Dr Owen Hodkinson BA (Oxon.), MA (Oxon., Exeter), DPhil (Oxon.)

Owen Hodkinson

Contact Details

School of Classics
Tel: 01570 424721 (221)
E-mail: o.hodkinson@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk

Location

Arts Building

Campus

Lampeter Campus

Job Title

Lecturer

Role in the University

Lecturer

Member of

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

Academic Interests

Epistolary literature, and Greek fiction and narrative literature, especially in the Roman Empire. The literature and culture of Imperial Greece and the elegiac and pastoral literature throughout antiquity, and gender and sexuality in the ancient world.Asterisks and Obelisks Conference Poster

Publications

‘Some distinguishing features of deliberate fictionality in Greek biographical narratives' in K. de Temmerman and P. Borghart (eds.) Greek Fictional Biography (special issue of Phrasis), forthcoming 2010.

'Erotic Epistolography' in T.K. Hubbard (ed.) Blackwell Companion to Ancient Sexuality, forthcoming 2011.

'Better than speech: some advantages of the letter in the Second Sophistic', in R. Morello and A.D. Morrison (eds.), Ancient Letters: Essays in Classical and Late Antique Epistolography (OUP 2007) 283-300

'Novels in the Greek letter': inversions of the written-oral hierarchy in the Briefroman 'Themistocles' ', in V. Rimell (ed.), Seeing Tongues, Hearing Scripts: Representation and the Modernity of the Ancient Novel (Ancient Narrative Suppl. 7, Groningen 2007) 257-278

Four letters (edited and translated) in The Scientific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1765-1820 (ed. N. Chambers, Pickering & Chatto 2006)

'How beautiful are the feet...': fetish in the Erotic Epistles of Philostratus', in The Owl 12 (Autumn 2007), 25-28

'Sophists in disguise: Rival traditions and conflicts of intellectual authority in Philostratus’ Heroicus' 

'How beautiful are the feet…’? Fetish and the masochistic persona in the Erotic Epistles of Philostratus'