Patrick J. Finglass is a British classicist of

Ancient Greek literature Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, ar ...

and the Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at the

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and former Fifty-Pound Fellow at All Souls College Oxford. His field of research includes

Greek lyric poetry Greek lyric is the body of lyric poetry written in dialects of Ancient Greek. Lyric poetry is, in short, poetry to be sung accompanied by music, traditionally a lyre. It is primarily associated with the early 7th to the early 5th centuries BC, s ...

and Greek tragedy, with a particular interest in the authors

Sophocles Sophocles ( 497/496 – winter 406/405 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. was an ancient Greek tragedian known as one of three from whom at least two plays have survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or contemporary with, those ...

Euripides Euripides () was a Greek tragedy, tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to ...

Pindar Pindar (; ; ; ) was an Greek lyric, Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes, Greece, Thebes. Of the Western canon, canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar i ...

, and

Stesichorus Stesichorus (; , ''Stēsichoros''; c. 630 – 555 BC) was a Greek Greek lyric, lyric poet native of Metauros (Gioia Tauro today). He is best known for telling epic stories in lyric metres, and for some ancient traditions about his life, such as hi ...

. He is a current editor of

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,The Classical Quarterly
/ref> and has penned numerous articles and critical editions of Greek texts with extensive commentary.

Personal Life

While he was pursuing his undergraduate studies at

St John's College, Oxford St John's College is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its foun ...

, Finglass was the captain of his college's

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team that managed to reach the grand final of the 2000–01 series of ''University Challenge''. They ultimately finished though as runners-up to the victorious

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team.

Selected published works

*2021 - ''The Cambridge Companion to Sappho'' (Cambridge, with Adrian Kelly) *2020 - ''Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy'' (Cambridge, with Lyndsay Coo) *2019 - ''Sophocles'' (Cambridge) *2018 - ''Sophocles: Oedipus the King'' (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries) *2015 - ''Stesichorus in Context'' (Cambridge, with Adrian Kelly) *2014 - ''Stesichorus: The Poems'' (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, with Malcolm Davies) *2011 - ''Sophocles: Ajax'' (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries) *2007 - ''Sophocles: Electra'' (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries)

Personal Life

Selected published works

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