Dr. Andrew Feldherr

Biography

Andrew Feldherr is a Professor of Classics at Princeton University, specializing in Latin literature with a particular interest in historiography and poetry from the Augustan period. His scholarship includes important works such as 'Spectacle and Society in Livy’s History' (University of California Press, 1998), where he analyzed Livy’s manipulation of the audience's perspectives regarding the representation of the Roman past, tapping into the political and religious power of spectacle in contemporary Rome. Another notable contribution is his book 'Playing Gods: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction' (Princeton University Press, 2010), examining the role of fictionality in poetry against the backdrop of cultural discourses, particularly visual arts. His most recent book, 'Past, Sallust, and the Writing of History' (Wiley, 2021), scrutinizes the engagement with Sallust’s narrative strategies that build audience understanding of past events and explore historiographical agency. He has co-edited several influential collections, including 'The Cambridge Companion to Roman Historians' (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and 'Oxford History of Historical Writing' (Oxford University Press, 2011). Feldherr completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton (Class of 1985) and received his Ph.D. in 1991 from Berkeley. His teaching covers a range from Republican to early Imperial Latin literature and he enjoys teaching both introductory language courses and upper-level seminars.

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