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Monica Gale

Associate Professor
Classics
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland

Professor Social and Political Sciences
Biography

Born and educated in Birmingham, UK, I studied Classics in Cambridge and went on to hold posts at the University of Newcastle and Royal Holloway, University of London, before joining the staff at Trinity College Dublin in 1998.

Research Intrest

My research centres on the poetry of the Late Roman Republic and the Augustan period (especially the works of Catullus, Lucretius, Virgil and Propertius), with a particular focus on issues of genre and intertextuality. I am interested in the ways in which relationships between literary texts serve to create meaning, and in poetic self-representation, with reference both to literary predecessors and to generic convention. Other areas in which I have a particular interest include Greek and Roman didactic poetry and the uses of myth in ancient literature. I am currently working on a commentary on the complete poems of Catullus for the Cambridge 'Greek and Latin Classics' series.

List of Publications
Myth and Poetry in Lucretius (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Propertius 2.7: Militia Amoris and the Ironies of Elegy, Journal of Roman Studies 87 (1997), 77-91 (reprinted in E. Greene and T. Welch (edd.), Propertius (2012)
Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Lucretius and the Didactic Epic (London: Bristol Classical Press, 2001)
(ed.) Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2004)
(ed.) Lucretius (Oxford University Press, 2007)
Lucretius, De Rerum Natura V, edited with translation and commentary (Oxford: Aris and Phillips, 2009)
Putting on the Yoke of Necessity: Myth, Intertextuality and Moral Agency in Catullus 68, in A.J. Woodman and I.M.LeM. Duquesnay (edd.), Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
(ed., with J.H.D. Scourfield) Texts and Violence in the Roman World (forthcoming)
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