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Peter Burian, Professor of Classical & Comparative Literatures, and Theater Studies

Peter Burian
Contact Info:
Office Location:  233A Allen Building
Office Phone:  919-684-2005, 919-684-5076
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://www.duke.edu/~pburian

Office Hours:

Tuesday 2-3 and by appointment
Education:

Ph.D.Princeton University1971
M.A.Princeton University1968
A.B. with high honors and high distinction in Classical StudiesUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor1964
Specialties:

Dramatic Literature
Theater History
Literary & Cultural Criticism
Research Interests:

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

Curriculum Vitae
Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

    Representative Publications   (More Publications)

    1. Gender and the City: Antigone from Hegel to Butler and Back, in When Worlds Elide, edited by J. P. Euben and K. Bassi (2010), pp. 255-299, Lexington Books [Rowman and Littlefield], Lanham, MD
    2. Inconclusive Conclusion: The Ending(s) of the Oedipus Tyrannus, in Sophocles and the Tragic Tradition, edited by E. Hall and S. Goldhill (2009), pp. 99-118, Cambridge Univeristy Press (2009)
    3. City, Farewell!: Genos, Polis and Gender in Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes and Euripides' Phoenician Women, in Tragedy and Sexual Difference,, edited by D. McCoskey and E. Zakin (2009), pp. 16-45, SUNY Press
    4. Euripides, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome., edited by Michael Gagarin and Elaine Fantham, vol. 3 (2010), pp. 129-41, Oxford University Press, New York
    5. Aristophanes, Birds (1991), Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Bryn Mawr, Penn (Greek text with commentary.)
    6. Euripides, Helen (2007), Aris and Phillips Classical Texts, Oxbow Books, Oxford (Greek text with prose translation, introduction and commentary.)
    7. Euripides' Helen, in Euripides V (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) (2010), pp. 225-391, Oxford University Press, New York (Verse translation with commentary.)
    8. Aeschylus, The Suppliants (1991), Princeton University Press: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, Princeton (Translation with introduction and notes.)
    9. with Alan Shapiro, Aeschylus, Oresteia, Greek Tragedy in New Translations: (2003), Oxford University Press, New York (Translation with introduction and notes. Reissued as Aeschylus I, 2010.)
    10. Myth into Muthos: the Shaping of Tragic Plot, in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, edited by P.E. Easterling (1997), pp. 178-208, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
    11. Logos and Pathos: The Politics of the Suppliant Women, in Directions in Euripidean Criticism (1985), pp. 129-155, 212-221, Durham, NC: Duke University Press
    12. Euripides' Heraclidae: An Interpretation, Classical Philology, vol. 72 (1977), pp. 1-21
    13. Parola di donna? La voce di Lisistrata e la fantasia comica, in Atti del convegno di studi "Comicità e riso nella commedia antica," Cagliari 2005, Supplementi di Lexis 42, edited by P. Mureddu and G. F. Nieddu (2007), pp. 131-41, Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert
    14. Biologia, democrazia e donne nelle Eumenidi di Eschilo, Lexis, vol. 24 (2006), pp. 45-57
    15. Tragedy Adapted for Stages and Screens: the Renaissance to the Present, in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, edited by P.E. Easterling (1997), pp. 228-83, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
    16. " 'All that Greek manure under the green bananas': Derek Walcott's Odyssey", South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 96 (1997), pp. 359-77
    17. "Sepulchers," a translation of Ugo Foscolo, "Carme dei Sepolcri" with brief introduction and notes, Literary Imagination, vol. 4 (2002), pp. 17-30
    18. Translation, the Profession, and the Poets, American Journal of Philology, vol. 121 (2000), pp. 299-307
    Conferences Organized

    • Translatable: Creativity and Knowledge Formation Across Cultures, an interdisciplinary conference on the poetics and pragmatics of literary translatio, Co-organizer, 2009  
    • International Conference on Archilochus, Co-director, October 2004  
    • “Helen Reclaimed: Myth and Theater,” a symposium connected with the production of Euripides’Helen at Duke University, Organizer, 1999  
    • "Greek Tragedy, " a conference held at Duke University, Co-organizer, 1989  
    • "Directions in Euripidean Criticism", Organizer, 1977  
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