Dirk Obbink

Dirk Obbink ( * 1957 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American Hellenist, papyrologist and Lecturer in papyrology and Greek literature at Oxford University, and Professor at the University of Michigan in papyrology.

Life

Dirk Obbink, whose ancestors had migrated from the Dutch-speaking region in the United States, studied English ( to BA), then Classical Philology and Papyrology at the University of Nebraska ( to MA). At Stanford University, he received his doctorate in 1986 with a dissertation on the treatise On Piety of the Greek philosopher Philodemus to the Ph. D.. After an assistant professorship at Columbia University in New York in 1995 he became the Lecturer in papyrology and Greek literature of the Faculty of Classics at Oxford University and head of the Oxyrhynchus papyri project called. In addition, since 2003 he is Ludwig Koenen Collegiate Professor in papyrology at the University of Michigan.

In 2001 Obbink received a MacArthur Fellowship for his work on the Oxyrhynchus papyri and Herculaneum. On 16 May 2007 it the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven awarded an honorary doctorate.

Work focuses on

Obbink has been established by an exemplary and revolutionary edition of the font of the philosopher Philodemus On Piety as a leading Papyrologists in the field of Greek language and is one of the employees of the Philodemus Project. In this edition, he has mostly charred and therefore extremely difficult to decipher and to be reconstructed papyrus scrolls from Herculaneum together convincingly into a whole. At Oxford, he is working on the Oxyrhynchus papyri. Since 1999, he set to decipher the papyri of a multi - spectral imaging ( MSI) technology. Out of work at the Philodemus edition out, he devoted more studies of Hellenistic philosophy. However Obbink also deal with other difficult papyri such as the Derveni papyrus, the Artemidorus papyrus and those in the fields of ancient magic and astrology. Last Obbink has presented a critical text edition of the astrological poem of Anubion.

Writings

Critical editions

  • Philodemus on Piety Part I. Critical Text with Commentary, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1996 ISBN 0-19-815008-3. . Review by: Lee T. Pearcy, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.12.19
  • Anoubion, Elegiacs, in: The Oxyrhynchus papyri vol 66 ed N. Goni and others, nos. 4503-7, Egypt Exploration Society, London, 66, 1999, 67-109.
  • Anubio, Carmen astrologicum elegiacum. Recensuit Dirk Obbink ( Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana ), Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006 ISBN 3-598-71228-6 Google Books; Review by: Roger Beck, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.09.28

Editorial Boards

  • (Ed., with Christopher A. Faraone ): Magika Hiera: Ancient Greek Magic and Religion ( Oxford University Press, 1991). Review by: Simon Pulleyn, in: The Classical Review, New Series, Vol 42.1 (1992 ), Ss. 89-90; by: Gregory W. Dickerson, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 02:04:08
  • ( Ed.), Philodemus and Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus, and Horace. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508815-8 1995. . Review by: Lee T. Pearcy, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.2.12
  • (Ed., with Roger S. Bagnall ): Columbia Papyri X ( American Studies in papyrology, 34). Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1996 ISBN 0-7885-0275-1. . Review of: Kirsti Copeland, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.6.15
  • (Ed., with Mary Depew ): Matrices of genre. Authors, Canons and Society, Cambridge Mass. , 2000. Google Books. Review by: Benjamin Acosta -Hughes, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 07/09/2001
  • (Ed., with John T. Fitzgerald and Glenn Stanfield Holland ): Philodemus and the New Testament world ( Novum Testamentum Supplements 111. ), Leiden: Brill 2004, ISBN 9-004-11460-2, Google Books

Article

  • ' What all men believe - must be true ': Common conceptions and consensio omnium in Aristotle and Hellenistic philosophy, in: Julia Annas ( ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Vol 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1992, Ss. 193-231, ISBN 0-198-24047-3, Google Books
  • A Quotation of the Derveni Papyrus in Philodemus ' On Piety, in: Cronache Ercolanesi, 24, 1994, 111-35.
  • Philodemus ' De Pietate: Argument, Organization and Authorship in: Papyrologica 4, 1994, 203-231 (PDF)
  • The Stoic Sage in the Cosmic City, in: Katerian Ierodiakonu (ed.), Topics in Stoic Philosophy, Clarendon, Oxford 1999, pp. 178-127
  • ' All Gods are true ' in Epicurus, in: Dorothea Frede, André Laks ( eds. ): Traditions of theology: studies in Hellenistic theology, its background and aftermath ( Philosophia antiqua, Vol 89), Leiden: Brill 2002, Ss. 183-222, ISBN 9-004-12264-8, Google Books

Translations

  • Marcello Gigante: Philodemus in Italy: The Books from Herculaneum. Translator's Dirk Obbink. Ann Arbor: . University of Michigan Press, 1995 ISBN 0-472-10569-8, Google Books. Review by: Alan C. Mitchell, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.9.24
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