Peter Allan Hansen


Peter Allan Hansen was a Danish classical philologist known principally for his work on the Carmina epigraphica graeca I-II and on other aspects of Greek epigraphy. Born in Copenhagen he was educated at Copenhagen University and at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was a pupil of Lilian H. Jeffery. After 1975 he settled in Oxford and through the support of scholarships and grants continued his work on Hesychios and epigraphy there.

Selected works

  • 'The Manuscript Tradition of Plutarch's De Malignitate Herodoti', Cahiers de l'Institutdu Moyen-Âge grec a Latin 2 1-25.
  • 'Ille Ego Qui Quondam... Once Again ', The Classical Quarterly 22 139–149.'
  • Pletho and Herodotean Malice', Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Âge grec a Latin 12 1-10.
  • 'An Olympic Victor by the Name of "kles". An Archaic funerary inscription ', Kadmos13, 156–163.'
  • Friedländer, Epigrammata 177 d', Zeitschrift [für Papyrologie und Epigraphik] 16 79-80.Aigis 12.22
  • A List of Greek Verse Inscriptions down to 400 BC An Analytical Survey. Opuscula Graecolatina 3 Copenhagen 1975. 53pp.
  • 'An Epigraphical Ghost-Name', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 21 37-38.'
  • Pithecusan Humour. The Interpretation of "Nestor's Cup" Reconsidered ', Glotta 54 25–44.
  • A Bibliography of English Contributions to Classical Scholarship from the SixteenthCentury to 1970. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde & Bagger, 1977. xviii, 335 pp.
  • 'The Robe Episode of the Choephori', The Classical Quarterly 28 239–240.'
  • DAA 374-375 and the Early Elegiac epigram', Glotta 56 195-202.
  • Ploutarchou Peri tes Hērodotou kakoētheias, Plutarchi The Herodoti malignitate.Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1979. xviii, 77 pp.
  • Carmina Epigraphica graeca saeculorum VIII-V a.Chr.n. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1983. xxiii, 302 pp.
  • 'The Potter Nicomachus and his Dedication ', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 58 231–233.'
  • 'The Date of "Nestor's Cup"', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 58 234 Aigis 12.23
  • A List of Greek Verse Inscriptions c 400-300 BC with Addenda et Corrigenda to CEG. Opuscula Graecolatina 28 Copenhagen 1985. 52 pp.
  • 'The Corpus of Greek Inscriptional Epigrams', Actes du IX'e Congrès Internationald'Épigraphie grecque et Latin 1 167–171.
  • Carmina Epigraphica graeca saeculi IV a.Chr.n.. Accedunt addenda et Corrigenda ad CEG 1 Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 1989.xvii, 358 pp.
  • 'Diogenes the Cynic at Venice', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 82 198-200.
  • Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon. Volumen III: Π - Σ.. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2005. xxxiv, 404 pp.
  • Hesychii Alexandrini Lexicon. Volumen IV: T-Ω.. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 2009. xxxii, 281 pp.