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

Borestone Mt., Maine

Mt. Nemo, Ontario

photos: Adelaide Burgess

"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

    Jane Aspinall on 'Lost Arts' (Martha Nussbaum on the value of the humanities)

    'Only a Pony" by Hugh Burgess under 'Fake Non-Fiction' (humor), right column

    For some recent material and some linked material, see my page at Academia.edu

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

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

    "Intertextuality without text in early Greek epic," Forthcoming in Relative Chronology in Early Greek Epic Poetry, CUP

    "Belatedness in the Travels of Odysseus," Forthcoming 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.

    Homer. Forthcoming monograph, I.B. Tauris, Understanding Classics series.