Ryan Platte

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Assistant Professor

Ryan Platte’s interests concern the history and evolution of language and poetic technique in both the Greek and Roman worlds, while his research focuses principally on the Homeric corpus.  This work privileges a linguistic approach to literary material and draws heavily from the field of comparative Indo-European poetics.  This methodology has developed from a deep interest in Indo-European linguistics, and frequently incorporates study of the Indo-Iranian languages, especially Sanskrit, in order to situate Homeric poetics within a broad cultural and historical perspective.

Professor Platte received his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and recently received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington after completing a dissertation entitled Horses and Horsemanship in the Oral Poetry of Greece and the Indo-European World.