J. G. W. Henderson

John Graham Wilmot Henderson MA DPhil is a retired Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Henderson has worked within the Classics Faculty since 1975, as Assistant Lecturer (1975–1978), Lecturer (1978–1996) and Reader in Latin literature (1996–2003). He was awarded a personal professorship in Classics in 2003. Following retirement he has the status of emeritus professor.

His publications include collaborations with Mary Beard, his Cambridge colleague.

Publications

Books by John Henderson.

• The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville: Creating Truth through Words, Cambridge 2006
• Oxford Reds: Classic Commentaries on Latin Classics, Duckworth 2006
• Plautus Asinaria: the one about the asses, Wisconsin 2006
• Løve in København: The triumph of art at Thorvaldsens Museum, Museum Tusculanum, University of Copenhagen Press 2005
• Morals and Villas in Seneca's Letters: Places to Dwell, Cambridge, 2004
• HORTVS: The Roman Gardening Book, Routledge 2004
• Aesop's Human Zoo: Roman Stories about our Bodies, Chicago 2004
• Pliny's Statue: The Letters, Self-Portraiture, and Classical Art, Exeter 2002
• Telling Tales on Caesar: Roman Stories from Phaedrus, Oxford 2000
• Writing down Rome: Satire, Comedy and other Offences in Latin Poetry, Oxford 1999
• Fighting for Rome. Poets and Caesars, History and Civil War, Cambridge, 1998
• Juvenal's Mayor: The Professor who Lived on 2D. a Day, Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume, 1998
• A Roman Life: Rutilius Gallicus on Paper and in Stone, Exeter 1998
• Figuring out Roman Nobility. Juvenal's Eighth Satire, Exeter 1997