Paul Roche

Biography

Associate Professor Roche is a distinguished scholar of Latin literature of the first two centuries AD. He has played a leading role in the continuing re-evaluation of Lucan, a major poet of the age of Nero, contributing commentaries on two key books of his great epic, Civil War; and has made major contributions to our understanding of the relationship between literature and Roman politics more broadly through edited volumes ranging over authors from Lucretius to Juvenal and Pliny the Younger. He has held posts at the Universities of New England and Sydney, as well as fellowships at (among others) the University of Queensland and St Anne’s College, Oxford.