FACULTY
Jonathan L. Ready
- Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies
Education
- B. A. at Yale University, 1998
- M.A. at University of California, Berkeley, 2000
- Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley, 2004
Research Interests
- Greek Language and Literature
- Homeric Poetry
- Figurative Language
Contact Information
| jready@indiana.edu |
| Ballantine Hall, Room 556 |
| 855-7446 |
Background
My research and teaching interests are in ancient Greek culture and literature with an emphasis on Homeric poetry. My current book project, which has the working title “Figurative Revisions: Similes in Homeric Epic,” explores the ways in which characters contest with one another and even with the narrator over and through similes. Some of my published articles examine moments in which Homer's characters exploit the lexical and cognitive ambiguities of particular words, such as appear in words for “just like,” or talk about the same activity in different ways, such as the acquisition of spoils. I also have interests in the application to the study of Homeric poetry of research in the fields of comparative epic and cognitive science.
Courses Recently Taught
- Classical Epics
- Ancient Greek Culture
- Beginning Greek I and II
- Intermediate Greek (Plato and New Testament)
- Advanced Greek (Homer)
Publication Highlights
Articles
“The Comparative Spectrum in Homer,” American Journal of Philology 129.4 (2008).
“Toil and Trouble: The Acquisition of Spoils in the Iliad,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 137.1 (2007) 3-43.
“Homer, Hesiod, and the Epic Tradition,” in The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece, ed. H.A. Shapiro (2007) 111-140.
