Ove Strid
Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Greek
Contact Info
Visiting AddressRoom 9-3031
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Thunbergsvägen 3H, House 9 (map)
English Park Campus. Centre for the Humanities (map)
Phone: +46 18 471 78 44
Mobile: +46 703 91 43 29
Fax: +46 18 471 10 94
E-mail: Ove.Strid@lingfil.uu.se
Postal Address
Department of Linguistics and Philology
Box 635
SE-751 26 Uppsala
Sweden
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Born in Norrköping 1946.
B.A. in Uppsala 1970, Ph.D. 1976.
Senior Lecturer in Greek, Stockholm University, 1994-1999.
Senior Lecturer in Greek, Uppsala University, 1999-.
Research
Ove Strid's scholarly interest and research is
centred on ancient Greek literary works contrasted with modern views and
theories relating to them. There is indeed an abundance of material for
such contrastive studies, considering in particular the great variety of
theoretical schools coming to the fore during the twentieth century.
Strid has discussed scholars' belief in myths as history, in his
monograph Die Dryoper. Eine Untersuchung der Überlieferung (Uppsala
1999). He has dealt with psychoanalytical literary interpretation in his
article Sophocles' Antigone and Her Incestuous Namesake (In: For
Particular Reasons. Studies in Honour of Jerker Blomqvist. Ed. A. Piltz
et al. Lund 2003) as well as a mode of interpretation based on Bakhtin
in his article Voiceless Victims, Memorable Deaths in Herodotus
(Classical Quarterly 56, 2006). His aim is not to refute or falsify but
instead to point to what has been overlooked or disregarded for the sake
of the line of argument by a strict argumentation in accordance with a
certain theory. The contrast between theory and text can in this way
bring out in full relief essential things in the text which are ignored
in the theory, e.g. Antigone's eugeneia in Sophocles' play and
Herodotus' interest in the extraordinary and marvellous.
Ove Strid's work in progress includes a study, carried out within the
framework of the project Den antika traditionen, examining Ulrich von
Wilamowitz-Moellendorff's view of Heracles in Sophocles' Women of
Trachis and the different questions of interpretation his objections to
Sophocles' Heracles entail. Strid is also working on a comprehensive
study of Demosthenes speaking in the first person, inquiring into the
persona of Demosthenes contrasted with the statesman and orator depicted
by scholars of today and yesterday. Working title: Demosthenes Talking
in the First Person. On the Use of Verbs in the First Person Singular in
Demosthenes' Public Speeches.