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Ralph M. Rosen

Professor of Classical Studies
Rose Family Endowed Term Professor
Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
Contact Information
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Education: 

Ph.D. (Classical Philology) Harvard University, 1983
B.A. (Greek and Latin) Swarthmore College, 1977

Research and Teaching Interests: 

Greek literature and intellectual history
Ancient comic and satirical poetic genres
Ancient medicine

Selected Publications: 

Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire (Oxford U. Press, 2007).

Old Comedy and the Iambographic Tradition (APA American Classical Studies 19, 1988).

Please email me if you would like e-offprints of any of my journal publications; see CV link below for complete list

Work in Progress: 

Various projects on Hippocrates, Galen, Aristophanes and Juvenal.

Feel free to email me for more detail.

Other Professional Activity: 

Co-founder and sometime Director of Penn's Center for Ancient Studies, 1996 - present.

Co-organizer (with Ineke Sluiter, Professor of Greek at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands) of the biennial Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values, 2000–present.

Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, School of Arts and Sciences (2008-11).

Curriculum vitae: 
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Faculty Publication: Ralph M. Rosen, Time

Faculty publication: Ralph M. Rosen (editor), Time and Temporality in the Ancient World

Faculty Publication: Ralph M. Rosen, Kakos

Faculty publication: Ralph M. Rosen (co-editor with Ineke Sluiter), Kakos: Badness and Anti-Value in Classical Antiquity.

Faculty Publication: Ralph Rosen, Andreia

Faculty Publication: Ralph Rosen, Andreia: Studies in Manliness and Courage in Classical Antiquity.

Faculty Publication: Ralph M. Rosen and Joseph Farrell

Faculty publication: Ralph M. Rosen and Joseph Farrell (editors), Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald

Faculty Publication: Rosen, City, Countryside

Faculty Publication: Ralph M. Rosen (co-editor with Ineke Sluiter), City, Countryside, and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity.

Faculty Publication: Rosen, Free Speech

Faculty Publication: Ralph M. Rosen (with Ineke Sluiter), ed., Free Speech in Classical Antiquity.

Faculty Publication: Ralph M. Rosen, Iambus

Faculty publication: Ralph M. Rosen, Old Comedy and the Iambographic Tradition

Faculty Publication: Ralph M. Rosen, Making Mockery

Faculty publication: Ralph M. Rosen, Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire