Staff Profile:Professor Timothy Duff
- Name:
- Professor Timothy Duff
- Job Title:
- Professor of Greek
- Responsibilities:
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Director of Postgraduate Research
Background/qualifications:
MA, PhD (University of Cambridge, Christ's College), FRHistS
Since joining the department at Reading, Professor Duff has held visiting professorships and research fellowships at Shanghai University (2016), Princeton University's Seeger Centre for Hellenic Studies (2016), the Freie Universität Berlin (2007-9, awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation), the Australian National University (2006), Wolfson College, Cambridge (2005), Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies (2004), and the University of Cincinnati (2002). He has also taught at the British School at Athens (2002). In 1999-2000 he held a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Research Leave award, also at the British School at Athens.
He is a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
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- Areas of Interest:
Professor Duff's research interests are in Greek history, Greek and Roman historiography and biography, and the Greek literature of the Roman Imperial Period, especially Plutarch.
- Research groups / Centres:
Professor Duff is a member of the Language, Text and Power research group, and Director of the Cluster for Hellenic Studies.
Supervision of research students:
Professor Duff would be delighted to supervise research students in any of his areas of interest. He currently supervises Elisabeth Meijer on the role of ritualised religious ceremonies in Macedonia under Philip II and Alexander III, and Una Markham on Plutarch's construction of Boiotia. He recently supervised Lucy Fletcher in her successful AHRC-funded project on narrative in Plutarch's Lives, and Caitlin Prouatt on Plutarch's Delphic Dialogues.
Professor Duff's publications include Plutarch's Lives: exploring virtue and vice (Oxford University Press: 1999), The Greek and Roman Historians (Duckworth/Bristol Classical Press: 2003), and Plutarch: the Age of Alexander (Penguin: 2012), as well as numerous papers on Plutarch.
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 28.
2017
- Duff, T. E. (2017) Plutarch and tense: the present and imperfect. In: Georgiadou, A. and Oikonomopoulou, K. (eds.) Space, time and language in Plutarch. Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies (67). De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, pp. 55-66, Section 2. Time manipulation and narrative signification. ISBN 9783110537710 doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110539479-005
- Duff, T. (2017) 普鲁塔克的《对比列传》——探询德性与恶行. Hermes: Classici et Commentarii，西方传统：经典与解释. Huaxia Publishing House, Beijing, pp552. ISBN 9787508092065
2015
- Duff, T. (2015) Aspect and subordination in Plutarchan narrative. In: Ash, R., Mossman, J. and Titchener, F. B. (eds.) Fame and Infamy: essays for Christopher Pelling on characterization in Greek and Roman biography and historiography. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 129-148. ISBN 9780199662326
2014
- Duff, T. E. (2014) The prologues. In: Beck, M. (ed.) A Companion to Plutarch. Wiley Blackell, Chichester, pp. 333-349. ISBN 9781405194310
2013
- Duff, T. E. (2013) L’articolazione interna del libro plutarcheo. In: Pace, G. and Volpe Cacciatorre, P. (eds.) Gli scritti di Plutarco: tradizione, traduzione, ricezione, commento. D'Auria, Naples, pp. 143-161. ISBN 9788870923483
2012
- Duff, T. E. and Scott-Kilvert, I. (2012) Plutarch: the age of Alexander. Penguin Classics. Penguin Books, London, pp662. ISBN 9780140449358
2011
- Duff, T. (2011) Plutarch's 'Lives' and the critical reader. In: Roskam, G. and Van der Stockt, L. (eds.) Virtues for the people: aspects of Plutarch's ethics. Plutarchea Hypomnemata (4). Leuven University Press, Leuven, pp. 59-82. ISBN 9789058678584
- Duff, T. (2011) Platonic allusion in Plutarch's Alcibiades 4-7. In: Millett, P., Oakley, S. P. and Thompson, R. J. E. (eds.) Ratio et res ipsa: Classical essays presented by former pupils to James Diggle on his retirement. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society supplement (36). The Cambridge Philological Society, Cambridge, pp. 27-43. ISBN 9780956838117
- Duff, T. E. (2011) The structure of the Plutarchan book. Classical Antiquity, 30 (2). pp. 213-278. ISSN 1067-8344 doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/CA.2011.30.2.213
2010
- Duff, T. (2010) Il linguaggio della narrazione in Plutarco. In: Zanetto, G. and Martinelli, S. (eds.) Plutarco: lingua e testo. Quaderni di Acme. Cisalpino, Milan, pp. 207-224. ISBN 9788820510169
- Duff, T. (2010) Plutarch's Themistokles and Camillus. In: Humble, N. (ed.) Plutarch's lives: parallelism and purpose. Classical Press of Wales, Swansea, pp. 45-86. ISBN 9781905125418
2009
- Duff, T. E. (2009) "Loving too much": the text of Plutarch, Themistokles 2.3. Philologus, 153. pp. 149-158. ISSN 0031-7985
- Duff, T. E. (2009) Plato's Symposium and Plutarch's Alcibiades. In: Ribeiro Ferreira, J., Leâo, D. and Tröster, M. (eds.) Symposion and philanthropia in Plutarch. Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanisticos da Universidade de Coimbra (Humanitas Suppement), Coimbra, pp. 37-50. ISBN 9789898281173
2008
- Duff, T. E. (2008) How Lives begin. In: Nikolaidis, A. G. (ed.) The unity of Plutarch's work: Moralia themes in the Lives, features of the Lives in the Moralia. De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 187-207. ISBN 9783110202496
- Duff, T. E. (2008) Models of education in Plutarch. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 128. pp. 1-26. ISSN 0075-4269
- Duff, T. E. (2008) Plutarch's readers and the moralism of the Lives. Ploutarchos, 5. pp. 3-18. ISSN 0258-655X (Vol 5 (2007/2008))
- Duff, T. E. (2008) The opening of Plutarch's Life of Themistokles. Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 48. pp. 159-179. ISSN 0017-3916
2005
- Duff, T. E. (2005) Education in Plutarch's Themistocles. In: Jufresa, M., Mestre, F., Gomez, P. and Gilabert, P. (eds.) Plutarc a la seva epoca: paideia i societa: actas del VIII Simposio Español sobre Plutarco (Barcelona, 6-8 de noviembre de 2003). Sociedad Española de Plutarquistas, Barcelona, pp. 553-560. ISBN 9788460802686
- Duff, T. E. (2005) The first five anecdotes of Plutarch's Life of Alkibiades. In: De Blois, L., Bons, J., Kessels, T. and Schenkeveld, D. M. (eds.) The statesman in Plutarch's Greek and Roman Lives. Mnemosyne supplement 250, 2. Brill, Leiden, pp. 157-166. ISBN 9789004138735
2004
- Duff, T. E. (2004) Plato, tragedy, the ideal reader and Plutarch's Demetrios and Antony. Hermes, 132 (3). pp. 271-291. ISSN 0018-0777
2003
- Duff, T. E. (2003) The Greek and Roman historians. Bristol Classical Press/Duckworth, London, pp136. ISBN 9781853996016
- Duff, T. E. (2003) Plutarch on the childhood of Alcibiades. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 49. pp. 89-117. ISSN 1750-2705 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500000961
2002
- Duff, T. E. (2002) Parallels in discontent: Plutarch's Pyrrhos and Marius. In: Kiriazopoulos, A.N. (ed.) Proceedings of Eleventh Congress of the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies. Parnassos, Athens, Greece, pp. 331-351. ISBN 9608687500
- Duff, T. E. (2002) Plutarch's lives: exploring virtue and vice. 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199252749
2001
- Duff, T. E. (2001) The prologue to the 'Lives of Perikles and Fabius' (Per.1-2). In: Pérez Jiménez , A. and Casadesús Bordoy, F. (eds.) Estudios sobre Plutarco: misticismo y religiones mistéricas en la obra de Plutarco. Ediciones Clásicas, Madrid, Spain, pp. 351-364. ISBN 9788478824618
2000
- Duff, T. E. (2000) Plutarchan synkrisis: comparisons and contradictions. In: Van der Stockt, L. (ed.) Rhetorical theory and praxis in Plutarch. Peeters Publishers, Leuven, Belgium, pp. 141-161. ISBN 9789042907607
1999
- Duff, T. E. (1999) Plutarch's lives: exploring virtue and vice. 1st edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198150589
- Duff, T. E. (1999) Plutarch, Plato and great natures. In: Pérez Jiménez, A., García López , J. and Maria Aguilar, R. (eds.) Plutarco, Platón y Aristóteles. Ediciones Clásicas, Madrid, Spain, pp. 313-332. ISBN 8478823905
For a full list of Professor Duff's publications and downloads, see his page on academia.edu.
