Professor Adrian Gratwick
Emeritus Professor
Research Interests
Earlier and Classical Latin language and literature, and the interaction of Greek and Roman (and other) cultures in the Hellenistic period roughly from Alexander to the Antonines; Greek and Roman science and mathematics, focusing on the third century B. C. (Eratosthenes, Archimedes, Euclid, Apollonius), Ptolemy, and the transmission of their ideas and lore.
Major Current Project
My major current project is a book for Clarendon Press on the iambo-trochaic versification of the Republican dramatists and Latin poet in general, investigating and illustratingthe ways in which different kinds of variety and contrast in their technique are exploited as stylistic variables, for instance what is it that makes Euclio's opening line in Aulularia, 'exi inquam age exi, eseundum hercle tibi hinc est foras...' so different from Pseudolus', 'si ex te tacente fieri possem certior...'. Besides the theory of Latin dramatic versification and prosody (which I have so far most fully developed in my second edition of Terence, The Brothers, 2000; see below), this involves the application of statistical as well as traditional philogical techniques, and the proposal of conventions for the delivery and performance of this kind of versification.
Select Publications
The Cambridge History of Classical Literature vol. II: Latin Literature ed. W. V. Clausen and E. J. Kenney, Cambridge 1982 chapter 4 (Ennius' Annales), pp. 60-76, ch. 5 (Drama) pp. 77-137, Ch. 6 (Prose Literature) pp. 138-55, ch. 7 (The Satires of Ennius and Lucilius) pp. 156-74, with corresponding biographical and bibliographical appendixes (pp. 790-830) for Andronicus, Naevius, Ennius, Plautus, Caecilius, Terence, Afranius, Pacuvius, Accius, Cato the Elder, Lucilius.
Terence: The Brothers , critical edition with Introduction, Translation, Notes &Appendixes by A.S. G., Warminster (1987), pp. 299.
'Catullus 1.10 and the Title of his libellus', Greece and Rome 38 (1991) 199-202.
'Those Sneezes: Catullus 45. 8-9, 17-18', CP 87 (1992) 234-40
'Micion et Demea dans les Adelphes de Terence', Pallas 38 (1992) 371-8.
Plautus Menaechmi, critical ed. with Introduction, Notes and Appendixes by ASG, Cambridge (1993) pp. xii +277.
'Alexandria, Syene, Meroe: Symmetry in Eratosthenes' Measurement of the World', in The Passionate Intellect: Essays on the transformation of Classical Traditions presented to Professor I. G. Kidd (Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities vol. VII) New Brunswick and London 1995, 177-202.
'The Schizophrenic Lover and the Logic of Farce: Plautus, Bacchides 500-511', in Plautus und die Tradition des Stegreifspiels: Festgabe fur Eckard Lefevre zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. L. Benz, E. Stark, G Vogt-Spira (ScriptOralia 75: Reihe A., Bd. 19), (Tubingen 1995), 97-106.
ISTO VILIVS (Suetonius fr. 112, Terence Ad. 981)', American Journal of Philology 121 (2000) 79-92.
Revised and expanded edition of Terence The Brothers, Aris and Phillips, Warminster (2000), which presents a new account of Terentian prosody and metric, and the problem of the end of Terence's play.
'Brauchen wir einen neuen Plautus?' in E.Stark, G Vogt-Spira (edd.) Dramatische Waldchen: Festschrift fur Eckard Lefevre zum 65. Geburtstag, (Spudasmata 80: Olms, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York, 2000), 321-44.
'Paternal obsequelia: some passages of Plautus, Nonius and Terence', Hermes 119 (2001) 45-62.
'Vale, paterna virgo: the text of Catullus 1. 9', Classical Quarterly 52 (2002) - forthcoming
'A Matter of substance: the Preface to Cato's De agri cultura', Mnemosyne 54 (2001) -forthcoming.