Roger Woodard
Andrew V. V. Raymond Professor of the Classics
Phone: 645 2154, ext. ?
Email: rwoodard@acsu.buffalo.edu
Graduate Degrees:
- M.Div.: Southeastern Seminary, Wake Forest, N.C. (1979).
- Ph.D.: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. (1986).
Expertise/research interests:
- Roman religion and Greek mythology; Greek alphabet and other writing systems; Greek, Italic, Indo-European linguistics, and historical linguistics generally; the interaction between the Near East and Greece.
Selected Publications:
- Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult. (University of Illinois Press, 2006).
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. Organizer, editor and contributor. (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
- Ovid: Fasti. In collaboration with A. J. Boyle. Translation and commentary of Ovid's work on Roman festivals and religion. (Penguin Books, 2000, reissued 2004).
- Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer: A Linguistic Interpretation of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and the Continuity of Ancient Greek Literacy. (Oxford University Press, 1997).
Offices in Professional Organizations:
- President of the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics (1992-2001).
Honors and Awards:
- CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2006 for The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. (2004).
- Sustained Achievement Award, UB Exceptional Scholars Program (2002).
Research projects:
- Ongoing research on early Greek alphabetic inscriptions with Dr. David Scott, UCLA and J. Paul Getty Museum.
- Numerous book projects in press and under contract.
- Beginning new monograph project on Hesiod; working title: Hesiod: the Rupture of Time; the Restoration of Order.
Undergraduate Courses:
- Myth and Religion in the Ancient World; Ancient Greek.
Graduate Courses:
- Hesiod, Homer, Greek Lyric, Apollodorus, Plutarch, Roman Religion, Indo-European Linguistics, Greek and Latin Linguistics, Sanskrit.