Professor Armand D'Angour
Qualifications: ARCM MA (Oxon) PhD (Lond.)
Link to college page: http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-armand-d-angour
I pursued careers as a cellist and businessman before becoming a Tutor in Classics at Jesus College in 2000. In addition to my monograph The Greeks and the New (CUP 2011), I am the author of articles and chapters on the language, literature, psychology and culture of ancient Greece. In 2013-14 I was awarded a British Academy Fellowship to undertake research into ancient Greek music, and in 2017 was awarded a Vice Chancellor’s Prize for Public Engagement with Research. I have since co-edited with Tom Phillips Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient Greece (OUP 2018), and in addition to numerous broadcasts on radio and television, a short film on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hOK7bU0S1Y) has reached over 650,000 views since its publication in December 2017. My book Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher was published in April 2019, and How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creating Change is due from Princeton University Press in 2021. More details of my work are available on my website www.armand-dangour.com.
Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek music, Greek and Latin metre.
Full publications: Professor Armand D'Angour
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Translating Catullus 85: why and how
April 2019|Journal article|Philologia Classica -
Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient Greece
March 2018|Book -
The Musical Setting of Ancient Greek Texts
March 2018|Chapter|Music, Text, and Culture in Ancient GreeceThese essays illustrate the importance of music for intellectual culture in ancient Greece and the ancients' abiding concern to understand and control its effects on human behaviour.Literary Collections -
Vocables and microtones in ancient Greek music
October 2016|Journal article|Greek and Roman Musical Studies