Dr. Jorge Wong Medina
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Profile
Jorge Wong Medina’s research uses language as a lens for studying the relationship between individuals and communities in the Greek world from the Bronze Age onward. His area of expertise is the local and literary dialects of ancient Greece and their use in poetry. His current project focuses on the process by which the Ionic speaking poets of the Iliad and Odyssey borrowed linguistic features from the neighboring Lesbian Aeolic dialect and how this enduring socio-linguistic relationship shaped Homeric language.
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Awards
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University (Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
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Presentations
“Sappho’s Flowers: ἄνθεσι and the Reconstruction of the Lesbian Dative.” Greek and Latin Linguistics Panel, Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, January 2–5, 2025.
“As the Ionians Say It: Diectasis in Homeric Diction.” 15th Conference on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient World, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH. June 26–30, 2024.
“Archaism and Modernization: Synchronically Productive Aeolic Features in Homeric Verse-Making.” Greek and Latin Linguistics Panel, Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting in Chicago, January 4–7, 2024.
“Reconsidering Milman Parry’s Aeolic Default: The Dialectal Competence of the Homeric Poets.” Multilingual Literary Practices in A Multicultural World, From Archaic Greece To The Byzantine Empire. Belgian Academy in Rome, November 14–15, 2023.
“The -εσσι Dative: Synchronic Dialectal Variation in Homeric Diction.” Workshop in IE and Historical Linguistics. Harvard University, March 3, 2023.
“Diomedes in the Iliad.” Homer Panel (Session 1) at Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting in San Francisco, January 7, 2022.
"The Grammar of Divine Epiphany." Voice and Language of the Gods in the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Homeric Hymns at CorHaLi, University of Lausanne, June 14, 2019.
"A Fare Share: Prometheus' Trick in Theogony 535-557." Food and Drink in Antiquity, Rutgers University, June 1, 2019.
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Awards
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Wong Medina, J.A. 2024. “At Last Spoke Diomedes: Decorum in the Iliadic Assembly.” Classical Quarterly. [Forthcoming]
Book ChaptersWong Medina, J.A. 2024. “¿Y las mujeres en la cocina?” in Fernandez Prieto, A. and Unai Iriarte (edd.) (In)visiblidad, vulnerabilidad y agencia. Sevilla: Editorial de Universidad de Sevilla. [Forthcoming]
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