Herbert Golder
Herbert Golder
Herbert Golder is Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University and Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning publication Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, for which he has received the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and the inaugural Scholarly Outreach Prize from the American Philological Association. He has been teaching classics and related subjects for more then twenty years at Yale, Syracuse, Emory, and, since 1990, at Boston University. He was General Editor (with the late William Arrowsmith) of The Greek Tragedy in New Translations series (22 volumes), a collaboration of poets and scholars published by Oxford University Press, which is about to be published in collected volumes beginning January 2009. He has published numerous works on classical and literary subjects as well as translations of Greek poetry and drama, the latter composed for performance as well as publication. He has also worked in film, in part from the conviction that the great tragedians would be filmmakers were they alive today, working, that is, in the most powerful and popular myth-making medium we possess. He has had the good fortune to work on a number of films (nine in the past eleven years) in collaboration with the legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog, mostly as assistant director and/or co-writer. Their most recent collaboration, a film titled My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, which he co-wrote with Herzog and which Herzog will direct, with David Lynch executive producing, is set to begin production in Spring 2009.
