Nick Lowe (classicist)

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Nick Lowe ({{IPAc-en|l|oʊ}}; born 1956) is a British classical scholar and film critic.

He is a reader in classics in the Department of Classics and Philosophy at Royal Holloway, a constituent college of the University of London, with interests including narratology and reception of Greek antiquity in historical fiction.{{cite web|url=http://pure.rhul.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/nick-lowe%28d3402fb6-4f06-45c8-8486-8937532b62a0%29.html|title=Dr Nick Lowe|work=Researcher profiles|publisher=Royal Holloway, University of London|access-date=28 August 2021}}

Lowe is also a film reviewer for the science-fiction magazine Interzone, writing the column Mutant Popcorn since the mid-1980s;{{cite magazine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224232439/http://www.locusmag.com/Roundtable/2009/02/adaptation.html|url=http://www.locusmag.com/Roundtable/2009/02/adaptation.html|archive-date=2017-02-24|magazine=Locus|title=Adaptation|department=Locus Roundtable|first=Graham|last=Sleight|date=February 26, 2009}} he won a British Science Fiction Association Award for the column in 2009.2009 British Science Fiction Association Award for Mutant Popcorn (see [http://www.bsfa.co.uk/BSFAAward/2009Winners.aspx BSFA Awards 2009 Winners]). The 25th anniversary of his column was celebrated by a special issue of Interzone in 2010, including reprints of his first reviews and an interview with Lowe.{{cite web|url=https://www.sfsite.com/01a/izn359.htm|title=Interzone #230, September-October 2010|work=SF Site Reviews|year=2012|first=D. Douglas|last=Fratz}}

Early life and education

He was born in Manchester, England, and raised in Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, before going on to read classics at Jesus College, Cambridge,"Tripos results, including geography, philosophy, classics, economics", The Times, 28 June 1977, p. 18. where he received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.[http://www.classicalassociation.org/CLASSICI/RHUL.html Classicists in British Universities]. His doctoral advisor was Geoffrey Kirk.

Career

He taught classics at three different colleges in the University of London before being appointed lecturer in Greek literature at Royal Holloway.{{cite web|title=Committee for 2013|work=John D. Criticos Prize|url=http://www.criticosprize.org/committee.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207192000/http://criticosprize.org/committee.php|archive-date=7 February 2015|url-status=dead}}

=Books=

Theatre Ancient and Modern (2000), edited with Hardwick, L., Ireland, S. & Macintosh, F., Open University Press.
The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative (2000), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Reviews of The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative:
{{cite journal | last = Halliwell | first = Stephen | date = April 2001 | issue = 1 | journal = Greece & Rome | jstor = 826874 | page = 91 | title = none | volume = 48| doi = 10.1093/gr/48.1.91 }}
{{cite journal | last = Konstan | first = David | date = Winter 2002 | doi = 10.2307/4352656 | issue = 2 | journal = The Classical World | jstor = 4352656 | pages = 194–195 | title = none | volume = 95}}
{{cite journal | last = Lateiner | first = Donald | date = November 2000 | at = 2000.11.28 | journal = Bryn Mawr Classical Review | title = Review | url = http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2000/2000-11-28.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160630043458/http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2000/2000-11-28.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 30 June 2016}}
{{cite journal | last = Schironi | first = Francesca | hdl = 2027.42/150155 | journal = Athenaeum | pages = 677–681 | title = none | volume = 91 | year = 2003}}
{{cite journal | last = Torres-Guerra | first = José B. | issue = 7 | journal = Gnomon | jstor = 40493898 | pages = 581–583 | title = none | volume = 75 | year = 2003}}
Comedy (2008). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics).{{cite journal | last = Stürner | first = Ferdinand | pages = 111–112 | journal = Ancient History Bulletin | title = Review of Comedy | url = https://ancienthistorybulletin.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/AHBReviews201234.St%c3%bcrnerOnLowe.pdf | volume = 2 | year = 2012}}
Erôs in Ancient Greece (2013), edited with Sanders, E., Thumiger, C. & Carey, C., Oxford University Press.Reviews of Erôs in Ancient Greece:
{{cite journal | last = Billault | first = Alain | date = January–June 2015 | issue = 1 | journal = Revue des Études Grecques | jstor = 44261342 | pages = 260–262 | title = none | volume = 128}}
{{cite journal | last = Goldhill | first = Simon | date = April 2014 | doi = 10.1017/S0009840X13002242 | issue = 1 | journal = The Classical Review | jstor = 43301773 | pages = 39–41 | series = New Series | title = none | volume = 64| s2cid = 162523446 }}
{{cite journal | last = Lateiner | first = Donald | journal = Mnemosyne | jstor = 24521763 | pages = 676–681 | series = Fourth Series | title = none | volume = 67 | year = 2014| issue = 4 | doi = 10.1163/1568525X-12341721 }}