Tim is Professor of Greek Literature and Dorothea Gray Fellow in Classics at St Hugh’s College. He teaches a wide range of Greek literature and some Latin, as well as both Latin and Greek language. His research interests are in Greek historiography and the place of ancient Greek history and culture in modern intellectual history.
Tim’s first book, Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation (1998), applied modern narratological theory to a canonical work of ancient history. He has also written two books on Xenophon’s Anabasis and its modern reception. The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination (2004) examined how later readers have been drawn to the famous cry Thalatta! Thalatta! – the highpoint of the retreat of the Ten Thousand. American Anabasis: Xenophon and the Idea of America from the Mexican War to Iraq (2010) read allusions to the Anabasis during the conquest of the American West and the American Civil War against Xenophon’s own narrative. His most recent books are (with Luuk Huitink) a commentary on Xenophon, Anabasis III in the Cambridge ‘Green and Yellow’ series (2019) and (with Carol Atack and St Hugh’s alumnus Tom Phillips) Anachronism and Antiquity, the main publication of a Leverhulme research project he led (2020).
A full list of Tim’s publications can be found on his academia.edu page, where many of his articles are available to download.
