Dr. Tim Stover

Assistant Professor of Classics

The Florida State University
Department of Classics

Research and Teaching Specializations

• Latin literature
• Early Imperial epic poetry

Background

Tim Stover (Ph.D., Texas) specializes in Latin literature, with a particular interest in epic poetry. His current research is focused especially on epic poetry of the early Empire. This work has been supported by a First Year Assistant Professor grant and a grant from the Committee on Faculty Research Support, both awarded by FSU. Tim joined the department in the fall of 2006.

Recent Publications and Lectures

• “Rebuilding Argo: Valerius Flaccus’ Poetic Creed,” Mnemosyne (forthcoming)
• “Apollonius, Valerius Flaccus and Statius: Argonautic Elements in Thebaid 3.499–647,” American Journal of Philology (forthcoming)
• “Magna Perseis: A Note on Valerius Flaccus, Arg. 7.238,” Classical Journal 104.4 (2009), 321 –327
• “Cato and the Intended Scope of Lucan’s Bellum Civile,” Classical Quarterly 58.2 (2008), 571– 580
• “The Date of Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica,” Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 13 (2008), 211 –229

• Review of Randall Ganiban’s Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid (Cambridge, 2007), Classical Journal 104.1 (2008), 85–87

Current Courses

• CLT 3370: Introduction to Classical Mythology
• LNW 4320/5325: Statius' Thebaid

Recent Courses

• Ancient Epic
• Cicero’s Pro Archia
• Civil War at Rome
• Classical Mythology
• Horace’s Satires and Epodes
• Lucan’s Bellum Civile
• Senecan Tragedy
• Valerius’ Argonautica