David Butterfield

David Butterfield is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, Queens’ College, Cambridge. His primary areas of research are Latin literature, textual criticism, and the history of scholarship. His publications include Varro Varius: The Polymath of the Roman World (Cambridge Philological Society, 2015), The Early Textual History of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar (Bloomsbury, 2009). He is Editor of the Classics website Antigone, Literary Editor of the Critic, and is currently finishing the new Oxford Classical Text of the philosopher-poet Lucretius.