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BEYE, Charles Rowan [article stub]
- Date of Birth: March 19, 1930
- Born City: Iowa City
- Born State/Country: IA
- Parents: Howard Lombard, a surgeon, & Ruth Ketcham B.
- Married: Mary Powers, 1951; Penelope Pendleton, 1956;
- Education:
B.A., Iowa State U., 1952; Ph.D., Harvard, 1960.
- Dissertation:
“The Catalogue as a Device of Composition in the Iliad” (Harvard, 1960).
- Professional Experience:
Instr. classics, Wheaton College, 1955-7; Yale, 1957-60; asst. prof. classics, Stanford, 1960-6; asso. prof. Boston U., 1966-8; prof. classics, 1968- ; head of department, 1968-72; Managing. Comm., ASCSA, 1966- Olivia James fellowship, AIA, 1963-4; NEH Senior Fellow, 1971-2; senior res. Fellow, ASCSA, 1978-9.
- Publications:
“Alcestis and Her Critics,” GRBS 2 (1959) 109-27; “A New Meaning for ναῦς in the Catalogue,” AJP 82 (1961) 370-8; “Lucretius and Progress,” CJ 58 (1963) 160-9; “Homeric Battle Narrative and Catalogues,” HSCP 68 (1964) 345-73; The Iliad, the Odyssey and the Epic Tradition (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966; repr. New York: Gordian, 1976); “Jason as Love-Hero in Apollonius' Argonautica,” GRBS 10 (1969) 31-55; Euripides Alcestis (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hal, 1969; 1974); “Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Homeric Embassy,” TAPA 101 (1970) 63-75; “The Rhythm of Hesiod's Works and Days, HSCP 76 (1972) 23-44; “They All Went to the Seashore. The Criticism of Greek Tragedy,” Boston University Journal 21 (1973) 3-13; “Male and Female in the Homeric Poems,” Ramus 3 (1974) 87-101; La tragedia greca. Guida storica e critica (Bari: Laterza, 1974); Ancient Greek Literature and Society (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975; 2nd ed., rev. Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1987); Epic and Romance in the Argonautica of Apollonius. Literary Structures (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982); “Sunt lacrimae rerum,” Parnassus 10, 2 (1982); “Nature's Mirror or Nature's Distillery: the Proper Metaphor for Ancient Greek Tragedy,” in To Hold a Mirror to Nature: Dramatic Images and Reflections, ed. Karelisa V. Hartigan (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1982) 11-36; “The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Bible, and Homer. Some Narrative Parallels,” in Mnemai. Classical Studies in Memory of Karl K. Hulley, ed. Harold J. Evjen (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1984) 7-19; “Repeated Similes in the Homeric Poems,” in Studies presented to Sterling Dow on his Eightieth Birthday, ed. Kent J. Rigsby (Durham, NC: Duke U. Press, 1984) 7-13; Ancient Greek Literature and Society (Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1987; Italian trans Letteratura e pubblico nella Graecia Antica by Mario Carpitella [Bari: Laterza, 1979]); Ancient Epic Poetry: Homer, Apollonius, Virgil (Ithaca: Cornell U. Press, 1993; repr, “with a Chapter on the Gilgamesh Poems,” [Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2006]); “Apollonius Rhodius,” in Greek Authors, ed. Ward W. Briggs (Detroit: Gale, 1997) 30-7; “The Translator's Dilemma,” Arion 3rd ser. 7,3 (1999-2000) 176-99; “Virgil and Apollonius,” in Reading Vergil’s Aeneid: an Interpretive Guide, ed. Christine G. Perkell (Norman: U. of Oklahoma Press, 1999); Odysseus: A Life (novel) (New York: Hyperion, 2005; French trans. La vie rêvée d’Ulysse: Guerrier, amant, vagabond by Bernhard Gandelot, [Paris: Autremont, 2006]; Ital. trans. Le straordinaire vite di Ulisse by Angela Mezzanotte & Simona Testa [Milan: Orme, 2004]; Czech trans.: Odysseus: jeden životni přiběh [Prague: Beta, 2005]); Homer in the Twentieth Century: Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff (Menlo Park, CA: Occasional Works, 2006); “Fortunati ambo,” in In Pursuit of Wissenschaft: Festschrift für William M. Calder III zum 75. Geburtstag, ed. Stephan Heilen (Hildesheim: Olms, 2008) 33-9; My Husbands and My Wives: A Gay Man’s Odyssey (New York: Farrar, Straus,and Giroux, 2012); :Defining Defending Odysseus,” Arion 19 (2012) 109-30; “Homer in Translation: The Never-Ending Stream,” Arion 20, 3 (2013) 149-59; “Christopher Logue and the Iliad,” Arion 24 (2016) 165-76.
