Scholars@Duke
José M. González

José M. González

Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Classical Studies
jose.gonzalez@duke.edu
Box 90103, Durham, NC 27708-0103
230 Allen Building, Duke Box 90103, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Zoom, by appointment.  

Selected Presentations & Appearances

Cognition, Recognition, and the Psychology of Aristotelian Mimêsis · April 7, 2013 Lecture The Ohio State University,

Invited Lectures ; J.M. González
Aristotle on Theôria · March 25, 2011 Invited Talk Bryn Mawr College,
Theôria and the Hymnic Poetics of the Greek Festival · November 18, 2010 Invited Talk University of Pennsylvania,
The Paian as a Competitive Genre · January 9, 2010 Lecture APA Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA

Scholars commonly believe that the Paian was not a competitive genre. I argue that this view derives not from the ancient Greeks but from a modern, mostly protestant, religious sensibility. Its dominance as detrimental: (i) because it hinders an accurate grasp of the ways in which generic distinctions functioned in archaic Greece; (ii) because it clouds the history of the Pythian festival and obscures the character of its mousikoi agônes; and (iii) because it stymies insight into the relationship the paian bears to the citharoedic nomos.
Tell me, O Muse!: Of Recomposition in Performance and the Notional Fixity of the Homeric Tradition · March 2004 Invited Talk University of Iowa,
From Homeric Transcripts to Homeric Scripts: Rhetorical autoskhediasmos and Rhapsodic Practice in VI–V BC · January 2004 Lecture APA Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Civic Comedy in a Paratragic Key: Euripides and his Telephos in Aristophanes' Akharnians · June 2003 Lecture University of Lille, France,
Ho basilikos logos: Hesiod and Isokrates on Tyranny · January 2002 Lecture APA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
Theokritos' Idyll 16: The Charites and Civic Poetry · June 2001 Lecture Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC
The Status of the Moirai in Orphic Literature · May 2000 Lecture University of Lausanne, Switzerland,

Service to the Profession

Conference convener and organizer - Diachrony: Diachronic Aspects of Ancient Greek Literature and Culture · October 23, 2009 - October 24, 2009 Event/Organization Administration Duke Univeristy,

http://www.duke.edu/web/diachrony/
Member of the Advisory Board - Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies · 2009 - 2016 Editorial Activities

Service to Duke

Strategic Planning Committe (Department) · 2015 Committee Service Duke Classical Studies,
Arts & Sciences Council (University) · 2014 - 2015 Committee Service Duke University,
Organizer . Drama Lecture Series · 2013 - 2014 Event/Organization Administration Duke Classical Studies,
Duke Trinity College Language Committee (University) · 2012 - 2013 Committee Service Duke University,