{"id":7327,"date":"2020-09-14T14:15:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T18:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=7327"},"modified":"2026-07-23T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:20:38","slug":"griffin-budde","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/faculty-profiles\/griffin-budde\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin Budde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/classics\/files\/2020\/09\/CV_Budde.pdf\"><strong>Curriculum Vitae<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span><\/span><span>Griffin is a sixth year graduate student currently writing his dissertation on forms of predictability in Homer, aimed especially at the aesthetic role of epithets.\u00a0 With an instinct for interdisciplinary work, his study connects research from neuroscience, and speech and music perception, which together point to how an audience responds to patterns in Homer\u2019s performance.\u00a0 He has taught multiple levels of Latin at BU, and designed his own course materials for third-semester students, focusing the transmission of Stoic doctrine with readings from Cicero\u2019s philosophical works.\u00a0 He also has experience tutoring high school Latin students.\u00a0 As TF, he has led weekly discussion sections for World of Greece (CL101) multiple times, as well as Roman History (CL302) and, for the religion department, Death and Immortality (RN106).\u00a0 He has presented papers on the archaeology of the Athenian Pnyx, rhetorical and poetic periodicity, and the effect of epithets\u2019 predictability on Homer\u2019s audience.\u00a0 Otherwise, he enjoys reading poetry and the art of translation, the outdoors, and listening to Red Sox games on the radio.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Papers:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u201cHector\u2019s Epithet koruthaiolos, Its Contextual Field, and Translation\u201d, Society of<br \/>\nClassical Studies, New Orleans, LA, January 2023<\/li>\n<li>\u201cInterpreting The Flood of Horace Odes 1.2: Topography of the Etruscan Shore\u201d,<br \/>\nClassical Association of New England, (on Zoom), March 2022<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPhysical Ideals and Disability in Ancient Greece\u201d, Boston University Classics Day,<br \/>\nBoston, MA, December 2021<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLandscape Engineering in Athens: Slope Reversal on the Pnyx\u201d &#8211; University of Colorado Boulder Graduate Conference, January 31-February 1, 2020 (Boulder, CO)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Interpreting the Flood of Horace <em>Odes <\/em>1.2: Topography of the Etruscan Shore&#8221; &#8211; Classical Association of New England, April 8-9, 2022 (on Zoom)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15498,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10419,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/7327\/revisions\/10419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}