Tim Rood is a British classical scholar, specialising in

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and reception studies. He is Professor of Greek Literature at the

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and a

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and

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. His research is principally concerned with the literary techniques of

Herodotus Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the '' Histori ...

Thucydides Thucydides ( ; ; BC) was an Classical Athens, Athenian historian and general. His ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts Peloponnesian War, the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been d ...

, and

Xenophon Xenophon of Athens (; ; 355/354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian. At the age of 30, he was elected as one of the leaders of the retreating Ancient Greek mercenaries, Greek mercenaries, the Ten Thousand, who had been ...

Early life and academia

Rood attended St Paul's School and then

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, where he gained a BA and

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. He shared the Hellenic Foundation Prize for his DPhil thesis in 1995 and published a revised version three years later as ''Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation'' (

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, 1998). During that time, he held a Junior Research Fellowship at

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. He is the author of two other books, and has published several articles on

. During the 2007–2008 academic year, Rood was a fellow of the

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, where his work centred primarily on Xenophon's self-presentation, description of the army as a political unit, and imaginative geography. During this time he delivered a lecture on "A Delightful Retreat: Xenophon's Scillus" to the

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Department of Classics. Rood has a special interest in the reception of ancient culture in the modern world. Not only does his book ''American Anabasis'' trace the influence of the classical writers in

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, but it also draws conclusions concerning the contemporary American artist Cy Twombly, whose work is heavily influenced by antiquity. Rood presented some of his ideas on Twombly in January 2012 at the 143rd annual meeting of the

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in a talk entitled "Twombly's Narratives of Conflict: The Anabasis Series". In March 2012, Rood was invited to deliver a lecture on the subject of "Thucydides and Homeric Scholarship" to the Department of Classics at the

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Selected works

Books

* (Joint winner of a Hellenic Foundation Prize) * (Short-listed for the Runciman Award 2005) *

Other selected publications

*'Introduction' and 'Explanatory Notes' to Robin Waterfield (trans.), 2005. ''Xenophon: Expedition of Cyrus''. Oxford World's Classics. pp. vii-xliii, 196-224. *2007: 'Herodotus', 'Thucydides', 'Xenophon', and 'Polybius', in I. J. F. de Jong and R. Nünlist (eds), ''Time in Ancient Greek Narrative''. Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative 2; Mnemosyne Supplement 291; Leiden, 115-81. *2007: 'The Development of the War Monograph', in J. Marincola (ed.), ''A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography''. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World; Oxford, 147-58. *2007: 'Advice and Advisers in Xenophon's Anabasis', in D. J. Spencer and E. M. Theodorakopoulos (eds), ''Advice and its Rhetoric in Greece and Rome''. Nottingham Classical Literature Studies 9; Bari, 47-61. *2007: 'From Marathon to Waterloo: Byron, Battle Monuments, and the Persian Wars', in E. Hall, P. J. Rhodes, and E. Bridges (eds), Cultural ''Responses to the Persian Wars''. Oxford, 267-97. *2010: 'Xenophon's Parasangs'. ''

The Journal of Hellenic Studies ''The Journal of Hellenic Studies'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering research in Hellenic studies. It also publishes reviews of recent books of importance to Hellenic studies. It was established in 1880 and is published by Camb ...

'' 130, 51-66.

External links

Homepage at the University of OxfordHomepage on Academia.edu

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rood, Tim English classical scholars Classical scholars of the University of Oxford Fellows of St Hugh's College, Oxford Living people Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Scholars of ancient Greek literature Year of birth missing (living people)