Christopher Whitton

Christopher Whitton is Professor of Latin literature at Cambridge University and Fellow of Emmanuel College, where he has taught since 2007.

I work on Latin literature of the early Roman Empire, especially Pliny the Younger and Tacitus, with particular interests in prose style, intertextuality and the intersection of literature and history. My commentary on Pliny’s second book of Epistles appeared in the Cambridge ‘green and yellow’ series in 2013, and a monograph entitled The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose: Pliny’s Epistles/Quintilian in Brief (Cambridge) was published in 2019. I have co-edited Oxford Readings in the Epistles of Pliny with Roy Gibson (Oxford, 2016), Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, AD 96-138 with Alice König (Cambridge, 2018), and the Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature, again with Roy Gibson (Cambridge, 2024). My main projects at the moment are a 'green and yellow' commentary, on Tacitus Annals 14, a monograph provisionally entitled Tacitus revoiced: reading the HIstories with Pliny the Younger, and two children. I am a series editor of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics ('green and yellows'),