Professor of latin and greek at the Ohio State University, Department of Classics
Visiting Professor 2023-2024 - from 1 of March to 30 of April 2024
Inviting Professor: Christophe Cusset
Biography
Professor Benjamin ACOSTA-HUGHES is currently Professor of Latin and Greek at Ohio State University. He studied classics at the University of Michigan Ann Harbor and then at the University of California at Berkeley, where he obtained his doctorate. Benjamin ACOSTA-HUGHES is also an associate professor at two Italian universities: the Università di Roma Tre in Rome and the Università di Piemonte Orientale in Vercelli.
Collaboration with IHRIM Laboratory
Professor Benjamin ACOSTA-HUGHES is a leading specialist in Greek poetry of the Classical and Hellenistic periods. As part of his visit to ENS de Lyon, he would first like to prepare the publication of a book with Christophe Cusset, on female voices in Hellenistic poetry, with whom he has already co-authored and co-edited several academic works. He is also keen to help Professor Prioux with the translation of her new study of poetic metaphor drawn from the fine arts. Finally, he intends to begin the preparation of his third solo-authored monograph. This will focus on the Alexandrian reception of Greek choral lyricism, its rearrangement, imitation and reconfiguration in the cultural and artistic context of early Alexandria.
Major publications
Charis Recalled. Archaic Choral Lyric into Hellenistic Poetry. In progress for Princeton University Press.
Everything Reflects Him. Erotic Male Beauty after Alexander. With Christophe Cusset. In progress.
The Laurel and the Olive. Essays on Hellenistic Poetry and Art. In progress for de Gruyter for the series Trends in Classics. Supplementary Volumes. Due Dec. 2022.
Callimachus - The Epigrams. Edition and Commentary with Susan A. Stephens. In progress for de Gruyter for the series Trends in Classics. Supplementary Volumes. Due Aug. 2022 TRANSLATED WORKS
Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: A Sourcebook of Basic Documents in Translation. T.K. Hubbard (ed.). Translations of Greek Epigram. 19 pp. Berkeley, 2003 xiv + 226 pp.
Sappho’s Gift. The Poet and Her Community. With Lucia Prauscello. Michigan Classical Press. Translation of F. Ferrari, Una mitra per Kleis. Saffo e il suo pubblico. Pisa: Giardini, 2007. Reviews: Reviews: BMCR 2011.11.33 Stamatopoulou