Dr John Taylor

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Biography

Dr John Taylor (DPhil, MA) was educated at Balderstone School, Rochdale and Exeter College, Oxford. He was a full time Classics teacher from 1982-2012 and Head of Classics at St Francis Xavier’s College, Liverpool, from 1986-92. He was also Head of Classics at Tonbridge School from 1992-2012. He has been a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester since 2015. Dr Taylor has also been a tutor at the JACT Greek Summer School, Bryanston, since 1986 (Director of Studies 1993-2004, Director five times 2007-19). He has also been a member of the part-time tutor panel at ICE since 1993.

Qualifications:

PGCE, University of Durham

MA, University of Oxford, Exeter College

DPhil, University of Oxford, Exeter College

BA, University of Oxford, Exeter College

Research

Greek and Latin language teaching

Pausanias

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Latin Beyond GCSE (BCP 2009) second edition Bloomsbury 2017 , 2017
Greek Beyond GCSE (BCP 2008) second edition Bloomsbury 2017 , 2017
Latin Stories, with H Cullen and M Dormandy (BCP 2011) second edition Bloomsbury 2017 , 2017
Latin to GCSE Part 1 and Part 2, with H Cullen (Bloomsbury) , 2016
Greek Stories, with K Waite (Bloomsbury) second edition 2017 , 2017
Writing Greek, with S Anderson (BCP 2010) , 2010
Greek to GCSE: Part 1 and Part 2 (BCP 20003; second edition of Part 2 2008) , 2008
Classics and the Bible (Duckworth 2007) , 2007
Essential GCSE Latin (BCP 2006) , 2006
Greek Unseen Translation, with S Anderson (BCP 2005) , 2005
Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Classical Greek, with J Morwood (OUP 2002) , 2002
New Testament Greek- A Reader (CUP 2001) , 2001

BOOK CHAPTERS

‘Recognition Scenes in the Odyssey and the Gospels’ in Thomas L. Thompson and Philippe Wajdenbaum (eds) The Bible and Hellenism , 2014
‘Aristophanic Comedy’ in Neil Croally and Roy Hyde (eds) Classical Literature: An Introduction (Routledge) , 2011

Memberships

JACT Council

CA News editorial board

Anglo-Hellenic Review editorial board

Hellenic Society Council

Bristol Classical Press publishing committee