Jeffrey Rusten, Dept of Classics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-3201, USA, jsr5@cornell.edu

Forthcoming in 2009

-The Birth of Comedy: Fragments of Athenian Comedy 540-280 B. C. (with Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Ralph Rosen, and Niall Slater) Johns Hopkins University Press

-Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Thucydides, Oxford University Press (contents)

--"Unlocking the Orphic Doors: Interpretation of Poetry in the Derveni Papryus between Pre-Socratics and Alexandrians". In The Derveni Papyrus: Proccedings of a Conference at the Center for Hellenic Studies July 7-9, 2008. eds. Gregory Nagy and Francesca Schironi.

--"Four ways to hate Corcyra : Thucydides 1.24-55 against the background of Odyssey 13, Herodotus 3.48-53, and 7.168". In Biaios Diaskalos? Thucydides and Historiography: Proceedings of a Conference in Regensburg, July 3-5, 2008. ed. Georg Rechenauer.

Current Projects Fall 2008

-Commentary on Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War Book I for Cambridge University Press

--Review (long overdue!) of Diggle, James.. Theophrastus: Characters. (Cambridge 2004) for Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Pre-publication Books and Articles
(in Acrobat pdf format, some require a password (available from the author) to open)

--"Unlocking the Orphic Doors: Interpretation of Poetry in the Derveni Papryus between Pre-Socratics and Alexandrians"

--"Four ways to hate Corcyra : Thucydides 1.24-55 against the background of Odyssey 13, Herodotus 3.48-53, and 7.168"

--slides from "Commedia dell’ arte“ in neuer Bedeutung: Die griechische Komödie in der griechischen Kunst" (Lecture at the Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, June 30 2008)

--"The Birth of Comedy".

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