Susan Guettel Cole Explained

Susan Guettel Cole is Professor Emerita at the University at Buffalo in the Department of Classics. She is known for her work on Ancient Greek Religion and gender.^[1]

Alma Mater:	University of Minnesota
Thesis Year:	1975
Discipline:	Classics Ancient Greek Religion
Workplaces:	University of Illinois at Chicago University at Buffalo
Notable Works:	Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience (2004)

Education

Cole received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1975. Her doctoral thesis was entitled The Samothracian Mysteries and the Samothracian Gods: Initiates, Theoroi, and Worshippers.^[2]

Career

After graduating, she became Assistant Professor of Classics and Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.^[3] In 1991 she was a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities at UIC.^[4] She published Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace, based on her doctoral dissertation, in 1986.^{[5] [6]} Her second book, Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience, came out in 2004.^[7] She has also worked on pigs in Ancient Greek culture.^{[8] [9]}

In 1992 she joined the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo, where she was Chair of the department from 1994 to 1995 and again 1998–2004.^[10]

Cole was chair of the Society for Classical Studies Committee for Professional Ethics in 1986.^[11] She was Directeur d’Etudes Associé at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études in 1990. In 1996-97 she was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center.^[12] She has also received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and a grant from the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.^[13]

Select publications

• 1980. "New Evidence for the Mysteries of Dionysos." Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 21.3: 223–238.
• 1981. "Could Greek women read and write?" Women's Studies, 8(1-2),
• 1984. "Greek Sanctions against Sexual Assault." Classical Philology, 79(2), 97–113.
• 1984. "The Social Function of Rituals of Maturation: The Koureion and the Arkteia." Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, 55, 233–244.
• 1984. "Male and Female in Greek Cult." Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, 55, 231.
• 1986. Theoi Megaloi: the cult of the great gods at Samothrace . Leiden: Brill.^{[5] [14]}
• 2000. "Landscapes of Artemis." The Classical World 93.5 (2000): 471–81.
• 2004. Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space:The Ancient Greek Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press.^[15]
• 2008. "Ritual Texts for the Afterlife. Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets." The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 128, 221.
• 2010. "Maenads." in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Emeriti. arts-sciences.buffalo.edu. en. 2019-02-21.
2. Web site: The Samothracian mysteries and the Samothracian gods: initiates, theoroi, and worshippers . . 26 July 2023 . en . 1975.
3. Web site: UIC GWS History. Gender and Women's Studies. en-US. 2019-02-21.
4. Web site: 1990-1991 Institute Fellows Lectures. huminst.uic.edu. 2019-02-21.
5. Book: Cole, Susan Guettel. Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace. 2015-11-16. BRILL. 9789004296473. en.
6. Book: Cole, Susan Guettel. Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace. 1984-01-01. Brill Archive. 9789004068858. en.
7. Book: Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space. March 2004 . 9780520235441 . en. Cole . Susan Guettel .
8. Web site: One Little Piggy Went To Temple, Same Little Piggy Was Lunch. www.buffalo.edu. en. 2019-02-21.
9. Web site: Hog Wild in Athens B.C.E.! Role of Pigs in Social and Religious Life Provides Insights into Ancient Greece. www.buffalo.edu. en. 2019-02-21.
10. Web site: Susan Cole to Head UB Classics Department. www.buffalo.edu. en. 2019-02-21.
11. Web site: SCS Statement on Professional Ethics. 2013-05-28. Society for Classical Studies. 2019-02-21.
12. Web site: UB's Bacigalupo Named 2009-10 Resident Fellow of the National Humanities Center. www.buffalo.edu. en. 2019-02-21.
13. Web site: Baldy Center Grant Recipients. www.buffalo.edu. en. 2019-02-21.
14. Tomlinson. R. A.. 1988. Cole (S. G.) Theoi megaloi: the cult of the great gods at Samothrace. (Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'empire romain, 96.) Leiden: Brill. 1984. Pp. xix + 193, [6] plates, 3 maps, 1 plan. Fl. 76.]. The Journal of Hellenic Studies. en. 108. 246–247. 10.2307/632682. 632682. 163694703 . 2041-4099.
15. Lape. Susan. 2004. Review of: Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: the Ancient Greek Experience. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 1055-7660.