Richard John Tarrant, is an American classicist and Emeritus Pope Professor of Latin at Harvard University. He is an expert on the textual criticism and the transmission of Latin poetry.[1]

Career

A native of Brooklyn, Tarrant was educated at Fordham University, where he obtained a BA in 1966. He then moved to Oxford University and graduated with a DPhil from Corpus Christi College (1972).

From 1970, he taught at the University of Toronto, taking up a position at Harvard University in 1982.[2] In his time at the department, he served as its chairman (1988–94) and as the acting Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1995-6).[3]

Tarrant has held visiting fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Selected publications

• Seneca: Agamemnon, Cambridge, 1977.
• P. Ovidi Nasonis: Metamorphoses, Oxford, 2004.
• Virgil: Aeneid Book XII, Cambridge, 2012.
• Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism, Cambridge, 2016.

References

Works Cited

• Oakley, S. P. (2016) Review of Tarrant (2016), Journal of Roman Studies 106, 360–1.
• Tarrant, R. J. (2016) Texts, Editors, and Readers: Methods and Problems in Latin Textual Criticism, Cambridge.

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