James EG Zetzel

James Eric Guttman Zetzel (born March 26, 1947 in London ) is an American classical philologist ( Latinist ).

Life

Zetzel is the son of Elizabeth Rosenberg Zetzel, a psychoanalyst who lived in Boston, and the psychiatrist Eric Guttman, who lived in London. After studying at Harvard University and the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London , he received his doctorate in 1973 with a dissertation on Latin Textual Criticism in Antiquity . After a short time at Brown University (1974/75 visiting assistant professor) he became an assistant professor at Princeton University in 1975 and an associate professor there in 1981. Since 1986 Zetzel has taught as Professor of Classics at Columbia University in New York . Since 2008 he has been Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature there .

He served on the editorial boards of Classical Philology and the Bryn Mawr Classical Review ; from 1983 to 1986 he was editor of the Transactions of the American Philological Association .

Since May 2013 he has been married to Katharina Volk , who also researches and teaches at Columbia University.

Research priorities

Zetzel works on Latin literature of the first century BC. BC, especially on Cicero , Catullus , Horace , Virgil and Properz , on the political philosophy of antiquity, on erudition and on the intellectual life in Rome as well as on the history of classical philology. He devoted special research to textual criticism in Rome and ancient forgeries as well as the appropriation of Greek literature in Ciceros Rome. He has contributed articles on Catullus, Horace and Properz to the corresponding volumes of the Oxford Readings in Classical Studies and articles on the Cambridge Companions on Cicero and Virgil.

Awards

Zetzel has held research fellowships with the American Council of Learned Societies , the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

• Latin Textual Criticism in Antiquity . Arno Press, New York 1981; Reprinted by Ayer Co., Salem, NH 1984.
• Marginal Scholarship and Textual Deviance: The Commentum Cornuti and the early scholia on Persius (= Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement Vol. 84), London 2005.
• Critics, Compilers, and Commentators. An Introduction to Roman Philology, 200 BCE-800 CE , Oxford University Press, New York 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-538051-4 ; ISBN 978-0-19-538052-1 .

Text editions and translations

• Cicero: Ten Speeches , translated with notes and introduction. Hackett, 2009.
• with Wendell Vernon Clausen (ed.): Commentum Cornuti in Persium recognoverunt et adnotatione critica instruxerunt. Saur Verlag, Leipzig 2004.
• Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws , translated with notes and introduction. ( Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought ). Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1999.
• Cicero, De re publica: selections (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics), Cambridge UP, Cambridge 1995

Co-editing

• FA Wolf, Prolegomena to Homer , translated with an introduction and notes by AT Grafton , GW Most , and JEG Zetzel (Princeton University Press, 1986; corrected paperback reprint, 1989)

items

• The Bride of Mercury: A Tale of Two Sisters. Confessions of a Pataphilologist , in: World Philology , ed. Sheldon Pollock et al. (Harvard)
• Philosophy is in the Streets , in: K. Volk and Williams, eds., Latin Philosophy .
• Political Philosophy , in: Cambridge Companion to Cicero , ed. C. Steel (Cambridge, 2013) 181–195
• A Contract on Ameria: Law and Legality in Cicero's Pro Roscio Amerino , in: American Journal of Philology 134 (2013)
• 'Arouse the Dead': Mai, Leopardi and Cicero's Commonwealth in Restoration Italy , in: Reception and the Classics , ed. W. Brockliss et al. = Yale Classical Studies 36 (Cambridge, 2011) 19–44.
• The Influence of Cicero on Ennius , in: Ennius Perennis , ed. E. Gowers and W. Fitzgerald (Cambridge Philological Society, Supplement 31, 2007) 1-16.

Web links

• Personal Page, Columbia University (with photography and CV)
• Curriculum vitae and list of publications (as of 2013)
• Other personal page, Columbia University, New York
• Wedding advertisement , New York Times March 26, 2013