Tim Whitmarsh, author portrait
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Tim Whitmarsh

TIM WHITMARSH is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Trinity College. A specialist in the literature, culture, and religion of ancient Greece, he is the author of ten books, including Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World (Knopf 2015) and Dirty Love: the Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel (Oxford University Press 2018), and is Editor-in-Chielf of the Oxford Classical Dictionary (5th edition). Whitmarsh has contributed frequently to newspapers such as The GuardianThe Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books, as well as to BBC radio and TV. He lives in Cambridge, England.
Battling the Gods

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Mental Health Awareness Month Resources

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