The 23rd Fowler Lecture, honouring the memory of former Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus, Don Fowler, will be delivered on Thursday 8th May at 5pm in the Lecture Theatre of the Stelios Ioannou Classics Centre, 66 St Giles, Oxford.

The Lecturer, Professor Philip Hardie, has been Senior Research Fellow of Latin at Trinity College Cambridge since 2006. Previously Professor Hardie was Corpus Professor of Latin at Oxford from 2002 to 2006. Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000, Professor Hardie is well known for his work on Virgil, Ovid and the tradition of Latin epic. His books include Virgil’s Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium (1986), which explores the cosmic and political dimensions of Virgil’s epic, and Ovid’s Poetics of illusion (2002), a study of narrative manipulation in the Metamorphoses. The Epic Successors of Virgil (1993) examines Virgil’s influence on later Latin poets, while Rumour and Renown (2012) investigates the role of fama in ancient literature.

Professor Hardie will be speaking on the theme ‘Ritual and narrative in Prudentius, Pindar and Horace’. Attendance is free, and listeners are invited to drinks following the lecture in the Classics centre. Dinner with the speaker in Jesus afterwards is available on application (£60, three courses with wine). Please email armand.dangour@jesus.ox.ac.uk