Dr Magdalena Öhrman MA (Gothenburg), PhD (Lund)

Dr Magdalena Öhrman

Contact Details

School of Classics
Tel: 01570 424899 (399)
E-mail: m.ohrman@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk

Location

Arts Building

Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Lecturer

Role in the University

Welfare Officer
Joint Acting Head of School

Member of

KYKNOS: Swansea and Lampeter Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World

Classical Association UK

Academic Interests

My research is in the area of Roman poetry, especially elegy and epigram, and I am particularly interested in literary use of mythology as well as literary theory and patronage. Research projects currently under way include work on Ovid’s exile poetry and on Vergil’s Aeneid.

Publications

Öhrman, M. (2009) ’The Potential of Passion. The Laodamia Myth in Catullus 68’, in Plotting with Eros. Essays on the Poetics of Love and the Erotics of Reading, ed. I. Nilsson, Copenhagen, 45-58.Book Cover: Plotting with Eros

Öhrman, M. (2008) Varying Virtue. Mythological Paragons of Wifely Virtues in Roman Elegy, Lund.

Öhrman, M. (2006) ’Ov. Am. 1.8.45 – An Emendation in Context’, Eranos 104, 60-66.