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Lecturer
Greek Literature and Philosophy
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
I studied Ancient History and Social Anthropology at University College London, Classics at Cambridge, and taught at Durham University before joining the Classics Department at Trinity College Dublin in 2006
My research explores the intersections of Greek literature and philosophy in the fifth and fourth centuries BC. My most recent project (2014: CUP) examines the popular reception and political use of early Greek philosophy by the Greek comic poet Aristophanes in his comedy Thesmophoriazusae ('Women at the Thesmophoria') (411 BC). But further research interests also include Greek (popular and philosophical) conceptions of the senses and of perception; Greek philosophy and wisdom literature; literary approaches to Platonic dialogue; and anthropology in Classics (and vice versa). My next project is an introduction to the history of the dialogue between the disciplines of Anthropology and Classics.