Professor of Classics (1989-), Ph.D.. Classical Philology University of lowa, 1963

Previous positions: U. of California Santa Barbara (Assistant to Full Professor, 1963-1989)
Visiting positions: Stanford U., 1974, 1976; U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1973. 1983

Recent Honors Awards: U. of Calif., Santa Barbara, Distinguished Teacher Award, 1988 Univ. of Florida, Distinguished Teacher Award, 1992; again in 1997 "Olympic Book of the Year Award." USA Olympic Committee, Education Council, 1989

Recent professional activity: Editorial Board, Nikephoros. Zeitschrift fur Sport und Kultur im Alterturn,

1988--. also: The International Journal of the History of Sport (formerly The British Journal of the Hi story of Sport). London 1986--.

More than ninety papers and lectures: universities of Texas, Stanford, Michigan, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Southern California, Nebraska, Georgia, Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech, Louisiana State, Utah, Indiana, Western Ontario. Missouri. Akron, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz,, UC Irvine, UC Davis, San Diego State. Wellesley College; Oxford,. Cambridge, England, Germany, Greece, and Scotland. I ecturer, International Olympic Academy, Ancient Olympia, Greece, 1991, 1992, 1997

Areas of research: I have two research specialties: 1) early Greek poetry, especially Pindar; 2) ancient athletics and the Olympic Games ancient and modern

Publications in classical philology (excludes reviews, abstracts, reprints, and some minor journals)

Sophocles Ajax 516, " Classical Philology 61 (1966), 249f.

Three Odes of Pindar: A Literary Study of Pythian 11, Pythian 3, and Olympian 7, E.J. Brill,, Leiden, , 1968

Reviews: Class. World 63 (1970) 51 (Robertson); Phoenix 25 (1971) 70-73 (Slater); Antiquite Classique 38 (1969) 542f. . (Lasserre); Schweiz. Altphilologenband,, Bulletin 2 (1972) (Lauer); Gnomon 42 (1970) 441-445 (Mahler); Athenaeum 48 (1970) 209-214 (Castagna); Boll d. Inst. d. Estud. helen.., Barcelona 4 (1970) 69f. (Alsina); Riv. di studi clas. 22 (1974) (D'Agostino) (cf. Salvaneschi, below).

"Pindaric Criticism " pp. 1-95 in Wm. Calder III & J. Stern, edd., Pindaros und Bakchylides, Wissenschattliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1970 (Wege der Forschung) Review: Class. Review 23 (1973) 13lf.. (Willcock). (cf. Salvaneschi, below).

Pindar Nemean 7: some preliminary remarks," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological

. Assoc iation 101 (1970). 633-643.

A Note on Pindar Nemean 7.31 f.. . California Studies in Classical Antiquity 4 (1971), 249-253

Pindar Isthmian 7. Myth, and Exempla, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1971
Reviews: Class. Rev. 24 (1974) 14-16 (Willcock); Riv. di stadi clas. 23 (1975) 155f. (d'Agostino);
Mnemosyne 27 (1974) 303-5 (Radt); Ant.. Clas. 42 (1973) 596f. (Lasserre); Gnomon 45 (1973)
197-9
i S l ater ): Emer ita 40 ( 1 972 ) 5 28-30 ( Lopez); Journal of Classical Studies of Japan 23 (1 975)
8 1 -84 (Ito)
(et. Salvaneschi. below)

"Crazy Horse on the Trojan Plain: The classicism of John G. Neihardt," Classical and Modern Literature 3

(1982-3). 45-53

The text ot Pindar Isthmian 8.70," American Journal of Philology, 94 (1973), 319-326

"The Diachronic Study of Myth, and Achilles' Heel," Journal of the Calif. Classical Association, 4 (1979),

3-34

"Pindar's Style at Pythian 9.87f.," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 20 (1979), 133-143

"Pindar " pp. 157-177 in T.J. Luce, ea.. Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome, Scribner's, New York, 1982

'Pindar Pythians 2 and 3: Inscriptional pote and the 'Poetic Epistle'," Harvard Studies in Classical philogy 87 (1983), 31-48

"Pindar, Aristotle and Homer: A Study in Ancient Criticism," California Studies in Classical Antiquity 13

(1983) 156- 170
.

"Pindar and Horace against the Telchines (Ol. 7.53 and Carm. 4.4.33)." American Journal of Philology
108 (1987) 152-157

"Neihardt's Classicism in Song of Three Friends," Nebraska Humanist I I (1989), 10-25

"Praxinoa's Speech and the Text of Theocritus 15.15-17," Classical Philology 87 (1992), 134- 137

"'Something like the Gods': A Pindaric Theme and the Myth of Nemean 10," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies' 34 (1993). 1 23- 132

Article on: E. Salvaneschi. " La critica Pindarica di D. C. Young, " Parola del Passato 1 47 (1 972), 426-437

Publications on ancient athletics and the Olympics games

The Olympic Myth of Greek Amateur Athletics,. Ares, Chicago,. 1984. Reviews: Arizona Republic, July 22, 1984 (Hermann); San Diego Tribune July 30, 1984 (Kaiser); Journal of Sport History I I (1984), I I 1 - 113 (Kyle); Jour nal of Hellenic Studies 106 (1986), 238-239 ( Instone); Classical Journal 82 1987), '268-271 (E\ jen Classical World 80 (1987). 456 (Traupman); Sportwissenschaft 17 (1987), 100-102 (Weller); Echos du monde classique 29 (1985), 134-144 (Kyle); American Journal of Philology' I 10 ( 1989), 1 66 1 7 1 (PoliakotI)

"Words of Pindar, " translation by D.C. Young and F.J. Nisetich, read by Richard Basehart, Closing Ceremony, Los Angeles Olympic Games. 1984

I he Ancient Oly mpics and the Fine Arts," Proceedings of tint' Xth [ 5. Olympic Academy, C.R. Paul, ea., pp. 1 50- 155. U nited States Olympic Committee. Colorado Springs. 1986

"The Origins of the Modern Olympics: A New Version International Journal of the History of Sport 4 ( (1987), 271 - 300

"Athletics," in Michael Grant. ea., Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean, II, 1131-1142, Scribner's, New York, 1988

"Demetrios Vikelas. First President of the IOC," Stadion: International Zeitschrift fur Geschichte des Sports, 14 (1988). 85-102.

"Professionalism in Archaic and Classical Greek Athletics," J.D. Segrave & D. Chu, eds., The Olympic Games in Transition. pp. 27-35, Human Kinetics Publs., Champaign, IL, 1988

"How the Amateurs won the Olympics," W.J. Raschke,, ea., Archaeology of the Olympics, pp. 52-72, Univ.. of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1988

"The Riddle of the Five Rings." Coroebus Triumphs (Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the Sport Literature Association), S. Bands, ea.. pp. 257-276, San Diego. 1989

"Modern Greece and the Origins of the Modern Olympic Games," W. Coulson and H. Kyrieleis, edd., (non- viewable character set) 5-9 1988. pp. 175-184, Deutsches Archaologisches Institut, Athens. 1992

"Myhts and Mist surrounding the Revival of the Olympic Games the Hidden Story," in F. Landry, ea., Sport. Le troisieme millenaire,. pp. 100-115, Proceedings of the International Symposium, Quebec City, University of Laval Press, 199 I

" It is more important to participate. than to win'; Who said it first, Coubertin, Bishop Talbot, St. Paul. or Ovid?" Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies 3 (1994), 17-25

"Myths about the Ancient Games." Archaeology 49, No. 4 (July/August, 1996), 30

The Modem Olympics: ,4 Struggle for Revival, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore, 1996 (xviii, 252 pp).

First with the Most: Greek athletic records and 'Specialization,"' Nikephoros. Zeitschrift fur Sport und
Kultur im Altertum 9 (1996), 22 pp. in proof

"Three Greek Olympic Fathers: Soutsos, Zappas, and Vikelas," in Arnd Kruger, ea., Fathers of the Olympic Idea (=Sport and Society, 5), Berlin (Tischler), 20 pp. in ms.

12 articles in newspapers (four in USA Today), magazines, and minor journals

Article on: G. Redmond and D. Kyle, "Young's Olympic Myth,"Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature 2 (1985), 201 -207

Interviews given: 8 on TV (ABC News, Canadian BC); over 40 radio interviews (several carried on NPR), and more than 25 newspaper/wire service interviews.