Notes on Contributors Marigo Alexopoulou is Professor of Greek at Athens College, Hellenic American Educational Foundation, Greece. She is the author of The Theme of Returning Home in Ancient Greek Literature: The Nostos of the Epic Heroes (2009). She is also a contributor to The Classical Reception Theory and Practice, vol. 1 (Institute of Classical Studies, forthcoming) and the author of several scholarly articles on recurrent themes and images in Greek tragedy and on Philostratus. Arlene L. Allan is a lecturer in Classics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. A founding member of the Classics Drama Group at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, she was involved in the performance and direction of several tragedies (1993–2004). She is co-author of A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (2004) with I.C. Storey; a contributor to several volumes (Shards from Kolonos: Studies in Sophoclean Fragments (2003); Games and Festivals in Classical Antiquity. (2004); Personification in the Greek World (2005); Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society (2007); and the author of several journal articles. Eran Almagor is a lecturer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His current research interests include the history of the Achaemenid Empire and Greco-Persian relations in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, Strabo, ethnography and the image of the Persians in Greek literature, Plutarch (the biographies in particular), Josephus and imperial Greek authors. His forthcoming publications include an edited volume on ancient ethnography, a monograph on Plutarch and the Persica and a source-book on Ancient Persia in the Greek imagination. Michael J. Anderson teaches at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the author of The Sack of Troy in Early Greek Poetry and Art (1997). His main scholarly interests lie in mythology, early Greek epic, Athenian drama, and the Greek novels. Richard H. Armstrong (BA University of Chicago; M.Phil., PhD Yale University) is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the Honors College, University of Houston. He is the author of A Compulsion for Antiquity: Freud and the Ancient World (2005) as well as chapters and articles on topics in the receptions of ancient culture, particularly in reference to translation studies and the history of psychoanalysis. He is currently finishing a book titled Theory and Theatricality: Classical Drama and Early Psychoanalysis 1880–1930. Diane Arnson Svarlien is a verse translator and classicist living in Lexington, Kentucky. She has translated Euripides’ Alcestis, Medea, and Hippolytus (2007) and Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women (2012) for Hackett Publishing Company. Her translations of Greek and Roman poetry (Sappho, Semonides, Theocritus, Propertius, Horace, Ovid) have appeared in journals, on the website Diotima (stoa.org/diotima/anthology), and in anthologies, including The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (2010), Homosexuality in Greece and Rome (2003), and Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry (1995). Geoff Bakewell is Professor of Greek and Roman Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He has published numerous articles on Greek tragedy and Athenian democracy, and translations of Aeschylus’ Libation Bearers and Eumenides. He is also co-editor (with James Sickinger) of Gestures: Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy Presented to Alan L. Boegehold (2003). Anastasia Bakogianni is a post-doctoral research associate in Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. She was awarded a PhD by the University of London and worked for a number of years as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies, where her first monograph Electra Ancient and Modern: Aspects of the Reception of the Tragic Heroine (2011) was published. She has also published a number of articles on the reception of Greek tragedy in film, theatre, art, opera, and poetry. James Barrett is the author of Staged Narrative: Poetics and the Messenger in Greek Tragedy (2002). He is a contributor to Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, vols. 1 and 2 (2004 and 2007), as well as the author of articles on Greek tragedy and ancient Greek philosophy. He teaches at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine. Luigi Battezzato is Associate Professor of Greek lLiterature at the Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli (Italy). He is the author of Il monologo nel teatro di Euripide (1995), Linguistica e retorica della tragedia greca (2008), and of Italian translations of Aeschylus’ Choephori (1995) and Euripides’ Hecuba (2010). He is also a contributor to the Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (2009) and to the Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies (2009), and has written several scholarly articles on Greek tragedy, Greek meter and language, and textual criticism. Paul Bednarowski has taught at Boston University, the University of Rhode Island, and Johns Hopkins University. He is currently teaching at George Washington University. His work focuses on tragedy’s use of dramatic characters to achieve emotional and dramatic effects. Elizabeth Belfiore is Professor Emerita of Classics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of Tragic Pleasure: Aristotle on Plato and Emotion (1992), Murder Among Friends: Violation of Philia in Greek Tragedy (2000). She is a contributor to G. Anagnostopoulos (ed.), A Companion to Aristotle (2009), and A. Rorty (ed.), Essays on Aristotle’s Poetics (1992), and the author of numerous articles on ancient philosophy and Greek tragedy. Victor Bers is Professor of Classics at Yale University, where he has taught since 1972. He is the author of Enallage and Greek Style (1974), Greek Poetic Syntax in the Classical Age (1984), Speech in Speech: Incorporated Oratio Recta in Attic Drama and Oratory, Demosthenes: Speeches 50–59, Genos Dikanikon: Amateur and Professional Speech in the Courtrooms of Classical Athens (2009), and articles and reviews on stylistics, oratory, and tragedy. Erica Bexley is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University. She is the author of two articles on Lucan’s Pharsalia (2009 and 2010) and a forthcoming one on Seneca’s Phaedra. Her research interests include: Greek and Roman tragedy, Latin epic, performance studies, Roman oratory and reception. Kathryn Bosher is Assistant Professor of Classics at Northwestern University. She is the author of articles and chapters on Greek drama and on its reception in the United States. She is editor of Theater Outside Athens: Greek Drama in Sicily and South Italy, forthcoming, and co-editor of a volume on the reception of Greek drama in the United States. She is presently at work on a monograph on the social and political history of theater in ancient Greek Sicily. Jacques A. Bromberg earned his PhD in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, and is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine. He has written on the development of academic disciplines in antiquity, especially the influence of drama on the codification of early Greek rhetoric, and his most recent work searches literary texts for clues to the organization and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the ancient world. Julie Brown After receiving her BA in Classics from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and her PhD from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Julie raised and home schooled two children before entering the job arena. She now works as an assistant for the Colby College Classics Department and as a Latin teacher at Waterville High School, Maine. Felix Budelmann teaches at Magdalen College, Oxford. He works on Greek literature, especially lyric and tragedy. He is the author of The Language of Sophocles (2000) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (2009). Currently he is working on an edition with commentary of selections from Greek lyric, and is trying out cognitive approaches to classical literature. Douglas Cairns has taught in the universities of St. Andrews, Otago, Leeds, and Glasgow, and is now Professor of Classics in the University of Edinburgh. He works particularly on ancient Greek emotion, and is the author of Aidōs: The Psychology and Ethics of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greek Literature (1993) and Bacchylides: Five Epinician Odes (2010), as well as the editor of several volumes including Oxford Readings in Homer’s Iliad (2001) and Dionysalexandros: Essays on Aeschylus and his Fellow Tragedians in Honour of Alexander F. Garvie (2006, with Vayos Liapis). Debra Caplan is a doctoral candidate in Yiddish language and literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. Her research on the history of the Yiddish theater has recently been presented at the Association for Jewish Studies and the American Comparative Literature Association. Her article ‚Oedipus Shmedipus: Ancient Greek Drama on the Modern Yiddish Stage‛ was published in the winter/spring 2011 issue of Comparative Drama. T.H. Carpenter is the Charles J. Ping Professor of Humanities and Professor of Classics at Ohio University. He is the author of Dionysian Imagery in Archaic Greece (1986), Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-Century Athens (1997) and Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (1991) and of numerous scholarly articles and reviews. Jesús Carruesco is Lecturer in Classics at the University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona) and researcher at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology. He is the editor and coauthor of Topos-Chôra. L’espai a Grècia I: perspectives interdisciplinàries (2011). He is the author of several contributions on classical reception, especially in A.Beltrametti (ed.), Studi e materiali per le Baccanti di Euripide (2007) and (with M. Reig) in S. Knippschild and M. García Morcillo, Power and Seduction: Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts (forthcoming). He has also published scholarly articles on archaic Greek literature (epic and lyric), Greek mythology, and religion. David Carter is Lecturer in Greek at the University of Reading, UK. He is the author of The Politics of Greek Tragedy (2007) and editor of Why Athens? A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics (2011). Rongnu Chen is Professor of Comparative Literature at Beijing Language and Culture University.