Joan Booth
Professor emeritus Latin language and literature
- Name
- Prof.dr. J. Booth
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2166
- j.booth@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Fields of interest
Prof.dr. Joan Booth is interested in Augustan poetry, Love Elegies (Ovid, Propertius, Tibullus, Catullus) and their Hellenistic origins.
Key publications
(2001) "Moonshine: Intertextual illumination in Propertius 1.3.31-3 and Philodemus, Anth. Pal. V. 123",
Classical Quarterly 51, 537-44.
(2001) "Problems and Programmatics in Propertius 1.1",
Hermes 129, 63-74.
(1997) "All in the mind: Sickness in Catullus 76",
The Passions in Roman Literature and Thought, S.M. Braund and C. Gill (eds.), Cambridge, 150-68.
(1999)
Catullus to Ovid: Reading Latin Love Elegy, Literary commentary with Latin text. Verse translations by Guy Lee, Bristol.
(1991)
Ovid, Amores II. A commentary, with text and translation, Warminster.
Professor emeritus Latin language and literature
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Griekse T&C
- Booth J. (2011), Negotiating with the Epigram in Latin Love Elegy. In: Keith A. (Ed.), Latin Elegy and Hellenistic Epigram. A Tale of Two Genres at Rome. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 4.
- Booth J. (2011), Sex at Siesta Time. Reading Ovid, "Amores" 1.5. through film - and vice versa. Landi L. & Scarpa L. (Eds.), Meeting the Challenge: bringing classical texts to life in the classroom, Institutio IV-1/3. Meeting the Challenge: bringing classical texts to life in the classroom. Venice 173-192.
- Booth J. (2009), The Amores: Ovid making love. In: Knox P.E. (Ed.), A Companion to Ovid. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. 61-77.
- Booth J. (2008), Performing tears in Roman Love Elegy and Modern Life. Bormann D. & Wittchow F. (Eds.), Emotionalitaet in der Antike. Zwischen Performativitaet en Discursivitaet. . Berlin: eca. 57-75.
- Booth J. (2007), Cicero: Man and matter. Booth J. (Ed.), Cicero on the Attack. Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond. . Swansea: Classical Press of Wales. ix-xiv.
- Booth J. (Ed.) (2007), Cicero on the Attack. Invective and Subversion in the Orations and Beyond. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
- Booth J. (2006), Naming Names - or not: some significant choices and suppressions in Latin poetry. In: Booth J. & Maltby R. (Eds.), What's in a Name? The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales. 49-63.
- Booth J. & Maltby R. (Eds.) (2006), What's in a Name? The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales.
- Booth J. (2006), Amazing Grace: reading between the lines in Propertius 1.13.29-32, Classical Quarterly 56: 528-537.
- Booth J. (2001), 'Nostra Venus, uacuus Amor' and the ending of Propertius 1.1: Double trouble?, Mnemosyne 54(4): 339-345.
- Booth J. (2001), Problems and Programmatics in Propertius 1.1, Archivos de Criminología, Seguridad Privada y Criminalística 129: 67-73.
- Booth J. (2001), Moonshine: intertextual illumination in Propertius I.3.31-2 and Philodemus, Anth. Pal. V.123, Classical Quarterly 51(2): 537-544.
- Booth J. & Lee G. (1999), Catullus to Ovid: Reading Latin Love Elegy. A literary commentary with Latin text. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press.
- Booth J. (1997), All in the mind: Sickness in Catullus 76. In: Braund S.M. & Gill C.J. (Eds.), The Passions in Roman Literature and Thought. Cambridge G.B.: Cambridge University Press. 150-168.