Denis Feeney

Professor of Classics and Giger Professor of Latin

Princeton University

On leave AY 2009-10

Background

B.A., M.A. Auckland University ’76; D. Phil. Oxford University ’82.

Professor Feeney teaches in the area of Latin poetry in particular, and has published two books on the interaction between Roman literature and religion (The Gods in Epic; Literature and Religion at Rome), with another on Roman representations of time (Caesar's Calendar). He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Roman Horizons, on the way the Romans modernised themselves in the third and second centuries BCE.