Contributors

William Allan is McConnell Laing Fellow and Tutor in Classics at University College, Oxford. His publications include The Andromache and Euripidean Tragedy (Oxford, 2000; paperback, 2003), Euripides: The Children of Heracles (Aris and Phillips, 2001), and Euripides: Medea (Duckworth, 2002). He is currently writing a commentary on Euripides’ Helen for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series.

Herman Altena is a freelance academic and translator with a one-man business, Antiek Theater. He teaches ancient Greek drama and its reception in the Netherlands at the Department of Theater Studies of the University of Utrecht. He has translated several Greek tragedies for the Dutch professional theater and worked as a dramaturge. He is the Dutch representative in the European Network of Research and Documentation of Ancient Greek Drama.

Michael J. Anderson is an associate professor of Classics at Yale University. His principal research interests are archaic and classical Greek poetry and the Greek novels. His book The Fall of Troy in Early Greek Poetry and Art (Oxford, 1997) includes a study of treatments of the sack of Troy in Athenian tragedy.

Luigi Battezzato studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, at the University of California, Berkeley, and at University College London. He has written a book on monologues in Euripides, and several articles on Greek tragedy. His research interests include literary and social problems in ancient Greek texts. He has also published on textual criticism, and on ancient Greek language and meter. He teaches at the Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy.

Douglas Cairns has taught at the universities of St. Andrews, Otago, Leeds, and Glasgow, and is now Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Aidos: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (1993) and editor of Oxford Readings in Homer’s Iliad (2001) and (with R. A. Knox) of Law, Rhetoric, and Comedy in Classical Athens (2004).

Neil Croally assisted in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of The Thebans in 1990-91. His doctorate was published as Euripidean Polemic by Cambridge University Press in 1994. Since 1990 he has taught Classics at Dulwich College in London. Teaching has left little time for theorizing; instead he has used his school’s resources to stage a number of Greek plays in a variety of inauthentic ways. He thanks Jo, Mary, and Puss.

Martin Cropp is Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary. He studied at Oxford and Toronto before moving to Calgary in 1974. His books include commentaries on Euripides’ Electra (1988) and Iphigenia in Tauris (2000), contributions to Euripides: Selected Fragmentary Plays (Vol. 1: 1995; Vol. 2: 2004) with Christopher Collard, Kevin Lee, and John Gibert, and the edited volume Euripides and Late Fifth Century Tragic Theatre (Illinois Classical Studies 24/25, 19992000, with Kevin Lee, David Sansone, and others).

John Davidson holds the Chair of Classics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where he has been since 1969 after completing a doctorate at London. T. B. L. Webster Fellow at the School of Advanced Studies in London in 2003, he has published extensively on various aspects of Greek drama, including theatrical production and the relationship between the Homeric texts and the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides.

Paula Debnar, an associate professor of Classics at Mount Holyoke College, is the author of Speaking the Same Language: Speech and Audience in Thucydides’ Spartan Debates (2001) and several articles on the rhetoric of Thucydidean speakers. She is currently at work on an article on the figure of Cassandra in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and a study of the Spartan general Brasidas.

Salvatore Di Maria is Professor of Italian at the University of Tennessee. His scholarly interests range from Dante and Ariosto (his annotated bibliography of Ariosto was published by the University of Missouri Press in 1984) to Machiavel-li’s theater and political writings. He recently published The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance (Bucknell, 2002). At present he is working on the originality of imitation in the Renaissance theater.

Mary Ebbott is an assistant professor of Classics at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and an executive editor for the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. She is the author of Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature (Lanham, Md., 2003). Her current work focuses on the language of physical pain and its limitations in Greek epic and tragedy.

Justina Gregory is Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at Smith College. Her books include a translation of Aesop’s Fables (1975, with Patrick Gregory), Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians (1991), and a commentary on Euripides’ Hecuba (1999). She is currently working on representations of education in Greek literature.

Mark Griffith is Professor of Classics, and of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published editions of Prometheus Bound and Antigone in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series, as well as a number of articles on Greek tragedy, poetry, and culture.

Michael R. Halleran is Professor of Classics and Divisional Dean of Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University ofWashington. His primary area of scholarship is ancient Greek drama, and he has published widely on Greek literature and culture, including Stagecraft in Euripides (1985), The Heracles of Euripides: Translated with Introduction, Notes, and Interpretative Essay (1988), Euripides: Hippolytus, with Translation and Commentary (1995), and Euripides’ Hippoly-tus: Translated with Introduction, Notes, and Essay (2001).

Stephen Halliwell is Professor of Greek at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of seven books (including works on Aristophanes, Aristotle, and Plato), of which the most recent is The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems (2002), and more than sixty articles on Greek literature, philosophy, rhetoric, and interdisciplinary cultural themes. He is currently working on Greek Laughter: A Study in Cultural Psychology. See further at Www. st-andrews. ac. uk/classics/ staff/ halliwell. shtml.

Albert Henrichs is Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University. Born and educated in Germany, he received his Dr. phil. and his habilitation from the University of Cologne. He has written extensively on Greek literature, religion, and myth. His major areas of research include the Greek god Dionysus and his modern reception, the representation of ritual in literature and art, the religious self-awareness of the Greeks, and the history of classical scholarship since 1800. He is the author of Die Glitter Griechenlands: Ihr Bild im Wandel der Religionswissenschaft (1987) and of Warum soll ich denn tanzen? Dionysisches im Chor der griechischen Tragodie (1996).

David Kovacs is Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia. He is the editor and translator of Euripides for the Loeb Classical Library. In addition to the six Loeb volumes he has written three companion volumes discussing textual problems and setting out the ancient evidence for the life of Euripides. He is also the author of two monographs on Euripides and some thirty articles on tragic topics.

Ismene Lada-Richards is a lecturer in Classics at King’s College London. She is the author of Initiating Dionysus: Ritual and Theatre in Aristophanes’ Frogs (Oxford, 1999) and numerous articles on Greek drama in its ritual and performative context. Her current research interests range from post-hellenistic theater and Roman drama to aspects of the classical tradition and the cultural history of the European stage. She is completing a book on pantomime dancing in imperial and late antiquity.

Donald Mastronarde was educated at Amherst College, Oxford University, and the University of Toronto. Since 1973 he has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now Melpomene Distinguished Professor of Classical Languages and Literature. He has edited Euripides’ Phoenissae in the Teubner series (1988), produced commentaries on Euripides’ Phoenissae (Cambridge, 1994) and Medea (Cambridge, 2002), and published on other topics in ancient drama.

Judith Mossman is Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. She has published a book on Euripides’ Hecuba and is currently preparing an edition of Euripides’ Medea. She is also working on a book on women’s speech in Greek tragedy.

Vassiliki Panoussi is an assistant professor of Classics at Williams College. Her research focuses on intertextuality, cultural anthropology, and the study of women and gender in antiquity. She is the author of articles on Vergil, Lucan, and Catullus, and is currently completing a book-length study of Vergil’s Aeneid and its intertextual and ideological relationship to Greek tragedy.

Christopher Pelling has been Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University since 2003; before that he was McConnell Laing Fellow and Praelector in Classics at University College, Oxford. His books include Plutarch: Life of Antony (Cambridge, 1988), Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (Routledge, 2000), and Plutarch and History (Duckworth and Classical Press of Wales, 2002); he also edited Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature (Oxford, 1990) and Greek Tragedy and the Historian (Oxford, 1997).

Deborah H. Roberts is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Comparative Literature and Classics at Haverford College. She has published work on Greek tragedy, on Aristotle’s Poetics, and on the reception and translation of ancient literature. She co-edited (with Don Fowler and Francis M. Dunn) Classical Closure: Reading the End in Greek and Latin Literature (Princeton, 1997); her translation of Euripides’ Ion appeared in the Penn Greek Drama series, edited by David Slavitt and Palmer Bovie (Philadelphia, 1999).

Suzanne Said is Professor of Classics at Columbia University. She has written widely on Greek literature and mythology. Her books include La Faute tra-gique (1978), Sophiste et Tyran ou le probl'me du Prome'the'e enchaine (1985), Approches de la mythologie grecque (1993), Hom're et l’Odysse'e (1998), and (with M. Trede and A. Le Boulluec) His-toire de la litteraturegrecque (1997). She is the editor of Hellenismos (1989), on

Greek identity, and co-editor (with D. Auger) of Genealogies mythiques (1998).

Ruth Scodel was educated at Berkeley and Harvard, and has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan since 1984. She is the author of The Trojan Trilogy of Euripides (1980), Sophocles (1984), Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek Tragedy (1999), Listening to Homer (2002), and articles on Greek literature.

Scott Scullion is Fellow of Worcester College and Faculty Lecturer in Classics, University of Oxford. A native of Toronto with a BA from the University of Toronto and a PhD from Harvard, he has published a book and a number of articles on Greek literature and on Greek religion. He is working on an introductory monograph on Euripides and, with Robert Parker and Simon Price, on a sourcebook of Greek religion.

Bernd Seidensticker is Professor of Greek at the Freie Universitat Berlin. He is the author, co-author, or editor of books on Greek and Roman tragedy (Palintonos Harmonia, Das Satyrspiel, Die Gesprachsverdichtung in den Trago-dien Senecas) and on the reception of antiquity in contemporary literature.

Jocelyn Penny Small is a Professor II in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University. She has written four books, of which the most recent is The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text (2003). Her numerous articles are on a wide range of subjects, including iconography, Etruscan art, memory in antiquity, and database design. She is currently working on optics and illusionism in classical art.

Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood has

Been a Junior Research Fellow at

St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, University Lecturer at Liverpool University, Senior Research Fellow at University College, Oxford, and Reader at Reading University. She has published many articles and the following books: Theseus as Son and Stepson (1979), Studies in Girls’ Transitions (1988), ‘‘Reading’’ Greek Culture (1991), ‘‘Reading’’ Greek Death (1995; paperback, 1996), and Tragedy and Athenian Religion (2003).

Peter Wilson was born and educated in Sydney, Australia, and received his PhD at Cambridge. He held research and teaching posts in Cambridge, Oxford, and the University of Warwick before becoming a Fellow and Tutor in Classics in New College, Oxford, and University Lecturer. He is now Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. His main research interests and publications are in the area of the Greek theater, especially its history and sociology; early Greek poetry and society more widely; and Greek music.

Paul Woodruff teaches philosophy and classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published translations of Euripides’ Bacchae, and, with Peter Meineck, of Sophocles’ Theban plays, as well as an abridged Thucydides translation and versions of several Platonic dialogues, two of them with Alexander Nehamas. He is, as well, the author of several plays and opera libretti. He has written a study of reverence as a classical virtue, and will publish a book on the ideas behind ancient democracy in 2005.