Graham Zanker

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Graham Zanker

Graham Zanker is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury and an affiliate at the University of Adelaide. He has published widely on Hellenistic poetry and art, Homeric ethics, and Virgilian epic.

Education

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

He has undertaken research at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Cincinnati, 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.

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. 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. He then returned to the interaction of Hellenistic art and literature in Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art (2004).

He has also translated Thomas Szlezak’s Platon Lesen (Reading Plato, 2005), and authored an edition, translation, and commentary to Herodas’ Mimiambs (2009).

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.

Publications

• “Callimachus' Hecale. A new kind of epic hero?” Antichthon, XI (1977) 68-77
• “The love theme in Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica” Wiener Studien, XIII, N.F. (1979) 52-75
• “Simichidas' walk and the locality of Bourina in Theocritus, Id. 7” Classical Quarterly, XXX (1980) 373-377
• “Enargeia in the ancient criticism of poetry” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, CXXIV (1981) 297-311
• “The nature and origin of realism in Alexandrian poetry” Antike und Abendland, XXIX (1983) 125-145
• “A Hesiodic reminiscence in Virgil, E.9.11-13” Classical Quarterly, XXXV (1985) 235-237
• “The Works and Days. Hesiod's Beggar's Opera?” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London, XXXIII (1986) 26-36
• Realism in Alexandrian poetry. A literature and its audience (London: Croom Helm, 1987)
• “TIMH in Hesiod's Theogony” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies of the University of London, XXXV (1988) 73-78
• “Current trends in the study of Hellenic myth in early third-century Alexandrian poetry: the case of Theocritus” Antike und Abendland, XXXV (1989) 83-103
• “Loyalty in the Iliad, VI” in: Papers of the Leeds international Latin seminar, sixth volume, 1990: Roman poetry and drama, Greek epic, comedy, rhetoric, ed. by Francis Cairns and Malcolm Heath, ARCA, 29 (Leeds: Cairns, 1990) 211-227
• “Sophocles' Ajax and the heroic values of the Iliad” Classical Quarterly, XLII (1992) 20-25
• The heart of Achilles: characterization of personal ethics in the Iliad (Ann Arbor (Mich.): University of Michigan Pr., 1994)
• “Pictorial description as a supplement for narrative: the labour of Augeas' stables in Heracles Leontophonos” American Journal of Philology, 117.3 (1996) 411-423
• Callimachus and his critics: a response Prudentia, 29.1 (1997) 34-46
• “The concept and use of genre-marking in Hellenistic epic and fine art” in: Genre in Hellenistic poetry, ed. by M. Annette Harder, Remeo Ferdinand Regtuit and Gerry C. Wakker, Hellenistica Groningana, 3 (Groningen: Forsten, 1998) 225-238
• “Beyond reciprocity: the Akhilleus-Priam scene in Iliad 24” in: Reciprocity in ancient Greece, ed. by Christopher Gill, Norman Postlethwaite and Richard A. S. Seaford (Oxford: Clarendon Pr., 1998) 73-92
• Reading Plato, translator (London: Routledge, 1999)
• “Aristotle's « Poetics » and the painters” American Journal of Philology, 121.2 (2000) 225-235
• “New light on the literary category of « ekphrastic epigram » in antiquity: the new Posidippos (col. X 7-XI 19 P. Mil.Vogl. VIII 309)” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 143 (2003) 59-62
• Modes of viewing in Hellenistic poetry and art Wisconsin Studies in Classics (Madison (Wis.): University of Wisconsin Pr., 2004)
• “Poetry and art in Herodas, Mimiamb 4” in: Beyond the canon, ed. by M. Annette Harder, Remeo Ferdinand Regtuit and Gerry C. Wakker, Hellenistica Groningana, 11 (Leuven; Dudley (Mass.): Peeters, 2006) 357-377
• Mimiambs, editor, Aris and Phillips Classical Texts (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2009)
• “The Hellenistic theory of poetic genre-crossing: an analogy for interpreting Hellenistic art?” in: L' héroïque et le champêtre. 2, Appropriation et déconstruction des théories stylistiques dans la pratique des artistes et dans les modalités d’exposition des œuvres, ed. by Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc, Claude Pouzadoux and Évelyne Prioux, Modernité Classique (Nanterre: Pr. Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2014), 59-72
• “« Paremus ovantes »: Stoicism and human responsibility in Aeneid 4” Classical Quarterly, N. S., 66.2 (2016) 580-597
• “Stoic cosmic fate and Roman imperium in the Aeneid” Classical Philoogy, 114.1 (2019) 153-163
• “A Note on Anchises’ Romane at Virgil, Aeneid 6.851” Mnemosyne, 74.2 (2021) 329-337

External links

Zanker at the University of Canterbury, including list of publications