Joan Booth
Professor emeritus Latin language and literature
- Name
- Prof.dr. J. Booth
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2166
- j.booth@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Fields of interest
Prof.dr. Joan Booth is interested in Augustan poetry, Love Elegies (Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus, Catullus) and their Hellenistic origins.
Key publications
(2001) "Moonshine: Intertextual illumination in Propertius 1.3.31-3 and Philodemus, Anth. Pal. V. 123",
Classical Quarterly 51, 537-44.
(2001) "Problems and Programmatics in Propertius 1.1",
Hermes 129, 63-74.
(1997) "All in the mind: Sickness in Catullus 76",
The Passions in Roman Literature and Thought, S.M. Braund and C. Gill (eds.), Cambridge, 150-68.
(1999)
Catullus to Ovid: Reading Latin Love Elegy, Literary commentary with Latin text. Verse translations by Guy Lee, Bristol.
(1991)
Ovid, Amores II. A commentary, with text and translation, Warminster.
Professor emeritus Latin language and literature
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Griekse T&C