Simon Goldhill

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Simon Goldhill

Simon Goldhill (* 1957 ) is an English Graecist and Professor of Greek Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge .

Research priorities

Goldhill received his doctorate with a dissertation that appeared in 1984 under the title Language Sexuality Narrative: the Oresteia , a work that already shows clear interest in the application of modern literary and cultural theory , especially the thought of Michel Foucault . This was followed by further innovative work on ancient Greek tragedy as well as on other literary genres (on the ancient Greek romance novel , on prose , the invention of which Goldhill attributes to the Greeks, on the Platonic dialogue and in particular on the relationship between literature and society in ancient Greece from the Classical Period to the Second Sophistry ). In two more recent books, Goldhill deals with the city of Jerusalem as a dreamscape , as a projection surface for the dreams of the conflicting Abrahamic religions. The reception history of ancient literature and culture dedicated to Gold Hill in diverse and committed manner, most recently in the book Love, Sex and Tragedy. How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives .

Goldlhill was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009 and a member of the British Academy in 2016 . In 2013 he received the Runciman Award for Sophocles and the language of tragedy .

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Sophocles and the language of tragedy , Oxford University Press 2012.
  • The End of Dialogue in Antiquity . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009, ISBN 0-521-88774-7 .
  • Jerusalem: City of Longing . Harvard University Press 2008 ISBN 0-674-02866-X - Publisher ad [1] - Google Books [2] - Book review: Donald Macintyre, A tour guide, not a road map , in: The Independent, Friday 30 May 2008 [3]
  • How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today. University of Chicago Press 2007, ISBN 978-0-226-30128-0 - Google Books [4]
  • The Temple of Jerusalem. Harvard University Press 2005, ISBN 0-674-01797-8 - Google Books [5] - Book review: Julia Pascal, The eternal city of warring dreams , in: The Independent, Thursday 2 September 2004 [6]
  • Love, Sex and Tragedy. How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives. University of Chicago Press 2004, ISBN 978-0-226-30117-4 - The Perfect Body : Excerpt from Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives . University of Chicago Press [7] - Book Review: Joan Smith, Why Nike is still kicking us . in: The Independent, Friday 21 May 2004 [8]
  • The Invention of Prose (Greece & Rome: new surveys in the classics, 32). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002, ISBN 0-198-52523-0 - Google Books [9]
  • Who Needs Greek? Contests in the cultural history of Hellenism . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002, ISBN 0-521-01176-0 - Google Books [10]
  • Foucault's virginity: ancient erotic fiction and the history of sexuality (The Stanford memorial lectures). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995, ISBN 0-521-47934-7 - Google Books [11]
  • Aeschylus: The Oresteia . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992, 2nd ed. 2004, ISBN 0-521-53981-1 - Google Books [12]
  • The poet's voice: essays on poetics and Greek literature . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991, ISBN 0-521-39570-4 - Google Books [13]
  • Reading Greek Tragedy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1986, ISBN 0-521-31579-4 - Google Books [14]
  • Language Sexuality Narrative: the Oresteia . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1984, Ndr. 2004, ISBN 0-521-60430-3 - Google Books [15]

Editorships

  • (Ed., With Robin Osborne ): Rethinking revolutions through ancient Greece . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006, ISBN 0-521-86212-4 - Google Books [16] review. Bernhard Smarczyk, in: Sehepunkte 8 (2008), No. 3 [17]
  • (Ed.): Being Greek under Rome: cultural identity, the Second Sophistic, and the development of empire . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001, ISBN 0-521-66317-2
  • (Ed., With Robin Osborne): Performance culture and Athenian democracy . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1999, ISBN 0-521-64247-7 - Google Books [18]
  • (Ed., With Robin Osborne): Art and Text in Greek Culture . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994.

Articles and contributions

  • Religion, Science and Greek Identity . in: Dorothee Elm von der Osten, Jörg Rüpke , Katharina Waldner (eds.): Texts as a medium and reflection of religion in the Roman Empire (Potsdamer Classical Studies , Vol. 14). Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006, 125–140, ISBN 3-515-08641-2 - Google Books [19]

Reviews

  • The Greeks and Greek Love , Review by: James Davidson, The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece . Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2007, ISBN 978-0-297-81997-4 , in: Times Higher Education, 10 January 2008 [20] .
  • Women at the Mercy of Men . Review of: Helen King, Hippocrates' Women: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece , Routledge, 1998, in: London Review of Books Vol. 21 No. 5, 4 March 1999 [21] .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors Simon Goldhill, April 22, 2009 ( Memento of May 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Love, Sex & Tragedy ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Goldhill, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1957