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Richard Janko

Author of The Iliad: A Commentary Volume IV: books 13-16

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Richard Janko is Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical-Studies at the University of Michigan.

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Philodemus Translation Series

Works by Richard Janko

The Iliad: A Commentary Volume IV: books 13-16 (1992) — Editor — 52 copies

Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II (1984) 32 copies

Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction (1982) 12 copies

Philodemus: On Poems, Book 1 (2000) — Author — 10 copies

Philodemus, On Poems, Books 3-4: with the fragments of Aristotle, On Poets (2011) — Author — 5 copies

'Plato's Cover-up' in TLS 4958, 10 April 1998 [review of Laks & Most's 'Studies on the Derveni Papyrus'] 1 copy

'Born of rhubarb' in TLS 5473, 22 Feb 2008 [review of West's 'Indo-European Poetry and Myth'] 1 copy

'Go away and rule' in TLS 5324, 15 April 2005 [review of Latacz' 'Troy & Homer: Towards a solution of an old mystery'] 1 copy

Poetics 1 copy

The Iliad: a commentary, vol. 4 1 copy

The Iliad: a commentary, vol. 4 (copy) 1 copy

Associated Works

A Companion to Socrates (2006) — Contributor — 47 copies

Essays on Aristotle's Poetics (1992) — Contributor — 34 copies

Relative chronology in early Greek epic poetry (2011) — Contributor — 9 copies

Philodemus and Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus and Horace (1995) — Contributor — 8 copies

Classics : a discipline and profession in crisis? (1990) — Contributor — 7 copies

Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 49) (2017) — Contributor — 5 copies

The winnowing oar - New Perspectives in Homeric Studies (2017) — Contributor — 3 copies

Text and Intertext in Greek Epic and Drama: Essays in Honor of Margalit Finkelberg (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies

Panhellenes at methone : graph in late geometric and protoarchaic methone (2017) — Contributor — 2 copies

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2 copies of v. 1 and 4 (2) 8 vols (2) aesthetics (2) Ancient Greek (2) ancient philosophy (1) Aristotle (7) classics (12) comedy (5) Commentaries (3) drama (2) epic (5) Epicurus (2) Greco-Roman Philosophy (2) Greek (8) Greek epic (2) Greek literature (9) Greek philosophy (2) Hittites (1) Homer (10) Homer [text history: C8th-7th BCE] (1) Iliad (3) Joachim Latacz 1934- (1) literary criticism (5) Mediterranean C13th-12th BCE (1) non-fiction (3) Philodemus (2) philosophy (9) poetry (4) review article (3) Trojan War (1)

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Gender: male
Awards and honors: C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit (2001)

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Also by: 9
Members: 117
Popularity: #168,596
Rating: 4.0

ISBNs: 12

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