Richard Martin

Donald Andrews Whittier Internal Fellow
Department of Classics, Stanford University

Richard P. Martin is Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Professor in Classics at Stanford. He writes on archaic Greek poetry, culture, and myth, with a special focus on Homeric epic. His further interests include Greek religion, comedy, ethnopoetics, medieval Irish literature, and Modern Greek verbal art.

SHC Project

Homer and the World of Song

Publications and Projects

Other works by Richard Martin include Mythologizing Performance (2020); Healing, Sacrifice and Battle (1983); The Language of Heroes (1989); Myths of the Ancient Greeks (2003), and Classical Mythology: The Basics (2016--2nd edition 2022). In addition, he has edited Bulfinch's Mythology (1991) and provided extensive notes and introductions for translations of the Iliad by Richmond Lattimore (2011) and the Odyssey by Edward McCrorie (2005). His articles cover topics in Greek, Latin, and Irish literature, as well as the history of folklore and myth studies. (A selection can be found here: https://stanford.academia.edu/RichardMartin)

Richard Martin