Notes on Contributors

Marigo Alexopoulou is Professor of Greek at Athens College, Hellenic American

Educational Foundation, Greece. She is the author of The Theme of Returning Home in

Ancient Greek Literature: The Nostos of the Epic Heroes (2009). She is also a contributor

to The Classical Reception Theory and Practice, vol. 1 (Institute of Classical Studies,

forthcoming) and the author of several scholarly articles on recurrent themes and

images in Greek tragedy and on Philostratus.

Arlene L. Allan is a lecturer in Classics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. A

founding member of the Classics Drama Group at Trent University, Peterborough,

Ontario, she was involved in the performance and direction of several tragedies

(1993–2004). She is co-author of A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (2004) with I.C.

Storey; a contributor to several volumes (Shards from Kolonos: Studies in Sophoclean

Fragments (2003); Games and Festivals in Classical Antiquity. (2004); Personification in the

Greek World (2005); Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society (2007); and the author of several

journal articles.

Eran Almagor is a lecturer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His current

research interests include the history of the Achaemenid Empire and Greco-Persian

relations in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, Strabo, ethnography and the image of

the Persians in Greek literature, Plutarch (the biographies in particular), Josephus

and imperial Greek authors. His forthcoming publications include an edited volume

on ancient ethnography, a monograph on Plutarch and the Persica and a source-book

on Ancient Persia in the Greek imagination.

Michael J. Anderson teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the

author of The Sack of Troy in Early Greek Poetry and Art (1997). His main scholarly

interests lie in mythology, early Greek epic, Athenian drama, and the Greek novels.

Richard H. Armstrong (BA University of Chicago; M.Phil., PhD Yale University) is

Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the Honors College, University of

Houston. He is the author of A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World

(2005) as well as chapters and articles on topics in the receptions of ancient culture,

particularly in reference to translation studies and the history of psychoanalysis. He

is currently finishing a book titled Theory and Theatricality: Classical Drama and Early

Psychoanalysis 1880–1930.

Diane Arnson Svarlien is a verse translator and classicist living in Lexington,

Kentucky. She has translated Euripides’ Alcestis, Medea, and Hippolytus (2007) and

Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women (2012) for Hackett Publishing Company. Her

translations of Greek and Roman poetry (Sappho, Semonides, Theocritus,

Propertius, Horace, Ovid) have appeared in journals, on the website Diotima

(stoa.org/diotima/anthology), and in anthologies, including The Greek Poets: Homer to

the Present (2010), Homosexuality in Greece and Rome (2003), and Latin Lyric and Elegiac

Poetry (1995).

Geoff Bakewell is Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at Rhodes College in

Memphis, Tennessee. He has published numerous articles on Greek tragedy and

Athenian democracy, and translations of Aeschylus’ Libation Bearers and Eumenides.

He is also co-editor (with James Sickinger) of Gestures: Essays in Ancient History,

Literature, and Philosophy Presented to Alan L. Boegehold (2003).

Anastasia Bakogianni is a post-doctoral research associate in Classical Studies at the

Open University, UK. She was awarded a PhD by the University of London and

worked for a number of years as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical

Studies, where her first monograph Electra Ancient and Modern: Aspects of the

Reception of the Tragic Heroine (2011) was published. She has also published a number

of articles on the reception of Greek tragedy in film, theatre, art, opera, and poetry.

James Barrett is the author of Staged Narrative: Poetics and the Messenger in Greek

Tragedy (2002). He is a contributor to Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, vols. 1 and 2

(2004 and 2007), as well as the author of articles on Greek tragedy and ancient Greek

philosophy. He teaches at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine.

Luigi Battezzato is Associate Professor of Greek lLiterature at the Università del

Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli (Italy). He is the author of Il monologo nel teatro di

Euripide (1995), Linguistica e retorica della tragedia greca (2008), and of Italian

translations of Aeschylus’ Choephori (1995) and Euripides’ Hecuba (2010). He is also a

contributor to the Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (2009) and to the Oxford

Handbook of Hellenic Studies (2009), and has written several scholarly articles on Greek

tragedy, Greek meter and language, and textual criticism.

Paul Bednarowski has taught at Boston University, the University of Rhode Island,

and Johns Hopkins University. He is currently teaching at George Washington

University. His work focuses on tragedy’s use of dramatic characters to achieve

emotional and dramatic effects.

Elizabeth Belfiore is Professor Emerita of Classics at the University of Minnesota,

Twin Cities. She is the author of Tragic Pleasure: Aristotle on Plato and Emotion (1992),

Murder Among Friends: Violation of Philia in Greek Tragedy (2000). She is a contributor

to G. Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle (2009), and A. Rorty (ed.),

Essays on Aristotle’s Poetics (1992), and the author of numerous articles on ancient

philosophy and Greek tragedy.

Victor Bers is Professor of Classics at Yale University, where he has taught since

1972. He is the author of Enallage and Greek Style (1974), Greek Poetic Syntax in the

Classical Age (1984), Speech in Speech: Incorporated Oratio Recta in Attic Drama and

Oratory, Demosthenes: Speeches 50–59, Genos Dikanikon: Amateur and Professional

Speech in the Courtrooms of Classical Athens (2009), and articles and reviews on

stylistics, oratory, and tragedy.

Erica Bexley is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University. She is the author of two

articles on Lucan’s Pharsalia (2009 and 2010) and a forthcoming one on Seneca’s

Phaedra. Her research interests include: Greek and Roman tragedy, Latin epic,

performance studies, Roman oratory and reception.

Kathryn Bosher is Assistant Professor of Classics at Northwestern University. She is

the author of articles and chapters on Greek drama and on its reception in the United

States. She is editor of Theater Outside Athens: Greek Drama in Sicily and South Italy,

forthcoming, and co-editor of a volume on the reception of Greek drama in the

United States. She is presently at work on a monograph on the social and political

history of theater in ancient Greek Sicily.

Jacques A. Bromberg earned his PhD in Classical Studies from the University of

Pennsylvania in 2009, and is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at Colby

College, in Waterville, Maine. He has written on the development of academic

disciplines in antiquity, especially the influence of drama on the codification of early

Greek rhetoric, and his most recent work searches literary texts for clues to the

organization and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the ancient world.

Julie Brown After receiving her BA in Classics from Bowdoin College in Brunswick,

Maine, and her PhD from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Julie

raised and home schooled two children before entering the job arena. She now

works as an assistant for the Colby College Classics Department and as a Latin

teacher at Waterville High School, Maine.

Felix Budelmann teaches at Magdalen College, Oxford. He works on Greek

literature, especially lyric and tragedy. He is the author of The Language of Sophocles

(2000) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (2009). Currently he

is working on an edition with commentary of selections from Greek lyric, and is

trying out cognitive approaches to classical literature.

Douglas Cairns has taught in the universities of St. Andrews, Otago, Leeds, and

Glasgow, and is now Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. He works

particularly on ancient Greek emotion, and is the author of Aidōs: The Psychology and

Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (1993) and Bacchylides: Five

Epinician Odes (2010), as well as the editor of several volumes including Oxford

Readings in Homer’s Iliad (2001) and Dionysalexandros: Essays on Aeschylus and his

Fellow Tragedians in Honour of Alexander F. Garvie (2006, with Vayos Liapis).

Debra Caplan is a doctoral candidate in Yiddish language and literature in the

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.

Her research on the history of the Yiddish theater has recently been presented at the

Association for Jewish Studies and the American Comparative Literature

Association. Her article ‚Oedipus Shmedipus: Ancient Greek Drama on the Modern

Yiddish Stage‛ was published in the winter/spring 2011 issue of Comparative Drama.

T.H. Carpenter is the Charles J. Ping Professor of Humanities and Professor of

Classics at Ohio University. He is the author of Dionysian Imagery in Archaic Greece

(1986), Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-Century Athens (1997) and Art and Myth in Ancient

Greece (1991) and of numerous scholarly articles and reviews.

Jesús Carruesco is Lecturer in Classics at the University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona)

and researcher at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology. He is the editor and

coauthor of Topos-Chôra. L’espai a Grècia I: perspectives interdisciplinàries (2011). He is

the author of several contributions on classical reception, especially in A.Beltrametti

(ed.), Studi e materiali per le Baccanti di Euripide (2007) and (with M. Reig) in S.

Knippschild and M. García Morcillo, Power and Seduction: Antiquity in the Visual and

Performing Arts (forthcoming). He has also published scholarly articles on archaic

Greek literature (epic and lyric), Greek mythology, and religion.

David Carter is Lecturer in Greek at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author

of The Politics of Greek Tragedy (2007) and editor of Why Athens? A Reappraisal of Tragic

Politics (2011).

Rongnu Chen is Professor of Comparative Literature at Beijing Language and

Culture University. She is the author of Homeric World: Modern Interpretations and

Comparisons (2009), Georg Simmel and Modernity (2006), and ‚The ‘Barbarai’ Images

from Sparta to Persia‛ (Chinese Journal of Classical Studies, 2010). Her recent studies

center on Homeric epics and Xenophon.

Todd Clary received his doctoral degree in Classical Philology and Indo-European

Linguistics from Cornell University in 2009, and then accepted a position as visiting

professor of Classics at the University of Richmond, Virginia. He is the author of

several articles applying contemporary linguistic theories to the grammar and syntax

of ancient Greek and Latin, as well as articles applying Homeric philology and

linguistics to the reconstruction of pre-Homeric epic traditions. At present, he is

preparing his dissertation, ‚Rhetoric and Repetition: The Figura Etymologica in

Homeric Epic,‛ for publication as a book, and extending his examination of the

rhetorical figures into post-Homeric Greek.

Maite Clavo is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Barcelona. She is

co-editor of Teatre Grec: perspectives contemporànies (2007). She is a contributor to J

Carruesco (ed.), Topos-Chôra. L’espai a Grècia I: perspectives interdisciplinàries (2010),

and M. Guglielmino and E. Bona (eds.), Forme di comunicazione nel mondo antico e

metamorfosi del mito: dal teatro al romanzo, and the author of several scholarly articles

on Greek tragedy and novel, and Greek mythology.

Christopher Collard is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Swansea University, Wales.

His chief publications are editions of Euripides’ Supplices (major, 1975; minor, 1984)

and Hecuba (1991); of Selected Fragmentary Plays of Euripides, I (1995, with Martin

Cropp and Kevin Lee) and II (2004, with Martin Cropp and John Gibert); of

Euripides’ Fragments, 2 vols. (2008, with Martin Cropp); the volume Tragedy,

Euripides and Euripideans. Selected Papers (2007); and an annotated translation of

Aeschylus, 2 vols. (2002, 2008). Forthcoming: Euripides’ Cyclops and Major Fragments

of Greek Satyric Drama (with Patrick O’Sullivan); in preparation: Euripides’ Iphigenia

in Aulis (with James Morwood).

Eric Csapo is Professor of Classics at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has a

special interest in ancient drama and theater history and is author of Actors and Icons

of the Ancient Theater (2010), Theories of Mythology (2005), and co-author with William

Slater of Context of Ancient Drama (1995). In collaboration with Peter Wilson, he is

preparing a multi-volume history of the classical Greek theater to be published by

Cambridge University Press.

Edmund P. Cueva is Professor of Classics and Humanities at the University of

Houston-Downtown. He is chair of the Arts and Humanities Department and has

the ancient Greco-Roman novel as his primary research interest. He is currently

writing on the ancient origins of the ‚horror‛ genre.

Mark L. Damen is a Professor of History at Utah State University. His publications

include articles in Transactions of the American Philological Association, Theatre Journal,

Phoenix, Antichthon, Text and Presentation and Women Writing Latin. He has

performed in numerous productions of ancient and Renaissance drama and has run

several festivals featuring new plays. He is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild.

Armand D’Angour is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Jesus College, Oxford. He has

written numerous articles on ancient Greek music and literature, and is the author of

a recent monograph entitled The Greeks and the New: Novelty in Ancient Greek

Imagination and Experience (2011). The focus of his ongoing research is ancient Greek

music and meter, and following the success of his Pindaric Ode for the Athens

Olympics (2004) he was commissioned by the Mayor of London to compose a Greek

ode for the London Olympic Games in 2012.

John Davidson retired as Professor of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington,

New Zealand, in July 2010 and held a visiting professorship at the Free University in

Berlin in 2011–12. He has published widely on Greek tragedy, especially the

connections between the Homeric texts and the plays of Sophocles and Euripides.

His other main research area is reception, especially the presence of the Classics in

New Zealand literature, his most recent publication here being The Snake-haired

Muse, a study of the use of Greek mythology in the writings of James K. Baxter.

Paula Debnar, Professor of Classics at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, is the

author of Speaking the Same Language: Speech and Audience in Thucydides’ Spartan

Debates (2001). In addition to publishing articles on Thucydides and Aeschylus she

has contributed chapters to A Companion to Greek Tragedy (2005) and Brill’s

Companion to Thucydides (2006). Forthcoming is her revision of Pharr’s Homeric Greek.

Nora Dimitrova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she received a BA and MA in

Classics and English from the Sofia University ‚St. Kliment Ohridski.‛ She further

received an MA from University College London and a PhD from Cornell

University, both in Classics. She worked as a research associate and lecturer at

Cornell between 2002 and 2009. Nora Dimitrova is co-founder (with Kevin Clinton)

and trustee of the American Research Center in Sofia, and author of numerous

publications, notably Theoroi and Initiates in Samothrace: The Epigraphical Evidence. Dr

Dimitrova works at Northrop Grumman in support of US government linguist

services.

William J. Dominik, PhD in Classics, Monash University, Australia, is Professor of

Classics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the author or editor of

numerous books, chapters and articles on Roman literature and rhetoric, especially

of the Flavian era, the classical tradition, and lexicography. His books include (with

Jon Hall) A Companion to Roman Rhetoric (2006), and he is a contributor to A

Companion to Epic (2005) and A Companion to the Classical Tradition (2010). He is the

founding editor of the journal Scholia.

Eric Dugdale is an Associate Professor of Classics at Gustavus Adolphus College in

St. Peter, Minnesota. His publications include a translation and commentary on

Sophocles’ Electra and Greek Theatre in Context (both 2008). His most recent articles

are on empathy in Greek tragedy in performance. He is co-editing with James

Morwood a new series, Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts, and is involved in the

Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives initiative spearheaded by Aquila Theatre. He is currently

working on a book on the role of prophecy in Sophocles’ plays. He directs the

College’s biennial Festival of Dionysus.

Aminadav Dykman read classics at Tel Aviv University and earned his PhD in

Russian and Comparative Literature from Geneva University. He collaborated with

George Steiner in editing Homer in English (1996) and with Peter Cole in editing The

Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition (2012). He published The

Psalms in Russia: A History (2000), articles on poetry and translation, and several

volumes of Hebrew translations of poetry, including translations from Ovid, French

renaissance poets, European baroque poets, and Russian modern poetry. He teaches

at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he heads the program of Translation

Studies.

Pat Easterling was Regius Professor of Greek in Cambridge from 1994 until her

retirement in 2001; before that she had taught in Manchester, Cambridge, and

London (UCL). Her main field of research is Greek literature, particularly tragedy;

she also has a special interest in the survival of ancient texts and the history of

performance and reading. She is currently writing a commentary on Sophocles’

Oedipus at Colonus, for the series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, of which she

is a general editor.

Mary Ebbott is Associate Professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross in

Worcester, Massachusetts. She is co-editor of the Homer Multitext project

(www.homermultitext.org), author of Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek

Literature (2003) and co-author of Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext

Edition with Essays and Commentary (2010).

Stephen Esposito is Associate Professor of Classics at Boston University where, in

2009/10, he won the Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Teaching Excellence. He

has written numerous articles on Greek tragedy and has published translations (with

commentaries) of Euripides’ Bacchae and Sophocles’ Ajax in two anthologies he has

edited, Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae (2002), and Odysseus at Troy:

Ajax, Hecuba, and Trojan Women (2010). He is also the founding editor of the Oxford

Greek and Latin College Commentaries, the first volume of which will be his

grammatical commentary (with running vocabulary) on Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos

(2012).

Ahmed Etman is Chairman of the Egyptian Society of Greco-Roman Studies

(ESGRS) and the Egyptian Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL). His plays

include: Cleopatra Worships Peace, 1984 (Italian, 1992; Greek, 1999; French, 1999 and

English 2001); The Blind Guest Restores His Sight, staged in Kuwait 1983 and Cairo

1986 (French, 2005); Al-Hakim Does Not Join the Hypocritic Procession. 1988, staged in

Luxor 1990, Opera House 1991 (Spanish, 2006: French, 2009); The Goats of El Bahnasa

2001; The Wedding of Libraries Nymph, 2001 (Italian, 2007); A Belle in the Prison of

Socrates, 2004 (English, 2008; Spanish, 2009); Roses Want Sunrise, 2011, on the

Egyptian Revolution.

Michael Ewans is Professor of Drama in the School of Drama, Fine Art and Music at

the University of Newcastle, Australia, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of

the Humanities. He is the author of Janáček’s Tragic Operas, Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck,

Wagner and Aeschylus, Opera from the Greek: Studies in the Poetics of Appropriation, and

a complete set of translations with notes of Aeschylus and Sophocles in four

volumes. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, The Women’s Festival, and Frogs, in his own new

translations with theatrical commentaries, was published in 2011; and Aristophanes,

Acharnians, Knights, and Peace are forthcoming in 2012.

Thomas Falkner is Provost and Dean of the Faculty, and Professor of Classics, at

McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland, and specializes in Greek literature,

comparative literature, and contemporary reception of the classics. He has authored

or edited four books (including The Poetics of Old Age in Greek Epic, Lyric, and Tragedy,

1995) and articles, papers, and presentations at national and international

conferences; and he has been awarded five grants from the National Endowment for

the Humanities. He has won funded support to study at the University of

Pennsylvania, the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the University of

California (Berkeley and Davis), Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Princeton

University, Ohio State University, and Cambridge University.

Marco Fantuzzi is Professor of Greek Literature at Columbia University, New York,

and at the University of Macerata (Italy). He is a member of the board of Bryn Mawr

Classical Review, Materiali e Discussioni, and Seminari Romani di Cultura Greca, and the

author of Bionis Smyrnaei “Adonidis epitaphium,” (1985); Ricerche su Apollonio Rodio

(1988); Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (2004, with R. Hunter). He co-

edited (with R. Pretagostini) Struttura e storia dell’esametro Greco (1995–6) and (with T.

Papanghelis) Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral (2006), and is now co-

editing (with C. Tsagalis) A Companion to the Epic Cycle. He is currently completing a

monograph on Achilles in Love and a full-scale commentary on the Rhesus ascribed to

Euripides.

Margalit Finkelberg is Professor of Classics at Tel Aviv University. She is the author

of The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (1998), Greeks and Pre-Greeks. Aegean

Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (2005), and of about 70 articles; the co-editor

(with G.G. Stroumsa) of Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in

the Ancient World (2003); and the editor of The Homer Encyclopedia (3 vols., 2011). She

is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Judith Fletcher is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid

Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She has published Performing Oaths

in Classical Greek Drama (2011), and edited (with Alan H. Sommerstein) Horkos: The

Oath in Greek Society (2007), and (with Bonnie MacLachlan) Virginity Revisited:

Configurations of the Unpossessed Body (2007). She is also the author of numerous

articles and book chapters on Greek tragedy, comedy, and poetry.

Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia University, New

York. She is the author of books and articles on Greek epic and drama, on women

and gender in antiquity, and on modern performance and adaptation of Greek

drama. Author of Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides, The Homeric Hymn to

Demeter, and Female Acts in Greek Tragedy, she also co-authored Women in the Classical

World: Image and Text; edited Reflections of Women in Antiquity, and co-edited

Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature and Antigone

on the Contemporary World Stage.

James E. Ford teaches in the English Department at Brigham Young University in

Provo, Utah.

Robert Garland is the Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics at

Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. He is the author of many books,

including Surviving Greek Tragedy (2004) and most recently Hannibal (2010). He has

appeared on the History Channel (The Real Trojan War, The 300 Spartans) and has

recorded a course for The Great Courses (‚Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of

the Ancient Mediterranean‛).

John Gibert is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado at

Boulder. He is the author of Change of Mind in Greek Tragedy (1995) and co-author,

with C. Collard and M.J. Cropp, of Euripides: Selected Fragmentary Plays II (2004). He

is a contributor to Why Athens? A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics (2011) and the

Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (2009), and the author of several

articles on Greek drama.

Karen Gillum has earned a bachelor’s degrees in Classics and master’s degrees in

Creative Writing and Library and Information Science. She has taught classes in

writing and introductory classes in ancient Greek. She is currently electronic

resources librarian at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

John Given is an Associate Professor of Classics and the Director of the Program in

Classical Studies at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He holds

a PhD from the University of Michigan. His publications include articles on identity

and performance in Athenian comedy and tragedy. He has also written about the

reception of ancient drama in American musical theater. On the stage, he has

performed in and directed numerous classical dramas.

Barbara Goff is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading, UK. She has

taught at several institutions including the University of Texas at Austin. She is the

author or editor of several books on Greek tragedy and its reception, most recently

Euripides: Trojan Women (2009) and Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone,

and Dramas of the African Diaspora (co-authored with Michael Simpson, 2007).

Currently her research focuses on classics in colonial culture; she edited Classics and

Colonialism (2005) and will shortly publish Your Secret Language: Classics in the British

Colonies of West Africa (forthcoming).

Emma M. Griffiths is Lecturer in Greek at the University of Manchester, UK. She is

the author of Medea (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World, 2005), Euripides:

Heracles (2006) and several scholarly articles on aspects of Greek drama, myth, and

the ancient family. She is currently working on monographs about children in

tragedy and the family in Greek cultural history.

Markus A. Gruber holds a tenured position at the University of Regensburg where

he teaches Greek. He is the author of Der Chor in den Tragödien des Aischylos. Affekt

und Reaktion (2009) and is also co-editing a bilingual edition of Athanasius, de

synodis. In addition, he is currently preparing a research survey titled Aischylos 1972–

2012 for Lustrum as well as a commentary on selected orations of Dio Chrysostom.

Stephen Halliwell is Professor of Greek at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

His books include Aristotle’s Poetics (1986), Plato, Republic Book 10 (1988), Plato,

Republic Book 5 (1993), the new Loeb translation of Aristotle’s Poetics (1995),

Aristophanes: Birds and Other Plays (1997), The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and

Modern Problems (2002, winner of the Premio Europeo d’Estetica 2008), Greek

Laughter: A Study of Cultural Psychology from Homer to Early Christianity (2008, winner

of the Criticos Prize), and Between Ecstasy and Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics

from Homer to Longinus (2011).

Sue Hamstead is a lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds, UK. Her doctoral

thesis (and forthcoming publication) is on the subject of off-stage characters in Greek

tragedy.

Lorna Hardwick is Emeritus Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University,

UK, and Director of the Reception of Classical Texts Research Project

(www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays). Her publications include

Translating Words, Translating Cultures (2000), New Surveys in the Classics (2003),

Classics in Postcolonial Worlds (edited with Carol Gillespie, 2007) and Companion to

Classical Receptions (edited with Christopher Stray, 2008). She is currently working on

a monograph which considers the relationship between classical receptions and

broader cultural shifts. She is co-editor with Professor James Porter of the Oxford

University Press series Classical Presences and is editor of Classical Receptions Journal.

George W.M. Harrison has been a member of the Departments of Classics and Art

History at Concordia University, Montréal, since 2003. He is the editor of Satyr

Drama: Tragedy at Play (2005), and Seneca in Performance (2000), and co-editor with

Vayos Liapis of Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre (forthcoming). He has also

written books on the art and archaeology of Roman Crete and of Egypt. He has been

involved in the production of plays by Seneca and Euripides, and has produced

scripts for performance for modern audiences of ancient plays. He is currently

working on the anonymous Hercules Oetaeus.

Karelisa Hartigan ( PhD University of Chicago) is Professor Emerita of Classics at

the University of Florida where she taught for 35 years. Author of six books and

numerous articles, Hartigan specializes in Greek drama and its production, and in

the interface between the ancient and modern world: how Classics influences

contemporary society. Her books include Greek Drama on the American Stage (1995),

Ambiguity and Self-Deception (1991), and Muse on Madison Avenue: Classical Mythology

in Contemporary Advertising (2002). Her latest book is Performance and Cure: Drama and

Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America (2009).

Richard Hawley is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Royal Holloway, University of

London. He is author of Gender in Classical Antiquity: Sources and Methods

(forthcoming), co-editor of Women in Antiquity: New Assessments (1995), and author

of numerous important contributions to edited volumes and scholarly journals on

gender and identity in Greco-Roman satire, rhetoric, and drama.

Kevin Hawthorne is Associate Professor of Humanities at Mount Vernon Nazarene

University, Ohio. He is the author of several articles on the socio-political

significance of rhetorical dynamics in Sophocles’ tragedies.

John Heath received his BA from Pomona College, in Claremont, California, his MA

and PhD from Stanford University. In 1989 he was given an American Philological

Association Excellence in Teaching Award. He has published 30 articles on Latin and

Greek literature, myth and culture, and is the author of Actaeon, the Unmannerly

Intruder (1992) and The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer,

Aeschylus, and Plato (2005). He is also the co-author of Who Killed Homer? The Demise

of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom (1998), Bonfire of the Humanities

(2001), and Why We Read What We Read (2007).

Malcolm Heath is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of

Leeds, UK. His principal research interests are in ancient drama, literary theory,

aesthetics, and rhetorical education. His publications include The Poetics of Greek

Tragedy (1987), Political Comedy in Aristophanes (1987), Unity in Greek Poetics (1989),

Hermogenes On Issues: Strategies of Argument in Later Greek rhetoric (1995), Interpreting

Classical Texts (2002), and Menander: A Rhetor in Context (2004). He has translated

Aristotle’s Poetics for Penguin Classics (1996).

Jeffrey Henderson is the William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Greek Language

and Literature at Boston University. He is the author of The Maculate Muse: Obscene

Language in Attic Comedy (1975), a critical edition with commentary of Aristophanes’

Lysistrata (1987), Staging Women: Three Plays by Aristophanes (1996, 2010), and Loeb

Classical Library editions of Aristophanes’ plays and fragments, Longus, and

Xenophon of Ephesus.

Pilar Hualde is Titular Professor of Greek Philology at Universidad Autónoma de

Madrid. She is the co-author of Juan Valera (1998) and of La literatura griega y su

tradición (2008). She is also a contributor to Doscientos críticos literarios en la España del

siglo XIX (2007) and the author of several scholarly articles on important things in

Greek dialectology, Greek literature, and classical tradition.

Thomas K. Hubbard received his PhD from Yale in 1980, and is now Professor of

Classics at the University of Texas, Austin. He has authored books on Pindar,

Aristophanes, pastoral poetry, and homosexuality in Greece and Rome, as well as a

range of articles on Greek and Roman poetry, mythology, and social history.

Molly Ierulli received her PhD from Cornell University and has taught at Beloit

College, Wisconsin, Pomona College, Claremont McKenna College, and Scripps

College in Claremont, California, and Brown University, Rhode Island. She has

published articles about the Electra of Sophocles, and is presently working on a

manuscript about Sophocles’ heroines.

Eleanor Irwin is Associate Professor Emerita, Department of Humanities, University

of Toronto Scarborough. She is the author of Colour Terms in Greek Poetry (1974) and

a number of articles on color, flowering plants, and landscapes in Greek poetry as

well as articles on the history of classical scholarship.

Howard Jacobson is Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Illinois,

Urbana, where he taught for almost 40 years. He is the author of many articles and

books on a variety of subjects.

Jonah M. Johnson received his PhD in German Studies and Comparative Literature

from the University of Michigan in 2009. His research focuses on the relationship

between literature and philosophy, particularly among German thinkers in the

decades following the French Revolution. He is currently working on a book project

that will follow the emergence of tragedy as a discursive strategy within post-

Kantian philosophy and explore the consequences of this discourse for early

Romantic drama. He holds a BA in Ancient Greek Language and Literature from

Oberlin College, Ohio.

Roger Just is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent,

UK. He studied Classics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and social

anthropology at Oxford University. He is author of Women in Athenian Law and Life

(1989) and A Greek Island Cosmos: Kinship and Community on Meganisi (2000). He is

also the author of several scholarly articles on the anthropology of modern Greece.

Ahuvia Kahane is Professor of Greek, Co-Director of the Centre for the Reception of

Greece and Rome in the Department of Classics and Philosophy, and Director of the

Humanities and Arts Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London. His

research interests include Greek and Latin literature and the relations between

contemporary critical thought and classics. He is currently completing Epic, Novel,

and the Progress of Antiquity and Homer: A Guide to the Perplexed, and has edited

Antiquity and the Ruin (Revue europeenne d’ histoire, forthcoming), and Social Order and

Informal Social Codes (2012).

Maarit Kaimio is Professor (Emerita) of Greek Language and Literature (1976–2004)

at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the author of The Chorus of Greek Drama

within the Light of the Person and Number Used (1970), Characterization of Sound in Early

Greek Literature (1977), Physical Contact in Greek Tragedy: A Study of Stage Conventions

(1988) and of several articles on Greek drama and the Greek novel. She is also a

contributor to several editions of Greek documentary papyri.

Emily Kearns is a Senior Research Fellow at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has

written on various aspects of Greek religion and literature, and her most recent

publication is Ancient Greek Religion: A Sourcebook (2010).

Adrian Kelly is Tutorial Fellow in Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Balliol

College, Oxford, and Clarendon University Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics,

University of Oxford. He is the author of A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to

Homer, Iliad VIII, (2007), and Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus (2009).

Rebecca Futo Kennedy is Assistant Professor of Classics at Denison University,

Granville, Ohio. She is author of Athena’s Justice: Athena, Athens and the Concept of

Justice in Greek Tragedy (2009) and articles on tragedy and its intellectual and cultural

contexts in fifth-century Athens.

Kenji Kimura is Professor Emeritus of Classics at Osaka University and a drama

critic. He is the author of A History of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama in Japan

(2005). He is also the author of many scholarly articles and a translator of Plautus,

Terence, Seneca, Ovid, and Cicero.

Rachel Kitzinger is Professor of Greek and Roman Studies on the Matthew Vassar

Junior Chair of Greek and Latin Literature at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New

York. She is the editor with Michael Grant of the two-volume, Civilization of the

Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome (1988) and the author of The Choruses of

Sophocles’ Antigone and Philoctetes: A Dance of Word (2008), and a translation, with

the poet Eamon Grennan, of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus in Oxford University

Press’s New Translation of Greek Tragedies series (2005). She has also directed

several productions of Greek tragedy in Greek and in English and regularly

performs recitals of Greek poetry using the restored pronunciation of Greek.

David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University and Emeritus

Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University, Rhode Island.

Among his books are Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres

(1994), Greek Comedy and Ideology (1995), Friendship in the Classical World (1997), Pity

Transformed (2001), The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks (2006), ‚A Life Worthy of the

Gods”: The Materialist Pyschology of Epicurus (2008), Terms for Eternity: Aiônios and

aïdios in Classical and Christian Texts (with Ilaria Ramelli, 2007), and Before

Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea (2010).

Jennifer Clarke Kosak (PhD, University of Michigan) is an associate professor of

Classics at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She is the author of Heroic

Measures: Hippocratic Medicine in the Making of Euripidean Tragedy (2004) and several

articles on Greek tragedy and medicine. Other scholarly interests include Greek

intellectual history, Greek epic and lyric poetry, and gender studies.

George Kovacs is interested in all aspects of ancient performance. He is Assistant

Professor of Ancient History and Classics at Trent University, Peterborough,

Ontario. There, he teaches Greek and Roman literature with particular research

interests in ancient drama and stagecraft, as well as the appearance of antiquity in

modern popular culture. He directs the Classics Drama Group, an undergraduate

theater troupe. Directing credits include Euripides (Rhesus, Andromache),

Aristophanes (Wasps), and Menander (Dyskolos). He is co-editor of Classics and

Comics (2010) and No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy (2012), both with

C.W. Marshall. Currently he is preparing a monograph study of Euripides’ Iphigenia

at Aulis and co-editing a sequel volume to Classics and Comics.

Egil Kraggerud is Professor Emeritus of Classical Philology at the University of

Oslo, Norway, retired 2002. He was editor of Symbolae Osloenses 1972–94 and a

member of Academia Europaea, London (1988). Among his publications (for which

see www.egil.kraggerud.no) can be mentioned Aischylos’ Perserne (1974), Euripides’

Medeia (1979), and Alkestis (1987), translations with copious notes and literary

analysis (in Norwegian).

Janek Kucharski is a lecturer in Greek at the University of Silesia in Katowice,

Poland. He has recently completed a monograph (in Polish) on revenge in Greek

tragedy entitled The Erinys’ Song (Pieśń Erynii; in press). He has also published

articles on Athenian law, rhetoric, and drama.

Donald Lateiner holds the John R. Wright Chair of Greek at Ohio Wesleyan

University. His books include The Historical Method of Herodotos (1989), Sardonic

Smile. Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic (1995), and the annotated Barnes and Noble

Classics editions of the Histories of Herodotos (2004) and Thucydides (2006). He has

co-edited (with Edith Foster) Herodotus and Thucydides (2012), a collection of essays

on the relationships of these two historians. He publishes on nonverbal behaviors in

Greek and Roman epic, ancient novels, and historiography, and he has also

contributed articles to the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedias of Homer, Ancient History,

and Virgil.

Stuart Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at Massey University in

Palmerston North, New Zealand. He is the author of Moral Awareness in Greek

Tragedy (forthcoming) and of several scholarly articles on Homer and on tragedy.

Mary Lefkowitz, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emerita,

Wellesley College, Massachusetts, is the author of (among other works) The Lives of

Greek Poets (2nd edn. 2012), Women in Greek Myth (2nd edn., 2007), Greek Gods,

Human Lives (2003), co-editor of Women’s Life in Greece and Rome (3rd edn., 2005), and

a contributor to J. Mossman (ed.), Euripides (2003).

Miriam Leonard is Professor of Greek Literature and its Reception at University

College London. She is author of Athens in Paris: Ancient Greece and the Political in

Post-War French Thought (2005), How to Read Ancient Philosophy (2008) and Socrates

and the Jews: Hellenism and Hebraism from Moses Mendelssohn to Sigmund Freud

(forthcoming). She is editor of Derrida and Antiquity (2010) and co-editor with Yopie

Prins of Classical Reception and the Political (special issue of the journal Cultural

Critique, 2010) and of Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought

(2005) with Vanda Zajko.

Brad Levett is Associate Professor at Memorial University in St. John’s,

Newfoundland. He is the author of Sophocles: Women of Trachis (2004) and articles

on various aspects of Greek tragedy and Greek philosophy.

Graham Ley is Professor of Drama and Theory at the University of Exeter, UK. He is

the author of The Theatricality of Greek Tragedy (2007), A Short Introduction to the

Ancient Greek Theatre (1991, 2006), and From Mimesis to Interculturalism: Readings of

Theatrical Theory before and after “Modernism” (1999). He is also a translator,

dramaturg and director, and has written extensively on ancient Greek performance

and comparative theatrical theory.

Vayos Liapis (PhD University of Glasgow, 1997) has taught at the University of

Cyprus (2000–3) and the Université de Montréal (2003–9), and is currently Associate

Professor at the Open University of Cyprus. His previous books include a

commentary on the Sententiae Menandri (Menandrou Gnomai Monostichoi, 2002), and a

monograph on the unknowability of the gods in early Greek literature and thought

(Agnostos Theos, 2003). He has also co-edited with Douglas Cairns Dionysalexandros:

Essays on Aeschylus and His Fellow Tragedians in Honour of Alexander F. Garvie (2006).

His latest book is A Commentary on the Rhesus Attributed to Euripides (2012).

Cedric Littlewood is Associate Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman

Studies at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He is the author of Self-

representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy (2004).

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of

Edinburgh. He is the author of Aphrodite’s Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece

(2002), of Ctesias’ History of Persia: Tales of the Orient (2010), and the forthcoming King

and Court in Ancient Persia. He is editor of Women’s Dress in the Ancient Greek World

(2002) and Creating a Hellenistic World (2011) and numerous articles on Greek and

Persian culture and ancient theater. He has worked as a theater practitioner for 25

years as a director and designer and in 1991 was the co-founder of Mappa Mundi

Theatre Company, Wales’s most successful classical theatre group.

Michael Lloyd is Associate Professor of Greek Language and Literature at

University College Dublin, Ireland. He is the author of The Agon in Euripides (1992),

Euripides’ Andromache: with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (1994; 2nd

edn., 2005), and Sophocles: Electra (2005). He is also the editor of Aeschylus in the

Oxford Readings in Classical Studies series (2007), and of several articles on Greek

tragedy.

Cecelia A.E. Luschnig is Professor Emerita of Classics at the University of Idaho.

Her specialties are language teaching and Greek tragedy. Besides four monographs

on Euripides (Hippolytus, 1988; Iphigenia at Aulis, 1988; Alcestis, Electra, and

Phoenissae, 1995; and Medea, 2007) she has published textbooks on English word

origins (Etyma, 1982; Etymidion, 1985; Etymidion II, 1994), An Introduction to Ancient

Greek (1976, 2nd edn. 2007), Latin Letters, 2006, and co-authored with Hanna Roisman

commentaries on Euripides’ Alcestis (2003) and Electra (2010). She has also published

translations of Euripides’ Alcestis, Medea, Electra, Phoenician Women, and Iphigenia at

Aulis (in press), and is working on Orestes and Iphigenia among the Taurians.

Fiona Macintosh is Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman

Drama (APGRD) and Fellow of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. With a background in

Classics and English, she is the author of Dying Acts (1994), Greek Tragedy and the

British Theatre 1660–1914 (with Edith Hall, 2005), and Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus

(2009). She is editor of The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World (2010) and has co-

edited a number of APGRD volumes, including Medea in Performance (2000),

Dionysus since 69 (2004) and Agamemnon in Performance (2005).

David Mankin is Associate Professor of Classics at Cornell University. He is the

author of Horace Epodes (1995) and Cicero De Oratore III (2011), a contributor to G.

Davis (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Horace (2010), and the author of articles and

reviews concerning Latin literature.

C.W. Marshall is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Theatre at the University

of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Andreas Markantonatos is the author of Tragic Narrative: A Narratological Study of

Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus (2002), Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the

World (2007), and Euripides’ Alcestis: Narrative, Myth, and Religion (2012). He has

edited five multi-authored volumes on Greek drama and has published widely on

Sophocles and modern literary theory. He is currently completing a commentary on

Euripides’ Suppliant Women. He teaches Greek at the Department of Philology,

University of the Peloponnese in Kalamata, Greece.

Jason McClure recently completed his PhD at the University of Calgary with a thesis

on the theme of the double in Roman literature, concentrating on the legends of

Thebes.

Enrico Medda is Professor of Greek Literature and of Ancient Theater at the

University of Pisa. He is the author of Euripide: Oreste (2001), and Euripide: Le Fenicie

(2006), both with introduction, translation and commentary, and, with Vincenzo Di

Benedetto, of La tragedia sulla scena. La tragedia greca in quanto spettacolo teatrale (2002).

He is also a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Ancient History (forthcoming), and the

author of several articles on Greek tragedy and oratory.

Peter Meineck is an Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Studies at New

York University, and artistic director of Aquila Theatre. He has published several

volumes of translations of ancient dramas including Aeschylus’ Oresteia (1998),

Aristophanes, vol. 1: Clouds, Wasps and Birds (1998) and with Paul Woodruff,

Sophocles’ Theban Plays (2003) and Sophocles’ Four Plays (2007). He has also directed

and produced over 40 professional theatrical productions including many Greek

plays and is the author of several scholarly articles and reviews on ancient drama.

Ann N. Michelini is the author of two books on Greek tragedy: Tradition and

Dramatic Form in the Persians of Aeschylus (1982) and Euripides and the Tragic Tradition

(1987). She has published a number of articles on tragedy and on the dialogues of

Plato. She retired from the Classics Department of the University of Cincinnati in

2001 and lives in a remote area of northern California.

Silvia Milanezi is a Franco-Brazilian scholar. She was trained in Classical Philology

in Brazil (Universidade de São Paulo), and in Greek History in France (L’École des

hautes études en sciences sociales) and Italy (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa). She

teaches Greek History at the Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne and her

works concern mostly Greek religion and drama and particularly comedy. She is

now completing the edition of her Habilitation on memories of the Athenian

Dionysiac contests from the fifth century BCE to the third century BCE. She is member

of the Centre de recherches en histoire européenne comparée and of the GDR

Theatre and is associated to the international project iMouseion (Center for Hellenic

Studies, Harvard University).

Sophie Mills is Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at

Asheville. She is the author of Theseus, Tragedy and the Athenian Empire (1997), A

Companion to Euripides’ Hippolytus (2002) and A Companion to Euripides’ Bacchae

(2006). Most recently she has contributed a chapter entitled ‚Affirming Athenian

Action: Euripides’ Portrayal of Military Activity and the Limits of Tragic

Instruction‛ to D.M. Pritchard (ed.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens

(2010).

Robin Mitchell-Boyask is Professor of Classics at Temple University in

Philadelphia. His publications include Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama,

History and the Cult of Asclepius (2008) and Aeschylus: Eumenides (2009).

E.P. Moloney is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His

research interests lie in the cultural history of ancient Macedonia and the reception

of Greek theater. He is currently completing a volume combining these two areas,

provisionally entitled Theatre for a New Age: Macedonia and Ancient Greek Drama.

Caterina Mongiat Farina is Assistant Professor of Italian at DePaul University,

Chicago. Her research interests include Renaissance Italian literature, the history of

Italian language, rhetoric, and issues of power and identity. She has published

articles on Rustico di Filippo, Galileo Galilei, and Sandro Penna.

Helen E. Moritz is Associate Professor of Classics at Santa Clara University, Santa

Clara, California. She has also served as department chair, Dean of Academic

Support Services, and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. She has published

on Greek tragedy and comedy and on comparative drama. She serves on the

Executive Board of the Comparative Drama Conference and on the editorial board of

its annual volume, Text and Presentation.

James Morwood is an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Among his

many books are an edition of Euripides Supplices (2007), The Plays of Euripides (2002)

and The Tragedies of Sophocles (2008). He has translated 11 plays by Euripides in the

Oxford World’s Classics series. His work on tragedy is based on the convictions that

the dramatists are trying to do something different in each of their plays and that it

is likely that the major characters will develop during the course of the action.

Judith Mossman is Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham, UK. She

was formerly a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. She is the author of Wild Justice: A

Study of Euripides’ Hecuba (1995), and Euripides, Medea: Introduction, Translation and

Commentary (2011).

Dana LaCourse Munteanu is Assistant Professor of Classics at Ohio State

University. In addition to several articles on Greek drama and Aristotle, she has

published Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy (2012) and

edited a collection of essays entitled Emotion, Genre and Gender in Classical Antiquity

(2011).

Sebastiana Nervegna is an Australian Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of

Classics and Ancient History of the University of Sydney, Australia. She has written

several contributions on the ancient reception of Greek drama and is the author of

Menander in Antiquity: the Contexts of Reception (forthcoming).

Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Classics at Columbia

University, New York. She is the author of Solon the Athenian, the Poetic Fragments

(2010) and co-editor of Solone: frammenti dell’opera poetica (2001). She has published

articles on Greek lyric, comedy, and post-classical poetry. She is also a contributor to

D. Sider (ed.), Anthology of Alexandrian Poetry (forthcoming) and to M. Fantuzzi and

C. Tsagalis (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Cyclic Epic (forthcoming). She is

currently preparing a commentary on Crates of Thebes while also working on a

book provisionally entitled Literary Studies on the Early Cynics.

René Nünlist is Professor of Classics at the University of Cologne. His research

interests include early Greek poetry, literary criticism (ancient and modern), and

papyrology (especially Menander). He is a co-founder of the Basel commentary on

the Iliad (2000–) and the author of Poetologische Bildersprache in der frühgriechischen

Dichtung (1998) and The Ancient Critic at Work: Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism

in Greek Scholia (2009, 2011).

Daniel Ogden is Professor of Ancient History in the University of Exeter, UK, and

Research Fellow at UNISA (the University of South Africa). His books include Greek

Bastardy (1996), Polygamy Prostitutes and Death: the Hellenistic Dynasties (1999), Greek

and Roman Necromancy (2001), In Search of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice: The Traditional

Tales of Lucian’s Lover of Lies (2007), Perseus (2008) Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the

Greek and Roman Worlds: a Sourcebook (2nd edn. 2009) and Alexander the Great: Myth,

Genesis and Sexuality (2011).

Kerill O’Neill is the Julian D. Taylor Associate Professor of Classics at Colby

College, in Waterville, Maine. His research interests range from classical poetry to

Bronze Age archaeology and art inspired by classical mythology. He has published

articles on Latin love elegy, Greek tragedy, ancient art, and prehistoric archaeology.

He also contributed to Ronnie Ancona and Ellen Greene (eds.), Gendered Dynamics in

Latin Love Poetry (2005).

Efi Papadodima (D.Phil., University of Oxford) is a Lecturer (Fixed Term) in Classics

at the University of Ioannina. Her research focuses on moral values, ethnic identities,

and modes of self-characterization in classical literature (with special reference to

Attic drama). She is the author of a monograph which revisits the Greek–barbarian

interaction in classical Greek literature (forthcoming, 2013) and of a translation and

commentary of Seneca’s Thyestes (in Greek). Her recent articles explore the notion of

dikē in Attic drama.

Thalia Papadopoulou is Assistant Professor of Classics, Aristotle University of

Thessaloniki. She is the author of Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy (2005), Euripides:

Phoenician Women (2008) and Aeschylus: Suppliants (2011).

Christopher Pelling is Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University. Among his

books are Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (2000), Plutarch and History (2002), and

commentaries on Plutarch’s Antony (1988) and Caesar (2011). He also edited

Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature (1990), Greek Tragedy and the

Historian (1997), and co-edited tributes to Donald Russell (Ethics and Rhetoric, 1995)

and A.J. Woodman (Ancient Historiography and Its Contexts, 2010).

Georgia Petridou is a Research Fellow at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. She has

co-edited (with V. Platt) Epiphany: Encountering the Divine in the Ancient World

(forthcoming) and is currently preparing a monograph on divine epiphanies in

Greek literature and culture for Oxford University Press. She is also the author of

scholarly articles on Greek literature and religion.

Anthony J. Podlecki retired in 1998 as Professor of Greek History and Literature at

the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His previous teaching posts were

at Northwestern University and Pennsylvania State University, and post-retirement

he taught at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, and the universities of Nancy and

Grenoble, in France. His scholarly interests are in the poetry and history of the

archaic and classical periods of ancient Greece and their interconnections; he has

published extensively in these areas. His most recent book is a bilingual edition of

Prometheus Bound, with commentary (2005).

Catalina Popescu is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, pursuing

her dissertation ‚Beneath the Root of Memory: The Engine of Forgetfulness and

Recollection in the Tragedies about Orestes.‛ She presented her work on memory at

the 106th annual meeting of CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and

South), 2010, at the conference on Interiority in Early Cultures, University of

California at Irvine, 2011, and on New Directions in Anthropology, University of

Texas at Austin, 2011. Her other conference presentations include papers on Ovidian

art, Aeschylean democracy, and Lucian’s novel.

Jaume Pòrtulas is Professor of Greek Philology at the University of Barcelona. He is

the author of Lectura de Píndar (1977) and of Introducció a la Ilíada. Homer entre la

història i la llegenda (2008); and co-author (with Carles Miralles) of Archilochus and the

Iambic Poetry (1983) and The Poetry of Hipponax (1988). He is also the author of many

articles on archaic Greek lyric and classical tradition. His most recent work (with

Sergi Grau) is an extensive anthology, with translation and notes, of the first Greek

thinkers, Saviesa grega arcaica (2012).

Robert J. Rabel is Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky and Director of

the Gaines Center for the Humanities. He is the author of Plot and Point of View in the

Iliad (1996) and editor of Approaches to Homer, Ancient and Modern (2006). He has also

published articles on Greek and Roman epic, Greek tragedy, Greek philosophy, and

Greek history. He is currently working on a book to be titled The Muses in America:

Robert E. Sherwood and the Classical Tradition.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative

Literature at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. She is the author of Anxiety

Veiled (1993) and Greek Tragedy (2008), as well as the co-editor of Feminist Theory and

the Classics (1993), and Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the

Ancient World (2002), and the co-editor and translator of Women on the Edge: Four

Plays by Euripides (1999). Her current interests are in the modern use of Greek

tragedy for politically progressive purposes.

Richard Rader is a lecturer in the Department of Classics at UCLA. He has

published a number of articles on Greek tragedy and is currently preparing a

monograph on existentialism in Aeschylus.

Rush Rehm is Professor of Drama and Classics, and Artistic Director of Stanford

Summer Theater, Stanford University. A freelance actor and director, he has written

several books on Greek tragedy, including Aeschylus’ Oresteia: A Theatre Version

(1978) and Marriage to Death (1994). He has contributed essays to Greek Drama in

America (forthcoming), Space in Ancient Greek Literature (forthcoming), Brill

Companion to Sophocles (forthcoming), Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds (2007),

Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre (2007), Antigone’s Answer (Helios

Supplement 2006); and the Introduction to Jebb’s commentary on Sophocles’ Oedipus

Coloneus (2004).

Montserrat Reig is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Barcelona. She is the co-

editor and co-author of a volume on the conception of space in Greece published by

the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (2011). She has written several

contributions on Greek tragedy and classical reception, especially in M. Clavo and X.

Riu (eds.), Teatre grec: perspectives contemporànies (2007); in A. Beltrametti (ed.), Studi e

materiali per le Baccanti di Euripide (2007); with J. Carruesco in S. Knippschild and M.

García Morcillo (eds.), Power and Seduction: Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts

(forthcoming). She is also the author of several articles on Greek novel and

mythology.

P. J. Rhodes was Professor of Ancient History and since 2005 has been Honorary

Professor at the University of Durham, UK. His work on Athens includes The

Athenian Boule (1972) and A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (1981).

Volker Riedel was formerly Professor of Classical Philology at the University of

Jena. In addition to the books cited in the bibliography, he has written about a

hundred papers in journals and collections. He was a subject editor of the New Pauly

Encyclopedia (1996–2003) and since 2009 has been co-editing a critical edition of

Heinrich Mann’s essays and journalism.

Kathleen Riley was until recently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics

at the University of Oxford and a Junior Research Fellow of Corpus Christi College.

She is also a Postdoctoral Research Associate of the Archive of Performances of

Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD). Her first book, published in 2004, was the

authorized biography Nigel Hawthorne on Stage. Her second book, The Reception and

Performance of Euripides’ Herakles: Reasoning Madness was published in 2008. She has

just completed her third book, The Astaires: Fred and Adele.

Xavier Riu is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Barcelona. He is the

author of Dionysism and Comedy (1999), co-editor of Teatre Grec: perspectives

contemporànies (2007), and Approaches to Archaic Greek Poetry (2011). He is also a

contributor to Archilochos and His Age (2008), Miscellania Papyrologica Herculanensia I

(2010), and the author of several scholarly articles on Greek comic and iambic poetry

and on Greek poetics and its later tradition.

A.L.H. Robkin is an independent scholar living in Bellevue, Washington. She holds

a BA from Adelphi University in New York, an MA from San Francisco State

University in California, and a PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her

academic career included teaching art history at Seattle Pacific University. She has

contributed illustrations for 13 books. Robkin’s articles in AJA, Archaeological News,

and Ancient World are often referred to by scholars. She is married and has three

grown children.

James Robson is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. He

is the author of Aristophanes: An Introduction (2009) and Humour, Obscenity and

Aristophanes (2006), co-author (with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones) of Ctesias’ History of

Persia: Tales of the Orient (2010) and co-editor (with Fiona McHardy and David

Harvey) of Lost Dramas of Classical Athens: Greek Tragic Fragments (2005).

Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto is Research Fellow at the University of Santiago de

Compostela. She is currently working on her PhD dissertation, devoted to the

illuminated manuscripts made for the royal court of Castile (1284–1369). She is the

author of ‚Courtly Culture and Its Trujamanes: Manufacturing Chivalric Imagery

Across Castilian–Grenadine Frontier‛, Medieval Encounters 14 (2008): 219–66; and

‚Beyond the Two Doors of Memory: Intertextualities and Intervisualities in the

Illuminated Manuscripts of the Roman de Troie and the Histoire ancienne‛, in E.

Brenner (ed.), Memory and Commemoration in Medieval France (forthcoming), among

other scholarly articles on the classical tradition in the Middle Ages.

Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, PhD litt. (1997), PhD theol. (2004), is senior Lecturer in

Early Christian Studies at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He

specializes in Greek literature and philosophy, apocryphal literature, and Nag

Hammadi, with a special focus on the intersection between philosophy and religion.

He was lecturer in Classics at the University of Córdoba. Besides articles and book

chapters, he published La envidia en el pensamiento griego (1997), Acta Andreae

Apocrypha (2007), Quién es Quién en el Nuevo Testamento (2009) and Diccionario de

nombres propios de persona del Nuevo Testamento (2011); he is co-author of De

Handelingen van Andreas. Vertaald, ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien (2008).

Hanna M. Roisman is Arnold Bernhard Professor in the Arts and Humanities at

Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic

Studies, Harvard University. She specializes in early Greek epic, Greek and Roman

tragedy, and in classics and film. In addition to articles and book chapters, she has

published Loyalty in Early Greek Epic and Tragedy (1984), Nothing Is as It Seems: The

Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides’ Hippolytus (1999), Sophocles: Philoctetes (2005),

and Sophocles: Electra (2008). She is co-author of The Odyssey Re-Formed (1996); of

Euripides: Alcestis (2003); and of Euripides: Electra (2010).

David Rosenbloom is Senior Lecturer of Classics at Victoria University of

Wellington, New Zealand. He is author of Aeschylus: Persians (2006) and co-editor of

Greek Drama IV: Texts, Contexts, Performance (2011) and has published widely on

Athenian tragedy, comedy, and history. He was a Junior Fellow at the Center for

Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, in 1998–9 and has held visiting appointments

at Princeton and Johns Hopkins Universities.

Ian Ruffell is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow. His major

publications are Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy: The Art of the

Impossible (2011) and Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (forthcoming).

Richard Rutherford is Tutor in Greek and Latin Literature at Christ Church, Oxford.

His publications include The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: A Study (1989), a

commentary on Homer, Odyssey 19 and 29 (1992), The Art of Plato (1995), and

Classical Literature: A Concise History (2005).

Maria Rybakova is Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities at San Diego

State University. She is the author of four novels and numerous short stories (in

Russian) as well as essays on the reception of antiquity (in English). Her most recent

novel-in-verse, Gnedich, (2011) tells the tragic story of the nineteenth-century

translator of the Iliad into Russian, Nikolai Gnedich.

David M. Schaps is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Bar-Ilan University,

Israel. He is the author of Economic Rights of Women in Ancient Greece (1979), Yofyuto

shel Yefet (a modern Hebrew introduction to ancient Greek, 1989), The Invention of

Coinage and the Monetization of Ancient Greece (2004), and Handbook for Classical

Research (2011), and of numerous articles on a very wide range of classical subjects.

Ruth Scodel, educated at Berkeley and Harvard, is D.R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate

Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Michigan. She has published

widely in Greek literature, particularly on Homer and tragedy. Her books include

Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek

Tragedy (1999), Listening to Homer (2002), Epic Facework: Self-presentation and Social

Interaction in Homer (2008), (with Anja Bettenworth) Whither Quo Vadis? Sienkiewicz’s

Novel in Film and Television, and Greek Tragedy: An Introduction (2010).

Scott Scullion is Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Worcester College, University of

Oxford. He is the author of a book and many articles on Greek religion, Greek

drama, and the relationship between them.

Richard Seaford is Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Exeter, UK.

Among his books are commentaries on Euripides’ Cyclops (1984) and Bacchae (1996),

Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State (1994), Money and

the Early Greek Mind: Homer, Philosophy, Tragedy (2004), and Cosmology and the Polis:

The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies of Aeschylus (2012). He is also

the author of numerous papers on subjects ranging from Homer to the New

Testament.

David Sider, Professor of Classics at New York University, has edited the fragments

of Anaxagoras (1981; 2nd edn. 2005), and has written articles on the preSocratics and

on tragedy.

Michael Silk is Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature at King’s College

London, Adjunct Professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a

Fellow of the British Academy. From 1991 to 2006 he was Professor of Greek

Language and Literature at King’s; between 2003 and 2007 he held Visiting

Professorships at Boston University. He has published extensively on poetry, drama,

thought, and theory in Greek antiquity and the modern world, from Homer to

Aristotle, and Nietzsche to Ted Hughes. His current project is a collaborative study

(with Ingo Gildengard and Rosemary Barrow): The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature,

Thought.

Jon Solomon, Robert D. Novak Professor of Western Civilization and Culture, and

Professor of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, works on

the classical tradition in opera and cinema, ancient Greek mythology and music, as

well as ancient Roman cuisine and The Three Stooges. His publications include

Ptolemy’s Harmonics (1999), The Ancient World in the Cinema (2nd edn., 2001), and (co-

authored) Up the University (1993). He recently published volume I of the I Tatti

translation and edition of Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods (2011). He is

presently working on a book on Ben-Hur.

Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham, UK. He

has produced editions of the plays and fragments of Aeschylus in the Loeb series

(2008), of the comedies of Aristophanes (1980–2002), and (with collaborators) of

selected fragmentary plays of Sophocles (2006–11); he is also the author of Aeschylean

Tragedy (2nd edn. 2010), Greek Drama and Dramatists (2002), Talking about Laughter

(2009), and The Tangled Ways of Zeus (2010). He is currently working on an edition of

Menander’s Samia and (with five collaborators) on a two-volume study of The Oath

in Archaic and Classical Greece.

Mary Stieber is Associate Professor of Art History at The Cooper Union for the

Advancement of Science and Art in New York. She is the author of Euripides and the

Language of Craft (2011) and The Poetics of Appearance in the Attic Korai (2004), along

with numerous scholarly articles on the parallels between Greek art and literature.

Ian C. Storey is Professor of Ancient History and Classics at Trent University,

Peterborough, Ontario. He is the author of Eupolis. Poet of Old Comedy (2003), and

Euripides: Suppliant Women (2008). He is co-author with A.L. Allan of A Guide to

Ancient Greek Drama (2005), and his three volumes for the Loeb Classical Library, The

Fragments of Old Comedy, appeared in 2011. He has published articles on Euripides,

Old Comedy, and the fiction of C.S. Lewis.

Jonathan Strain earned his BA from the University of Chicago and is a PhD

candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. He is writing a dissertation on

Euripides, Aristophanes and the interface between tragedy and comedy.

Ann Suter is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the University of Rhode

Island. She is the author of The Narcissus and the Pomegranate: An Archaeology of the

Homeric “Hymn to Demeter” (2002) and editor and contributor to Lament: Studies in the

Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond (‚Male Lament in Greek Tragedy‛) (2008). She is a

contributor to Tears in the Graeco-Roman World (‚Tragic Tears and Gender‛) (2009),

and the author of numerous scholarly articles on Greek epic poetry and tragic

drama.

Katerina Synodinou is Professor of Classics at the University of Ioannina, Greece.

She is the author of: On the Concept of Slavery in Euripides (1977); Eoika – Eikos kai

Sunkenika apo ton Omiro os ton Aristofani (1981); Euripidis: Ekavi, vol. 1: Eisagogi –

Keimeno – Metafrasi; vol. 2: Scholia (2005). She is also the author of a number of

scholarly articles on Greek tragedy and on classical literature in general.

Chiara Thumiger studied in Milan and London, where she gained a PhD in Greek

Literature at King’s College, with a thesis on the representation of character in

tragedy, ancient views of self, and the case of Euripides’ Bacchae. After that she

worked for several years as lecturer at various London universities and conducted

research on various aspects of ancient drama, publishing on metatheater and animal

imagery in tragedy. In September 2010 she took on a research position at the

Humboldt University (Berlin) to work on Philip van der Eijk’s research program

‚Medicine of the Mind, Philosophy of the Body‛. Her project focuses on

representations of madness in medical and literary texts.

Peter Toohey is a Professor of Greek and Roman studies at the University of

Calgary.

Isabelle Torrance gained her PhD in Classics from Trinity College Dublin in 2004.

She became Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame in 2007

after a three-year post-doctoral appointment at the University of Nottingham. She is

author of Aeschylus: Seven against Thebes (2007) and has published articles on Greek

tragedy and its reception in the American Journal of Philology, the Cambridge Classical

Journal, Classical Quarterly, Helios, Hermathena, Hermes, and in several edited volumes.

Wm. Blake Tyrrell is Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. He is the

author of A Legal and Historical Commentary to Cicero’s Oratio pro C. Rabirio

Perduellionis Reo (1978), Medical Terminology for Medical Students (1979), Amazons: A

Study in Athenian Mythmaking (1984), The Smell of Sweat: Greek Athletics, Olympics, and

Culture (2004), Word Power: Building a Medical Vocabulary (2009), and co-author with

Frieda S. Brown of Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action (1991), and with

Larry J. Bennett of Recapturing Sophocles’ Antigone (1998), and articles on Roman

history, Greek and American mythmaking, and Greek tragedy.

Angeliki Tzanetou is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian

Empire (2012) and co-editor with Maryline Parca of Finding Persephone: Women’s

Rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean (Studies in Ancient Folklore and Popular Culture

series, 2007) and has published articles on ritual and gender in drama and on

tragedy and politics.

Gonda Van Steen is the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida.

She is the author of Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece (2000),

Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire: Comte de Marcellus and the Last of

the Classics (2010), and Theatre of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek

Prison Islands (2011). She is currently working on a book manuscript that analyzes

theater life, performance, and censorship under the Greek military dictatorship of

1967–74. Van Steen has also published articles on ancient Greek and late antique

literature and on postwar Greek feminism.

Bella Vivante is Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona. Incorporating

feminist and Native American theoretical perspectives, her research encompasses

Homer, oral traditions, Greek drama, and viewing ancient women’s ritual and

cultural roles from innovative, empowering perspectives. Her research on Helen

ranges from the spectrum of ancient meanings to portrayals in modern poetry and

film. Her publications demonstrate her commitment to making the ancient world

more accessible and dynamic to contemporary audiences: Daughters of Gaia: Women

in the Ancient Mediterranean World (2007, 2008); translator, with commentary,

Euripides’ Helen, in Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides (1999).

Henry John Walker was born in Ireland and studied Classics at Trinity College

Dublin (BA, 1982). He received a PhD in Classics from Cornell University in 1989.

He is a Senior Lecturer in Classical and Medieval Studies at Bates College, Lewiston,

Maine. He has published Theseus and Athens (1995) and a translation of the Memorable

Deeds and Sayings of Valerius Maximus (2004).

J. Michael Walton is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Hull, UK. The

most recent of his seven books on the theater of Greece and Rome are Found in

Translation: Greek Drama in English (2006, 2009), and Euripides Our Contemporary

(2009, 2010). He has translated more than 20 Greek and Latin plays into English, and

directed with professional or student casts more than 50 productions of plays from

France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Russia, Switzerland, and the United States,

as well as Greek tragedy and comedy.

Peter Wilson is William Ritchie Professor of Classics at the University of Sydney,

Australia. He is the author of The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the

City and the Stage (2000) and editor of Drama III: Studies in Honour of Kevin Lee,

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 87 (with F. Muecke and J.

Davidson, 2006), Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies (2007) and

Performance, Reception, Iconography: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin (with M.

Revermann, 2008). In collaboration with Eric Csapo, he is preparing a multi-volume

history of the Classical Greek theater to be published by Cambridge University

Press.

Paul Woodruff is a Professor of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Texas

at Austin. He has translated or co-translated five ancient Greek tragedies (Bacchae,

Oedipus Tyrannos, Antigone, Electra, and Women of Trachis). He is the author of several

essays on Aristotle’s Poetics and has written several books that build on themes from

Greek tragedy: Reverence, Renewing a Forgotten Virtue (2001), First Democracy (2005),

and The Ajax Dilemma (2011). He has also written a comprehensive philosophy of

theater in The Necessity of Theater (2008).

Bernhard Zimmermann studied Classical Philology and Ancient History at the

universities of Konstanz (Germany) and London, PhD 1983, habilitation 1988.

Assistant Professor in Konstanz (1988–90), Associate Professor in Zürich (1990–2),

Professor of Classical Philology (chair) in Düsseldorf (1992–7) and Freiburg (since

1997). He has published on ancient drama and the novel, Greek choral lyric, political

theory and on classical tradition. He has published: Untersuchungen zur Form und

dramatischen Technik der aristophanischen Komödien (3 vols., 1985–7), Europa und die

griechische Tragödie (2000), Die griechische Tragödie (2005, 3rd edn; Greek Tragedy, 1992),

Die griechische Komödie (2006, 2nd edn.), Dithyrambos. Geschichte einer Gattung (2008,

2nd edn.), Handbuch der griechischen Literatur, vol. 1 (2011).