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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 — 48 copies

Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II (1984) 29 copies

Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction (1982) 10 copies

Philodemus: On Poems, Book 1 (2000) — Author — 7 copies

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

Philodemus: On Poems, Book 2: With the fragments of Heracleodorus and Pausimachus (Philodemus Translation Series) (2020) 2 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

Associated Works

A Companion to Socrates (2006) — Contributor — 38 copies

Essays on Aristotle's Poetics (1992) — Contributor — 33 copies

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

Relative chronology in early Greek epic poetry (2011) — Contributor — 7 copies

Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects : From Central Greece to the Black Sea (2017) — Contributor — 5 copies

Classics : a discipline and profession in crisis? (1990) — Contributor — 4 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… (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies

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

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

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Works: 10
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Rating: 4.0

ISBNs: 13

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