Dr Janet Watson

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Biography

Janet Watson holds a PhD in Classics, and has a special interest in the Homeric epics. She has been teaching in higher and continuing education for more than twenty-five years. She currently teaches at Newcastle University in the school of History, Classics and Archaeology.

Janet has extensive experience in teaching classical Greek language and literature, and is a keen advocate of the Reading Greek methodology, whereby students are introduced to grammar and syntax through carefully graded reading passages adapted from original sources, progressing to original texts. This approach enables students not only to learn the language, but also to acquire an understanding of the culture in which it flourished.

Qualifications:

BA (Hons) Classical Studies, University of Newcastle

PhD Classics, University of Newcastle

Research

The field of orality and literacy in the ancient world has been the focus of lively debate in recent years, and I have contributed papers to two international conferences in this area, and organised the third in the series (Epos and Logos: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World), which was held at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in July 1998 (papers published by Brill, 2001, see below). I am pursuing my interest in divine intervention in the Homeric poems, drawing on research undertaken for my thesis and additional work currently underway on Homer’s Odyssey.

Selected Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

‘Hospitality Homeric Style.’ NZACT Bulletin, March 2002.

BOOKS

(Ed.) HomerOdyssey VI & VII:Text, Introduction, Notes and Vocabulary. London: Bristol Classical Press , 2002
(Ed.) Speaking Volumes: Orality and Literacy in the Ancient Greek and Roman World. Leiden: Brill , 2001
(In preparation) Homer, The Odyssey.Classical World Series, Bristol Classical Press (UNKNOWN)
(In preparation) Homer, Iliad 14, text, introduction and commentary. (UNKNOWN)

BOOK CHAPTERS

Contributor to The Homer Encyclopaedia,ed. Margalit Finkelberg, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (Twenty-one entries, including an essay on the reception of Homer in the visual arts from the Renaissance to the 20th century) , 2011

CONFERENCE PAPERS

‘Athene’s Sandals: Odyssey 1.96-101’. Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Homer’s Odyssey, Ithaca, 233-44 , 1993

Memberships

British Epigraphy Society

Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

Forthcoming courses

Reading Classical Greek: Euripides Bacchae | Weekend Courses

Past courses taught

Reading Classical Greek: Homer Iliad Book 6 | Weekend Courses

Reading Classical Greek: Greek Lyric Poetry - a selection | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Sophocles, Trachiniae: Part I | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Xenophon's Symposium | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Continuing Beginners | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Advanced | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: advanced | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: continuing beginner | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: advanced | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: continuing beginner | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: advanced | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: continuing beginner | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Beginners | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Advanced | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Continuing Beginners | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Advanced | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Beginners | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Advanced | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Beginners | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Advanced | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Beginners | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Advanced | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Classical Greek workshop | Short Course (1 day)

Reading Classical Greek: Advanced (prose) | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Advanced (verse) | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Continuing Beginners (Level 2) | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Continuing Beginners Level 1 | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Advanced (prose) | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Advanced (verse) | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Continuing Beginners (Level 2) | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Advanced (verse) | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Advanced (prose) | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Intermediate | Short Course (2-7 days)

Reading Classical Greek: Continuing Beginners (Students who began in September 2014 - Group D) | Short Course (2-7 days)

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