Professor Levene's primary interests are in Latin prose literature and Roman religion. Before coming to NYU he taught at Oxford, Durham, and Leeds; in 2004-6 he held a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship. His first book, Religion in Livy, came out in 1993; his current project, likewise on Livy, is entitled Livy and the Hannibalic War, and is to be published by Oxford University Press. In the intervening period he has published on Tacitus, Cicero, Sallust, Polybius, and Latin panegyric; his other current projects include studies of Cornelius Nepos and of the Roman imperial cult, and his next large project is to be an edition with commentary of Livy's fragments and epitome. He has edited the Oxford World's Classics edition of Tacitus' Histories and co-edited (with Damien Nelis) Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography (Leiden, 2002). Other interests include ancient Judaism and the reception of the ancient world in the cinema; he has written and taught on both.