David Konstan (–2024)
Author of Homer's Iliad (Monarch Notes)
About the Author
David Konstan is a professor in the Department of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University.
Works by David Konstan
Hierocles the Stoic: Elements of Ethics, Fragments, and Excerpts (Writings from the Greco-Roman World) (2009) — Translator — 18 copies
Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres (Princeton Legacy Library) (1994) 17 copies
Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece (Edinburgh Leventis Studies) (2003) — Editor — 6 copies
The philosophizing muse : the influence of Greek philosophy on Roman poetry (2014) — Editor — 4 copies
Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes) (2017) — Editor — 4 copies
Life of Aesop the Philosopher (Writings from the Greco-Roman World 50) (2023) — Translator — 3 copies
Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue (Greek Studies.) (1999) — Editor — 3 copies
Arethusa (vol 13 no 2): Indo-European Roots of Classical Culture — Guest Editor — 1 copy
Associated Works
The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome (2002) — Contributor — 57 copies
Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, periodization and the ancient world (1996) — Contributor — 29 copies
War and Peace in the Ancient World (Ancient World: Comparative Histories) (2007) — Contributor — 21 copies
Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage) (2000) — Contributor — 16 copies
The birth of comedy : texts, documents, and art from Athenian comic competitions, 486-280 (2011) — Translator — 16 copies
Ami and Amile: A Medieval Tale of Friendship, Translated from the Old French (Stylus: Studies In Medieval Culture) (1981) — Afterword, some editions — 15 copies
On Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics 8 and 9" (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (2001) — Translator — 11 copies
A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (2014) — Contributor — 11 copies
A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (2015) — Contributor — 10 copies
The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion (2015) — Contributor — 10 copies, 1 review
On Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics 1-4, 7-8 (Ancient Commentators on Aristotle) (Chapters 1-4, 7-8) (2007) — Translator — 8 copies
Space in Hellenistic Philosophy: Critical Studies in Ancient Physics (2014) — Contributor — 8 copies
Perpetua's Passions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis (2012) — Contributor — 8 copies
Mental Disorders in the Classical World (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition) (2013) — Contributor — 8 copies
The Adventure of the Human Intellect: Self, Society, and the Divine in Ancient World Cultures (Ancient World: Comparative Histories) (2016) — Contributor — 7 copies
Laughter, humor, and the (un)making of gender : historical and cultural perspectives (2015) — Contributor — 7 copies
Studia Philonica Annual XXII, 2010: 22 (Studia Philonica Annual: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism) (2010) — Contributor — 7 copies
Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre (Mnemosyne, Supplements) (Latin Edition) (2013) — Contributor — 7 copies
Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes) (2013) — Contributor — 6 copies
The Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought (2018) — Contributor — 6 copies
Writing biography in Greece and Rome : narrative technique and fictionalization (2016) — Contributor — 6 copies
Brill S Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception) (2016) — Contributor — 6 copies
Reading and Teaching Ancient Fiction: Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman Narratives (Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement 10) (2018) — Contributor — 6 copies
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography (Oxford Handbooks) (2022) — Contributor — 6 copies
Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 36) (2016) — Contributor — 5 copies
Greek and Roman consolations : eight studies of a tradition and its afterlife (2012) — Contributor — 3 copies
A Companion to Aristophanes (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) (2024) — Contributor — 3 copies
Arethusa (vol 20 no 1 and 2): Herodotus and the Invention of History (1987) — Contributor — 3 copies
Intratextuality and Latin Literature (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Book 69) (2018) — Contributor — 2 copies
Ancient Greek Literature and the Foreign: Athenian Dialogues II (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 130) (2022) — Contributor — 2 copies
Labor Imperfectus: Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 157) (2023) — Contributor — 2 copies
Arethusa (vol 8 no 1): Marxism and the Classics — Contributor — 2 copies
Imagines antiquitatis : representations, concepts, receptions of the past in Roman antiquity and the early Italian Renaissance (2017) — Contributor — 2 copies
Horace: 2000 Years (Arethusa Volume Twenty-eight, Numbers Two and Three, Spring and Fall 1995) (1995) — Introduction — 2 copies
Emotions in the Classical World: Methods, Approaches, and Directions (Heidelberger Althistorische Beitrage Und Epigraphische Studi) (2017) — Contributor — 1 copy
Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition) (2018) — Contributor — 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 10 no 2) — Contributor — 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 27 no 1): Rethinking the Classical Canon — Contributor — 1 copy
Lectures plurielles du «De ira» de Sénèque: Interprétations, contextes, enjeux (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 399) (French Edition) (2021) — Contributor — 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 23 no 2) — Contributor — 1 copy
Ethics in Ancient Greek Literature: Aspects of Ethical Reasoning from Homer to Aristotle and Beyond (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 102) (2020) — Contributor — 1 copy
Dynamics of Ancient Prose: Biographic, Novelistic, Apologetic (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 62) (2018) — Contributor — 1 copy
Literature, Art, History: Studies On Classical Antiquity And Tradition In Honour Of W. J. Henderson (2003) — Contributor — 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 19 no 1) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Konstan, David
- Date of death
- 2024-05-02
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Columbia University (BA - Mathematics, MA - Greek and Latin, PhD - Classics)
Stuyvesant High School - Occupations
- professor emeritus (Comparative Literature)
distinguished professor (Classics and the Humanistic Tradition) - Organizations
- Brown University
New York University - Short biography
- DAVID KONSTAN
David Konstan received his B.A. in Mathematics and his Ph.D. in Classics at Columbia University. He is currently the John Rowe Workman Distinguished Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition, Professor in Comparative Literature, as well as a member of the Graduate Faculty of Theatre, Speech, and Dance at Brown University.
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