About

Hayden Pelliccia is a professor in the Department of Classics at Cornell University, located in Goldwin Smith Hall. His academic interests focus on Greek Literature and Latin Literature, with a particular emphasis on Greek Literature. Pelliccia has contributed to the field through publications such as 'Mind, Body, and Speech in Homer and Pindar,' and has engaged in translating and revising classical texts, including a substantial revision of the 'Selected Dialogues of Plato' for The Modern Library. His research explores themes in Homeric poetry, Greek rhetoric, and classical literary canons, and he has reviewed significant works in the field, such as Homeric questions and Argonautika. Pelliccia's work also includes analyzing the transposition of Aeschylus and the interpretation of Homeric texts, contributing to the understanding of ancient Greek literature and its rhetorical and performative aspects.

Research topics

• Art
• History

Selected publications

• Seeing the unseen in the Iliad 1

  Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 13 citations

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  This chapter begins from the commonplace observation that Homer is cinematic, in the sense that he makes it easy for the audience to visualize the action. It points out that Homer's visualization project is more ambitious than that of the Athenian tragic poets in that he includes the gods in his action. In tragedy gods as a rule appear either in the prolog, which is to say before the dramatic illusion of the plot has fully taken hold, or at the end when they conclude the plot in an epiphany from the machine. The typology of passages in which a god rescues a favored mortal from imminent threat has been elucidated by Karl Reinhardt and Bernard C. Fenik. The chapter draws attention to points relevant to understanding certain problems raised by a final passage that is not strictly a member of Reinhardt’s and Fenik’s group, but is clearly and interestingly related to it.

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• The Reception of Horace Odes 2.4 in Horace Odes 2.5

  2018-10-08 · 1 citations

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• Mental Organs

  The Homer Encyclopedia · 2011-02-04

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• Parables

  The Homer Encyclopedia · 2011-02-04

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• Monologues

  The Homer Encyclopedia · 2011-02-04

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• Double Motivation

  The Homer Encyclopedia · 2011-02-04 · 9 citations

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• thumos

  The Homer Encyclopedia · 2011-02-04

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• Reception, Hellenistic

  The Homer Encyclopedia · 2011-02-04

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• Sophocles' <i>Electra</i> - (P.J.) Finglass (ed.) Sophocles: Electra. (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 44.) Pp. xii + 646. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Cased, £85, US$160. ISBN: 978-0-52186809-9.

  The Classical Review · 2009-03-11

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  Sophocles' Electra - (P.J.) Finglass (ed.) Sophocles: Electra. (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 44.) Pp. xii + 646. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Cased, £85, US$160. ISBN: 978-0-52186809-9. - Volume 59 Issue 1

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• Simonides, Pindar and Bacchylides

  Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2009-04-30 · 16 citations

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  The surviving corpus of Pindar includes something unique in the remains of early Greek melic poetry: a large number of complete poems that come to us by way of a direct manuscript transmission. We will consider below how and why his four books of epinikia enjoyed this privileged mode of preservation; for now we will only remark that the fact of it conditions the way in which we perceive his relationship to Simonides and Bacchylides, which in turn conditions how we perceive the milieu inhabited by all three (henceforth, SP&B).

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Frequent coauthors

• Benjamin Jowett

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• John W. Coleman

  Holy Cross Hospital

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• Pietro Pucci

  Cornell University

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• Frederick Ahl

  Cornell University

  1 shared

• Danuta Shanzer

  1 shared

• David Mankin

  1 shared

• Kevin Clinton

  1 shared

• Plato Plato

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