Dr. Christopher James Dowson

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsClassical Philology,History of Philosophy
KeywordsClassical Philology, Lexicography, Ancient Philosophy, Latin Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
Honours and awards

2021: DPhil (Oxon.)

2015: Master of Arts (Dist.)

2012: Bachelor of Laws

2011: Bachelor of Arts (Hon.)

Current contact address

CountryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford
InstitutionUniversity of Oxford
InstituteCorpus Christi College

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Michael HillenThesaurus Linguae Latinae, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, München
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2021

Program(s)

2020Theodor Heuss Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2023Dr. Christopher Dowson Glossing as a Rhetorical Strategy: Seneca the Younger’s Use of Greek Loan-Words in his Philosophical Works. In: Professor C. Cabrillana, Collected Volume of the 21st International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics. De Gruyter, 2023.
2023Dr. Christopher Dowson: Philosophia Translata: The Development of Latin Philosophical Vocabulary through Translation from Greek. A Case-Study Approach. Brill (Leiden/Boston), 2023
2023Dr. Christopher Dowson: The Social Networking Function of Cicero's Prefaces to the Philosophica. In: Philologus (De Gruyter), 167, 2023,
2022Dr. Christopher Dowson: The Translation of Greek Philosophical Terminology in Marius Victorinus’ Opera Theologica: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study. In: Antichthon, Australasian Society for Classical Studies Journal, Cambridge Core Forthcoming (vol. 56), 2022,