Richard Jenkyns (born 1949) is Professor of the Classical Tradition at

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and an historian and literary critic who has written widely on Classical and other matters.

Education

Jenkyns was a

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, where he won the

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in 1966 (the Newcastle Medal, for the second-placed candidate, being awarded in that year to Simon Hornblower), before reading Greats at

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Academic career

Following his undergraduate career, Jenkyns was awarded a Prize Fellowship at

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in 1972. Jenkyns presently serves as Emeritus Professor of the Classical Tradition, He also remains an emeritus Fellow and Tutor in Classics at

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Selected bibliography

* “The Victorians and Ancient Greece” (Oxford, Blackwell, 1980) * “Three Classical Poets: Sappho, Catullus and Juvenal” (London, Duckworth, 1982) * “The Legacy of Rome: a New Appraisal (Oxford University Press, 1992) * “Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance” (London, HarperCollins, 1992) * “Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil” (Bloomsbury, 1992) * “Virgil’s Experience” (Oxford University Press, 1998) * “A Fine Brush on Ivory: an Appreciation of Jane Austen” (Oxford University Press, 2004) * “Westminster Abbey” (Profile, 2004) * “God, Space & City in the Roman Imagination” (Oxford University Press, 2013) * “Classical Literature” (London, Pelican, 2015)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jenkyns, Richard 1949 births Living people People educated at Eton College Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Historians of antiquity Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford British classical scholars British historians Classical scholars of the University of Oxford