Department of Classics
Miami University, Oxford Ohio
Research
Book
- Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece (Cornell University Press: Ithaca, N.Y. 1992)
- “Teaching Greek Myth and Confronting Contemporary Myths” 17-39 in Classics and Cinema, edited by Martin M. Winkler (Bucknell Review, Bucknell University Press: London and Toronto 1991), revised edition 291-318 in Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema, edited by Martin M. Winkler (Oxford University Press: New York 2001)
- “The Case for Not Ignoring Marx in the Study of Women in Antiquity” in Feminist Theory and Classics, edited by Nancy Rabinowitz and Amy Richlin (Routledge 1993)
- “Historicizing Sophocles’ Ajax” in History, Tragedy, Theory , edited by Barbara Goff (University of Texas Press 1994) 59-90
- “Theorizing Athenian Imperialism and the Athenian State” in Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue, edited by Thomas M. Falkner, Nancy Felson, and David Konstan (Rowman & Littlefield 1999) 19-40
- “The Politics of Gladiator” in Gladiator: Film and History, edited by Martin Winkler (Blackwell 2004)
- “The Myth of Pindar’s First Nemean: Sportsmen, Poetry and Paideia” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 78 (1974)145-175.
- “Class Ambivalence in the Odyssey” Historia 24 (1975) 129-49.
- “Sophocles’ Philoctetes and the Teachings of the Sophists” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 80 (1976) 49-105.
- “A Dialectical View of Greek Tragic Form” Radical History Review18 (Fall 1978) 77-94.
- “How Conservative is the Iliad?” Pacific Coast Philology 13 (1978) 86-93.
- “Towards a Dialectical Hermeneutic of Pindar’s Pythian X” Helios N.S. 9 (1982) 47-73.
- “Poetics and Human Values in the Neoanalysts’ Homer” Critical Exchange 16 (Spring, 1984) 55-61.
- “Thersites and the Plural Voices of Homer” Arethusa 21 (Spring, 1988) 5-25.
- “Cicero and the Rhetoric of Imperialism: Putting Politics Back into Political Rhetoric” Rhetorica Vol. 13, No. 4 (Autumn 1995), 359-399
- “The Politics of the Trilogy Form: Lucía, the Oresteia, and The Godfather” Film-Historia, Vol. 5, No. 2-3 (1995), 93-116
- “Ideology in the Iliad: Polis, Basileus, Theoi” Arethusa 30 (1997) 151-199
- “Ancient Comedy: Politics Through a Lens” European Studies Journal 22, No. 2 (Fall 2000) and 18, no. 1 (Spring 2001) 81-98.
- “‘THE CONQUEST CONTINUES’: Towards Denaturalizing Greek and Roman Imperialisms” Classical World 2003
- “Marxism Remains a Valid Historical Approach to the Ancient World” (forthcoming) in History in Dispute, Vol. 19, edited by Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter.