Christoper G. Brown
William Sherwood Fox Professor of Classics
Special Interests:
Greek poetry, drama, and religion; Roman poetry. Publications: contributor to A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets, Der neue Pauly, and The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization; articles on Homer, Archilochus, Hipponax, Anacreon, Pindar, Aristophanes, etc.
Current Teaching (2012-2013):
Research Interests:
Greek poetry, drama, and religion; Roman poetry
A commentary on Pindar's Ninth Pythian
A series of papers on various problems in Pindar (Ol. 2, Pyth. 2, 8, 9)
Selected Recent Publications:
"The Parched Furrow and the Loss of Youth: Archilochus fr. 188 West," Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica n.s. 50 (1995) 29-35
"In the Cyclops' Cave: Revenge and Justice in Odyssey 9," Mnemosyne 49 (1996) 1-29
Chapters on Iambos, Archilochus, Semonides, Hipponax in D. E. Gerber (ed.), A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets (E. J. Brill, Leiden 1997) 13-88
"Politician, Pathic, Profligate: Three Targets (Aristophanes, Frogs 416-430)," Eikasms 8 (1997) 59-67
"Where Armies Clash: Statius, Thebaid 9.674," Rheinisches Museum 142 (1999) 321-326
Articles on Dithyramb, Poetry: Epic (Antiquity), Poetry: Lyric (Antiquity) in G. Speake (ed.), Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition 2 vols. (London 2000)
"Arrows and Etymology: Gaetulicus Epitaph for Archilochus," Classical Philology 94 (2001) 429-432
Article on 'Volkslieder,' Der neue Pauly: Enzyklopdie der Antike / herausgegeben von Hubert Cancik und Helmuth Schneider (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1996-2002) vol. 12.2.301-303
The Stele of Mnesagora and Nikochares (CEG 84)," Zeitschrift fr Papyrologie und Epigraphik 152 (2005) 1-5
Articles on Heralds; Honour; Language and Languages; Philology, Comparative; Pindar; Scholia; Textual Criticism; Transmission in G. Shipley et al. (eds), The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization (Cambridge 2006)
"Pindar on Archilochus and the Gluttony of Blame (Pyth. 2.52-56)," Journal of Hellenic Studies 126 (2006) 36-46
"The Precinct of Zeus and Parmenis' Immortality (CEG 2.693)," Zeitschrift fr Papyrologie und Epigraphik 170 (2009) 21-27
"Greek Poetry: Iambos," Oxford Bibliographies Online (2011)
"To the Ends of the Earth: Sappho on Tithonus," Zeitschrift fr Papyrologie und Epigraphik (forthcoming)
