Benjamin Wolkow

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Senior Lecturer

Academic History

Ph.D. 2005 University of California, Santa Barbara (Classics)

M.A. 2000 Villanova University (Classics)

M.A. 1997 West Chester University (Philosophy)

M.A. 1995 Millersville University (German)

B.A. 1992 West Chester University (Philosophy)

Teaching Experience (post-Ph.D.)

2009-2010: Loyola University Chicago
2006-2009: Duke University
2005-2006: University of California, Santa Barbara

Dissertation

Pratinas: a Philological and Cultural Commentary (Professor Robert Renehan, Chair)

Recent Presentations

2023: “Orpheus: Man of Mystery”, FRC Talk and Tea, UGA, February 28

2022: “Orphic Poetry and You,” UGA, November 15

Research Interests:

Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry, Poetics and Performance, Ancient Greek Music and Meter, Mythology and Religion, Orphism, NLP and Greek Pedagogy. 

Selected Publications:

A Commentary on Pindar’s Twelfth Pythian Ode (in progress)

2013

The Orphic Hymns: Translation, Introduction, and Notes, co-authored with A. N. Athanassakis, JHUP

2007

“The Mind of a Bitch: Pandora's Motive and Intent in the Erga,” Hermes 135.3: 247-62