Robert Sonkowsky

Robert Sonkowsky (also Robert Paul Sonkowsky or Robert P. Sonkowsky) is a professor emeritus of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is an authority on Latin rhetoric and the pronunciation of Golden Age Latin. His bachelor's degree was from Lawrence College (1954), and his PhD from the University of North Carolina (1958). He is an Honorary Member of the Center for Chronobiology in the Mayo Building, Medical School.

Sonkowsky is a leading authority on and a performer of oral renditions of classical texts. He made the album "Homer: The Death of Patroclus - Chapter XVI of the Iliad" with Folkways Records as part of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Numerous other recordings of his in classical Greek and Latin are available on the Internet. [http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=31365] [http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/Latin.htm]

External links

* [http://cnes.cla.umn.edu/Faculty/Sonkowsky.html Home page of Professor Sonkowsky]
* [http://ancienthistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=ancienthistory&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu%2Faeneid1.htm| Sonkowsky reading from Book One of the "Aeneid"]
* [http://www.rhapsodes.fll.vt.edu/Latin.htm Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature (SORGLL)] Readings of Cicero, Catallus, Horace, Vergil.
* [http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=31365 Reading "Homer and the Death of Patroclus]

elected Publications

*"Performance of Literature in Historical Perspective" ed. D. Thompson et al. (Univ. Press of America 1983) Chapters 1 and 2 (pp. 1-65): "Oral Performance and Ancient Greek Lit." and "Oral Interpretation of Classical Latin Literature."
*"Euphantastik Memory and Delivery in the Classical Rhetorical Tradition," "Rhetoric" 78 ed. Brown and Steinmann, 1979, pp. 375-3
*"Critical Edition of the Latin Rhetorical Treatise De Compositione by Gasparino Barizizza of Bergamo, " "Year Book of the American Philosophical Society", 1962, 629.
*"Delivery in Ancient Rhetorical Theory," "Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association" 90 (1959), pp. 256-274.