简介

In spite of my unusual accent I received my BA degree from Bryn Mawr College and my PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. I taught four years at the Ohio State University before joining the UCLA faculty in 1996. My interests range broadly over Greek literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. I teach graduate seminars in Attic tragedy, Pindar and Greek lyric, and Plato, and my research oscillates between projects connected with Plato and with Pindar. The former is represented by my 2000 book Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato, and by my ongoing involvement in the series Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative (published by Brill), where I am responsible for the chapters covering Plato. Pindar is the subject of my most recent book, Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. (Oxford and New York, 2015), where I examine Pindar’s victory odes for Hieron of Syracuse and the program of tyrannical self-representation to which they contribute.