Nick Lowe (classicist)

Nick Lowe
Born	1956 Manchester, England
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Occupation	• Classical scholar  • Film critic

Nick Lowe (/loʊ/; born 1956) is a British classical scholar and film critic.

He is a Reader in Classics in the Department of Classics and Philosophy at Royal Holloway, a constituent college of the University of London, with interests including narratology and reception of Greek antiquity in historical fiction.^[1] Lowe is also an award-winning film reviewer for the science-fiction magazine Interzone.^[2]

Early life and education

He was born in Manchester, England, and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, before going to read Classics at the University of Cambridge,^[3] where he received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy.^[4]

Career

He taught Classics at three different colleges in the University of London before being appointed lecturer in Greek literature at Royal Holloway.^[3]

Publications

• "Tragic Space and Comic Timing in Menander's Dyskolos" (1987), in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 34. pp. 126–38.
• "Sulpicia's Syntax" (1988), in Classical Quarterly 38. pp. 193–205.
• "Greek Stagecraft and Aristophanes" (1988), in Themes in Drama 10: Farce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 33–52.
• "Frogs" (1992), with Hawkins-Dady, M. in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 272–3.
• "Lysistrata" (1992) with Hawkins-Dady, M. in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 446–8.
• "Phormio" (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 610–11.
• "Prometheus Bound" (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 637–9.
• "The Braggart Soldier" (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 78–9.
• "The Suppliants" (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 774–5.
• "Aristophanes' Books" (1993), in Annals of Scholarship 10. pp. 63–93.
• "Aristophanes" (1994), in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 2: Playwrights, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Detroit, Washington and London: St. James Press. pp. 38–9.
• "Terence" (1994), in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 2: Playwrights, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Detroit, Washington and London: St. James Press. pp. 953–6.
• "Tragic and Homeric Ironies" (1996), in Tragedy and The Tragic, Silk, M. S. (ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 520–33.
• "Thesmophoria and Haloa: Myth, Physics, and Mysteries" (1998), in The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece, Blundell, S. & Williamson, M. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge. pp. 149–73.
• "Comic Plots and the Invention of Fiction" (2000), in The Rivals of Aristophanes, Harvey, D. & Wilkins, J. M. (eds.). London and Swansea: Duckworth & Classical Press of Wales. pp. 259–72.
• The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative (2000), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• "Euripides" (2004), in Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. de Jong, I., Bowie, A. & Nünlist, R. (eds.). Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 269–80.
• "Lycophron" (2004), in Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. de Jong, I., Bowie, A. & Nünlist, R. (eds.). Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 307–14.
• "Metamorphoses of Genre in Fictions of Antiquity" (2004), in Crimina: Die Antike im modernen Kriminalroman, Brodersen, K. (ed.). Frankfurt: Verlag Antike. pp. 217–39.
• "Verrall, Arthur Woollgar" (2004), in The Dictionary of British Classicists. Todd, R. B. (ed.). Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum
• "Problematic Verrall: The Sceptic-at-Law" (2005), in The Owl of Minerva: The Cambridge Praelections of 1906. Stray, C. A. (ed.). pp. 142–60. (Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume).
• "Aristophanic Spacecraft" (2006), in Playing around Aristophanes: Essays in Honour of Alan Sommerstein. Kozak, L. & Rich, J. (eds.). Oxford: Aris and Phillips. pp. 48–64.
• "Gilbert Murray and Psychic Research" (2007), in Reassessing Gilbert Murray. Stray, C. A. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 349–70.
• "Epinikian Eidography" (2007), in Pindar's Poetry, Patrons and Festivals: from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire. Morgan, C. A. & Hornblower, S. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 167–76.
• Comedy (2008). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics).
• Theatre Ancient and Modern edited with Hardwick, L., Ireland, S. & Macintosh, F. Open University Press.

See also

• List of film critics
• List of Glaswegians
• List of people from Manchester
• List of University of Cambridge members
• List of University of London people

References

1. RHUL Classics and Philosophy. Royal Holloway, University of London.
2. 2009 British Science Fiction Association Award for Mutant Popcorn (see BSFA Awards 2009 Winners).
3. Biography of Nick Lowe at Criticos Prize Committee.
4. Classicists in British Universities.

External links

• Nick Lowe's home page at RHUL