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Anthony Boyle

Professor of Classics
Email aboyle@usc.edu Office PED 130K Office Phone (213) 740-3688

Research & Practice Areas

Roman Literature and Culture

Education

  • M.A. Cambridge University

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    A graduate of the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge in the United Kingdom, Professor Boyle taught for twenty years at Monash University Australia before taking up his appointment at USC in 1989. His primary area of research is Roman literature of the late republic and the early empire. At the undergraduate level he teaches a variety of Latin language and literature classes and more general courses on Roman civilization, literature in translation (especially drama), politics and art. His graduate seminars address particular authors, or genres, or the Latin literary system as a whole, emphasizing the semiotic interplay between text and text and text and culture. He is the author or editor of twenty five books on Roman literature with especial concentration on Virgil, Ovid and Seneca.His edition of Seneca’s Medea with introduction, translation and commentary, was published by Oxford University Press in January 2014. His current project for Oxford is an edition of Seneca’s Thyestes. Professor Boyle is editor of the classical literary journal, Ramus, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2011. Ramus is now published by Cambridge University Press.

    Research Specialties

    Roman Literature and Culture

  • Book

    • Boyle, A. J.Seneca Hercules. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Boyle, A. J.Seneca Agamemnon. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Boyle, A. J. (2016). Seneca Thyestes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Boyle, A. J. (2014). Seneca Medea. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Boyle, Anthony J. (Ed.). (2012). Roman Medea. Bendigo, Victoria: Aureal.
    • Boyle, A. J. (2010). Seneca Oedipus. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Boyle, A. J. (2008). Octavia Attributed to Seneca. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    • Boyle, A. J. (2006). Roman Tragedy. London: Routledge.
    • Boyle, Anthony J. (Ed.). (2005). Rethinking Terence. Bendigo, Vic.: Aureal.
    • Boyle, A. J. (2003). Ovid and the Monuments. Bendigo, Victoria: Aureal.
    • Boyle, Anthony J., Dominik, W. J. (Ed.). (2003). Flavian Rome: Culture, Image, Text. Leiden: Brill.
    • Boyle, A. J., Woodard, R. D. (2000). Ovid’s Fasti. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
    • Boyle, A. J. (1997). Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition. London: Routledge.
    • Boyle, A. J., Sullivan, J. P. (1996). Martial in English. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
    • Boyle, Anthony J. (Ed.). (1995). Roman Literature and Ideology. Bendigo, Vic.: Aureal.
    • Boyle, A. J. (1994). Seneca’s Troades. Leeds: Francis Cairns.
    • Boyle, Anthony J. (Ed.). (1993). Roman Epic. London: Routledge.
    • Boyle, Anthony J. (Ed.). (1991). The New Cambridge Latinist. Bendigo, Vic.: Aureal.
    • Boyle, A. J., Sullivan, J. P. (1991). Roman Poets of the Early Empire. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
    • Boyle, Anthony J. (Ed.). (1990). The Imperial Muse Vol II. Bendigo, Vic.: Aureal.
    • Boyle, Anthony J. (Ed.). (1988). The Imperial Muse. Vol I. Bendigo, Vic.: Aureal.
    • Boyle, A. J. (1987). Seneca’s Phaedra. Liverpool: Francis Cairns.
    • Boyle, A. J. (1986). The Chaonian Dove. Studies in the Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid of Virgil. Leiden: Brill.
    • Boyle, Anthony J. (Ed.). (1983). Seneca Tragicus. Bendigo, Vic.: Aureal.
    • Boyle, Anthony J. (Ed.). (1979). Virgil’s Ascraean Song. Bendigo, Vic.: Aureal.
    • Boyle, A. J. (1976). The Eclogues of Virgil. Melbourne, Vic.: Hawthorn Press.
    • Boyle, Anthony J. (Ed.). (1975). Ancient Pastoral. Bendigo, Vic.: Aureal.

  • Editorships and Editorial Boards

    • Founding and Continuing Editor, Ramus. Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature, 1972 –
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