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Publication Summary
Books
- The Trojan Trilogy of Euripides. Hypomnemata 60. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1980. 152pp.
- Sophocles. Boston: Twayne World Authors, 1984. 155pp.
- Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek Tragedy. Beiträge zur Altertumswisssenschaft 122. Suttgart: Teubner. 1999. 216pp. Listening to Homer. Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press. 2002.
Forthcoming:
- With Anja Bettenworth: Whither Quo Vadis? Sienkiewicz's Novel in Film and Television. Blackwell 2008.
- Epic Facework: Self-presentation and Social Interaction in Homer. College Press of Wales. 2008.
Textbook
- Lysias 1 and 3. The Bryn Mawr Commentaries, December 1986.
Edited
For Twayne World Authors Series:
- G. Schmeling, Xenophon of Ephesus, 1980.
- G. Sandy, Heliodorus ,1982.
- L. Spatz, Aristophanes, 1982.
- J.A.S. Evans, Herodotus 1982.
- W. Race, Pindar, 1986.
- Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volumes 117 (1987) 118 (1988), 119 (1989), 120 (1990); Volume 121 (1991).
- Theater and Society in the Classical World. University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor 1993. 268pp.
Articles
- The Alcestis." HSCP 83 (1979), 51-62.
- "Hesiod Redivivus." GRBS 21 (1980), 301-20.
- "Sequence and Simultaneity in Iliad N, J, and O." With Cedric Whitman. HSCP 85 (1981), 1-15.
- "The Second Stasimon of Oedipus Rex." CP 77 (1982), 214-23.
- "The Autobiography of Phoenix: Iliad 9. 444-95." AJP 103 (1982), 214-23.
- "The Achaean Wall and the Myth of Destruction." HSCP 86 (1982), 35-50.
- "Timocreon's Encomium of Aristides." Classical Antiquity 2 (1983), 102-7.
- "The Irony of Fate in Bacchylides 17." Hermes 112 (1984), 137-44.
- "Tantalus and Anaxagoras." HSCP 88 (1984), 13-24.
- "Epic Doublets and Polynices' Two Burials." TAPA 114 (1984), 49-58.
- "Literary Interpretation in Plato's Protagoras." Ancient Philosophy 6 (1987) 25-37 .
- "Horace, Lucilius, and Callimachean Polemic." HSCP 91 (1987) 199-215..
- "The Word of Achlles." CP 82 (1989) 91-100.
- "Euripides and Apate." The Cabinet of the Muses (Festschrift for T.G. Rosenmeyer) Scholars Press 1990.
- "The Wits of Glaucus," TAPA 122 (1992) 73-84.
- "Absence, Memory, and Inscription: Epic and the Early Greek Epitaph." SIFC 10 (1992) 57-76.
- "Tragic Sacrifice and Menandrian Cooking." in Theater and Society in the Classical World, University of Michigan Press, 1993, 161-77.
- "Self-correction, Pseudo-spontaneity, and Orality in Archaic Poetry." In Voice into Text: Orality and Literacy in Greek Literature, ed. Ian Worthington. Brill 1995, 59- 79.
- "Teichoscopia, Catalogue, and the Female Spectator in Euripides."Colby Quarterly 33 (1997) 76-93.
- "Pseudo-Intimacy and the Prior Knowledge of the Homeric Audience."Arethusa 30 (1997) 201-19.
- "Sexual Acquiescence in Euripides’ Hecuba and Troades."HSCP 98 (1998) 137-54..
- "The Removal of the Arms, the Recognition with Laertes, and Narrative Tension in the Odyssey."CP 93 (1998) 1-17.
- "Bardic Performance and Oral Tradition in Homer." AJP 119 (1998): 171-94.
- "Odysseus’ Evasiveness and the Audience of the Odyssey." In Signs of Orality: The Oral Tradition & its Influence in the Greek and Roman World. Ed. A Mackay. Leiden: Brill 1999: 79-93.
- "Verbal Performance and Euripidean Rhetoric,"ICS 24-25 (1999-2000) 129-44.
- "The Poet’s Career, The Rise of Tragedy, and Athenian Cultural Hegemony." In Gab Es das griechische Wunder? Ed. D. Papenfuß and V.M. Strocka. Mainz: von Zabern 2001: 215-228.
- "The Suitors' Games."AJP 122 (2001): 307-27. Scodel, CV
- "Homeric Signs and Flashbulb Memory."In Epea and Grammata: Oral & Written Communication in Ancient Greece. Ed. I. Worthington & J. M. Foley. Brill 2002: 99-116.
- "The Politics of Sophocles’ Ajax."Scripta Classical Israelica 22 (2003) 31-42.
- "Two Epigrammatic Pairs: Callimachus' Epitaphs, Plato's Apples." Hermes.131 (2003): 257-68.
- "'Young Men of Sidon,' Aeschylus' Epiatph, and Canons." Classical and Modern Literature 23/2 (2003): 129-41.
- "The Modesty of Homer."In Oral Performance and Its Contexts. ed. C. J. Mackie. Brill 2004: 1-19.
- "Aesop Poeta." With B. Acosta-Hughes, in Callimachus II. Hellenistica Groningana (Leuven 2004) 1-22.
- "Dance as Power: the Women at the Baths in Roman Scandals." Helios 32 (2005) 127-41.
- "Odysseus' Dog and the Productive Household." Hermes 133 (2005) 401-8.
- Odysseus’ Ethnographic Excurses." In R. Rabel, ed. Approaches to Homer, Ancient and Modern, Classical Press of Wales (2005) 147-65.
- "Aetiology, Autochthony, and Athenian Identity in Ajax and OC." In J. Davidson, F. Muecke, and P. Wilson, Greek Drama III: Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee. BICS Suppl. 87 (2006): 65-78.
- "Lycurgus and the Tragic Canon." in The Politics of Orality, ed. C. Cooper. Brill (2007): 129- 54.
- "The Gods' Visit to the Ethiopians in Iliad 1," HSCP 103 (2007): 83-98.
Forthcoming:
- "Social Memory in Aeschylus' Oresteia." Forthcoming in Orality and Memory (Brill).
- "Zielinski's Law Reconsidered." Forthcoming TAPA.
Chapters in Books (invited)
- "Drama and Rhetoric." In A Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, ed. S. Porter. Brill 1997: 489-505.
- "Homer as Storyteller." In Cambridge Companion to Homer, ed. R. Fowler. Cambrige 2004, 45-55.
- "Tragedy and Epic." In Blackwell Companion to Tragedy, ed. R. Bushnell. Oxford 2005, 181-97.
- "Sophocles." in Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy, ed. J. Gregory. Oxford 2005, 233-50.
- "Hesiod" in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Greece and Rome. forthcoming Oxford 2008.
- "Iambos and Parody." In A Companion to Hellenistic Literature, ed. J. Clauss and M. Cuypers. forthcoming Brill 2008.
Shorter Articles
- "Apollo's Perfidy: Iliad V 59-63." HSCP 81 (1977), 55-57.
- "Wine, Water, and the Anthesteria in Callimachus Fr. 178Pf." ZPE 39 (1980), 37-40.
- "P. Oxy. 3317: Euripides' Antigone." ZPE 46 (1982), 37-42.
- "Virgil and the Euphrates." With R.F. Thomas. AJP 105 (1984), 339. Scodel, CV
- "The Ode and Antode of the Parabasis of Clouds." CP 82 (1987), 334-35.
- "Odysseus and the Stag." CQ 44 (1994) 530-34.
- "Philologus 144 (2000) 375-76."
- Iliad 9.372-73 and aÈtÚw époÊraw, CJ 98 (2003) 275-79.
- "A note on Posidippus AB 63 (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309 X 16-25)." ZPE 142 (2003) 44.
- "The Paths of Day and Night. "Ordia Prima 2 (2003) 83-86.
Reviews
- J. Redfield, Nature and Culture in the Iliad: the Tragedy of Hector. Clio 7 (1978), 493-98.
- D. Seale, Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles. Classical Views/Échoes du monde classique. N.S. 2 (1983), 358-63.
- D. Gerber, Pindar's Olympian One: a Commentary and G. M. Kirkwood, Selections from Pindar. CP 80 (1985), 266-70.
- R. Lamberton, Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition, Ploutarchos 6 (1990) 70-72.
- Mary Whitlock Blundell, Helping Friends and Harming Enemies, Ancient Philosophy 11 (1991) 396–98.
- Elizabeth Belfiore, Tragic Pleasures. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4.4 (1992) 1-3.
- Arbogast Schmitt, Selbstständigkeit und Abhängigkeit menschlichen Handelns bei Homer, AJP 113 (1992) 621-24.
- J.B. Hainsworth, The Idea of Epic, Ploutarchos 9 (1992) 40-42.
- Laura Slatkin, The Power of Thetis, Ploutarchos.9 (1992) 42-44.
- Oliver Taplin, Homeric Soundings, Ploutarchos 10 (1993), 26-28.
- E. Csapo and W. Slater, The Contexts of Ancient Theater. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 6 (1995), 587-88.
- Christian Meier, The Political Art of Greek Tragedy. CB 70 (1994) 124-25.
- Donald Mastronarde, Euripides: Phoenissae. CB 71 (1995) 49-50.
- L. Doherty, Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey. Bryn Mawr
- Classical Review 7 (1996) 494-95 .
- R. Padel, In and Out of the Mind. AJP 117 (1996) 485-86.
- E. Handley and R. Green, Images of the Greek Theatre. Classical Outlook,1996.
- M. Cropp et. al, Euripides: Fragmentary Plays. Phoenix 51 (1997): 226-28.
- F. Dunn, Tragedy's End. CJ 93 (1998): 209-10.
- F. Ahl and H. Roisman, The Odyssey Re-formed. Classical Outlook 76 (1999) 117.
- Easterling, P.E. and Goldhill, S. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy. CJ 94 (1999) 299-301.
- J. M. Foley, Homer’s Traditional Art, and M. Giordano, La supplica, CR 50 (2000) 395- 97.
- M. Griffith, Sophocles: Antigone. CJ 96 (2000-1) 217-19.
- F. Budelmann, The Language of Sophocles: Communality, Communication, and Involvement.. BMCR 2000.
- B. Goward, Telling Tragedy: Narrative Technique in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. CR 51 (2001) 12-13.
- P. Rosenemyer, Ancient Epistolary Fictions. Classical Outlook 79 (2002), 123.
- F. de Jong, A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey, BMCR 2002.06.12
- J. Barrett, Staged Narrative: Poetics and the Messenger in Greek Tragedy. BMCR
- 2002.12.05: Scodel, CV
- M. Altmeyer, UnzeitgemäBes Denken bei Sophokles. BMCR 2002.09.05 Euripides' Medea, directed by Deborah Warner, with Fiona Shaw. AJP124 (2003) 469-71.
- K. Lange, Euripides und Homer. Untersuchungen zur Homer-Nachwirkung in Elektra, Iphigenie im Taurerland, Helena, Orestes, und Kyklops. Hermes Einzelschrift 85. BMCR 2003.07.43.
- Barabbas (film, 1962). Amphora 2 (2003), 17-18.
- M. Païsi-Apostolopoulou, ed. Eranos. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the Odyssey (2-7 September 2000). BMCR 2003.5.
- Samuel Eliot Bassett, The Poetry of Homer. BMCR 2003.12.18 J. Watson. Homer: Odyssey VI &VII. Classical Outlook 81 (2004) 43.
- E. Lefèvre, Die Unfähigkeit, sich zu erkennen. CR 53 (2003) 254-55. Kovacs, Euripides: VI (Loeb). CR 4 (2004) 305-6.
- D. Wilson, Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad. CB.80 (2004)46-48.
- B. Powell, Homer. Notes and Queries 249 (2004) 427-28.
- P. Michelakis, Achilles in Greek Tragedy. Notes and Queries 249 (2004) 428-29.
- L.. Battezzato (ed.), Tradizione testuale e ricezione letteraria antica della tragedia greca, BMCR 2004.23.6.
- J. Stenger, Poetische Argumentation: Die Funktion der Gnomik in den Epinikien des Bakchylides. BMCR 2005.04.21.
- W. Peterson, Troy (film), Studia Classica Israelitica 24 (2005): 335-37.
- B. Goff, Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece, Gnomon 78 (2006): 733.
- J. F. de Jong, R. Nünlist, A. Bowie, Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek
- Literature. Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative. Volume One. Mnemosyne Supplement 257. BMCR 2005.07.48.
- B. Seidensticker, Über das Vergnügen an tragischen Gegenständen: Studien zum antiken Drama. BMCR 2006.1.40.
- B. Goff, Citizen Bacchae: Women’s Ritual Practice in Ancient Greece, Gnomon 78 (2006) 733-34.
- Marietta Horster, Christiane Reitz, Wissensvermittlung in dichterischer Gestalt. BMCR 2007.01.05.
- Ralph M. Rosen, Ineke Sluiter. City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity. Mnemosyne Supplements 279. BMCR 2007.7.23 A. Kahane, Diachronic Dialogues. JHS 127 (2007).
Lectures and Papers Delivered
- " OT 873-78." APA Annual Meeting 1980.
- "The Double Burial in Sophocles' Antigone." APA Annual Meeting 1981.
- "Momus in the Cypria."APA Annual Meeting 1983.
- "Deathbed Prophecies." Smith College, May 1984.
- "Sophoclean Verisimilitude." Tulane University, March 1985.
- "Credible Improbabilities: Verisimilitude in Sophocles and Euripides." University of Cincinnati, October 1985.
- "Tragic Problems and Homeric Solutions." Princeton University, March 1987.
- "The Tourist's Eye: the Sense of Place in Greek Tragedy." University of Chicago, May 1987.
- "Tragic Sacrifice and Menandrian Cooking." Conference on "Theater and Society in the Classical World," University of Michigan, March 1988.
- Response to Froma Zeitlin, "The Poetics of Desire,"Conference on "Comparative Literature and the Methods of the Disciplines,"University of Michigan, April 1988.
- "Absence, Memory, and Inscription: Epic and the Early Greek Epitaph." 9th Congress of the FIEC, Pisa, August 1989.
- "Women and the Greek Sexual Economy."APA Annual Meeting 1991.
- "Adynata Pithana." Freie Universität Berlin June 1993.
- "Self-correction, pseudo-spontaneity, and orality in Arcbaic Poetry." Conference on "Voice into Text: Orality and Literacy in Greek Literature," The University of Tasmania, July 1994.
- "Exposition, Allusion, and the Homeric Audience." Conference on "The Iliad and its
- Contexts,"Ohio State University, October 1994.
- "Self-correction and Pindar’s Nemean 7." APA Annual Meeting 1994.
- "The Removal of the Arms and Narrative Tension in the Odyssey." APA Annual Meeting 1995.
- "Sophocles' 'Ode on Man' and Gender Ambiguity." CAMWS Annual Meeting, April 1996.
- "Odysseus’ Evasiveness and the Audience of the Odyssey." Epos and Logos, University of Natal, Durban, 1996.
- "Hesiod, Pindar, and Oral Tradition." Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. July 1998.
- "The Poet’s Career, the Rise of Tragedy, and Athenian Cultural Hegemony." Conference
- "Gab es das griechische Wunder?" Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, April 1999.
- "Euripides and Verbal Performance," Conference "Euripides and the Fifth Century,"Banff. May 1999.
- "Homeric Signs and Flashbulb Memory." "Epea kai Grammata," Columbia, June 2000.
- "Homeric Signs." Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studiees Annual Meeting, June 2001.
- "Agamemnons Geschenke und homersiches Selbstbild." Münster, May 2001. "Homeric Facework." Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 2001, University of Washington, March 2002.
- "Young Men of Sidon,"Aeschylus’ Epitaph, and Canons. "Greek at a Slight Angle: Cavafy and Greek Poetry."University of Michigan, March 2002.
- "The Modesty of Homer,""Oral Performance and Its Contexts,"University of Melbourne, July 2002.
- "Aetiology, Autochthony, and Athenian Identity in Sophocles." "Greek Drama III,"Sydney, July 2002.
- "Aesop Poeta."(with B. Acosta-Hughes). Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry, August 2002.
- Respondent for "Alcidamas and the Origins of Literary and Cultural Criticism,"APA, January 2002.
- "Odyssean Arrival Scenes and Ethnography" CAMWS, April 2003.
- "Dance as Power: The Women at the Baths in Roman Scandals" APA January 2004.
- "The Decline of the Canon, the Rise of Interpretation." CAMWS Centennial Panel on Greek Literature, April 2004.
- "Lycurgus and the Tragic Canon." University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 2004; Orality and Literacy VI, Winnipeg, July 2004
- "Fables in the Parodos of Aeschylus' Agamemnon." APA January 2005.
- "Boundless Ransoms: Exchange in Homer." Denison University, February 2005; University of Colorado, March 2004; University of Oxford, February 2007.
- Panel Respondent, "The New Euripides," APA January 2006.
- "Aeschylus' Agamemnon 457 and the Public Curse." Classical Association of Canada, Toronto May 2006.
- "Social Memory in Aeschylus' Agamemnon." Orality and Literary VII, University of Auckland, July 2006.
- "Reading Euripides' Biography." Conference on "Euripides: the First Hellenistic Poet?" Chicago, November 2006; Cambridge University, February 2007; Johns Hopkins, February 2008.
- "Ignorant Narrators in Greek Tragedy." Conference on Narratology and Classics, Thessaloniki, December 2007.
- "Odysseus at Sea." Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Gainesville, April 2007.
- "Stupid, Pointless Wars." APA Presidential Address, January 2008.
- "Whither Quo Vadis?" Inaugural Lecture as LSA Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan, February 2008.
- "A Sabra in Judaea." Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Tucson, April 2008.
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