果冻影院

Stephen Blair is a philologist and historian specialising in ancient Roman antiquarian scholarship, knowledge production, and discursive constructions of the past. He joined 果冻影院 in 2020 as a Research Fellow working on the ERC-funded project 鈥極rdering, Constructing, Empowering: Fragments of the Roman Republican Antiquarians鈥� (FRRAnt). His research centres on the fragmentary remains and transmission of the earliest phase of Roman historical and scholarly literature, when Roman intellectuals first began elaborating a literary vision of the past and codifying a body of antiquarian knowledge; and on the social, material, and intellectual currents that made late-Republican scholarship possible. He is currently working on a monograph on the formerly enslaved antiquarian and lexicographer Verrius Flaccus.

Selected Publications

• 鈥榁errius Flaccus and the disintegration of Roman knowledge鈥� (in preparation).
• 鈥榃丑补迟 annales can鈥檛 do: Sempronius Asellio and the tradition of exemplary history鈥� (in preparation).
• 鈥楨uhemeristic translations: Ennius as interpres in the sacra historia鈥�, in J. Hill und C.W. Marshall (eds.), Ennius Beyond Epic (submitted).
• 鈥樷�淣ormative grammar鈥� and language theory in late-Republican Rome鈥�, in M. Bellomo und E. Zucchetti (eds.), Power, Coercion, Consent. Gramsci鈥檚 Hegemony and the Roman Republic, De Gruyter (submitted).
• 鈥楾he beast in his den: The domus Flavia and the rhetoric of enclosure in Pliny鈥檚 Panegyricus鈥�, Maia 71 (2019): 429鈥�39.
• 鈥楲ike father, like son: Accius鈥� Aeneadae and the Latin past鈥�, in L. Austa (ed.), Frammenti sulla scena. Studi sul dramma antico, Turin 2018: 157鈥�73.

Other projects

Stephen has also written on ancient and modern statue removal for (2017) and on living alone in the wilderness for the Pandemic Post (2020).

Research interests

Ancient scholarship and knowledge production, Roman antiquarianism, historiography, transmission of fragments, slavery, constructions of the past, textual criticism, Classical receptions.