Nick Lowe (; born 1956) is a British classical scholar and film critic. He is a reader in classics in the Department of Classics and Philosophy at

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, with interests including

narratology Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect human perception. It is an anglicisation of French ''narratologie'', coined by Tzvetan Todorov (''Grammaire du Décaméron'', 1969). Its theoretical li ...

and reception of Greek antiquity in historical fiction. Lowe is also a film reviewer for the

science-fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel univer ...

magazine '' Interzone'', writing the column ''Mutant Popcorn'' since the mid-1980s; he won a British Science Fiction Association Award for the column in 2009. The 25th anniversary of his column was celebrated by a special issue of ''Interzone'' in 2010, including reprints of his first reviews and an interview with Lowe.

Early life and education

He was born in

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, England, and raised in

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, before going to read classics at the

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, where he received his

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and Doctor of Philosophy. His doctoral advisor was

Geoffrey Kirk Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, () was a British classicist who served as the 35th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. He published widely on pre-Socratic philosophy and the work of the Greek poet Homer, culminating in a six-vol ...

Career

He taught classics at three different colleges in the University of London before being appointed lecturer in

Greek literature Greek literature () dates back from the ancient Greek literature, beginning in 800 BC, to the modern Greek literature of today. Ancient Greek literature was written in an Ancient Greek dialect, literature ranges from the oldest surviving writte ...

at Royal Holloway.

Books

* ''Theatre Ancient and Modern'' (2000), edited with Hardwick, L., Ireland, S. & Macintosh, F.,

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. * ''The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative'' (2000), Cambridge:

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. * ''Comedy'' (2008). Cambridge:

. (''Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics''). * ''Erôs in Ancient Greece'' (2013), edited with Sanders, E., Thumiger, C. & Carey, C., Oxford University Press.Reviews of ''Erôs in Ancient Greece'': * * *

References

External links

Nick Lowe's home page at RHUL
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Early life and education

Career

Books

See also

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