Poetry and poetics
| Faculty: | ||
| Greek literature | Sheila Murnaghan, Ralph Rosen, Peter Struck, Emily Wilson | |
| Latin literature | Cynthia Damon, Joseph Farrell, James Ker, Emily Wilson | |
| Ancient literary theory | Rita Copeland, Ralph Rosen, Peter Struck | |
| Dramatic poetry | James Ker, Sheila Murnaghan, Ralph Rosen, Emily Wilson | |
| Epic poetry | Joseph Farrell, Sheila Murnaghan | |
| Satiric and comic genres | Cynthia Damon, Raph Rosen | |
| Reception | Rita Copeland, Cynthia Damon, Joseph Farrell, James Ker, Sheila Murnaghan, Ralph Rosen, Emily Wilson | |
| Seminars: | ||
| Spring 2010: | Ancient Greek Aesthetic Theory (Rosen) | |
| Spring 2010: | The Argonaut Myth in Latin Literature (Farrell and Ker) | |
| Fall 2009: | The Argonaut Myth in Greek Literature (Murnaghan and Nishimura-Jensen) | |
| Spring 2009: | Roman Republican Epic (Farrell) | |
| Fall 2009: | Aristophanes (Rosen) | |
| Spring 2008: | Vergil's Aeneid (Farrell) | |
| Fall 2007: | Contemporary Approaches to Greek Tragedy (Wilson) | |
| Spring 2007: | Lucretius (Wilson) | |
| Fall 2006: | Homer (Murnaghan) | |
| Fall 2006: | Seneca (Ker) | |
| Spring 2006: | Greek Meter (Ringe) | |
| Spring 2006: | Ovid's Exile Poetry (Farrell) | |
| Fall 2005: | Callimachus (Rosen) | |
| Fall 2005: | The Roman Exemplary Tradition (Ker) | |
| Spring 2005: | Roman Elegy (Wilson) | |
| Fall 2003: | Old Comedy (Rosen) | |
| Spring 2003: | Sophocles (Murnaghan) | |
| Fall 2002: | Roman Satire (Rosen) | |
| Spring 2002: | Dionysus and Greek Drama (Murnaghan) | |
| Fall 2001: | Hellenistic Poetry (Rosen) | |
| Publications: | ||
| Cynthia Damon | The Mask of the Parasite: A Pathology of Roman Patronage (1997) | |
| Joseph Farrell | Juno's Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent (in progress) | |
| Vergil's Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic (1991) | ||
| James Ker | The Deaths of Seneca (2009) | |
| Sheila Murnaghan | Most Tragic Sophocles (in progress) | |
| Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (1987) | ||
| Ralph Rosen | Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire (2007) | |
| Old Comedy and the Iambographic Tradition (1987) | ||
| Emily Wilson | Mocked with Death:Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004) | |
Dissertations: |
(in progress) |
Marian Makins,
"Reading and Writing Ancient Battlefields" Emlen Smith,
"Names and Naming in Ovid's Exile Poetry" |
(past) |
Jeremy Lefkowitz, "Aesop's Pen: Adaptation, Authorship, and Satire in the Aesopic Tradition" (2009) Sarah Wahlberg,
"Callimachus' Aetia and Ovid's Fasti: An Intertextual Analysis" (2008) Erin Kristine Moodie, "Metatheater, pretense disruption, and social class in Greek and Roman comedy," 2007 Bryce England Walker, "Moralizing discourse in Juvenal's later books," 2006 Meggan Jennell Arp, "Pre-socratic thought in Sophoclean tragedy," 2006 Mary McMenomy , "Roles of Hermes in Athenian drama," 2006 Carl A. Shaw III, "Greek comedy and the evolution of satyr drama," 2005 Andrew A. Fenton, "Cultural and poetic response in Vergil's Eclogues," 2004 Alex Claire Purves, "Telling space: topography, time, and narrative from Homer to Xenophon," 2002 Benjamin Todd Lee, "A commentary on Apuleius' Florida: Carthaginian orations with text, translation, and notes," 2001 Kathryn M. DiLorenzo, "Looking both ways: Janus, doubling, and intertextuality in Ovid," 2001 Kristin Elizabeth Holland, "Resisted transition in Euripidean tragedy,," 2001 Anne Elizabeth Duncan, "The hypocritical self: actors, acting, and identity in Greek and Roman culture," 2000 Catherine Clare Keane, "Model behavior: generic construction in Roman satire," 1999 Rebecca Lynn Frost, "The rhetoric of authority in the Propertian Monobiblos," 1998 Richard Gilder III, "Goddesses unbound: furies and furial imagery in the works of Seneca, Lucan, and Statius," 1997 Jacqueline N. Sadashige, "Roman things: matters of gender, nation, and culture in Plautus," 1995 Eric Kyllo , "Heliconiadum comites: the De rerum natura and epic tradition," 1994 Nigel Nicholson , "Mixed praise: sexual imagery, truth and discord in Pindar's Odes," 1994 Maria Suzanne Marsilio, "Dependence and self-sufficiency in Hesiod's Works and days," 1992 R. Alden Smith, "Allusions of grandeur: studies in the intertextuality of the Metamorphoses and the Aeneid," 1990 |