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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).
  2.  Aeschylus, Oresteia.  Greek Tragedy in New Translations: Oxford University Press, New York, (2003).
  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).
  5.  Euripides, The Phoenician Women.  Oxford University Press, New York, (1981).

Papers/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. Parola di donna? La voce di Lisistrata e la fantasia comica, in Atti del convegno di studi "Comicità e riso nella commedia antica," 42, Cagliari 2005 (2007), Supplementi di Lexis, edited by P. Mureddu and G. F. Nieddu, vol. 42 (2007), pp. 131-41, Adolf M. Hakkert .
  2. Biologia, democrazia e donne nelle Eumenidi di Eschilo, Lexis no. 24 (2006), pp. 45-57 .
  3. Sepulchers", a translation of Ugo Foscolo, "Carme dei Sepolcri" with brief introduction and notes, Literary Imagination, vol. 4 (2002), pp. 17-30 .
  4. Voce di donna: Le Troiane nella guerra del Peloponneso, in Evento, racconto, scrittura nell'antichità classica, Studi e test 23, edited by A. Casanova and P. Desideri (2002), Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di scienze dell' antichità, Università degli studi di Firenze (Florence, Italy) .
  5. Aeschylus: "Oresteia", "Persians", "Prometheus Bound", "Seven Against Thebes", and "Suppliants." Gilbert Murray as Literary Translator, in Encyclopedia of Literary Translation, edited by O. Classe (2000), London: Fitzroy Dearborn .
  6. Translation, the Profession, and the Poets, American Journal of Philology, vol. 121 (2000), pp. 299-307 .
  7. Notes and Commentary" to William Arrowsmith's posthumously published lecture, “Euripides and the Dramaturgy of Crisis, Literary Imagination, vol. 1 (1999), pp. 227-35 .
  8. 'You can build a heavy-beamed poem out of this': Derek Walcott's Odyssey, Classical World, vol. 93 (1999), pp. 71-81 .
  9. 'All that Greek manure under the green bananas': Derek Walcott's Odyssey, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol. 96 (1997), pp. 359-77 .
  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. 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 .
  12. Introduction, Notes and Glossary to Euripides, Ion, translated by W. S. Di Piero, in The Greek Tragedy in New Translations: (1996), Oxford University Press, New York .
  13. On Being a Political Animal in the Academic Zoo, in The Academic's Handbook, 2nd Edition., edited by A. Leigh DeNeef and Craufurd Goodwin (1995), pp. 65-72, Durham, NC: Duke University Press .
  14. Zeus soter tritos and Some Triads in Aeschylus' Oresteia, American Journal of Philology, vol. 107 (1986), pp. 332-342 .
  15. 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 .
  16. Translations of poems by Giorgio Mannacio, Poetry Now, vol. 30 (1981), pp. 29 .
  17. Peter Burian and N. J. Richardson, The Epigram on Apollonius of Tyana, Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies, vol. 22 (1981), pp. 283-285 .
  18. Peter Burian and Norman Guttman, A Climate for Liberal Learning, Duke Alumni Register (May-June 1980), pp. 6-9 .
  19. Translations of poems by Giorgio Mannacio, edited by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann, Italian Poetry Today (1979), pp. 118-119, New Rivers Press, St. Paul, Minn .
  20. Euripides' Heraclidae: An Interpretation, Classical Philology, vol. 72 (1977), pp. 1-21 .
  21. The Play before the Prologue: Initial Tableaux on the Greek Stage, in Ancient and Modern: Essays in Honor of Gerald F. Else (1977), pp. 79-94, Ann Arbor: Center for the Coordination of Ancient and Modern Studies .
  22. Suppliant and Saviour: Oedipus at Colonus, Phoenix, vol. 28 (1974), pp. 408-429 .
  23. Pelasgus and Politics in Aeschylus' Danaid Trilogy, Wiener Studien, vol. 8 (1974), pp. 5-14 .
  24. Euripides, Supplices 649ff., Classical Review, vol. 24 (1974), pp. 175-76 .
  25. Supplication and Hero Cult in Sophocles' Ajax, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, vol. 13 (1972), pp. 151-156 .

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 (1985), Duke University Press, Durham, NC .

Book Reviews

  1.  "J. Gregory, ed., A Companion to Greek Tragedy and I. C. Storey and A. Allan, A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama". Journal of Hellenic Studies 127 (2007): 163-5.
  2.  "Review of D. Mendelsohn, Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays". Classical Review 55:1 (January 2005): 26-7.
  3.  "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)". Bryn Mawr Classical Review 11 (2000).
  4.  "Review of Ralf Krumeich, Nikolaus Pechstein, and Berndt Seidensticker, eds., Das griechische Satyrspiel". Bryn Mawr Classical Review 11 (2000).
  5. Review of Sophie Mills, "Theseus, Tragedy and the Athenian Empire". American Journal of Philology 121 (2000): 149-53.
  6.  "Review of Pietro Pucci, Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father and Charles Segal, Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge". Classical Journal 91 (1995-96): 202-209.
  7.  "Review of Giulia Sissa, Greek Virginity". Journal of the History of Sexuality 2 (1992): 641-644.
  8.  "Review of Mary Whitlock Blundell, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus". Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2 (1991): 261-262.
  9.  "Review of Gilbert and Sarah Lawall, Euripides' Hippolytus: A Companion with Translation". Classical Outlook 69 (1989-90): 70.
  10.  "Review of William M. Calder, III. (ed.), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Selected Correspondence 1869-1931". Classical World 79 (1985): 51-52.
  11.  "Review of C. W. Macleod, ed. Homer, Iliad, Book XXIV". Classical Outlook 62 (1984-85): 69-70.
  12.  "Review of W. S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr., Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis". American Journal of Philology 101 (1980): 97-98.
  13.  ""Euripides the Contortionist:" review-essay on three studies of Euripidean drama". Arion 3 (1976): 97-113.
  14.  ""Alcestis Resurrected," review of William Arrowsmith's translation of Euripides' Alcestis". American Poetry Review 5 (1976): 43-45.

Other

  1. with Euripides, Helen, in Oxford Greek Tragedy in New Translations (2009), Oxford University Press (Verse translation with introduction and commentary.) .
  2. Inconclusive Conclusion: The Ending(s) of the Oedipus Tyrannus, in a volume to be edited by, E. Hall and S. Goldhill, (2008), Cambridge University Press .
  3. with Aeschylus, in Encyclopedia of the Classical Tradition, edited by A. Grafton and G. Most (2008), Harvard University Press (accepted.) .
  4. with City, Farewell!: Polis and Gender in Aischylos' Seven Against Thebes and Euripides' Phenician Women, in Tragedy and Sexual Difference, edited by D. McCoskey and E. Zakin (2008), SUNY Press .
  5. with The Play of Orfeo, translation with introduction and notes of Angelo Poliziano's 'Favola di Orfeo', Literary Imagination (2008) .


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