Ian Rutherford

Ian C. Rutherford (* 1959 ) is a British Hellenist and professor of Greek at the University of Reading .

Life

Rutherford studied at Oxford and then was a lecturer at Harvard before being called to Reading University. Research stays have taken him to the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC and to the University of Cincinnati .

Research priorities

Rutherford works on early Greek poetry, poetry and epic, especially on Paian and Hesiod's catalog of women . He is interested in questions about the performance, about traveling poets, about the genre, the chronology and the tradition on papyrus . In the field of ancient Greek religion, he is primarily interested in the phenomenon of theoria , the state-supported ' pilgrimage ' to sanctuaries, but also connections between the Greek and Oriental religions. In addition, Rutherford deals with the connections between the ancient Anatolian cultures and the Mycenaean culture in Greece in the 2nd millennium BC. BC on the one hand and the contacts between ancient Egypt and Greece on the other.

Rutherford is a member of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song founded by Ewen Bowie and André Lardinois .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hittites, Greeks and their Neighbors in Ancient Anatolia. An International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction , Emory University, September 17-19, 2004 Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Graeco-Aegyptiaca / Aegypto-Graeca. Literary Interactions between Greece and Egypt 700 BCE-300 CE , University of Reading, September 17-19, 2007 [1]

Fonts (selection)

• (with R. Bagnall , B. Frier): The census list P.Oxy.984a (= P.Oxy.841 Recto). The Reverse of Pindar's Paeans in Pap.Brux. 29 . Leiden 1998.
• Canons of Style in the Antonine Age: the theory of "ideai" and its literary context, with a translation of Anonymous, Peri Aphelous Logou . Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-814729-5 , Google Books [2]
• Pindar's Paeans. A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre . Oxford: OUP 2001, ISBN 0-19-814381-8 , Google Books [3]
• (Ed., With Jas Elsner ): Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods . Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005, ISBN 0-19-925079-0 , Google Books [4]
• Prosodion. Approaches to a lyric genre . Naples 2004.
• Achilles and the Sallis Wastais ritual. Performing Death in Greece and Anatolia . In: N. Laneri (ed.): Performing Death. Social Analyzes of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean . Chicago: Oriental Institute 2007, 223-236.
• Theoria and Theater at Samothrace. The Dardanos of Dymas . In: Wilson, P. (ed.): The Greek Theater and Festivals Documentary Studies . Oxford, Oxford University Press 2007, 279-293.
• The Song of the Zintuhis. Choral and Ritual in Anatolia and Greece . In: BJ Collins, M. Bachvarova and IC Rutherford (eds.): Anatolian Interfaces . Oxford, Oxbow Books 2007, 73-84.
• (Ed., With Richard Hunter ): Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture: Travel, Locality and Pan-Hellenism . Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-89878-2 . Review by: Roosevelt Rocha, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.01.55 [5]

Web links

• Current page at Reading University [6]
• Older page at Reading University (2003) [7]