John Robert Morgan

FLSW The Learned Society of Wales () is a national academy, learned society and Charitable organization, charity that exists to "celebrate, recognise, preserve, protect and encourage excellence in all of the scholarly disciplines", and to serve the W ...

(born 11 July 1950) is a British academic working at

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in Wales. He is primarily known for writing books on

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 ...

, and for contributing to a number of journals, often with colourful views.

Career

Morgan attended

Lincoln College, Oxford Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Flemin ...

, from 1968 to 1975, where he achieved both

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and D.Phil qualifications. Towards the beginning of his career, Morgan represented Lincoln College of

The University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

in the popular British student quiz show, ''

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'' on ITV eventually reaching the semi-finals. Morgan's research interests include ancient narrative literature, in particular the

Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...

and Roman novel. He has published many articles, chapters and books on the Classics. He is perhaps best known as being the co-editor of ''Greek Fiction'' in 1994, alongside

Richard Stoneman Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and i ...

, used at numerous universities. Morgan was also a contributor to the 3rd edition of the

Oxford Classical Dictionary The ''Oxford Classical Dictionary'' (''OCD'') is generally considered "the best one-volume dictionary on antiquity," an encyclopædic work in English consisting of articles relating to classical antiquity and its civilizations. It was first pub ...

, published 1996. He is preparing a

Loeb Classical Library The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; , ) is a monographic series of books originally published by Heinemann and since 1934 by Harvard University Press. It has bilingual editions of ancient Greek and Latin literature, ...

translation of

Heliodorus Heliodorus is a Greek name meaning "Gift of the Sun". Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are: * Heliodorus (minister) a minister of Seleucus IV Philopator c. 175 BC * Heliodorus of Athen ...

Aethiopica The ''Aethiopica'' (; , , 'Ethiopian Stories') or ''Theagenes and Chariclea'' (; , ) is an ancient Greek novel which has been dated to the 220s or 370s AD. It was written by Heliodorus of Emesa and is his only known work. Author The author of t ...

. Morgan is believed to have coined the terms " stethophone", " misatelist", " eulexia" and " misoxenist". "

Intertextuality Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody, Gerard Genette (1997) ''Paratexts'p.18/ref ...

" is a word frequently used by Morgan in his lectures, as well as " metaliterary", a new fan favourite among his students. Morgan was elected a

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in 2018.

Books

* ''Greek Fiction: The Greek novel in context'', ed. J. R. Morgan and R. Stoneman (London & New York, 1994). * ''Heliodorus, Ethiopian story''. Translated by Sir Walter Lamb, edited with new introduction and notes by J. R. Morgan (London, 1997). *''Longus: Daphnis and Chloe'', with an introduction, translation and notes by J. R. Morgan (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts, 2004)

References

External links

J. R. Morgan home page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, J.R. 1950 births Living people British classical scholars Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford Academics of Swansea University Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales