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Publications of Peter H Burian     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

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.

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.