Department: Classics
Supervisor: Professor Richard Hunter
College: Peterhouse
Title of Thesis: Concepts of Tragedy and the Tragic in Late Euripidean Drama
Biography:
Marcus is a PhD student at Peterhouse, where he also completed his BA and MPhil degrees; the latter focused on Greek tragedy and its reception in the opera libretti of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. His PhD explores immanent concepts of the tragic in Euripides, with a particular focus on monody and choral lyric.
Other academic interests
epic and drama, classical receptions, fin de siècle German literature, commedia dell’arte, literary theory