Professor Andrew Morrison

  • MacDowell Chair in Greek (Classics)

email: Andrew.Morrison@glasgow.ac.uk

Classics, School of Humanities, Room 511 65 Oakfield Ave, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4961-6768

Biography

I joined the University of Glasgow in January 2023. Before that I taught at the University of Manchester for over twenty-one years (and before that I was a graduate student at University College London, and before that an undergraduate at The Queen's College, Oxford). 

I have now (as of August 2024) taken over as Head of Classics.

I am a Latin American, born in Panamá to a Mexican mother and an English father. I went to school just outside Panama City and then in Chester (two very different places). 

My grandparents were from four different countries (one was a Glaswegian born in Maryhill); I was born in a fifth. I am strongly of the belief that Classics should be as international and diverse as possible: I am happy to talk to students from any background, esp. those from historically under-represented groups, nations or communities, who are interested in Classics at university at any level: email me! (Si les conviene me pueden escribir en español.)

 

Research interests

My research interests include Hellenistic poetry (esp. the 'big three', i.e. Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes); Pindar and Greek lyric more generally; Archaic elegy and iambos; Homer, Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns; Herodotus; ancient epistolography (both Greek and Latin)

I've written two books about Hellenistic poetry: The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge, 2007; paperback 2011) and Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography (Cambridge, 2020; paperback 2023). The first explores how the Hellenistic poets make use of earlier poets, esp. in the construction of their 'voices', while the latter examines how Apollonius receives Herodotus and historiography more broadly in his epic Argonautica. 

I've also written a book about Pindar's victory odes, Performances and Audiences in Pindar's Sicilian Victory Odes (London, 2007), and edited collections on ancient epistolography (Ancient Letters, Oxford, 2007, with Ruth Morello) and Lucretius (Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science, Oxford, 2013, with Daryn Lehoux and Alison Sharrock).

My main current research projects are a commentary on Callimachus (for the Cambridge 'Green and Yellow' series) and co-directing the AHRC Ancient Letter Collections project (until 2024), with Roy Gibson (University of Durham). 

I also maintain a (now largely amateur) interest in philosophy, both ancient (esp. ancient scepticism) and modern (esp. the later philosophy of Wittengstein). In what seems now like a previous life I won the Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy as an undergraduate, and I am still grateful for the grounding in analysis and criticism philosophy gave me. 

Publications

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Number of items: 19.

2024

Morrison, A. (2024) «El pasado es un país extraño: allí hacen las cosas de manera diferente...» (L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953): puntos de vista historiográficos y etnográficos en la poesía de Calímaco y Apolonio = "The past is a strange country: they do things differently there..." (L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953): historiographical and ethnographic points of view in the poetry of Callimachus and Apollonius. In: Gallé Cejudo, R. J., Fernández Camacho, P. and a Plaza Salguero, S. M. (eds.) Studia Hellenistica Gaditana IV: Cuando la poesía se asoma a los umbrales de la historia I = Studia Hellenistica Gaditana IV: When poetry is close to the shadows of history (I). Series: Quaderni di Satura. Pensa Multimedia: Lecce, pp. 277-292. ISBN 9791255681014

Morrison, A. D. (2024) Pindar, Bacchylides, archaic epic and intertextuality. In: Kelly, A. and Spelman, H. (eds.) Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece. Cambridge University Press, pp. 138-165. ISBN 9781108878968 (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Morrison, A. D. (2023) Order and structure in the Letters of Philostratus. In: Marquis, É. (ed.) Epistolary Fiction in Ancient Greek Literature. Series: Philologus. Supplemente (19). De Gruyter: Berlin ; Boston, pp. 63-76. ISBN 9783110996241 (doi: 10.1515/9783110983739-005)

Morrison, A. D. (2023) Lookin’ for love (in Plato’s Epistles). In: Tiziana Drago, A. and Hodkinson, O. (eds.) Ancient Love Letters: Form, Themes, Approaches. De Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 103-118. ISBN 9783110999693 (doi: 10.1515/9783110989472-006)

2022

Gibson, R. and Morrison, A. D. (2022) Patterns of arrangement in Greco-Roman letter collections: 400 BCE – 400 CE. In: Fascione, S. (ed.) Concatenantur sibi epistulae nostrae: Reading Ancient Latin Letter Collections (23-24 September 2021). Il Castello Edizioni: Foggia, pp. 13-59. ISBN 9788865722190

2021

Morrison, A. D. (2021) Dead letter office? Making sense of Greek letter collections. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 97(2), pp. 1-18. (doi: 10.7227/BJRL.97.2.1)

Morrison, A. D. (2021) Myth and narrative in Theocritus. In: Kyriakou, P., Sistakou, E. and Rengakos, A. (eds.) Brill's Companion to Theocritus. Series: Brill's companions to classical studies. Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 431-453. ISBN 9789004373556 (doi: 10.1163/9789004466715_019)

Morrison, A.D. (2021) Divine memory, mortal forgetfulness and human misfortune. In: Mawford, K. and Ntanou, E. (eds.) Ancient Memory: Remembrance and Commemoration in Graeco-Roman Literature. Series: Trends in classics - supplementary volumes (119). De Gruyter: Berlin ; Boston, pp. 247-265. ISBN 9783110728712 (doi: 10.1515/9783110728798-012)

2020

Morrison, A. (2020) Arguing over text(s): Master-texts vs. intertexts in the criticism of Lucretius. In: O'Rourke, D. (ed.) Approaches to Lucretius : Traditions and Innovations in Reading the De Rerum Natura. Cambridge University Press: United Kingdom, pp. 157-76. ISBN 9781108379854 (doi: 10.1017/9781108379854.010)

Morrison, A. (2020) Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography. Cambridge University Press: United Kingdom. ISBN 9781108492324

2018

Morrison, A. (2018) Order and disorder in the Letters of Alciphron. In: Biraud, M. and Zucker, A. (eds.) The Letters of Alciphron : a Unified Literary work? Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Late antique literature (424). Brill: Netherlands, pp. 24-41. ISBN 9789004383388

2016

Morrison, A. (2016) Erotic Battles? Love, power-politics and cosmic significance in Moschus' Europa and Eros on the Run'. In: Clauss, J. J., Cuypers, M. and Kahane, A. (eds.) The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry: From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond. Series: Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge (56). Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH: Germany, pp. 197-211. ISBN 9783515115230

Morrison, A. (2016) 'Lycambae spretus infido gener | aut acer hostis Bupalo: Horace’s Epodes and the Greek Iambic Tradition'. In: Bather, P. and Stocks, C. (eds.) Horace's Epodes: Contexts, Intertexts, and Reception. Oxford University Press: Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 31-62. ISBN 9780191808760 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198746058.003.0002)

2014

Morrison, A. (2014) Pamela and Plato: ancient and modern epistolary narrative. In: Cairns, D. and Scodel, R. (eds.) Defining Greek Narrative. Series: Edinburgh Leventis studies (7). Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, United Kingdom, pp. 298-313. ISBN 9780748680115 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748680108.003.0015)

2013

Morrison, A. (2013) Authorship and authority in Greek fictional letters. In: Marmodoro, A. and Hill, J. (eds.) The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 287-312. ISBN 9780199670567 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199670567.003.0011)

Morrison, A. (2013) Speaking from the tomb?: the disappearing epitaph of Simonides in Callimachus, Aetia fr. 64 Pf. In: Liddel, P. and Low, P. (eds.) Inscriptions and their uses in Greek and Latin Literature. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 288-301. ISBN 9780191758201 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665747.003.0013)

Morrison, A. (2013) Narrative and epistolarity in the “Platonic” epistles. In: Hodkinson, O., Rosenmeyer, P. and Bracke, E. (eds.) Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum (359). Brill: Leiden, pp. 107-132. ISBN 9789004253032 (doi: 10.1163/9789004253032_006)

Morrison, A. (2013) Nil igitur mors est ad nos? Iphianassa, the Athenian plague, and Epicurean views of death. In: Lehoux, D., Morrison, A.D. and Sharrock, A. (eds.) Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 211-232. ISBN 9780199605408 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199605408.003.0009)

2012

Morrison, A. (2012) Performance, reperformance, and Pindar's audiences. In: Agócs, P., Carey, C. and Rawles, R. (eds.) Reading the Victory Ode. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 111-133. ISBN 9781107007871 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139017626.011)

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Number of items: 19.

Articles

Morrison, A. D. (2021) Dead letter office? Making sense of Greek letter collections. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 97(2), pp. 1-18. (doi: 10.7227/BJRL.97.2.1)

Books

Morrison, A. (2020) Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography. Cambridge University Press: United Kingdom. ISBN 9781108492324

Book Sections

Morrison, A. (2024) «El pasado es un país extraño: allí hacen las cosas de manera diferente...» (L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953): puntos de vista historiográficos y etnográficos en la poesía de Calímaco y Apolonio = "The past is a strange country: they do things differently there..." (L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953): historiographical and ethnographic points of view in the poetry of Callimachus and Apollonius. In: Gallé Cejudo, R. J., Fernández Camacho, P. and a Plaza Salguero, S. M. (eds.) Studia Hellenistica Gaditana IV: Cuando la poesía se asoma a los umbrales de la historia I = Studia Hellenistica Gaditana IV: When poetry is close to the shadows of history (I). Series: Quaderni di Satura. Pensa Multimedia: Lecce, pp. 277-292. ISBN 9791255681014

Morrison, A. D. (2024) Pindar, Bacchylides, archaic epic and intertextuality. In: Kelly, A. and Spelman, H. (eds.) Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece. Cambridge University Press, pp. 138-165. ISBN 9781108878968 (Accepted for Publication)

Morrison, A. D. (2023) Order and structure in the Letters of Philostratus. In: Marquis, É. (ed.) Epistolary Fiction in Ancient Greek Literature. Series: Philologus. Supplemente (19). De Gruyter: Berlin ; Boston, pp. 63-76. ISBN 9783110996241 (doi: 10.1515/9783110983739-005)

Morrison, A. D. (2023) Lookin’ for love (in Plato’s Epistles). In: Tiziana Drago, A. and Hodkinson, O. (eds.) Ancient Love Letters: Form, Themes, Approaches. De Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 103-118. ISBN 9783110999693 (doi: 10.1515/9783110989472-006)

Gibson, R. and Morrison, A. D. (2022) Patterns of arrangement in Greco-Roman letter collections: 400 BCE – 400 CE. In: Fascione, S. (ed.) Concatenantur sibi epistulae nostrae: Reading Ancient Latin Letter Collections (23-24 September 2021). Il Castello Edizioni: Foggia, pp. 13-59. ISBN 9788865722190

Morrison, A. D. (2021) Myth and narrative in Theocritus. In: Kyriakou, P., Sistakou, E. and Rengakos, A. (eds.) Brill's Companion to Theocritus. Series: Brill's companions to classical studies. Brill: Leiden ; Boston, pp. 431-453. ISBN 9789004373556 (doi: 10.1163/9789004466715_019)

Morrison, A.D. (2021) Divine memory, mortal forgetfulness and human misfortune. In: Mawford, K. and Ntanou, E. (eds.) Ancient Memory: Remembrance and Commemoration in Graeco-Roman Literature. Series: Trends in classics - supplementary volumes (119). De Gruyter: Berlin ; Boston, pp. 247-265. ISBN 9783110728712 (doi: 10.1515/9783110728798-012)

Morrison, A. (2020) Arguing over text(s): Master-texts vs. intertexts in the criticism of Lucretius. In: O'Rourke, D. (ed.) Approaches to Lucretius : Traditions and Innovations in Reading the De Rerum Natura. Cambridge University Press: United Kingdom, pp. 157-76. ISBN 9781108379854 (doi: 10.1017/9781108379854.010)

Morrison, A. (2018) Order and disorder in the Letters of Alciphron. In: Biraud, M. and Zucker, A. (eds.) The Letters of Alciphron : a Unified Literary work? Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Late antique literature (424). Brill: Netherlands, pp. 24-41. ISBN 9789004383388

Morrison, A. (2016) Erotic Battles? Love, power-politics and cosmic significance in Moschus' Europa and Eros on the Run'. In: Clauss, J. J., Cuypers, M. and Kahane, A. (eds.) The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry: From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond. Series: Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge (56). Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH: Germany, pp. 197-211. ISBN 9783515115230

Morrison, A. (2016) 'Lycambae spretus infido gener | aut acer hostis Bupalo: Horace’s Epodes and the Greek Iambic Tradition'. In: Bather, P. and Stocks, C. (eds.) Horace's Epodes: Contexts, Intertexts, and Reception. Oxford University Press: Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 31-62. ISBN 9780191808760 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198746058.003.0002)

Morrison, A. (2014) Pamela and Plato: ancient and modern epistolary narrative. In: Cairns, D. and Scodel, R. (eds.) Defining Greek Narrative. Series: Edinburgh Leventis studies (7). Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, United Kingdom, pp. 298-313. ISBN 9780748680115 (doi: 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748680108.003.0015)

Morrison, A. (2013) Authorship and authority in Greek fictional letters. In: Marmodoro, A. and Hill, J. (eds.) The Author's Voice in Classical and Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 287-312. ISBN 9780199670567 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199670567.003.0011)

Morrison, A. (2013) Speaking from the tomb?: the disappearing epitaph of Simonides in Callimachus, Aetia fr. 64 Pf. In: Liddel, P. and Low, P. (eds.) Inscriptions and their uses in Greek and Latin Literature. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 288-301. ISBN 9780191758201 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199665747.003.0013)

Morrison, A. (2013) Narrative and epistolarity in the “Platonic” epistles. In: Hodkinson, O., Rosenmeyer, P. and Bracke, E. (eds.) Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum (359). Brill: Leiden, pp. 107-132. ISBN 9789004253032 (doi: 10.1163/9789004253032_006)

Morrison, A. (2013) Nil igitur mors est ad nos? Iphianassa, the Athenian plague, and Epicurean views of death. In: Lehoux, D., Morrison, A.D. and Sharrock, A. (eds.) Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 211-232. ISBN 9780199605408 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199605408.003.0009)

Morrison, A. (2012) Performance, reperformance, and Pindar's audiences. In: Agócs, P., Carey, C. and Rawles, R. (eds.) Reading the Victory Ode. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 111-133. ISBN 9781107007871 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139017626.011)

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Prior publications

ORCiD

Andrew Morrison, (2011) Callimachus' Muses Brill's Companion to Callimachus (source-work-id: aa0e96b7-77f6-42a1-938e-e72c669dd0ca); source: University of Manchester - PURE

Andrew Morrison, (2011) Pindar and the Aeginetan patrai: Pindar’s Intersecting Audiences Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination (source-work-id: cc377262-767f-429b-b093-6672116baed1)(eid: 2-s2.0-78649444850)(isbn: 9783110254020); source: University of Manchester - PURE

Andrew Morrison, (2010) Aeginetan odes, reperformance, and Pindaric intertextuality Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry (source-work-id: f36c2f71-fbc7-40c3-bdeb-e331749e2f17)(eid: 2-s2.0-77955231436); source: University of Manchester - PURE

Andrew Morrison, (2010) Greek Literature in Egypt A Companion to Ancient Egypt|A Companion to Anc. Egypt (source-work-id: fd4ec43d-8c06-41b5-ace6-c13f75315279)(eid: 2-s2.0-84886349509); source: University of Manchester - PURE

Ruth Morello, Andrew Morrison, (2007) Ancient Letters: Classical and Late Antique Epistolography (source-work-id: cd047f5a-9d55-4251-bd43-0dc0d03fb3d8)(eid: 2-s2.0-79957276347)(isbn: 978-0-19-920395-6); source: University of Manchester - PURE

Andrew Morrison, (2007) Didacticism and Epistolarity in Horace, Epistles 1 Ancient Letters (source-work-id: 25afb48f-8138-4402-ad7d-99a1244f9665)(eid: 2-s2.0-84920366511); source: University of Manchester - PURE

Andrew Morrison, (2007) Performances and Audiences in Pindar's Sicilian Victory Odes. (Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 95) (source-work-id: eb39219d-64dd-4c1a-8c9b-1efa9eef24cc)(isbn: 978-1-905670-09-3); source: University of Manchester - PURE

Andrew Morrison, (2007) The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry (source-work-id: ad01b7ab-63e5-467c-a39a-64579b752eac)(eid: 2-s2.0-84927025513)(isbn: 978-0-521-87450-2); source: University of Manchester - PURE

Andrew Morrison, (2006) Advice and Abuse: Horace, Epistles 1 and the Iambic Tradition. Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici (source-work-id: 2494e64a-91d3-4aea-9830-b94f0a9f4243); source: University of Manchester - PURE

Andrew Morrison, (2006) Sexual Ambiguity and the Identity of the Narrator in Callimachus' Hymn to Athena Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (source-work-id: 336a7530-a485-4dde-8256-9e90aafc5f9b)(eid: 2-s2.0-77951972598)(doi: 10.1111/j.2041-5370.2005.tb00253.x); source: University of Manchester - PURE

Supervision

PhD students:

Aaron Pocock, 'Hatred and its Antecedents: The Weaponisation of Archaic to Classical Sparta in 21st Century American Far-Right Politics', UofG James McCune Smith Scholarship

 

Teaching

24-25:

Greek 1A and 1B (Basic Greek)

Classical Civilisation 1A (lectures on Homer, etc.; seminar groups)

Classical Civilisation 2A (lectures on Thucydides, Plato)

 

23-24:

Greek 1A and 1B (Basic Greek)

Greek Letters and Letter-Writers: Friendship, Philosophy, Forgery (Hons/PGT course)

Greek Unseens

Classical Civilisation 1A (lectures on Homer, Hesiod, Lyric; seminar group)

Classical Civilisation 2A (seminar group)