Position Title
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
Unit
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)
Research Interest(s)
- 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
In Progress: An edition with commentary of Homer, Iliad: Book I
Homeric Epic and its Reception: Interpretive Essays (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2016)
Sophocles, Philoctetes. Greek and Latin Classics. (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2013)
Sophokles, Philoktetes: Translation with Notes, Introduction, and Interpretive Essay. Focus Classical Library (Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company: Newburyport, Mass., 2003)
Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays. (Princeton University Press: Princeton); 2nd printing, 1997 [Edited]
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)
The Iambic Trimeter in Aeschylus and Sophocles: A Study in Metrical Form, Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 6 (E.J. Brill: Leiden)