Patrick Glauthier
Associate Professor of Classics
My research focuses on Latin literature of the late Republic and early Empire. Recently, I've been interested in Roman writing about the mechanics of the natural world and the experience of sublimity. My first book, which combines these themes, is The Scientific Sublime in Imperial Rome: Manilius, Seneca, Lucan, and the Aetna (Oxford University Press, 2025), and it charts the role of the sublime in first-century CE debates about how and why we investigate nature. In the spring of 2022, I organized a conference on the sublime that took place at Dartmouth. A volume based on the conference and co-edted by me will be published by Brill. I'm currently developing two book-length projects, one about catasterism narratives in Latin literature and another about the aesthetics of tyranny in the Roman world. Shorter pieces in the works include papers about the Elder Pliny ("Pliny's Natural History and the Scientific Sublime"), Ovid ("Flood, Fire, and the Augustan Sublime in Ovid's Metamorphoses"), and the sublime in Neronian and Flavian Literature, the last of which will appear in the Oxford Handbook of the Sublime.
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Classical Studies
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Ph.D. Columbia UniversitySelected Publications
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, 205–25.
"The Classical Sublime." In The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime, ed. C. Duffy, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 17–28.
"An Image Sublime: The Milky Way in Aratus and Manilius." In Teaching Through Images: Imagery in Ancient Didactic Poetry, ed. J. Strauss Clay and A. Vergados, Brill, 2022, 82–104.