Denis Feeney

Through his books and essays on Latin poetry and Roman culture, he played a leading role in shaping contemporary thought about the ways in which traditional religious beliefs informed Roman poetry, and how the literature itself might have informed belief and practice in turn. Current work on the origins of Latin literature asks us to rethink fundamentally such basic categories as translation, history, myth, and literature itself. Also writes forcefully and thoughtfully about the importance of the humanities in a more general sense.