Frances Muecke

Senior Lecturer
Department of Classics & Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
office: J607, Main Quad
phone:9351 2672

• Greek and Roman Comedy
• Horace’s Satires
• genre in ancient poetry
• Humanist scholarship and antiquarianism in Rome (1470-1527)

• BA Hons I Melb.
• BPhil. Oxon.

• Visiting Fellowship Clare Hall Cambridge 1988
• Visiting Fellowship Institute of Classical Studies London 2003
• Loeb Classical Library Fund 2007-2008

• ‘Light (and Dark) on Pomponio Leto’s Students’, The Classics in the Classroom Conference, Thursday July 27-Saturday July 29, 2006, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney
• ‘Translating Plautinisches im Plautus’, Literary and Scholarly Translation: a Colloquium, 20 November 2004 (National Institute of the Humanities and Creative Arts, Canberra)
• ‘Teaching music: the didactic poem of Venceslaus Philomathes’, 4 November 2004, Didactic Symposium, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney
• ‘The 18th century reception of Du Fresnoy’s De arte graphica’, 2 February 1999, York Centre for 18th century Studies

• With T. Drevikovsky, translation of Eduard Fraenkel, Plautine Elements in Plautus, Oxford, 2007
• With Prof. J. Davidson and Prof. P. Wilson, Greek Drama III: papers in Honour of Kevin Lee (London, 2006)
• With C. Allen and Y.A. Haskell, C.-A. Dufresnoy De arte graphica 1668 (Droz: Geneva, 2005) pp. 560 (edition with introductory essays and commentary)
• Horace Satires II, with Introduction, Translation and Commentary (Aris & Phillips, Warminster, 1993) pp. xii+242. (Reprinted with corrections 1997)
• ‘[Orazio]: lingua e stile’, Enciclopedia Oraziana (Rome, 1997), II 755-87

• Comedy: from Aristophanes to Terence
• Myth and place in Rome
• Achilles in the Iliad
• Satire and Society in Rome
• The Epyllion
• Early Latin prose
• Rome 90BC-AD14: The Making of a World-City

• 2006-2007: Faculty Library Committee
• 2004-2006: Faculty Postgraduate Matters Committee
• 2002-2003: Faculty International and Community Relations
• 1999-2000: Faculty Research Committee
• 1993-1998: Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee
• 1993, 1995: Core committee, Faculty Promotion Assessment Committee, (Senior Lecturer, Lecturer)
• 1992 (Sem. 2),
  1993 (Sem. 1): Faculty Undergraduate Matters
• 1989-1991: Board of Study of Divinity
• 1985-1987: Standing Committee of Faculty
• 1984-1990: Faculty Admissions and Courses of Study Committee
• 1980-1987: Faculty Planning Committee, Working Party on Schools