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AMBROSE, Zuell Philip

  • AMBROSE, Zuell Philip
  • Date of Birth: June 9, 1936
  • Born City: Ponca City,
  • Born State/Country: OK
  • Parents: Zuell C. & Thelma Louella Kingery A.
  • Date of Death: February 11, 2025
  • Death City: Cochester
  • Death State/Country: VT
  • Married: Jane Perlis, 1965; Gretchen Van Slyke
  • Education:

    B.A. Princeton, 1958; M.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1963.
  • Dissertation:

    “The Homeric and Early Epic Telos” (Princeton, 1963).
  • Professional Experience:

    Instr. to assoc. prof., U. of Vermont, 1962-72; prof. 1972-2006; Chair dept. classics, 1973-92; 2001-6; George V. Kidder Outstanding Faculty Award, 2006; vis. assoc. prof., Middlebury, 1967-8; jr. fell., NEH, 1969-70; treas. & curator of funds, CANE, 1968-72.
  • Publications:

    “The Homeric telos,” Glotta 43 (1965) 38-62; “The lekythion and the Anagram of Frogs 1203,” AJP 89 (1968) 342-5; “The Etymology and Genealogy of Palinurus,” AJP 101 (1980) 449-57; “Wienen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen und die antike Redekunst,” Bach Jahrbuch 66 (1980) 35-45; “Socrates and Prodicus in the Clouds, II,” in Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, II, ed. John P. Anton & Anthony Preus (Albany: State U. of New York Press, 1983) 129-44; Texte zu den Kirchenkantaten von Johann Sebastian Bach = The Texts to Johann Sebastian Bach's Church Cantatas (trans.) (Neuhausen-Stuttgart: Hänssler-Verlag, 1984; American edition: J.S. Bach: The Vocal Texts in English Translation with Commentary (Burlington, VT: Z. Philip Ambrose, 1984; 3rd ed., rev., 2020);  Euripides; Heracleidae (Bryn Mawr: Thomas Library, 1990); “Ganymede in Euripides' Cyclops: A Study in Homosexuality and Misogyny,” NECN 23 (1995-6) 91-5; “Did Aegeus Have Two Sons? quaedam de matrimonio ex tragoediarum scaenis excerpta,” NECN 27 (2000) 8-15; Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (trans. & ed. with notes), (Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2004); “Family Loyalty and Betrayal in Euripides' Cyclops and Alcestis: A Recurrent Theme in Satyr Play,” Satyr Drama: Tragedy at Play, ed. George W.M. Harrison (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2005).
  • Sources:

    DAS, 8th ed., 3:10.