College of Humanities People

Bruce Heiden, Professor

Department of Greek and Latin: http://greekandlatin.osu.edu/

Office Information
414C University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: heiden.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-292-1355

Education:
Ph.D. Cornell 1984 · M.A. City University of New York 1980 · B.A. Columbia 1972

General Background:
Books:
Homer's Cosmic Fabrication: Choice and Design in the Iliad (Oxford 2008)
Tragic Rhetoric: An Interpretation of Sophocles' Trachiniae (New York, 1989)

Recent Articles:
"Common People and Leaders in Iliad 2: The Invocation of the Muses and the Catalogue of Ships," Transactions of the American Philological Association 138 (2008) 127-154
"The Muses' Uncanny Lies: Hesiod, Theogony 27 and its Translators," American Journal of Philology 128 (2007) 153-175
"Translating Language/Culture or Translating Inspiration? A Scholarly Dilemma," Valley Voices: A Literary Review 7 (2007) 6-8.
"Paris, Prince of Troy [Homer's Iliad, 6.503-514]," Southwest Review 92.4 (2007) 580 (translation)
"Scenes from Homer: Iliad 2.453-483," Literary Imagination 8 (2006) 126-27 (translation)
"Eavesdropping on Apollo: Sophocles' Oedipus the King," Literary Imagination 7 (2005) 233-257.

Full CV.

Classics
Greek Epic
Greek and Roman Drama