The myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, as told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, serves as a template for George Nolfi’s story about the tensions surrounding fulfillment in private versus public life. A romance-thriller with science fiction overtones, the film is a loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short story, The Adjustment Team. In Nolfi’s version,…[Read more]

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Co-edited volume of essays on ancient balletic interpretations of playscripts

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The re-evaluation of classical education (paideia) recurred throughout the Roman period, reaching a particularly fevered pitch during the late fourth century, as the empire became Christian. The political consequences of Christian learning become particularly clear in the debate between two learned, Latin-speaking Christians who translated Greek…[Read more]

Article exploring the status of mint workers from the Republic to the period of Late Antiquity.

CUP Co-Edited volume about actors and acting in Greek & Roman civilisation

Co-edited volume about progressive uses of classical culture in Britain 1789-1969

Book on classical Athenian theatre and society

A Cultural History of Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy

Monograph on the Cultural History of the Odyssey

Co-edited volume of essays on the ancient Greek tragedian Sophocles and his continuing cultural presence (C.U.P.)

Co-edited volume of essays about female classical philologists

Co-Edited collection of essays on the performance history of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon from the fifth century BCE until the 21st century

OUP 1989

La literatura ha estado desde siempre asociada al poder, y en la Edad Media oriental esto no es una excepción. Cuando Abu’l-Qāsem Ferdowsī terminó su gran obra, el Šāh-nāmeh, en 1010, esta se transformó en un elemento legitimador de las dinastías que durante los siglos medievales pugnarían por el dominio de Persia. A través de sus versos y de…[Read more]

Review of Celia Chazelle, Simon Doubleday, Felice Lifshitz and Amy G. Remensnyder, eds., Why the Middle Ages Matter: Medieval Light on Modern Injustice New York: Routledge, 2012

O presente estudo centra-se em dois capítulos específicos da Crónica de Portugal de 1419, dedicados às proezas de D. FuasRoupinho. Procedi a um exame aprofundado das narrativas que ele protagoniza na dita crónica, tendo como objectivo uma melhor compreensão da funcionalidade que esses relatos incorporam, quando enquadrados nos propósitos políti…[Read more]

A brief survey of chronicle-composition activity in medieval Portugal.

A presente dissertação enquadra-se no âmbito da história da historiografia e da cultura medieval. Através do exame sistemático de fontes cronísticas medievais, procurámos estabelecer um percurso evolutivo das imagens do primeiro rei luso, D. Afonso Henriques, relacionadas com as suas actividades militares, ocupando um lugar privilegiado a guerra…[Read more]