Glenn W. Most
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Glenn Warren Most (born June 12, 1952 in
classicist and comparatist
originating from the US, but also working in Germany and Italy.
Most studied classics at
Ph.D. under Paul de Man with a thesis called "The Bait of Falsehood: Studies in the Rhetorical Strategy of Poetic Truth in the Romantic Period". Simultaneously, from 1976 to 1978, he studied classics at the Philologisches Seminar of University of Tübingen and was awarded D.Phil. under Richard Kannicht
with a thesis entitled "Pindar's Truth: Unity and Occasionality in the Epinician Ode".
In 1980, Most was appointed Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classics at
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Since 2001, he is teaching as Professor of Ancient Greek at the Scuola Normale
at Pisa.
Most's work ranges from Greek to Latin authors, from literature to philosophy, and from history and methodology of classical studies to modern literary theory and reception history. In particular, he studies the relationship of the modern towards the ancient world, including New Testament topics such as the story of Doubting Thomas.
Selected works
- The measures of praise. Structure and function in Pindar's Second Pythian and Seventh Nemean odes, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1985 (ISBN 3-525-25182-3
- Collecting fragments = Fragmente sammeln (Ed.), Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1997 (Aporemata, Bd. 1) ISBN 3-525-25900-X
- Editing texts = Texte edieren (Ed.), Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998 (Aporemata, Bd. 2) ISBN 3-525-25901-8
- Commentaries = Kommentare (Ed.), Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999 (Aporemata, Bd. 4) ISBN 3-525-25903-4
- Historicization = Historisierung (Ed.), Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001 (Aporemata, Bd. 5) ISBN 3-525-25904-2
- Disciplining classics = Altertumswissenschaft als Beruf (Ed.), Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001 (Aporemata, Bd. 6) ISBN 3-525-25905-0
- Ancient anger: Perspectives from Homer to Galen. Ed. by Susanna Braund and Glenn W. Most. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Doubting Thomas. Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, 2005.[1]
- Laks, André; Most, Glenn W., eds. (2016). Early Greek Philosophy. Loeb Classical Library 524-532. Vol. I–IX. Harvard University Press.
- André Laks et Glenn W. Most, Les débuts de la philosophie. Des premiers penseurs grecs à Socrate, Paris, Fayard, 2016 ISBN 978-2213637532