Richard Hamilton Armstrong is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Houston. He studied literary theory, classical and medieval literature at Yale University (MPhil., PhD), and his main interests lie in the reception of classical culture, the history of psychoanalysis, and translation studies. He is author of Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World and is currently co-editing a volume of essays on the translation of classical poetry.
Michael H. Barnes is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Honors College of the University of Houston, and has contributed articles to Oral Tradition and the Enzyklo-pddie des Marchens in addition to serving as assistant editor of this Companion to Ancient Epic. His research interests include comparative epic poetry, particularly ancient Greek, and Hellenistic literature.
Shadi Bartsch is Professor in the Department of Classics and the Committee on the History of Culture at the University of Chicago. Her publications include Decoding the Ancient Novel; Actors in the Audience; Ideology in Cold Blood; and The Mirror of the Self: Specularity, Sexuality, and Self-Knowledge in the Roman Empire (forthcoming). She is also co-editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern.
Gary Beckman is Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies and Chair of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of Hittite Birth Rituals and Hittite Diplomatic Texts as well as co-editor of the Norton Epic of Gilgamesh, and is currently completing an edition of Gilgamesh texts found at the Hittite capital. He also serves as an editor of the Journal of Cuneiform Studies and the Journal of the American Oriental Society.
Jonathan S. Burgess is an associate professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto whose research focuses on early Greek epic and myth. His major book is The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle, and he has published articles in Classical Philology, the American Journal of Philology, and Transactions of the American Philological Association. He is currently working on a project about the death and afterlife of Achilles.
Walter Burkert studied classics, history, and philosophy at Erlangen and Munich and has taught classics as professor at Berlin (1966-9) and Zurich (1969-96), and as visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and other institutions in the United States. His research and publications concentrate on ancient Greek philosophy and religion, including oriental contacts and perspectives from anthropology. Among his publications are Homo Necans, Greek Religion, and The Orientalizing Revolution.
Olga M. Davidson is currently Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Brandeis University. Her teaching interests center on Persian and Arabic languages and literatures. She is author of Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings, and Comparative Literature and Classical Persian Poetry. Her articles include ‘‘Formulaic analysis of samples taken from the Shahnama of Ferdowsi,’’ in Oral Tradition, as well as papers in the Journal of the American Oriental Society and Arethusa.
William J. Dominik is Professor of Classics at the University of Otago and has taught widely in classics and the humanities at a number of universities. He is the author and editor of numerous books and other publications on such topics as Statius, Flavian Rome, Roman rhetoric, and Roman verse satire, including Speech and Rhetoric in Statius’ Thebaid and The Mythic Voice of Statius. He is also the founding editor of the classical journal Scholia.
Casey Due serves as an assistant professor of Classical Studies in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston. She holds an MA and PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard University, and her teaching and research interests include ancient Greek oral traditions, Homeric poetry, and Greek tragedy. Among her publications are Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis and The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy
Lowell Edmunds is Professor of Classics at Rutgers University. Among his publications are Myth in Homer: A Handbook, Theatrical Space and Historical Place in Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, and an edited volume entitled Approaches to Greek Myth. His most recent book is Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry, and he is at work on a volume on Oedipus for the Routledge series, ‘‘Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World.’’
Mark W. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Stanford University. He is the author of Sound, Sense, and Rhythm: Listening to Greek and Latin Poetry, Homer: Poet of the Iliad, and Volume 5 (Books 17-20) of the six-volume Cambridge Commentary on the Iliad, as well as a series of three articles on formulaic phraseology and narrative patterning in the Homeric poems, published in Oral Tradition.
Joseph Farrell is Professor of Classical Studies and Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Chair in Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Vergil’s Georgics and the Traditions of Ancient Epic, Latin Language and Latin Culture, and ‘‘The Vergilian intertext’’ in the Cambridge Companion to Vergil, as well as numerous articles in such journals as Classical Quarterly, Classical World, the American Journal of Philology, and Harvard Studies in Classical Philology.
Helene P. Foley is Professor and Chair of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia University. She holds MA degrees in Classics and English from Yale University and a PhD in Classics from Harvard University. She is the author of numerous publications on Greek epic and drama, on women and gender in antiquity, and on modern performance and adaptation of Greek drama. Her books include Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and Female Acts in Greek Tragedy.
John Miles Foley is W. H. Byler Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Curators’ Professor of Classical Studies and English, and Director of the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at the University of Missouri, Columbia. His research interests include ancient Greek, medieval English, and South Slavic oral traditions. Recent publications include Homer’s Traditional Art, How to Read an Oral Poem, and an experimental edition-translation of a South Slavic oral epic, The Wedding of Mustajbey’s Son Becirbey as Performed by Halil Bajgoric.
Monica R. Gale is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. Her research interests include the poetry of the late Roman Republic and the Augustan period; she is the author of Myth and Poetry in Lucretius, Virgil on the Nature of Things, and Lucretius and the Didactic Epic, as well as editor of Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality. She is currently working on a commentary on the poems of Catullus.
R. Scott Garner received his PhD from Princeton University and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of the Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign. In addition to his primary research, which focuses on traditional oral techniques of composition within non-epic archaic Greek poetry, he has also written on the ancient novel as well as features of oral-formulaic performance within the South Slavic oral epic tradition.
Sander M. Goldberg is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Making of Menander’s Comedy, Understanding Terence, Epic in Republican Rome, and other studies of Greek and Roman literature. His current research centers on the developing idea of literature in the Roman Republic and, with Professor Tom Beghin, the relationship of classical rhetorical theory to eighteenth-century music.
Michael W. Haslam is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Special areas of interest include archaic Greek lyric, Homer, tragedy, and Hellenistic poetry; also textual transmission as well as literary criticism and exegesis both ancient and modern. He has edited Greek papyri in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri series and elsewhere, and contributed ‘‘Homeric Papyri and the transmission of the text’’ to A New Companion to Homer.
Alan James received his PhD from King’s College, Cambridge. He has served as Fellow and Lecturer in Classics, Selwyn College, Cambridge University; and as Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Sydney. His research specialties are early and later Greek epic poetry and didactic poetry, poetry of the Hellenistic period, and translation of the Iliad, and his major publications include two books on Oppian, a translation of Malalas, and a commentary on Quintus Book 5.
Richard Jenkyns is Professor of the Classical Tradition in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. He also serves as Public Orator at Oxford. His most recent books are Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance; Virgil’s Experience: Nature and History: Times, Names, and Places; Westminster Abbey; and A Fine Brush on Ivory: An Appreciation of Jane Austen.
Minna Skafte Jensen is Professor Emerita of Greek and Latin at the University of Southern Denmark, having also taught at the University of Copenhagen. Among her major publications are The Homeric Question and the Oral-Formulaic Theory and A History of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature. She has also contributed to collective volumes such as Translators and Translations and The Kalevala and the World’s Traditional Epics, as well as to the Symbolae Osloensis debate over the divisions in the Homeric epics.
Craig Kallendorf is Professor of Classics and English at Texas A&M University. He is the author of eleven books and several dozen articles, mostly on the reception of Virgil in early modern Europe. His latest books are Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance, Humanist Educational Treatises, and In Praise of Aeneas: Virgil and Epideictic Rhetoric in the Early Italian Renaissance.
Joshua T. Katz is a linguist by training, a classicist by profession, and a comparative philologist at heart. An assistant professor of Classics, the John Witherspoon Bicentennial Preceptor, and a member of the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University, he is widely published in Indo-European studies and has a particular interest in the languages, literatures, and cultures of Greece and the Ancient Near East.
Robert Lamberton received his PhD from Yale University and currently serves as Professor and Chair in the Department of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis. Among his publications are Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Reading and the Growth of the Epic Tradition, Hesiod, and ‘‘Homer in antiquity,’’ which appeared in A New Companion to Homer. Together with J. Keaney, he has also edited Homer’s Ancient Readers: The Hermeneutics of Greek Epic’s Earliest Exegetes.
Bruce Louden received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and has written widely on Homeric epic, including a book entitled The Odyssey: Structure, Narration, and Meaning. He has also published on Indo-European myth and poetics, Bacchylides, Roman drama, Beowulf, Shakespeare, and Milton. He is currently finishing a book on the Iliad, as well as pursuing parallels between Greek myth and the Old Testament.
Raymond D. Marks received his PhD in Classics from Brown University and is currently an assistant professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. His research interests include post-Augustan epic poetry and literature of the Flavian period; the latter will be the subject of his next research project, supported by a Loeb Fellowship. He is presently preparing a book tentatively entitled In Defense of Empire: Scipio Africanus in the Punica ofSilius Italicus.
Richard P. Martin holds the Antony and Isabelle Raubitschek Chair in Classics at Stanford University. He received his PhD in Classical Philology from Harvard University, and is the author of Healing, Sacrifice, and Battle: Amechania and Related Concepts in Early Greek Poetry, The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad, and Myths of the Ancient Greeks. His research interests include ancient and modern poetics, Irish language and literature, modern Greek culture, and oral epic traditions worldwide.
Gregory Nagy is the author of The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry and Pindar’s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past, among many other books. Since 2000, he has been the Director of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, while continuing to teach at the Harvard campus in Cambridge as the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature.
D. P. Nelis is Professor of Latin in Trinity College Dublin. His central research interest is the influence of Hellenistic Greek poetry at Rome. He is the author of Vergil’s Aeneid and the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, editor (with D. S. Levene) of Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions ofAncient Historiography, and author of a number of articles on Apollonius Rhodius.
Stephanie Nelson received her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago and presently serves as an assistant professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Boston University. She has published God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil and a wide range of articles on Homer, James Joyce, and other subjects. Her most recent book is Aristophanes’ Tragic Muse: Tragedy, Comedy, and the Polis in Classical Athens.
Carole E. Newlands is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Playing with Time: Ovid and the Fasti and of Statius’ Silvae and the Poetics of Empire, and has also written articles on Roman poetry and early Roman literature as well as on the reception of Ovid. She currently serves as an associate editor of the American Journal of Philology.
Susan Niditch, who specializes in the traditions of ancient Israel, is the Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College, where she has taught since 1978. Her books include War in the Hebrew Bible: A Study in the Ethics of Violence, Ancient Israelite Religion, and Oral World and Written Word:Ancient Israelite Literature. Current projects are a new translation/commentary for the biblical Book of Judges and a study of‘‘Hair in ancient Israel.’’
Scott B. Noegel is Associate Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Washington. His recent works include Nocturnal Ciphers: The Allusive Language of Dreams in the Ancient Near East, A Historical Dictionary of Prophets in Islam and Judaism, and Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World. He is currently co-editing The Linguistic Cycle: Selected Writings of Carleton T. Hodge and writing a monograph on magic and the Bible.
Michael C. J. Putnam is MacMillan Professor of Classics and Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. His books, including Virgil’s Epic Designs and The Poetry of the Aeneid, have been largely concerned with Latin literature of the Republican and Augustan periods, especially with the poetry of Virgil, Horace, and Tibullus. A former president of the American Philological Association, he is a trustee of the American Academy in Rome and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Kurt A. Raaflaub is David Herlihy University Professor and Professor of Classics and History at Brown University. His main research interests include archaic and classical Greek and Roman Republican political, social, and intellectual history, war and society, the cultural interaction between Egypt, the Near East, and Greece, and the comparative history of ancient civilizations. He recently published The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece and is working on a history of early Greek political thought.
Jack M. Sasson is the Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Judaic Studies and Hebrew Bible, Professor of Classics, and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. He writes on the archives from Mari in the early second millennium BCE and has produced commentaries on the biblical books of Ruth and Jonah. He is past editor of the Journal of the American Oriental Society and editor-in-chief of Civilizations of the Ancient Near East.
Susan Sherratt is Honorary Research Associate, Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. She is author of Arthur Evans, Knossos, and the Priest-king and the Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: The Captive Spirit, as well as ‘‘ ‘Reading the texts’: archaeology and the Homeric question,’’ published in Antiquity. She is also editor of the three-volume collection, The Wall Paintings of Thera.
Robert Shorrock read classics at University College, Durham and Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD. He is the author of The Challenge of Epic: Allusive Engagement in the Dionysiaca ofNonnus and of a number of articles on ancient literature and the classical tradition. He teaches at Eton College, Windsor.
Laura M. Slatkin teaches classical studies at New York University (Gallatin School) and the University of Chicago. Her research interests include ancient Greek and Roman poetry, especially epic and drama; wisdom traditions in classical and Near Eastern antiquity; comparative mythology; gender studies; anthropological approaches to the literature of the ancient Mediterranean world; and cultural poetics. Among her publications is The Power of Thetis: Allusion and Interpretation in the Iliad.
Dennis E. Trout is an associate professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the author of Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems and, most recently, ‘‘Damasus and the invention of early Christian Rome’’ in The Cultural Turn in Late Ancient Studies. At present he is working on Latin epigraphic poetry of the fourth and fifth centuries, giving special attention to the poems of Damasus, bishop of Rome from 366 to 384.
Nicholas Wyatt has a personal chair in ancient Near Eastern religions in the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Myths of Power: A Study of Royal Myth and Ideology in Ugaritic and Biblical Tradition, Religious Texts from Ugarit: The Works ofIlimilku and his Colleagues, and Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Near East. He has also written numerous articles on Old Testament, Ugaritic, Indian, and comparative topics.
Andrew Zissos received his PhD from Princeton University and was Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in 2000-1. He presently serves as an assistant professor of Latin Literature and Graduate Director in the Department of Classics, University of California, Irvine. He has published numerous articles on Latin epic, primarily on Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and is currently completing a commentary on Book 1 of the Argonautica.
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