Professor Armand D'Angour

Prof. Armand D'Angour resize
Professor of Classical Languages and Literature
Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Jesus College
01865 279731
armand.dangour@jesus.ox.ac.uk

Qualifications: ARCM  MA (Oxon)  PhD (Lond.)

ORCID: 0000-0002-3466-2542

Link to college page: http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-armand-d-angour

 

Academic Background

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.

Research Keywords

Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek music,  Greek and Latin metre.

Teaching

I am happy to supervise on a wide range of areas involving Greek culture and literature. I have supervised numerous doctoral researchers whose DPhil theses eventually resulted in publications, among which are the following:

Dr Lauren Apfel: The Advent of Pluralism: Diversity and Conflict in the Age of Sophocles (OUP 2011).

Dr Dimitrios Kanellakis: Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise (de Gruyter 2020).

Dr Spencer Klavan: Melody and meaning: the semiotics of ancient Greek music in the late classical and early Hellenistic eras. (DPhil Diss, Oxford 2019).

Dr Tom Phillips: Pindar's Library: Performance Poetry and Material Texts (OUP 2016).

Dr Laura Swift: The Hidden Chorus: Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric (OUP 2010).

Dr Oliver Thomas: Commentary on The Homeric Hymn To Hermes (CUP 2020).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publications

Full publications: Professor Armand D'Angour

Selected Publications:

After Atys: Channelling A.E. Housman
Classical Outlook 99.3 (2024)

The Movements of the Tragic Chorus
 In Nonverbal Behaviour in Ancient Literature, ed. A Serafeim (2024)

The Music of Tragedy
 Arethusa 57 (2024) 7-24

Music and Dance in Tragedy, Comedy and Dithyramb
In Looking at Greek Drama, ed. D. Stuttard (2024)