Bruce Heiden's Publications

 

Books

 

HomerÕs Cosmic Fabrication:  Choice and Design in the Iliad (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008)

 

Tragic Rhetoric: An Interpretation of Sophocles' Trachiniae (Herme­neutic Commen­taries 1: Peter Lang, New York, 1989) 

 

Translations

 

"Paris, Prince of Troy (Iliad 6.503-514)," Southwest Review (forthcoming 2008)

 

"The Preliminaries Were Over (Iliad 4.536-544)," Norton Anthology of Greek

Poetry in Translation, ed. R. Hadas, E. Keeley, et al. (Norton, forthcoming

2008)

 

"A Shepherd's Election (Hesiod Theogony 22-35)," Norton Anthology of Greek

Poetry in Translation, ed. R. Hadas, E. Keeley, et al. (Norton, forthcoming

2008)

 

"The Suitor Who Courted Me/Was a River (Sophocles Trachiniae 1-17)," Norton

            Anthology of Greek Poetry in Translation, ed. R. Hadas, E. Keeley, et al.

(Norton, forthcoming 2008)

 

"He Left Behind a Tablet, Very Old... (Sophocles Trachiniae 141-177)," Norton

            Anthology of Greek Poetry in Translation, ed. R. Hadas, E. Keeley, et al.    

(Norton, forthcoming 2008)

 

"Scenes from Homer: Iliad 2.453-483," Literary Imagination 8.1 (2006) 126-127

 

"From Modish Mytilene (After Anacreon 358 PMG)," Classical Bulletin 63

(1987) 61

 

"Propertius 3.1:  An Interpretation," Classical Bulletin 63 (1987) 62

 

Articles and Essays

 

"Common People and Leaders in Iliad 2:  The Invocation of the Muses and the

            Catalogue of Ships," Transactions of the American Philological

 Association (forthcoming 2007)

 

"The Muses' Uncanny Lies: Hesiod, Theogony 27 and its Translators,"

American Journal of Philology (forthcoming 2007)

 

 

"Translating Language/Culture or Translating Inspiration?  A Scholarly

            Dilemma," in Poetic Translation in a Global Context , ed. C. Maurer.

            Special issue of Valley Voices:  A Literary Review 7.1 (2007) 6-8

 

"Eavesdropping on Apollo:  Sophocles' Oedipus the King," Literary

            Imagination 7 (2005) 233-257

 

"Dramatic Literature, Politics, and the Present Moment of Performance,"

 Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Newsletter 11.1 (2005) 12-13

 

 "Cyclic Design and Thematic Resonance in Iliad Books 3 and 6," Gaia 7 (2003)

159-181.

 

 "S.E. BassettÕs Philhomeric Scholarship," introduction to The Poetry of Homer

 (see above, Edited Volumes) xi-xxix

 

 "Hidden Thoughts, Open Speech:  Some Reflections on Discourse

Analysis in Recent Homeric Studies," in Omero Tremila Anni Dopo, ed. F. Montanari (Rome 2002) 431-444

 

"Structures of Progression in the Plot of the Iliad," Arethusa 35 (2002) 237-254

 

"The Placement of  'Book Divisions' in the Odyssey," Classical Philology

            95 (2000) 247-259

 

"Narrative Discontinuity and Segment Marking at Iliad 3/4, 7/8 and 10/11, and

Odyssey 4/5, 17/18 and 23/24," Classica et Mediaevalia 51 (2000) 5-16

 

"Major Systems of Thematic Resonance in the Iliad," Symbolae Osloenses

75  (2000) 34-55

 

"SO Debate: Dividing Homer: When and How Were the Iliad and Odyssey

Divided Into Songs?" Symbolae Osloenses 74 (1999) 55-58

 

 "The Placement of 'Book Divisions' in the Iliad," Journal of Hellenic Studies 118 (1998) 69-82.

 

"The Simile of the Fugitive Homicide, Iliad 24. 480-484: Analogy, Foiling and Allu­sion," American Journal of Philology 119 (1998) 1-10.  Reprinted in Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism 61 (Gale: 2003) 300-304.

 

"The Ordeals of Homeric Song," Arethusa 30 (1997) 221-240.

 

"The Iliad and its Contexts: Introduction," Arethusa 30 (1997) 145-150.

 

"The Three Movements of the Iliad," Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 37

(1996) 5-22.

 

"Sic te servato: An Interpretation of Propertius 1.21,"  Classical Philology 90 (1995) 161-167.

 

"Two Notes on the Frogs: (I) Who is 'Aeschylus'? (II) Who Played Xanthias?" Liverpool Classical Monthly 19.1 (1994) 8-12.

 

"Emotion, Acting, and the Athenian ·qoV," in Tragedy, Comedy, and the Polis,

ed. S. Halliwell, et al. (Bari 1992) 145-166.

 

"Tragedy and Comedy in the Frogs of Aristophanes," Ramus 20 (1991) 95-111.

 

"Shifting Contexts in the Iliad," Eranos 89 (1991) 1-12.

 

"Sermon from Abroad (Review Essay on Paul Veyne, Roman Erotic Elegy),"

Arion 1 (1991) 202-208.

 

 "tòn dƒ ¤mòn l¡gv/pat¡ra:  On Soph. Trach. 739-740," Mnemosyne 42

            (1989) 472- 474.

 

"Learned Allusions and Political Expression in Propertius 2.1.51-70,"  Latomus

 47 (1988) 358-364.

 

"m¡ssan Mhl¤da pŒr l¤mnan:  A Topographical Note on Soph. Trach. 635-7,"

            Hermes 116 (1988) 115-116.

 

"Lichas' Rhetoric of Justice in Sophocles' Trachiniae," Hermes 116 (1988) 13-23.

 

 

"Laudes Herculeae:  Suppressed Savagery in the Hymn to Hercules, Verg. Aen.

8.285-305,"  American Journal of Philology 108 (1987) 661-671.

 

"Book-Division Within Propertius Book II," Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura

 Classica  11 (1982) 151-169.

 

Edited Volumes

 

The Poetry of Homer by S.E. Bassett (orig. 1938), revised edition, edited and with an introduction by Bruce Heiden (Lexington Books: Lanham Md. 2003)

 

The Iliad and its Contexts. Arethusa 30 (1997); Bruce Heiden guest editor.

 

The Enigmatic Text:  Approaches to Greek Drama. Ramus 20 (1991); Bruce Heiden and Dolores M. O'Higgins guest editors.

 

 

Reviews

 

"Barbara Graziosi and Johannes Haubold, Homer:  The Resonance of

 Epic,"  Classical Review 56.1 (2006) 2-4

 

"Brad Levett, Sophocles :  Women of Trachis," Bryn Mawr Classical

 Review (2005) 2005.09.79.

 

"H. Roisman and J. Roisman (eds.) Essays on Homeric Epic (Colby

Quarterly 38 Nos. 1-2: 2002)," Classical Review 54 (2004) 281-282

 

"Maureen Alden, Homer Beside Himself:  Para-Narratives in the Iliad,"

 Classical World 96 (2003) 334-335

 

 "Elizabeth Minchin, Homer and the Resources of Memory:  Some

 Applications of Cognitive Theory to the Iliad and the Odyssey,"

 Classical Journal 98 (2002-3) 197-200

 

 "John Miles Foley, The Singer of Tales in Performance," Classical

 World 90.4 (1997) 295-296.

 

"Charles Segal, Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of

 Knowl­edge," Classical World  88.6 (1995) 499. 

 

"Marie C. Marianetti, Religion and Politics in Aristophanes' Clouds," Classical                               World 88.1 (1994) 56-57

 

"Eddie R. Lowry, Jr., Thersites: A Study in Comic Shame," Classical World 87.3 (1994) 254-255.

 

"Sophocles Trachiniae, with introduction and commentary by Malcolm Davies," Classical Journal 88.1 (1992) 85-88.

 

 "Robert J. Baker (ed. and tr.) Propertius I," Classical World 85 (1992) 260-261.

 

 

Dialogues, Interviews

 

"Troy Story." Columbus Dispatch (Sunday Arts Section, May 9, 2004) 1-2.

 

ÒTalking Narrative:  A Dialogue with David Antin,Ó with J. Erickson,

 B. Heiden, B. McHale, et al., Narrative 12 (2004) 93-115.