Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (born September 7, 1960 ) is an American Graecist .
Acosta-Hughes studied Classics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and graduated with a BA in 1987. He then deepened his studies in Classics at the University of California at Berkeley and earned his MA in 1990, followed by a doctoral degree there; the Ph.D. was awarded in 1995.
In 1999 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan, and in 2005 he was appointed Associate Professor of Greek and Latin, and at the same time Associate Professor of Comparative Literature. In 2009 he moved to Ohio State University as Professor of Greek and Latin , where he has also been Chair of Classics since 2011. He has also been Professor associato esterno at the Università di Roma Tre since 2007 .
His research focus is Hellenistic poetry ( Callimachos , Apollonios of Rhodes , Poseidippos ).
Fonts (selection)
- Monographs
- Polyeideia - The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition (= Hellenistic Culture and Society. Volume XXXV). Berkeley 2002.
- Arion's Lyre. Archaic Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry. Princeton 2010.
- with Susan Stephens : Callimachus in Context. From Plato to the Augustan Poets. Cambridge 2012.
- Editorships
- with M. Baumbach , E. Kosmetikatou: Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309). Washington, DC 2004.
- with Luigi Lehnus and Susan A. Stephens: Brill's Companion to Callimachus. Leiden 2011.
- with C.Cusset, Y. Durbec and D. Pralon: Homère revisité. Parody et humor in the réécritures homeriques. Besançon 2011.
- with Christophe Cusset: Euphorion de Chalcis. Les Fragments. Paris 2012.
- with F. Grewing and A. Kirichenko: The Door Ajar. False Closure in Greek and Roman Literature and Art (= Library of Classical Classical Studies . New Series, 2nd Series, Volume 132). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-5697-2 .
Web links
- Personal page at Ohio State University
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Graecist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1960 |