Associate Professor Lindsay C. Watson

Department of Classics & Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
office: J603
phone: 9351 2555
fax: 9351 3918

• Latin iambic poetry
• Latin epigram
• Juvenal, Horace
• Martial
• Greek and Roman magic
• Hellenistic poetry

MA Hons 1 , University of Glasgow

M. Phil, University of Oxford

PhD, University of Toronto

• Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (elected 2004)

• 2003: Invited speaker at first Groningen Colloquium on Flavian Poetry, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• 2001: Invited speaker at international conference on Magic, ‘Hecate at the Crossroads’, University of New England, Armidale
• 1999: invited speaker at University of Wales Institute of Classical Studies Colloquium at Haye on Wye, Wales (subject: Sextus Pompey)
• 1998: Invited speaker at international conference on Greek and Latin Iambus, University of Trento, Italy
• 1992: Invited speaker at international conference on Horace celebrating the retirement of Robin Nisbet from the Oxford Chair of Latin, Corpus Christi College

Books

• A Commentary on Horace’s Epodes (Oxford University Press, 2003): 604
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• Martial: Select Epigrams [with Dr. P. Watson] (Cambridge University Press, 2003): 374 pages
• Arae: The Curse Poetry of Antiquity (Francis Cairns, Leeds, 1991): 263 pages

Book Chapters

• ‘Horace’s Epodes: The Impotence of Iambos?’ in S. J. Harrison ed. Homage to Horace: A Bimillenary Celebration (Oxford, 1995), 188-202

Articles

• ‘Martial 12. 32: an indigent immigrant?’ Mnemosyne 57 (2004), 311-24
• ‘Bassa’s Borborysms: on Martial and Catullus’ Antichthon 37 (2003, published 2004), 1-12
• ‘Martial 8.21, literary lusus and imperial panegyric’ Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar 10 (1998), 359-72
• ‘Rustic Suffenus (Catullus 22) and literary rusticity’ Papers of the Leeds International Latin Seminar 6 (1990), 13-33
• ‘Problems in Epode 11’ Classical Quarterly 33 (1983), 299-38
• ‘Cinna and Euphorion’ Studi italiani di filologia classica 54 (1982), 93-110

Forthcoming

• ‘Catullus and the Poetics of Incest’ Anticthon 40 (2006), 35-48
• The Epodes. Horace’s Archilochus? in the Cambridge Companion to Horace ed. S. J. Harrison (Cambridge UP, 2007), 93-104
  
  ‘The Bogus Teacher and his Relevance for Ovid’s Ars Amatoria’ Rheinisches Museum für Klassische Philologie
  
  ‘Of Hernias and Wine Jugs: Catalepton 12’ Mnemosyne

Teaching
Units Taught (Selected)

• Latin: Catullus; the Neoterics; Horace Odes and Epodes; Apuleius Metamorphoses; Senecan Tragedy; Martial, Epigrams; Virgil Eclogues, Aeneid; Petronius
  Greek: Hellenistic Poetry, Greek Iambic, Greek Lyric Poetry, Greek Satiric Epigram, Hesiod Works and Days, Theocritus, select tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
• Classical Civilisation: Magic in Greece and Rome, Roman component of Greece and Rome in Performance

• Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, University of Toronto 1972-3
• Lecturer in Classics, University of Canterbury, NZ 1973-4,
• Lecturer in Latin, University of Sydney, 1974-1983
• Senior Lecturer in Latin, subsequently Classics 1984-present

Golf, opera singing, reading modern novels, good wine