Carl A.P. Ruck
Professor of Classical Studies
Office Hours (Fall 2009)
STH 405
MWF: 2:00PM-3:00PM
Contact
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 405
Boston, MA 02215
617.353.4435 (p)
617.353.1610 (f)
bacchus@bu.edu
Education
1965 Ph.D. Harvard University
1959 M.A. University of Michigan
1955 B.A. Yale University
Books
Mushrooms, Myth and Mithras: The Drug Cult that Civilized Europe (with Mark Alwin Hoffman and Jose Alfredo Gonzalez Celdran). San Fransisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2008.
The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (with R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, B.D. Staples, and Peter Webster). Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2008.
Publications (selected)
"Daturas and the Virgin" (with José Alfredo González
Celdrán), Entheos: Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality,
vol. 1, no. 2, 2001 (Winter), 49-74.
"The Miskwedo of the Ahnisinaubeg," (CAPR editor, unpublished
manuscript of R. Gordon Wasson, Harvard Botanical Archives),
Entheos: Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality, vol. 1, no. 2,
(Winter) 2001, 3-12.
"The Entheogenci Eucharist of Mithras," (with Mark Hoffman
and B.D. Staple), Entheos: Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality,
vol. 2, no. 1, (Summer), 2002. Website gallery of additional images
cued to the text at www.entheomedia.com/mitras1.
"De rebus Mithraicis POSTSCRIPTM," (translated by CAPR
from the Spanish of José Alfredo González), Entheos:
Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality, vol. 2, no.1, (Summer),
2002. Website gallery of additional images cued to the text at www.entheomedia.com/postscriptum.
"An Entheobotanical Interpretation of Two Paintings by J.M.
Turner," (translated by CAPR from the French of Vincent Wattiaux),
Entheos: Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality, vol. 2, no.
1, (Summer), 2002. Website gallery of additional images cued to
the text at www.entheomedia.com/turner1.
"Ad Turneriana ADDENDUM," (with Mark Hoffman), Entheos:
Journal of Psychedelic Spirituality, vol. 2, no. 1 (Summer),
2002. Website gallery of additional images cued to the text at www.entheomedia.com/addendum1.
The List of Victors in Comedy at the Dionysia (Leiden 1967).
Pindar: Selected Odes (Michigan 1967).
The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (Harcourt
Brace 1978; Hermes 1998).
Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion (Yale
1988).
Ancient Greek: A New Approach (MIT 1968, 1972; 2nd rev. ed. 1979).
Latin: A Concise Structural Course (UPA 1987).
The World of Classical Myth: Gods and Goddesses, Heroines and Heroes (Carolina Academic Press 1994).
Intensive Latin: First Year and Review (Carolina Academic Press
1997), with computer tutorial Vade Mecum.
The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist, with C. Heinrich and B.D. Staples (Durham 2000).
