Robert Drummond
Biography
I’m a fifth-year PhD candidate from New Zealand. I studied Greek and Maths at the University of Auckland, where I wrote on the relationship between Apollo and Zeus in Greek tragedy by examining the intersection of their spheres of interest, namely prophecies and δικη. I also wrote on the narrative structure of battle type scenes in the Iliad.
My dissertation explores Aristophanes and Euripides’ use of μουσικη in their plays: while Aristophanes criticises Euripides’ use of ‘New Music’, both playwrights intermix traditional and innovative modes of music. Although my research focuses on early Greek poetry, I am interested in ancient languages more generally and have dipped my toes into Middle Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Old Norse, as well as groups for spoken Greek and Latin.
Education
- BA Univ. of Auckland
- BS Univ. of Auckland
- MA Univ. of Auckland
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Research Keywords
Greek and Latin language; tragedy; epic; music and prosody; ancient ethics; ancient senses
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Conference Presentations
- A return to tradition through New Musical revolution in Aristophanes’ ‘Birds’ Fonte Aretusa 9th Interdisciplinary Symposium , 2023-2024
- Polyneices ‘primus inter pares’: An Intertextual Reading of ‘Thebaid’ 11 UCLA Classics Department Graduate Conference , 2023-2024
- Poetic chromaticism: colour clusters in early Greek lyric poetry , 2020-2021
- Agents of Justice: Zeus, Apollo and the fulfilment of δίκη in the ‘Oresteia’ ASCS 41 , 2019-2020
- The Social Functions of Music in Euripides’ ‘Alcestis’ , 2019-2020
- ‘Duel Meanings’: the body-recovery type scene in the ‘Iliad’ ASCS 39 , 2017-2018
- Interpreting the gods in ‘Oedipus Tyrannus’ AMPHORAE XII , 2017-2018