UC Research Profile - University of Canterbury

Professor Graham Zanker

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Department: Humanities and Creative Arts

Email: graham.zanker@canterbury.ac.nz

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Languages: English, German, Spanish

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Research / Creative works

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Fields of Research

Alexandrian poetry
Ancient literary criticism
Early Greek epic
Hellenistic poetry and art
Virgil's Aeneid

Researcher Summary

Graham has researched and written on ethics and characterization in Homer and Hesiod, the so-called realism of Alexandrian Hellenistic poetry, and ancient literary criticism. He has written a number of studies on the relationship of Hellenistic poetry and art. He is has produced a commentary on Herodas the Hellenistic mime-writer, and has recently started publishing articles and writing a book on the concept of fate in Virgil's Aeneid.

Subject Area: Disciplines

History, History of Art, Classics and Curatorial Studies: Ancient Greek ; Classical Art ; Classical Language and Literature ; Classics

Resources

Staff webpage

Prizes and Awards

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellowships 1984, 1989, 1998, 2002 ( 1984 - 2002)

Oxford-Canterbury Fellowship, University College and Christ Church, Oxford ( 2007 )

Residency, Fondation Hardt, Geneva ( 2018 )

Summer Fellowship, Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC ( 2002 )

The Commonwealth Fellowship, Institute for Classical Studies, University of London ( 1985 )

Tytus Fellowship, University of Cincinnati, OH ( 2012 )

Visiting Fellowship, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge ( 2012 )

Visitorship, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ ( 2007 )

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Authored Books

Zanker G. (2009) Herodas: Mimiambs. Oxford: Oxbow. 252pp.

Szlezák TA. and Zanker G. (2005) Reading plato. 1-109. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203981009.

Zanker G. (2004) Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. 223.

Zanker G. (1996) The Heart of Achilles Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad. University of Michigan Press. 174.

Zanker G. (1987) Realism in Alexandrian Poetry A Literature and Its Audience. Croom Helm Limited. 250.

Journal Articles

Zanker G. (2021) A note on Anchises’ Romane at Virgil, Aeneid 6.851. Mnemosyne 74(2): 329-337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1568525X-BJA10016.

Chapters

Zanker G. (2021) Apollonius and Hellenistic Art. In Scodel R (Ed.), A Companion to Apollonius Rhodius Ann Abor: Michigan University Press.

Journal Articles

Zanker G. (2019) Stoic cosmic fate and Roman imperium in the Aeneid. Classical Philology 114(1): 143-163. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/701230.

Other

Zanker G. (2017) Review: D’Alexandre à Auguste. Dynamiques de la création dans les arts visuels et la poésie, Rennes, 2015, 319pp. Latomus 76(4): 1124-1127.

Zanker G. (2017) Review: The mimiambs of Herodas. Translated into an English 'choliambic' metre with literary-historical introductions and notes, London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, viii+143pp. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4(44).

Journal Articles

Zanker G. (2016) Paremvs ovantes: Stoicism & human responsibility in Aeneid. Classical Quarterly 66(2): 580-597. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S000983881600077X.

Chapters

Zanker G. (2016) Apollonius and Hellenistic art. In Murray J; Schroeder C (Ed.), Cambridge Companion to Apollonius Rhodius Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Zanker G. (2015) The Contexts and Experience of Poetry and Art in the Hellenistic World. In Destree P; Murray P (Ed.), A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics: 47-67. Oxford: Blackwell.

Zanker G. (2014) Hellenistic theory of poetic genre-crossing: An analogy for interpreting Hellenistic art? In Cojannot-Le Blanc M; Pousadoux C; Prioux É (Ed.), L'Héroïque et le Champêtre Paris: Presses de Paris Ouest.

Other

Zanker G. (2013) Heinrich F. Plett, Enargeia in Classical Antiquity and the Early Modern Age: The Aesthetics of Evidence, International Studies in the History of Rhetoric 4, Leiden - Boston, 2012, xii+240pp. Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews 3: 7-9. [Book Review].

Conference Contributions - Other

Zanker G. (2011) Hellenistic Theory of Poetic Genre-Crossing: An Analogy for Interpreting Hellenistic Art? Auckland, New Zealand: 32nd Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS 32), 24-27 Jan 2011.

Other

Zanker G. (2011) Herodas. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780195389661-0105. [Online Bibliography].

Zanker G. (2011) Sens, A., Asclepiades of Samos. Epigrams and Fragments (Oxford, 2011). Classical Review 61(2): 420-422. [Book Review].

Zanker G. (2010) G. Radke, Die Kindheit des Mythos: Die Erfindung der Literaturgeschichte in der Antike. Munich: C H Beck, 2007; 366pp. Gnomon 82: 1-7. [Book Review].

Conference Contributions - Other

Zanker G. (2010) Hellenistic Theory of Poetic Genre-Crossing: An Analogy for Interpreting Hellenistic Art? Paris, France: L'Héroïque et le Champêtre, 17-20 Mar 2010.

Other

Zanker G. (2009) Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction by M. Payne, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, and K. Junge Hirten und alte Fischer, Die Gedichte 27, 20 und 21 des Corpus Theocriteum (Texte und Kommentare 29), Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2007. Classical Review 59(1): 88-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X08001972. [Book Review].

Conference Contributions - Other

Zanker G. (2008) Kreuzung der Gattungen: der Fall Herodas. Berlin, Germany: International Workshop of the Freie Universität Berlin: L'Art pour l'art und die hellenistische Dichtung, 12-12 Jan 2008.

Other

Zanker G. (2007) Kathryn Gutzwiller (ed.), The new Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Prudentia 39: 139-143. [Book review].

Chapters

Zanker G. (2007) Characterization in Hellenistic Epigram. In Bing P; Bruss JS (Ed.), Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram: Down to Philip: 233-249. Leiden: Brill.

Conference Contributions - Other

Zanker G. (2006) Characterization in Hellenistic Epigram. University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia: Australasian Society for Classical Studies 27th Conference and General Meeting (ASCS 27), 30 Jan-3 Feb 2006.

Chapters

Zanker G. (2006) Poetry and Art in Herodas, Mimiamb 4. In Harder A; Regtuit RF; Wakker GC (Ed.), Hellenistica Groningana 11: Beyond the Canon: 357-378. Leuven: Peeters.

Journal Articles

Zanker G. (2005) Ajax. The Classical Review 55(1): 19-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/clrevj/bni013.

Other

Zanker G. (2005) J. Hesk, Ajax (London 2003). The Classical Review 55: 19-20. [Book review].

Zanker G. (2005) Jocelyn Penny Small, The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text (Cambridge 2003). The Classical Bulletin 81: 73-75. [Book review].

Conference Contributions - Other

Zanker G. (2004) Herodas and Art. Groningen, The Netherlands: Seventh Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry: "Beyond the Canon", 25 Aug 2004.

Other

Zanker G. (2004) L. Ceccarelli, L'Eroe e il suo limite: Responsibilità personale e valutazione etica nell'Iliade. Bari: Edipuglia 2001. Gnomon 76(1): 1-4. [Book Review].

Zanker G. (2004) Ransom, Revenge and Heroic Identity in the Iliad. The Classical Journal 99(3): 349-353. [Book Review].

Journal Articles

Zanker G. (2003) New Light on the Literary Category of 'Ekphrastic Epigram' in Antiquity: The New Posidippus (col. X 7 - XI 19 P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309). Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 143: 59-62.

Conference Contributions - Other

Zanker G. (2002) New Light on 'Ekphrastic Epigram': The New Posidippus (col. X7-XI19 P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309). Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England: 1st Passmore Edwards Symposium on Ekphrasis, 11 Sep 2002.

Zanker G. (2001) Analogies of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art. Adelaide, Australia: Conference of the Australian Society for Classical Studies, 6 Feb 2001.

Journal Articles

Zanker G. (2000) Aristotle's "Poetics" and the Painters. The American Journal of Philology 121(2): 225-235.

Other

Zanker G. (2000) G. Wöhrle: Telemachs Reise: Väter und Söhne in llias und Odyssee oder ein Beitrag zur Erforschung der Männlichkeitsideologie in der homerischen Welt. (Hypomnemata. Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben 124.) Pp. 170. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999. Paper; DM 58. ISBN: 3-525-25221-8. The Classical Review 50: 572-573. [Book Review].

Journal Articles

Zanker G. (1999) Metapoetics, or leaving the poetry behind? The Classical Review 49(1): 13-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cr/49.1.13.

Other

Zanker G. (1999) Reading Plato. An edited translation of Thomas A. Szlezák, Platon lesen (Stuttgart, 1993). London and New York.

Zanker G. and Seiler MA. (1999) POIESIS POIESEOS: Alexandrinische Dichtung kata lepton in strukturaler und humanethologischer Deutung. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 102 (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1997). Classical Review 49: 13-15. [Book Review].

Chapters

Zanker G. (1998) Beyond Reciprocity: the Akhilleus-Priam Scene in Iliad 24. In al CGE (Ed.), Reciprocity in Ancient Greece: 73-92.Oxford University Press.

Zanker G. (1998) The Concept and Use of Genre-Marking in Hellenistic Epic and Fine Art. Genre in Hellenistic Poetry, Hellenistica Groningana 3: 225-238. Groningen.

Journal Articles

Zanker G. (1997) Callimachus and his Critics: A Response. Prudentia 29: 34-46.

Other

Zanker G. (1997) The Gods in Epic: Poets and Critics of the Classical Tradition. Oxford 1991: Prudentia 29. : 68-72.

Journal Articles

Zanker G. (1992) Sophocles' ajax and the heroic values of the iliad. The Classical Quarterly 42(1): 20-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800042543.

ZANKER G. (1988) TIMH IN HESIOD'S THEOGONY. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 35(1): 73-78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1988.tb00200.x.

Zanker G. (1986) THE WORKS AND DAYS: HESIOD'S BEGGAR'S OPERA? Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 33(1): 26-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1986.tb00182.x.

Zanker G. (1985) A Hesiodic Reminiscence In Virgil, E. 9.11-13. The Classical Quarterly 35(1): 235-237. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800014725.

Zanker G. (1983) The nature and origin of realism in alexandrian poetry. Antike und Abendland 29: 125-145. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110241419.125.

Zanker G. (1980) Simichidas' walk and the locality of bourina in theocritus, id. 7. The Classical Quarterly 30(2): 373-377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800042300.

Affiliations

Australasian Society for Classical Studies (ASCS) (Professional Organisation): Member
Mommsen-Gesellschaft (Professional Organisation): Member