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Glenn Warren Most (born June 12, 1952 inMiami) is anAmericanclassicist andcomparatist originating from the US, but also working in Germany and Italy.
Most studied classics atHarvard University from 1968 onwards and received aB.A. Summa Cum Laude in Classics (Latin) in 1972. He then took a Masters course atCorpus Christi College atOxford University until 1973, when he continued at theDepartment of Comparative Literature ofYale University, receiving aM. Phil. in 1978. Two years later, he received aPh.D. underPaul de Man with a thesis called "The Bait of Falsehood: Studies in the Rhetorical Strategy of Poetic Truth in the Romantic Period". Simultaneously, from 1976 to 1978, he studied classics at the Philologisches Seminar ofUniversity of Tübingen and was awarded D.Phil. underRichard Kannicht with a thesis entitled "Pindar's Truth: Unity and Occasionality in the Epinician Ode".
In 1980, Most was appointed Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classics atPrinceton University and remained in this position until 1985. In 1982/83, he was at theAmerican Academy in Rome. In 1985/86, he taught at theUniversità degli Studi di Siena, from then until 1987 as visiting professor at theUniversity of Michigan. In 1987, he followed a call from theUniversität Innsbruck, becoming Ordentlicher Universitätsprofessor für Klassische Philologie und Altertumskunde. In 1988/89, he was a fellow at theWissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In 1991, Most moved to a full professorship for Ancient Greek language and literature at theRuprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, where he taught until 2001. During these years, Most also was guest professor at theUniversity of Michigan and professor at theCommittee on Social Thought at theUniversity of Chicago. In 1994, Most was the first classicist to receive theLeibniz-Preis of theDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Since 2001, he is teaching as Professor of Ancient Greek at theScuola Normale at Pisa.
Most's work ranges from Greek to Latin authors, from literature tophilosophy, and from history and methodology of classical studies to modern literary theory and reception history. In particular, he has studied the relationship of the modern towards the ancient world, includingNew Testament topics such as the story ofDoubting Thomas. Working with the French historianAndré Laks [fr], Most published original texts and translations of somePre-Socratic works using an identifying system similar to that adopted byDiels and Kranz.[1]
Selected works include
