Simon Goldhill
Author of Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives
About the Author
Simon Goldhill is professor of Greek and the director of the Centre for Research in Arts, Social in Atts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of many books, including Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, show more Bront's Grave; How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today; and Love, Sex Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives, all also published by the University of Chicago Press show less
Works by Simon Goldhill
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Brontë's Grave (Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel) (2011) 58 copies
Foucault's Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality (The Stanford Memorial Lectures) (1995) 47 copies
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity (2011) 19 copies
The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity (Greek Culture in the Roman World) (2022) 8 copies
Being Greek under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and the Development of Empire (2001) — Editor — 6 copies
Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature (2007) — Editor — 4 copies
Preposterous Poetics: The Politics and Aesthetics of Form in Late Antiquity (Greek Culture in the Roman World) (2020) 3 copies
What Is a Jewish Classicist?: Essays on the Personal Voice and Disciplinary Politics (Rubicon) (2022) 2 copies
Following nomadic gods 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 56 no 3): Late Foucault & Classical Antiquity — Guest Editor — 1 copy
Associated Works
The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome (2002) — Contributor — 45 copies
Sex in Antiquity: Exploring Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World (Rewriting Antiquity) (2014) — Contributor — 24 copies
Homer in the Twentieth Century: Between World Literature and the Western Canon (Classical Perspectives) (2007) — Contributor — 16 copies
Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens (1998) — Contributor — 12 copies
Cities of God: The Bible and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2013) — Contributor — 7 copies
From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800-1940 (Proceedings of the British Academy) (2013) — Contributor — 7 copies
Modern Critical Theory and Classical Literature (Mnemosyne Supplements) (1994) — Contributor — 5 copies
Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin (2008) — Contributor — 5 copies
Allusion, Authority, and Truth Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies
Theorising performance : Greek drama, cultural history and critical practice (2010) — Contributor — 4 copies
Celsus in his World: Philosophy, Polemic and Religion in the Second Century (2021) — Contributor — 3 copies
Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece (Edinburgh Leventis Studies) (2003) — Contributor — 3 copies
Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture: Studies in the Traditions of Drama and Lyric (2017) — Contributor — 2 copies
Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue: Essays in Honor of John J. Peradotto (1999) — Contributor — 2 copies
Transactions of the American Philological Association: Spring 2009/Volume 139/Number 1 (2009) — Contributor — 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 54 no 3): Origins and Original Moments — Contributor — 1 copy
Arethusa (vol 17 no 2): Under the Text — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Goldhill, Simon
- Legal name
- Goldhill, Simon David
- Birthdate
- 1957-03-17
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Places of residence
- Cambridge, England, UK
- Education
- King's College, Cambridge University (MA | 1978 | PhD | 1982)
- Occupations
- classical scholar
university professor - Organizations
- Cambridge University (King's College)
- Awards and honors
- Fellow, British Academy (2016)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)
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Statistics
- Works
- 33
- Also by
- 45
- Members
- 1,019
- Popularity
- #25,282
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 17
- ISBNs
- 108
- Languages
- 4
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