Ewen Bowie

Ewen Lyall Bowie (born June 29, 1940 in Coupar Angus , Perthshire , Scotland ) is a British Graecist and Fellow of Corpus Christi College and Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages ​​and Literature at Oxford University .

After graduating, Bowie was EP Warren Praelector in Classics at Corpus Christi College from 1965 until retirement in 2007 .

Bowie mainly works on the elegy and iambos of the early Greek period, on the old comedy, on Hellenistic poetry and on the literary culture of the imperial era, in particular on the so-called Second Sophistics , the Greek novel and imperial poetry. He is regarded as one of the leading experts in these specialist areas. Together with André Lardinois from the University of Nijmegen , he founded the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song in spring 2007 . He is also preparing a commentary on the novel of Longos , Daphnis and Chloe .

Publications (selection)

Editorships

• with Jaś Elsner : Philostratus . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-82720-1 .

Contributions to edited volumes

• Historical Narrative in Archaic and Early Classical Greek elegy . in: Epic and History (Ancient World, Vol. 1). Ed. by David Konstan , Kurt A. Raaflaub . John Wiley and Sons, 2010, ISBN 1-4051-9307-7 , pp . 145–166, Google Books [1]
• The Ups and Downs of Aristophanic Travel . in: Aristophanes in performance, 421 BC-AD 2007. Peace, Birds and Frogs . Ed. by Edith Hall , Amanda Wrigley. MHRA, 2007, ISBN 1-904350-61-5 , pp. 31–52, Google Books [2]
• The geography of the Second Sophistic: Cultural variations . in: Barbara Borg (Ed.): Paideia: the world of the second sophistic . (Millennium Studies of Culture and History of the First Millennium AD, Vol. 2). Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-11-018231-9 , pp. 65–86, Google Books [3]
• Early Greek Iambic Poetry: The Importance of Narrative . in: Iambic ideas: essays on a poetic tradition from Archaic Greece to the late Roman Empire . Ed. by Alberto Cavarzere, Antonio Aloni, Alessandro Barchiesi . Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, ISBN 0-7425-0817-X , pp. 1–28, Google Books [4]
• Lyric and Elegiac Poetry . in: The Oxford history of Greece and the Hellenistic world . Ed. by John Boardman , Jasper Griffin , Oswyn Murray . Oxford: Oxford University Press 2001, ISBN 0-19-280137-6 , pp. 107–125, Google Books [5]
• Philostratus: Writer of Fiction . In: John Robert Morgan, Richard Stoneman (Eds.): Greek Fiction: The Greek Novel in Context . London - New York 1994, pp. 181ff.
• Apollonius of Tyana: Tradition and Reality . In: Rise and Fall of the Roman World . Vol. II 16, 2. Berlin - New York 1978, pp. 1652-1699.

literature

• Simon Swain, Stephen J. Harrison , Jaś Elsner (Eds.): Severan Culture . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007 (Festschrift for Ewen Bowie), ISBN 978-0-521-85982-0 , Google Books [6]

Web links

• Homepage at the Classics Department, Oxford
• Quid Roma Athenis? How far did imperial Greek sophists or philosophers debate the legitimacy of Roman power? Lecture abstract for the Convegno of the Fondazione Canussio 2008: Ordine e sovversione nel mondo greco e romano [7]
• zaw.uni-heidelberg.de: Short biography (2003)