The Cambridge Guide to Homer

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Graeme D. Bird teaches courses in linguistics and Classics at Gordon College, in Wenham, MA. In addition he teaches mathematics at the Harvard Extension School, including
a course called Mathematics and the Greeks. His research interests include the relationships between Homeric poetry and jazz piano improvisation, and he has given several
performance presentations illustrating these connections.
Bryan E. Burns is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Wellesley College and codirector of the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project, which conducts excavations at
ancient Eleon. He studies the effects of Mediterranean exchange on Late Bronze Age arts
and society as represented by his 2010 monograph, Mycenaean Greece, Mediterranean
Commerce, and the Formation of Identity (Cambridge University Press). He also studies
the history of Aegean archaeology and the reception of Minoan and Mycenaean imagery in
later periods.
Joel P. Christensen is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at
Brandeis University. In addition to articles on language, myth and literature in the Homeric
epics, publications include Beginner’s Guide to Homer (2013) and Homer’s Thebes (2019,
forthcoming) with Elton T. E. Barker, as well as A Commentary on the Homeric Battle of
Frogs and Mice (2018) with Erik Robinson. He is currently completing a book on the
Odyssey and modern psychology.
Jenny Strauss Clay is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics Emerita at the University
of Virginia. Her research interests focus mainly on archaic Greek poetry, on which she has
written extensively, including four books: The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in Homer’s
Odyssey (1983, reprint 1996), The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major
Homeric Hymns (1989, reprint 2005), Hesiod’s Cosmos (2003, Cambridge University Press),
and Homer’s Trojan Theater (2011, Cambridge University Press). In addition, she has
published over sixty articles on Greek and Roman poetry. She is currently working with
Athanassios Vergados on a commentary on Hesiod’s Theogony.
Eric Cline is Professor of Classics and Anthropology, and founder and director of the
Capitol Archaeological Institute, at George Washington University, in Washington, DC.
His research interests are Bronze Age Aegean, trade and interconnections between the
Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, and military history.
Erwin Cook is the Murchison Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University, San
Antonio, Texas. He studied at the Universities of Zürich, Freiburg im Breisgau, and
California-Berkeley, where he received his PhD in 1990. His publications include The
Odyssey in Athens (1995) which seeks to integrate epic performance into the religious life of
Athens. His article, “‘Active’ and ‘Passive’ Heroics in the Odyssey,” was selected for
inclusion in Oxford Readings: Homer’s Odyssey (2009). His current project is a commentary
on the first four books of the Iliad for a complete new edition by the Fondazione
Lorenzo Valla.
Jan Paul Crielaard is Professor and Chair of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam. One of his research foci concerns the Aegean from the outgoing
Bronze Age to the Archaic period. He has published extensively on elites and elite
behavior, early Greek cults and cultplaces, Mediterranean interconnectivity, Greekindigenous relationships in Italy, and Homeric archaeology. A common theme in his work
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