She has written one monograph on Sappho (Bloomsbury: 2007), and was an invited panellist for 'The New Sappho on Old Age' for the 2007 APA Annual Meeting, which resulted in the edited collection, The New Sappho on Old Age: Textual and Philosophical Issues (Harvard UP: 2009) and includes her chapter, 'A reading of Sappho poem 58, fragment 31 and Mimnermus.' She has published widely on Catullus, including: 'Catullus 37 and the Theme of Magna Bella, Helios (1999) 'Catullus 2B: The development of a relationship in the passer trilogy,' Classical Journal (2003) 'Off with the Pixies: The Fey Folk of the Long Poems and Catullan Disclosure,' Classics Ireland (2006).
Marguerite’s research on gender, sexualities and the body regularly focus on Greek and Latin texts, particularly the poetry of Sappho and Catullus. Marguerite's contribution to the ARC project resulted in several publications, mostly concerned with Platonic eros and its representation in the definite expression of desire in the Classical Greek world, Plato's S ymposium, including: 'Fairytales and Make-Believe, or Spinning Tales about Poros and Penia,' Phoenix (2014) 'Storytelling and Authority: Critical Poetics in Plato's Symposium' in Reflections on Plato's Poetics: Essays from Beijing (Academic Printing and Publishing: 2014), which was also translated into Mandarin 'Porphyry and 'Neopythagorean' Exegesis in Cave of the Nymphs and Elsewhere,' Methexis (2018). Her research collaborations with Emeritus Professor Harold Tarrant include their edited collection, Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator (Bloomsbury: 2012), to which she contributed, 'The role of Eros in improving the pupil, or what Socrates learned from Sappho.' Her collaboration with Tarrant has also involved their contribution to the USyd-led ARC DP, 'Plato's Myth Voice: The Identification and Interpretation of Inspired Speech in Plato.' This project used recent discoveries about the language of ancient myths, oracles and allegories to understand similar discourse in Plato and the Platonic tradition (total funding: $314,557).
She has also published several major chapters on this area of research, including the entry on Roman gender for The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies (OUP: 2014) and 'Marked bodies: Divine, human, and bestial' for A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity (Bloomsbury: 2010). Her sole-authored second edition of Sexuality in Greek and Roman literature and society: A sourcebook (Routledge) was published in 2022. In relation to ancient representations of gender, sexualities and the body, Marguerite has published four books, most recently Ovid on Cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts (Bloomsbury: 2016), selected as an open access publication, funded by Knowledge Unlatched, and listed in Bloomsbury Collections. Gender, Sexualites and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean This research theme also underpins her other areas of enquiry, Classical Reception Studies, and ancient magic.ġ. She is especially interested in the ways in which the ancients write about women, sexuality and degrees of power. Her research expertise is predominantly in the area of ancient Mediterranean cultural studies, particularly in representations of gender, sexualities and the body. Marguerite Johnson is Professor of Classics.
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