Richard John Tarrant, is an American classicist and Emeritus Pope Professor of Latin at Harvard University. He is an expert on the textual criticism and the transmission of Latin poetry.[1]
Richard Tarrant | |
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| Academic background | |
| Education | Fordham University Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Robin Nisbet |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Latin Literature |
| Sub-discipline | Textual Criticism |
| Institutions | University of Toronto Harvard University |
Career edit
A native of Brooklyn, Tarrant was educated at Fordham University, where he obtained a BA in 1966. He then moved to Oxford University and graduated with a DPhil from Corpus Christi College (1972).
From 1970, he taught at the University of Toronto, taking up a position at Harvard University in 1982.[2] In his time at the department, he served as its chairman (1988–94) and as the acting Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1995-6).[3]
Tarrant has held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Selected publications edit
- Seneca: Agamemnon, Cambridge, 1977.
- P. Ovidi Nasonis: Metamorphoses, Oxford, 2004.
- Virgil: Aeneid Book XII, Cambridge, 2012.
- Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism, Cambridge, 2016.
References edit
- ^ Oakley (2016) 361.
- ^ Gibson, Lydialyle (2018-05-23). "The "Ring of Truth"". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
- ^ "Richard J. Tarrant". classics.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-02.
Works cited edit
- Oakley, S. P. (2016) Review of Tarrant (2016), Journal of Roman Studies 106, 360–1.
- Tarrant, R. J. (2016) Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism, Cambridge.
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