Denis Feeney, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Denis Feeney

New Zealand scholar

Date of Birth: 16-Oct-1955

Place of Birth: New Zealand

Profession: university teacher, classical scholar, classical philologist

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Denis C.
Feeney, FBA (born 1955) is Professor of Classics and Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University.
He was born in New Zealand and educated at St Peter's College, Auckland and Auckland Grammar School.
He received his B.A.
(1974), MA in Latin (1975) and MA in Greek (1976) from the University of Auckland and a D.Phil.
from Oxford University in 1982.
He has also been a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge and New College, Oxford.Professor Feeney is especially known for his highly influential book The Gods in Epic on the interaction between Roman literature and religion, and his recent book Caesar's Calendar: Ancient Time and the Beginnings of History (University of California Press, 2008).
In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.