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.

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