CORNELL CLASSICS FACULTY AND STAFF

Academic Year 2006-2007 On Leave

• A.B., Berkeley 1976
• B.Phil., Oxford 1979
• Ph.D., Yale 1985

• Harvard University: Assistant Professor, 1985-1989
• Cornell University: Assistant Professor, 1989-1994
• Cornell University: Associate Professor, 1994-
  • Director of Graduate Studies in Classics, 1994-2000
  • Chair of Classics Department, 2000-2006
  • Acting Director of Graduate Studies in Classics, Fall 2002
    

• Classics 238: Ancient Epic and Beyond (in translation), Spring 2000
• Classics 310: Undergraduate Seminar on Sophocles (Antigone and Electra) Spring 2000
• Classics 672.1: Graduate Seminar on the Iliad (with Alan Nussbaum), Fall 2000
• Classics 311: Undergraduate Seminar on Greek Lyric Poetry, Spring 2001
• Classics 258: Periclean Athens (with Hunter Rawlings), Spring 2002
• Classics 205.2 Intermediate Latin, Fall 2002
• Classics 671: Greek Graduate Seminar: Pindar, Fall 2002
• Classics 109: Elementary Latin III, Spring 2004
• Classics 101: Elementary Ancient Greek I, Fall 2004
• Classics 606: Graduate Survey of Greek Literature, Spring 2005

• Mind, Body, and Speech in Homer and Pindar (Hypomnemata 107 [G–ttingen 1995]
  
• Reviews:
  • A. BonnafÈ, L'AntiquitÈ Classique 67 (1998)
  • B. K. Braswell, Museum Helveticum 53 (1996) 308
  • P. Hummel, Revue de Philologie 69 (1995) 339-341
  • J. Lidov, BMCR 96.6.3 http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1996/96.06.03.html
  • E. PolomÈ, Journal of Indo-European Studies 25 (1997) 426-7
  • D. F. Wilson, Religious Studies Review 23 (1997) 397
  • N. Yamagata, Classical Review 46. 2 (1996) 215-216
• "As Many Homers As You Please", review of G. Nagy, Poetry as Performance and Homeric Questions, New York Review of Books 44. 18 (November 20, 1997) 44-48 (available at http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html )
• "The Transposition of Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1203-1204 and the uses of mwn", Mir Curad: Studies in Honor of Calvert Watkins (Innsbruck 1998) 561-572
• Selected Dialogues of Plato: The Benjamin Jowett Translation, substantially revised by Hayden Pelliccia (The Modern Library, 2000), with preface and brief notes by the reviser (Ion, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Symposium, Apology)
• "Was Jason a Hero?", review of The Argonautika by Apollonios Rhodios, translated from the Greek by Peter Green, New York Review of Books 48. 12 (July 19, 2001) 53-56 (available at http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html )
• "The Interpretation of Iliad 6.145-9 and the Sympotic Contribution to Rhetoric", Colby Quarterly 38.2 (2002) 197-230
• "Two points about Rhapsodes", in Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World , edited by M. Finkelberg and G. Stroumsa (Leiden, 2003) 98-116

• Monograph on Surrogacy in Greek Literature
• Edition and Commentary, Pindar's Pythian 3

• Columbia University Seminar in Classics, April 2000: "Parmenides' Poetic Antecedents"
• University of Cincinatti, May 2001: "Herodotus on the Founding of Cyrene"
• James Loeb Memorial Lecture, Harvard University, March 13, 2002: "Herodotus, Surrogates, and Cyrene"
• Peter A. Vlachos Lectures in Classics, Colby College, March 17, 2003: "Ritual Substitutes and Folklore: The Return of Alcestis from the Dead".
• Rice University, April 2, 2004: "Herodotus and Pindar"
• Georgetown University, April 15, 2005: "Herodotus' Truthfulness: Some Recent Defenses"

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