Daniel Jolowicz - Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels

In writing this monograph, which is a drastically revised, rethought, and expanded version of an Oxford DPhil thesis submitted in 2015, I have racked up considerable debts of gratitude. I would like to register some of these here. I first addressed the question of imperial Greek engagement with Latin poetry in an MSt dissertation supervised by Steve Heyworth, which then developed into a doctoral thesis supervised by Tim Whitmarsh (for the first three years) and Steve again (for the fourth year). Both intellectually and personally, my debt to Tim and Steve is profound. In converting thesis to book I have benefited immensely from the unstinting support of Stephen Harrison, who, as book advisor, read the entire manuscript multiple times and patiently fielded a bewildering array of queries generated by my fevered brain. Prodigious thanks are further owed to Ewen Bowie and (again) Tim Whitmarsh, who likewise read the entire manuscript and made me think harder about points of detail as well as the bigger picture. My doctoral examiners, Stephen Harrison and Richard Hunter, as well as the anonymous reader for the Press, provided stewardship and guidance fundamental to the transition from the thesis bulla to the monographs toga uirilis. All of these people have exhibited a generosity of time and spirit for which I shall be in arrears indefinitely. Brutally quantitative evidence of their impact on my thinking can be found in the extent to which they inhabit the pages of the bibliography.

It is also a pleasure to record my sincere gratitude to those whose kindness and good offices helped shepherd the book to completion, and whose interventions frequently provided much needed ballast in less predictable waters. The Introduction has been immeasurably sharpened by the trenchant criticisms of Owen Hodkinson, Stephen Oakley, Michael Trapp, and Chris Whitton; I owe to Nick Denyer the term predicative synecdoche used in Section . Individual queries on a range of matters have been graciously and generously fielded by Amin Benaissa, Aitor Blanco Prez, Thomas Coward, Scott DiGiulio, Aneurin Ellis-Evans, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Talitha Kearey, Fiachra Mac Grin, Hugh Mason, Valeria Pace, Chris Pelling, Susan Stephens, and Nick Zair. I have profited greatly from those colleagues who, at various times and in various ways, offered themselves as interlocutors, and without whom the process would have been far more solitary and far less rewarding: David Butterfield, Gabe Byng, Nicol DAlconzo, Koen De Temmerman, Ja Elsner, Simon Goldhill, Will Guast, Larry Kim, Emily Kneebone, Benedek Kruchi, Dawn LaValle Norman, Anna Lefteratou, Tom Mackenzie, John Morgan, Ben Raynor, Ian Repath, Joyce Reynolds, Helena Schmedt, Henry Spelman, Estelle Strazdins, Aldo Tagliabue, Brynja Thorgeirsdottir, Stephen Trzaskoma, and Kreimir Vukovi. I would also like to thank Romain Brethes, David Elmer, Richard Hunter, Beatrice Poletti, and Bruno Rochette for sharing unpublished work with me. It is, finally, a privilege to acknowledge the teachers that helped get my Greek up and running, Alex Humes and Stephen Mann.

I am lucky to have been the recipient of financial and institutional support that has enabled this project to come to fruition. An AHRC scholarship secured bed and board at Magdalen College, Oxford, for the first three years of doctoral study, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, offered me employment as a stipendiary lecturer for the fourth. The bulk of the book was written in the environs of Clare Hall, Cambridgea genuine locus amoenusin my capacity as Isaac NewtonAnn Johnston Research Fellow. I completed the final stages of the book while employed in teaching capacities by the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, and by my current home, Kings College London. I owe a great deal to all of these institutions (which have kept me in business) and to the vibrant communities of which they are composed.

My most personal thanks are reserved for those who already know that, without them, none of this would have happened: for my teammate in life, Elle; for my mother and father, Corinna and Philip; for my brother, Tommy; and for my grandparents, Drosoulla and Tommy, Grace and Bobby. It is to this family unit that I dedicate this book.

D.A.J.

Farnham, July 2020

As this volume was going to press, we celebrated the arrival of Callirho. It is fitting that she crowns the dedication.

D.A.J.

Farnham Common, December 2020