Professor of Greek Literature and Culture
Fellow, King's College
Cambridge
CB2 1ST
Areas of expertise
Research Interests
Greek Tragedy; Greek Culture; Literary Theory; Later Greek Literature; Reception.
Research Supervision
Recent topics supervised include: Deception in Greek Culture; Athens in Paris; Homer's People; Dissent in Greek Literature; 2nd Sophistic Greek; Epiphany in Homer; Tragedy and Suicide; Classics in the 19th Century.
Key Publications
Language Sexuality Narrative: the Oresteia
Reading Greek Tragedy
The Poet's Voice
Foucault's Virginity
Being Greek Under Rome (ed)
Who Needs Greek?
The Invention of Prose
Art and Text in Greek Culture (co-ed)
Rethinking Revolutions (co-ed)
Performance Culture in Ancient Athens (co ed)
The Temple of Jerusalem
Love Sex and Tragedy
How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
Jerusalem: City of Longing
The End of Dialogue in Antiquity? (ed)
Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity
