| Faculty Profile
Glenn Patten
Glenn Patten, Assistant
Professor of Classics, gained an undergraduate degree in Greek and
linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, an MA in
Greek and Latin from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and his PhD
(Dr.phil.) from the University of Heidelberg. His research is concerned
primarily with the Greek poetry and prose of the classical period,
particularly with a view to the interface between ancient literature
and poststructuralist literary theory. His first book, Pindar's Metaphors: A Study in Rhetoric
and Meaning, draws on the work of Jacques Derrida and Paul de
Man to explore the relationship between figurality and meaning in the
surviving victory odes of the fifth-century Theban poet Pindar. Current
projects include a study of readings of antiquity in twentieth-century
French philosophy and an investigation into constructions of the
political in Athenian oratory.
A complete CV can be downloaded here.
Book
Review
- Rutherford, Pindar's Paeans. A Reading of the
Fragments with a Survey of the Genre. Oxford University Press,
2001, in BMCR 2002.10.41.
Teaching this
quarter
- Greek 110/210: Attic orators
Demosthenes—the early speeches to the
assembly
Coming up in
2010
- Greek 142/242: Plato
Phaedrus
- Classics 180B: Interfaces in
classical civilization
Nietzsche and the classics
- Greek 240: Greek prose
composition
- Classics 101: The Greek
intellectual experience
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