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Book
- Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece (Cornell University Press: Ithaca, N.Y. 1992)
Chapters in Books
- “Teaching Greek Myth and Confronting Contemporary Myths” 17-39 in Classics and Cinema, edited by Martin M. Winkler (Bucknell Review, Bucknell University Press: London and Toronto 1991), revised edition 291-318 in Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema, edited by Martin M. Winkler (Oxford University Press: New York 2001)
- “The Case for Not Ignoring Marx in the Study of Women in Antiquity” in Feminist Theory and Classics, edited by Nancy Rabinowitz and Amy Richlin (Routledge 1993)
- “Historicizing Sophocles’ Ajax” in History, Tragedy, Theory , edited by Barbara Goff (University of Texas Press 1994) 59-90
- “Theorizing Athenian Imperialism and the Athenian State” in Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue, edited by Thomas M. Falkner, Nancy Felson, and David Konstan (Rowman & Littlefield 1999) 19-40
- “The Politics of Gladiator” in Gladiator: Film and History, edited by Martin Winkler (Blackwell 2004)
Articles
- “The Myth of Pindar’s First Nemean: Sportsmen, Poetry and Paideia” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 78 (1974)145-175.
- “Class Ambivalence in the Odyssey” Historia 24 (1975) 129-49.
- “Sophocles’ Philoctetes and the Teachings of the Sophists” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 80 (1976) 49-105.
- “A Dialectical View of Greek Tragic Form” Radical History Review18 (Fall 1978) 77-94.
- “How Conservative is the Iliad?” Pacific Coast Philology 13 (1978) 86-93.
- “Towards a Dialectical Hermeneutic of Pindar’s Pythian X” Helios N.S. 9 (1982) 47-73.
- “Poetics and Human Values in the Neoanalysts’ Homer” Critical Exchange 16 (Spring, 1984) 55-61.
- “Thersites and the Plural Voices of Homer” Arethusa 21 (Spring, 1988) 5-25.
- “Cicero and the Rhetoric of Imperialism: Putting Politics Back into Political Rhetoric” Rhetorica Vol. 13, No. 4 (Autumn 1995), 359-399
- “The Politics of the Trilogy Form: Lucía, the Oresteia, and The Godfather” Film-Historia, Vol. 5, No. 2-3 (1995), 93-116
- “Ideology in the Iliad: Polis, Basileus, Theoi” Arethusa 30 (1997) 151-199
- “Ancient Comedy: Politics Through a Lens” European Studies Journal 22, No. 2 (Fall 2000) and 18, no. 1 (Spring 2001) 81-98.
- “‘THE CONQUEST CONTINUES’: Towards Denaturalizing Greek and Roman Imperialisms” Classical World 2003
- “Marxism Remains a Valid Historical Approach to the Ancient World” (forthcoming) in History in Dispute, Vol. 19, edited by Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter.
Reviews
- Palmer Bovie (tr) Lucretius: On the Nature of Things in Classical World 69 (March 1976) 408-409.
- Malcolm M. Willcock A Companion to the Iliad in Classical World 70 (April-May 1977) 459-60.
- Dorothea Wender The Last Scenes of the Odyssey in Classical World 71 Number 3 (1978) 373.
- G. B. Kerford The Sophistic Movement in American Journal of Philology 103 (1982) 451-54.
- Dora C. Pozzi and John M. Wickersham, eds. Myth and the Polis in Classical World 86 Number 3 (1993) 257-58
- William g. Thalmann. The Swineherd and the Bow: Representations of Class in the Odyssey in Phoenix 53 (1999) 3-4
Papers Presented
- “Private Property in the Iliad” American Philological Association 1969.
- “Myth and Politics in Sophocles’ Ajax ” Ohio Classical Conference 1975.
- “The Political Dimension of Pindar’s Eighth Nemean Ode” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast 1975.
- “Ajax Strategos” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast 1976.
- “Levi-Strauss and Greek Myth: Some Pluses and Minuses” Ohio Classical Conference 1976.
- “How Conservative is the Iliad?” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast 1977.
- “Towards a Marxist Hermeneutic of Pindar’s Tenth Pythian Ode” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast 1978.
- “The Language of Achilles and the Dasmos Motif” Classical Association of the Midwest and South 1978.
- “Plato’s Solution to the Crisis in Aristocratic Ideology” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast 1982.
- “The Oresteia and Lucia: The Politics of the Trilogy Form” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast 1982.
- “Marxist Approaches to Ancient Greek Society: Towards a More Dialectical Conception of Ideology” Duquesne History Forum 1982.
- “Thersites and the Plural Voices of Homer” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast 1983.
- “The Date of Sophocles’ Ajax: Looking for the World” Philological Association of the Pacific Coast 1984.
- “Paris Basileus” American Philological Association 1984.
- “The Perseus Myth in Philip Slater and Clash of the Titans “ Classical Association of the Midwest and South.
- “Pythian 8: Chronology, Politics, and the Nature of Ideology” Classical Association of the Midwest and South. 1988
- “The Case for Not Ignoring Marxism in the Study of Women in Antiquity” Berkshire Women’s History Conference 1990 and Classical Association of the Midwest and South 1991.
- “Teaching Cuban Film” Midwest Modern Language Association 1991
- “Euripides’ Electra 367-400: The Politics of Irony” Classical Association of the Midwest and South 1992.
- “The Rhetoric of Imperialism” Rhetoric Society of America 1992.
- “Towards Theorizing the Athenian State: Exploring What’s Private and What’s Public” Classical Association of the Midwest and South 1993
- “Cicero and the Rhetoric of Imperialism” International Society for the History of Rhetoric 1993
- “Jameson’s Gramscian Project” Midwest Modern Language Association 1994
- “Cicero and the Rhetoric of Imperialism” American Philological Association 1994
- “Edmund Burke and the Rhetoric of Imperialism” International Society for History of Rhetoric 1995
- “Thucydides and the Rhetoric of Imperialism: The Mytilene Debate” Classical Association of the Midwest and South 1996
- “Towards Theorizing Politics and History in the Study of Women in Antiquity” Princeton Conference on Women in Antiquity Fall 1996
- “Demosthenes’First Philippic : Imperialist Consciousness in an Age of Diminishing Expectations” Classical Association of the Midwest and South 1997
- “Using Film in the Study of Classical Mythology” University of Maryland Confernce on Film and the Classics Spring 1997
- “Theorizing Athenian Imperialism and the Athenian State” Conference in Athens, Ga. in Honor of Jack Peradotto Spring 1997
- “The Marxism of Che Guevara” Midwest Modern Language Association Fall 1997
- “Che Guevara at Punte del Este” Primero Congresso Internacionál de Retórica, UNAM Mexico City Spring 1998
- “Divorcing Marxism from Ideology and Ideology from Marxism: Some Problems” University of Toronto Conference on “Negotiating Ideologies” Fall 1999
- “Some Recent Accounts of Class in Homer” Classical Association of the Midwest and South 2001
- “Class and Anthropology in the Work of Walter Donlan” Classical Association of the Atlantic States” 2001
- “Gladiator vs. Fall of the Roman Empire: Some Second Thoughts” Classical Association of the Midwest and South 2002
- “Empire and Democracy in Demosthenes’ Speeches Against Philip” Classical Association of the Midwest and South 2003
- “Divorcing Marxism from Ideology and Ideology from Marxism: Some Problems” Fourth Annual Conference on Roman Imperial Ideology at the Villa Virgiliana, Cuma, Italy 2003
- “A Political reading of the Antigone, Miami University Symposium on Greek Tragedy
- “Empire and Democracy in Demosthenes’ Speeches Against Philip” Biennial Conference of the International Society for the history of Rhetoric, Madrid, Spain 2003
Invited Lectures
- “Ancient Greek Male and Female Stereotypes” (a slide presentation) Denver University School of Television and Film; Cincinnati Association of Teachers of the Classics; Southern Methodist University.
- “Myth and Politics in Sophocles’ Ajax” Indiana University, Bloomington.
- “How Conservative is the Iliad?” University of Chicago, UCSD, UCSC, Oberlin College.
- “Towards a Marxist Hermeneutic of Pindar’s Tenth Pythian Ode” Stanford University.
- “Historicizing Sophocles’ Ajax” Symposium on “History, Tragedy, Theory” University of Texas, Austin 1992
- “Cicero and Imperialism: Putting the Politics Back into Political Rhetoric” Symposium on “Ideology, Rhetoric, Culture” University of Tennessee, Knoxville 1994
- “Reading the Classics and Exploding the Canons: Loving ‘Literature’ and Confronting Imperialism” University of Miami at Coral Gables 1994
- “Theorizing Athenian Imperialism and the Athenian State” Carl Schlam Memorial Lecture, Ohio State University 1999 and at Haverford College 2001
- “Thucydides on the Mytilene Debate: A Crisis of Empire and of the Democratic State” Indiana University 2003
- “Athenians Debate Empire and Democracy: The Case of Mytilene” John Carroll University
Panels Organized (all for the Marxist Literary Group’s session at the Midwest Modern Language Association; I have usually played the role of commentator as well as organizer and convener)
- “The Politics of the Comic Genre” 1984
- “Historicizing the Text” 1985
- “Marxism and Deconstruction” 1986
- “Cuba’s Meaning for the American Left” 1987
- “Marxism and the Politics of Pleasure After Reagan” 1988
- “The Politics of the Subject” 1989
- “The Politics of Film Theory and Film Pedagogy” 1991
- “Columbus, Colonization, and Common Ground” 1992
- “Marx and Space” 1993
- “The Work of Fredric Jameson” 1994
- “Derrida After Marx” 1995
- “Marxism in Latin America” 1997
- “Marxist Approaches to Shakepeare” 1998