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Prof. Brian Arkins

Professor Emeritus
E-mail: (via classicsnuigalway.ie)

Brian Arkins was educated at Clongowes Wood College and at University College, Dublin, where he obtained an MA in Classics and a PhD in Latin.

His research interests include Latin poetry, the Classical Tradition in the modern era, and Irish literature. Prof. Arkins was the Honorary President of the Classical Association of Ireland in 2005.

[Right: Michael D. Higgins, Iognáid Ó Muircheartaigh and Brian Arkins at the launch of two or Prof. Arkins' books in 2000.]

Select Publications

What Shakespeare Stole from Rome (Dublin 2012)

Irish Appropriations of Greek Tragedy (Dublin 2010)

The Thought of W. B. Yeats (New York 2010)

Hellenising Ireland: Greek and Roman Themes in Modern Irish Literature (Newbridge 2005)

An Interpretation of the Poetry of Propertius (c.50–15 B.C.) (Lewiston 2005)

Greek and Roman Themes in Joyce (Lewiston 1999)

An Interpretation of the Poems of Catullus (Lewiston 1999)

Desmond Egan. A Critical Study (Little Rock 1992)

James Liddy. A Critical Study (Galway 1991)

Builders of My Soul: Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats (Gerrards Cross 1990)

Sexuality in Catullus (Hildesheim 1982)

 

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