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Associate Dean, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Professor, Classical Studies

• Affiliation(s)

  • Academic Affairs
  • Department of Classical Studies
  • Institute for the Humanities

• Fields of Study

  • Archaic Greek poetry, Latin literature, history of the classical tradition, religion, magic

• About

  Publications:
  Magic in the Ancient Greek World (Blackwell, 2008); Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry; Immortal Armor: The Concept of Alke in Archaic Greek Poetry; "Hesiod and the Divine Voice of the Muses"; "On the Aesthetics of the Deceiving Self in Nietzsche, Pindar, and Theognis"; "Improvisation in Rhapsodic Performance"; "Theoris of Lemnos and the Criminalization of Magic in Fourth-Century Athens"; "Homer and Rhapsodic Competition in Performance"; "Reading the Birds: Oionomanteia in Early Epic"; "Nature, Cause, and Agency in Greek Magic"

• Education

  • B.A. '87, M.A. '91, UCLA
  • Ph.D. '97, Harvard