Herbert Golder

Herbert Alan Golder is an American academic, writer, and filmmaker. He is a Professor of Classical Studies and Professor in Cinema & Media Studies at Boston University, who specializes in Greek Drama, Myth Studies and Cinema. He is also Director and Editor-in-Chief of Arion, A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, published by Boston University, for which he has won the Phoenix Award for Significant Editorial Achievement from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and the Modern Language Association, as well as the Inaugural Scholarly Outreach Prize from the American Philological Association. He served as General Editor, along with William Arrowsmith, of The Greek Tragedy in New Translations, published by Oxford University Press. His own translations have been published and staged. He is currently translating the erotic fragments of Sappho.