Steven Brandwood

Loeb Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

• Greek Poetry and Performance

• Festival Culture

• Epigraphy

• Greek Religion

• Hellenistic Cultural History

Steve Brandwood is a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2024-26. After undergraduate training at Yale, he received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University, with several years spent as a fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Steve's research concerns the revival of religious festivals in Hellenistic Athens and in the Greek world more broadly, with a particular focus on the changes in performance culture that accompanied post-classical revival movements.

At Columbia, he is preparing a series of publications, including a monograph provisionally entitled Cult-Song and Festival Revival in Hellenistic Athens, which analyzes the performance and memorialization of the Delphic Hymns to Apollo, performed at Delphi in the late-Hellenistic period and famously inscribed along with their musical notation. He has published on authors such as Herodotus and Catullus and translates documents for the Attic Inscriptions Online project.