Armand D’Angour ARCM, MA (Oxon.), PhD (Lond.)
Lecturer in Classics (CUF), Oxford University
Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Jesus College
Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DW
Tel: 01865 279683
Email: armand.dangour@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Website: armand-dangour.com
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2000-present Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Jesus College Oxford
1999-2000
Lecturer in Classics, Oriel College Oxford
1995-1999
Postgraduate Lecturer in Greek, Dept of Classics, UCL
EDUCATION, CAREERS, AND QUALIFICATIONS
1994-1998
University College London: Ph.D. Classics
1986-1994
Tin Box International Limited: various positions including MD
1983-1986
Freelance professional cellist
1979-1983
Merton College Oxford: B.A. (Hons) Lit. Hum. (Double First)
1976-1979
Royal College of Music, Performers’ Course, cello and piano: ARCM
1971-1976
Eton College: King’s Scholar, Newcastle Scholar
ACADEMIC AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
1998
Interdisciplinary Fellowship (Classics and Psychology), University College London
1997
Grote Ancient History Essay Prize, University of London
1994
British Academy 3-year Doctoral Fellowship
1981
Gaisford Prize; Hertford and 1st De Paravicini; Ireland Scholarhip and 1st Craven Prize
1980
Chancellor’s Latin Verse Prize; Second de Paravicini Prize; Second Craven Prize
1979
Postmastership, Merton College Oxford
1975
Newcastle Scholarship, Eton College
BOOK
The Greeks and the New: Novelty in ancient Greek imagination and experience (CUP 2011)
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
‘Music and movement in the dithyramb’. In Dithyramb in Context, eds B. Kowalzig
and P. Wilson (Oxford, forthcoming).
‘Euripides and the Sound of Music’. In The Blackwell Companion to Euripides, ed.
R. Mitchell-Boyask (Oxford, forthcoming).
‘Love’s Battlefield: rethinking Sappho fragment 31’. In Eros, eds. C. Carey et al.
(Oxford 2012).
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‘Horace’s Victory Odes’ in Receiving the Komos: Ancient and modern receptions of
the Victory Ode, eds. P. Agocs, C. Carey, and R. Rawles (London 2012).
‘Pindar at the Olympics: the Limits of Revivalism’. In Thinking the Olympics, eds.
B. Goff and M. Simpson (London 2011).
‘Arma si magni celebras Maronis’: Centenary Ode (Horatian) for the Roman
Society. JRS 100 (2010).
‘Language and Metre’. In Language and History vol. 52 no.1 (2009).
‘The Sound of Music: modulations and innovations in drama and dithyramb’. Ch. 12 in R.
Osborne, ed. Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution (Cambridge 2007).
‘Metre’. In Edinburgh Companion to the Ancient World, ed. T.Harrison and E. Bispham (Edinburgh
2006)
‘Conquering Love: Sappho 31 and Catullus 51’. Classical Quarterly 56.1 (2006).
‘The New Music: So what’s new?’ In Rethinking Revolutions, eds.Goldhill and Osborne
(Cambridge 2006).
‘Intimations of the Classical in ancient mousikē.’ In Classical Pasts, ed. J. Porter (Princeton
2005).
‘Sapphic and Anacreontic Verses.’ With Christine Luz, Greece & Rome 52.1 (2005) 45.
‘Pindar at the Olympics.’ Journal of Classics Teaching No.4 (Spring 2005).
‘Ode to Athens’. The Times, 31 July 2004.
‘Drowning by Numbers: Pythagoreanism & Poetry in Horace Odes 1.28’. GR 50 no.2 (Oct 2003).
‘Innovation from a Classical Perspective’. Isis Innovation 40 (Autumn 2003) 4-5.
‘Men in Wings: Fantasies of flight in ancient Greece (Part 1)’. Omnibus 42 (2001) 24-6.
‘What’s new? Some answers from ancient Greece’ . OECD Observer No.221/2 (2000) 65-8.
‘Catullus 107: a Callimachean reading’. Classical Quarterly 50 no.2 (2000) 615-618.
‘Archinus, Eucleides, and the reform of the Athenian alphabet’. BICS 43 (1999), 109-130.
‘Ad unguem’. American Journal of Philology vol.120, no. 3 (1999) 411-427.
‘How the dithyramb got its shape’. Classical Quarterly 47 no.1 (1997) 331-51.
Chancellor’s Prize Verses in Camenae Mertonenses (Oxford 1985).
REVIEWS
Balmer, J. Classical Women Poets. (BMCR, Jan. 1997)
Boardman, J. The Archaeology of Nostalgia. (TLS, Apr. 2003)
Hamilton, J.T. Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition. (TLS
28/1/2005)
Hornblower, S. and Morgan, C., eds. Pindar’s Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals. (TLS 9/4/2008)
Hunter, R.L. Plato’s Symposium. (CR 57, 2007, 38-9)
McDowell, A. Demosthenes and Hunt, P. War, Peace and Alliance in Athens. TLS 2011.
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Murray, P. and Wilson, P., eds. Music and the Muses: The Culture of Mousike etc.
(Hermathena 2007)
Powell, B.B. Writing and the Origins of Greek Literature. CR 55 (2005) 394-5.
Schiappa, E. The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece. (Hermathena 2002)
Sommerstein, A.H. Aristophanes: Frogs. (BMCR, June 1997)
Sommerstein, A.H. Aristophanes: Ecclesiazusae. (BMCR, Nov. 2000)
[Suggested emendation on v. 815 accepted by J. Henderson, ed. Loeb Aristophanes vol. IV)
Tatum, J. The Mourner’s Song. (TLS Aug. 2003)
Wills, L.M. The Jewish Novel in the Ancient World.(Scholia, Natal, ns 6, 1997)
SUNDRY PUBLICATIONS
‘Pindar at the Olympics’. Omnibus 63 (2012)
‘Otium Didascali: what a Classics tutor does for fun’. Jesus Record (2008)
‘Playing the lyre in ancient Greece’. Iris magazine (Spring 2007)
‘Ovid’s Amores 1.5 in English’. CA News (July 2003)
PAPERS DELIVERED
2004-2011
‘Listening to Greek Music’. CA Conference, Durham 2011.
‘Epigrammatic Delights’. CA Conference, Glasgow 2009.
‘Athens 2004: Pindaric Contestations’. Keynote, ‘Thinking the Olympics’ Conf. London (Sept. 2008)
‘Pindar at the Olympics’. CA Conference, Liverpool 2008
‘Reconstructing Catullan Otium’. CA Conference, Birmingham 2007.
‘Horace’s Victory Odes’. Conference on the Victory Ode, UCL (July 2006).
‘The Codes of Horace’. Address to the Horatian Society, Lincolns Inn (July 2006)
‘The transformations of Kaineus’. CA Conference, Newcastle 2006.
‘Classical Fragments: the cutting edge’. Oxford University Society, Wales (Jan 2006)
‘Psychology and Innovation: Classical perspectives’. With Dr. K.Ciclitira (Middx University) at
International Association for Theoretical Psychology, Cape Town SA (June 2005)
‘Catullus and Sappho: a joint reconstruction.’ CA Conference, Reading 2005
‘Inheriting Knowledge’. Keynote presentation, Oxbridge Graduate Conf., CCC (Nov 2004)
Pindaric Ode to Athens. International Olympic Committee, Athens (29 Aug 2004)
‘The Music of Dithyrambs Old and New’. New College Oxford, ‘Dithyramb’ Conf. (Jul 2004)
‘The Sound of Music: innovations in drama and dithyramb’. Kings Cambridge (Jul 2004)
‘The Psychology of Innovation: a Classical Perspective’. With K. Ciclitira. BPS Conf. (Apr 2004)
‘Manufacturing Innovation in Aristophanes’ Athens.’ CA Conference, Leeds 2004
‘Euripides and the Sound of Music’. Glasgow University Classical Seminar ( Feb 2004)
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PAPERS DELIVERED 1997-2004
‘Catullan Determinations’. Oxford Philological Society (Nov 2003)
‘Innovation from a Classical Perspective’. Conference, Said Business School, Oxford (Oct 2003)
‘Plato’s Symposium: the Teaching of Love’. Forum for Eur. Philosophy, London (May 2003)
‘The Greek agôn: no place for losers?’ CA Conference, Warwick 2003.
‘The Archaic as a container for innovation: Greek mousikê’. ‘The Archaic’, Como, Italy (Jul 2003)
‘Rethinking the 5th-century musical revolution’. Classics Seminar ‘Revolutions’, JES (Jan 2003)
‘Catullan Fireworks’. Radley College Classics Society (5 Nov 2002)
‘Catullus, Ovid, and the lighter side of love’. Oxford Area CA, STA (Jun 2002)
‘The New Music: so what’s new?’ King’s Cambridge ‘Rethinking Revolutions’ (Jul 2002)
‘Innovation: some classical principles’. INSEAD (Nov. 2001/2002), LBS (Dec 2001)
‘What’s new in history? Postmodernism and ancient Athens.’ CA Conference, Bristol 2000
‘Greek metre and meaning: dactylic perversions’. Subfaculty Seminar (BNC, Mar 2000)
‘Comic money: Aristophanes and Wealth’. Money in Ancient Greece, Univ. of Exeter (Jul 1999)
‘Ancient aeronautics: fantasies of flight’. CA Conference, Liverpool 1999
‘Plato, paideia and politics’. ICS Ancient History Seminar (Oct 1998)
‘Pythagorean phonology and the Archinus decree’. CA Conference, Lampeter 1998
‘Pindar and the dithyramb’. CA Conference, Royal Holloway Coll 1997; CCC Seminar (Oct 1997)
‘Psychoanalysis and social change’. UCL Interdisciplinary Seminar (Mar 1997)
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