Summary
Susan Guettel Cole is Professor Emerita at the University at Buffalo in the Department of Classics. She is known for her work on Ancient Greek Religion and gender.[1]
Susan Guettel Cole | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
| Thesis | (1975) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics; Ancient Greek Religion |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Chicago; University at Buffalo |
| Notable works | Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience (2004) |
Education edit
Cole received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1975.[1] Her doctoral thesis was entitled The Samothracian Mysteries and the Samothracian Gods: Initiates, Theoroi, and Worshippers.[2]
Career edit
After graduating, she became Assistant Professor of Classics and Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.[1][3] In 1991 she was a Fellow of the Institute of Humanities at UIC.[4] She published Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace, based on her doctoral dissertation, in 1986.[5][6] Her second book, Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: The Ancient Greek Experience, came out in 2004.[7] She has also worked on pigs in Ancient Greek culture.[8][9]
In 1992 she joined the Department of Classics at the University at Buffalo, where she was Chair of the department from 1994 to 1995 and again 1998–2004.[1][10]
Cole was chair of the Society for Classical Studies Committee for Professional Ethics in 1986.[11] She was Directeur d’Etudes Associé at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études in 1990.[12] In 1996-97 she was a Fellow of the National Humanities Center.[13] She has also received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation,[10] and a grant from the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy.[14]
Select publications edit
- 1980. "New Evidence for the Mysteries of Dionysos." Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 21.3: 223–238.
- 1981. "Could Greek women read and write?" Women's Studies, 8(1-2),
- 1984. "Greek Sanctions against Sexual Assault." Classical Philology, 79(2), 97–113.
- 1984. "The Social Function of Rituals of Maturation: The Koureion and the Arkteia." Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, 55, 233–244.
- 1984. "Male and Female in Greek Cult." Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, 55, 231.
- 1986. Theoi Megaloi: the cult of the great gods at Samothrace . Leiden: Brill.[5][15] ISBN 9789004296473
- 2000. "Landscapes of Artemis." The Classical World 93.5 (2000): 471–81.
- 2004. Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space:The Ancient Greek Experience. Berkeley: University of California Press.[16] ISBN 9780520235441
- 2008. "Ritual Texts for the Afterlife. Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets." The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 128, 221.
- 2010. "Maenads." in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome.
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Emeriti". arts-sciences.buffalo.edu. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- ^ "The Samothracian mysteries and the Samothracian gods: initiates, theoroi, and worshippers". University of Minnesota. 1975. Retrieved July 26, 2023.
- ^ "UIC GWS History". Gender and Women's Studies. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- ^ "1990-1991 Institute Fellows Lectures". huminst.uic.edu. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- ^ a b Cole, Susan Guettel (November 16, 2015). Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace. BRILL. ISBN 9789004296473.
- ^ Cole, Susan Guettel (January 1, 1984). Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace. Brill Archive. ISBN 9789004068858.
- ^ Cole, Susan Guettel (March 2004). Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space. ISBN 9780520235441.
- ^ "One Little Piggy Went To Temple, Same Little Piggy Was Lunch". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- ^ "Hog Wild in Athens B.C.E.! Role of Pigs in Social and Religious Life Provides Insights into Ancient Greece". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- ^ a b "Susan Cole to Head UB Classics Department". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- ^ "SCS Statement on Professional Ethics". Society for Classical Studies. May 28, 2013. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- ^ Raaflaub, Kurt A.; Talbert, Richard J. A., eds. (December 18, 2009), "Front Matter", Geography and Ethnography, Wiley-Blackwell, pp. i–xvii, doi:10.1002/9781444315653.fmatter, ISBN 9781444315653
- ^ "UB's Bacigalupo Named 2009-10 Resident Fellow of the National Humanities Center". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- ^ "Baldy Center Grant Recipients". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
- ^ Tomlinson, R. A. (1988). "Cole (S. G.) Theoi megaloi: the cult of the great gods at Samothrace. (Etudes préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'empire romain, 96.) Leiden: Brill. 1984. Pp. xix + 193, [6] plates, 3 maps, 1 plan. Fl. 76". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 108: 246–247. doi:10.2307/632682. ISSN 2041-4099. JSTOR 632682. S2CID 163694703.
- ^ Lape, Susan (2004). "Review of: Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space: the Ancient Greek Experience". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.