Susanna H. Morton Braund (born 6 February 1957) is a professor of

Latin poetry The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus, the earliest surviving examples of Latin literature, are estimated to have been composed around 205–184 BC. History Scholars conv ...

and its reception at the

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. Retrieved 20 September 2018.

Education

Braund received her BA in

Classics Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

from the

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in 1978, followed by a PhD in 1984 from the same institution.

Career

Braund held appointments at the

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, the

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and

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before taking up her current professorship. Since 2007, Braund has held a Tier 1

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position in Latin Poetry and its Reception, which was renewed in 2014. Her research is on the translation history of Latin poetry. Braund was elected as a Scholar in Residence at the

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for June 2014. In 2016, Braund was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship for the years 2016–2018, for a project on translations of

Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Rome, ancient Roman poet of the Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Augustan period. He composed three of the most fa ...

Aeneid The ''Aeneid'' ( ; or ) is a Latin Epic poetry, epic poem that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Troy, Trojan who fled the Trojan War#Sack of Troy, fall of Troy and travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Ancient Rome ...

Georgics The ''Georgics'' ( ; ) is a poem by Latin poet Virgil, likely published in 29 BCE. As the name suggests (from the Greek language, Greek word , ''geōrgiká'', i.e. "agricultural hings) the subject of the poem is agriculture; but far from bei ...

and

Eclogues The ''Eclogues'' (; , ), also called the ''Bucolics'', is the first of the three major works of the Latin poet Virgil. Background Taking as his generic model the Greek bucolic poetry of Theocritus, Virgil created a Roman version partly by o ...

. In 2018, Braund was elected as Corresponding Fellow to the

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Selected bibliography

Translations and editions

*Seneca, ''De Clementia: Edited with Text, Translation and Commentary'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009) . *''Juvenal and Persius'' (

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vol. 91) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2004) Parallel text Latin edition and English translation of both authors' works, with an introduction. . *Juvenal, ''Satires Book I'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996). Text with an introduction and commentary. . *Lucan, ''Civil War: Translated with introduction and notes'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1992) Reissued as part of Oxford World's Classics.

Books and edited volumes

*''Virgil and his Translators,'' ed. with Zara Martirosova Torlone (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018), . *''Latin Literature'' (London and New York: Routledge 2002) . Second edition: ''Understanding Latin Literature'' (London and New York: Routledge 2017) ). *''The Roman Satirists and their Masks'' (London: Bristol Classical Press/Duckworth 1996) . *''Satire and Society in Ancient Rome'' (Exeter Studies in History 23), (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 1989) . *''Beyond Anger: A Study of Juvenal’s Third Book of Satires'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1988) .

Podcast appearances

*'' Entitled Opinions'': 'Susanna Braund on Virgil's ''Aeneid. 25 October 2005.

References

External links

Faculty page
University of British Columbia {{DEFAULTSORT:Braund, Susanna Living people Women classical scholars British classical scholars Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academic staff of the University of British Columbia 1957 births Academics of the University of Exeter Academics of the University of Bristol Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London Yale University faculty Stanford University faculty Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities