Ian Rutherford

My main interests are:

• Early Greek poetry: I am interested in questions of performance, genre and chronology, and the transmission of Greek poetry via papyri. In 2001 I published Pindar's Paeans. A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre (OUP). I co-edited Wandering Poets in Ancient Greece (2009); I edited Oxford Readings in Greek Lyric (2019) and was co-editor of The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext (2020) (which arose from a conference at Reading). I am a core member of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song.

• Ancient Religion: I'm particularly interested in sacred travel and pilgrimage. I was co-editor of Pilgrimage in Greco-Roman and Christian Antiquity. Seeing the Gods (2005) (which also arose from a conference at Reading); and author of State-Pilgrims and Sacred Observers in Ancient Greece (2013). I'm also interested in the ritual of animal sacrifice and co-edited Animal Sacrifice in the Greek World (2017) (another volume which arose from a conference at Reading).

• Ancient Anatolia and Greek World: I'm interested in early relations between Greece & Anatolia (ancient Turkey). I've been a co-editor of two volumes on this subject: Anatolian Interfaces (2007) and Luwian Identities (2013), the latter (which also arose from a conference at Reading), concerned with the so-called Luwian culture of Anatolia. In 2020 I published the monograph Hittite Texts and Greek Religion

• Contacts between Ancient Egypt and Greece: I'm interested in religious, cultural and literary contact, an area where there has been a lot of progress recently. A volume of essays related to this (and arising from a conference at Reading) appeared in 2016: Greco-Egyptian Interactions (2016). I am currently working on graffiti left by visitors in Egyptian temples, using these as evidence for religious interaction and cultural flows within Egypt and beyond it.