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Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto
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    www.rorotoko.com/index.php/author/burgess_jonathan/ - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 3/10/2009    Last Visited: 7/8/2009  

    Jonathan S. Burgess is a professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle (2001) and several articles on early Greek epic poetry. He is currently a fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto, working on a project about the Odyssey and travel literature.

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    What past Homeric audiences did and did not know about Achilles

    Jonathan S. Burgess on his book The Death and Afterlife of Achilles (March 10, 2009)

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    www.ontclassics.org/index_files/Page482.htm - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 10/19/2009    Last Visited: 10/19/2009  

    * Jonathan Burgess (University of Toronto)

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    www.sgs.utoronto.ca/informationfor/cal2008-09/programs/ - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 7/13/2009  

    Jonathan Burgess - BA, MA, PhD

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    dev.thismagazine.ca/issues/2004/09/crossingtheline.php - [Cached Version]
    Last Visited: 3/12/2007  

    Jonathan Burgess, a classics professor at the University of Toronto, says this was necessary during the Hellenic Age.A human could achieve the status of divinity after death,as a hero he would have status beyond mortal and acquire some afterlife power,and be given perennial, ritual attention.Sometimes remains were dug up and moved to a more prominent position.But if the remains couldn't be found, how would the ritual be enacted?In the context of 9/11, "it is an interesting problem," he says.

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    Department of Classics at University of Toronto - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 4/14/2006    Last Visited: 4/14/2006  

    J. S. BurgessUndergraduate Coordinator

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    Ontario CLASSICAL Association - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 2/14/2009    Last Visited: 2/14/2009  

    Jonathan Burgess (University of Toronto)

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    Oral Tradition Journal - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 5/13/2007    Last Visited: 6/23/2009  

    Jonathan Burgess

    Jonathan S. Burgess is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. His major publication to date is The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle (2001). He is also the author of several articles and a forthcoming monograph on Achilles.

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    Ryerson Review of Journalism - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 1/1/2006    Last Visited: 9/13/2006  

    Jonathan Burgess, associate professor with the department of classics at the University of Toronto, speculates that celebrity journalism increasingly replaces more traditional stories.

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    This Magazine: Crossing the line - [Cached Version]
    Last Visited: 10/26/2004  

    Jonathan Burgess, a classics professor at the University of Toronto, says this was necessary during the Hellenic Age.A human could achieve the status of divinity after death,as a hero he would have status beyond mortal and acquire some afterlife power,and be given perennial, ritual attention.Sometimes remains were dug up and moved to a more prominent position.But if the remains couldn,t be found, how would the ritual be enacted?In the context of 9/11, ,it is an interesting problem,, he says. ,In the modern world, it is very rare not to find the remains.,

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    UofT Classics Department: Undergraduate Information - [Cached Version]
    Published on: 7/1/2002    Last Visited: 4/14/2006  

    Should you need further information about our undergraduate programmes, please do not hesitate to contact the Undergraduate Co-ordinator Jonathan S. Burgess at undergrad.classics@utoronto.ca, or by phone: (416) 978-4848.

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