Peter Struck

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Vartan Gregorian Professor of the HumanitiesProfessor of Classical Studies

(215) 898-5137 or (215) 898-7425

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Education

Ph.D. (Comparative Literature) University of Chicago
M.A. (Divinity) University of Chicago
B.A. (English with Anthropology) University of Michigan

Research Interests

Greek and Roman mythology
Ancient theories of signs and interpretation
Philosophy and divination

Selected Publications

A Cultural HIstory of Ideas, in five volumes (Bloomsbury 2023)

Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Antiquity (Princeton 2016)

The Cambridge Companion to Allegory, ed. with Rita Copeland (2010)

Mantikê: Studies in Ancient Divination, ed. with Sarah Iles Johnston (Brill 2005)

The Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts (Cambridge 2004)

 

 

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