Anatole Mori
Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D. Chicago
Interests: Hellenistic literature, culture, and society
Contact: moria@missouri.edu
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I came to the University of Missouri after completing my PhD at the University of Chicago (2000). My research addresses the historical context of Greek poetry, particularly the political aspects of early Hellenistic literary culture. In The Politics of Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica I explore how Ptolemaic ideology promoted the religious and diplomatic role of the ruler and accordingly helped to reshape and redefine the epic representation of justice and heroism.
I am currently working on fifteen entries for Brill’s New Jacoby (http://www.brillsnewjacoby.com/), an updated on-line version of Felix Jacoby’s Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker (FGrH). These entries comprise new translations of testimonia and fragments, with an entirely new commentary, bibliography (and text and apparatus criticus where necessary) for each.
I teach the ancient Greek language from introductory to advanced levels in addition to reading courses in Greek poetry, history, and philosophy, and Classical Humanities courses on Greek culture and society, with particular emphasis on ancient attitudes to gender and ethnicity.
Select publications (Full CV):
The Politics of Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica. Cambridge, 2008.
Entries for Brill’s New Jacoby, Ian Worthington (ed.): Antileon (FGrH 257), Xenocrates (FGrH 248), Autocharis (FGrH 249). In progress: Anonymous (FGrH 301), Demetrios of Argos (FGrH 304). Forthcoming: Anaxikrates (FGrH 307), Dionysios of Argos (FGrH 308), Telesarchos (FGrH 309), Nikochares (FGrH 398), Aristokles (FGrH 436), Anonymous (FGrH 441), Aristides (FGrH 444), Dionysios of Thrace (FGrH 512), Theognis of Rhodes (FGrH 526), and Neanthes of Kyzikos (084).
“Piety and Diplomacy in Apollonius’ Argonautica.” In Ptolemy Philadelphus and his World. Phillip Guillaume and Paul McKechnie (eds.) Brill. Forthcoming. Leiden, 2008.
“Names and Places. Myth in Hellenistic Alexandria.” Invited chapter for The Blackwell Companion to Mythology. Ken Dowden and Niall Livingstone (eds.). Malden MA and Oxford, forthcoming.
“Acts of Persuasion in Hellenistic Epic: Honey-Sweet Words in Apollonius.” In The Blackwell Companion to Greek Rhetoric. Ian Worthington (ed.), Malden MA and Oxford, 2006. 458-72.
“Jason’s Reconciliation with Telamon: A Moral Exemplar in Apollonius (Arg. 1.1286-1344).” American Journal of Philology 126.2 (2005): 211-36.
“Personal Favor and Public Influence: Arete, Arsinoe II, and the Argonautica.” Oral Tradition 16 (2001): 85-106.
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