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
4.50 / 5
Courses taught
- CLAS2262 The City of Rome
- CLAS1702 Rome: Art, Regime, and Resistance
- CLAS1056 Intermediate Latin I
- CLAS1057 Intermediate Latin II
- CLAS2210 Roman Spectacles
- CLAS4280 Beast Literature
- CLAS3350 Catullus
- CLAS1010 Elementary Latin I
- CLAS3325 Lucretius
- CLAS3335 Ovid
- CLAS3340 Latin Pastoral Poetry
- CLAS3370 Roman Comedy
- ARTH2262 The City of Rome
- CLAS3390 Reading and Research I
- ENGL2202 Beast Literature