Lecturer in Classics (Latin Literature)

Maxwell Hardy

  • I study the history and interpretation of classical Latin poetry.
  • What I enjoy about teaching Classics at Oxford is the breadth of texts on the curriculum and the variety of perspectives which students bring to studying them.
  • It is interesting to note that our texts of the ancient classics are not fixed things: scribes transmitted them to us by successively copying out their contents onto manuscripts over many centuries, introducing errors as they went; some of my research is concerned with hunting down such errors and repairing them.
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I currently teach as a stipendiary lecturer at Trinity and Queen’s.

Teaching

At Trinity I teach Latin to undergraduates taking Classics. For the Faculty of Classics I give tutorials on the Latin textual criticism paper.

Research

My research is mainly concerned with the history, criticism, interpretation, and transmission of classical Latin poetry. My current project is a commentary on the third book of Statius’ Silvae. I maintain an interest in the textual criticism and manuscript tradition of the Corpus Tibullianum, and enjoy working on various problems in the field of Greek and Roman metre.

Select Publications

2025. ‘Emendationes Tibullianae II,’ Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 114: 129-66.

2024. ‘Internal rhyme in Latin lyric: Statius, Silvae 4.5 and 4.7,’ Classical Philology 119: 563-75.

2023. ‘Emendationes Tibullianae I,’ Classical Quarterly 73: 721-8.

2023. ‘Two conjectures in the Fabella Sulpiciae (Ep. Bob. 37.65-6),’ Classica et Mediaevalia 72: 305-10.

2021. ‘An emendation in Statius, Silvae 1.4.87-8,’ Mnemosyne 75: 369-73.

Subjects
Classics
Maxwell Hardy
maxwell.hardy@classics.ox.ac.uk