A Companion to Greek Lyric

P. J. Finglassis Henry Overton Wills Professor of Greek at the University of Bristol. He has published a monograph Sophocles (2019) in the series Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics; has edited Sophocles’ Oedipus the King (2018), Ajax (2011), and Electra (2007), Stesichorus’ Poems (2014), and Pindar’s Pythian Eleven (2007) in the series Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries; has co-edited six books, including (with Adrian Kelly) The Cambridge Companion to Sappho (2021) and Stesichorus in Context (2015), and (with Lyndsay Coo) Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy (2020); and edits the journal Classical Quarterly .

William Furleybenefited from the freedoms of the European Union when he moved from London to S Germany after completing his BA. Work as research assistant of Konrad Gaiser in Tübingen was followed by a Cambridge PhD supervised by Geoffrey Kirk. Then Furley moved to Heidelberg as Assistent of Albrecht Dihle where he remained, eventually becoming adjunct professor of Greek. Visiting professorial appointments were at Saarbrücken, Tübingen, Mannheim, London, Catania, Lyon. His main work is in the fields of Greek religion, Menander, and literary papyrology.

Annette Gieseckeis the Elias Ahuja Professor of Classics at the University of Delaware. She is a specialist in the history, meaning, and representation (in literature and the arts) of ancient Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern gardens and designed landscapes. Her work extends to the many cultural “uses” of plants in antiquity: symbolic, religious, culinary, medicinal, ornamental, and technological. Her recent books include: A Cultural History of Plants (6 vols., Bloomsbury: 2022), Classical Mythology A to Z (Black Dog and Leventhal: 2021), The Good Gardener? Nature, Humanity, and the Garden (Artifice Books on Architecture: 2015), and The Mythology of Plants (The J. Paul Getty Museum: 2014).

Jonathan M. Hallis the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History and Classics at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity (1997), Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture (2002), A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200–479 BCE (2 nded., 2014), Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian (2014), and Reclaiming the Past: Argos and its Archaeological Heritage in the Modern Era (2021), as well as numerous articles and chapters on the political, social, and cultural history of ancient Greece.

John Hamiltonis the William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Publications include: Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition (2004); Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language (2008); Security (2013); Philology of the Flesh (2018); and, most recently, Über die Selbstgefälligkeit (“On Self-Complacency,” 2021).

Marguerite Johnsonis Professor of Classics at The University of Newcastle, New South Wales. Her research expertise is predominantly in the area of ancient Mediterranean cultural studies, particularly in representations of gender, sexualities and the body. These interests also intersect with her work in contemporary debates surrounding feminism, LGBTIQ histories, and related issues. She also works in Classical Reception Studies, with an emphasis on colonial Australasia.

Adrian Kellyis Tutorial Fellow in Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Balliol College, Oxford, and Associate Professor and Clarendon University Lecturer in Classics at the University of Oxford. He has recently co-edited (with P. J. Finglass) The Cambridge Companion to Sappho (Cambridge, 2021) and (with Christopher Metcalf) Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Ancient Near Eastern Mythology (Cambridge, 2021), and he is completing a Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics commentary on Homer, Iliad Book XXIII.

André Lardinoisis Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD degree from Princeton University in 1995, after studying Classics at the Free University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University. His main field of study is early Greek poetry. Among his publications are Making Silence Speak: Women’s Voices in Greek Literature and Society (Princeton 2001), edited with Laura McClure; Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works (Cambridge 2014), with Diane Rayor; and The Newest Sappho: P. Sapph. Obbink and P. GC inv. 105, frs. 1-4 (Leiden 2016), edited with Anton Bierl.

Klaus Lennartzis Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Hamburg. He is the author of Non verba sed vim: Kritisch-exegetische Untersuchungen zu den Fragmenten der archaischen römischen Tragödie (1994) and of various articles on classical and mediaeval texts. In the field of greek and latin iambos, he published on Archilochus, Hipponax, and Catullus, and gave a detailed view of this poetic genre in his Iambos: Philologische Untersuchungen zur Geschichte einer Gattung in der Antike (2010).

Jane Montgomery Griffithsis a multi award winning actor, playwright & academic. She has performed with theatre companies across the UK & Australia & her plays have been produced by Malthouse Theatre, NIDA & ABC Radio National. “Sappho…in 9 Fragments” was short listed for the NSW and Victorian Premiers’ Literary Awards & is published by Currency Press. Jane was formerly Professor of Theatre Practice & Director of Monash University’s Centre for Theatre & Performance.

A.D. Morrisonis Professor of Greek at the University of Manchester, where he has taught since 2001. His books include The Narrator in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic Poetry (Cambridge, 2007), Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and Historiography (Cambridge, 2020) and (as co-editor) Ancient Letters (Oxford, 2007) and Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science (Oxford, 2013). Current projects include a commentary on Callimachus for the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series, a G&R New Survey on Hellenistic poetry and (since 2016) co-directing the AHRC project on Ancient Letter Collections.

Nigel Nicholsonis the Walter Mintz Professor of Classics at Reed College, where he has also served as the Dean of the Faculty. His research circles around Pindar, athletics, medicine, and Sicily, and he is the author of three books: Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2005), The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West : Epinician, Oral Tradition and the Deinomenid Empire (Oxford University Press, 2016), and The Rhetoric of Medicine (Oxford University Press, 2019), jointly authored with Dr. Nathan Selden. In 2005, he was named Oregon’s Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Pauline A. LeVen(PhD Princeton & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) is Associate Professor of Classics at Yale University. She is the author of The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Late Classical Greek Lyric Poetry (Cambridge, 2014), which received the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Yale College Prize for outstanding publication; and Music and Metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman Thought (Cambridge, 2021). She has published widely on Greek poetry, musical culture, and literary criticism, and co-edited, with Sean Gurd, A Cultural History of Western Music , vol.1: Antiquity (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). Her new monograph is entitled Posthuman Lyric: Greek Poetry and the Anthropocene .