Timothy Gantz

American classical scholar (1945–2004)

Timothy Nolan Gantz

Born	(1945-12-23)December 23, 1945
Died	January 20, 2004(2004-01-20) (aged 58) Athens, Georgia

Academic background
Education	Haverford College, B.A., 1967
Alma mater	Ph.D., Princeton, 1970
Academic work
Institutions	University of Georgia

Timothy Nolan Gantz (23 December 1945 – 20 January 2004) was an American classical scholar and the author of Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources.^[1]

Education

Gantz received his Bachelor of Arts from Haverford College in 1967, and his Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University in 1970.^[2]

Career

From 1970, Gantz was a long-time professor of Classics at the University of Georgia, where he directed its "Studies Abroad in Rome" program from 1985 to 2003.^[3]

In 1993, he published his book Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources, which puts particular emphasis on earlier sources of the Archaic period.^[4] The book was received positively,^[5] and, according to classicist Robin Hard, "can be recommended unreservedly as a comprehensive guide to the early mythical tradition".^[6]

Death

Gantz died in Athens, Georgia, on 20 January 2004, aged 58.^[7]

References

^ 1st edition: Gantz (1993); 2nd edition: Gantz (1996).
^ Obituary (2004, p. 19). His doctoral dissertation was entitled "Poetic Unity in Pindar".
^ Obituary (2004, p. 19).
^ Hard (2004, p. 691); Neils (1994).
^ Neils (1994); Robertson (1995).
^ Hard (2004, p. 691).
^ "Obituary". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 23 January 2004.

Sources

Gantz, Timothy (1993), Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (1st ed.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 978-0-801-85360-9.
Gantz, Timothy (1996), Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (2nd ed.), Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 978-0-801-84410-2.
Neils, Jenifer (1994), "Review of Gantz (1993)", Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1994.04.14.
"Obituary for Timothy Nolan Gantz, Professor of Classics" (PDF), The Georgia Classicist, XXV (I): 19–20, 2004, archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-08-22.
Robertson, Noel (1995), "Review of Gantz (1993)", Échos du Monde Classique, XXXIX, n.s. 14: 275–6, ISSN 1913-5416.
Hard, Robin (2004), The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology" (7th ed.), London: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-18636-0.