible—in conversation with Francesca Stavrakopoulou, 20 September 2013
Socrates on Trial—in conversation with Bettany Hughes, 30 September 2013

References

↑ University of Exeter Department of Classics accessed 3 October 2014
↑ "Tim Whitmarsh". President and Fellows. Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
↑ "AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture". University of Cambridge. 21 January 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
↑ Tim Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-927137-5.
↑ Tim Whitmarsh, Ancient Greek Literature. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-7456-2792-2.
↑ Tim Whitmarsh, The Second Sophistic. Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics 35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-856881-0.
↑ Tim Whitmarsh, Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel: Returning Romance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-521-82391-3.
↑ Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-520-27681-9.

Academic offices
Preceded by Paul Cartledge	A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at Cambridge University 2014 –	Succeeded by incumbent

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