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Greek, Latin, Ancient Literature and Culture Department of Language and Culture synnove.des.bouvrie@uit.no +47 99 29 65 21

Synnøve des Bouvrie

Job description

Professor of Ancient culture and literature

  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Tragic Workings in Sophocles’ Ajax: The Institution of the Warrior
    Symbolae Osloenses - Norwegian Journal of Greek and Latin Studies 2022 DOI
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Anna Maria van Schurman’s Dissertatio De ingenii Muliebris ad Doctrinam & meliores Litteras aptitudine: The Exception who Tried to Abolish the Rule
    2022
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    An anthropological theory and method for analysing Greek tragedy: the example of Euripides’ Orestes
    2020
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Family Disaster on Stage: Polis Orchestration of Greek Tragedy
    2019
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Review David D. Leitao, The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature. Cambridge, Cambridge UP 2012. XII, 307 S. 60 £
    Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft 2014 DOI
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Review Claude Calame, Mythe et histoire dans l’antiquité grecque. La création symbolique d’une colonie. Collection Vérité des mythes. Paris (Les belles lettres) 2011. ISBN 978-2-251-32459-3
    Museum Helveticum 2012
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie, Bouvrie Synnøve Des :
    Review Claude Clame, Mythe et histoire dans l’antiquité grecque. La création symbolique d’une colonie. Collection Vérité des mythes. Les Belles lettres. Paris 2011 283 p
    Museum Helveticum 2012
  • Bouvrie Synnøve Des :
    Greek Festivals and the Ritual Process. An Inquiry into the Olympia-cum-Heraia and the Great Dionysia
    2012 DOI
  • Bouvrie Synnøve Des :
    Review J.H. Kim On Chong-Gossard, Gender and Communication in Euripides’ Plays. Between Song and Silence, Mnemosyne Supplement 296, Brill. Leiden, Boston 2008
    Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft 2012 DOI
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    CONTINUITY AND CHANGE WITHOUT INDIVIDUAL AGENCY The Attic Ritual Theatre and the ‘Socially Unquestionable’ in the Tragic Genre
    2011
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Euripides’ Hiketides: Why is this Drama a Tragedy?
    2010
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Artemis Ortheia–a Goddess of Nature or a Goddess of Culture?
    Acta Hyperborea 2009
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Review D.M. Carter, The politics of Greek tragedy. Greece and Rome live, Exeter, Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007
    Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) 05. December 2008
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Review, Radcliffe G. Edmonds III, Myths of the Underworld Journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the ‘Orphic’ Gold Tablets. Cambridge, New York Cambridge University Press 2006- xii+276 pp
    The Journal of Religion 2006
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Quamobrem Anna Maria a Schurman Dissertationem de ingenii muliebris aptitudine (Leiden 1641) conscripserit
    2006
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Myth as a mobilizing force in Attic warrior society
    Kernos: Revue internationale et pluridisciplinaire de religion grecque antique 2005
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Olympia and the epinikion. A creation of symbols
    Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens 2005
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    The pilgrimage to Olympia. Settings and sentiments
    Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens 2005
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    ‘Introduction’
    2005
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    S. des Bouvrie, ‘Olympia and the epinikion, A creation of symbols’ in S. des Bouvrie (ed.), Myth and Symbol II. Symbolic phenomena in ancient Greek culture. Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens 7 (Bergen) 2005, 353-391
    2005
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Tragic workings in Euripides. The Anthropology of the genre
    Museum Tusculanums Forlag 2018
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Myth and Symbol II. Symbolic phenomena in ancient Greek culture
    Paul Åström forlag 2005
  • Gerd Bjørhovde, Synnøve des Bouvrie, Torill Steinfeld :
    Gå mot vinden. Festskrift til Åse Hiorth Lervik på 60-årsdagen 2.juli 1993
    EDIZIONI PLUS Pisa University Press 1993
  • Anne-Cathrine Andersen, Gerd Bjørhovde, Synnøve des Bouvrie, ingvild Broch, Åse Hiorth Lervik, Astrid Lorenz et al.:
    Arbeiderklassekvinner i litteraturen
    Universitetsforlaget 1982
  • Anne-Cathrine Andersen, Gerd Bjørhovde, Synnøve des Bouvrie, Ingvild Broch, Susanne Fabricius, Åse Hiorth Lervik et al.:
    Fra barn til kvinne
    Universitetsforlaget 1980
  • Anne-Cathrine Andersen, Gerd Bjørhovde, Synnøve des Bouvrie, ingvild Broch, Åse Hiorth Lervik, Wenche Aamold :
    Nålevende kvinnelige forfattere fra mange land
    Universitetsforlaget 1979
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Review, Suzanne Saïd, Le Monde à l’envers. Pouvoir féminin et communauté des femmes en Grèce ancienne. Paris: Les Belles Lettres 2013. 259 S. (essais.),
    Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft 2016
  • Bouvrie Synnøve des :
    Gender and Communication in Euripides' Plays. Between Song and Silence
    Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft 2012
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    The Attic Ritual Theatre and the ‘Socially Unquestionable’ in the Tragic Genre, Lecture Bryn Mawr College, Pensylvania
    2011
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    The institution of the warrior in several Greek tragedies Lecture Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University
    2011
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    The Attic Ritual Theatre and the ‘Socially Unquestionable’ in the Tragic Genre. Guest lecture, Bryn Mawr College, Pensylvania Nov 18, 2011
    2011
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Qua de re agatur in tragoedia Graeca antiqua
    Vox Latina 2010
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    ‘C.A.E. Luschnig, Granddaughter of the Sun. A Study of Euripides’ Medea. Leiden/Boston: Brill 2007. XII, 219 S. (Mnemosyne Suppl. 286) 99 €’
    Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft 2009
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Review, C.A.E. Luschnig, Granddaughter of the Sun. A Study of Euripides’ Medea. Mnemosyne Supplementa 286, Leiden 2007
    Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft 2009
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Review Claude Calame, Masks of authority: Fiction and pragmatics in ancient Greek poetics, transl. Peter M. Burke. Myth and Poetics series, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press 2005
    History of Religions 2008
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Le rôle du théâtre et du genre tragique dans le processus social à l’époque classique, Séminaire Centre Louis Gernet, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
    2007
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Le mythe et le culte dans le processus symbolique: des épinicies de Pindare à la tragédie attique. Séminaire Centre Louis Gernet, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
    2007
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Greek festivals and the ritual process”, International conference, Rosendal, 19.-22. May 2006
    2006
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Myths of the underworld journey: Plato, Aristophanes, and the "Orphic" gold tablets
    The Journal of Religion 2006
  • Synnøve des Bouvrie :
    Review, Jean Rudhardt, Themis and the Horai: Study in Greek divinities of justice and peace
    History of Religions 2003
  • Gerd Bjørhovde, Synnøve des Bouvrie, Torill Steinfeld :
    Et forord om Åse
    1993
  • Anne-Cathrine Andersen, Gerd Bjørhovde, Synnøve des Bouvrie, ingvild Broch, Åse Hiorth Lervik, Astrid Lorenz et al.:
    Innledning
    1982
  • Anne-Cathrine Andersen, Gerd Bjørhovde, Synnøve des Bouvrie, Susanne Fabricius, Åse Hiorth Lervik et al.:
    Innledning
    1980
  • Anne-Cathrine Andersen, Gerd Bjørhovde, Synnøve des Bouvrie, ingvild Broch, Åse Hiorth Lervik, Wenche Aamold :
    Forord
    1979

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    Publications outside Cristin

    Tragic Workings in Euripides. The anthropology of the genre. Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press 2018

    Research interests

    The ancient Greek theater, in particular tragedy

    Greek mythology and religion

    Anthropological approach to ancient celebrations

    The Olympic games and its poetry

    Gender and culture in Antiquity

    Spoken Latin

    Researcher profile in Cristin

    Member of research group

    Medical Humanities   English content

    CV

    Curriculum Vitae 


    Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, for the academic year 2011-2012

    Professional career

    Presently (from 2015) professor emerita in classical litterature and culture at the University of Tromsø, Norway

    from 1990 full professor in classical litterature and culture at the University of Tromsø, Norway


    1981 Associate professor at the University of Tromsø

    1972 Assistant professor at the University of Tromsø

    1999-2002   Director of The Norwegian Institute at Athens (research institute owned by the Norwegian universities)

    2006-present President of Academia Borealis, Academy of Sciences and Letters of Northern Norway

    Member of The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters

    Member of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae, Rome

    Education

    1988                Dr. philos. at the University of Tromsø, Norway

    1970                doctoraalexamen, cum laude, Leiden University

    1963-1970           University of Leiden. Studies in classical philology and Ancient culture, comparative Indo-European linguistics.

    Studies abroad

    2003                Visiting scholar, Athens

    1999-2002  Research at the American School of Classical Studies, Deutsches archäologisches Institut, l’École Française, Athens

    1998                Visiting scholar University of Leiden and Amsterdam

    1993                Visiting scholar Paris, Centre Louis Gernet, and  Oxford University

    1988                Visiting scholar, Swedish Institute, Athens

    1983                Visiting scholar, Barnard College, New York

    Guest lectures, Copenhagen, Odense, Aarhus, Stockholm, Göteborg, Athens, Paris, Washington, Bryn Mawr

    Conference organization

    1998, 2000, 2002, Organizer of the First, Second and Third International Symposium on ‘Myth & Symbol’ at Tromsø and Athens

    1999 Organizer International Symposium ‘Celebrations. Sanctuaries and the Vestiges of Cult Practice’ at the 10th anniversary of the Norwegian institute at Athens