Leonard Muellner, Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Brandeis University and Secretary of the New Alexandria Foundation. His scholarly interests center on Homeric epic, with special interests in historical linguistics, anthropological approaches to mythology, and the poetics of oral traditions. His recent work includes a chapter on Odyssey 15 for the Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey, forthcoming (pre-print version https://continuum.fas.harvard.edu/odyssey-15/), “On Plato not Misquoting Homer and What’s ‘New” at _Republic 424-c,” (http://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HLNC.ESSAY:10230256), and “The Free First Thousand Years of Greek,” in Digital Classical Philology: Ancient Greek and Latin in the Digital Revolution, ed. M. Berti, Berlin, 2019, pp. 7-18. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599572-002. He is the author of The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic (Ithaca NY, 1996) and The Meaning of Homeric EYXOMAI Through its Formulas (Innsbruck, 1976). From 2002 to 2015, he was Director for In Open House | The Free First Thousand Years of Greek, with …formation Technology and Publications at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC.
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