• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Classics (Fall 2011)

• Classical Athens (5th-4th century BCE) and its legacy and reception in culture and politics, especially historiography and theater.

 BOOKS

-The Birth of Comedy: fragments of ancient Greek drama, 500-250 B. C., February 2011
-Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Thucydides 2009.
-Theophrastus, The Characters (Loeb Classical Library) 1993, 2nd edition 2002
-Sophocles, Oidipous Tyrannos, (Bryn Mawr Commentaries, 1990, 2nd edition 1991)
-Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War Book II (1989);
-Dionysius Scytobrachion (1982)

WORK IN PROGRESS

-Philostratus, Heroicus and Gymnasticus (Loeb Classical Library volume, with Jason Koenig)
-Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War Book I.

SOFTWARE

-GreekKeys fonts and keyboard software for Macintosh (with G. B. Walsh) 1990-2000
GreekKeys is now supported by Donald Mastronarde at this website:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/GreekKeys.html

RECENT ARTICLES

Forthcoming:
--"Rediscovering A Witness to Comic Art: The Phanagoria Chous." Hesperia
--“Mabel Lang on Thucydides”, Introduction to Mabel Lang, Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse, eds. Eleanor Dickey, Richard Hamilton and Jeffrey Rusten, Michigan Classical Press.
--"Unlocking the Orphic Doors: Interpretation of Poetry in the Derveni Papryus between Pre-Socratics and Alexandrians" (Forthcoming in the Proceedings of a conference on the Derveni - Papyrus at the Centerfor Hellenic Studies, June 8, 2008).
--"Four ways to hate Corcyra: Thucydides 1.24-55 against the background of Odyssey 13, Herodotus 3.48-53, and 7.168" (Forthcoming in the Proceedings of a Conference on Thucydides in Regensburg, Germany, July 3, 2008
--“Thucydides and Comedy”, in Brill’s companion to Thucydides, ed. A. Rengakos and A. Tsakmakis, Leiden 2006, 547-558.
--“Thucydides the Prehistorian". In Ten Years of the Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels Lectures at Bryn Mawr College. eds. Suzanne B. Faris and Lesley E. Lundeen, 135-147 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: 2006. Thomas Library, Bryn Mawr College.
--“The Four "New Lenaean victors" of 428-5 BC (and the Date of the First Lenaean Comedy) Reconsidered." ZPE 157, 2006, 22-26.
--Who ‘invented’ comedy? The ancient candidates for the origins of comedy and the visual evidence”, AJP 127.1 (January 2006) 37-66
-- “Introduction”.  to the reprint of R. C. Jebb's commentary on Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus, London: Duckworth Press, 2004, 31-46.
--"Pericles in Thucydides". pp. 9-22 in O retrato ltererário e a biografia como estratégia de teorizaçâo politica. eds. J. Pérez Jiménez, A. Ribeiro Ferreira and Maria do Céu Fialho, 2004, Coimbra-Malaga
--“Living in the Past: Allusive Narratives and Elusive Authorities in the World of Heroicus” in Ellen Aitken and Jennifer MacLean eds), Philostratus’s Heroikos, Religion, and Cultural Identity (2004, Atlanta: Society for Biblical Literature)

• Greek Literature and History
• Greek and Roman Historiography
• Ancient Theater
• Institutions of Competitive Performance (Theater, Sport and Spectacle) 

Spring 2013 Office Hours:
M 2:30-3:30, R 4:30-5:00, or by appointment (email jsr5 with a suggested time)

Spring 2013
The Comic Theater (CLASS 2651/COML 2230/PMA 2635)
Graduate Seminar in Greek (GREEK 7172)

Fall 2012
Greek and Roman Historiography (CLASS 4675/7675)
Greek Philosophy & Rhetoric (GREEK 3103)

Spring 2012
On leave

Fall 2011
Sages and Satirists, Pirates and Pilgrims (CLASS CLASS 3631/RELST 3631/NES 3931)
Aristophanes and Greek Comedy: The Birth of Comedy (CLASS 4611/7611, THETR 4611)

Spring 2011
The Comic Theater (CLASS 2651/COML 2230/THETR 2230)
Roman Historiography (LATIN 3202)

Fall 2010
Theater, Sport and Spectacle (CLASS 2605/THETR 2605)
Image & Text - Greek Roman Empire (CLASS 4745/7745)

Spring 2010
Greek and Roman Historiography (CLASS 3676)
Advanced Greek Composition (GREEK 4116)

Fall 2009
Theater, Sport and Spectacle (CLASS 2605/THETR 2605)
Graduate Seminar in Greek (GREEK 7171)

Spring 2009
The Comic Theater (CLASS 2651/COML 2230/THETR 2230)
Theater and Spectacle in Greece and Rome (CLASS 4606/7606, THETR 4606/7606)