• Senior Instructor

    Faculty of Arts
    Department of Classics
    359 University College
    220 Dysart Road
    University of Manitoba
    Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M8

    Phone: 204-474-7168
    robert.nau@umanitoba.ca

Currently accepting graduate students - yes

  • Master's

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Teaching

  • CLAS 2220 - Slavery in Ancient Greece and Rome
  • CLAS 2500 - The World of Myth and Legend
  • CLAS 3682 - Greek and Roman Epic
  • GRK 7100 - Diomedes and Telemachus - The Coming of Age of Heroes
  • LATN 1080 - Introduction to the Reading of Latin 1
  • LATN 3932 - Cicero On Friendship


 

Education

  • PhD (Classics), McMaster University, 2005
  • MA (Classics), McMaster University, 1999
  • MA (Classics), Western University, 1997
  • BA (Classics), York University, 1994

Research

Research interests

  • Epic
  • Theban myth
  • Narratology 

Selected publications

  • "Translation of Passages Relating to Sosipatra in Eunapius's Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists (6.53-96)" In Sosipatra of Pergamum: Philosopher and Oracle. Heidi Marx, 119-124. Oxford University Press, 2021.
  • "A Note on Statius Thebaid 8.5" Classical Quarterly 59. 2 (2009), 664 - 665.
  • "Merit and meruisse in Statius' Thebaid " Latomus 67.1 (2008) 130-137.

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