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Research and Publications

Emily McDermott,

Book:

Euripides' Medea. The Incarnation of Disorder.  University Park, PA, 1989.

Selected Articles:

“Horatius callidus,” American Journal of Philology 98 (1977), 363-380.

“The Unfair Fight. A Significant Motif in the Aeneid,” Classical Journal 75 (1980), 153-154.

“Greek and Roman Elements in Horace's Lyric Program,” Aufstieg und Niedergang der römishcen Welt. 1981 II N° 31.3, pp. 1640-1672

“Horace, Maecenas and Odes 2.17,” Hermes 110 (1982), 211-228.

“Double Meaning and Mythic Novelty in Euripides' Plays,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 121 (1991), 123-132

“Euripides' Second Thoughts,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 130 (2000), 239-259.

"Classical Allusion in The Count of Monte Cristo," reprinted in Jennifer Smith, ed., Novels for Students, Vol. 19 (Gale Group,2004).

"Frazier Polymetis: Cold Mountain and the Odyssey," Classical and Modern Literature 24:2 (2004), 24pp.

 

Ken Rothwell

Books:

Politics and Persuasion in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae.  Mnemosyne Supplements 111.  Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990. 

Nature, Culture and the Origins of Greek Comedy.  A Study of Animal Choruses.  Forthcoming 2006, Cambridge Univ. Press.

Articles:

 “Propertius on the Site of Rome,” Latomus 55 (1996), 829-54.

 “Aristophanes' Wasps and the Sociopolitics of Aesop’s Fables,” Classical Journal 93 (1995), 233-54.

“Was Carcinus I a Tragic Poet?” Classical Philology 89 (1994), 241-45.    

“The Continuity of the Chorus in Fourth-Century Attic Comedy,” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 33 (1992), 209-225.  An expanded version of appeared as a chapter in Gregory W. Dobrov, ed. Beyond Aristophanes: Transition and Diversity in Greek Comedy.  American Classical Studies 38. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press/American Philological Association, 1995, pp. 99-118. (Review: Keith Sidwell, Classical Review 47 [1997], 255-57)

Research in Progress:

An Introduction to the Athenian Democracy.  A textbook aimed at undergraduates.

The De Pictura Sacra and Musaeum of Federico Borromeo.  Translation of two treatises from 1624 and 1625, under contract with Harvard University Press for the I Tatti Renaissance Library.

A Cultural History of Magna Graecia.  A synthetic study of Greek art and literature in Sicily and Southern Italy.

 

Kellee Barnard.

Book:

Mochlos Ib: Period III. Neopalatial Settlement on the Coast: The Artisans' Quarter and the Farmhouse at Chalinomouri, the Neopalatial Pottery. Prehistory Monographs, 8. INSTAP Academic Press (Dec. 2003).  David Brown Book Company (March 1, 2004).