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Janko, Richard Charles Murray was born on May 30, 1955 in Weston Underwood, England. Arrived in the United States, 1982. Son of Charles Arthur Janko and Helen Murray.
(This book investigates the history of the ancient Greek t...)
This book investigates the history of the ancient Greek tradition of oral epic poetry which culminated in the Iliad and Odyssey. These masterpieces did not exhaust the tradition, and poems were composed in the same style for several generations afterwards. One group of such poems is the 'Homeric Hymns', ascribed to Homer in antiquity. In fact the origins of these Hymns are as mysterious as those of the Homeric epics themselves with little external evidence to assist. This book will be of interest to scholars concerned with Greek philology and dialects, Homeric epic and Greek literature of the Archaic period. It should also find readers amongst specialists in other oral poetries and those using computers in the Humanities.
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( In 1839 the "Tractatus Coislinianus", a summarised trea...)
In 1839 the "Tractatus Coislinianus", a summarised treatise on comedy, was published from a tenth-century manuscript. Its discoverer suggested that it derived from the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics", which inaugurated the systematic study of comedy, but it was soon condemned as an ignorant compilation verging on forgery, and thus matters stood until the first publication of "Aristotle on Comedy" in 1984. Richard Janko's edition of the text is accompanied by a facing translation, interpretive essays, reconstruction and commentary. This edition contains a new preface and additional bibliography.
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(Lord William Taylours excavations at Ayios Stephanos in 1...)
Lord William Taylours excavations at Ayios Stephanos in 1959-77 investigated a port that relied on trade, fishing and metallurgy. It lay just north of the main Minoan east-west trade route via Kythera and exported the rare stone lapis lacedaemonius to Cretan workshops. As a Linear A inscription shows, the site illuminates the diffusion of Minoan culture to the mainland. Ayios Stephanos yielded a stratified pottery sequence from EH I to LH IIIC, with a break at the end of the Early Bronze Age. Study of this sequence has vastly improved our knowledge of the chronology, clarifying Cretan relations with the mainland. There were three phases of EH. After disastrous fires, rectangular buildings replaced the MH I apsidal dwellings, and the street plan came to resemble Minoan prototypes. The pottery illuminates the invention of Mycenaen ceramics. In line with the fortunes of Crete, the site declined in LH IIA, traded with Knossos in LH IIIA1, and declined again. It briefly revived in LH IIIC Early, probably following an influx of refugees. Then it was abandoned, perhaps after a massacre. Ayios Stephanos was reoccupied in c. 1270 AD, when a building with a walled yard and stables was erected to guard the approach to Skala along the River Vasilopotamos. This phase fills a gap in our knowledge, since no site of this period has been excavated south of Corinth. After 1321 a hostile raid plunged the site into oblivion. This publication studies the architecture and stratigraphy, the burials, the Medieval period, the pottery and small finds, the human and other organic remains, the settlement pattern and the regional and historical context. Numerous figures and plates document the results. Appendices containing techinical analyses, stratigraphic tables and concordances are on an accompanying CD.
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Janko, Richard Charles Murray was born on May 30, 1955 in Weston Underwood, England. Arrived in the United States, 1982. Son of Charles Arthur Janko and Helen Murray.
Bachelor with 1st class honors in Classics, Cambridge University, England, 1976. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy in Classics, Cambridge University, 1980.
Temporary lecturer University St. Andrews, Scotland, 1978—1979. Research fellow Trinity College, Cambridge, 1979—1982. From assistant professor to associate professor Columbia University, New York City, 1982—1987.
Professor classics University of California at Los Angeles, 1987—1994. Professor greek University College London, 1995—2002. Gerald F. Else collegiate professor, classical studies University Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 2003.
Co-director Philodemus Translation Project, since 1992. Member Institute for Advanced Study, 2000.
(Lord William Taylours excavations at Ayios Stephanos in 1...)
(This book investigates the history of the ancient Greek t...)
( In 1839 the "Tractatus Coislinianus", a summarised trea...)
Fellow: American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Michele Ann Hannoosh, May 26, 1984.