J.R. Morgan
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J.R. (John Robert) Morgan (born July 11, 1950) is a British academic currently working at the University of Wales, Swansea. He has written many books on Classics, as well as contributing to a number of journals.
J.R. Morgan attended Lincoln College, Oxford, from 1968 to 1975, where he achieved both M.A. and D.Phil qualifications.
Morgan's research interests include ancient narrative literature, in particular the Greek and Roman novel. He has published many articles, chapters and books on the Classics. He is perhaps best known as being the co-editor of Greek Fiction in 1994, alongside Richard Stoneman, used at universities throughout the UK.
Morgan is believed to have coined the terms "stethophone", "misatelist", "eulexia" and "misoxenist" and has a distinctive partiality for Madagascar's native lemur, the aye-aye, as well as the stinkbadger, another favourite creature. "Intertextuality" is one of his favourite words, and is heard continually by his lecture students.
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- Greek Fiction: The Greek novel in context, ed. J.R. Morgan and R. Stoneman (London & New York, 1994).
- Heliodorus, Ethiopian story. Translated by Sir Walter Lamb, edited with new introduction and notes by J.R. Morgan (London, 1997).
- Longus: Daphnis and Chloe, with an introduction, translation and notes by J.R. Morgan (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts, 2004)
