Professor Matthew Fox

Professor of Classics and Head of Department

Contact details

location:

Room 320, 65 Oakfield Avenue

email:

m.fox@classics.arts.gla.ac.uk

telephone:

0141 330 5583

Research

Matthew Fox (BA Oxon 1986, D.Phil 1991) joined the department in August 2007 as Professor of Classics. He taught previously at the University of Birmingham. At the centre of his research is historical representation and the manner in which it articulates rhetorical or poetic concerns. That in turn has generated work on the hermeneutics of ancient rhetorical theory, love poetry, and gender representation.

His first book explored the myths of early Rome; his second the historiographical aspects of Cicero's philosophical writings. Future projects include a chapter on the myth of Rome (for a Blackwell's companion), studies on the translation of Cicero, and on historicism in Greek and Roman rhetorical theory. An article on the dialogue form in Heraclides of Pontus is to be published later this year, and he is also working on Ovid, and on Roberto Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia.

Publications

books

• Cicero's Philosophy of History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
• Roman Historical Myths (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)

Articles

• 'Translatio Ciceronis,' in W.Kofler, F.Schaffenrath, K.Toechterle (edd),
  Pontes V: Uebersetzung als Vermittlerin antiker Literatur (Innsbruck:
  Studien Verlag, 2009), 245–56.
  
• 'Heraclides of Pontus and the Philosophical Dialogue', in William W. Fortenbaugh & Elizabeth Pender (eds), Heraclides of Pontus: Discussion, Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities, vol. 15 (New
  Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2009), pp. 41-67
  
• 'Words and Deeds. The Power and Weakness of Cicero's Oratory', Omnibus 55 (Jan 2008), 21-23
• ‘Rhetoric and Literature at Rome’, in William Dominik and Jon Hall (eds), A Companion to Roman Rhetoric (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), 369-381
• ‘Die Rezeption der Rhetorik innerhalb der Geschichtsschreibung: von Thukydides bis Eduard Schwartz’, in K. Töchterle and W. Kofler (eds), Pontes 3: Die antike Rhetorik in der europäischen Geistesgeschichte (Innsbruck, 2005), 360-371
• ‘Dionysius, Lucian and the Prejudice against Rhetoric in History’, JRS 91 (2001), 76-93
• ‘Dialogue and Irony in Cicero: Reading de Republica’, in Alison Sharrock & Helen Morales (eds), Intratextuality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 263-286
• ‘Satyrs & Hetaerae: Looking for Gender in Attic Vases’, in M. Donald & L. Hurcombe (eds), Gender and Material Culture (Basingstoke, 2000), 114-117
• ‘Propertius 4.9 and the toils of historicism’, Materiali e Discussioni 43 (1999), 157-76
• ‘Transvestite Hercules at Rome’, Interface: Bradford studies in Language, Culture & Society 3 (1999), 1-22
• ‘The constrained man’, in Lin Foxhall & John Salmon (eds), Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition (London, 1998), 6-22
• ‘Greek and Roman Hercules: Moments in pre-historic imperialism’, Kunapipi 18 (1996), 9-21
• ‘History and Rhetoric in Dionysius of Halicarnassus’, JRS 83 (1993), 31-47