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PODLECKI, Anthony Joseph
- Date of Birth: Jauary 25, 1936
- Born City: Buffalo
- Born State/Country: NY
- Parents: Anthony Joseph & Eugenia Evelyn Jendrasiak P.
- Date of Death: July 1, 2023
- Death City: Vancouver
- Death State/Country: BC
- Married: Jennifer Julia Grube, July 28, 1962.
- Education:
B.A., Holy Cross College (Worcester, MA), 1957; B.A. Oxford (Fulbright Scholar), 1960; M.A., 1962; M.A. U. Toronto, 1961; Ph.D., 1963.
- Dissertation:
"The Political Background of Aeschylean Tragedy; An Historic-Literary Study" (Toronto, 1964).
- Professional Experience:
Instr. to asst. prof. classics, Northwestern, 1963-6; assoc. prof. classics to prof. & head of dept., 1963-6; prof. classics, U. of British Columbia, 1975-98; dept. head, 1975-86; vis. prof., acting dept. head, Colby College, 1987-8; asst. dir., summer school, Vergilian Society of America, Italy, 1965; lectr. Greek archaeology, Seton Hill U. (Greensburg, PA), summer inst., Greece, 1968; vis. prof. U. Wellington (NZ), 1985; Swarthmore; Université Nantes; Grenoble; pres., Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, 1977-8; Classical Association of Canada West, 1980-1.
- Publications:
“Guest-Gifts and Nobodies in Odyssey 9,” Phoenix 15 (1961) 125-33; “Some Themes in Euripides' Phoenissae, TAPA 93 (1962) 355-73; Ancient Ships, with C. Torr (Chicago: Argonaut, 1964); “The Character of Eteocles in Aeschylus' Septem,” TAPA 95 (1964) 283-99; The Political Background of Aeschylean Tragedy. An Historico-Literary Study(Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1964); “Creon and Herodotus,” TAPA 97 (1966) 359-71; The Political Background of Aeschylean Tragedy (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1966); “The Political Significance of the Athenian Tyrannicide-Cult,” Historia 15 (1966); “The Power of the Word in Sophocles' Philoctetes,” GRBS 7 (1966) 233-50; “Omens in the Odyssey,” G&R 14 (1967) 12-23; “Simonides, 480 B. C.,” Historia 17 (1968) 257-75; “Reciprocity in Prometheus Bound,” GRBS 10 (1969) 287-92; “Simonides and Themistocles. Supplementary Notes,” Historia 18 (1969) 251;
“The Peripatetics as Literary Critics,” Phoenix 23 (1969) 114-37; “Three Greek Soldier-Poets. Archilochus, Alcaeus, Solon,” CW 63 (1969) 73-81; “The Basic Seriousness of Euripides' Helen,” TAPA 101 (1970) 401-18; “Cimon, Skyros and Theseus' Bones,” JHS 91 (1971) 141-3; “Some Odyssean Similes,” G&R 18 (1971) 81-90; “Stesichoreia,” Athenaeum 49 (1971) 313-27; “Politics in Aeschylus' Supplices,” Classical Folia 26 (1972) 64-71; “The Aeschylean Chorus as Dramatic Persona, I,” in Studi classici in onore di Quintino Cataudella (Catania: Fac. Di Lett. E Filos., 1972) 187-204; “Epigraphica Simonidea,” Epigraphica 35 (1973) 24-39; “Simonides on Stone,” in Akten des VI. Internationalen Kongresses für Griechische und Lateinische Epigraphik, München 1972 (Munich: Beck, 1973) 427-9; “The Spectacle of Prometheus,” Classical Folia 27 (1973) 267-87; “Archilochus and Apollo,” Phoenix 28 (1974) 1-17; “Individual and Group in Euripides' Bacchae,” LAC 43 (1974) 143-65;
Reconstructing an Aeschylean Trilogy,” BICS 22 (1975) 1-19; “Solon's Sojourns,” in Classica et Iberica. A Festschrift in Honor of Joseph M. F. Marique ed. P.T. Brennan (Worcester, MA: College of the Holy Cross Inst. of Early Christian Iberian Studies, 1975) 31-40; The Life of Themistocles. A Critical Survey of the Literary and Archaeological Evidence(Montreal: McGill-Queen’s U. Press, 1975); “Theseus and Themistocles,” RSA 5 (1975) 1-24; “Three Passages in Persae,” Antichthon 9 (1975) 1-3; “A Pericles prosôpon in Attic Tragedy?,” Euphrosyne 7 (1975-6) 7-27; “Athens and Aegina,” Historia 25 (1976) 396-413; “Herodotus in Athens?,” in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean in Ancient History and Prehistory. Studies Presented to Fritz Schachermeyr on the Occasion of his 80. Birthday, ed. Konrad H. Kinzl (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1977) 246-65; “Pericles and Augustus,” EMC 22 (1978) 45-56; “Some Early Inscriptions Commemorating Poetic Victories,” in Actes du VIIᵉ Congrès international d'épigraphie grecque et latine, Constantza, 9-15 septembre 1977, ed. Dionys M. Pippidi (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1979) 443-4; Panathenaia. Studies in Athenian Life and Thought in the Classical Age, with Timothy E. Gregory (Lawrence, KS: Coronado Press, 1979); “Simonides in Sicily,” PP 34 (1979) 5-16; “Sur un passage d'Euripide,” REG 93 (1980) 507-10; “Festivals and Flattery: the Early Greek Tyrants as Patrons of Poetry,” Athenaeum 58 (1980) 371-95; “Ajax's Gods and the Gods of Sophocles,” LAC 49 (1980) 45-86; “Four Electras,” Florilegium 3 (1981) 21-46; “Some Early Athenian Commemorations of Choral Victories,” in Classical Contributions. Studies in Honour of Malcolm Francis McGregor, ed. Gordon S. Shrimpton & D,J, McCarger (Locust Valley, NY: Augustin, 1981) 95-101; “Aeschylus' Women,” Helios 10 (1983) 23-47; “Quelques aspects de l'affrontement entre les hommes et les femmes chez Eschyle,” in La femme dans les sociétés antiques. Actes des colloques de Strasbourg (mai 1980 et mars 1981) (Strasbourg: AECR, 1983) 59-71; “Poetry and Society in Archaic Sparta, I,” in Actes du VIIᵉ Congrès de la Fédération Internationale des Associations d'Études classiques, I, ed. János Harmatta (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1984) 175-82; The Early Greek Poets and Their Times (Vancouver: U. of British Columbia Press, 1984); “A Contribution to the Aischylos-Pindar-Jubilee (524-1977),” Philologus 129 (1985) 308-12; “Theophrastus on History and Politics,” in Theophrastus of Eresus. On His Life and Work, ed. William W. Fortenbaugh, Pamela M. Huby, & Anthony A. Long (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1985) 231-49; “The phrên Asleep: Aeschylus, Eumenides 103-105,” in Greek Tragedy and Its Legacy: Essays Presented to D. J. Conacher, ed. Elaine Fantham, S.E. Scully, & Martin Cropp (Calgary: Calgary U. Press, 1986) 35-42; “Polis and Monarch in Early Attic Tragedy,” in Greek Tragedy and Political Theory, ed. J. Peter Euben (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1986) 76-100; “Solon or Peisistratus? A Case of Mistaken Identity,” AncW 16 (1987) 3-10; “Another Look at Character in Sophocles,” in Daidalikon: Studies in Memory of Raymond V. Schoder (Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1989) 279-94; “Plutarch and Athens,” ICS 13 (1988) 231-43; “Could Women Attend the Theater in Ancient Athens?: a Collection of Testimonia,” AncW 21 (1990) 27-43; “Apragmosyne,” AHB 5 (1991) 81-7; “A Survey of Work on Plutarch's Greek Lives: 1951-1988,” with Sandra Duane, ANRW II, 33,6 (1992) 4053-127; “The Hybris of Oedipus: Sophocles, Œd. Tyr. 873 and the Genealogy of Tyranny,” Eirene 29 (1993) 7-30; “Kat'arkhes gar philaitios leos: the Concept of Leadership in Aeschylus,” in Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis: Papers from the Greek Drama Conference. Nottingham, 18-20 July 1990, ed. Alan H. Sommerstein (Bari: Levante, 1993) 55-79; “Had the Antiope of Euripides Political Overtones,?” AncW 27 (1996) 131-46; Perikles and His Circle (London: Routledge, 1998); “Solon's Vision,” Ktèma 27 (2002) 163-72; “Watching, Waiting, Witchcraft: the Chorus of the Oresteia,” in Theatres of Action: Papers for Chris Dearden, ed. John Davidson & Arthur J. Pomeroy (Auckland, NZ: Polygraphia, 2003) 12-33; “Political and Other So-Called Digressions in Euripides,” in La tragedia griega en sus textos: forma (lengua, estilo, métrica, crítica textual) y contenido (pensamiento, mitos, intertextualidad), ed. Juan Antonio López Férez (Madrid: Communidad de Madrid, 2004) 173-95; “Anecdote and Apophthegm in Plutarch's Athenian Lives,” in Valori letterari delle opere di Plutarco: studi offerti al professore Italo Gallo dall'International Plutarch Society, ed. Aurelio Pérez Jiménez & Frances Bonner Titchener (Logan, UT: Utah State U., Dept. of History, 2005) 367-77; “Aiskhylos the Forerunner,” in Eschyle à l'aube du théâtre occidental: Vandœuvres-Genève, 25-29 août 2008: neuf exposés suivis de discussions ed. Mark Griffith, Jacques Jouanna, Franco Montanari, & Alain-Christian Hernandez (Geneva-Vandoeuvres: Fondation Hardt, 2009) 319-62; “Echoes of the Prometheia in Euripides' Andromeda,? in The Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp, ed. J. Robert C. Cousland & James R. Hume (Leiden Brill, 2009) 77-91; “Response to Rosenbloom and Gibert,” in Why Athens?: A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics, ed. David M. Carter (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2011) 403-13; “Πολλὰ τὰ δεινά: Another Look at Soph. Ant. 332-75,” in Καλὸς καὶ ἀγαθὸς ἀνήρ· διδασκάλου παράδειγμα: homenaje al profesor Juan Antonio López Férez, ed. Luis Miguel Pino Campos & Germán Santana Henriquez (Madrid: Ed. clásicas, 2013) 665-73; “Aeschylean opsis,” in Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre, ed. George William Mallory Harrison & Vayos J. Liapis (Leiden: Brill, 2013) 131-48; “Plutarch in Fifth-Century Athens,” Ploutarchos n.s. 13 (2016) 53-100; “One Homer, or Two?: Some Suggested Stylistic Separators in the Homeric Poems,” Mouseion 17 (2020) 441-64; “List of Publications,” Mouseion Supplement 1, 17 (2020) 5-12.
- Sources:
Craig Cooper, Brian M. Lavelle, & David C. Mirhady, “Tony Podlecki: An Appreciation,” Mouseion Supplement 1, 17 (2020) 1-3.