Prof.dr. J. (Joan) Booth

Position:
  • Professor
Expertise:
  • Classical languages and cultures
  • Poetry, love elegies and their Hellenistic origins


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2671
E-Mail: j.booth@hum.leideniniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Latijnse T&C
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 1.06b


Fields of interest

Prof.dr. Joan Booth is interested in Augustan poetry, Love Elegies (Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus, Catullus) and their Hellenistic origins.

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.

Last Modified: 19-10-2009