Carter Philips
Professor of Classical Studies Emeritus
Professional Experience
Director of Graduate Studies in Classical Studies, 1999-2005
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Classical Studies, 1997-98
Associate Dean for Adacdmic Programs, College of Arts and Science, Vanderbilt University, 1992-96
Acting Director of East Asian Studies Program, fall 1995
Chair, Department of Classical Studies, 1980-89, fall 2002, fall 2006
Other Professional Experience
- Southern Association of Colleges and Schools: Visiting Committee for the reaccreditation of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1997
- Faculty member of the "The Cultural and Intellectual Crisis of Fifth Century Greece: A Humanities Institute for High School Teachers," sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 1984; repeated Summer 1988.
- Awarded a Mellon Grant by the Mellon Regional Faculty Department Program to attend the Second International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Summer 1981.
- Member of the National Advisory Board of Project Athena: A Study to Evaluate Programs Funded by Consultant, Pilot, and Development Grants of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1977- 1978.
- Honorary Research Assistant, Department of Greek, University College London, 1973
- Summer Program of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1970
- Summer Study Program of the American Society of Papyrologists, 1968
Favorite Courses
Greek 201-202 Beginning Greek I-II. The elements of classical Greek.
Classics 130 Greek Civilization
Classics 150 The Greek Myths
Classics 171 Ancient Greek Medicine and Its Legacy.
Specializations
Origin of grammatical gender; preclassical Greek literature; Greek medicine
Representative Publications
"Vocabulary to Iliad 1.4-18," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, Vol. VIII, No. 4 (1971), pages 91-98. Reprinted in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. XLIV (London, 1976).
Review of Kevin Herbert, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Brooklyn Museum. Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 33 (1974), pages 425-426.
"The Myths of Prometheus in Hesiod," The Classical Journal, Vol. 68, No. 4 (1973), pages 289-305.
Review of Emil Kiessling and Hans-Albert Rupprecht, Akten des XIII. InternationalenPapyrologenkongresses, Marburg/Lahn, 2.-6. August 1971 (Munich, 1974), in the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, Vol. XIV, No. 2 (1977), pages 99-102.
Review of Hazel E. Barnes, The Meddling Gods: Four Essays on Classical Themes (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1974), in Helios, N.S. Vol. 5, No. 1 (1977), pages 87-91.
"Heracles," The Classical World, Vol. 71, No. 7 (April-May 1978), pages 431-440.
"Greek Myths and the Uses of Myths," The Classical Journal, Vol. 74, No. 2 (1978-1979), pages 155-166.
"3320. Anonymous, Analytica" 43 5B.71/A(4-7) a, pages 19-21 and Plate III, in the The Oxrhynchus Papyri, Vol. XLVII. Published for the British Academy by the Egypt Exploration Society, London, 1980.
Review of Diana Bowder, ed., Who Was Who in the Greek World: 776 BC-30 BC (Cornell University Press, 1980), in Religious Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 3 (July 1983), page 271.
Review of David H. Porter, Only Connect: Three Studies in Greek Tragedy (Lanham, Maryland, and London: University Press of America, 1987) in Religious Studies Review (Vol. 14. No. 2 [April 1988]), page 154.
Review of Sheila Murnaghan, Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987) in Religious Studies Review (Vol. 14, No. 2 [October 1988]), page 375.
"The Language Laboratory and the Teaching of "Dead' Languages," The Classical World, Vol. 82, No. 2 (November-December 1988), pages 105-108.
Review of Christopher A. Faraone, Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), Religious Studies Review (Vol. 19, No. 2 [October 1993], pp. 352-353.
Articles for the 1993 edition of The World Book Encyclopedia on Aphrodite (Vol. 1, p. 565), Apollo (Vol. 1, p. 566), Ares (Vol. 1, p. 645), Demeter (Vol. 5, p. 119), Hephaestus (Vol. 9, pp. 192-193), Hera (Vol. 9, p. 193), Hermes (Vol. 9, p. 211), Hestia (Vol. 9, p. 218), Zeus (Vol. 21, p. 602).
Review of John J. Winkler and Froma I. Zeitlin, Nothing to Do with Dionysus? Athenian Drama in Its Social Context (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), Religious Studies Review (Vol. 20, No. 2 [April 1994], p. 146).
Articles for the 1994 edition of The World Book Encyclopedia on Ajax the Great (Vol. 1, p. 253), Ajax the Lesser (Vol. 1, p. 253).
Articles for the 1995 edition of The World Book Encyclopedia on Aurora (Vol. 1, p. 891), Centaur (Vol. 3, pp. 150-151), Endymion (Vol. 6, pp. 273-274), Iphigenia (Vol. 10, p. 397).
Review of Ronald Syme, Anatolica: Studies in Strabo, ed. by Anthony Birley (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), Religious Studies Review 24.2 (April 1998), p. 195.
Review of Robert E. Proctor, Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering a Tradition Can Improve Our Schools, 2nd ed. (Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1998), International Journal of the Classical Tradition 8.1 (2001-02), pp. 168-170.