Staff Profile:Dr Timothy Duff

Name:

Dr Timothy E. Duff

Job Title:

Reader

Responsibilities:

Director of Taught Postgraduate Programmes, Director of Postgraduate Research

Areas of Interest:

Dr. Duff teaches Greek history, literature and language. His research interests are in Greek and Roman historiography and biography, and the Greek literature of the Roman Imperial Period, especially Plutarch.

His teaching this year includes: CLMRM MA Research Methods, CLMAC Approaches to Classics, CL3AB Ancient Biography, CL3G5 Ancient Greek 5, CL3G4 Ancient Greek 4, CL2GH Greek History, and part of CL1CA Fifth-century Athens.

He is also Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies and coordinator of Modern Greek for the Institution-Wide Language Programme.

Since 2002 he has held fellowships at the Australian National University (2006), Wolfson College, Cambridge (2005), and Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies (2004). He was a Margo Tytus Visiting Scholar at the University of Cincinnati (2002), and has taught at the British School at Athens (2002). In 2007 - 2009 he held a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Research groups / Centres:

He is a member of the Language, Text and Power research group. His current research has four main strands: 1. The structures of the Plutarchan book, especially layout, beginnings and endings. 2. Ancient biography and its generic limits. 3. The language of Plutarch 4. Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades.

Publications:

His publications include Plutarch's Lives: exploring virtue and vice (Oxford University Press: 1999), and The Greek and Roman Historians (Duckworth/Bristol Classical Press: 2003), as well as numerous papers on Plutarch. His Plutarch: the Age of Alexander is about to appear with Penguin. He is currently working on a volume for Oxford University Press entitled Oxford Readings in Ancient Biography and on a commentary on Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades, for Cambridge University Press.

In press:

Plutarch: the Age of Alexander, edited and (with I. Scott-Kilvert) translated (Penguin Books: London 2011). ISBN 978-0140449358.

'The structure of the Plutarchan book', Classical Antiquity 30 (2011).

'Plutarch's Lives and the critical reader' in G. Roskam (ed.), Virtues for the people: aspects of Plutarch's ethics (Leuven, 2011).

'Plutarch's Themistokles and Camillus' in N. Humble, ed., Plutarch's Lives: parallelism and purpose (Classical Press of Wales: Swansea, 2011), pp. 45-86.

'Plutarco e il linguaggio di narrativa', in S. M. Martinelli, ed., Plutarco: testa e lingua (Quaderni di Acme, Cisalpino: Milan, 2011), pp. 205-222.

Recent Publications (since 2008)

'The opening of Plutarch's Life of Themistokles', Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 48 (2008), 159-179. Click here to download

'Models of education in Plutarch', Journal of Hellenic Studies 128 (2008), 1-26.

'How Lives begin'. In A. G. Nikolaidis (ed.), The unity of Plutarch's Work: Moralia themes in the Lives,features of the Lives in the Moralia, 187-207. De Gruyter: Berlin, 2008.

'Plato's Symposium and Plutarch's Alcibiades', in J. Ribeiro Ferreira, D. Leao, M. Troster and P. Barata Dias (edd.), Symposion and philanthropia in Plutarch, 37 - 50. (Humanitas Supplement: Coimbra, 2009) Click here to download

'Loving too much': the text of Plutarch, Themistokles 2.3, Philologus 153 (2009), 149 - 158