DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS

 

Rutgers University, 131 George Street,
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1414

 
Matthew Fox
 Office: Ruth Adams Building 009, DC
 Phone: (732) 932-9797
 Fax: (732) 932-9246
 E-mail: matfox@rci.rutgers.edu

Recent courses:
S 2008

1. Intermediate Latin Poetry
2. Greek & Roman Religion
3. Classics in Film

F 2007

1. Elementary Greek
2. Greek and Roman Mythology
3. Readings in Greek Poetry: Tragedy

Graduate Seminars are in bold


Publications:
Review of Glenn Most (ed.), Hesiod: The Shield, Catalogue of Women, Other Fragments, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.10.44 ( http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-10-44.html ).

Lucan's Civil War, a new verse translation.(Penguin Classics, forthcoming 2009).

A Natural History of Music: Inventions of Instruments, Origins of Organs. (University of California Press, forthcoming 2009)

"Stars in the Fasti: Ovid's astronomy and Ideler (1825) revisited." American Journal of Philology 125.1 (2004).

 

Interests: Greek and Latin Poetry, hexameter/epic, orality and musical culture, classical and comparative mythology.


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