University of Nottingham

Faculty Member, Classics

Professor of Greek

About

My main speciality is Greek drama, both tragedy and comedy; I have worked at various times on four of the five major Greek dramatists - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes - and will soon also be editing a play by the fifth, Menander. I have developed a particular interest in the study of fragmentary plays, editing the fragments of Aeschylus (as well as his surviving plays) in the Loeb series and heading a team working on a two-volume edition of selected fragmentary plays of Sophocles. I also have a long-standing interest in aspects of the Greek language, and have written on such subjects as the language of Athenian women, euphemism in Aristophanes, and ways of talking about laughter. In a major project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, of the oath in archaic and classical Greece, I led the preparation of a database designed to contain all references to oaths in Greek texts down to 322 BC and am now leading the preparation of a two-volume study of the subject using information derived from the database.

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