Patrick Glauthier
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor of Classics
Area of Expertise
Greek and Latin literature,
Didactic poetry,
Post-Augustan poetry,
Ancient intellectual history,
History of medicine,
The sublime
Biography
My research focuses on Latin literature of the late Republic and early Empire. Recently, I've been interested in Roman writing about the mechanics of the natural world and the experience of sublimity. My first book, which combines these themes, is The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna (Oxford University Press, 2025), and it charts the role of the sublime in first-century CE debates about how and why we investigate nature. In the spring of 2022, I organized a conference on the sublime that took place at Dartmouth. A volume based on the conference and co-edted by me will be published by Brill. I'm currently developing two book-length projects, one about catasterism narratives in Latin literature and another about the aesthetics of tyranny in the Roman world. Shorter pieces in the works include papers about the Elder Pliny ("Pliny's Natural History and the Scientific Sublime"), Ovid ("Flood, Fire, and the Augustan Sublime in Ovid's Metamorphoses"), and the sublime in Neronian and Flavian Literature, the last of which will appear in the Oxford Handbook of the Sublime.
I teach Latin at all levels. The subjects of my most recent seminars are Ovid's Metamorphoses, Roman Fiction, and Seneca's Thyestes. I also teach a variety of CLST classes, including Magic and the Occult in the Ancient World (CLST 10.15) and Ancient Medicine (CLST 11.16), that don't require Latin/Greek or any knowledge of the ancient world.
Education
Ph.D. Columbia University
Publications
The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna. Oxford University Press, 2025.
"Time Stood Still, and It Was Sublime (Proto-Gospel of James 18)." In Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature, ed. K. Gilhuly and J.P. Ulrich, Routledge, 2024, 205–25.
"The Classical Sublime." In The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime, ed. C. Duffy, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 17–28.
"An Image Sublime: The Milky Way in Aratus and Manilius." In Teaching Through Images: Imagery in Ancient Didactic Poetry, ed. J. Strauss Clay and A. Vergados, Brill, 2022, 82–104.
"Homer redivivus? Rethinking the Transmigration of the Soul in Ennius's Annals." Arethusa 54 (2021): 185–220.
"Bugonia and the Aetiology of Didactic Poetry in Virgil, Georgics 4." Classical Quarterly 69 (2020): 745–63.
"Hybrid Ennius: Cultural and Poetic Multiplicity in the Annals." In Ennius: Poetry and History, ed. C. Damon and J. Farrell, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 25–44.
"inconsistencies in Latin Literature." InThe Oxford Classical Dictionary, digital edition, ed. T. Whitmarsh. Oxford University Press. Article published April 2019. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.8135.
"Playing the Volcano: Prometheus Bound and Fifth Century Volcanic Theory." Classical Philology 113 (2018): 255–78.
"Repurposing the Stars: Manilius, Astronomica 1, and the Aratean Tradition." American Journal of Philology 138 (2017): 267-303.
"Census and commercium: Two Economic Metaphors in Manilius." Ιn Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica, ed. S. Green and K. Volk, Oxford University Press, 2011, 188-201.
"Phaedrus, Callimachus and the recusatio to Success." Classical Antiquity 28 (2009): 248-78.
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