Professor Robert Fowler
Henry Overton Wills Emeritus Professor of Greek, FBA
Email: Robert.Fowler@bristol.ac.uk
Prof. Fowler has published widely on early Greek poetry and prose. He is author of The Nature of Early Greek Lyric (Toronto 1987) and Early Greek Mythography (2 vols, Oxford 2000-2013), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Homer (Cambridge 2004). He has also worked on topics in reception and the history of classical scholarship; a recent article is 'Pater and Greek Religion', in C. Martindale, S. Evangelista, E. Prettejohn, edd., Pater the Classicist: Classical Scholarship, Reception, and Aestheticism (Oxford 2017) 241-55. He is currently working on a book for Bristol's New Directions in Classics series (published by I.B. Tauris), tentatively entitled Myth and Meaning in Greek Lyric Poetry, with an emphasis on Pindar. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
