From 2001 to 2007 he taught in the department of Classics and Ancient History at the
University of Exeter where he remains an honorary fellow.[2] He then served as
E. P. Warren Praelector, Fellow and Tutor in Greek at
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Ancient Literatures at the University of Oxford.[3]
In October 2014, he succeeded
Paul Cartledge as the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge.[4] In 2022, he delivered the
Gifford Lectures on Religion and Ancient Mediterranean Thought at the
University of Aberdeen.[5] In 2023, he became Regius Professor of Greek in the same university, succeeding
Richard Hunter.[6]
Classics Confidential
Whitmarsh appears in the
Classics Confidential series in conversation with various classical scholars:
His publications include Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation,[7]Ancient Greek Literature,[8]The Second Sophistic,[9] and Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel: Returning Romance,[10]Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism.[11]
Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, Faber & Faber, 2016
^Tim Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire: The Politics of Imitation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
ISBN978-0-19-927137-5.
^Tim Whitmarsh, Ancient Greek Literature. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004.
ISBN978-0-7456-2792-2.
^Tim Whitmarsh, The Second Sophistic. Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics 35. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
ISBN978-0-19-856881-0.
^Tim Whitmarsh, Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel: Returning Romance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
ISBN978-0-521-82391-3.
^Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.
ISBN978-0-520-27681-9.