Patrick Glauthier
Associate Professor of Classics
My research focuses on Latin literature of the late Republic and early Empire, with a particular emphasis on the study of nature and the sublime. My first book is The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna (Oxford University Press, 2025), which charts the role of the sublime in first-century CE debates about how and why ancient Romans thought we should investigate the mechanics of the natural world. I've also co-edited a volume called The Sublime under Empire (Brill, 2026), which grew out of a conference that took place on the Dartmouth campus. I'm currently developing two book-length projects, one about catasterism narratives in Latin literature and another about the relationship between tyranny and sublimity in the Roman world.
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Classical Studies
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Ph.D. Columbia UniversitySelected Publications
The Sublime under Empire, ed. P. Glauthier and J.P. Ulrich. Brill, 2026.
"Pliny's Natural History and the Scientific Sublime." In The Sublime under Empire, ed. P. Glauthier and J.P. Ulrich, Brill, 2026, 187–210.
The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna. Oxford University Press, 2025.
"Time Stood Still, and It Was Sublime (Proto-Gospel of James 18)." In Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature, ed. K. Gilhuly and J.P. Ulrich, Routledge, 2024, 205–225.