Feeney, D. C.

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Name (Latin)
Feeney, D. C.
Other forms of name
Feeney, Denis C
Feeney, Denis, 1955-
Feeney, Denis
Date of birth
1955-10-16
Field of activity
Latin language
Latin literature
Associate group
University of Bristol
New College (University of Oxford)
Princeton University
Occupation
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Denis C.
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 14825290
Wikidata: Q166062
Library of congress: n 90700541
Sources of Information
  • Beyond Greek, 2016:dust jacket (Denis Feeney is Giger Prof. of Latin at Princeton Univ.)
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France, via VIAF, 12 February 2016(Feeney, Denic C., New Zealand author; born 1955-10-16; professor of Latin at University of Bristol, and Princeton)
  • LCN has two entries: Denis & D.C.: NNL assumes they are the same person.
  • His The gods in epic, 1991:CIP t.p. (D.C. Feeney) Pub. info sheet (Prof. D.C. Feeney; prof., Latin, Univ. of Bristol; his first book)
  • Literature and religion at Rome, 1998:t.p. (Denis Feeney; Fellow and Tutor of New College, Univ. of Oxford)
  • His Caesar's calendar, c2007:ECIP t.p. (Denis Feeney) data view (b. 10/16/1955)

Wikipedia description:

Denis C. Feeney FBA (born 1955) is a New Zealand classicist and academic who is Professor of Classics and Giger Professor of Latin, emeritus at Princeton University. He was born in New Zealand and educated at St Peter's College, Auckland and Auckland Grammar School. He received his B.A. (1974), MA in Latin (1975) and MA in Greek (1976) from the University of Auckland and a D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1982. He has also been a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge and New College, Oxford. Professor Feeney is especially known for his highly influential book The Gods in Epic on the interaction between Roman literature and religion, and his recent book Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History (University of California Press, 2008). In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

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