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Peter Burian
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Professor of Classical & Comparative Literatures, and Theater Studies
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Literature
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233A Allen Building
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Campus Box 90103
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Phone: 919-684-2005, 919-684-5076
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Fax: (919) 681-4262
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Homepage
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Curriculum Vitae
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Specialties
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Dramatic Literature
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Theater History
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Literary & Cultural Criticism
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Research Description
Greek literature, particularly drama; theory and practice of literary translation; reception of Greco-Roman antiquity in later thought and arts
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Education
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- Ph.D.,
- Princeton University,
- 1971
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- M.A.,
- Princeton University,
- 1968
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- A.B. with high honors and high distinction in Classical Studies,
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
- 1964
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Awards, Honors and Distinctions
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Senior Associate,
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King's College, Cambridge,
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January-July 2003
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Charles Dukes Award,
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Duke Alumni Association,
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2001
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Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities,
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
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1988
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Fellow of the Center for Hellenic Studies,
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Washington, D.C.,
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1980-81
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Younger Humanist Fellow,
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National Endowment for the Humanities,
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1972-73
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Fulbright Fellow,
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University of Innsbruck, Austria,
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1966-67
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Woodrow Wilson Fellow,
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Princeton University,
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1964-65
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Selected Publications
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- "Athenian Tragedy as Democratic Discourse."
- Why Athens: A Reappraisal of Trgic Politics.
- Ed. D. M. Carter.
- Oxford:
- Oxford University Press,
- 2010.
- 95-117.
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- "Sophocles' Polyphonic Ajax."
- Blackwell Companion to Sophocles.
- Ed. Kirk Ormand.
- 2012.
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- "Gender and the City: Antigone from Hegel to Butler and Back."
- When Worlds Elide.
- Ed. J. P. Euben and K. Bassi.
- Lanham, MD:
- Lexington Books [Rowman and Littlefield],
- 2010.
- 255-299.
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- "Inconclusive Conclusion: The Ending(s) of the Oedipus Tyrannus."
- Sophocles and the Tragic Tradition.
- Ed. E. Hall and S. Goldhill.
- Cambridge Univeristy Press (2009),
- 2009.
- 99-118.
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- "City, Farewell!: Genos, Polis and Gender in Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes and Euripides' Phoenician Women."
- Tragedy and Sexual Difference,.
- Ed. D. McCoskey and E. Zakin.
- SUNY Press,
- 2009.
- 16-45.
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- "Euripides."
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome..
- Ed. Michael Gagarin and Elaine Fantham.
- 3
- New York:
- Oxford University Press,
- 2010.
- 129-41.
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- "Euripides' Helen."
- Euripides V (Greek Tragedy in New Translations).
- New York:
- Oxford University Press,
- 2010.
- 225-391.
- (Verse translation with commentary)
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- Aristophanes, Birds.
- Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Bryn Mawr, Penn,
- 1991.
- (Greek text with commentary).
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- Aeschylus, The Suppliants.
- Princeton University Press: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, Princeton,
- 1991.
- (Translation with introduction and notes).
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- with Alan Shapiro.
- Aeschylus, Oresteia.
- Greek Tragedy in New Translations:,
- Oxford University Press, New York,
- 2003.
- (Translation with introduction and notes.
Reissued as Aeschylus I, 2010).
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- Euripides, Helen.
- Aris and Phillips Classical Texts, Oxbow Books, Oxford,
- 2007.
- (Greek text with prose translation, introduction and
commentary).
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- "Myth into Muthos: the Shaping of Tragic Plot."
- The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy.
- Ed. P.E. Easterling.
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
- 1997.
- 178-208.
- Reprinted in Greek Drama, edited by Harold Bloom, New
York: Chelsea House (2004) 328-59
328-59.
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- "Parola di donna? La voce di Lisistrata e la fantasia comica."
- Atti del convegno di studi "Comicità e riso nella commedia antica," Cagliari 2005.
- Ed. P. Mureddu and G. F. Nieddu.
- Supplementi di Lexis 42,
- Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert,
- 2007.
- 131-41.
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- "Logos and Pathos: The Politics of the Suppliant Women."
- Directions in Euripidean Criticism.
- Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
- 1985.
- 129-155, 212-221.
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- "Biologia, democrazia e donne nelle Eumenidi di Eschilo."
- Lexis
- 24
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- 45-57.
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- "Euripides' Heraclidae: An Interpretation."
- Classical Philology
- 72
- (1977)
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- 1-21.
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- ""Sepulchers," a translation of Ugo Foscolo, "Carme dei Sepolcri" with brief introduction and notes."
- Literary Imagination
- 4
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- 17-30.
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- "" 'All that Greek manure under the green bananas': Derek Walcott's Odyssey"."
- South Atlantic Quarterly
- 96
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- 359-77.
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- "Tragedy Adapted for Stages and Screens: the Renaissance to the Present."
- The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy.
- Ed. P.E. Easterling.
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
- 1997.
- 228-83.
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- "Translation, the Profession, and the Poets."
- American Journal of Philology
- 121
- (2000)
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- 299-307.
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