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Faculty of Classics

 

Research

Greek Literature

Publications

Key publications: 

Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence (OUP, 2018).

The Cambridge Companion to Pindar (CUP, forthcoming).

‘Placing Aphrodite: Alcaeus fr. 296b and Horace C. 4.1’: ZPE 189 (2014): 53-63.

‘Alcman 3 PMGF and Horace C. 2.8’: ZPE 192 (2014): 23-8.

‘Zeus and the Maidens: Pindar fr. 94b.31-7’: ZPE 192 (2014): 31-3.

‘Alcaeus 140’: CPhil 110 (2015): 353-60.

‘Simonides 21 IEG2’: ZPE 200 (2016): 33-5.

‘Sappho 44: Trojan Myth and Literary History’: Mnemosyne 70 (2017): 740-57.

‘Borrowing Sappho’s Napkins: Sappho 101, Catullus 12, and Theocritus 28’: HSCP 109 (2017): 237-60.

‘Reading Agamemnon’s Mind in Euripides’ Hecuba’: Omnibus 73 (2017): 15-18.

‘Event and Artefact: The Hymn to Apollo, Archaic Lyric, and Early Greek Literary History’: in Textual Events: Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece ed. F. Budelmann and T. Phillips (2018): 151-71.

‘Heirs and Educators: Pindar in the Epitaph for Bion’: Hermes 146 (2018): 107-9.

‘Alcaeus’, ‘Alcman’, ‘Ibycus’: The Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com).

‘Pindar and the Epic Cycle’: JHS 138 (2018): 182-201.

‘Schools, Reading and Poetry in the Early Greek World’: CCJ 65 (2019): 150-72.

‘The View from Olympus: The Muses’ Song in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo’: CQ 72 (2020): 1-9.

‘The Odyssey and its Predecessors’: Omnibus 81 (2021): 6-8. 

‘Staging Literary History in Old Comedy’: CPhil 116 (2021): 305-35.

 ‘Of Armpits and the Origins of Comedy: Aristophanes fr. 264 and 265’: GRBS 61 (2021): 249-62.

‘Classicising “Pindar”: Quotation, Canonisation and Early Reception’: Trends in Classics 13 (2021): 363-88.

‘Theognis’ Unoriginal Didactic Failure’: in Phaidimos Hektor. Studi in onore di Willy Cingano per il suo 70mo compleanno ed. E. Prodi and S. Vecchiato (2021): 133-54.

‘Alcaeus’: in The Blackwell Companion to Greek Lyric ed. L. Swift (2022): 275-89.

‘Epic and Lyric’: in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Epic ed. E. Greensmith.

“If One Knows What is to Come”: Ethics, Audience, and Eschatology in Pindar’s Olympian 2’JHS.

Xenophanes’ Poetic Travels’: AJP.

'Alcidamas and the the Idea of Literary History: P. Mich. Inv. 2754': CPhil.

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