Ken Dowden

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Ken Dowden is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, University of Birmingham

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Ken Dowden

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#1054

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#2281

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Classical Studies

#196

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#390

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Ken Dowden's Degrees

Bachelors Classics University of Oxford
Masters Classics University of Oxford
PhD Classics University of Oxford

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According to Wikipedia, Ken Dowden is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Birmingham. Dowden is from Newcastle upon Tyne and studied at Worcester College, Oxford University. He came to Birmingham in 1988, acting as Head of the School of Humanities from 2000 to 2003, as Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity from 2005 to 2012, and as Head of the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion from 2012 to 2016.

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The uses of Greek mythology (1992) (79)
Death and the Maiden: Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology (1989) (69)
European paganism : the realities of cult from antiquity to the Middle Ages (2000) (58)
Comparative Mythology (1991) (46)
A companion to Greek mythology (2011) (36)
Heliodoros: serious intentions (1996) (32)
Homer's sense of text (1996) (18)
Apuleius and the Art of Narration (1982) (18)
Misteri e culti mistici di Demetra (1986) (17)
Grades in the Eleusinian Mysteries (1980) (13)
The epic tradition in Greece (2004) (10)
West on the East: Martin West's East Face of Helicon and its forerunners (2001) (8)
Homer's sense of text: Homeric ‘Text’, Cyclic ‘Text’ (1996) (8)
Art in the Roman Empire (1999) (7)
The Novel in Antiquity (1988) (6)
Greek novel and the ritual of life: an exercise in taxonomy (2009) (6)
Approaching women through myth: Vital tool or self-delusion? (2002) (6)
Olympian Gods, Olympian Pantheon (2007) (5)
The Amazons: Development and Functions: Development and Functions (1997) (5)
A Lengthy Sentence: Judging the Prolixity of the Novels (2007) (5)
Apollon et l'esprit dans la Machine (1979) (4)
ThInking through Myth, Thinking Myth Through (2011) (4)
Myth : Brauron & beyond (1990) (4)
A Tale of Two Texts: Apuleius' sermo Milesius and Plato's Symposium (2009) (4)
Deux notes sur les Scythes et les Arimaspes (1980) (4)
THE AMAZONS: DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTIONS (2016) (4)
The Semiotics and Pragmatics of Myth (2011) (3)
Telling the Mythology: From Hesiod to the Fifth Century (2011) (3)
Geography and Direction in Metamorphoses 11 (2011) (3)
Novel Ways of Being Philosophical Or A Tale of Two Dogs and a Phoenix (2009) (3)
Rhetoric and Religion (2007) (2)
Reading Diktys: The Discrete Charm of Bogosity (2015) (2)
Apuleius Revalued (1987) (2)
Initiation: The Key to Myth? (2011) (2)
Van Gennep et l'initiation dans la mythologie grecque : mort prématurée d'un paradigme ? (2011) (2)
Pouvoir divin, discours humain chez Héliodore (2006) (2)
Eleven Notes on the Text of Apuleius' Metamorphoses (1980) (2)
The Myth that Saves: Mysteries and Mysteriosophies (2011) (1)
Seven against Thebes (2016) (1)
Asinius Pollio (1)
Vergil the Mythographer (2019) (1)
Apulée et le culte (2012) (1)
Apuleius, Metamorphoses XI (1978) (1)
J.-P. Vernant: Mortals and Immortals: Collected Essays . Edited by F. I. Zeitlin. Pp. ix+341. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. Cased, £30/$49.50 (Paper, £13.50/$12.95). (1996) (1)
“In Spite of Isis”. Wordplay in Metamorphoses XI (an answer to Wytse Keulen). (2012) (1)
Myth, Heritage, Localisation: Atalanta — a Case Study (2021) (0)
Jason and Medea (1996) (0)
Langages du roman latin (2002) (0)
L. Brisson: Introduction à la philosophie du mythe, I: Sauver les mythes (Essais d’art et de philosophie). Pp. 243. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1996. Paper, frs. 125. ISBN: 2-7116-127-6. (2000) (0)
Trois Univers Imaginaires (1988) (0)
(W.) Burkert La Religion grecque à l'époque archaïque et classique. Traduction et mise à jour bibliographique par Pierre Bonnechere . (Antiquité/Synthèses 13.) Pp. 477.Paris:Picard,2011. Paper, €61. ISBN:978-2-7084-0906-4. (2014) (0)
Héliodore : une esthétique sans couleur (2005) (0)
L’affirmation de soi chez les romanciers (2009) (0)
Human Sacrifice (1996) (0)
Onasos (0)
Eleusis (0)
G. Sfameni Gasparro Misteri e culti mistici di Demetra . (Storia delle Religioni, 3.) Rome: ‘L' Erma’ di Bretschneider, 1986. Pp. 371. L 200.000. (1989) (0)
Giuseppe Augello: Studi Apuleiani: Problemi di testo e loci vexati delle Metamorfosi. Pp. 259. Palermo: Palumbo, 1977. Paper, L. 6,500. (1979) (0)
Asclepiades (1), of Tragilus, Greek author of the Tragodumena, 4th cent. BCE (2015) (0)
Judith K. Krabbe: The Metamorphoses of Apuleius . (American University Studies, Series XVII, Classical Languages and Literature, 9.) Pp. xi + 219; frontispiece. New York, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Paris: Peter Lang, 1989. $37. (1991) (0)
Groningen Commentaries on Apuleius (1979) (0)
Ass-Men and Witches (1985) (0)
Hypsipyle (1), mythical queen of Lemnos (2016) (0)
(D.B.) Dodd, (C.A.) Faraone (edd.) Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives. New Critical Perspectives . Pp. xx + 294, ills, map. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Cased, £65, US$120. ISBN: 978-0-415-28920-7. (2007) (0)
Eudoxos of Rhodes (0)
THE LANGUAGE OF THE LATIN NOVEL (2002) (0)
Heliodorus - Gerald N. Sandy: Heliodorus . (Twayne's World Authors Series, 647.) Pp. xi+148; frontispiece. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982. $15.95. (1984) (0)
T. Condos: Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: a Sourcebook containing the Constellations of Pseudo-Eratosthenes and the Poetic Astronomy of Hyginus . Pp. 287. Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1997. Paper, $18.95. ISBN: 1-890482-93-5. (1999) (0)
Carl C. Schlam: Cupid and Psyche: Apuleius and the Monuments . Pp. vi + 61; 16 black-and-white plates. University Park, Pa.: The American Philological Association, 1976. Paper, $3.50. (1978) (0)
ZEUS’S RELATIONSHIPS WITH GODS AND MORTALS (2006) (0)
R. FLETCHER , APULEIUS’ PLATONISM: THE IMPERSONATION OF PHILOSOPHY . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xi + 319. isbn 9781107025479. £65.00/US$99.00. (2016) (0)
A. Moreau (ed.): L'Initiation. Actes du colloque international de Montpellier, 11-14 avril 1991. Montpellier: Universite Paul Valery III, 1992 (1996) (0)
John Van Sickle: The Design of Virgil's Bucolics . Pp. 258. Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo e Bizzarri, 1978. L. 12,500 (paper, L. 10,000). (1980) (0)
Repopulating Heroic Greece (2010) (0)
The plot of Iamblichos’ Babyloniaka: (2019) (0)
Pack Carnes: Fable Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography. (Garland Folklore Bibliographies, ed. A. Dundes.) Pp. xvi + 382. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985. $65. (1986) (0)
The world of myth (2002) (0)
The Visibility of the Author in the Ancient Novel (2018) (0)
Phidalios of Corinth (0)
Rationales For The Adoption Of Christianity (2010) (0)
Ancient Fiction (1986) (0)
Phoenix (1– 2), figures of Greek mythology (2016) (0)
Hypsipyle (2), mythical nurse of Opheltes (2016) (0)
Xenophon of Ephesos (419) (2018) (0)
Death and the Maiden (Routledge Revivals) : Girls' Initiation Rites in Greek Mythology (2014) (0)
How myths work: the theories (2002) (0)
R. G. A. Van Lieshout: Greeks on Dreams. Pp. viii + 280. Utrecht: H. & S. Publishers, 1980. Paper, fl. 70. (1982) (0)
Chersiphron and Metagenes (420) (2018) (0)
Slavery and Despotism in Iamblichos’ Babyloniaka (2020) (0)
Index of Texts Discussed (2011) (0)
Sabazios E. N. Lane: Corpus Cultus Iovis Sabazii (CCIS) , III: Conclusions. (Études Préliminaires aux Religions Orientates dans l'Empire Romain, 100.3.) Pp. ix + 68; 2 plates. Leiden, New York, Copenhagen and Cologne: Brill, 1989. Paper, fl. 60. (1991) (0)
The Novel in Antiquity . By Tomas Hägg. Blackwell, Oxford, 1983. Pp. xii + 264, with 79 illustrations. £15.00 net. (1984) (0)
Greeks on myth (2002) (0)
The moon and eschatology: science, religion and symbolism (2016) (0)
Tripartition Dissected (1993) (0)
R. L. Hunter: A Study of Daphnis & Chloe . (Cambridge Classical Studies.) Pp. ix + 136. Cambridge University Press, 1983. £17.50. (1985) (0)
Diktys of Crete (0)
Essays on the Golden Ass (1980) (0)
Arrival at the cult-site (2002) (0)
Hansjörg Wölke: Untersuchuttgen zur Batrachomyomachie .(Beiträge zur Klassischen Philologie, 100.) Pp. xvi + 276. Meisenheim am Glan: Anton Hain, 1978. Paper, DM. 48. (1980) (0)
R. W. Daniel, F. Maltomini (edd.): Supplementum Magicum . Vol. I. Abhandlungen der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. (Sonderreihe, Papyrologica Coloniensia, XVI.1.) Pp. xxvi+213; 8 plates. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990. Paper, DM 98. (1996) (0)
Fritz Erik Hoevels: Märcben und Magie in den Metamorphosen des Apuleius von Madaura. Pp. viii + 310 + ii + xviii. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1979. Paper, fl. 65. (1980) (0)

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