Glenn W. Most
Professor of Social Thought and of Classics
Glenn W. Most studied Classics and Comparative Literature in Europe and the United States, and has taught at the Universities of Yale, Princeton, Michigan, Siena, Innsbruck, Heidelberg, and Paris. Since 1996 he has been a Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago (recently he also joined the Department of Comparative Literature there), and since 2001 he has been simultaneously Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. At Chicago he has taught courses on Classical texts (mostly Greek poetical ones), on such post-Classical authors as Dante, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Nietzsche, and Proust, and on the methodology of Classics and of Comparative Literature. He has published books on Classics, on the history and methodology of Classical studies, on the Classical tradition and Comparative Literature, on literary theory, and on the history of art, and has published numerous articles, reviews, and translations in these fields and also on modern philosophy and literature. Among his projects for the coming years are a large one-volume companion to the Classical tradition (to appear in the spring of 2008), and the completion of the edition and commentary on Nietzsche’s philological writings within the standard historical-critical edition of his works.
Selected Publications
- Leibniz, Specimen Dynamicum, ed. with H.G. Dosch and E. Rudolph (1982);
- The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory, ed. with W.W. Stowe (1983);
- The Measures of Praise: Structure and Function in Pindar's Second Pythian and Seventh Nemean Odes (1985);
- F.A. Wolf: Prolegomena to Homer 1795, ed. with A.T. Grafton and J.E.G. Zetzel (1985);
- Théophraste, Métaphysique, ed. with A. Laks (1993);
- (ed.) Collecting Fragments - Fragmente sammeln, Aporemata I (1997);
- Studies on the Derveni Papyrus, ed. with A. Laks (1997);
- Editing Texts - Texte edieren (1998);
- Raffael, Die Schule von Athen. Uber das Lesen der Bilder (1999);
- Commentaries - Kommentare (1999);
- Historicization - Historisierung (2001);
- Disciplining Classics - Altertumswissenschaft als Beruf (2002);
- Ancient Anger. Perspectives from Homer to Galen, ed. With S.M. Braund (2003);
- S. Timpanaro, The Genesis of Lachmann's Method, ed. and trans. G.W.M. (2005);
- Convincing Thomas: Strategies of Doubt and Belief within the Traditions of the Apostle Thomas (2005)
Courses Taught
- The Idea of the Tragic
- Hamlets
- Proust: Swann's Way
- Shakespeare: Two Roman Plays, Coriolanus and Julius Caesar
- Nietzsche on the Greeks
- Aeschylus: Agamemnon
- Dante's Divine Comedy
