Washington University in St. Louis
Faculty Member, Classics
University of Pennsylvania, Classical Studies
Lecturer
Thesis Title: Greek Scholarship and Interpretation in the Works of Cicero
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Joseph Farrell
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About
In May 2011 I finished my Ph.D. in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and joined the Classics Department at Washington University in St. Louis. My dissertation, "Greek Scholarship and Interpretation in Cicero" looks at the way that Cicero used the Greek scholarly tradition in the composition of his poetic, philosophical, and rhetorical texts as part of a larger strategy of self-fashioning. I argue that his use of this material demonstrates a desire to create a scholarly tradition of his own, and that the moments in his works when he quotes his poetry or speeches are essentially meant to serve as a model for his interpretive Nachleben.
I am also interested more broadly in strategies of reading and interpretation in antiquity. Other current projects include articles on the astronomer (and Aratean commentator) Hipparchus of Nicaea and on the pairing of Vergil and Cicero in the Latin scholastic tradition. I am also planning a large-scale study of Cicero's commentators which will consider their relationship both with Cicero and with the Greek scholarly tradition.
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