michael lynn-george
Michael Lynn-George
Contact information
Professor Michael Lynn-George
Department of History and Classics
2-28 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H4
michael.lynn-george@ualberta.ca
Education
PhD (University of Cambridge, U.K.)
BA Hons (University of Sydney, Australia)
Homeric studies
Readers of Homer: from the 7th century BCE to the 21st
Tragedy
East and west in the ancient world
Intellectual history
Cultural values
Critical theory
Relations between aesthetics and ethics
The good life
Recent research
“Visions of Homer”
(Arion, 2008 – excerpt)
“Beyond the Ruins of Ilion: Rethinking the Story of the Iliad”
(Conference paper: New Directions in the Humanities, Istanbul, Turkey
July 2008 - abstract)
Review of The Iliad: Structure, Myth, and Meaning, by Bruce Louden
(Classical Bulletin, 2008 – excerpt)
“‘And a sky like lead”’: Weil, Auerbach, and Homer in the Twentieth Century”
(Conference paper: Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association,
San Diego, January 2007 – abstract)
“The Writing Lesson: From the Dragon’s Teeth to Tristes Tropiques”
(International Journal of the Humanities, 2006–7 – abstract, excerpt)
“Living to Tell the Tale”
(Classical Philology, 2006 – excerpt)
“The Crossroads of Truth: Ferdinand de Saussure and the Dreyfus Affair”
(MLN, 2006 – abstract, excerpt)
“Writers, Intellectuals and Heroes: The Case of Ferdinand de Saussure”
(International Journal of the Humanities, 2004–6 – excerpt)
A selection of publications and other work arranged by subject
(Homer, Greek tragedy, Greek concepts, Literary Theory, Intellectual history,
Index of authors considered in reviews and other works)
Some entries on the Selected research page provide links to full text, others have links to excerpts or abstracts
Teaching interests
Greek literature
Latin literature
Classical mythology, art and culture
Greek language
Word power
How to read and why
Courses
All course web sites are password-controlled to protect the privacy of student contributors.
Classical Mythology (Classics 102)
Ancient Myth and Religion (Classics 302)
Literature and Culture of the Greek World (Classics 321)
Literature and Culture of the Roman World (Classics 322)
Troy and the Trojan War (Classics 498 and Classics 599)
Homer (Greek 481 and Greek 501)
Research support from the following is gratefully acknowledged
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
(Grant funding)
University of Alberta (Support for the Advancement of Scholarship
and travel grants)
University College London (Honorary Research Fellowship)
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge (Travel grant)
The Provost and Fellows of King’s College, Cambridge
(Research Fellowship)
The Jebb Fund (Jebb Scholarship for Greek awarded by
University of Cambridge)
The family of Hannah Fullerton (The Arts Faculty Postgraduate
Scholarship, awarded by the University of Sydney)
No matter when,
No matter where.
Samuel Beckett, “Poem for Nelson Mandela”
