Departmental Papers (Classical Studies)
For over two centuries Penn has offered a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs representing all aspects of the broad field of Classical Studies, from languages and literature to history, archaeology and cultural studies. The Department encourages interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to teaching and research and maintains productive ties with a variety of programs, including Religious Studies, English, Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Linguistics, Italian Studies, History of Art, and the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Papers from 2000
Review of Vivian Nutton, ed., Galen. On My Own Opinions. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum 5.3.2 Galeni De Propriis Placitis, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 1999
The Trial of Cn. Piso in Tacitus' Annals and the "Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre": New Light on Narrative Technique, Cynthia Damon
Aeneid 5: Poetry and Parenthood, Joseph Farrell
Reviewed Work: The Criticism of Didactic Poetry: Essays on Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid by Alexander Dalzell, Joseph Farrell
Walcott's Omeros: The Classical Epic in a Postmodern World, Joseph Farrell
The Poetics of Loss in Greek Epic, Sheila Murnaghan
The Survivors' Song: The Drama of Mourning in Euripides' "Alcestis", Sheila Murnaghan
Comedy and Confusion in Callias' Letter Tragedy, Ralph M. Rosen
Comedies of Transgression in Gangsta Rap and Ancient Classical Poetry, Ralph M. Rosen and Donald R. Marks
Review of Oiva Kuisma, Proclus' Defense of Homer, Peter T. Struck
Papers from 1998
Reading and Writing the Heroides, Joseph Farrell
Reading Latin in Schools and Colleges, Joseph Farrell
The Gendered Polis in Eupolis' Cities, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 1997
From Source to Sermo: Narrative Technique in Livy 34.54.4-8, Cynthia Damon
Review of Geraldine Herbert-Brown, Ovid and the Fasti: An Historical Study, Joseph Farrell
Review of Simon Goldhill, Foucault's Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality, Joseph Farrell
The Virgilian Intertext, Joseph Farrell
Equal Honor and Future Glory: The Plan of Zeus in the Iliad, Sheila Murnaghan
Homer and Hesiod, Ralph M. Rosen
Performance and Textuality in Aristophanes' Clouds, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 1996
Reviewed Work: Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State by Richard Seaford, Sheila Murnaghan
Papers from 1995
On the Prosecution of C. Antonius in 76 B.C., Cynthia Damon
Review of James J. Clauss, The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apollonius' Argonautica, Joseph Farrell
Sucking the Juice Without Biting the Rind: Aristotle and Tragic Mimēsis, Sheila Murnaghan
The Plan of Athena, Sheila Murnaghan
Plato Comicus and the Evolution of Greek Comedy, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 1994
Review of Charles Rowan Beye, Ancient Epic Poetry; Peter Toohey, Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives, Joseph Farrell
Review of Gian Biagio Conte, Glenn W. Most, and Charles Segal, Genres and Readers: Lucretius, Love Elegy, Pliny's Encyclopedia, Joseph Farrell
Reading Penelope, Sheila Murnaghan
Review of: Norman Austin, Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994., Sheila Murnaghan
Review of A. M. Bowie, Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 1993
Allusions, Delusions and Confusions: A Reply, Joseph Farrell
Review of Carl C. Schlam, The Metamorphoses of Apuleius: On Making an Ass of Oneself, Joseph Farrell
Review of Statius, Thebaid IX, Joseph Farrell
Review of Vergil and S. J. Harrison (Trans.), Aeneid 10; Virgil and K. W. Gransden (Ed), Aeneid, Book XI, Joseph Farrell
Andrew Ford, Homer: The Poetry of the Past. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992., Sheila Murnaghan
Review of: Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction. By Frederick Ahl. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1991, Sheila Murnaghan
Review of Neil O'Sullivan, Alcidamas, Aristophanes and the Beginnings of Greek Stylistic Theory, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 1992
Statius Silvae 4. 9: Libertas Decembris?, Cynthia Damon
Dialogue of Genres in Ovid's "Lovesong of Polyphemus" (Metamorphoses 13.719-897), Joseph Farrell
Literary Allusion and Cultural Poetics in Vergil's Third "Eclogue", Joseph Farrell
Review of B. P. Reardon, The Form of Greek Romance, Joseph Farrell
Review of Christine Perkell, The Poet's Truth: A Study of the Poet in Virgil's Georgics, Joseph Farrell
Maternity and Mortality in Homeric Poetry, Sheila Murnaghan
Reviewed Work: The Unity of the Odyssey by George Dimock, Sheila Murnaghan
Review of: J.B. Hainsworth, The Idea of Epic. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991., Sheila Murnaghan
Mixing of Genres and Literary Program in Herodas 8, Ralph M. Rosen
Review of Thomas K. Hubbard, The Mask of Comedy. Aristophanes and the Intertextual Parabasis, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 1991
Aesthetic Response and Technical Analysis in the Rhetorical Writings of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Cynthia Damon
Asinius Pollio in Vergil Eclogue 8, Joseph Farrell
Introduction: On Vergilian Intertextuality, Joseph Farrell
Review of: Virgil, Edited by Ian McAuslan and Peter Walcot and Oxford Readings in Vergil's Aeneid, Edited by S.J. Harrison, Joseph Farrell
Review of R.A.B. Mynors (Ed.), Virgil Georgics, Joseph Farrell
Review of: Homer, Iliad. Translated by Robert Fagles, with introduction and notes by Bernard Knox. New York: Viking, 1990., Sheila Murnaghan
Review of: John Peradotto, Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990., Sheila Murnaghan
Review of Gregory Nagy, Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past, Ralph M. Rosen
Review of H. Lloyd-Jones, Greek Comedy, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Religion and Miscellanea, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 1990
Poem Division, Paired Poems, and Amores 2.9 and 3.11, Cynthia Damon
Review of R. O. A. M. Lyne, Words and the Poet. Characteristic Techniques of Style in Vergil's Aeneid, Joseph Farrell
Which "Aeneid" in Whose Nineties?, Joseph Farrell
Reviewed Work: Die Odyssee. Epos Zwischen Marchen und Roman by Uvo Holscher, Sheila Murnaghan
Hipponax and the Homeric Odysseus, Ralph M. Rosen
Poetry and Sailing in Hesiod's Works and Days, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 1989
Euboulos' Ankylion and the Game of Kottabos, Ralph M. Rosen
Trouble in the Early Career of Plato Comicus: Another Look at P. Oxy. 2737, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 1988
Body and Voice in Greek Tragedy, Sheila Murnaghan
How a Woman Can Be More Like a Man: The Dialogue Between Ischomachus and his Wife in Xenophone's Oeconomicus, Sheila Murnaghan
A Poetic Initiation Scene in Hipponax?, Ralph M. Rosen
Hipponax and His Enemies in Ovid's Ibis, Ralph M. Rosen
Hipponax, Boupalos and the Conventions of the Psogos, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 1987
Reviewed Work: Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides by Helene P. Foley, Sheila Murnaghan
Reviewed Work: Under the Sign of the Shield: Semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes by Froma I. Zeitlin, Sheila Murnaghan
Hipponax Fr. 48 Dg. and the Eleusinian Kykeon, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 1986
The Distinction Between Comitia and Concilium, Joseph Farrell
Acontius, Milanion, and Gallus: Vergil, Ecl. 10.52-61, Joseph Farrell and Ralph M. Rosen
Antigone 904-920 and the Institution of Marriage, Sheila Murnaghan
Reviewed Work: Images of Women in Antiquity by Averil Cameron, Amélie Kuhrt, Sheila Murnaghan
Milanion, Acontius and Gallus: Vergil, Eclogue 10.52-61, Ralph M. Rosen and Joseph Farrell
Papers from 1985
Reviewed Work: Aspects of the Epic by Tom Winnifrith, Penelope Murray, K. W. Gransden, Sheila Murnaghan
Reviewed Work: The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey by Jenny Strauss Clay, Sheila Murnaghan
Papers from 1984
The Ionian at Aristophanes, Ralph M. Rosen