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Sheila Murnaghan (A.B., Harvard, 1973; B.A., Cambridge, 1975; PhD, University of North Carolina, 1980) is the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek. She is the author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (Princeton 1987) and the co-editor of Women and Slaves in Greco Roman Culture: Differential Equations (Routledge 2000). She works in the areas of Greek epic, tragedy, and historiography; gender in classical culture; and the classical tradition. Her current projects concern the tragic chorus, Herodotus, and twentieth century women writers and the classics.
Sheila Murnaghan (A.B., Harvard, 1973; B.A., Cambridge, 1975; PhD, University of North Carolina, 1980) is the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek. She is the author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (Princeton 1987) and the co-editor of Women and Slaves in Greco Roman Culture: Differential Equations (Routledge 2000). She works in the areas of Greek epic, tragedy, and historiography; gender in classical culture; and the classical tradition. Her current projects concern the tragic chorus, Herodotus, and twentieth century women writers and the classics.
| Current Institution | University of Pennsylvania |
| Department | Classical Studies |
| Disciplines | |
| Address | 292 Logan Hall Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19104-6304 United States Phone: (215) 898-7825 |
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Education
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ph.D.,
Classics
(1980 )
University of Cambridge
B.A.,
Classics
(1975)
Harvard University
A.B.,
Classics
(1973)
Work Experience
Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Achievements
General
Publication Summary
Selected Publications:
- Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations (2000), co-editor with Sandra Joshel.
- Introductions to new translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey by Stanley Lombardo (1997, 2000).
- Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (1987).
- "Tragic Bystanders: Choruses and Other Survivors in the Plays of Sophocles," in J. R. C. Cousland and James R. Hume, edd. The Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp, (Leiden: Brill, 2009): 321–333.
- "The Memorable Past: Antiquity and Girlhood in the Works of Mary Butts and Naomi Mitchison," Remaking the Classics: Literature, Genre and Media in Britain, 1800-2000, ed. Christopher Stray (London 2007) 125-139.
- "Farming, Authority, and Truth-Telling in the Greek Tradition," in City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Antiquity, ed. Ineke Sluiter and Ralph Rosen (2006) 93-118.
- "The Daughters of Cadmus: Chorus and Characters in Euripides' Bacchae and Ion," in Greek Drama III: Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee, ed. John Davidson, Frances Muecke, and Peter Wilson (London 2006) 99-112.
- "Women in Groups: Aeschylus' Suppliants and the Female Choruses of Greek Tragedy," in The Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama, ed. Victoria Pedrick and Steven M. Oberhelman (Chicago 2005) 183-198.
- "Penelope's Song: The Lyric Odysseys of Linda Pastan and Louise Glück," Classical and Modern Literature 22 (2002) 1-33 (with Deborah H. Roberts)
Work in Progress:
- a book on Sophocles for the Duckworth "Classical Literature & Society" series
- a study of twentieth-century receptions of classics in relation to childhood (with Deborah H. Roberts)
Recent Courses:
- (undergraduate) Sex and Gender in Ancient Greek Society, The Odyssey and its Afterlife, Sophocles
- (graduate) Herodotus, Dionysus and Greek Drama, Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, Choral Lyric, Homer
Books
Women and Slaves in Classical CultureWomen and Slaves in Classical Cultureexamines how ancient societies were organized around slave-holding and the subordination of women to reveal how women and slaves interacted with one another in... |
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