Prof. Llewelyn Morgan

University of Oxford

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BIOGRAPHY

Llewelyn Morgan is a Classicist, a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford. The focus of most of his research is Roman literature and culture, and he is the author of the well-received study of Roman poetic form, Musa Pedestris: Metre and Meaning in Roman Verse (Oxford, 2010).

But he also has a longstanding fascination for Afghanistan, contemporary and historical, which he traces to his discovery, at an impressionable age, of a Russian samovar inscribed “Candahar 1881”. He has made several visits to Afghanistan in recent years, and his most recent book, The Buddhas of Bamiyan (Profile Books and Harvard University Press, 2012), traces the history of these remarkable monuments from their Buddhist origins 1,400 years ago, through their celebrity in Islamic wonder literature and European travel writing, up until their destruction in 2001.

Morgan is a regular public speaker, on many aspects of Classics and Afghanistan, appears occasionally on BBC Radio 4, and writes slightly less occasionally for the Times Literary Supplement.

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Ovid: Metamorphoses: Book 3

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Course • Classics & Ancient History • 4 lectures

Ovid: Metamorphoses: Book 3

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
4 Lessons
Classics & Ancient History

Ovid: Metamorphoses: Book 3

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan
University of Oxford

Course • Classics & Ancient History • 4 lectures

Catullus

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
4 Lessons
Classics & Ancient History

Catullus

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan
University of Oxford

Course • Classics & Ancient History • 5 lectures

Virgil: Aeneid: Book 10

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
5 Lessons
Classics & Ancient History

Virgil: Aeneid: Book 10

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan
University of Oxford

Course • Classics & Ancient History • 6 lectures

Virgil: Aeneid

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
6 Lessons
Classics & Ancient History

Virgil: Aeneid

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan
University of Oxford

Course • Classics & Ancient History • 4 lectures

Virgil: Aeneid: Book 11

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
4 Lessons
Classics & Ancient History

Virgil: Aeneid: Book 11

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan
University of Oxford

Course • Classics & Ancient History • 6 lectures

Horace: Odes and Satires

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
6 Lessons
Classics & Ancient History

Horace: Odes and Satires

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan
University of Oxford

Course • Classics & Ancient History • 6 lectures

Virgil: Aeneid: Book 12

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
6 Lessons
Classics & Ancient History

Virgil: Aeneid: Book 12

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan
University of Oxford

Course • Classics & Ancient History • 5 lectures

Virgil: Aeneid: Book 2

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
5 Lessons
Classics & Ancient History

Virgil: Aeneid: Book 2

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan
University of Oxford

Course • Classics & Ancient History • 5 lectures

Juvenal: Satires

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
5 Lessons
Classics & Ancient History

Juvenal: Satires

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan
University of Oxford

Course • Classics & Ancient History • 3 lectures

Virgil: Aeneid: Book 6

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
3 Lessons
Classics & Ancient History

Virgil: Aeneid: Book 6

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan
University of Oxford

Course • Classics & Ancient History • 3 lectures

Cambridge Latin Anthology – Echo et Narcissus

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan, University of Oxford
3 Lessons
Classics & Ancient History

Cambridge Latin Anthology – Echo et Narcissus

Prof. Llewelyn Morgan
University of Oxford