Ancient and Modern Ideas of Genre

In this lecture, Dr Hosty then asks us to reconsider our understanding of what a ‘genre’ is, and to explore some classical terms for different genres of texts.

Dr Matthew Hosty
Dr Matthew Hosty

Dr Hosty is a stipendiary lecturer in Classics at St John’s. He specialises in the study of ancient literary parody, thinking about what ‘parody’ as a concept meant to the Greeks and Romans and how it manifested in their works as an artistic technique. You can read more about Dr Hosty and his research here.

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