Title:	Professor of Classical & Comparative Literatures, and Theater Studies
Office Location:	233A Allen Building
Office Phone:	919-684-2005, 919-684-5076
Email Address:	pburian@duke.edu
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• Ph.D. Princeton University, 1971
• M.A. Princeton University, 1968
• A.B. with high honors and high distinction in Classical Studies University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1964

Research Interests:

Greek literature, particularly drama; theory and practice of literary translation; reception of Greco-Roman antiquity in later thought and arts

1. "Myth into Muthos: the Shaping of Tragic Plot." The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy. Edited by P.E. Easterling.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1997): 178-208. Reprinted in Greek Drama, edited by Harold Bloom, New York: Chelsea House (2004) 328-59 328-59
2. "Euripides' Heraclidae: An Interpretation." Classical Philology  vol. 72  (1977): 1-21.
3. "Logos and Pathos: The Politics of the Suppliant Women." Directions in Euripidean Criticism  Durham, NC: Duke University Press (1985): 129-155, 212-221.
4.  Aristophanes, Birds.  Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Bryn Mawr, Penn, 1991. Greek text with commentary
5.  Euripides, Helen.  Aris and Phillips Classical Texts, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2007. (Greek text with prose translation, introduction and commentary)
6.  Aeschylus, The Suppliants.  Princeton University Press: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, Princeton, 1991. (Translation with introduction and notes)
7.  Aeschylus, Oresteia.  Greek Tragedy in New Translations: Oxford University Press, New York, 2003. (Translation in collaboration with Alan Shapiro, with introduction and notes.) Paperback edition, 2004.
8. "'All that Greek manure under the green bananas': Derek Walcott's Odyssey." South Atlantic Quarterly  vol. 96  (1997): 359-77.
9. "Sepulchers", a translation of Ugo Foscolo, "Carme dei Sepolcri" with brief introduction and notes." Literary Imagination  vol. 4  (2002): 17-30.