Frances Muecke FAHA

Senior Lecturer
Department of Classics and Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
office: J607, Main Quad
phone:9351 2672

Fields of Expertise

• Greek and Roman Comedy
• Horace’s Satires
• genre in ancient poetry
• Humanist scholarship and antiquarianism in Rome (1470-1527)

Education

• BA Hons I Melb.
• BPhil. Oxon.

Current research

• Translation of Biondo Flavio, Roma triumphans
• Critical edition and translation of Andrea Fulvio, Antiquaria Urbis

Fellowships and Awards

• Visiting Fellowship Clare Hall Cambridge 1988
• Visiting Fellowship Institute of Classical Studies London 2003
• Loeb Classical Library Fund 2007-2008

Select Conferences and Invited Papers

• ‘Light (and Dark) on Pomponio Leto’s Students’, The Classics in the Classroom Conference, Thursday July 27-Saturday July 29, 2006, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney
• ‘Translating Plautinisches im Plautus’, Literary and Scholarly Translation: a Colloquium, 20 November 2004 (National Institute of the Humanities and Creative Arts, Canberra)
• ‘Teaching music: the didactic poem of Venceslaus Philomathes’, 4 November 2004, Didactic Symposium, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney
• ‘The 18th century reception of Du Fresnoy’s De arte graphica’, 2 February 1999, York Centre for 18th century Studies

Select Publications

Books

• Domizio Calderini, Commentary on Silius Italicus, ed. F. Muecke and John Dunston (Droz, Geneva: 2011)
• with C. Tesoriero and T. Neal, Oxford Readings in Lucan (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• With T. Drevikovsky, translation of Eduard Fraenkel, Plautine Elements in Plautus, Oxford, 2007
• With Prof. J. Davidson and Prof. P. Wilson, Greek Drama III: papers in Honour of Kevin Lee (London, 2006)
• With C. Allen and Y.A. Haskell, C.-A. Dufresnoy De arte graphica 1668 (Droz: Geneva, 2005)
• Horace Satires II, with Introduction, Translation and Commentary (Aris and Phillips, Warminster, 1993) pp. xii+242. (Reprinted with corrections 1997)

Scholarly Book chapters

• With C. Allen, annotated edition of Francois Gacon’s 18th century Latin translation of Boileau’s Art poétique in J. Ruys and Y. Haskell (eds.), Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies/Brepols 2010, pp. 97-135
• ‘Silius Italicus in the Italian Renaissance’ in Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus, ed. A. Augoustakis (Brill: Leiden: 2009/10), pp. 401-24
• With R. Forgacs, ‘Dulces discet ab arte sonos: The Latin Didactic Poem of Philomathes (Vienna, 1512)’ in ed. J. Ruys, What Nature Does Not Teach : Didactic Literature in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, Disputatio (Turnhout : Brepols 2008), pp. 427-47.
• ‘Horace’s Satires’, in The Cambridge Companion to Horace, ed. S.J. Harrison (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 105-20
• ‘Ennio e Lucilio. La doppia nascita della forma satirica’ in Musa pedestre. Storia e interpretazione della satira in Roma antica, ed. K. Freudenburg, A. Cucchiarelli and A. Barchiesi (Rome, 2007) 37-57, translation of ‘Rome’s first Satirists: themes and genre in Ennius and Lucilius’ in The Cambridge Companion to Roman Satire, ed. K. Freudenburg, (Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 33-47.

Refereed Articles

• ‘Ante oculos ponere: Vision and Imagination in Flavio Biondo’s Roma triumphans’, Papers of the British School at Rome 79 (2011) 275-98
• ‘Hannibal at the “Fields of Fire” (Silius Italicus, Punica, 12, 113-57): a ‘wasteful excursion’?’ Materiali e discussioni 58 (2007), pp. 73-91
• ‘Poetry on Rome from the ambience of Pomponio Leto’, L’Ellisse, 2 (2007), pp. 31-56

Teaching

• Comedy: from Aristophanes to Terence
• Myth and place in Rome
• Achilles in the Iliad
• Satire and Society in Rome
• The Epyllion
• Early Latin prose
• Rome 90BC-AD14: The Making of a World-City

Academic Service

• 2006-2007: Faculty Library Committee
• 2004-2006: Faculty Postgraduate Matters Committee
• 2002-2003: Faculty International and Community Relations
• 1999-2000: Faculty Research Committee
• 1993-1998: Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee
• 1993, 1995: Core committee, Faculty Promotion Assessment Committee, (Senior Lecturer, Lecturer)
• 1992 (Sem. 2),
  1993 (Sem. 1): Faculty Undergraduate Matters
• 1989-1991: Board of Study of Divinity
• 1985-1987: Standing Committee of Faculty
• 1984-1990: Faculty Admissions and Courses of Study Committee
• 1980-1987: Faculty Planning Committee, Working Party on Schools