Department of Classical Studies
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Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
(617) 552-3664 office
(617) 522-3661 dept.
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Areas of Specialization
Renaissance Greek Literature (Crete)
Computers and Literary Analysis
Ancient Greek Tragedy (Metrics)
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
Modern Greek Drama (CORE lit.)
Currents in Modern Greek Literature (CORE lit.)
Greece Viewed through her Films
Modern Greek History and Literature
The Modern Greek Novel
Introduction to the Modern Greek World
Computers and Modern Greek
Prof. Dia M. L. Philippides
Professor
Boston College
Department of Classical Studies
Degrees
Ph.D. 1978 Princeton University (Classical Philology)
M.A. 1976 Princeton University (Classical Philology)
M.A. 1974 Boston College (Latin)
M.A. 1972 Boston College (Classics and Linguistics)
Principal Publications
Tou kyklou ta gyrismata: o Erotokritos se elektronike analyse (As the Wheel Turns: Electronic Analysis of the Erotokritos). With David Holton. John Dawson, technical editor. Four volumes. Athens: Hermes Publications, 1996-2000. CD-ROM forthcoming 2008: “Tou diskou ta gyrismata” (As the Disk Spins).
CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature: A Check-List of English Language Sources Useful in the Study of Modern Greek Literature (1824-1987). New Haven, CT: MGSA, 1990. Reprinted 1992. Enlarged edition, Census Update (1824-present), under preparation.
“O ypologistes ste sygkrise kretikwn anagennesiakwn keimenwn: ekdotikes apories me afeteria to lexilogio tes rimas” (Computers in the comparison of Cretan Renaissance texts: editorial queries based on the vocabulary of the rhyme). In Anadromika kai Prodromika. Approaches to Texts in Early Modern Greek: Papers from the conference Neograeca Medii Aevi V / Exeter College, University of Oxford, September 2000. Eds. Elizabeth Jeffreys and Michael Jeffreys. Oxford: Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, 2005: 101-114.
"The Sea in the Erotokritos". With W.F. Bakker. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 6.1 (1988): 97-116.
The Sacrifice of Abraham on the Computer. Athens: Hermes Press, 1986.
The Iambic Trimeter of Euripides: Selected Plays. New York: Arno Press, 1981.