Who we are:

Thea S. Thorsen

Thea S. Thorsen is the head of the Heterosexual Tradition of Homoerotic Poetics project. She is Associate Professor of Classics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has written Ovid’s Early Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and co-edited, with Stephen Harrison, and contributed to two multi-authored volumes, Roman Receptions of Sappho (under contract with Oxford University Press) and Dynamics of Ancient Prose (de Gruyter 2018). She has edited and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy (CUP, 2013), and edited Greek and Roman Games in the Computer Age (Akademika, 2012) . She became the first person to have published translations of all of Ovid’s love elegies into Norwegian (Gyldendal, 2001–2009), in verse.

Stephen Harrison

Stephen Harrison is Professor II at NTNU, in connection with this project, and Professor of Latin Literature, University of Oxford, and Fellow and Tutor, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is author of books on Vergil, Horace, and Apuleius and of a range of pieces on classical reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His numerous publications include the following sole-authored volumes: A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10 (Oxford University Press, 1991), Apuleius: A Latin Sophist (OUP, 2000), Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (OUP, 2007), Framing the Ass: Literary Form in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (OUP 2013), Horace (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Horace: Odes II (CUP, forthcoming).