Andrew Ford
Department/Program(s):
- Classics
Position: Professor
Title: Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature. Professor of Classics.
Area(s):
- Greek Language and Literature
Office: 154 East Pyne Building
Phone: 609-258-3952
Email: aford@princeton.edu
Homepage: http://scholar.princeton.edu/aford/
Profile
B.A., Cornell University ’74; Ph.D., Yale University ’81.
Professor Ford has taught and published widely in Greek poetry and prose from Homer through the classical age. The focus of his research has been the history of literary criticism, especially as this involves questions of reception and social dimensions of literary history. He has published books on Homer: The Poetry of the Past and The Origins of Criticism: Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece, in addition to articles on these aspects of Greek literature, including “Protagoras’ Head” inAJP 115 (1994), awarded the Gildersleeve Prize.
Recent Publications
1. The Origins of Criticism: Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece
