Tim Whitmarsh
{{Short description|British classical scholar (born 1970)}}
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Timothy John Guy Whitmarsh, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FBA}} (born 23 January 1970) is a British classicist and Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. He is best known for his work on the Greek literary culture of the Roman Empire, especially the Second Sophistic and the ancient Greek novel.
Early life and education
Whitmarsh was born on 23 January 1970 in Chelmsford, Essex, England. He was educated at Moor Park School, a Catholic prep school near Ludlow, and at Malvern College, then an all-boys private school.{{cite web |title=Whitmarsh, Prof. Timothy John Guy |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-279563 |website=Who's Who 2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=17 February 2020 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U279563 |date=1 December 2019|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }} He took his undergraduate degree and doctorate at the University of Cambridge.
Academic career
From 2001 to 2007 he taught in the department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter where he remains an honorary fellow.[https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/classics/staff/whitmarsh/ University of Exeter Department of Classics] accessed 3 October 2014 He then served as E. P. Warren Praelector, Fellow and Tutor in Greek at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Ancient Literatures at the University of Oxford.{{cite web|title=Tim Whitmarsh|url=http://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Fellows/f/22/|work=President and Fellows|publisher=Corpus Christi College, Oxford|access-date=8 May 2014}}
In October 2014, he succeeded Paul Cartledge as the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge.{{cite web|title=AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture|url=http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/news/ag-leventis-professor-of-greek-culture|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date=8 March 2014|date=21 January 2014}} In 2022, he delivered the Gifford Lectures on Religion and Ancient Mediterranean Thought at the University of Aberdeen.{{cite web |title=The Gifford Lectures |url=https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/events/gifford-lectures/index.php |website=abdn.ac.uk |publisher=University of Aberdeen}} In 2023, he became Regius Professor of Greek in Cambridge, succeeding Richard Hunter.{{cite journal |title=Elections and appointments |url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2022-23/weekly/6683/6683.pdf#page=3 |journal=Cambridge University Reporter |issue=6683|date=18 January 2023|access-date=20 January 2023}}
''Classics Confidential''
Whitmarsh appears in the [http://classicsconfidential.co.uk/about Classics Confidential] series in conversation with various classical scholars:
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dggEqyTHpw&index=27&list=UUq7cnJ4nd8QLIA8uc4h8foQ Exploring Abrahamic Religions]—in conversation with Guy Stroumsa, 30 July 2013
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bNvy1slbIU&list=UUq7cnJ4nd8QLIA8uc4h8foQ&index=26 The Philosophy of Ancient Atheism]—in conversation with David Sedley, 9 August 2013
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrDT0gBfewk&list=UUq7cnJ4nd8QLIA8uc4h8foQ&index=25 Monotheism, Disbelief and the Hebrew Bible]—in conversation with Francesca Stavrakopoulou, 20 September 2013
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLv5hLhhQD4&list=UUq7cnJ4nd8QLIA8uc4h8foQ Socrates on Trial]—in conversation with Bettany Hughes, 30 September 2013
Publications
His publications include Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation,Tim Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. {{ISBN|978-0-19-927137-5}}. Ancient Greek Literature,Tim Whitmarsh, Ancient Greek Literature. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004. {{ISBN|978-0-7456-2792-2}}. The Second Sophistic,Tim Whitmarsh, The Second Sophistic. Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics 35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0-19-856881-0}}. and Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel: Returning Romance,Tim Whitmarsh, Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel: Returning Romance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. {{ISBN|978-0-521-82391-3}}. Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism.Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-520-27681-9}}.
- Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, Faber & Faber, 2016
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Category:British classical scholars
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Category:Regius Professors of Greek (Cambridge)
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