Click for larger image Ralph M. Rosen  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 


Publications


Books:

 

Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire. (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Old Comedy and the Iambographic Tradition, (American Classical Studies 19: Atlanta 1988; now distributed by Oxford University Press).

     Edited Volumes:

Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald: co-edited with Joseph Farrell (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 1993).

Andreia: Manliness and Courgae in Classical Antiquity, co-edited with Ineke Sluiter, Leiden: Brill, 2002.

Free Speech in Classical Antiquity, co-edited with Ineke Sluiter: Leiden: Brill, 2004.

Time and Temporality in the Ancient World, (editor); University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, 2004

City, Countryside and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity, co-edited with Ineke Sluiter, Leiden:Brill, 2006.

KAKOS: Badness and ANti-Value in Classical Antiquity, co-edited with Ineke Sluiter, forthcoming, Leiden:Brill, 2008.

   

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In Preparation:

 

Edition (text and commentary) of Galen's treatise, That the Faculties of the Soul follow the Mixtures of the Body, for the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum (Berlin).

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Articles:

 

“Galen, Satire, and the Compulsion to Instruct,” forthcoming in proceedings of the XIIIth Hippocratic Colloquium, ed. H. M. F. Horstmanshoff, forthcoming, Brill.

“The Hellenistic Epigrams of Archilochus and Hipponax,” in P. Bing and J. Bruss, The Brill Companion to Hellenistic Epigram, forthcoming, Brill 2007.

“Comic Aischrology and the Urbanization of Agroikia” in Rosen and Sluiter 2006 (see above).

“Aristophanes, Old Comedy and Greek Tragedy,” in The Blackwell Companion to Tragedy, ed. Rebecca Bushnell, Blackwell, 2005. (Click here for downloadable pdf)

“Aristophanes, Fandom, and the Classicizing of Tragedy,” forthcoming in Playing Around Aristophanes, ed. John Rich, (Oxford: David Brown).

“Aristophanes’ Frogs and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod” Transactions of the American Philological Association, 134.2 (2004). (Click here for downloadable pdf)

“Aristophanes,” in A New Companion to Greek Comedy ed. Gregory Dobrov, forthcoming Brill, 2007.

“The Death of Thersites and the Sympotic Performance of Iambic Mockery,” in Pallas 61 (2003) 121-36.(Click here for downloadable pdf)

"'I Am Whatever You Say I Am': Satiric Program in Juvenal and Eminem," (with Victoria Baines). Classical and Modern Literature 22/2 (2002) 103-127. (Click here for downloadable pdf)

"The Andreia of the Hippocratic Physician and the Problem of Incurables," (with Manfred Horstmanshoff) in Rosen and Sluiter 2002 (see above). (Click here for downloadable pdf)

"Sophocles' Poimenes Revisited: Tragedy of Satyr Play?," for Shards from Kolonos: Studies in Sophoclean Fragments, edited by Alan Sommerstein, Bari 2003.

"Cratinus' Pytine and the Construction of the Comic Self," in F. D. Harvey and J. Wilkins, The Rivals of Aristophanes (University of Exeter Press, 2000). (Click here for downloadable pdf)

"Comedies of Transgression in Gangsta Rap and Ancient Classical Poetry," (with Donald R. Marks). New Literary History, 4 (1999). (Click here for downloadable pdf)

"Comedy and Confusion in Callias' Letter Tragedy," Classical Philology, 94.2 (1999) pp.147-67.

Contributions to The Birth of Comedy, edited by Jeffrey Rusten; forthcoming (translation of, with commentary on, Greek comic fragments in Kassel-Austin's Poetae Comici Graeci). My assignments include: Eupolis, Platon, Hermippus, Nikostratos, Timokles and Antiphanes.

Introduction to: Aristophanes, 1, edited by David Slavitt and Palmer Bovie (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1998), pp. vii-xiv.

"The Gendered Polis in Eupolis' Cities," in The City as Comedy: Fictions of the Polis on the Greek Comic Stage, ed.by Gregory Dobrov, (University of North Carolina Press, 1998) pp. 149-76.

"Performance and Textuality in Aristophanes' Clouds," Yale Journal of Critcism 10.2.1997: pp. 397-421. (Click here for downloadable pdf)

"Homer and Hesiod," book chapter in a A New Companion to Homer, edited by Barry Powell and Ian Morris, (Leiden: Brill 1997) pp. 463-88.

"Plato Comicus and the Evolution of Greek Comedy," in Beyond Aristophanes. Transition and Diversity in Greek Comedy, ed. Gregory Dobrov (Atlanta 1995) pp. 119-37.

"Classical Studies in the Search for Community," in Universities and Community Schools (A Publication of the Center for Community Partnerships of the University of Pennsylvania) Fall 1994. (n.b.: this article has been revised and updated for a collection of essays on service learning edited by Ira Harkavy and William Donovan (American Association for Higher Education 2000).

"Mixing of Genres and Literary Program in Herodas 8," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 94 (1991) pp. 205-16. (Click here for downloadable pdf)

"Hipponax and the Homeric Odysseus," Eikasmos I.1 (1990) pp. 1-12. (Click here for downloadable pdf)

"Poetry and Sailing in Hesiod's Works and Days," Classical Antiquity 9.1 (1990) pp. 99-113.(Click here for downloadable pdf)

"Euboulos' Ankylion and the Game of Kottabos," Classical Quarterly 39 (ii) (1989) pp. 355-59.

"Trouble in the Early Career of Plato Comicus: Another Look at P.Oxy. 2737," Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 76 (1989) 223-28.

"Hipponax and his Enemies in Ovid's Ibis," Classical Quarterly 68.ii (1988) pp. 291-296. (Click here for downloadable pdf)

"Hipponax, Boupalos and the Conventions of the Psogos," Transactions of the American Philological Association 118 (1988) pp. 29-41. (Click here for downloadable pdf)

"A Poetic Initiation Scene in Hipponax?" American Journal of Philology 109.2 (1988) pp. 174-79.

"Hipponax 48Dg and the Eleusinian Kykeon," American Journal of Philology 108.3 (1987) pp. 416-26. (Click here for downloadable pdf)

"Milanion, Acontius and Gallus: Vergil, Eclogue 10.52-61" (with Joseph Farrell), Transactions of the American Philological Association 116 (1986) pp. 241-54.

"The Ionian at Aristophanes Peace 46," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 25.4 (1984) pp. 389-96.

 

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Miscellaneous:

 

Editorial Contributor to the (Classical) Translations of H. D. Thoreau, ed. K. van Anglen (Princeton 1986)

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Book Reviews:

 

Andreas Willi, The Languages of Aristophanes. Aspects of Linguistic Variation in Classical Attic Greek. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), forthcoming in Journal of Hellenic Studies.

John Wilkins, The Boastful Chef. The Discourse of Food in Ancient Comedy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), in Hermathena, 173-74 2002-2003, pp. 200-204.

Maria Cristina Torchio, Aristofane. Pluto. (Edizioni dell’ Orso. Torino. 2001) in Classical Review, 2003.

Rainer Kerkhof, Dorische Posse, Epicharm und Attische Komödie. (Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 147, Munich: K.G. Saur Verlag, 2001) in Classical World, 2003.

V. Nutton, Galen. On My Own Opinions [= Corpus Medicorum Graecorum 5.3.2. Galeni De Propriis Placitis]. Edition, translation and commentary. (Berlin 1999), in Bryn Mawr Classical Review (August 2000).

S. D. Olson, Aristophanes. Peace, (Oxford: Oxford U. Press 1998), forthcoming in Classical Journal.

Deborah Boedeker and Kurt Raaflaub, Democracy, Empire and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens (Camrbidge: Harvard U. Press 1998), forthcoming in Classical World.

A. M. Bowie, Aristophanes. Myth, Ritual and Comedy (Cambridge 1993), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 5.6 (1994).

Neil O'Sullivan, Alcidamas, Aristophanes and the Beginnings of Greek Stylistic Theory (Stuttgart 1992), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4.4 (1993).

Thomas K. Hubbard, The Mask of Comedy: Aristophanes and the Intertextual Parabasis (Ithaca 1991), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 3.2 (1992).

Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Academic Papers (Oxford 1990), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2.3 (1991).

Gregory Nagy, Pindar's Homer (Baltimore 1990), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2.1 (1991).

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