Malcolm Davies

Malcolm Davies (* 1951 ) is a British Graecist .

Davies is a tutor and fellow at St John's College , Oxford , and has been a lecturer at Oxford University since 1978 . He now has the title of professor.

Davies works on archaic epic poetry and lyrical poetry, especially stesichoros , and has published significant collections of fragments. Another subject of research is Sophocles and his reception, especially that of Elektra in the opera Elektra von Strauss and in the drama von Hofmannsthal . The monograph on Greek insects is inspired by biologist D'Arcy Thompson's predecessors , A Glossary of Greek Birds (1936) and A Glossary of Greek Fishes (1947).

Fonts (selection)

• The Aethiopis: Neo-neoanalysis reanalyzed. Harvard University Press, 2016.
• The Theban Epics. Harvard University Press, 2015.
• with Patrick Finglass (Ed.): Stesichorus: Poems . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015.
• Gilbert Murray and AE Housman , in: Christopher Stray , Gilbert Murray Reassessed: Hellenism, Theater, and International Politics. Oxford UP, Oxford 2007.
• The three Electras: Strauss, Hofmannsthal, Sophocles and the tragic vision , in: Antike und Abendland 45, 1999, 36–65.
• Sophocles, Trachiniae . With introduction and commentary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1991.
• (Ed.): Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta . Volume I: Alcman, Stesichorus, Ibycus. Post DL Page . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1991.
• (Ed.): The Epic Cycle . Bristol University Press 1989, second edition 2001.
• (Ed.): Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1988.
• Prolegomena and paralegomena to a new edition (with commentary) of the fragments of early Greek epic. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1986.
• with Jeyaraney Kathirithamby: Greek Insects. Duckworth, London 1986.

Web links

• Literature by and about Malcolm Davies in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Personal page at St John's College, Oxford
• Personal page at the Faculty of Classics, Oxford University