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Richard P. Martin

Position: 

Donald Andrews Whittier fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (2011-12)
Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor of Classics
PhD Harvard 1981

Contact Information: 

Email: rpmartin@stanford.edu
Office: Building 110, Room 212
Mailcode: 2145

Office Hours: 

During 2011-12 on research leave at Stanford Humanities Center.

CV: 
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RPMartin CV 2011.pdf
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Current Projects

         I am at work on a book concerning Homeric religion. Other projects in progress include Rhapsoidia (about the meaning of ancient competitive performance for our understanding of the poems of Homer, Hesiod, and the hymns) and Mythologizing Performance (about Greek lyric and wisdom traditions). My new edition of Richmond Lattimore's Iliad translation appeared in October 2011.

Selected Publications

2010
“Apolo ejecutante,” in Mito y performance edit. A.M. González de Tobia,. La Plata,
Argentina.

2009
“Gnomes in Poems: Wisdom Performance on the Athenian Stage,” pp.116-27
in E. Karamalengou and E.D. Makrygianni (edit.) Antiphílesis: Studies on Classical,
Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature and Culture. In Honour of Professor John-
Theophanes A. Papademetriou. Stuttgart: Steiner.

“Read on Arrival,” in The Wandering Poets of Ancient Greece, edit. R. Hunter and I.
Rutherford. Cambridge.

2008
“Words Alone are Certain Good(s)” TAPA (138.2) 313-49

“Myth, Performance, Poetics: the Gaze from Classics,” pp. 45-52 in Ethnographica
Moralia: Experiments in Interpretive Anthropology, edit. Neni Panourgia and George
Marcus. New York: Fordham UP.

 

 

 

Selected Publications

Richmond Lattimore translation of the Iliad (Chicago)--introduction and notes by R.P. Martin 15 October 2011
Vana-Kreeka Müüdid (Estonian translation of Martin 2003) 1 March 2007
The Language of Heroes 15 June 2011
Myths of the Ancient Greeks (Richard Martin) 1 April 2003
Edward McCrorie translation of The Odyssey--notes and introduction by R. P. Martin 1 November 2005
Healing, Sacrifice, and Battle 1 April 1983
Bulfinch, Mythology--edited by R. P. Martin 1 December 1991
The Birds of Aristophanes (trans. Paul Muldoon, with R.P. Martin) 1 August 1999