Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Dr Renaud Gagné

Dr Renaud Gagné is a University Lecturer in Classics and Fellow at Pembroke College

Contact:

Pembroke College , Cambridge , CB2 1RF
Email: rg404@cam.ac.uk
Tel. 01223 338130

Selected recent publications:

“What is the Pride of Halicarnassus?” Classical Antiquity 25.1 (2006): 1-33.

“L’esthétique de la peur chez Empédocle”, Revue de philosophie ancienne 24.3 (2006): 83-110.

“Inherited Guilt in E. R. Dodds”, Quaderni di storia 67 (2007): 16-33.

“Winds and Ancestors: The Physika of Orpheus”, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 103 (2007): 1-24.

“The Sins of the Fathers: C.A. Lobeck and K.O. Müller”, Kernos: Revue internationale et pluridisciplinaire de religion grecque ancienne 21 (2008): 109-124.

“Themis at Eleusis : Clement of Alexandria , Protrepticus 2.22.5”, Classical Quarterly 59.1 (2008): 270-274 (with M. Herrero).

“Atreid Ancestors in Alkaios”, Journal of Hellenic Studies 129 (2009): 39-43.

“Spilling the Sea Out of its Cup: Solon's Elegy to the Muses”, Quaderni urbinati di cultura classica 133 (2009): 23-49. 

“A Wolf at the Table: Sympotic Perjury in Archilochus”, Transactions of the American Philological Association 139.2 (2009): 1-36.

“Mystery Inquisitors: Performance, Sacrilege, and Authority at Eleusis”, Classical Antiquity 28.2 (2009): 211-247.

 “Works and Nights”, Cambridge Classical Journal 55 (2009): 59-72    (with Regina Höschele)

“Invisible Kin: Works and Days 280-285 and the Myth of Races”, Hermes. Zeitschrift für klassische Philologie 138 (2010): 1-21.

“Haereditarium Piaculum: Aspects of Ancient Greek Religion in the 17^th Century”, Gewalt und Opfer. Im Dialog mit Walter Burkert, ed. A. Bierl and W. Braungart, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (2010): 115-148.

“The Poetics of Exoleia in Homer”, Mnemosyne. A Journal of Classical Studies 63.2 (2010)

Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece (in preparation).

Current research interests:

Early Greek Poetry, Greek Religion, Greek Drama, Cultural History, History of Scholarship