Graham Zanker

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Graham Zanker (born 16 December 1947) is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury and an affiliate at the University of Adelaide. [1]

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He has published widely on Hellenistic poetry and art, Homeric ethics, and Virgilian epic. [2]

Education

Zanker received his B.A. from the University of Adelaide before proceeding to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Classical Philology. [3] [4]

He has undertaken research at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Cincinnati, [5] and been a resident scholar at the Fondation Hardt (Geneva), Center for Hellenic Studies, Institute of Classical Studies. He has also been an academic visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study. [6]

Career

Zanker's first book, Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and Its Audience (1987), was a groundbreaking investigation of the interrelation of Hellenistic poetry and art. [7] [8] Zanker then moved to Homeric ethics in The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad (1994), amending the schematic view of the psychological drives behind the behavior of the Homeric heroes by (e.g.) focusing on the reconciliation scene between Achilles and Priam in Iliad 24. [9] [10] He then returned to the interaction of Hellenistic art and literature in Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art (2004). [11] [12] He has recently written on Stoic fate in Virgil's Aeneid . [13]

He has also translated Thomas Szlezak's Platon Lesen (Reading Plato, 2005), [14] [15] [16] and authored an edition, translation, and commentary to HerodasMimiambs (2009). [17] [18] [19]

Zanker is currently working on a collaboration on Ch. G. Heyne's De Genio Saeculi Ptolemaeorum (1763), establishing its place in modern concepts of Hellenistic civilization. [20]

Selected publications

References

  1. "Graham Zanker". The University of Canterbury. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  2. "Zanker, G. (Graham) 1947-". OCLC WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  3. "Graham Zanker". The University of Canterbury. 13 October 2023. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  4. "Graham Zanker - Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study". www.ias.edu. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  5. "Tytus". classics.uc.edu. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
  6. "Graham Zanker - Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study". www.ias.edu. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  7. Woodman, A. J. (1988). "Alexandrian Realism - G. Zanker: Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: a Literature and its Audience. Pp. vi + 250. London: Croom Helm, 1987. £29.95" . The Classical Review. 38 (2): 266–268. doi:10.1017/S0009840X00121444. ISSN   1464-3561. S2CID   162201463.
  8. Griffin, Jasper (1989). "Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Review Article". Echos du Monde Classique: Classical Views. 33 (1): 59–65. ISSN   1913-5416.
  9. "Review of: The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN   1055-7660.
  10. Hainsworth, J. B. (1998). "G. Zanker: The Heart of Achilles: Characterization of Personal Ethics in the Iliad. Pp. viii + 173. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994" . The Classical Review. 48 (1): 166–167. doi:10.1017/S0009840X00330955. ISSN   1464-3561. S2CID   161432704.
  11. "Review of: Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN   1055-7660.
  12. Elsner, Jaś (2005). "Review of Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art". The American Journal of Philology. 126 (3): 461–463. ISSN   0002-9475. JSTOR   3804942.
  13. Zanker, Graham (2023). Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid: Stoic World Fate and Human Responsibility. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-009-31987-4.
  14. "Reading Plato". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  15. Poulakos, John (2001). "Reviews: Reading Plato, by Thomas A. Szlezak, Unending Conversations: New Writings by and about Kenneth Burke, by Greig Henderson and David Cratis Williams, Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village:Conversing with the Moderns, 1915-31, by Jack Selzer, Rhetorica Movet. Studies in Historical and Modern Rhetoric in Honour of Heinrich F. Plett, by Peter L. Oesterreich and Thomas O. Sloane" . Rhetorica. 19 (3): 341–347. doi:10.1525/rh.2001.19.3.341. ISSN   0734-8584.
  16. Bowery, Anne-Marie (2003). "Review: "Reading Plato"" . Essays in Philosophy. 4: 194–198. doi:10.5840/eip20034215.
  17. Herodas: Mimiambs. Aris and Phillips Classical Texts. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 1 August 2009. ISBN   978-0-85668-883-6.
  18. "Review of: Herodas: Mimiambs". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN   1055-7660.
  19. TELÒ, MARIO (2012). Zanker, G. (ed.). "HERODAS" . The Classical Review. 62 (2): 438–440. doi:10.1017/S0009840X12000480. ISSN   0009-840X. JSTOR   23270861. S2CID   231890811.
  20. "Graham Zanker - Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study". www.ias.edu. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2021.