Summary
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 |
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ph.D.,
Classics
(1980 )
University of Cambridge
B.A.,
Classics
(1975)
Harvard University
A.B.,
Classics
(1973)
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
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