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  Kevin Clinton
Director of
Graduate Studies

Kevin Clinton
 Professor, Classics

kmc1@cornell.edu
607-255-8325
607-255-3354
120 Goldwin Smith Hall
Projects
Director, American
    Research Center
    in Sofia
Education
Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University, 1969
Teaching Experience
  • Cornell University – 35 years
  • Visiting Professor, University of California Berkeley, Fall 1986
  • Visiting Professor, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1983-84.
 
Research Interests
Greek religion (sanctuaries, mystery cults), Greek epigraphy.
 
Research Experience
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1987-88,1999-2000; Member, Advisory Board and Editor, Inscriptiones Graecae II3, 2000-; Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, spring, 1975; A.D. White Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1976-77; Guggenheim Fellow, 1987-88; Senior NEH Fellowship, 1999-2000; Corresponding Member, German Archaeological Institute, 1997-; NEH Research Grant, 1991-92; Packard Foundation Grants, "Computerization of Greek Inscriptions," 1985-88; Packard Humanities Institute, contracts, "Computerization of Greek Inscriptions," 1988- ; Ohio State University (from grant of Packard Humanities Institute), IG II3, fasc. 9, 2002-.
 
Selected Publications
  • The Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 64, Pt. 3, 1974.
  • Myth and Cult: the Iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Acta Instituti Regni Sueciae, Series in octavo, Stockholm, 1992): the publication of the 1990 M. P.Nilsson Lectures.
  • “What is It? Archaeological Evidence of Nineteenth-Century Agricultural Drainage Systems.” Northeast Historical Archaeology, vol 30-31: 23-40. 2003
  • Eleusis. The Inscriptions on Stone. Documents of the Sanctuary of the Two Goddesses and the Public Documents of the Deme, I, Texts, II, Commentary, Archaeological Society at Athens (in press).
  • "Pig Sacrifice Among the Greeks," in International Seminar: "Greek Sacrificial Ritual, Olympian and Chthonian", Göteborg, 25-27 April 1997, R. Hägg, ed (in press).
  • "Initiates in the Samothracian Mysteries, September 4, 100 B.C.," Chiron 31 (2001) 27- 35.
  • "Thracian Royalty in Samothrace," Praktikã, Sumposio sti Mnimi tou B. Pentãzou (Komotini, in press).
  • With Karadima, Ch. 2002. "Korrane, a Sacred Woman in Samothrace." ZPE 138: 87-92.
  • “Stages of Initiation in the Eleusinain and Samothracian Mysteries,” in Mysteria: The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Secret Cults,” M.B. Cosmopoulos, ed. (London, Routledge, 2003).