Overview
Professor of Classics; Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow. Epic Poetry; Tragic Theatre; Wordplay in Literature; Theory of Translation.
Books: Lucan: An Introduction; Seneca: Three Tragedies; Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets; Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction; Statius' Thebaid: A Reconsideration; The Odyssey Re-formed; articles on Greek music, Homeric narrative, ancient rhetoric, and Roman imperial poetry.
Research Focus
- Greek and Roman Epic and Drama
- Intellectual History of Greece and Rome
Publications
Books
- Lucan: An Introduction
- Seneca: Three Tragedies
- Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets
- Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction
- Two Faces of Oedipus
- Statius' Thebaid: A Reconsideration
- Virgil's Aeneid; translation and commentary
- The Odyssey Re-Formed (with Hanna Roisman)
Articles
- Greek music, Homeric narrative, ancient rhetoric, and Roman imperial poetry