Ewen Bowie, Corpus Christi College Oxford: Sacadas' Story

February 27, 2008, 5 pm, HUMN 135

Few scholars have made lasting and influential contributions to as many areas within classical studies as Professor Ewen Bowie, recently retired from Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Professor Bowie has published widely on Archaic Greek Elegy and Iambus, Athenian Old Comedy, Hellenistic Poetry, and the literature and culture of the Greek world in the first three centuries CE (especially the so-called “Second Sophistic”). He has devoted particular attention to the ancient novel, and his edition of Longus’ Daphnis & Chloe with commentary, for the series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, is eagerly awaited. In his lecture, he will draw on interdisciplinary sources to reconstruct the work of the sixth-century BCE elegiac poet and musician Sacadas, whose compositions on Apollo, now lost, were famous in antiquity.