FREDERICK WILLIAMS
Fred Williams is a graduate of Oxford (M.A.) and London (Ph.D.). He lectured in Classics at the University of Southampton (1966-85), and was Professor of Greek in The Queen’s University of Belfast (1985-2006). He is now an Honorary Research Associate of Trinity College, Dublin. He is working on an edition with commentary of Cercidas (with Enrico Livrea) and various smaller articles. He has assisted in the publication, by proofreading and other maieutic services, of over a hundred scholarly books, including most of the Arca volumes.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Callimachus. Hymn to Apollo. A commentary, Oxford 1978
Faith gives fullness to reasoning: the five theological orations of Gregory Nazianzen, introd. & commentary by Frederick W. Norris, transl. by Lionel Wickham & Frederick Williams (Vigiliae Christianae Suppl. 13), Leiden 1991
St. Gregory of Nazianzus: On God and Christ: the five theological orations and two letters to Cledonius, transl. by Frederick Williams and Lionel R. Wickham, Crestwood (N.Y.) 2002
Encyclopaedia entries
Contributions to Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd ed. 1996, and 4th ed. 2012), and to Dictionary of British Classicists (ed. R.B. Todd, Bristol, 2004)
Published lectures
The sage, the shepherdess, and Caesar, Leeds 1993
The University Latin Sermon, preached at St Mary’s University Church, Oxford, on 18 January 2004: Latin text (with English paraphrase) The Pembroke College Record 2003-4 (2005) 29-33.
Articles
‘Theocritus, Idyll i 81-91’, JHS 89 (1969) 121-3
‘A theophany in Theocritus’, CQ 21 (1971) 137-45 [reprinted in B. Effe, Theokrit und die griechische Bukolik (Darmstadt, 1986) 272-85]
‘Ὦ in Theocritus’, Eranos 71 (1973) 52-67
‘The eternal triangle in Greek poetry’ CR 24 (1974) 184-85.
‘Five problems in Callimachus’ Hymn to Apollo’, QUCC 19 (1975) 127-43
‘Some notes on the text of Gregory Nazianzen’s First theological oration’ (with L.R. Wickham), Studia Patristica XIV (1976) 365-70
‘Gods and gate-crashing’, Mnemosyne 30 (1977) 289-91
‘Scenes of encounter in Homer and Theocritus’, MPhL 3 (1978) 219-25
‘Laurel boughs’ (with B. Curran), LCM 6 (1981) 209-212
‘Articulate beasts in Plato and Babrius’. MPhL 4 (1981) 207-209
‘Gregory Nazianzen and winter flowers (Or. 27.4 = P.G. 36.16 D)’, MPhL 4 (1981) 211-12
‘Augustus and Daphne: Ovid Metamorphoses 1,560-64 and Phylarchus FGrH 81 F 32 (b)’, PLLS 3 (1981) 249-57
‘Διερός: further ramifications’, MPhL 5 (1981) 84-93
‘Vox clamantis in theatro (Juvenal 3,153)’, PLLS 4 (1983) 121-7
‘Two notes on Cercidas of Megalopolis’, EClás 87 (1984) 351-7
‘Acrobats and geometry. Unwelcome intruders in the text of Gregory Nazianzen’, Glotta 65 (1987) 96-103
‘Notes on P. Oxy. 3723’, ZPE 75 (1988) 57-8
‘Giving dogs a bad name’, LCM 14.10 (1989) 155-6
‘Callimachus and the supranormal’, in Callimachus ed. M. A. Harder, R. F. Regtuit & G. C. Wakker (Groningen 1993), pp. 217-25
‘Callimachus, Hecale fr. 13 Hollis (=345 Pf.)’, Eikasmos 5 (1994) 209-212
‘Cercidas, Caelius, and unsafe sex: (Cerc. fr. 2. 28. Livrea)’, ZPE 102 (1994) 76-80
Review article of F.G. Downing, Cynics and Christian Origins (Edinburgh, 1992), Irish Biblical Studies 16 (1994) 138-44
‘Archilochus and the eunuch: the persistence of a narrative pattern’, Classics Ireland 1 (1994) 96-112
‘Polar bears and Neronian propaganda’, LCM 19 (1994) 2-5
‘In and out of the rut: Callimachus fr. 1. 25-28 and Anniceris of Cyrene’, ZPE 110 (1996) 40-42
‘Daphne’s hounds: gender and feminism in Parthenius 15’, Eikasmos 10 (1999) 137-42
‘Daphne transformed: Parthenius, Ovid, and E.M. Forster’, Hermathena 166 (1999) 45-62
‘The dreaming miser in Claudian, De sexto consulatu Honorii, pref. 8’, RhM 143 (2000) 430-31
‘Καρείνων: a ghost-word in the scholia to Lucian’, Glotta 76 (2000) 234-6
‘Aphrodite’s secret weapon: (Colluth. Rapt. Hel. 95)’, Eikasmos 12 (2001) 179-83
‘Cercidas fr. 3 Liv.: canine language in a cynic poet?’, ZPE 139 (2002) 40-42
‘A Textual Problem in one of Milton’s Latin Poems’, Notes and Queries 247 (2002) 334-6.
‘Greek and More’, Ad familiares 25 (2003) 4-5
‘Cicero and Burkholderia cepacia: What’s in a Name?’ (with Dr John E. Moore, Belfast City Hospital), Emerging Infectious Diseases 9 (2003) 506-7
‘The hands of death: Ovid Amores 3.9.20’, AJPh 124 (2003) 225-34
‘Milton and Asclepius: a Footnote’, Notes and Queries 250 (2005) 298
‘Pedalling Greek History’, Ad familiares 28 (March 2005) 6-7
‘E.M. Forster’s Alexandrian Quartet’, Hermathena 179 (2005) 165-93
‘Problems of Text and Interpretation in Juvenal Satire 6’, PLLS 12 (2005) 197-206
‘Cercidas: the man and the poet’, in Beyond the canon, ed. by M.A. Harder, R. F. Regtuit, G.C. Wakker (Hellenistica Groningana 11), (Leuven and Dudley (Mass.) 2006), pp.345-56
‘Monkey Business in Semonides (fr. 7.75)’, PLLS 14 (2010) 119-31.
Reviews
I.C. CUNNINGHAM (ed.): Herodas. Mimiambi (Oxford, 1971), JHS 92 (1972) 201-2.
P. ORSINI (ed.): Collouthos, L’enlèvement d’Hélène (Paris, 1972), JHS 93 (1973) 239-40
M. GIGANTE: L’edera di Leonida (Naples, 1971), Gnomon 46 (1974) 547-50
C. MEILLIER: Callimaque et son temps: recherches sur la carrière et la tradition d’un écrivain à l’époque des premiers Lagides (Lillle, 1979) JHS 103 (1983), 178-79.
D.F. SUTTON (ed.) Dithyrambographi Graeci (Hildesheim, 1989), CR 40 (1990) 467.
L. LEHNUS: Bibliografia callimachea 1489-1988 (Genoa, 1989), CR 40 (1990) 470.
G.O. HUTCHINSON: Hellenistic Poetry (Oxford,1988), Hermathena 148 (1990) 98-100.
M. CAMPBELL(ed.): Moschus, Europa (Hildesheim, 1991), CR 42 (1992) 433-34
F.G. DOWNING, Cynics and Christian Origins (Edinburgh, 1992), Irish Biblical Studies 16 (1994) 138-44.
C. GALLAVOTTI (ed.): Theocritus quique feruntur bucolici Graeci (Rome, 1993), CR 46 (1996) 154-55.
M. ALLOTT (ed..) : E.M.Forster, Alexandria: A History and a Guide and Pharos and Pharillon (London,2004), review article (“E.M.Forster’s ALexandrian Quartet”), Hermathena 179 (2005) 165-93.