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Department of Classics and Ancient History

Staff

Prof. Johannes Haubold

Contact Prof. Johannes Haubold (email at j.h.haubold@durham.ac.uk)

Areas of Doctoral Supervision

Most areas of Greek literature, especially epic. Contact and exchange between Greek and ancient Near Eastern literatures.

Biography

Johannes Haubold is Professor of Greek. His main areas of interest are Greek literature, especially epic; and the place of Greek literature in a wider Mediterranean and Near Eastern context.

Current PhD Students

George Gazis, Homer's Poetics of Darkness

Alexander Graham, A Comparative Study of Repetition in Homer and the Epic of Gilgamesh

Marijn Visscher, Beyond Alexandria: Hellenistic Literature and the Seleukid Empire

Publications

Books: authored

  • Graziosi, Barbara & Haubold, Johannes (2010). Homer: Iliad Book VI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Graziosi, Barbara & Haubold, Johannes (2005). Homer: The Resonance of Epic. London: Duckworth.
  • Haubold, Johannes (2000). Homer's People: Epic Poetry and Social Formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Books: edited

  • Boys-Stones, G. R. & Haubold, J. H. (2010). Plato and Hesiod. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Books: sections

  • Haubold, Johannes (2009). Epic poetry. In The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. Boys-Stones, George., Graziosi, Barbara & Vasunia, Phiroze Oxford: Oxford University Press. 442-453.

Essays in edited volumes

  • Haubold, Johannes (2011). 'Lykien (und Kilikien) in der Ilias'. In Lag Troia in Kilikien? Der aktuelle Streit um Homers Ilias. Ulf, C. & Rollinger, R. Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. 375-390.
  • Haubold, Johannes (2007). 'Athens and Aegina'. In Reading Herodotus. Greenwood, E. & Irwin, E. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Graziosi, Barbara & Haubold, Johannes (2007). 'Greek lyrik and early Greek literary history'. In Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric. Budelmann, Felix Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Haubold, Johannes (2007). 'Homer after Parry: tradition, reception and the timeless text'. In Homer in the twentieth century. Graziosi, Barbara & Greenwood, Emily Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Budelmann, Felix & Haubold, Johannes (2007). 'Reception and tradition'. In Blackwell Companion to Ancient Receptions. Hardwick, L. & Stray, C. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Haubold, Johannes (2007). 'Xerxes' Homer'. In Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millenium. Bridges, Emma, Hall, Edith & Rhodes, P. J. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 47-63.
  • Haubold, Johannes (2005). 'Heracles in the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women'. In The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Constructions and Reconstructions. Hunter, Richard Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Haubold, Johannes (2005). 'The Homeric Polis'. In The Imaginary Polis. Hansen, Mogens H. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
  • Haubold, Johannes (2004). 'Serse, Onomacrito e la ricezione di Omero'. In Momenti della ricezione omerica: poesia arcaica e teatro. G. Zanetto, D. Canavero, A. Capra & A. Sgobbi Milan: Cisalpino.
  • Haubold, Johannes, & Miles, Richard (2003). 'Communality and theatre in Libanius' Oration LXIV, In Defence of the Pantomimes'. In Culture and Society in Later Roman Antioch. Sandwell, I. & Huskinson, J. Oxford: Oxbow.
  • Haubold, Johannes (2001). 'Epic with an end: an interpretation of Homeric hymns 15 and 20'. In Homer, Tragedy and Beyond: Essays in Honour of P. E. Easterling. Budelmann, Felix & Michelakis, Pantelis London: Institute of Classical Studies.

Journal papers: academic

  • Haubold, Johannes (2012). 'The Achaemenid empire and the sea'. Mediterranean Historical Review 27.1: 5-24.
  • Haubold, Johannes (2012). 'Visualisation in Homer and Gilgamesh'. KASKAL 9: 123-36.
  • Graziosi, Barbara & Haubold, Johannes (2003). 'Homeric Masculinity: ΗΝΟΡΕΗ and ΑΓΗΝΟΡΙΗ'. Journal of Hellenic Studies 123: 60-76.
  • Haubold, Johannnes (2002). 'Greek epic: a Near Eastern genre?'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 48: 1-19.
  • Haubold, Johannes (2002). 'Wars of Wissenschaft: the new quest for Troy'. International Journal of the Classical Tradition 8(4): 564-79.

Journal papers: popular

  • Haubold, Johannes (2009). 'Conquering Greece: A Persian Perspective'. Omnibus 58.
  • Haubold, Johannes (2003). 'Reinventing Troy'. Omnibus 45.
  • Haubold, Johannes (2000). 'The death of Hector'. Omnibus 39.

Journal papers: online