Tobias Myers

BA in Classics, University of Colorado Boulder, MPhil in Classics, Columbia University, PhD in Classics, Columbia University

Tobias Myers specializes in Homeric Studies, with research interests in Greek and Latin poetry, ancient magic and religion, and the history of ideas. He holds a Phd (with distinction) in Classics from Columbia University. His major publication to date is the monograph Homer’s Divine Audience: The Iliad’s Reception on Mount Olympus (OUP 2019). Among other past publications are two essays in the Oxford series on the “History of Philosophical Concepts” – in the volumes Self-Knowledge (OUP 2016) and Efficient Causation (OUP 2014) – a peer-reviewed journal article on Theocritus’ bucolic mileu (Classical Philology 111, 2016), and a chapter in the Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Iliad (OUP 2024). His chapter “Evoking the Eternal: Perspective and Paradox in Iliadic warfare” is forthcoming in Time, Tense and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature (OUP, forthcoming). He is preparing a new monograph for Brill (under contract), titled Homer, in their series Research Perspectives in Classical Poetry.