Faculty of Classics - University of Cambridge

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Professor Simon Goldhill 

Professor Simon Goldhill is Professor in Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College.

Contact:

King's College Cambridge, CB2 1ST 
Email: sdg1001@cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 (3)35169 (LT and ET)/              (3)31257 

Major publications:

Language Sexuality Narrative: the Oresteia
Reading Greek Tragedy
The Poet's Voice
Foucault's Virginity
Being Greek Under Rome (ed)
Who Needs Greek?
The Invention of Prose
Art and Text in Greek Culture (co-ed)
Rethinking Revolutions (co-ed)
Performance Culture in Ancient Athens (co ed)
The Temple of Jerusalem
Love  Sex and Tragedy
How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
Jerusalem: City of Longing
The End of Dialogue in Antiquity? (ed)

Research interests:

Greek Tragedy; Greek Culture; Literary Theory; Later Greek Literature; Reception.

Recent graduate research topics supervised:

Deception in Greek Culture
Athens in Paris
Homer's People
Dissent in Greek Literature
2^nd Sophistic Greek
Epiphany in Homer
Tragedy and Suicide
Classics in the 19th Century

Other Faculty positions:

Academic Secretary (2008 - 2009)
Director, Cambridge Victorian Studies Group