Academic & Teaching staff

s.j.green@leeds.ac.uk

+44 (0)113 34 33540

Head of Department

MA (Nottingham)
PhD (Manchester)

Research Interests

Steve is a specialist on the literature and society of Rome in 1st centuries B.C. and A.D., especially the Augustan and Neronian periods.

He has produced a major commentary on the first book of Ovid's religious poem Fasti (Leiden 2004) and has co-edited and contributed to collections of essays on both Ovid's erotodidactic corpus (Oxford 2006) and Manilius' astrological poem (Oxford 2011). He has also published articles on various aspects of imperial literature, the interaction between Augustan literature and both Roman religion and Augustan monuments, and has been interviewed for BBC Radio 4 on the subject of Roman augury.

Steve is currently engaged in two major projects. The first is a co-edited volume (with Penny Goodman) arising from the recent Animating Antiquity conference based around the film work of Ray Harryhausen (Nov 11). This will appear as part of the OU's New Voices in Classical Reception Studies e-journal. The second is a major monograph on changing discourses on Roman astrology in Latin literature from Cicero to Manilius, which will be published with Oxford University Press in 2014.

Biography

I studied for my BA and MA at the University of Nottingham (1991-5) before completing a PhD in Classics at the University of Manchester (1996-9).

I have previously enjoyed teaching Classics in many different universities - two in Ireland (N.U.I. Maynooth and Cork), two in Scotland (Glasgow and St. Andrews) and two in England (Manchester and Keele) - and I was delighted to join the Classics Department at Leeds in September 2004.

Publications

BOOKS

• (2004)  Ovid Fasti 1: A Commentary, Leiden
• (2006; co-edited with R.K. Gibson and A.R. Sharrock). The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris, Oxford 
• (2011; co-edited with K. Volk), Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica, Oxford   

ARTICLES/ BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

• (2011) "Arduum ad astra: The Politics and Poetics of Horoscopic Failure in Manilius' Astronomica", in S.J. Green and K. Volk (eds.), Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica, Oxford, 120-38
• (2010) "(No) Arms and a Man: The Imperial Pretender, the Opportunistic Poet, and the Laus Pisonis", Classical Quarterly 60, 497-523
• (2010) "Undeifying Tiberius: A Reconsideration of Seneca, Apocolocyntosis 1.2", Classical Quarterly 60, 274-6
• (2009) "The Horse and the Serpent: A Vergilian Perspective on the Final Eclogue of Calpurnius Siculus", Vergilius 55, 55-67 
• (2009) "Malevolent Gods and Promethean Birds: Contesting Augury in Augustus' Rome", TAPA 139, 147-67
• (2008) "The Expert, the Novice and the Exile: A Narrative Tale of Three Ovids in Fasti", in G. Liveley and P. Salzman-Mitchell (eds.), Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story, Ohio, 180-95
• (2008) "Save the Cows? Augustan Discourse and Animal Sacrifice in Ovid's Fasti", Greece & Rome 55, 39-54
• (2006) "Lessons in Love: Fifty Years of Scholarship on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris", in R.K. Gibson, S.J. Green and A.R. Sharrock (eds.), The Art of Love: Bimillennial Essays on Ovid's Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris, Oxford, 1-20
• (2004) "Contextualisation and Textual Criticism: Making Sense of Character in Propertius IV.4 and Ovid, Heroides 1", Classical World 97, 363-72
• (2004) "Playing with Marble: The Monuments of the Caesars in Ovid's Fasti", Classical Quarterly 54, 224-39
• (2003) "Collapsing Authority and 'Arachnean' Gods in Ovid's Baucis and Philemon (Met. 8.611-724)", Ramus 32, 39-56
• (2001) "Docens Poeta: Development of the Interviewer's skills in Ovid's Fasti", Latomus 60, 603-12
• (2000) "Multiple Interpretation of the Opening and Closing of the Temple of Janus: A Misunderstanding of Ovid, Fasti I.281", Mnemosyne 53, 302-9

In Preparation:

• (2014) Discourses of Discretion in Roman Astrology: Manilius and his Augustan Contemporaries (OUP)  

Additional Publications

Learning and Teaching:

• (2007) "Living with the Religious Experience in Rome", University of Leeds Learning and Teaching Bulletin, Issue 15 (July), 5
• (2009) "Living the Religious Experience in Ancient Rome: Virtual Learning in the Real World", delivered at the E-Learning in Dialogue conference, York 2008. Subsequently published online in Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies 8.

Widening Participation:

• (2007) "Dusty Old Books? Bring me Gladiators, Drama and Goat-Skins!: Promoting the Classics in Yorkshire", Iris Magazine, 35-6

Academic Community:

• (2007) "The Temporary Lecturer against the World: A Personal Reflection", Bulletin of the Council of University Classics Departments 36, 4-5

Steve has also written book reviews for JRS, CR, the New England Classical Review and Exemplaria Classica.

He has provided reader's reports on book proposals for Duckworth and Blackwells, and on articles submitted for the American Journal of Philology, Classical Quarterly and Classical World. He has also acted as an assessor for funding grant applications.