Seth L. Schein

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Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature

Education and Degree(s)

  • Ph.D., Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, Columbia University (1967)
  • M.A., Greek, University of California, Berkeley (1964)
  • A.B., English, Columbia University (1963)
  • American School of Classical Studies, Athens (Summer School Member, 1965)
  • American School of Classical Studies, Athens (Associate Member, 1967-68)

Teaching Interests

  • Greek Literature, especially Homeric epic and Attic tragedy
  • Classical receptions and the history of classical studies
  • Greek and Roman literature, culture, and thought
  • Comparative epic and tragedy
  • Post-colonialism and classical literature
  • History of literary theory (esp. ancient and medieval)
  • Shakespeare
  • Gender and interpretation
  • The representation of history in literature

Profile

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Selected Publications

  • 2022    Homer, Iliad: Book I.  Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics.  (Cambridge University Press:  Cambridge)
  • 2016    Homeric Epic and its Reception: Interpretive Essays (Oxford University Press: Oxford)
  • 2013    Sophocles, Philoctetes.  Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics.  (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge)              
  • 2003    Sophokles’ Philoktetes: Translation with Introduction, Notes, and Interpretive Essay.  Focus Classical Library (Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company: Newburyport, Mass.)
  • 1996    Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays. (Princeton University Press:    Princeton); 2nd printing, 1997 [Edited]
  • 1984    The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad (University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London); 3rd printing, 1995;  translation into Serbo-Croatian by Z. Dukat, Smrtni Junak (Globus Publishing Company: Zagreb, 1989);  translation into Modern Greek by G. Philippou, Ô Thnêtos Irôas (University Studio Press, Thessaloniki: 2006)
  • 1979    The Iambic Trimeter in Aeschylus and Sophocles: A Study in Metrical Form,          Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 6 (E.J. Brill: Leiden)
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