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3 unusual facts about Richard Janko


Richard Janko

(G.S. Kirk, series editor) The Iliad. A Commentary. 4: Books 13–16 (Cambridge, 1994)

Richard Janko (born May 30, 1955 in Weston Underwood) is a British-American classical philologist whose work has focused primarily upon Bronze Age Greece, archaic Greek epic, ancient literary criticism and the reconstruction of ancient books on papyrus-rolls.

Janko is currently the Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan.


Artemidorus Ephesius

Richard Janko, in Classical Review 59.2(2009) pp. 403-410 has offered arguments favoring the case for forgery.


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Friends of Herculaneum Society

Professor Daniel Delattre (CNRS, Paris), Prof. Robert Fowler (University of Bristol), Prof. Richard Janko (University of Michigan), Dr. Dirk Obbink (University of Oxford), Mr. Nigel Wilson (University of Oxford)