Nicholas Horsfall | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 September 1946 |
| Died | 1 January 2019 (aged 72) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Westminster School |
| Alma mater | Peterhouse, Cambridge Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Influences | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Sub-discipline | Latin literature |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Notable works | Five commentaries on Vergil's Aeneid (2000–2013) |
Nicholas Mark Horsfall (19 September 1946 – 1 January 2019) was a British scholar of Latin literature. Educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he worked as a lecturer at University College London, but retired in 1987. He was a specialist on the works of the Roman poet Vergil and published five commentaries (2000–2013) on individual books of his Aeneid. This series of commentaries was described by the Latinist James O'Hara as "one of the most remarkably productive and rich periods of publication of any modern classicist".[1]