Richard Jenkyns

Richard Jenkyns, a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, is Professor of the Classical Tradition at Oxford. His most recent book is Virgil’s Experience.(November 2001)

From the Review

November 1, 2001: The Labyrinth of Arthur Evans

Motya: Unearthing a Lost Civilization by Gaia Servadio

Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth by Joseph Alexander MacGillivray

December 3, 1998: China is Near

The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds by Jonathan D. Spence

May 28, 1998: 2001

Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown by Stephen Jay Gould

April 23, 1998: Cards of Identity

Possessed by the Past: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History by David Lowenthal

November 20, 1997: Points of Order

The Platypus and the Mermaid and Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination by Harriet Ritvo

October 23, 1997: Lady Charlotte's Bulls

From Nineveh to New York: The Strange Story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School by John Malcolm Russell

July 17, 1997: Child's Play

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler

December 19, 1996: But Is It True?

Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit by David A. Traill

Lost and Found: The 9,000 Treasures of Troy: Heinrich Schliemann and the Gold That Got Away by Caroline Moorehead

The Gold of Troy: Searching for Homer's Fabled City Museum of Fine Arts/Abrams by Vladimir Tolstikov, by Mikhail Treister

July 11, 1996: The Pleasures of Melodrama

George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art by Robert L. Patten

November 30, 1995: Victoria's Secret

When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians by Patricia Anderson

The Naked Heart by Peter Gay

March 2, 1995: The Bellow & the Uproar

Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization by Richard Sennett

Books by Richard Jenkyns

Virgil's Experience: Nature and History, Times, Names, and Places (1998)
Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil (1992)
Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance (1991)
Three Classical Poets--Sappho, Catullus, and Juvenal (1982)
The Victorians and Ancient Greece (1980)