Richard F. Thomas

Director of Graduate Studies fall 2026
George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics
On leave spring 2027
Richard Thomas
Boylston 221
617.496.6061
rthomas@fas.harvard.edu
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Research interests: Latin literature, especially republican and Augustan poetry and republican and imperial historiography; Hellenistic Greek poetry; intertextuality; reception studies; translation theory and practice

Thomas, Richard F., ed. 2011. Horace: Odes I V and Carmen Saeculare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomas, Richard F., ed. 2011. Horace: Odes I V and Carmen Saeculare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Henderson, Jeffrey, and Richard F. Thomas. 2020. The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny: Proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 18–20 May 2017. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University.
Henderson, Jeffrey, and Richard F. Thomas. 2020. The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny: Proceedings of the First James Loeb Biennial Conference, Munich and Murnau 18–20 May 2017. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University.
Thomas, Richard F., and Jan Ziolkowski, eds. 2014. The Virgil Encyclopedia. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Thomas, Richard F., and Jan Ziolkowski, eds. 2014. The Virgil Encyclopedia. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Thomas, Richard F. 2001. Virgil and the Augustan Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomas, Richard F. 2001. Virgil and the Augustan Reception. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomas, Richard F. 2017. Why Bob Dylan Matters. New York : HarperCollins.
Thomas, Richard F. 2017. Why Bob Dylan Matters. New York : HarperCollins.