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CURRICULUM VITAE 

ROBERT RENEHAN 

BORN: 25 April 1935 

Boston, Massachusetts 

U.S. Citizenship 

EDUCATION: Ph.D. Harvard University 1963 

M.A. Harvard University 1958 

A.B. Boston College 1956 

ACADEMIC 

POSITIONS: 

University of California, Santa Barbara 

Professor, 1977 - 

(Graduate Advisor, 1980-84; Chairman, 1984-88; 1993 - 2000 ) 

Boston College 

Professor, 1971-77 

Associate Professor, 1969-71 

Assistant Professor, 1966-69 

(Chairman of Department of Classical Studies, 1969-77) 

Harvard University 

Instructor, 1964-65 

University of California, Berkeley 

Instructor, 1963-64 

Associate Editor and Editorial Board, Classical Philology, 1976- 

Editorial Board, Classical Antiquity, 1980-87 

Editorial Board, American Journal of Philology, 1986- 

Editorial Board, APA Committee on Monographs, 1986-89 

Member, Liddell-Scott-Jones Supplement Supervisory Committee 

(Oxford University Press), 1987 - 96 

PUBLICATIONS: 

Five books, 135 articles, notes, and reviews. 

MEMBERSHIP: American Philological Association, International Plutarch Society, 

Society for Ancient Medicine 

SPECIAL AWARDS 

AND HONORS: Senior Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1972-73. 

Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, University of 

California, Santa Barbara, 1981. 

Loeb Classical Lecturer, Harvard University, 1982. 

Distinguished Visitors Programme, University of British Columbia. 

Series of four lectures, 1983. 

Distinguished Visitors Series, The Johns Hopkins University. Four 

lectures, 1986.

Robert Renehan 

Publications - 2 

Cumulative List of Publications 

Speaker, IX Congress of the International Federation of the Societies of 

Classical Studies, Pisa, Italy, 1989. 

Speaker, Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. Public lecture 

and seminars, 1989. 

Award of Excellence in Arts and Humanities, Boston College Alumni 

Association, 1990. 

Speaker, Ninth Hippocratic Colloquium, Pisa, Italy, 1996. 

Award of Recognition for contributions to Greek Language and Culture 

presented at a public ceremony by His Excellency Alexandros 

Mallias, Ambassador of Greece to the United States, February 5, 

2007. 

AJP= 

CP= 

CQ= 

CR= 

GRBS= 

HSCP= 

Rh. M= 

SIFC= 

American Journal of Philology 

Classical Philology 

Classical Quarterly 

Classical Review 

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 

Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 

Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica 

YEAR TITLE and AUTHORS PUBLISHER CATEGORY 

1. 1961 "Photius Bibl. p. 209a 33sq." Rh.M. 104, p. 189 Note 

2. 1962 "Plato Epistle 7.337B" CP 57, p. 109 Note 

3. 1962 "Duo Loci Sallustiani" Rh.M. 105, pp. 257-260 Article 

4. 1962 "Hirtius, Bellum Gallicum 8.15.1" La Parola del Passato 

116, pp. 384-385 

Note 

5. 1963 "Aristotle's Definition of Anger" Philologus 107, pp. 61-74 Article 

6. 1963 "An Eighteenth-Century Carved Piece with 

Medical Associations" 

Journal of the Warburg 

and Courtauld Institutes 

26, pp. 361-363 

Article 

J 

7. 1963 "Some Greek Textual Problems" HSCP 67, pp. 269- 283 Article 

8. 1963 "The Derivation of rJuqmov"” CP 58, pp. 36-38 Note 

9. 1963 "Pseudo-Xenophon Ath.Pol. 2.12" CP 58, p. 38 Note 

10. 1963 "Photius on Ctesias" AJP 84, p. 71 Note 

11. 1963 "An Unnoticed Proverb in Theognis" CR n.s. 13, pp. 131-132 Note



12. 1963 "Thucydides 7.28.2" Rh.M. 106, p.288 Note 

13. 1964 "An Aristotelian Mode of Argumentation 

in Iamblichus' Protrepticus" 

Hermes 92, pp. 507-508 

Note 

14. 1964 "The Collectanea Alexandrina, Selected 

Passages" 

HSCP 68, pp. 375- 388 

Article 

15. 1965 "Lectiones Galenicae" Rh.M. 108, pp. 61-70 Article 

16. 1965 Review of Douglas Young's Teubner 

edition of Theognis 

17. 1965 "Arius Didymus: A New Biographical 

Detail" 

CP 60, pp. 134-136 

Hermes 90, p. 256 

Review 

Note 

18. 1965 "Theocritus (?) viii. 53-56" Rh. M. 108, p. 377 Note 

19. 1966 "An Unnoticed Greek Tragic Fragment" Rh. M. 109, pp. 185-186 Note 

20. 1967 "Pausanias vii.23.10" Rh.M. 110, p. 285 Note 

21. 1968 "The Greeks and the Bath" CR n.s. 18, pp. 133-134 Note 

22. 1968 "Christus or Chrestus in Tacitus?" La Parola del Passato 

122, pp. 368-370 

Note 

23. 1968 "Some Greek Lexicographical Notes" Glotta 46, pp. 60-73 Article 

24. 1969 "Conscious Ambiguities in Pindar and 

Bacchylides" 

25. 1969 "Greek Lexicographical Notes: Second 

Series" 

GRBS 10, pp. 217-228 

Glotta 47, pp. 220-234 

Article 

Article 

26. 1969 "A Fragment of Alcaeus in Seneca?" Rh. M. 112, pp. 187-188 Note 

27. 1969 "Culex 163" Rh. M. 112, pp. 189-190 Note 

28. 1969 "Plato Symposium 219a 2-4" CR n.s. 19, p. 270 Note



29. 1969 Leonis Medici De Natura Hominum 

Synopsis. 

primum edidit et in in linguam anglicam 

vertit Robert Renehan ( = Corpus 

Medicorum Graecorum X.4), 79 pp. 

30. 1969 Greek Textual Criticism: A Reader, xi + 

152 pp. 

Akademie Verlag, Berlin 

Harvard University Press 

Book 

Book 

31. 1970 "Agamemnon and a[gkaqen" CR, n.s. 20, pp. 125-127 Article 

32. 1970 "Greek Lexicographical Notes: Third 

Series" 

33. 1970 "On the Text of Leo Medicus: A Study in 

Textual Criticism" 

34. 1970 "The 'Platonism' of the Attic Orator 

Lycurgus" 

35. 1971 "The Michigan Alcidamus Papyrus: A 

Problem in Methodology" 

Glotta 48, pp. 93-107 

Rh. M. 113, pp. 79-88 

GRBS 11, pp. 219-231 

HSCP 75, pp. 85-105 

Article 

Article 

Article 

Article 

36. 1971 "Nugae Xenophonteae" Rh. M. 114, pp. 135-145 Article 

37. 1971 "Greek Lexicographical Notes: Fourth 

Series" 

Glotta 49, pp. 65-85 

Article 

38. 1972 "diaipethv"" in Alcman" Rh. M. 115, pp. 93-96 Note 

39. 1972 "Greek Lexicographical Notes: Fifth 

Series" 

40. 1972 "Greek Lexicographical Notes: Sixth 

Series" 

41. 1972 "The Greek Philosophical Background of 

Fourth Maccabees" 

Glotta 50, pp. 38-60 

Glotta 50, 156-181 

Rh. M. 115, pp. 223-238 

Article 

Article 

Article 

42. 1973 "Euripides Helen 255-260" Rh. M. 115, pp. 289-290 Note 

43. 1973 "A Proverbial Expression in Tacitus" CP 68, pp. 114-115 Note 

44. 1973 "Ps.-Vergil's Ultrix Flamma" CP 68, pp. 197-202 Article 

45. 1973 "Classical Quotations in the Greek New 

Testament" 

Orientalia Christiana 

Analecta 195, pp. 17-46 

Article 

46. 1974 "Hera as Earth Goddess" Rh. M. 117, pp. 193-201 Article



47. 1975 "Review of A.J. Festugière, Observations 

stylistiques sur l' évangile de S. Jean 

AJP 96, pp. 422-427 

Review 

48. 1975 “Greek Lexicographical Notes: A Critical 

Supplement to LSJ ( = Hypomnemata Heft 

45), 208 pp. 

49. 1976 Studies in Greek Texts (= Hypomnemata 

Heft 43), 179 pp. 

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 

Göttingen 

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 

Göttingen 

Book 

Book 

50. 1976 "A Traditional Pattern of Imitation in 

Sallust and His Sources" 

CP 71, pp. 97-105 

Article 

51. 1976 "Mosquito Control in Plautus" CP 71, pp. 164-165 Note 

52. 1976 "But Livy said sed" CP 71, pp. 253-254 Note 

53. 1977 "Compound-Simplex Verbal Iteration in 

Plautus” 

CP 72, pp. 243-248 

Article 

54. 1977 "An Interpolation in Horace Confirmed" AJP 98, pp.133-138 Article 

55. 1978 Review of Denys Page, Supplementum 

Lyricis Graecis 

CP 73, pp.51-57 

Review Article 

56. 1978 "A Misunderstood Phrase in Livy" CP 73, pp.344-345 Note 

57. 1979 "Poet or Plato in Plutarch?" CP 74, pp.244-245 Note 

58. 1979 Review of E.G. Turner, The Typology of 

the Early Codex 

AJP 100, pp. 446-447 

Review 

59. 1979 "Acts 17.28" GRBS 20, pp. 347-353 Article 

60. 1979 "New Evidence for the Variant in Iliad 

1.5" 

AJP 100, pp. 473-474 

Note 

61. 1979 "Hekate, H.J. Rose, and C.M. Bowra" Classical World 73, pp. 

302-304 

Note 

62. 1980 "Isocrates and Isaeus: Lesefrüchte" CP 75, pp. 242-252 Article 

63. 1980 "Progress in Hesiod" CP 75, pp. 339-358 Review Article 

64. 1980 "The Meaning of SWMA in Homer: A 

Study in Methodology" 

California Studies in 

Classical Antiquity 12, 

pp. 269-82 

Article



65. 1980 "On the Greek Origins of the Concepts of 

Incorporeality and Immateriality" 

GRBS 21, pp.105-138 

Article 

66. 1980 "Viscus/Viscum" HSCP 84, pp. 279-282 Article 

67. 1981 "Plutarch, Lysander 2: An Addendum" CP 76, pp. 206-207 Note 

68. 1981 "The Greek Anthropocentric View of 

Man" 

HSCP 85, pp. 239-259 

Article 

69. 1981 "Some Passages in Plato" GRBS 22, pp. 371-384 Article 

70. 1981 "Symphosius 42.1: A Literal 

Interpretation" 

CQ 31, p. 471 

Note 

71. 1981 "Anthologia Latina 24 Reise" CQ 31, pp.471-472 Note 

72. 1981 "Luxorius on the Art of Self-Defence" CQ 31, p. 472 Note 

73. 1982 Greek Lexicographical Notes. A Critical 

Supplement to the Greek English Lexicon 

of Liddell-Scott-Jones, Second Series 

( = Hypomnemata Heft 74), 143 pp. 

Vandenhoeck & 

Ruprecht, Göttingen 

Book 

74. 1982 "Aristotle as Lyric Poet: The Hermeias 

Poem" 

GRBS 23, pp. 251-274 

Article 

75. 1983 "A New Lexicon of Classical Greek" GRBS 24, pp. 5-20 Article 

76. 1983 "The Early Greek Poets: Some 

Interpretations" 

77. 1984 "poikilovqrono"” in Sappho: The First 

Words of Poem 1" 

HSCP 87, pp.1-29 

Studies Presented to 

Sterling Dow (= GRBS 

Monograph 10), pp. 255- 

258 

Article 

Article 

78. 1984 "A.E. Housman on Shakespeare" Notes and Queries, 

(Oxford) 31, pp. 77-78 

Note 

79. 1984 "Anacreon, Fragment 13 Page" CP 79, pp. 28-32 Article 

80. 1984 "Doctor Johnson and A.E. Housman" HSCP 88, pp. 241-257 Article 

81. 1984 "An Epigram from Troezen (IG 4.800)" CP 79, pp. 213-214 Note



82. 1984 Review of D.B. Claus, Toward the Soul: 

An Enquiry into the Meaning of ‘Psyche’ 

Before Plato. 

83. 1984 "Meletius' Chapter on the Eyes: An 

Unidentified Source" 

CP 79, pp. 327-334 

Dumbarton Oaks Papers 

38, pp. 159-168 

Review 

Article 

84. 1985 "Herodotean Cruces" HSCP 89, pp. 25-35 Article 

85. 1985 "A New Commentary on Euripides" CP 80, pp. 143-175 Review Article 

86. 1986 "A New Hesiodic Fragment" CP 81, pp. 221-222 Note 

87. 1987 "Some Passages in Maximus of Tyre" CP 82, pp. 43-49 Article 

88. 1987 "Praxilla Fr. 8 Page [= PMG 754]" Hermes 115, pp. 373-377 Article 

89. 1987 "The Heldentod in Homer: One Heroic 

Ideal" 

CP 82, pp. 99-116 

Article 

90. 1987 "Curae Callimacheae" CP 82, pp. 240-254 Review Article 

91. 1987 "Apollonius Tyrius 46 and the Editors" CP 82, pp. 345-346 Note 

92. 1987 "W.J. Verdenius: A Commentary on 

Hesiod, Works and Days, vv. 1- 382" 

93. 1988 "Shackleton Bailey and the Editing of 

Latin Poetry. A Latin Classic." 

94. 1988 "Josef-Hans Kühn/Ulrich Fleischer: Index 

Hippocraticus 

95. 1989 "Bruno Snell and Friedrich Nietzsche on 

the Speech of Asses" 

Gnomon, pp. 577-580 

CP 83, pp. 311-328 

Göttingische Gelehrte 

Anzeigen 240, pp.183-187 

CP 84, p. 49 

Review 


Review 

Note 

96. 1989 "Housman, Wordsworth and Diggle" Liverpool Classical 

Monthly 14.5, p. 80 

Note 

97. 1990 "Three Places in Plato's Symposium" CP 85, pp. 120-126 Article 

98. 1991 "Aristotle's Elegiacs to Eudemus" Illinois Classial Studies 16, 

pp. 255-267 

Article 

99. 1991 "Herodoti Historiae. Vol. I, ed. Haiim B. 

Rosén" 

100. 1992 "Aristotle's Doctrine of the Proper End of 

Man: Some Observations" 

Göttingische Gelehrte 

Anzeigen 243, pp. 23-44 

Proceedings of the Boston 

Area Colloquium in 

Ancient Philosophy 7, pp. 

79-101 


Article



101. 1992 "The Staunching of Odysseus' Blood: The 

Healing Power of Magic" 

102. 1992 "Werner Jaeger: The Oxford Classical 

Text of Aristotelis Metaphysica" 

AJP 113, pp. 1-4 

Werner Jaeger 

Reconsidered: Illinois 

Studies in the History of 

Classical Scholarship. 

Vol. II (1990), pp. 147- 

160 

Article 

Article 

103. 1992 "The New Oxford Sophocles" CP 87, pp. 335-375 Review Article 

104. 1992 "A.E. Coxon, The Fragments of 

Parmenides" 

105. 1992 "Ivars Avotin, On the Greek of the Code 

of Justinian: A Supplement to Liddell- 

Scott-Jones" 

106. 1992 "Some Special Problems in the Editing of 

Aristotle" 

107. 1993 "On the Interpretation of a Poem of 

Anacreon" 

Ancient Philosophy 12, 

pp. 395-409 

Phoenix 46, pp. 201-203 

SIFC, 3rd series, 10, pp. 

710-724 

Illinois Classical Studies 

18, pp. 39-47 


Review 

Article 

Article 

108. 1993 "Plato, Apology 27A-B" CP 88, pp. 318-319 Note 

109. 1994 "Of Mice and Men in Aristotle" CP 89, pp. 245-255 Article 

110. 1995 "I. Avotins, On the Greek of the Novels of 

Justinian." 

Phoenix 49, pp. 72-75 

Review 

111. 1995 "Polus, Plato, and Aristotle. " Classical Quarterly 45, 

pp. 68-72 

Article 

112. 1995 "The Private Aristotle: Two Clues." Hermes 123, pp. 281-292 Article 

113. 1996 “Aristotelian Explications and 

Emendations: I.” 

114. 1996 “Aristotelian Explications and 

Emendations: II” 

115. 1997 "On Some Genitives and a Few 

Accusatives in Aristotle: A Study in 

Style." 

CP 91, pp. 141-158 

CP 91, pp. 223-246 

Hermes 125, pp. 153-168 

Article 

Article 

Article 

116. 1998 "a[nqo" and a[lqo"." Glotta 73, pp. 56-59 Article



117. 1998 "On Gender Switching as a Literary 

Device in Latin Poetry. " 

118. 1998 “The Euripidean Studies of James Diggle: 

Part I.” 

119. 1998 “The Euripidean Studies of James Diggle: 

Part II.” 

Style and Tradition. 

Studies in Honor of 

Wendell Clausen 

(Teubner), pp. 212-229 

CP 93, pp. 161-191 

CP 93, pp. 249-270 

Article 



120. 1998 “D. Kidd (ed.), Aratus: Phaenomena.” Religious Studies Review 

24, p. 411 

121. 1999 “Jaeger, Werner Wilhelm.” American National 

Biography (OUP), vol. 

11, pp. 803-805 

Review 

Encyclopedia 

Entry 

122. 1999 “The Epidemics,” Thomas Sydenham 

(1624-1689) and Thomas Robie of Boston 

(1689-1729): The Influence of 

Hippocratic Medical Practice.” 

Aspetti della Terapia nel 

Corpus Hippocraticum. 

Atti del IX e Colloque 

International 

Hippocratique, pp. 565- 

580. 

Article 

123. 1999 “A Rare Surgical Procedure in Plutarch.” Classical Quarterly, 50, 

pp. 223-229. 

Article 

124. 2000 “W.M. Calder III, Men in their Books. 

Studies in the Modern History of Classical 

Scholarship.” 

125. 2000 “Further Thoughts on a Sallustian Literary 

Device.” 

Journal of Hellenic 

Studies, 120, pp. 166-167. 

The Ancient World , 31, 

pp.144-147 

Review 

Article 

126. 2001 “Some Notes on Daphnis and Chloe.” Rh. Mus., 144, pp.233- 

238. 

127. 2001 “Herodotos Philanthropos.” Hermes, 129, pp. 173- 

187. 

128. 2001 “Jacques Jouanna, Hippocrates.” Early Science and 

Medicine, 6, pp. 369-370. 

Article 

Article 

Review 

129. 2001 “Some Supplements to the Revised LSJ 

Supplement” 

130. 2003 “Galen,’De Plenitudine’ :Kritische 

Edition, Übersetzung und Erläuterungen. 

Edited by Christoph Otte.” 

Glotta 77, pp. 221-243. 

Bulletin of the History of 

Medicine 77, pp. 178- 

179. 

Article 

Review



131. 2003- 

2004 

“Inserted Apposition in Classical Greek 

Poetry” 

Illinois Classical 

Studies27-28, pp. 101- 

108. 

Article 

132. 2004 “Euripidean Annotations” CR 54,pp. 304-305 Review 

133. 2004 “PAGE, Denys Lionel (1908-1978)” Dictionary of British 

Classicists, Vol. II, pp. 

736-737. 

134. 2006 “Some Passages in Aristophanes” Rheinisches Museum für 

Philologie,149, pp.31-50. 

Biographical Entry 

Article 

135. 2006 “Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon. Vol. III: 

P-S” 

Bryn Mawr Classical 

Review 2006.11.23, 

pp.1-4. 

Review

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