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{{EngvarB|date=August 2014}}{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}}{{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Nick Lowe | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1956 | birth_place = Manchester, England | residence = | nationality = | other_names = | ethnicity = | citizenship = | alma_mater = University of Cambridge | occupation = {{•}}Classical scholar {{•}}Film critic | years_active = | religion = | denomination = | criminal_charge = | criminal_penalty = | criminal_status = | spouse = | website = }}Nick Lowe ({{IPAc-en|l|oʊ}}; born 1956) is a British classical scholar and film critic. He is a Reader in Classics in the Department of Classics and Philosophy at Royal Holloway, a constituent college of the University of London, with interests including narratology and reception of Greek antiquity in historical fiction.[1] Lowe is also an award-winning film reviewer for the science-fiction magazine Interzone.[2] Early life and educationHe was born in Manchester, England, and raised in Glasgow, Scotland, before going to read Classics at the University of Cambridge,[3] where he received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy.[3] CareerHe taught Classics at three different colleges in the University of London before being appointed lecturer in Greek literature at Royal Holloway.[4] Publications- "Tragic Space and Comic Timing in Menander's Dyskolos" (1987), in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 34. pp. 126–38.
- "Sulpicia's Syntax" (1988), in Classical Quarterly 38. pp. 193–205.
- "Greek Stagecraft and Aristophanes" (1988), in Themes in Drama 10: Farce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 33–52.
- "Frogs" (1992), with Hawkins-Dady, M. in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 272–3.
- "Lysistrata" (1992) with Hawkins-Dady, M. in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 446–8.
- "Phormio" (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 610–11.
- "Prometheus Bound" (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 637–9.
- "The Braggart Soldier" (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 78–9.
- "The Suppliants" (1992) in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 1: Plays, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Chicago and London: St. James Press. pp. 774–5.
- "Aristophanes' Books" (1993), in Annals of Scholarship 10. pp. 63–93.
- "Aristophanes" (1994), in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 2: Playwrights, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Detroit, Washington and London: St. James Press. pp. 38–9.
- "Terence" (1994), in International Dictionary of the Theatre vol 2: Playwrights, Hawkins-Dady, M. (ed.). Detroit, Washington and London: St. James Press. pp. 953–6.
- "Tragic and Homeric Ironies" (1996), in Tragedy and The Tragic, Silk, M. S. (ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 520–33.
- "Thesmophoria and Haloa: Myth, Physics, and Mysteries" (1998), in The Sacred and the Feminine in Ancient Greece, Blundell, S. & Williamson, M. (eds.). London and New York: Routledge. pp. 149–73.
- "Comic Plots and the Invention of Fiction" (2000), in The Rivals of Aristophanes, Harvey, D. & Wilkins, J. M. (eds.). London and Swansea: Duckworth & Classical Press of Wales. pp. 259–72.
- The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative (2000), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- "Euripides" (2004), in Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. de Jong, I., Bowie, A. & Nünlist, R. (eds.). Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 269–80.
- "Lycophron" (2004), in Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. de Jong, I., Bowie, A. & Nünlist, R. (eds.). Leiden: Brill Publishers. pp. 307–14.
- "Metamorphoses of Genre in Fictions of Antiquity" (2004), in Crimina: Die Antike im modernen Kriminalroman, Brodersen, K. (ed.). Frankfurt: Verlag Antike. pp. 217–39.
- "Verrall, Arthur Woollgar" (2004), in The Dictionary of British Classicists. Todd, R. B. (ed.). Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum
- "Problematic Verrall: The Sceptic-at-Law" (2005), in The Owl of Minerva: The Cambridge Praelections of 1906. Stray, C. A. (ed.). pp. 142–60. (Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Supplementary Volume).
- "Aristophanic Spacecraft" (2006), in Playing around Aristophanes: Essays in Honour of Alan Sommerstein. Kozak, L. & Rich, J. (eds.). Oxford: Aris and Phillips. pp. 48–64.
- "Gilbert Murray and Psychic Research" (2007), in Reassessing Gilbert Murray. Stray, C. A. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 349–70.
- "Epinikian Eidography" (2007), in Pindar's Poetry, Patrons and Festivals: from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire. Morgan, C. A. & Hornblower, S. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 167–76.
- Comedy (2008). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Greece & Rome: New Surveys in the Classics).
- Theatre Ancient and Modern edited with Hardwick, L., Ireland, S. & Macintosh, F. Open University Press.
See also{{portal|Biography|Literature|London|Science fiction|Scotland}}- List of film critics
- List of Glaswegians
- List of people from Manchester
- List of University of Cambridge members
- List of University of London people
{{clear}}References1. ^RHUL Classics and Philosophy. Royal Holloway, University of London. 2. ^2009 British Science Fiction Association Award for Mutant Popcorn (see BSFA Awards 2009 Winners). 3. ^Classicists in British Universities. 4. ^1 Biography of Nick Lowe at Criticos Prize Committee.
External links- Nick Lowe's home page at RHUL
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