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Department of Classical Studies Duke University Box 90103 Durham, NC 27708-0103

919-684-2005, 919-684-5076 (office) (email)

• Senior Associate, King's College, Cambridge, January-July 2003
• Charles Dukes Award, Duke Alumni Association, 2001
• Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1988
• Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., 1980-81
• Younger Humanist Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1972-73
• Fulbright Fellow, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 1966-67
• Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Princeton University, 1964-65

Lectures

  Invited Lectures:

• Dramma e democrazia nel quinto secolo a.C.: A cycle of six lectures given as Visiting Professor (short term): A cycle of six lectures given as Visiting Professor (short term), Università di Cagliari (Sardinia), 2008
• Five seminars on "Ancient and Modern Interpretation of Sophocles' Antigone", postgraduate seminar on Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean, Venice, 2004
• "Giving Voice to Some Greeks and Italians", Boston University Translation Seminar, 2004
• "At the Brink of Dreadful Speech: Oedipus in Translation", for panel "Ancient Plays of Modern Audiences," Onassis Cultural Center, New York, 2004
• "Biologia, Politica, Donne nell'Oristeia di Eschilo", Convegno internazionale "Eschilo e la tragedia: communicazione, ecdotica, esegesi," Trento, 2004
• "Dramaturgy and Ideology in Aischylos' Seven Against Thebes and Euripides' Phoenician Women", University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 2004
• "How to Translate Aristophanes and Other Impossibilities", University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 2004
• "Bringing It Across: Reflections on Translating the Classics", University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2003
• "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Antigone", Keynote address, "Antigone's Dilemma" conference, Miami University, Oxford Ohio, October 2003
• "Sophocles' Antigone, and Ours", University of North Carolina at Asheville, 2003
• "Il sepellimento come atto politico: rituale e rappresentazione nella tragedia greca", Incontro "Morte e rituali funebri nelle società antiche", Pontignano (University of Siena), 2003
• "The Democratic Stage", Greek Seminar, Institute for Classical Studies, London, and Graduate Literary Seminar, Cambridge, 2003
• "Debating Governance in Euripides' Suppliants", Seminar on Athenian Cultural Revolution, Clasics Faculty, Cambridge University, 2003
• "Plato's Menexenus: Historiography or High Jinx?", Seminar on Athenian Cultural Revolution, Classics Faculty, Cambridge University, 2003
• "The Ending(s) of the Oedipus Tyrannus", Haverford College and Temple University, 2002
• "Voce di donna: le Troiane nella guerra del Peleponneso", Convegno internazionale "Evento, racconto, scrittura," Florence, 2002
• "Politics, Persuasion, and Justice in Aeschylus' Oresteia", Baylor University, 2001
• "Athenian Drama as Democratic Discourse", Keynote address, Yale Graduate Student Colloquium, New Haven, 2001
• "The Ancient Athenian Talking Democracy Blues", Virginia Hummel Humanities Lecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2000
• "Eurydice in Hell: A Myth in the Mirror of Contemporary American Lyric", invited panel on "Classics and Contemporary Literature," Modern Languages Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., 2000
• "Il dibattito sulla libertà della parola nell' Atene del quinto secolo a.C.", Università di Firenze, 1999
• "Parola e spettacolo: Sofocle (Edipo Re) ed Euripide (Ippolito e Troiane)", Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia, 1998
• "Democracy in Action? Drama and Free Speech in Fifth-Century Athens", Vanderbilt University, Vassar College, University of Exeter (U. K.), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997
• "Plato's Menexenus : Rhetoric and History", presentation to the NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers on Plato and the Polis, Duke University, 1994
• "Should I Stay or Should I Go? The End of the Oedipus Tyrannus", Creighton University, 1994
• "Tragedy, Myth, and the City", Dartmouth College, 1989
• "Greek Drama and Greek History", seminars for high school teachers of the El Paso Independent School District, sponsored by the National Faculty, 1988
• "Tragedy as Repetition and Innovation", Emory University, 1986
• "Forme di intertestualità sulla scena tragica greca", Istituto di Filologia Classica, Università di Roma, 1985
• "Including the Audience: Convention, Expectation, and the Dynamics of Greek Tragedy", University of Iowa, 1983
• "Tragic Forms and Forms of Tragedy", Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., 1983
• "Surprise on the Greek Tragic Stage", University of Missouri at Columbia, 1980

• "Dramaturgie und Ideologie in Aischylos' Sieben gegen Theben und Europides' Phoenissen", Euripides conference, Regensburg, 2004
• "Fox or Hedgehog? Archilochus' Voices in Translation", International Archilochus Conference, Paros, 2004
• "The Athenian Theater and Free Speech" and "Democracy and Aristocracy in the Oresteia", Landsdowne Lectures, Democracy Conference, University of Victoria, 2001
• The Inconclusive Conclusion of Oedipus Tyrannus, conference on “Teaching Sophocles” organized by Northwestern, Loyola, and the University of Chicago, Chicago, 1999
• "Oaths, Lies, and Curses: How to Do Things with Words in Euripides' Hippolytus", conference on Greek tragedy, Duke University, 1989
• "Apuleius and His Audience", conference on Audiences in the Roman World, National Humanities Center, 1987
• "Poetry and the Discovery of the Self", conference on Study of Poetic Imagination and Its Images, North Carolina State University, 1987
• "The Politics of Euripides' Suppliants", conference on Directions in Euripidean Criticism, Duke University, 1977

• Translation as Reception, With and Against the Imperial Grain, Classical Association of South Africa biennial meetring, Capetown, 2007
• City, Farewell!: Euripides' Phoenician Women as a Response to Aischylos and Alkibiades, American Philological Association annual meeting, San Diego, 2007
• Spoken Like a Woman or Spoken Like a Man? Gender and Political Speech in Lysistrata, American Philological Association annual meeting, Montreal, 19 December 2006
• 'Few of us have followed her to Egypt': Twentieth Century Versions of the Phantom Helen, Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting, Gainesville, FL, 19 December 2006
• Dido's Revenge: Vergil in Opera, Symposium Cumanum of the Vergilian Society, "The Vergilian Tradition: Manuscripts, Texts and Reception," Cuma (Naples), 19 December 2006
• To Homer Through Michael Longley, Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting, Madison, WI, 2005
• "Kilos of Cold Clinker? Reflections on Translating and Translations of Aeschylus", American Comparative Literature Association conference, San Juan, 2002
• "Folie à deux? A Collaborative Model for the Translation of Greek Drama", sponsored by the Three-Year Colloquium on Translation in Context,," American Philological Association annual meeting, San Diego, 2001
• "From Sepolcri to Sepulchers: Translating Foscolo", Association of Literary Translators of America annual meeting, Raleigh, NC, 2001
• "The Politics of Burial: Mourning, Memory, and Disorder in Greek Tragedy", American Comparative Literature Association conference, New Haven, 2000
• "'The Poem as Mask': Orpheus and Eurydice in Contemporary American Poetry", Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting, Cleveland, 1999
• "Melos or Bust: Reading the Trojan Women Historically", American Philological Association annual meeting, 1999
• "Backing into the Future: Ancient Greece and the Birth of Modernity in Italy", Circolo Italo-Britannico, Venice, 1998
• What Makes Greek Drama Dramatic? Movement, Gesture, and Word in Greek Tragic Theater, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, 1998
• "You can build a heavy-beamed poem out of this': Derek Walcott's Odyssey", American Philological Association annual meeting, Chicago, 1997
• "Myth and the Misogyny of Opera: Orpheus and Eurydice from Poliziano to Haydn", Lyrica Society annual meeting, Tallahassee, 1996
• "Literature in Translations: Logue's Homer in the Classroom", Southern Section of Classical Association of the Middle West and South biennial meeting, Savannah, 1996
• "Ex eleutherostomou glôssês: Debating Democracy in Athenian Tragedy", American Philological Association annual meeting, New York, 1996
• "The Death of Orpheus on the Operatic Stage", International Society for the Classical Tradition annual meeting, Boston, 1995
• "Who's Pius Now?: A Painless Exercise in Deconstruction", North Carolina Classical Association annual meeting, Winston-Salem, 1994
• "Teaching Athenaze", panel on teaching Greek, Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting, Atlanta, 1994
• "Was the Greek Cosmos an Ecosystem?", panel on Languages of Ecology, Society for Literature and Science annual meeting, Boston, 1993
• Invited response, panel on "Character in Plutarch, American Philological Association annual meeting, Washington, D.C., 1993
• "Self-Consuming Artifact: The Agon of Euripides' Trojan Women", Southern Section of Classical Association of the Middle West and South biennial meeting, Richmond, 1992
• "Plato's Menexenus and Historical Memory", American Philological Association annual meeting, New Orleans, 1992
• "Pastoral, Parody, and Politics in Aristophanes' Birds", North Carolina Classical Association annual North Carolina Classical Association annual meeting, Chapel Hill, 1991
• "Poetry and Science in Classical Greece: Tragedy and the Theory of Cultural Evolution", Society for Literature and Science annual meeting, Ann Arbor, 1989
• "Orpheus in Opera: Two Paradigms of the Creative Process", Triennial Meeting, American Comparative Literature Association, Ann Arbor, 1986
• "The Spectator in the Script: Remarks on Mythopoesis and Intertextuality in the Ajax of Sophocles", American Philological Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, 1982
• "Che farò senz' Euridice: The Nature of Artistic Creativity and the Figure of Orpheus in Monteverdi and Gluck", Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting, St. Louis, 1981
• "Robert Lowell's Classics", Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting, Houston, 1978
• "The Shape of Euripides' Phoenician Women", Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting, Iowa City, 1977
• "Zeus Soter Tritos and Some Triads in Aeschylus' Oresteia", American Philological Association annual meeting, Atlanta, 1977
• "The Savior's Fall: Dramatic Rhythm in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus", Classical Association of the Middle West and South annual meeting, Cleveland, 1975

• Participant, discussion on pagans and Christians for "Soundings", National Humanities Center, broadcast nationally, 1990
• Participant, four-part discussion on tragedy for "Soundings", National Humanities Center, broadcast nationally, Summer 1983

• American Philological Association
  Classical Association of the Middle West and South
  North Carolina Classical Association
  Vergilian Society
  American Comparative Literature Association
  Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
  Lyrica Society

Courses Taught

Greek

Undergraduate:

Elementary Greek
Intensive Elementary Greek
Intermediate Greek
Homer, Iliad
Homer, Odyssey and Greek lyric
Greek Comedy
Greek Tragedy
Greek Orators
Greek Historians

Graduate:

Prose Composition
Pre-Socratic Philosophy
Early Dialogues of Plato
Plato's Aesthetics
Homer
Sophocles' Theban Plays
Aeschylus' Oresteia
Aristophanes
Menander and new comedy

Seminars:

Euripides' Suppliants
Euripides' Helen
The Matter of Thebes in Greek Tragedy
Greek Comedy
"Peace Plays" of Aristophanes

Latin

Undergraduate:

Intermediate Latin (Cicero)
Vergil, Aeneid
Sight Reading

Graduate:

Horace, Odes

Classical Studies

Undergraduate:

Survey of Greek Literature
Survey of Latin Literature
Ancient and Medieval Epic
Drama of Greece and Rome
The Classical Tradition
Antiquity and the Making of the Modern World: Florence 1300-1600 (taught in Florence)

Seminars:

Ancient Comedy
The Greek Symposium
The Satirical Tradition
Varieties of Religious Experience in the Ancient Mediterranean
The World of Aristophanes (FOCUS Program)
The World of the Greek Theater (FOCUS Program)

Summer courses taught in Italy:

City and Country in Ancient Italy
Continuity and Change: Pagan to Christian Rome
Rome: History of the City

Comparative Literature (Program in Literature)

Undergraduate:

Foundations of Western Literature: Homer to Dante
Theory of Tragedy

Seminar:

The Oedipus Myth in Ancient and Modern Literature

Graduate:

Theory and Practice of Literary Translation (workshop-seminar)

Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (Seminars)

Fiction and its Truths
Rome: The City and Its Gods (taught partly in Rome)
Greek Theater in its Historical Setting (taught partly in Greece)
Performing Passion, Reason and Community

Kenan Institute for Ethics

Co-director, Graduate Colloquium, 2004-7

Publications

   Books

1.  Euripides, Helen.  Aris and Phillips Classical Texts, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2007. (Greek text with prose translation, introduction and commentary)
2.  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.
3.  Aeschylus, The Suppliants.  Princeton University Press: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, Princeton, 1991. (Translation with introduction and notes)
4.  Aristophanes, Birds.  Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Bryn Mawr, Penn, 1991. Greek text with commentary
5.  Euripides, The Phoenician Women.  Oxford University Press, New York, 1981. (Translation with introduction and notes)

   Edited Volumes

1. Gerald F. Else. Plato and Aristotle on Poetry, edited with Introduction, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. , 1987 ().
2.  Directions in Euripidean Criticism: A Collection of Essays Edited with "Selected Bibliography of Euripidean Criticism since World War II" Duke University Press, Durham. Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1985 ().

   Articles

1.  "Introduction, Notes and Glossary."  for Alan Shapiro's translation of Euripides'Trojan Women, Greek Tragedy in New TranslationsOxford University Press, New York, 2008.
2.  "Parola di donna? La voce di Lisistrata e la fantasia comica." Atti del convegno di studi "Comicità e riso nella commedia antica," 42, Cagliari 2005 (2007). Ed. P. Mureddu and G. F. Nieddu Supplementi di LexisAdolf M. Hakkert, 2007: 131-41.
3.  "Biologia, democrazia e donne nelle Eumenidi di Eschilo."  2006: 45-57.
4.  "Sepulchers", a translation of Ugo Foscolo, "Carme dei Sepolcri" with brief introduction and notes."  2002: 17-30.
5.  "Voce di donna: Le Troiane nella guerra del Peloponneso." Evento, racconto, scrittura nell'antichità classica. Ed. A. Casanova and P. Desideri Studi e test 23Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di scienze dell' antichità, Università degli studi di Firenze (Florence, Italy), 2002.
6.  "Aeschylus: "Oresteia", "Persians", "Prometheus Bound", "Seven Against Thebes", and "Suppliants." Gilbert Murray as Literary Translator." Encyclopedia of Literary Translation. Ed. O. Classe London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
7.  "Translation, the Profession, and the Poets."  2000: 299-307.
8.  "Notes and Commentary" to William Arrowsmith's posthumously published lecture, “Euripides and the Dramaturgy of Crisis."  1999: 227-35.
9.  "'You can build a heavy-beamed poem out of this': Derek Walcott's Odyssey."  1999: 71-81.
10.  "'All that Greek manure under the green bananas': Derek Walcott's Odyssey."  1997: 359-77.
11.  "Myth into Muthos: the Shaping of Tragic Plot." The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy. Ed. 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
12.  "Tragedy Adapted for Stages and Screens: the Renaissance to the Present." The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy. Ed. P.E. Easterling Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997: 228-83.
13.  "Introduction, Notes and Glossary." The Greek Tragedy in New Translations:. for Euripides, Ion, translated by W. S. Di PieroOxford University Press, New York, 1996.
14.  "On Being a Political Animal in the Academic Zoo." The Academic's Handbook. Ed. A. Leigh DeNeef and Craufurd Goodwin 2nd Edition.Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995: 65-72.
15.  "Zeus soter tritos and Some Triads in Aeschylus' Oresteia."  1986: 332-342.
16.  "Logos and Pathos: The Politics of the Suppliant Women." Directions in Euripidean Criticism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985: 129-155, 212-221.
17.  "Translations of poems by Giorgio Mannacio."  1981: 29.
18. Peter Burian and N. J. Richardson. "The Epigram on Apollonius of Tyana."  1981: 283-285.
19. Peter Burian and Norman Guttman. "A Climate for Liberal Learning."  May-June 1980: 6-9.
20.  "Translations of poems by Giorgio Mannacio."  Ed. Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann New Rivers Press, St. Paul, Minn, 1979: 118-119.
21.  "Euripides' Heraclidae: An Interpretation."  1977: 1-21.
22.  "The Play before the Prologue: Initial Tableaux on the Greek Stage." Ancient and Modern: Essays in Honor of Gerald F. Else. Ann Arbor: Center for the Coordination of Ancient and Modern Studies, 1977: 79-94.
23.  "Euripides the Contortionist."  1976: 97-113. (review-essay on three studies of Euripidean drama)
24.  "Suppliant and Saviour: Oedipus at Colonus."  1974: 408-429. Reprinted in Modern Critical Views: Sophocles, edited by Harold Bloom, New York: Chelsea House(1990): 77-96.
25.  "Pelasgus and Politics in Aeschylus' Danaid Trilogy."  1974: 5-14.
26.  "Euripides, Supplices 649ff.."  1974: 175-76.
27.  "Supplication and Hero Cult in Sophocles' Ajax."  1972: 151-156.

   Forthcoming

1. (editor). "A Companion to Aeschylus."  2010.
2.  "Inconclusive Conclusion: The Ending(s) of the Oedipus Tyrannus." a volume to be edited by. E. Hall and S. Goldhill,Cambridge University Press, 2009.
3.  "Aeschylus." Encyclopedia of the Classical Tradition. Ed. A. Grafton and G. Most Harvard University Press, 2009.
4. Euripides. "Helen." Oxford Greek Tragedy in New Translations. Oxford University Press, 2009. (Verse translation with introduction and commentary)
5.  "City, Farewell!: Polis and Gender in Aischylos' Seven Against Thebes and Euripides' Phenician Women." Tragedy and Sexual Difference. Ed. D. McCoskey and E. Zakin SUNY Press, 2009.
6.  "The Play of Orfeo, translation with introduction and notes of Angelo Poliziano's 'Favola di Orfeo'."  2009.
7. Review of E. Hall. "The Theatrical Cast of Athens."  2009.
8.  ""Gender and the City: Antigone from Hegel to Butler and Back, " in P. Euben and K. Bassi,." P. Euben and K. Bassi, eds. When Worlds Elide. 2009.
9. (editor, with Alan Shapiro). "Greek Tragedy in New Translations: the complete surviving plays in nine volumes (Oxford University Press, 2009-10: Spring 2009: Aeschylus II, Euripides IV; Fall 2009: Euripides III, Sophocles II; Spring 2010: Sophocles I, Euripides I; Fall 2010: Aeschylus I, Euripides II, Euripides V."  2009-10.

   In Preparation

1. with  "Drama and Democracy: Staging Debate in Fifth-Century Athens."  .
2.  ""Euripides"." Oxford Encyclopedia of Greece and Rome. Oxford University Press, 2008. (commissioned)
3.  "Various Articles: aspects of Euripides' Hippolytus, on Plato (history and the Menexenus), on Greek ideas of cultural evolution, and on the classical tradition (early opera, translation as reception)."  .

   Reviews

1.  "Review of M. McDonald and J. M. Walton, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre."  2008: 347-50.
2.  "Review of J. Gregory, ed., A Companion to Greek Tragedy and I. C. Storey and A. Allan, A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama."  2007: 163-5.
3.  "Review of D. Mendelsohn, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays."  January 2005: 26-7.
4.  "Review of John Porter, Eric Csapo, C.W. Marshall, Robert C. Ketterer, eds., Crossing the Stages: The Production, Performance and Reception of Ancient Theater (Syllecta Classica 10)."  2000.
5.  "Review of Ralf Krumeich, Nikolaus Pechstein, and Berndt Seidensticker, eds., Das griechische Satyrspiel."  2000.
6. Review of Sophie Mills. "Theseus, Tragedy and the Athenian Empire."  2000: 149-53.
7.  "Review of Pietro Pucci, Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father and Charles Segal, Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge."  1995-96: 202-209.
8.  "Review of Giulia Sissa, Greek Virginity."  1992: 641-644.
9.  "Review of Mary Whitlock Blundell, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus."  1991: 261-262.
10.  "Review of Gilbert and Sarah Lawall, Euripides' Hippolytus: A Companion with Translation."  1989-90: 70.
11.  "Review of William M. Calder, III. (ed.), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Selected Correspondence 1869-1931."  1985: 51-52.
12.  "Review of C. W. Macleod, ed. Homer, Iliad, Book XXIV."  Ed. Fred Smith 1984-85: 69-70.
13.  "Review of W. S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr., Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis."  1980: 97-98.
14.  ""Alcestis Resurrected," review of William Arrowsmith's translation of Euripides' Alcestis."  1976: 43-45.