Maeve O'Brien

Maeve O’Brien was born in Galway, Republic of Ireland. She was educated in Salerno Secondary School, Salthill, Galway and in NUI Galway and Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA. She took up a permanent teaching post at Maynooth University in 1991.
Her interests are in Latin literature especially Virgil and Catullus. Her principal research subject is the ancient novel and its reception of earlier literature especially the second-century-AD Latin writer and philosopher Apuleius’ use of the Platonic dialogues as intertexts. Her book on this subject isApuleius Debt to Plato in the Metamorphoses (Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002). She works chiefly on Apuleius, Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), but is also interested in his philosophical writing and in the culture and learning of the second century AD. Classical presences in poetry written in Ireland especially poetry written in the eighteenth century is another area of research.