JONATHAN S. BURGESS

Professor of Classics, University of Toronto

mailing address: Department of Classics, 125 Queen's Park Crescent, University of Toronto,Toronto, ON CAN, M5S 2C7; TEL 416-946-5852; FAX 416-978-7307

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In the Wake of Odysseus

my webpage on localization of the wanderings of the journey of Odysseus

[currently being revised and expanded; click on logo]

Borestone Mt., Maine

Mt. Nemo, Ontario

photos: Adelaide Burgess

Goldy, ????-2012, crazed rescue Tennessee Treeing Brindle

"Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature,---daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, ---rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?" -----Thoreau, on Katahdin

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  • MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

    THE TRADITION OF THE TROJAN WAR IN HOMER AND THE EPIC CYCLE, 11/2001 (Johns Hopkins University Press)

    Reissue in paperback April 2004

    THE DEATH AND AFTERLIFE OF ACHILLES, 1/09 (Johns Hopkins University Press)


    • C.V.

    NEW and RECENT PROJECTS

    BASKING IN THE GLOW OF:

    Jane Aspinall on 'Lost Arts' [Martha Nussbaum defends the humanities]

    Jane Aspinall on 'Sweet Tears' [automata and species confusion]

    'fake fiction' by Hugh Burgess (real humor, including mention of "the Achilles' attention deficit disorder"): use search tool for 'Hugh Burgess'

    For some ACADEMIC MATERIAL OF THE PAST (published or unleashed), see MY PAGE AT ACADEMIA.EDU

    RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED ON: Cold Mountain/ blinding of an ogre iconography/ "Hegemonic Ithaca?"/ ekphrastic connections between the 'Shield of Achilles', the Hesiodic Shield, and Theocritus Id. 1/ Huckleberry Finn and the Polyphemus episode in Od. 9.

    RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON:

    "The Hypertext of Astyanax." in "Homeric Hypertextuality," Trends in Classics (TC) 2.2:211-224.

    Multiple entries in Homer Encyclopedia, ed. M. Finkelberg (including "Geography, Iliad"; "Epic Cycle"; "Homeric Iconography")

    "Intertextuality without text in early Greek epic," in Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry, CUP [cf. the chapter by R. Janko!]

    FORTHCOMING:

    "Belatedness in the Travels of Odysseus," in in the series TCSV (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, Walter de Gruyter / gen. eds. F. Montanari & A. Rengakos)

    "Working with Sources: Limits of Reconstruction." Forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to the Greek Epic Cycle.

    "Ambiguous Homecomings: the Odyssey and Cold Mountain"

    Homer [introductory monograph intended for non-Classicist graduate students], I.B. Tauris, Understanding Classics series.