Graham Zanker

Zanker received his B.A. from the University of Adelaide before proceeding to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Classical Philology.{{Cite web |title=Graham Zanker |url=https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/arts/contact-us/people/graham-zanker.html |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=The University of Canterbury |date=13 October 2023 |language=en-nz}}{{Cite web |date=2019-12-09 |title=Graham Zanker - Scholars {{!}} Institute for Advanced Study |url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/graham-zanker |access-date=2023-11-28 |website=www.ias.edu |language=en}}

He has undertaken research at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Cincinnati,{{Cite web|title=Tytus|url=https://classics.uc.edu/departments/classics/tytus?view=category&id=18|access-date=2021-12-20|website=classics.uc.edu}} and been a resident scholar at the Fondation Hardt (Geneva), Center for Hellenic Studies, Institute of Classical Studies. He has also been an academic visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study.{{Cite web|date=2019-12-09|title=Graham Zanker - Scholars {{!}} Institute for Advanced Study|url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/graham-zanker|access-date=2021-12-03|website=www.ias.edu|language=en}}

Zanker's first book, Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and Its Audience (1987), was a groundbreaking investigation of the interrelation of Hellenistic poetry and art.{{Cite journal |last=Woodman |first=A. J. |date=1988 |title=Alexandrian Realism - G. Zanker: Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: a Literature and its Audience. Pp. vi + 250. London: Croom Helm, 1987. £29.95. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/abs/alexandrian-realism-g-zanker-realism-in-alexandrian-poetry-a-literature-and-its-audience-pp-vi-250-london-croom-helm-1987-2995/913847F5FC377620A951035C04FBC1A0 |journal=The Classical Review |language=en |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=266–268 |doi=10.1017/S0009840X00121444 |s2cid=162201463 |issn=1464-3561|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Griffin |first=Jasper |date=1989 |title=Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Review Article |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/653913 |journal=Echos du Monde Classique: Classical Views |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=59–65 |issn=1913-5416}} Zanker then moved to Homeric ethics in The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad (1994), amending the schematic view of the psychological drives behind the behavior of the Homeric heroes by (e.g.) focusing on the reconciliation scene between Achilles and Priam in Iliad 24.{{Cite journal |title=Review of: The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad |url=https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1998/1998.02.08/ |journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review |issn=1055-7660}}{{Cite journal |last=Hainsworth |first=J. B. |date=1998 |title=G. Zanker: The Heart of Achilles: Characterization of Personal Ethics in the Iliad. Pp. viii + 173. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/abs/g-zanker-the-heart-of-achilles-characterization-of-personal-ethics-in-the-iliad-pp-viii-173-ann-arbor-university-of-michigan-press-1994/AAB546061DCB2AF09BFF7168C53ABB8D |journal=The Classical Review |language=en |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=166–167 |doi=10.1017/S0009840X00330955 |s2cid=161432704 |issn=1464-3561|url-access=subscription }} He then returned to the interaction of Hellenistic art and literature in Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art (2004).{{Cite journal |title=Review of: Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art |url=https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2005/2005.01.02/ |journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review |issn=1055-7660}}{{Cite journal |last=Elsner |first=Jaś |date=2005 |title=Review of Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3804942 |journal=The American Journal of Philology |volume=126 |issue=3 |pages=461–463 |jstor=3804942 |issn=0002-9475}} He has recently written on Stoic fate in Virgil's Aeneid.{{Cite book |last=Zanker |first=Graham |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fate-and-the-hero-in-virgils-aeneid/4B68604E8C63DE05DA384C3F68A6443E |title=Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid: Stoic World Fate and Human Responsibility |date=2023 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-009-31987-4 |location=Cambridge}}

He has also translated Thomas Szlezak's Platon Lesen (Reading Plato, 2005),{{Cite web|title=Reading Plato|url=https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Plato/Szlezak/p/book/9780415189842|access-date=2021-11-28|website=Routledge & CRC Press|language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Poulakos |first=John |date=2001 |title=Reviews: Reading Plato, by Thomas A. Szlezak, Unending Conversations: New Writings by and about Kenneth Burke, by Greig Henderson and David Cratis Williams, Kenneth Burke in Greenwich Village:Conversing with the Moderns, 1915-31, by Jack Selzer, Rhetorica Movet. Studies in Historical and Modern Rhetoric in Honour of Heinrich F. Plett, by Peter L. Oesterreich and Thomas O. Sloane |url=https://online.ucpress.edu/rhetorica/article/19/3/341/82211/Reviews-Reading-Plato-by-Thomas-A-Szlezak-Unending |journal=Rhetorica |language=en |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=341–347 |doi=10.1525/rh.2001.19.3.341 |issn=0734-8584|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Bowery |first=Anne-Marie |date=2003 |title=Review: "Reading Plato" |url=https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase?openform&fp=eip&id=eip_2003_0004_0002_0194_0198. |journal=Essays in Philosophy |language=en |volume=4 |pages=194–198 |doi=10.5840/eip20034215 |via=|url-access=subscription }} and authored an edition, translation, and commentary to Herodas’ Mimiambs (2009).{{Cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/herodas-mimiambs-9780856688836?cc=us&lang=en&|title=Herodas: Mimiambs|date=2009-08-01|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-85668-883-6|series=Aris and Phillips Classical Texts|location=Oxford, New York}}{{Cite journal |title=Review of: Herodas: Mimiambs |url=https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010.05.08/ |journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review |issn=1055-7660}}{{Cite journal |last=TELÒ |first=MARIO |date=2012 |editor-last=Zanker |editor-first=G. |title=HERODAS |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23270861 |journal=The Classical Review |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=438–440 |doi=10.1017/S0009840X12000480 |jstor=23270861 |s2cid=231890811 |issn=0009-840X|url-access=subscription }}

Zanker is currently working on a collaboration on Ch. G. Heyne's De Genio Saeculi Ptolemaeorum (1763), establishing its place in modern concepts of Hellenistic civilization.{{Cite web|date=2019-12-09|title=Graham Zanker - Scholars {{!}} Institute for Advanced Study|url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/graham-zanker|access-date=2021-11-28|website=www.ias.edu|language=en}}

• {{Cite book|last=Zanker|first=Graham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzFxAAAAIAAJ|title=Realism in Alexandrian Poetry: A Literature and Its Audience|date=1987|publisher=Croom Helm|isbn=978-0-7099-3005-1|language=en}}
• {{Cite book|last=Zanker|first=Graham|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qw9O-bQCDvMC|title=The Heart of Achilles: Characterization and Personal Ethics in the Iliad|date=1996|publisher=University of Michigan Press|isbn=978-0-472-08400-5|language=en}}
• {{Cite book |last=Zanker |first=Graham |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlyDxC3DARkC |title=Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art |date=2004 |publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press |isbn=978-0-299-19453-6 |language=en}}
• {{Cite book |last=Zanker |first=Graham |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/herodas-mimiambs-9780856688836?cc=us&lang=en& |title=Herodas: Mimiambs |publisher=Liverpool University Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780856688836}}
• Zanker, Graham (2023). [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/fate-and-the-hero-in-virgils-aeneid/4B68604E8C63DE05DA384C3F68A6443E Fate and the Hero in Virgil's Aeneid; Stoic World Fate and Human Responsibility]. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009319850.

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• [https://researchprofile.canterbury.ac.nz/Researcher.aspx?Researcherid=89258 Zanker at the University of Canterbury, including list of publications]

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