crsn founding members

Edith Hall was Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at the University of Oxford (http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/). In 2006 she joined Royal Holloway, University of London as Professor of Drama and Classics. Her publications include Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914 (co-authored with Dr Fiona Macintosh, OUP 2005) and The Theatrical Cast of Athens: Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama & Society (OUP 2006). Her main research interests have involved ancient views of ethnicity, gender, class, and the reception (ancient and modern) of Greek and Roman theatre.

Lorna Hardwick is Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. Her main research has been in Greek Social and Cultural History and the Reception of Classical Texts (and is Director of the Reception of Classical Texts and Images research project). (Publications). As an undergraduate she studied Ancient History with Professor Martin Wight and Greek Tragedy with Professor Gabriel Josipovici and as a research student was a pupil of Professor M.I. Finley. This background fostered an interest in working across disciplines and examining the relationships between ancient and modern politics and culture.

Stephen Harrison is Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford, UK, and Mynors and Charles Oldham Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, UK. (Publications) (website http://users.ox.ac.uk/~sjh)

Stephen Hodkinson is Professor of Ancient History, University of Nottingham. His research interests are in Greek social, economic, and political history. His main research focuses on Sparta, including its modern reception; and on the ancient Greek countryside, especially servile and free agrarian labour. He has a strong interest in comparative history and is currently engaged in a major project on Sparta in comparative perspective. Professor Hodkinson is also the Course Director of MA in Greek Archaeology and History, as well as the Undergraduate Admissions Officer. Publications include: Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta (2000); Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece (2000) jointly ed. with R. Brock; Sparta: Beyond the Mirage (2002), jointly edited with Anton Powell;"Spartiates, helots and the direction of the agrarian economy: towards an understanding of helotage in comparative perspective", in N. Luraghi and S.E. Alcock (eds.), The Helots and their Masters in Lakonia and Messenia, forthcoming;"Five words that shook the world: Plutarch, Lykourgos 16 and appropriations of Spartan communal property ownership in the French Enlightenment", in N. Birgalias (ed.), The Contribution of Ancient Sparta to Political Thought and Practice,(Alexandria Publications, 2007:p. 417-30).

Charles Martindale is Professor of Latin at Bristol University. His interests include Latin poetry, the Classical Tradition, and theoretical issues, especially those concerning reception. His publications include, Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception: Roman Literature and its Contexts (CUP, 1993); Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics (OUP, 2005); Classics and the Uses of Reception, ed. with Richard Thomas, (Blackwell, 2006).

Judith Mossman is Professor of Classics at Nottingham University. Her main research interests are in Greek drama and Plutarch. Judith's publications include Wild Justice: A Study of Euripides' Hecuba (1995); Oxford Readings in Euripides (2003); 'Women's Voices' in: J. Gregory, ed. A Companion to Greek tragedy. Blackwell, 2005: 352-65. She is currently working on an edition of Euripides' Medea.

Christopher Rowe is Professor of Greek in the University of Durham, and currently Leverhulme Personal Research Professor (1999-2004). His interests include (1) the theory and practice of translation – he has translated Plato's Phaedrus, Symposium, and Statesman, and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics; for a summary of a position on the translation of philosophical texts, see his 'Handling a Philosophical Text', in R K Gibson and C S Kraus (edd.), The Classical Commentary (Brill 2002), 295-318; and (2) the reception – especially the 19th-21st century reception – of Plato. His most recent publication is Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing (Cambridge University Press 2007).

Maria Wyke is Professor of Classics at University College London. Her research interests concerns the reception of ancient Rome, especially in popular culture. Her publications include Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, cinema and history (Routledge, 1997);The Roman Mistress (OUP, 2002), The Caesar Papers: Julius Caesar in Western Culture (ed., Blackwell 2006) and Caesar: A Life in Western Culture (Granta 2007)