RALPH M. ROSEN (BA, Greek and Latin, Swarthmore College, 1977; MA, PhD Classical Philology, Harvard University, 1983) is Rose Family Endowed Term Professor, and Professor of Classical Studies. He is also the Chair of the Graduate Group in Classical Studies, and Acting Department Chair for Fall term 2007. His scholarly interests lie broadly in the areas of Greek literature and intellectual history, with particular focus on ancient comic and satirical poetic genres. He has published widely on archaic and classical Greek poetry, and has recently published a new book about Greco-Roman satirical poetry (Making Mockery: the Poetics of Ancient Satire, Oxford University Press, 2007). In recent years he has also been focusing on ancient medicine and philosophy, and is currently working on an edition of Galen's treatise "That the Faculties of the Soul Follow the Mixtures of the Body" for the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum et Latinorum (Berlin). He was one of the founders of Penn's Center for Ancient Studies in 1996, and has served as its Director several times since then. Since 2000, Professor Rosen has co-organized the biennial Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values with Ineke Sluiter, Professor of Greek at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. The next Colloquium on "Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity," will take place in Leiden in June 2008.
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RALPH M. ROSEN (BA, Greek and Latin, Swarthmore College, 1977; MA, PhD Classical Philology, Harvard University, 1983) is Rose Family Endowed Term Professor, and Professor of Classical Studies. He is also the Chair of the Graduate Group in Classical Studies, and Acting Department Chair for Fall term 2007. His scholarly interests lie broadly in the areas of Greek literature and intellectual history, with particular focus on ancient comic and satirical poetic genres. He has published widely on archaic and classical Greek poetry, and has recently published a new book about Greco-Roman satirical poetry (Making Mockery: the Poetics of Ancient Satire, Oxford University Press, 2007). In recent years he has also been focusing on ancient medicine and philosophy, and is currently working on an edition of Galen's treatise "That the Faculties of the Soul Follow the Mixtures of the Body" for the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum et Latinorum (Berlin). He was one of the founders of Penn's Center for Ancient Studies in 1996, and has served as its Director several times since then. Since 2000, Professor Rosen has co-organized the biennial Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values with Ineke Sluiter, Professor of Greek at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. The next Colloquium on "Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity," will take place in Leiden in June 2008.