Chuan Yue

Graduate Student

cjy2127@columbia.edu

Interests

• Archaic Greek poetry

• Epic poetry

• Greek tragedy and drama

• Theory

• Performance

Raised in Paris, France, where he arrived at the age of 3, he specialised in classics, among other humanities subjects, during his years in classe préparatoire before receiving a Masters degree (2019) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales.

During the pandemic, he went to Oriel College at the University of Oxford, where he received a MSt in Classics before successfully passing the Agrégation in 2022 after a year of preparation at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He then taught French and Latin for a year in France and French and English at Sun Yat Sen University (2023) in Guangzhou, China, the country where he was born.

Overall, his research has focused on speech and its relationship to justice.
In his first Masters dissertation, titled ‘Oath in Hesiod’, he tried to understand the significance of Horkos as the last descendant of Chaos and its link to Dikê. In his second dissertation about ‘the meaning of Horkia in Book 3 of the Iliad’, he tried to show how an intense conflict in silences, terms, and speakers set the stage for an always failed attempt to create peace.

Outside of archaic poetry, he studies ancient Greek poetry in general, particularly tragedy, Pindar, epics and performance.

He sometimes plays the violin.