Egbert Bakker

Egbert Bakker (PhD Leiden, 1988) has taught at Yale since 2004. Before coming to Yale he held positions at the University of Texas at Austin and at Université de Montréal (Canada). He also taught at the University of Virginia and Leiden University (The Netherlands). Within the field of Greek language and literature he is interested among other things in the linguistic side of poetic problems. He has written on Homeric poetry and language, oral poetry, poetic performance, the linguistic articulation of narrative, and the differences between speaking and writing. He has currently two long-term projects: a commentary on Book 11 of the Iliad (CUP) and a new Homeric grammar (OUP).

 

His recent books include Authorship and Greek Song: Authority, Authenticity, and Performance (Brill 2017); Pointing at the Past: From Formula to Performance in Homeric Poetics (Center for Hellenic Studies/Harvard UP, 2005); A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language (Wiley-Blackwell, Malden 2010); and The Meaning of Meat and the Structure of the Odyssey (Cambridge UP 2013). His commentary on Book 9 of the Odyssey (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) will be published in February 2025.