Albert Henrichs
Eliot Professor of Greek Literature
1942, Dec. 29: born in Cologne, Germany
1962: Abitur, Dreikönigsgymnasium, Cologne
1966: Dr. phil., University of Cologne
1967-1969: Visiting Lecturer in Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1969: Habilitation, University of Cologne
1970-1971: Ausserplanmä§iger Professor, University of Cologne
1971-1973: Associate Professor of Classics, U. of California, Berkeley
1973: A. M. (hon.), Harvard University
1973-1984: Professor of Greek and Latin, Harvard University
1975-1979: Editor, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
1982-1988: Chairman, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
1984: Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, Harvard University
1984-: Advisory Board, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
1985: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1989-1990: Walter Channing Cabot Fellow, Harvard University
1990, spring: Sather Professor of Classical Literature, U. C. Berkeley
1992-1997: Senior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D. C.
1998: Member, American Philosophical Society
2000-: Administrative Committee, Center for Hellenic Studies
2000-: Co-chair, Civilizations of Ancient Greece and Rome, The Humanities Center, Harvard University
2001, summer-: Chair, Edit. Comm., Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
Greek literature; Attic drama; Hellenistic poetry; Greek prose style; Greek historians; the Greek novel.
Greek mythology and religion; Dionysos ancient and modern.
Papyrology; textual criticism.
History of classical scholarship.
Paganism and Christianity; Manichaeism.
1. Zwei Fragmente über die Erziehung (Antisthenes), ZPE 1 (1967) 45-53.
2. Isokrates-Imitation (P. Colon. inv. 3327), ZPE 1 (1967) 75-76.
3. Iliasparaphrase, zu Il. 9, 128ff. bzw. 19, 245ff. (P.Colon.inv. 1755), ZPE 1 (1967) 111-112.
4. Apollonios Rhodios I 317-331 (P. Colon. inv. 929), ZPE 1 (1967) 113-116.
5. Wartetext, ZPE 1 (1967) 188.
6. (with L. Koenen) Aristophanes, Lysistrate 145-153, 182-199 (P. Colon. inv. 3), ZPE 1 (1967) 117-120.
7. Didymos der Blinde. Kommentar zu Hiob (Tura-Papyrus). 2 vols. Bonn 1968 (PTA 1 and 2).
8. (with G. M. Browne) A Papyrus of Aristides, Panathenaikos (P. Mich. 6651), ZPE 2 (1968) 171-175.
9. Achilleus Tatios, Aus Buch III (P. Colon. inv. 901), ZPE 2 (1968) 221-226.
10. Vespasian's Visit to Alexandria, ZPE 3 (1968) 51-80.
11. Zur Interpretation des Michigan-Papyrus über Theramenes, ZPE 3 (1968) 101-108.
12. Textkritisches zur Isis-Inschrift von Megalopolis, ZPE 3 (1968) 109-110.
13. Die "Erdmutter" Demeter (P. Derveni und Eurip. Bakch. 275f.), ZPE 3 (1968) 111-112.
14. (with L. Koenen) Drei Demosthenespapyri, ZPE 3 (1968) 113-123.
15. Nachträge zu Band 1, ZPE 3 (1968) 136-138.
16. (with E. M. Husselman) Christian Allegorizations (P. Mich. Inv. 3718), ZPE 3 (1968) 175-189.
17. Philosophy, the Handmaiden of Theology, GRBS 9 (1968) 437-450.
18. Review of F. Dunand, Papyrus Grecs Bibliques, Bibliotheca Orientalis 25 (1968) 45-46.
19. Kallimachos fr. 17, 8-10 und 18, 8 Pf. (P. Mich. inv. 3688), ZPE 4 (1969) 23-30.
20. Megaron im Orakel des Apollon Kareios, ZPE 4 (1969) 31-37.
21. Zu Kallimachos ep. 8, ZPE 4 (1969) 38.
22. Monumentum aere perennius (zu P. Oxy. 2435), ZPE 4 (1969) 150.
23. Lollianos, Phoinikika, Fragmente eines neuen griechischen Romans, ZPE 4 (1969) 205-215.
24. Aristophanes, Equites 1127-1141 (P. Mich. inv. 6035), ZPE 4 (1969) 216-218.
25. Didymos in koptischer Übersetzung, ZPE 4 (1969) 219-222.
26. Die Maenaden von Milet, ZPE 4 (1969) 223-241.
27. Review of R. A. Coles, Reports of Proceedings in Papyri, Gnomon 41 (1969) 415-417.
28. Pagan Ritual and the Alleged Crimes of the Early Christians, in P. Granfield and J. A. Jungmann (eds.), Kyriakon. Festschrift J. Quasten, vol. I (Münster 1970) 18-35.
29. Nachtrag zu Lollianos, Phoinikika, ZPE 5 (1970) 22-23.
30. Apollonios Rhodios I 699-719 (P. Mil. Vogl. 6 + P. Colon. inv. 522), ZPE 5 (1970) 49-56.
31. (with L. Koenen) Ein griechischer Mani-Codex (P. Colon. inv. 4780), ZPE 5 (1970) 97-216.
32. Lollianos und P. Oxy. 1368, ZPE 6 (1970) 42-43.
33. Nachtrag zu Bd. V S.49ff. (Apollonios Rhodios I), ZPE 6 (1970) 76-77.
34. Zum Text einiger Zauberpapyri, ZPE 6 (1970) 193-212.
35. Scholia Minora zu Homer I, ZPE 7 (1971) 97-149, 229-260.
36. Nochmals PGM XV, ZPE 7 (1971) 150.
37. Scholia Minora zu Homer II, ZPE 7 (1971) 229-260.
38. Scholia Minora zu Homer III, ZPE 8 (1971) 1-12.
39. Die Phoinikika des Lollianos. Fragmente eines neuen griechischen Romans. Bonn 1972 (PTA 14).
40. Toward a New Edition of Philodemus' Treatise on Piety, GRBS 13 (1972) 67-98.
41. Critique of J. M. Robinson, Jewish Gnostic Nag Hammadi Texts, in Protocol of the Third Colloquy of the Center for Hermeneutical Studies (Berkeley 1972, publ. 1976) 8-19.
42. Mani and the Babylonian Baptists: A Historical Confrontation, HSCP 77 (1973) 23-59.
43. Zwei Orakelfragen, ZPE 11 (1973) 115-119.
44. Scholia Minora zu Homer IV, ZPE 12 (1973) 17-43.
45. Papyri Graecae Magicae. Die griechischen Zauberpapyri. Herausgegeben und übersetzt von K. Preisendanz. Zweite, verbesserte Auflage von A. Henrichs. 2 vols. Stuttgart 1973, 1974.Cronache Ercolanesi 4 (1974) 5-32.
47. Die Proitiden im hesiodischen Katalog, ZPE 15 (1974) 297-301.
48. Iuppiter mulierum amator in papyro Herculanensi, ZPE 15 (1974) 302-304.
49. Die beiden Gaben des Dionysos, ZPE 16 (1975) 139-144.
50. Review of H. D. Betz, Der Apostel Paulus und die sokratische Tradition, JBL 94 (1975) 310-314.
51. Two Doxographical Notes: Democritus and Prodicus on Religion, HSCP 79 (1975) 93-123.
52. Philodems De Pietate als mythographische Quelle, Cronache Ercolanesi 5 (1975) 5-38.
53. (with L. Koenen) Der Kölner Mani-Codex (P. Colon. inv. 4780). Edition der Seiten 1-72, ZPE 19 (1975) 1-85. Cf. #59, 67 and 69.
54. (with W. Müller) Apollonios Sophistes, Homerlexikon, in A. Hanson (ed.), Collectanea Papyrologica. Texts Published in Honor of H. C. Youtie, vol. I (Bonn 1976, PTA 19) 27-51.
55. Despoina Kybele. Ein Beitrag zur religiösen Namenkunde, HSCP 80 (1976) 253-286.
56. The Atheism of Prodicus, Cronache Ercolanesi 6 (1976) 15-21.
57. Ein Meropiszitat in Philodems 'De Pietate', Cronache Ercolanesi 7 (1977) 124-125.
58. Zur Meropis: Herakles' Löwenfell und Athenas zweite Haut, ZPE 27 (1977) 69-75.
59. Critique of W. Burkert, Orphism and Bacchic Mysteries: New Evidence and Old Problems of Interpretation, in Protocol of the Twenty-Eighth Colloquy of the Center for Hermeneutical Studies (Berkeley 1977) 21-23.
60. Greek Maenadism from Olympias to Messalina, HSCP 82 (1978) 121-160.
61. Horaz als Aretaloge des Dionysos: Credite Posteri, HSCP 82 (1978) 203-211.
62. (with L. Koenen) Der Kölner Mani-Codex (P. Colon. inv. 4780). Edition der Seiten 72,8 - 99,9, ZPE 32 (1978) 87-199. Cf. #50, 67 and 69.
63. Berichtigungen (zu "Der Kölner Mani-Kodex", ZPE 32, 1978, 87ff.). 34 (1979) 26.
64. Thou Shalt Not Kill a Tree: Greek, Manichaean and Indian Tales, BASP 16 (1979) 85-108.
65. Callimachus Epigram 28: A Fastidious Priamel, HSCP 83 (1979) 207-212.
66. The Cologne Mani Codex Reconsidered, HSCP 83 (1979) 339-367.
67. Greek and Roman Glimpses of Dionysos, in C. Houser (ed.), Dionysos and his Circle: Ancient Through Modern, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1979, 1-11.
68. Riper than a Pear: Parian Invective in Theokritos, ZPE 39 (1980) 7-27.
69. Literary Criticism of the Cologne Mani Codex, in B. Layton (ed.), The Rediscovery of Gnosticism, vol. II (Leiden 1981) 724-733.
70. Human Sacrifice in Greek Religion: Three Case Studies, in Le sacrifice dans lĠantiquité, Entretiens sur l'Antiquité Classique XXVII (VandÏuvres-Geneva 1981) 195-235.
71. (with L. Koenen) Der Kölner Mani-Codex (P. Colon. inv. 4780). Edition der Seiten 99,10 - 120, ZPE44 (1981) 201-318. Cf. #50, 59 and 69.
72. Changing Dionysiac Identities, in B. F. Meyer and E. P. Sanders (eds.), Jewish and Christian Self-Definition III: Self-Definition in the Graeco-Roman World (London 1982, Philadelphia 1983) 137-160 and 213-236. Cf. #80.
73. (with L. Koenen) Der Kölner Mani-Codex (P. Colon. inv. 4780). Edition der Seiten 121-192, ZPE 48 (1982) 1-59. Cf. #50, 59 and 67.
74. Die Kekropidensage im P. Herc. 243: Von Kallimachos zu Ovid, Cronache Ercolanesi 13 (1983) 33-43.
75. The 'Sobriety' of Oedipus: Sophocles OC 100 Misunderstood, HSCP 87 (1983) 87-100.
76/77. The Sophists and Hellenistic Religion: Prodicus as the Spiritual Father of the Isis Aretalogies, HSCP 88 (1984) 139-158. An earlier version appeared under the same title in the Proceedings of the 7th Congress of the International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies, vol. I (Budapest 1984) 339-353.
78. Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: The Modern View of Dionysus from Nietzsche to Girard, HSCP 88 (1984) 205-240.
79. The Eumenides and Wineless Libations in the Derveni Papyrus, in Atti del XVII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia (Napoli, 19-26 maggio 1983), vol. II (Naples 1984) 255-268.
80. Male Intruders among the Maenads: The So-Called Male Celebrant, in H. D. Evjen (ed.), Mnemai: Classical Studies in Memory of Karl K. Hulley (Chico 1984) 69-91.
81. Ein neues Likymniosfragment bei Philodem, ZPE 57 (1984) 53-57.
82. Zur Genealogie des Musaios, ZPE 58 (1985) 1-8.
83. "Der Glaube der Hellenen": Religionsgeschichte als Glaubensbekenntnis und Kulturkritik, in W. M. Calder III, H. Flashar and T. Lindken (eds.), Wilamowitz nach 50 Jahren (Darmstadt 1985) 263-305.
84. La donna nella cerchia dionisiaca: un'identità mobile, in G. Arrigoni (ed.), Le donne in Grecia (Rome/Bari 1985) 241-274. An abbreviated and slightly revised version of #68.
85. Welckers Götterlehre, in W. M. Calder III, A. Köhnken, W. Kullmann and G. Pflug (eds.), Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker. Werk und Wirkung, Hermes Einzelschriften 49 (Stuttgart 1986) 179-229.
86. Three Approaches to Greek Mythography, in J. Bremmer (ed.), Interpretations of Greek Mythology (London/Sydney 1986) 242-277.
87. The Timing of Supernatural Events in the Cologne Mani Codex, in L. Cirillo and A. Roselli (eds.) Codex Manichaicus Coloniensis. Atti del Simposio Internazionale (Rende-Amantea, 3-7 settembre 1984), Studi e Ricerche 4 (Cosenza 1986) 183-204.
88. The Last of the Detractors: Friedrich Nietzsche's Condemnation of Euripides, GRBS 27 (1986) 369-397.
89/90. Die Götter Griechenlands. Ihr Bild im Wandel der Religionswissenschaft. Thyssen-Vorträge "Auseinandersetzungen mit der Antike," Heft 5 (Bamberg 1987) 48 pp. Repr. in H. Flashar (ed.), Auseinandersetzungen mit der Antike (Bamberg 1990) 115-162.
91. Myth Visualized: Dionysos and His Circle in Sixth-Century Attic Vase-Painting, in Papers on the Amasis Painter and His World (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1987) 92-124.
92. Zur Perhorreszierung des Wassers der Styx bei Aischylos und Vergil, ZPE 78 (1989) 1-29.
93. Between Country and City: Cultic Dimensions of Dionysos in Athens and Attica, in M. Griffith and D. J. Mastronarde (eds.), Cabinet of the Muses. Essays on Classical and Comparative Literature in Honor of Thomas G. Rosenmeyer (Scholars Press 1990) 257-277.
94. Alte und neue Propheten als Stifter von Offenbarungsreligionen: Der Ursprung der Mormonen nach Eduard Meyer, in W. M. Calder III and A. Demandt (eds.), Eduard Meyer: Leben und Leistung eines Universalhistorikers, Supplements to Mnemosyne 112 (Leiden 1990) 182-207.
95. Namenlosigkeit und Euphemismus: Zur Ambivalenz der chthonischen Mächte im attischen Drama, in H. Hofmann and A. Harder (eds.), Fragmenta dramatica: Beiträge zur Interpretation der griechischen Tragikerfragmente und ihrer Wirkungsgeschichte (Göttingen 1991) 161-201.
96. Otto Jahn als Interpret antiker Bildwerke: Zur Ikonographie des Dionysos und seines Kreises, in W. M. Calder III, H. Cancik and B. Kytzler (eds.), Otto Jahn (1813-1869) (Stuttgart 1991) 77-95.
97. Gott, Mensch, Tier: Antike Daseinsstruktur und religiöses Verhalten im Denken Karl Meulis, in F. Graf (ed.) Klassische Antike und neue Wege der Kulturwissenschaften. Symposium Karl Meuli (Basel, 11.-13. September 1991), Beiträge zur Volkskunde 11 (Basel 1992) 129-167.
98. "He Has a God in Him": Human and Divine in the Modern Perception of Dionysus, in T. H. Carpenter and C. A. Faraone (eds.), Masks of Dionysus (Ithaca/London1993) 13-43.
99. Gods in Action: The Poetics of Divine Performance in the Hymns of Callimachus, in A. Harder, R. F. Regtuit and G. C. Wakker (eds.), Callimachus, Hellenistica Groningana 1 (Groningen 1993) 127-147.
100. The Tomb of Aias and the Prospect of Hero Cult in Sophokles, Classical Antiquity 12 (1993) 165-180.
101. Identity and Crisis in Hellenistic Literature: A Response, in A. W. Bulloch, E. S. Gruen, A. A. Long and A. Stewart (eds.), Images and Ideologies: Self-Definition in the Hellenistic World (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London 1994) 171-195.
102. Der rasende Gott. Zur Psychologie des Dionysos und des Dionysischen in Mythos und Literatur, Antike und Abendland 40 (1994) 31-58.
103. Anonymity and Polarity: Unknown Gods and Nameless Altars at the Areopagos, ICS 19 (1994) 27-58.
104. Why Should I Dance? Choral Self-Referentiality in Greek Tragedy, Arion, Third series, vol. 3, no. 1 (1995) 56-111.
105. Philändnisses, in H. Flashar (ed.), Alter-umswissenschaft in den 20er Jahren (Stuttgart 1995) 423-457.
106. Warum soll ich denn tanzen? Dionysisches im Chor der griechischen Tragödie. Lectio Teubneriana IV, Leipzig 1996.
107. Dancing in Athens, Dancing on Delos: Some Patterns of Choral Projection in Euripides, Philologus 140 (1996) 48-62.
108/115. Entries on Bouphonia, Clymenus, Dionysus, Epiphany, Fasting, Hades, Hecate, Iynx, Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed., 1996, 258, 353, 479-482, 546, 588-589, 661-662, 671-673, 792.
116. Graecia Capta: Roman Views of Greek Culture, in Greece in Rome: Influence, Integration, Resistance, HSCP 97, 1995 (publ. January 1998) 243-261.
117. Afterword, bibliography and indices to the 3rd edition of U. von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Geschichte der Philologie (Leipzig 1998) 81-128.
118. Dromena und Legomena: Zum rituellen Selbstverständnis der Griechen, in F. Graf (ed.), Ansichten griechischer Rituale. Geburtstags-Symposium für Walter Burkert. Stuttgart/Leipzig 1998, 33-71.
119. Demythologizing the Past, Mythicizing the Present: Myth, History and the Supernatural at the Dawn of the Hellenistic Period, in R. Buxton (ed.), From Myth to Reason?, Oxford 1999, 223-248.
120/122. "Moira" and "Oidipus," in Der neue Pauly 8, 2000, 340-343, 1129-1132; "Parcae," in Der neue Pauly 9, 2000, 327.
123. Götterdämmerung und Götterglanz: Griechischer Polytheismus seit 1872, in B. Seidensticker and Martin Vöhler (eds.), Urgeschichten der Moderne. Die Antike im 20. Jahrhundert, Stuttgar/Weimar 2001, 1-19.
124. Drama and Dromena: Bloodshed, Violence, and Sacrificial Metaphor in Euripides, HSCP 100 (2000, publ. 2002) 173-188.
125. Hieroi Logoi and Hierai Bibloi: The (Un)written Margins of the Sacred in Ancient Greece, HSCP 101 (2002), 59pp.
126. Wie ein Rind zur Schlachtbank: Zur Problematisierung der Opferthematik in der griechischen Tragödie, in R. Schlesier (ed.), Internationales Symposium "Mythos und Interpretation", University of Paderborn, Oct. 1995, 57pp. typescript.
127. "Sacrifice as to the Immortals": Modern Classifications of Animal Sacrifice and Ritual Distinctions in the Lex Sacra from Selinous. Proceedings of the International Seminar on "Greek Sacrificial Ritual, Olympian and Chthonian," Göteborg, 25-27 April 1997. 25pp. typescript.
128. Der antike Roman: Kerényi und die Folgen. Proceedings of 1997 conference on "Humanismus und Hermeneutik." 28pp. typescript.
129. Writing Religion: Inscribed Texts, Ritual Authority, and the Religious Discourse of the Polis, in H. Yunis (ed.), Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, Cambridge U. P. 2003, 38-58.
130. Sacred Texts and Canonicity: Greece, in S. I. Johnston, Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, Harvard U. P. 2003, 2000 words.
131. "Zeus," in Der neue Pauly 12, 2003.
132. Dancing for Dionysos: Choral Performance and Dionysiac Ritual in Greek Tragedy. 60pp. typescript.
133. Dionysos: Myth, Image, Identity. Collected papers on Dionysos, ca. 350pp.
134. Playing God, Performing Ritual: Dramatizations of Religion in Greek Tragedy. University of California Press. Book version of my Sather Lectures, delivered at Berkeley in the spring of 1990 under the title "Religion in Greek Tragedy."