Professor Llewelyn Morgan

Dr Llewelyn Morgan
Professor of Classical Languages and Literature and Chair of the Classics Faculty Board
Fellow, Brasenose College
01865 277890
llewelyn.morgan@bnc.ox.ac.uk

Qualifications: MA Oxf  PhD Camb

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2999-1835

Link to college page: https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/academic-staff/341-dr-llewelyn-...

 

Academic Background

I have worked in Pennsylvania and the Republic of Ireland, and studied in both Oxford and Cambridge, before coming to Brasenose College in 1997.

Research Interests

I have a special interest in Latin literature, and have published on Virgil, Ovid, Horace, satire, historiography, metrical form and Latin in the nineteenth century. I also have an interest in Afghanistan and Pakistan (ancient and modern).

Research Keywords

Latin Literature, metre, Ulrichs, Bamiyan

Publications

Full Publications: 

Selected Publication:

‘Pallas, son of Hercules’ in R. May & C. Conybeare (eds.), Latin Lineages: A Family Tree from Catullus to Today (De Gruyter, 2026), pp. 191-206;

Alaudae, The Larks, or Songbirds: Edited and Translated from the Original Latin of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (ed., with M. Lombardi-Nash), 3 vols. (Bloomsbury, 2025);

Horace: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2023);

The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyāna and Gandhāra’ (with Luca M. Olivieri)  (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022);