Jacob Stern
Ph.D., Greek and Latin, Columbia University, 1965.
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center.
jstern@gc.cuny.edu, 212-817-8157
Teaching Areas: Ancient Greek Epic, Lyric, Tragedy, Hellenistic Poetry, Greek Literature, Religion and Myth.
Selected Titles:
Pindaros und Bakchylides, ed. with W.M. Calder III, Darmstadt, 1970.Erotika Pathemata: The Love Stories of Parthenius, trans. with Notes and Afterword, New York, 1992.
Palaephatus: Peri Apiston: On Unbelievable Tales, trans. with Introduction and Commentary, Wauconda, Il., 1996.
"Herodas' Mimiamb 1," Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 22 (1981) 161-165.
"Herodas' Mimiamb 5," Classical Philology 76 (1981) 207-211.
"Demythologization in Herodotus 5.92.eta," Eranos 87 (1989) 13-20.
"Scapegoat Narratives in Herodotus," Hermes 119 (1991) 304-311.
"Herodas, Theocritus and The Urban Mime," Actas Del XIII Simposio Nacional De Estudios Clasicos, Vol II. (La Plata, Argentina, 1997) 29-38.
"Rationalizing Myth: Methods and Motives in Palaephatus," From Myth to Reason, ed. R. Buxton (Oxford, 1999) 215-222.
"Heraclitus the Paradoxographer: Peri Apiston, On Unbelievable Tales," Transactions of the American Philological Association 133 (2003) 51-97
“Paradoxographus Vaticanus,” In Pursuit of Wissenschaft Festschrift fuer William M. Calder III Zum 75. Geburtstag (Hildesheim, Zuerich, New York, 2008) 437-466=Spudasmata 119.
