Graham Zanker Explained

Graham Zanker (born 16 December 1947) is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Canterbury and an affiliate at the University of Adelaide.^[1]

He has published widely on Hellenistic poetry and art, Homeric ethics, and Virgilian epic.^[2]

Education

Zanker received his B.A. from the University of Adelaide before proceeding to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Classical Philology.^{[3] [4]}

He has undertaken research at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Cincinnati,^[5] and been a resident scholar at the Fondation Hardt (Geneva), Center for Hellenic Studies, Institute of Classical Studies. He has also been an academic visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study.^[6]

Career

Zanker's first book, Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and Its Audience (1987), was a groundbreaking investigation of the interrelation of Hellenistic poetry and art.^{[7] [8]} Zanker then moved to Homeric ethics in The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad (1994), amending the schematic view of the psychological drives behind the behavior of the Homeric heroes by (e.g.) focusing on the reconciliation scene between Achilles and Priam in Iliad 24.^{[9] [10]} He then returned to the interaction of Hellenistic art and literature in Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art (2004).^{[11] [12]} He has recently written on Stoic fate in Virgil's Aeneid.^[13]

He has also translated Thomas Szlezak's Platon Lesen (Reading Plato, 2005),^{[14] [15] [16]} and authored an edition, translation, and commentary to Herodas’ Mimiambs (2009).^{[17] [18] [19]}

Zanker is currently working on a collaboration on Ch. G. Heyne's De Genio Saeculi Ptolemaeorum (1763), establishing its place in modern concepts of Hellenistic civilization.^[20]

Selected publications

• Book: Zanker, Graham. Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and Its Audience. 1987. Croom Helm. 978-0-7099-3005-1. en.
• Book: Zanker, Graham. The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad. 1996. University of Michigan Press. 978-0-472-08400-5. en.
• Book: Zanker, Graham . Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art . 2004 . Univ of Wisconsin Press . 978-0-299-19453-6 . en.
• Book: Zanker, Graham . Herodas: Mimiambs . Liverpool University Press . 2009 . 9780856688836.
• Zanker, Graham (2023). Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid; Stoic World Fate and Human Responsibility. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009319850.

External links

• Zanker at the University of Canterbury, including list of publications

Notes and References

1. Web site: Graham Zanker. 2021-12-03. The University of Canterbury. en-nz.
2. Web site: Zanker, G. (Graham) 1947-. 21 December 2021. OCLC WorldCat Identities.
3. Web site: Graham Zanker . 2023-11-28 . The University of Canterbury . 13 October 2023 . en-nz.
4. Web site: 2019-12-09 . Graham Zanker - Scholars Institute for Advanced Study . 2023-11-28 . www.ias.edu . en.
5. Web site: Tytus. 2021-12-20. classics.uc.edu.
6. Web site: 2019-12-09. Graham Zanker - Scholars Institute for Advanced Study. 2021-12-03. www.ias.edu. en.
7. Woodman . A. J. . 1988 . Alexandrian Realism - G. Zanker: Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: a Literature and its Audience. Pp. vi + 250. London: Croom Helm, 1987. £29.95. . The Classical Review . en . 38 . 2 . 266–268 . 10.1017/S0009840X00121444 . 162201463 . 1464-3561.
8. Griffin . Jasper . 1989 . Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Review Article . Echos du Monde Classique: Classical Views . 33 . 1 . 59–65 . 1913-5416.
9. Review of: The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad . Bryn Mawr Classical Review . 1055-7660.
10. Hainsworth . J. B. . 1998 . G. Zanker: The Heart of Achilles: Characterization of Personal Ethics in the Iliad. Pp. viii + 173. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. . The Classical Review . en . 48 . 1 . 166–167 . 10.1017/S0009840X00330955 . 161432704 . 1464-3561.
11. Review of: Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art . Bryn Mawr Classical Review . 1055-7660.
12. Elsner . Jaś . 2005 . Review of Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art . The American Journal of Philology . 126 . 3 . 461–463 . 3804942 . 0002-9475.
13. Book: Zanker, Graham . Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid: Stoic World Fate and Human Responsibility . 2023 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-009-31987-4 . Cambridge.
14. Web site: Reading Plato. 2021-11-28. Routledge & CRC Press. en.
15. Poulakos . John . 2001 . Reviews: Reading Plato, by Thomas A. Szlezak, Unending Conversations: New Writings by and about Kenneth Burke, by Greig Henderson and David Cratis Williams, Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village:Conversing with the Moderns, 1915-31, by Jack Selzer, Rhetorica Movet. Studies in Historical and Modern Rhetoric in Honour of Heinrich F. Plett, by Peter L. Oesterreich and Thomas O. Sloane . Rhetorica . en . 19 . 3 . 341–347 . 10.1525/rh.2001.19.3.341 . 0734-8584.
16. Bowery . Anne-Marie . 2003 . Review: "Reading Plato" . Essays in Philosophy . en . 4 . 194–198 . 10.5840/eip20034215 .
17. Book: Herodas: Mimiambs. 2009-08-01. Oxford University Press. 978-0-85668-883-6. Aris and Phillips Classical Texts. Oxford, New York.
18. Review of: Herodas: Mimiambs . Bryn Mawr Classical Review . 1055-7660.
19. TELÒ . MARIO . 2012 . Zanker . G. . HERODAS . The Classical Review . 62 . 2 . 438–440 . 10.1017/S0009840X12000480 . 23270861 . 231890811 . 0009-840X.
20. Web site: 2019-12-09. Graham Zanker - Scholars Institute for Advanced Study. 2021-11-28. www.ias.edu. en.