Gay, Marco

Academic background

After spending five years in Pavia as a student of the Collegio Ghislieri, obtaining a BA and an MA in Classics from the University of Pavia and a BA diploma and an MA diploma in Humanities from the School for Advanced Studies (IUSS) of Pavia, Marco Gay moved to the University of St Andrews to study for a PhD in Classics. Before joining St Anne’s, he worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Teaching Fellow and Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, where he contributed to modules in Ancient Greek, Latin and Classical Studies.

Teaching

Undergraduate: Literae Humaniores (Classics); Classics and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Classics and English; Classics and Modern Languages.

Research interests

Greek and Latin literary exegesis, theories of fiction and literary criticism; the Virgilian exegetical tradition; Latin poetry; Classical reception.

Recent Publications

– M. Gay, Historia al di là dei fatti: un’analisi della nota Serv. ad Aen. 1,235, in M. De Nonno, E. Romano (ed. by), Atti del VI Seminario Nazionale per dottorandi e dottori di ricerca in Studi Latini, Palermo, Palumbo, 2022, pp. 112-141.

– M. Gay, Servius on Bios, Ethos, Pathos and the Two Hexads of the Aeneid, Philologia Antiqua, 15 2022, pp. 89-118.

– M. Gay, Fato Profugus. Aeneas the Refugee: an Italian Debate, in K. Beerden, T. Epping (ed. by), Classical Controversies, Leiden, Sidestone Press, 2022, pp. 123-138.

– M. Gay, L’Eneide, l’età del bronzo, l’età degli eroi: un’interpretazione di Serv. ad Aen. 8,314 e 12,87, Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica, 2/19 2021, pp. 221-241.

– M. Gay, Ov. met. 13,627-630: una proposta di lettura, Latomus, 4/80 2021, pp. 812-824.

– M. Gay, review of Calboli (G.) (ed., trans.) Cornifici seu Incerti Auctoris Rhetorica ad C.Herennium. Vol. I: Prolegomena, testo critico e traduzione. Vol. II: Commento, bibliografia e indici. Vol. III: Lexicon Verborum omnium quae in Ret.Her. adhibita sunt. Pp. x + 1786, colour pls. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. Cased, £226.50, €249, US$290. ISBN: 978-3-11-055709-1, The Classical Review, 2/71 2021, pp. 391-394.

– R. Colombo, F. Gasti, M. Gay, F. Sorbello (ed. by), Il vero condito: caratteri e ambiti della poesia didascalica nel mondo antico. Atti della XI Giornata Ghisleriana di filologia classica (Pavia, Collegio Ghislieri, 29-30 Novembre 2017), Pavia University Press, 2019.