Thyra-Lilja Altunin

Thyra-Lilja Altunin first completed a Bachelor of Arts in Classics and Music History at the University of Pittsburgh and then completed her MPhil at the University of Oxford entitled, “Ancient Greek Poetry: from Text to Music”. She is now continuing this project as a DPhil candidate in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford, and her dissertation subject will be on the study and reconstruction of the music and prosody of ancient Greek poetic songs, specifically focused on early epic and lyric genres. Due to a diverse academic background gained throughout her academic career, Thyra-Lilja’s primary goal is to conduct research that draws together methods and inspiration from the fields of musicology, classics, linguistics, digital humanities, and statistics.

PUBLICATIONS

“The Sound of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter” Dec. 2024 
Published in the Journal of Greek and Roman Musical Studies (2024) 

“Contour level analysis of melodic patterns in ancient Greek poetry” Sept. 2025
Published in Journal of Greek and Roman Musical Studies