Individuals

Professor of Classics Graham Zanker

Professor - Classics -  University of Canterbury

Telephone:	364-2987 Ext 8599
Address:	Department of Classics, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800 Christchurch, New Zealand

Research Interests:

Alexandrian poetry.Ancient literary criticism.Early Greek epic.Hellenistic poetry and art.

Publications:

Research and Publications
 
Books

1. Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art (Madison, Wisconsin, 2004); though this book was published in December 2003 no reviews have appeared at the time of this application.
2. Reading Plato (London and New York, 1999, an edited translation of Thomas A. Szlezák, Platon lesen (Stuttgart, 1993); reviews so far: Classical Review N.S. 50 (2000) 145-7 (Boys-Stones).
3. The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad (Ann Arbor, 1994, paperback 1996); reviews so far: Journal of the Association of Classics Teachers, Autumn 1994, 16 (Jones); Choice 32, (January 1995) (Golden); Greece and Rome 2nd Ser. 42 (1995) 108 (Walcot); The Classical Bulletin 71 (1995) (a special volume Understanding Achilles) 139-41 (a joint review by Shay and Golden); Classical World 89.6 (1996) (Ascher); Journal of Hellenic Studies 116, (1996) 190 (Clarke); Mnemosyne 50 (1997) 622-29 (van Erp Taalman Kip); Bryn Mawr Classical Review 9.5 (1998) 494-8 (Holoka); Classical Review N.S. 48 (1998) 166-7 (Hainsworth).
4. Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and its Audience (London, 1987); reviews so far: Greece and Rome 2nd Ser. 34 (1987) 216 (Rutherford); Classical Review N.S. 38 (1988) 266-8 (Woodman); Journal of the Association of Classics Teachers, Summer 1988, 21 (Loney); Liverpool Classical Monthly 13.1 (1988) 11-13 (Arnott); Revue des Études Grecques 101 (1988) 571-2 (Vian); Échos du Monde Classique/Classical Views N.S. 8 (1989) 59-65 (J. Griffin; review article); Classical World 83 (1989-90) 371 (Clack); Museum Helveticum 48 (1991) 196-7 (Gelzer); Phoenix 45 (1991) 359-61 (Schmiel); Quaderni Urbinati di cultura classica 44 (1993) 131-7 (Weiss).

In Progress: Herodas’ Mimiamboi: A Text, Translation, Commentary and Interpretative Studies (Oxbow Publishers).

Articles in refereed scholarly journals and chapters in books

1. ‘Characterization in Epigram’, in P. Bing and J.S. Bruss (eds.), Brill’s Companion to Hellenistic Epigram: Down to Philip (Leiden, forthcoming) 

2. ‘Poetry and Art in Herodas, Mimiamb 4’, in M.A. Harder et al. (eds.), Beyond the Canon, Hellenistica Groningana 7 (Groningen, forthcoming)  

3. ‘New Light on the Literary Category of ‘Ekphrastic Epigram’ in Antiquity: The New Posidippus (col. X7-XI19 P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309)’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 143 (2003) 59-62.

4. ‘Aristotle’s Poetics and the Painters’, American Journal of Philology, 121 (2000) 225-35.

5. ‘Genre-Marking in Hellenistic Poetry and Art’, in M.A. Harder et al. (eds.), Genre in Hellenistic Poetry, Hellenistica Groningana 3 (Groningen, 1998) 225-38.

6. ‘Pictorial Description as a Supplement for Narrative: the Labour of Augeas’ Stables in the Heracles Leontophonos’, American Journal of Philology, 117 (1996) 411-23.

7. Essay (by invitation) on Callimachus’ Hecale, in the Reference Guide to World Literature (London, 1996) 215.

8. Essay (by invitation) on Theocritus, Idyll 7, in the Reference Guide to World Literature (London, 1996) 1200f.

9. Essay (by invitation) on Callimachus’ Aetia, in the Reference Guide to World Literature (London, 1996) 214f.

10. ‘Sophocles’ Ajax and the Heroic Values of the Iliad’, Classical Quarterly, N.S. 42 (1992) 20-5.

11. ‘Loyalty in the Iliad’, Papers of the Leeds Latin Seminar 6 (1990) 211-27.

12. ‘"Rausch" and "Persönlichkeit": Tristan versus Antigone in Alfred Döblin's November 1918’, German Life and Letters 42 (1989) 377-83.

13. ‘Current Trends in the Study of Hellenic Myth in early Third-Century Alexandrian Poetry: The Case of Theocritus’, Antike und Abendland 35 (1989) 83-103.
 
14. ‘timÆ in Hesiod's Theogony’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 35 (1988) 73-8.

15. ‘The Works and Days: Hesiod's Beggar's Opera?’, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 33 (1986) 26-36.

16. ‘A  Hesiodic Reminiscence in Virgil, E. 9.11-13’, Classical Quarterly N.S. 35 (1985) 235-7.

17. ‘The Nature and Origin of Realism in Alexandrian Poetry’, Antike und Abendland 29 (1983) 125-45.

18. ‘Enargeia in the Ancient Criticism of Poetry’, Rheinisches Museum N.F. 124 (1981) 297-311.

19. ‘Simichidas’ Walk and the Locality of Bourina in Theocritus, Id. 7’, Classical Quarterly N.S. 30 (1980) 373-7.

20. ‘The Love Theme in Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica’, Wiener Studien N.F. 13 (1979) 52-75.

21. ‘Callimachus’ Hecale: A New Kind of Epic Hero?’, Antichthon 11 (1977) 68-77.

Chapter in Book (refereed)

1.  ‘Beyond Reciprocity: The Akhilleus-Priam Scene in Iliad 24’, Chapter Three in C. Gill et al. (eds.), Reciprocity in Ancient Greece. (Oxford, 1998) 73-92.

 

Reviews in Professional Journals (all invited and refereed)

1.  Small, (J.P.) The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text (Cambridge, 2003): Classical Bulletin (in press).
 
2.  Hesk (J.) Sophocles: Ajax (London, 2003): Classical Review (in press).

3. L. Ceccarelli, L’Eroe e il suo limite: Responsibilità personale e valutazione etica nell’Iliade (Bari, 2001): Gnomon 75 (2003) 1-4.

4. Donna F. Wilson, Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad (Cambridge, 2002): Classical Journal 99.3 (2003-2004) 343-7.

5. G. Wöhrle, Telemachs Reise: Väter und Söhne in Ilias und Odyssee oder ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der Männlichkeitsideologie in der homerischen Welt, Hypomnemata 124 (Göttingen, 1998): Classical Review 50 (2000) 572-3.

6. M.A. Seiler, POIHSIS POIHSEVS: Alexandrinische Dichtung kata lepton in strukturaler und humanethologischer Deutung, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 102 (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1997): Classical Review 49 (1999) 13-15.

7. D.C. Feeney, The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition (Oxford 1991): Prudentia 29 (1997) 68-72.

8. A. Cameron, Callimachus and his Critics (Princeton, 1995): Prudentia 29 (1997) 34-46.

9. J. Shay, Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character (New York, 1994): Philosophy and Literature 19 (1995) 376-7.

10. J.B. Hainsworth, The Idea of Epic (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1991): Journal of Hellenic Studies 113 (1993) 179-80.

11. W.V. Harris, Ancient Literacy (Cambridge, Mass., 1989): Philosophy and Literature 15 (1991) 173-5.