A.G. Leventis Postdoctoral Fellow in Greek Studies

Dr Benjamin Folit-Weinberg (A.G. Leventis Postdoctoral Fellow in Greek Studies).‌

2020–2021 was the second year of Ben’s tenure as A.G. Leventis Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the IGRCT. He prepared his monograph, Homer, Parmenides, and the Road to Demonstration (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/homer-parmenides-and-the-road-to-demonstration/BD8F6DD0BCF2CF25A05977546BEFB87D) for publication; it is due to come out in April 2022 with Cambridge University Press.  His article ‘Conceptualizing Chance: The hodos in Homer’ (https://doi.org/10.1353/phx.2020.0000) came out in the Spring/Summer Issue (1–2) of Volume 74 of Phoenix, and he also had an article manuscript ‘The Language of Roads and Travel in Homer: hodos and keleuthos’ accepted in Classical Quarterly; it will be coming out in Volume 72 of CQ in 2022. During 2020–2021, he also developed several other article manuscripts, including an investigation of aēr in Homer and Anaximenes, with implications for New Materialist approaches to Homer and archaic and classical Greek cultural production; an exploration of the importance of road imagery for the invention of Parmenides’ to eon (‘being’, or ‘what-is’); an analysis of Parmenides’ arguments in his ‘Route to Truth’; and a study of Sophocles’ use of words in the tel- family in Oedipus Colonus. Ben also completed work on his second manuscript, focusing in particular on how ancient Greek roads organize space inside the archaic polis and beyond, and exploring the uses ofroad imagery in Hesiod’s Works and Days, the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, and other ancient texts.

Report by Benjamin Folit-Weinberg (A.G. Leventis Postdoctoral Fellow in Greek Studies).