Overview
Jeffrey Rusten is a Professor in the Department of Classics (and the graduate field in Theater Arts) specializing in Greek literature. His current research is in the history of comic drama, ancient historians from Herodotus to Ammianus, and Greek literature and religion in the Roman empire of the 2nd-3rd century CE.
Research Focus
- Classical Athens (5th-4th century BCE) and its legacy and reception in culture and politics, especially historiography and theater.
Publications
RECENT BOOKS
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RECENT EDITED VOLUMES
-Romilly, Jacqueline de. 2012. The mind of Thucydides. Edited and with an Introduction by Hunter R. Rawlings and Jeffrey Rusten. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
-Mabel Lang, 2011. Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse, eds. Eleanor Dickey, Richard Hamilton and Jeffrey Rusten, Michigan Classical Press.
RECENT ARTICLES
-(2013) Rusten, J. 2013. "Political discourse and the assembly in four plays of Aristophanes," in M. Quijada Sagredo and M. C. Encinas Reguero, eds. Ret贸rica y discurso en el teatro griego. (Madrid) 249-60
-(2013) "螖峥單晃肯 峒愇何刮轿肝: An 鈥渋maginary earthquake鈥 on Delos in Herodotus and Thucydides." Journal of Hellenic Studies
-(2013) "The mirror of Aristophanes: the winged ethnographers of Birds (1470-93, 1553-64, 1694-1705)." In Greek comedy and the discourse of genres. eds. E. Bakola, L. Prauscello and M. Tel貌. Chapter 12. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
-(2013)"鈥楾he Odeion on his head:鈥 Costume and identity in Cratinus鈥 Thracian Women fr. 73, and Cratinus鈥 techniques of political satire." In OPSIS: Studies on the Performative Aspect of Greek and Roman Theatre. eds. George W. M. Harrison and Vayos Liapis. Brill.
