Richard Garnett, a Callimachus in the British Museum?

Fri. Jan. 30 04:00 PM - Fri. Jan. 30 05:00 PM

Dr. Flavia Vasconcellos Amaral, University of Winnipeg

January 30, 2026 | 4:00-5:00pm | 2L17

Known by his infallible memory and cordiality when serving users of the British Museum Library, Richard Garnett was more than a librarian. He was a poet, a translator, an editor, and the author of many books, acting as Callimachus did in the Hellenistic period: a librarian-poet. He had great knowledge of so-called universal literature, and he mastered several languages, including Greek and Latin. This presentation aims at understanding Richard Garnett’s role and choices as an editor and anthologist of classical texts in the transatlantic anthologies, and how such anthologies were then changed over time by local editors, reconfiguring which classical texts remained and their order.