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Simon Goldhill
Goldhill in 2016
Born
(1957-03-17) 17 March 1957 (age 67)
Nationality
British
Academic background
Education
King's College, Cambridge
Thesis
Language, Sexuality, Narrative: the Oresteia (1982)
Doctoral advisor
P.E. Easterling
Influences
Froma Zeitlin
J. G. W. Henderson
G.E.R. Lloyd
Charles Segal
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Academic work
Discipline
Classics
Sub-discipline
Ancient Greek literature
Institutions
King's College, Cambridge
Simon David Goldhill, FBA (born 17 March 1957) is Professor in Greek literature and culture and fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College, Cambridge. He was previously Director of Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge, succeeding Mary Jacobus in October 2011. He is best known for his work on Greek tragedy.
In 2009, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] In 2010, he was appointed as the John Harvard Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at Cambridge, a research position held concurrently with his chair in Greek.
In 2016, he became a fellow of the British Academy.[2] He is a member of the Council of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, and is President of the European Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS).
Goldhill is a well-known lecturer and broadcaster and has appeared on television and radio in England, Australia, the United States and Canada. His books have been translated into ten languages, and he has been profiled by newspapers in Brazil, Australia and the Netherlands.
^American Academy of Arts and Sciences honours Simon Goldhill, 22 April 2009 Archived 15 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^"British Academy announces new President and elects 66 new Fellows". 15 July 2016.
Simon David Goldhill, FBA (born 17 March 1957) is Professor in Greek literature and culture and fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at King's College...
festivals they could certainly have attended the theatre. In contrast, SimonGoldhill maintains that the City Dionysia was a socio-political event similar...
Masterpieces of Classic Greek Drama. Greenwood. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-313-33268-5. Goldhill, Simon (1987). "The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology". Journal of Hellenic...
wrote a whole work simply titled Aitia—is replete with founding myths. SimonGoldhill employs the metaphor of sedimentation in describing Apollonius' laying...
Music in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-70486-6. SimonGoldhill; Ron Osborne, eds. (2004). Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy...
pp. 145-169 The Temple of Jerusalem by SimonGoldhill, Harvard University Press, 2005, p. 140 SimonGoldhill, The Temple of Jerusalem, Harvard University...
World. Sheffield: A & C Black, 1996, ISBN 1-85075-623-6, pp. 194ff SimonGoldhill, Being Greek Under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and...
settlement of the Western Hill from the 8th Century BCE onwards"). SimonGoldhill, Jerusalem: City of Longing 4 (2008) (conquered by "early Israelites"...
Minor" IN Simon Swain, ed., Dio Chrysostom: Politics, Letters, and Philosophy. Oxford U. Press, 2002, ISBN 0-19-925521-0, p. 91 SimonGoldhill, Being Greek...
Spartan burial mound at coloradocollege.edu Thermopylae, BBC Radio 4 discussion with Tom Holland, SimonGoldhill & Edith Hall (In Our Time, 5 Feb. 2004)...
Mary Lefkowitz, "is a curious and somewhat paradoxical form of art". SimonGoldhill has described the epinikion as practiced by Pindar as "a performance...
University of London and Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge SimonGoldhill, Reader in Greek Literature and Culture at King's College, Cambridge...
Stephen Fry. "NYU profile". New York University. Retrieved 2014-02-01. "SimonGoldhill in Times Higher Education". Times Higher Education. 2008-05-02. Retrieved...
ethnological study of Africa and its peoples. Geoffrey Lloyd; Renaud Gagné; SimonGoldhill, eds. (2017). Regimes of Comparatism: Frameworks of Comparison in History...
those associated with Dionysus. According to SimonGoldhill, the evidence is fundamentally inconclusive. Goldhill writes that the theatre can be seen as a...
Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom. Brill. p. 38. ISBN 90-04-11231-6. SimonGoldhill (2006). Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece. Cambridge University...
Ahim'as (11th century) speaks of a synagogue near the Western Wall. SimonGoldhill (2009). Jerusalem: City of Longing. Harvard University Press. pp. 74–75...
Imaginary Museum." In Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture. Edited by SimonGoldhill and Robin Osborne, 255–283. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press. Elsner...
setting with modern-looking figures and a naturalistic environment. SimonGoldhill has compared it to the painting St. Cecilia (1895) by John William Waterhouse...
News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper". Haaretz.com. Retrieved 26 July 2012. SimonGoldhill (2009). Jerusalem: City of Longing. Harvard University Press. p. 136...
Bowie (Emmanuel) James Clackson (Jesus) James Duff Duff (Trinity) SimonGoldhill (King's) J. G. W. Henderson (King's) Emily Gowers (St John's/Trinity)...
The Roman Questions of Plutarch, p. 142 online. about that hint see SimonGoldhill, Being Greek Under Rome: Cultural Identity, the Second Sophistic and...
Ethnologist. 26 (1): 196–220. doi:10.1525/ae.1999.26.1.196. ISSN 0094-0496. SimonGoldhill, Who Needs Greek?: Contests in the Cultural History of Hellenism, Cambridge...
Peter Thonemann The Maeander Valley Cambridge University Press 2013 SimonGoldhill Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy Oxford University Press 2014 Roderick...
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