John Fitch (emeritus)

Email: jfitch@uvic.ca

Interests:

Environmental criticism of ancient literature. Lucretius, didactic poetry, and the relationship of poetry to knowledge. Seneca's tragedies.

Selected Publications:

Annaeana Tragica: Notes on the Text of Seneca's Tragedies (Leiden 2004).

Seneca, Tragedies (Loeb Classical Library), vol. 1 2002, vol. 2 2004.

Seneca's Hercules Furens: a Critical Text with Introduction and Commentary (Ithaca & London 1987) Seneca's Anapaests (Atlanta 1987).

"Sense-Pauses and Relative Dating in Seneca, Sophocles and Shakespeare", AJP 102 (1981) 289-307.

(with S. McElduff), "Construction of the Self in Senecan Drama", Mnemosyne IV 55 (2002) 18-40.

Seneca (editor), in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies (Oxford 2008).