# Richard F. Thomas Director of Graduate Studies fall 2026 George Martin Lane Professor of the Classics On leave spring 2027 ![Richard Thomas](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-02/Thomas%20Richard%20photo%202.2025.jpeg?itok=lvKJM7wh) location\_on Boylston 221 smartphone [617.496.6061](tel:617.496.6061) email laptop\_windows [Website](https://rthomas.scholars.harvard.edu/) laptop\_windows [Office Hours Information](https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/faculty-office-hours) Research interests: Latin literature, especially republican and Augustan poetry and republican and imperial historiography; Hellenistic Greek poetry; intertextuality; reception studies; translation theory and practice Download 5 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97086&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97086&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97086&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97086&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97086&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97086&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=title--asc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97086&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=ris) Thomas, Richard F., ed. 2011. *[Horace: Odes I V and Carmen Saeculare](/publications/horace-odes-iv-and-carmen-saeculare)*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Thomas, Richard F., ed. 2011. *[Horace: Odes I V and Carmen Saeculare](/publications/horace-odes-iv-and-carmen-saeculare)*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/classical-studies/classical-literature/horace-odes-iv-and-carmen-saeculare) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/classical-studies/classical-literature/horace-odes-iv-and-carmen-saeculare) 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](/publications/loeb-classical-library-and-its-progeny-proceedings-first-james-loeb-biennial)*. 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](/publications/loeb-classical-library-and-its-progeny-proceedings-first-james-loeb-biennial)*. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University. - add\_circle do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248717) James Loeb (1867–1933), one of the great patrons and philanthropists of his time, left many enduring legacies both to America, where he was born and educated, and to his ancestral Germany, where he spent the second half of his life. Organized in... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248717) Thomas, Richard F., and Jan Ziolkowski, eds. 2014. *[The Virgil Encyclopedia](/publications/virgil-encyclopedia)*. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Thomas, Richard F., and Jan Ziolkowski, eds. 2014. *[The Virgil Encyclopedia](/publications/virgil-encyclopedia)*. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/ref/virgil) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/ref/virgil) Thomas, Richard F. 2001. *[Virgil and the Augustan Reception](/publications/virgil-and-augustan-reception)*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Thomas, Richard F. 2001. *[Virgil and the Augustan Reception](/publications/virgil-and-augustan-reception)*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/classical-studies/classical-literature/virgil-and-augustan-reception) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/classical-studies/classical-literature/virgil-and-augustan-reception) Thomas, Richard F. 2017. *[Why Bob Dylan Matters](/publications/why-bob-dylan-matters)*. New York : HarperCollins. Thomas, Richard F. 2017. *[Why Bob Dylan Matters](/publications/why-bob-dylan-matters)*. New York : HarperCollins. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/why-bob-dylan-matters-richard-f-thomas) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/why-bob-dylan-matters-richard-f-thomas) - ## People Role [Classics Faculty](/people-role/classics-faculty) [Administration](/people-role/administration)