Leonard Muellner

Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Brandeis University

Areas of expertise

- - Homeric epic
- - Historical linguistics
- - Anthropological approaches to the study of myth
- - The poetics of oral traditional poetry

Major works

The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic (Cornell University Press 1996, online 2016) "Grieving Achilles," in Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral Poetry , ed. A. Rengakos, F. Montanari, and C. Tsagalis, Trends in Classics , Supplementary Volume 12, Berlin, 2012, pp. 187-210, and “Homeric Anger Revisited,” Classics @ Issue 9: Defense Mechanisms, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, September, 2011, "Metonymy, Metaphor, Patroklos, Achilles," Classica v. 32, n. 2, 2019

About me

Leonard Muellner is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies, Brandeis University. Educated at Harvard (Ph.D. 1973), his scholarly interests center on Homeric epic, with special interests in historical linguistics, anthropological approaches to the study of myth, and the poetics of oral traditional poetry. His recent work includes an article by on visual and verbal art and memory will appear in the Chinese journal, National Art this coming spring, and he has just completed an article for publication on the Free First Thousand Years of Greek (http://opengreekandlatin.github.io/First1KGreek/) for a publication entitled Digital Classical Philology. Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution, https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/502894, edited by Monica Berti.