Dr Helen Van Noorden is Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge and the Wrigley Fellow and Lecturer in Classics at Girton College, Cambridge. Her book Playing Hesiod: the ‘myth of the races’ in Classical Antiquity is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Current research interests include Greek and Latin epic and the creation of intellectual traditions and apocalyptic and eschatological literature in the Greco-Roman world.
