Boston College teaching record
Christopher Polt
Associate Professor
Biography
Christopher Polt specializes in Latin poetry, particularly the ways in which Roman authors reshape prior traditions. His current book project examines the reception of Roman comedy in Catullus' poetry and in the 1st century BCE generally. He is also working on a second book on Cicero's theory and practice of translation. He argues that Cicero reworks Greek texts to advance his own philosophical and political agendas and that, as with the flurry of philosophical work he undertakes late in life, translation comes to offer him an oblique way to critique and counsel Romans at the end of the Republic.
Official evaluation summary
4.40 / 5