Teaching Profile:
Jane Lightfoot arrived at New College in 2003, having spent the previous nine years as a Prize Fellow and then a Post-Doctoral Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She is interested in most aspects of Greek literature from Homer into late antiquity, but her publications to date have concentrated on Hellenistic and imperial literature, both poetry and prose. She is especially interested in the religions, art and archaeology of the Roman Near East, in ethnography, and in Greek textual criticism and palaeography; her most recent book is about oracular literature and prophecy, both pagan and Judaeo-Christian. She teaches most areas of Greek literature for Mods and Greats, from Homer and early Greek hexameter poetry, through Herodotus and classical Attic literature, to the Hellenistic Poets. Her three books so far are: Parthenius of Nicaea (Oxford, 1999); Lucian, On the Syrian Goddess (Oxford, 2003); and The Sibylline Oracles (Oxford, 2007). She is passionate about Schubert, travelling, and Thomas Mann.
Email: jane.lightfoot@new.ox.ac.uk
