Rate My Professor Llewelyn Morgan

Llewelyn Morgan is Professor of Classical Languages and Literature in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, where he serves as Chair of the Faculty Board. He is a Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College, having joined in 1997 after teaching positions at University College Dublin and in Pennsylvania. Morgan completed his undergraduate degree in Classics at the University of Oxford, earning an MA, and pursued his PhD at the University of Cambridge. His academic career emphasizes the tutorial system, teaching all Latin literary subjects, some Greek literature, and unseen translation in both languages, fostering in-depth textual analysis and discussion.

Morgan's research specializations center on Latin literature, including Virgil, Ovid, Horace, satire, historiography, and metrical form, as well as nineteenth-century Latin prose and poetry, and the classical legacy in Afghanistan and Pakistan from ancient to modern times. Key publications include Horace: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2023), Ovid: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2020), Musa Pedestris: Metre and Meaning in Roman Verse (Oxford University Press, 2010), Alaudae, The Larks, or Songbirds: Edited and Translated from the Original Latin of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (edited with M. Lombardi-Nash, Bloomsbury, 2025, three volumes), and The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyāna and Gandhāra’ (with Luca M. Olivieri, Archaeopress, 2022). He has also contributed ‘Pallas, son of Hercules’ to Latin Lineages: A Family Tree from Catullus to Today (De Gruyter, 2026). Morgan delivers public lectures, such as the 2019 Gandhara Connections Lecture ‘Heracles’ Track to the Indus: Ancients and Moderns in the Swat Valley,’ and appears regularly on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics.’ His scholarship illuminates the political contexts of Roman poetry, the significance of poetic metre, and the interplay between classical antiquity and colonial archaeology in South Asia.