Nick Lowe (classicist)

Nick Lowe (/loʊ/; born 1956) is a British classical scholar and film critic.

He is a Reader in Classics in the Department of Classics and Philosophy at Royal Holloway, a constituent college of the University of London, with interests including narratology and reception of Greek antiquity in historical fiction.^[1] Lowe is also an award-winning film reviewer for the science-fiction magazine Interzone.^[2]

Early life and education

He was born in Manchester, England, and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, before going to read Classics at the University of Cambridge,^[3] where he received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy.^[4]

Career

He taught Classics at three different colleges in the University of London before being appointed lecturer in Greek literature at Royal Holloway.^[3]

Publications

• "Tragic Space and Comic Timing in Menander's Dyskolos" (1987), in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 34. pp. 126–38.
• "Sulpicia's Syntax" (1988), in Classical Quarterly 38. pp. 193–205.
• "Greek Stagecraft and Aristophanes" (1988), in Themes in Drama 10: Farce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 33–52.
• "Frogs" (1992), with Hawkins-Dady, M. in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 272–3.
• "Lysistrata" (1992) with Hawkins-Dady, M. in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 446–8.
• "Phormio" (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 610–11.
• "Prometheus Bound" (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 637–9.
• "The Braggart Soldier" (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 78–9.
• "The Suppliants" (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 774–5.
• "Aristophanes' Books" (1993), in Annals of Scholarship 10. pp. 63–93.
• "Aristophanes" (1994), in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 2: Playwrights, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Detroit, Washington and London: St. James Press. pp. 38–9.
• "Terence" (1994), in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 2: Playwrights, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Detroit, Washington and London: St. James Press. pp. 953–6.
• "Tragic and Homeric Ironies" (1996), in Tragedy and The Tragic, Silk, M. S. (ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 520–33.
• "Thesmophoria and Haloa: Myth, Physics, and Mysteries" (1998), in The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece, Blundell, S. & Williamson, M. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge. pp. 149–73.
• "Comic Plots and the Invention of Fiction" (2000), in The Rivals of Aristophanes, Harvey, D. & Wilkins, J. M. (eds.). London and Swansea: Duckworth & Classical Press of Wales. pp. 259–72.
• The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative (2000), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• "Euripides" (2004), in Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. de Jong, I., Bowie, A. & Nünlist, R. (eds.). Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 269–80.
• "Lycophron" (2004), in Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. de Jong, I., Bowie, A. & Nünlist, R. (eds.). Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 307–14.
• "Metamorphoses of Genre in Fictions of Antiquity" (2004), in Crimina: Die Antike im modernen Kriminalroman, Brodersen, K. (ed.). Frankfurt: Verlag Antike. pp. 217–39.
• "Verrall, Arthur Woollgar" (2004), in The Dictionary of British Classicists. Todd, R. B. (ed.). Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum
• "Problematic Verrall: The Sceptic-at-Law" (2005), in The Owl of Minerva: The Cambridge Praelections of 1906. Stray, C. A. (ed.). pp. 142–60. (Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume).
• "Aristophanic Spacecraft" (2006), in Playing around Aristophanes: Essays in Honour of Alan Sommerstein. Kozak, L. & Rich, J. (eds.). Oxford: Aris and Phillips. pp. 48–64.
• "Gilbert Murray and Psychic Research" (2007), in Reassessing Gilbert Murray. Stray, C. A. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 349–70.
• "Epinikian Eidography" (2007), in Pindar's Poetry, Patrons and Festivals: from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire. Morgan, C. A. & Hornblower, S. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 167–76.
• Comedy (2008). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics).
• Theatre Ancient and Modern edited with Hardwick, L., Ireland, S. & Macintosh, F. Open University Press.

See also

• List of film critics
• List of Glaswegians
• List of people from Manchester
• List of University of Cambridge members
• List of University of London people

References

External links

• Nick Lowe's home page at RHUL