Il-Kweon Sir

Assistant Professor of Classics

BA (Oxford), MSt (Oxford), DPhil (Oxford)

Office: Lawson Hall 3206
Email: isir@uwo.ca

 

Areas of Interest:

Greek literature, especially poetry; Greek and Latin lyric; Greek and Latin metre; Papyrology; Wellbeing in the Ancient Mediterranean; Cognitive and theoretical approaches to literature.

Books:

  • Forthcoming. Poetry and Performance in Alcaeus of Lesbos (Oxford University Press).

Articles:

  • Forthcoming. ‘Early Greek Tyrannic Discourse and the Tyrant-Myth Narrative’, Hermes.
  • 2024. ‘Horace Odes 3.13: Intertexts and Interpretation’, Classical Quarterly 73.2: 729-741. doi:10.1017/S000983882300068X (Open Access).
  • 2020. ‘New Light on Alcaeus fr. 45’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 216: 1-8.

Conferences and Panels Organized:

  • 2024. Metri Causa II: What is Metre?, University of Cambridge (co-organised with Stephen Sansom).
  • 2023. Metri Causa: Affordances of Greek Metre, University of Cambridge (co-organised with Stephen Sansom).
  • 2023. ‘New Approaches to Metre’ (panel), Classical Association Conference 2023.