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Details for Professor Richard Buxton
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Richard Buxton |
| Job title | Senior Research Fellow in Humanities Emeritus Professor |
| Department | School of Humanities University of Bristol Department of Classics & Ancient History University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | M.A., Ph.D.(Cantab.) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | ancient Greek literature literature ancient mythology religion myths mythology |
| Areas of expertise | I work on ancient Greek literature (especially tragedy), and ancient mythology and religion. One of my main aims is to explore the contexts – for example, social life and the landscape – which can help us to recover the meanings which myths had for their tellers and hearers/readers. In 1996 I organised a major international conference at Bristol, whose proceedings appeared as From Myth to Reason? (1999) Since 2003 I have been one of the editors of Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum and since 2006 I have been President of the LIMC Foundation. I have just finished a book on Greek narratives of metamorphosis, and I will next be revising for publication a selection of my papers on Greek myth and tragedy. I have taken part in a number of radio programmes about myth. My work has been translated into nine languages. |