David Butterfield
Author
David Butterfield is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of 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 (2015), The Early Textual History of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (2013), A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar (2009), and 10,000 Not Out: A History of the Spectator 1828–2020 (2020). 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.