Jeffrey Rusten, Selected Publications and Curriculum Vitae

Books:
-Theophrastus, The Characters (Loeb Classical Library) 1993, 2nd edition 2002
-Sophocles, Oidipous Tyrannos, (Bryn Mawr Commentaries, 1990, 2nd edition 1991)
-Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War Book II (1989);
-Dionysius Scytobrachion (1982)
-GreekKeys fonts and keyboard software for Macintosh (with G. B. Walsh)1990-2000
GreekKeys is now supported by Donald Mastronarde at this website:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/GreekKeys.html

Selected Articles
--"The Aeschylean Avernus: Notes on P. Köln 3.125", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 45, 1982, 33-38
--"Dicaearchus and the Tales from Euripides", Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 23, 1982, 357-367
--"Geitôn Hêrôs: Pindar's Prayer to Heracles (Nem. 7.86-101) and Greek Popular Religion", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 87, 1983, 289-297
--"Two Lives or Three? Pericles on the Athenian Character (Thucydides II.40.1-2)", Classical Quarterly 35, 1985, 14-19
--"Interim Notes on P. Derveni", HSCP 89, 1985, 121-140
--"Structure, Style and Sense in Interpreting Thucydides: The Soldier's Choice (Thuc. II.42.4)", HSCP 90, 1986, 49-76
--"Oedipus and Triviality," Classical Philology, 91 (1996) 97-112.
--"Polytonic Greek Fonts and Keyboards in the U. S.," in Greek Letters, (ed. Michael Macrakis), Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware, 1997, 205-216
--"Fall Ritual: Cornell reads and watches Antigone, " Cornell College of Arts and Sciences Newsletter, February 2004, 4-5.
--"Introduction". to the reprint of R. C. Jebb's commentary on Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, London: Duckworth Press, 2004, 31-46.
--"Living in the Past: Allusive Narratives and Elusive Authorities in the World of Heroicus" in Ellen Aitken and Jennifer MacLean (eds.), Philostratus's Heroikos, Religion, and Cultural Identity (2004, Atlanta: Society for Biblical Literature)
--"Pericles in Thucydides". In O retrato ltererário e a biografia como estratégia de teorizaçâo politica. eds. J. Pérez Jiménez, A. Ribeiro Ferreira and Maria do Céu Fialho, 9-22 (2004, Coimbra-Malaga)
--"Who 'invented' comedy? The ancient candidates for the origins of comedy and the visual evidence", American Journal of Philology 127.1 (January 2006) 37-66
--"Thucydides the Prehistorian: Alleged Anachronisms, Speculations and Errors in the Archaeology (Thuc. 1.2-19)" in Ten Years of the Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels Lectures at Bryn Mawr College, ed. S. Faris and L. Lundeen, 135-147, Bryn Mawr, 2006
--"Thucydides and Comedy". In Brill's Companion to Thucydides. eds. Antonios Rengakos and Antonis Tsakmakis, 547-558 Leiden: Brill. 2006
---"The Four "New Lenaean victors" of 428-5 BC (and the Date of the First Lenaean Comedy) Reconsidered." ZPE 157:2006, 22-26.

Recent reviews:
--Rudolf Kassel et Colin Austin (eds.) Poetae Comici Graeci Vol I: Comoedia Dorica, Mimi, Phlyaces. (Berlin 2001) and Rainer Kerkhof, Dorische Posse, Epicharm und Attische Komödie. (Munich 2001), ), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.12.23 (December 2001)
--Steinhart, Matthias. Die Kunst der Nachahmung: Darstellungen mimetischer Vorführungen in der griechischen Bildkunst archaischer und klassischer Zeit. 2004 Mainz: von Zabern Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.09.51 (September 2005)

Recent teaching:
--Greek comedy (Classics 417, "Aristophanes and Menander"; Classic 223 "The Comic Theater")
--Historiography of Athens (Classics 258, "Periclean Athens", with Hayden Pelliccia and Hunter Rawlings)
--Historiography General (Telluride Summer Program "The Truth in History" [with Carolyn Dewald], Society for the Humanities 402 "Theories and Narratives of Decline")
--"Corhali" seminars on archaic Greek Literature (with Pietro Pucci)
--Cicero's speeches and philosophical writings (Classics 205, "Cicero, Orations; Classics 109, "Elementary Latin III: Cicero")
--Introductory Languages (Classics 102, "Elementary Greek II," 105-6, "Elementary Latin I-II," 107, "Intensive Elementary Latin")

Education:
--Ph. D. 1979 Harvard University (1977-1978 at Universität Köln, Cologne, Germany (German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship)
--B. A. 1972 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1968-1970 at Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

Academic Employment :
--Assoc. Prof.-Prof. of Classics, Cornell University, 1988- (Dept. Chair, 1994-2000, 2006-7)
--Whitehead Visiting Professor, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, 1997-98
--Assoc. Prof. of Classics and Comparative Literature, Washington University in St. Louis, 1986-1988
--Asst.-Assoc. Professor of the Classics, Harvard University, 1981-1986
--Asst. Prof. of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1979-1981--Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter, Forschungsstelle für Papyrologie der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Universität Köln, 1978-1979.

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