I am a Latinist, teaching in the department of Classics at the University of Oxford, and at Exeter College. My research interests include Latin philosophy, early Latin literature, literary aesthetics, and didactic poetry. I am currently producing a commentary on De Rerum Natura II, for Lorenzo Valla (Mondadori). I am also working on various Epicurean topics, as well as Virgil's Georgics, Ennius, and Manilius.                               

Book
- Lucretius and the Language of Nature. (OUP, 2020)

Edited volume
- Language and Nature in the Classical Roman World (edited with Giuseppe Pezzini) (CUP, 2019).

Articles and chapters:                                          
- 'Diogenes of Oinoanda on the meaning of 'pleasure' (NF 192)', ZPE  191, 2014: 84-89.
- 'Definition and ordinary language in Cicero, De Finibus 2', CP  111.1, 2016: 54-73.
- 'Rationalism and the theatre in Lucretius', CQ  66.1, 2016: 140-54.
- 'Memmius the Epicurean', CQ 67.2, 2017: 528-54. (with Llewelyn Morgan).
- 'First thoughts on language and nature' in Pezzini & Taylor (edd. 2019: 1-14).
- 'Common ground in De Rerum Natura', in Donncha O'Rourke (ed.) Approaches to Lucretius
(CUP, 2020).
- Lucretius and Early Latin' in J.N. Adams, A. Chahoud, G. Pezzini (edd.) Early Latin: Constructs, Diversity, Reception (CUP, 2023).

Work in Progress (email for draft):                                          
- 'Lucretius on coming-to-be and passing-away'
- 'Epicurean light and colour'
- 'Lucretian aesthetics' I and II
- 'Ennius: poetics and aesthetics'
- Untitled project on Virgil's Georgics.



You can contact me at barnaby.taylor[at]exeter.ox.ac.uk