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Faculty: Peter H Burian  

Peter H Burian
Title: Professor of Classical & Comparative Literatures, and Theater Studies and Literature
Office Location: 233A Allen Building
Office Phone: 919-684-2005, 919-684-5076
Email Address: pburian@duke.edu
Web Page:
http://literature.aas.duke.edu/~pburian

Education:

  • 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

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

Books

  •  Aristophanes, Birds.  Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Bryn Mawr, Penn, 1991 . Greek text with commentary
  •  Euripides, Helen.  Aris and Phillips Classical Texts, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2007 . (Greek text with prose translation, introduction and commentary)
  •  Aeschylus, The Suppliants.  Princeton University Press: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, Princeton, 1991 . (Translation with introduction and notes)
  •  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.
Articles
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