Dr Armand J. D'Angour MA (Oxon), PhD (Lond)

Fellow, Jesus College
CUF Lecturer, Faculty of Classics

Jesus College
Oxford,
OX1 3DW

Tel: (01865) 279683

armand.dangour@jesus.ox.ac.uk

http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/fellows-and-staff/fellows/dr-armand-dangour

Profile

Dr D'Angour studied piano and cello at the Royal College of Music (1976-9) before reading Classics (Literae Humaniores) at Merton College, Oxford. After pursuing careers first in music and then in business, he obtained his PhD in Classics from University College London in 1998.

Research Interests

Greek and Latin Literature; Greek social and cultural history; metre, music, and versification

Selected Recent Publications

1997: 'How the dithyramb got its shape', Classical Quarterly, 47, 331-51.
2003: 'Drowning by Numbers: Pythagoreanism & Poetry in Horace Odes 1.28, Greece & Rome, 50.2, 206-219.
2004: ‘Ode to Athens’. The Times, 31 July 2004.
2006: ‘Conquering Love: Sappho 31 and Catullus 51’, Classical Quarterly, 56.1, 297-300.
2006: ‘The New Music: So what’s new?’. In Rethinking Revolutions, eds. Goldhill and Osborne, CUP.
2009: ‘Language and Metre’, Language and History, 52.1, 59-69.
2011: The Greeks and the New: Novelty in ancient Greek imagination and experience, CUP (2011).

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