Richard Charles Murray Janko

Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies, University of Michigan. Anglo-American scholar of ancient Greek literature, language and thought. Published books on Greek literature and literary criticism, including Homer, Aristotle, and the Philodemus papyri from Herculaneum. Took part in, and later brought out, site-report on British excavations at Ayios Stephanos in Laconia. These excavations do much to clarify relations between Minoan Crete and the Mycenaean mainland. His edition and translation of Philodemus' On Poems Book 1, reconstructed from a series of Herculaneum papyri, was awarded the Goodwin Award of Merit by the American Philological Association in 2002. Janko is also a Guggenheim Fellow (1986). In 2011, he published Philodemus' On Poems Books 3 and 4, which contains fragments of Aristotle's lost dialog On Poets. He is now working on On Poems Book 2 and on the Derveni papyrus, the oldest physically surviving European book.