Eidinow was born and raised in London and was educated at
Highgate School.[1]
Academic career
Eidinow read Classics at
Merton College, Oxford, and received the degree Master of Arts from the
University of Oxford.[3] In January 1992 he was appointed to a lecturership in Classics at Merton College where he was later elected a Bodley Fellow.[3] Since 2003 he has been Director of Studies in Classics at St. Benet's Hall.[3] In 2004 he was named a Fellow of St. Benet's.[3] He is also Dean and Keeper of the Statutes at
Merton College.[2]
His research is mostly about the Roman poet
Horace, although he has also written about
Ovid and
Virgil.[3] He was formerly Honorary Secretary of the Horatian Society.[3]
On 16 June 2014 in
Merton College Chapel Eidinow made his solemn vows as a Knight of Justice.[7] He has served as Chancellor of the Grand Priory of England.[8]
In January 2023 Eidinow was elected to the Sovereign Council of the Sovereign Order of Malta in an Extraordinary Chapter General of the Order called by Pope Francis.[9]
Publications
"Horace’s Epistle to Torquatus", Classical Quarterly 45 (1995): 191–99.
"Dido, Aeneas, and Iulus: Heirship and Obligation in Aeneid 4", Classical Quarterly 53 (2003): 260–67.
"Horace: Critics, canons and canonicity", in Houghton, L.B.T. and Wyke, M. (eds.), Perceptions of Horace: A Roman Poet and his Readers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 80–95.
"Virgil in the Works of Alexandre Dumas père: An Introduction", Proceedings of the Vergilian Society 27 (2011): 38–55.
References
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abHughes, Patrick (1988). Highgate School Register (7th ed.). p. 413.
^The Rule of Raymond du Puy, Latin, with a new English translation by John Eidinow, and a commentary by Father Jerome Bertram, Cong. Orat., Oxford, 2011, cited in Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, Membership in the Order of Malta Regulations and Commentary, 2011, pages 131 and 171. The 2020 and 2021 reprints say that the work was "translated by a Knight of Justice".