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Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies

I teach courses on the Greek language at all levels, from beginning Greek to graduate seminars, on Greek culture and literature in translation, on beginning and intermediate Latin, and in ancient philosophy. My two main research interests are ancient philosophy and Greek tragedy. I have published a book on Aristotle's Poetics, articles on Greek tragedy and on Plato's views on poetry; a book on kinship in Greek tragedy will be published in Fall 1999.

Selected Publications

Murder Among Friends: Violations of Philia in Greek Tragedy. Oxford, 1999.

"Harming Friends: Reciprocity in Greek Tragedy." In Reciprocity in Ancient Greece, ed. C. Gill, N. Postlethwaite, and R. Seaford. Oxford, 1998.

Tragic Pleasures: Aristotle on Plot and Emotion. Princeton University Press, 1992.

"Wine and Catharsis of the Emotions in Plato's Laws." The Classical Quarterly 36 (1986).

"Lies Unlike the Truth: Plato on Hesiod, Theogony 27." Transactions of the American Philological Association 115 (1985).

"Pleasure, Tragedy and Aristotelian Psychology." The Classical Quarterly 35 (1985).

"Dialectic with the Reader in Plato's Symposium." Maia 36 (1984).

"Plato's Greatest Accusation Against Poetry." Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary 9 (1983).