Angus Bowie

Angus M. Bowie (* 1949 ) is a British classical philologist specializing in Greek studies .

After attending school in York , Bowie studied at Emmanuel College , Cambridge . From 1976 on he was employed as a lecturer at the Greek Department at Liverpool University . In 1979 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Cambridge with a dissertation on the poetic language of the lesbian poets Sappho and Alkaios. PhD. In 1981 he moved to Queen's College , Oxford , where he is now a Fellow and Tutor and Lobel Praelector in Classics. He was a senior tutor there from 1981 to 1987 and is now also the Fellow Librarian. He currently also heads the Faculty of Classics.

Bowie works exclusively on Greek literature , although he also teaches Latin literature . Among other things, he was able to show that Sappho and Alkaios did not write in a local dialect, but in a poetic language that all Greeks could understand. His study of the Comedy of Aristophanes is structured in a structuralist way and examines the use of myth and ritual . Other works, including a commentary, are dedicated to Herodotus and his image of the Persians . Various essays also deal with aspects of the Greek tragedy , Virgil , the victim , in addition, he took the lead in a conference on narratology. The last larger piece of work was a commentary on the Odyssey .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• The Poetic Dialect of Sappho and Alcaeus. New York 1981.
• Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy. Cambridge 1993. - Reviewed by Ralph M. Rosen, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 94.10.11 ; James F. McGlew, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 94.10.10 .
• Herodotus Book VIII. Cambridge 2007. - Review by Donald Latin, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 07/34/2008
• Homer: Odyssey Books XIII-XIV. Cambridge 2013. - Review by Robert Bostock, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 02/02/2015 .

Editing

• Irene JF de Jong , René Nünlist , Angus Bowie (Eds.): Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature. (= Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. Volume One. = Mnemosyne Supplement 257). Brill, Leiden 2004. - Review by Ruth Scodel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005-07-48

items

• The Death of Priam: Allegory and History in the Aeneid . In: Classical Quarterly 40, 1990, pp. 470-481.
• Greek Sacrifice: forms and functions . In: A. Powell (Ed.), The Greek World. London & New York 1995, pp. 463-482.
• Tragic Filters for History: Euripides' Supplices and Sophocles's Philoctetes. In: CBR Pelling (Ed.), Greek Tragedy and the Historian. Oxford 1997, 39-62.
• Athens and Delphi in Aeschylus' Oresteia. In: Simon Goldhill , Edith Hall (Eds.), Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition. Cambridge 2009, 208-231.

Web links

• Literature by and about Angus Bowie in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Personal page at Queen's College Oxford (with photograph)
• Personal page , Classics at Oxford (with photograph)