"Glaucus Redivivus," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. 98, 1998, pp. 1-30.

The Anger of Achilles: Menis in Greek Epic. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.

Jean Renoir: A Life in Pictures by Celia Bertin, translated by Mireille Muellner and Leonard Muellner. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

The Meaning of Homeric Eukhomai through its Formulas. Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Bd. XIII, 1976.

Office: Rabb 130

Office Hours (Fall 2008): MW 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., and by appointment

Phone: (781) 736-2185

Email: muellner@brandeis.edu

Professor Leonard C. Muellner was the chair of Classical Studies from 1978-1981 and again from 1993-2003.  He has a master's degree in Classical Studies from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University. His principal areas of research are ancient Greek language, mythology, and poetics, but he also works in Latin literature and Roman mythology with equal passion. 

His international reputation comes from his two books on Homeric epic: The Meaning of Homeric EYXOMAI through its Formulas (Innsbruck, 1976), and The Anger of Achilles: Menis in Greek Epic (Cornell, 1996 and in paper, 2004). With his wife Mireille, he has also translated into English important work by a number of French classicists: Marcel Detienne, Dionysos Slain (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979); M. D. Grmek, Diseases in the Ancient Greek World (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989); and C. Bertin, Jean Renoir:  A Life in Pictures (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).  In addition, he has published scholarly articles or chapters on the semantics, similes, and meaning of Homeric passages in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology and Actes du Colloque Milman Parry. Professor Muellner has also delivered guest lectures on these topics at Harvard, Wellesley, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Brown, and at annual conventions of the American Philological Association.

His current scholarly projects are a multi-volume commentary on The Iliad with Douglas Frame (Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C.) and Gregory Nagy (Harvard University), and a new print and on-line translation of The Iliad with Mary Ebbott (Holy Cross), Casey Dué Hackney (University of Houston), Douglas Frame, and Gregory Nagy. He sits on the Editorial Board of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, where he also serves as Program Director of Publications and Information Technology.

Professor Muellner teaches the sequence of Greek language and literature courses at Brandeis and a course on Latin love elegy, Greek Epic and Drama in translation, Classical Mythology, Greek Religion, Humanities Seminars, and on occasion, a large Humanities course on the Western canon. With his Fall 2005 class in Ancient Greek Drama (GRK 115b), he translated a version of Euripides' Bacchae (which Sherman Theater Art Chair Eric Hill adapted for the Spingold stage, where it was performed in April-May 2006). The Muellner-GRK 115b translation of the play can be accessed online: http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/classics/Bacchae2006.html.

Photograph of Lenny Muellner by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow.

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