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Publications
Books
- The Poetry of Knowledge and the ‘Two Cultures’, Palgrave Macmillan 2018.
- Palladius: The Work of Farming (translator), Prospect Books 2013.
- Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Seneca (editor), Oxford 2008.
- Annaeana Tragica: Notes on the Text of Seneca’s Tragedies, Leiden & Boston 2004.
- Seneca, Tragedies (Loeb Classical Library), Cambridge, Mass.: vol. 1, 2002; vol. 2, 2004. Both volumes revised 2018.
- Seneca’s Hercules Furens: A Critical Text with Introduction and Commentary, Ithaca & London 1987.
- Seneca’s Anapaests. Metre, Colometry, Text and Artistry in the Anapaests of Seneca’s Tragedies, Atlanta 1987.
- On Simples, Attributed to Dioscorides, Leiden & Boston 2022.
Articles
- “Late Thoughts on the Text of Seneca’s Tragedies,”Cambridge Classical Journal 63 (2017) 53-68.
- “Speaking Names in Senecan Drama,” in Phillip Mitsis and Ioannis Ziogas (eds.), Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry (2016) 313-32.
- “Textual Notes on Palladius, Opus Agriculturae,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 107 (2013).
- “Nature in Horace,” Green Letters 11 (2009) 23-35.
- “Horace, Odes 1.3: Nature’s Boundaries,” Eranos 104 (2006-07) 31-40.
- “Textual Notes on Hercules Oetaeus and on Seneca’s Agamemnon and Thyestes”, Classical Quarterly 54 (2004) 240-54.
- “Construction of the Self in Senecan Drama”, Mnemosyne IV.55 (2002) 18-40 (with S. McElduff).
- “Transpositions and Emendations in Seneca’s Tragedies”, Phoenix 56 (2002), 296-314.
- “Situated Knowledge: Responding to Lucretius,” Arethusa 34 (2001), 211-20.
- “Playing Seneca?”, in G.W.M. Harrison (ed.), Seneca in Performance, London 2000, pp. 1-12.
- “Zwierlein’s Seneca and the Editor’s Task”, Classical Philology 84 (1989), 236-51.
- “Seneca, Troades 197, 578, 585,” AJP 107 (1986), 270-73.
- “Seneca’s Troades in a New Edition: a Review Article”, Classical Views 29 (1985), 435-53.
- “Theory and Context of the Didactic Poem: Some Classical, Medieval and Later Continuities,” Florilegium 5 (1983), 1-43 (with Robert M. Schuler).
- “Sense-Pauses and Relative Dating in Seneca, Sophocles and Shakespeare”, American Journal of Philology 102 (1981) 289-307.
- “Notes on Seneca’s Hercules Furens,” TAPhA 111 (1981), 65-70.
- “Pectus O Nimium Ferum: Act V of Seneca’s Hercules Furens,” Hermes 107 (1979), 240-48.
- “Aspects of Valerius Flaccus’ Use of Similes,” TAPhA 106 (1976), 113-24.
- “Not by Dioscorides: On Simples”, Journal of Hellenic Studies 142 (2022) 166-78.
- “Textual Notes on Ps.-Dioscorides, On Simples”, Classical Quarterly 71 (2021) 285-91.
Reviews
- Marco Johannes Bartoldus, Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus: Welt und Wert spätrömischer Landwirtschaft, in BMCR 2012.12.54.
- Charles Guiraud, René Martin (ed.), Palladius, Traité d’agriculture. Tome II. livres III à V, in BMCR 2011.06.22.
- Margarethe Billerbeck, Mario Somazzi, Repertorium der Konjekturen in den Seneca-Tragödien, in BMCR 2010.05.52.
- Nicola Trevet, Commento alla Phaedra di Seneca, ed. Maria Chiabo, and Commento alla Medea di Seneca, ed. Luciana Roberti, in BMCR 2004.12.09.
- A.J. Keulen (ed.), L. Annaeus Seneca: Troades, in BMCR 2001.06.09.
- H.M. Hine (ed.), Seneca: Medea, in BMCR 2001.02.25.
- M. Billerbeck (ed.), Seneca: Hercules Furens, in BMCR 2000.02.03.
- Monica R. Gale, Myth and Poetry in Lucretius, in EMC 15 (1996), 339-43.
- Ciro Monteleone, La Pagina e la Sapienza, in Latomus 50 (1991), 888-89.
- J.P. Sullivan, Literature and Politics in the Age of Nero, in EMC 5 (1986), 312-15.
- Norman T. Pratt, Seneca’s Drama, in EMC 29 (1985), 192-94.
- Dana F. Sutton, The Dramaturgy of the Octavia, in CR 35 (1985), 186-87.
- Gordon Williams, Figures of Thought in Roman Poetry, in CPh 78 (1983), 175-77.
- Jo-Ann Shelton, Seneca’s Hercules Furens: Theme, Structure and Style, in Phoenix 33 (1979), 90-91.
- R.J. Tarrant (ed.), Seneca: Agamemnon, in CW 71 (1978), 346-47.
- W.-L. Liebermann, Studien zu Senecas Tragödien, in Phoenix 30 (1976), 303-05.
- A.J. Boyle (ed.), Seneca: Agamemnon, in BMCR 2021.02.14.
Non-Classical Publications
- Wildflowers of the Coast, Victoria 2013.
- “Five Poems,” The Antigonish Review 162 (2010) 76-81.
- Some Fitch Families of Colchester, Colchester 2006.
- Fielding Spotts, 1827 (?) - 1902, Saanich 2004.
- The O’Reilly Enterprise, 1925-1965, Accra 1965.