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ABOUT

Glenn W. Most was until 2020 Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and remains a regular Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published books on Classics, on ancient philosophy, on the history and methodology of Classical studies, on comparative literature, cultural studies, and the history of religion, on literary theory and on the history of art, and has published numerous articles, reviews, and translations in these fields and also on such other ones as modern philosophy and literature. Most recently he has published co-edited comprehensive editions of the early Greek philosophers, a co-edited volume on scholarly methods in a variety of canonical written traditions, a co-edited volume of essays on mathematical
commentaries in Chinese, Sanskrit, Babylonian, and ancient Greek, a co-edited volume on myth and reason in ancient China and Greece, an edited collection of essays on the Derveni Papyrus, a co-edited reader on plurilingualism in the history of science in a number of pre-modern scholarly traditions, a co-edited volume of essays on a sentence of Kafka, a collection of his essays in Italian on ancient and modern psychology, and another collection of his essays in Chinese on ancient Greek poetry.

He is currently working on various projects involving both ancient Greek philology and the comparison of philological practices in different periods and cultures throughout the world:

1. a co-edited edition and translation of the complete corpus of ancient and medieval scholia and commentaries on Hesiod's Theogony.

2. an edited volume on textual variants and variance in a number of pre-modern scholarly traditions.

3. a study of the story of the Annunciation to Mary in the Gospel of Luke and its reception in art and literature.

4. a co-edited lexicon of indigenous terminology for philological practices, agents, institutions, genres, and materials in ca. 22 classical traditions.

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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RECENT

Kevin Chang, Tony Grafton, and Glenn W. Most, ed., Impagination – Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication. Interdisciplinary Approaches from East and West (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021).

“Sextus Empiricus, Child of the Marriage of Philology and Scepticisms,” in Jill Kraye, Tony Grafton, and Gian Mario Cao, ed. The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in early Modern Scholarship and Thought (London: Warburg, 2019).

“Karl Lachmann (1793-1851): Reconstructing the Transmission of a Classical Latin Author,” in Rens Bod and Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen, ed., The Forgotten Curriculum of the Humanities, History of Humanities, 2019.

“Greek Tragedy and the Discourse of Politics,” in Christoph Riedweg, ed., Philosophie für die Polis. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde (De Gruyter 2018).

L’io dei antichi greci. Corpo e mente nel pensiero classico, translated by Patrizia Pedrini (Pisa: ETS, 2019).

Christoph König and Glenn W. Most, ed., Wunsch, Indianer zu werden. Versuche über einen Satz von Frank Kafka (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2018).

“Anakoluthon,” translated by Thomas Fries, in idem, pp. 19-30.

“EROS – HEROS. L’épopée de l’amour & l’amour de l’épopée,” translated by Laure Vergniolle de Chantal, in Apollonios de Rhodes, Les Argonautiques, texte traduit et indexé par Francis Via et Émile Delage, Présente édition préfacée par Glenn W. Most, annotée par Laure de Chantal, Illustrations par Benjamin Tejero (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019), pp. 7-20.

IN PRESS

Translation of Christine Mauduit, three articles in Alan Sommerstein, ed., The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy (Wiley-Blackwell):

a. “eisodoi”

b. “skene”

c. “Stage, elevated”

“Ancient Greece and the Identity of Modern Europe,” in Martin Vöhler, ed., Philhellenism.

Glenn W. Most and Michael Puett, ed., After Wisdom: Sapiential Traditions and Ancient Scholarship in Comparative Perspective (Leiden: Brill).

Glenn W. Most, ed., Studies in the Derveni Papyrus. Volume 2.

"Heroic Humanities," Iride.

“Ancient Greece and the Identity of Modern Europe,” in Martin Vöhler, ed., Philhellenism.

“Postface,” in A. Keller and K. Chemla, ed., Shaping the sciences of the ancient world. Text criticism, critical editions and translations of ancient and medieval scholarly Texts (18th-20th centuries) (forthcoming).

“Simonides’ Ode to Scopas in Contexts,” reprinted in Ian Rutherford, ed., Oxford Readings in Greek Lyric (Oxford 2018), pp. 412-41.

Karine Chemla and Glenn W. Most, ed., Proofs, Problems, and Procedures: Mathematical Commentaries in a Global Comparative Perspective.

Karine Chemla and Glenn W. Most, “Introduction,” in Chemla and Most, ed., Proofs, Problems, and Procedures: Mathematical Commentaries in a Global Comparative Perspective.

Kevin Chang, Tony Grafton, and Glenn W. Most, ed., Impagination: Layout and Materiality of Writing and Media in East and West (Leiden: Brill, 2019).

“Text and Paratext in the Greek Classical Tradition,” in Kevin Chang, Tony Grafton, and Glenn W. Most, ed., Impagination: Layout and Materiality of Writing and Media in East and West.

“What is a classic text?,” in Ulrich Timme Kragh, ed., Text and Source.