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Ever since my undergraduate days, my interests have radiated out from Homer and Hesiod. My first publications were on Homeric themes and I always return to Homer, the Iliad, in particular. My book, Hesiod’s Theogony, from Near Eastern creation stories to Paradise Lost, has just been published (2015). It compares Hesiod’s vision of creation to that in Genesis and the Near Eastern creation myths, and considers his vision of Zeus’ Olympus to writers from the Archaic period to Lucian of Samosata, the Christian apologists and the neoplatonists. It also traces the Theogony’s reception in the Byzantine and medieval periods up to John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and compares it to Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents. I have also publi ...more

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Phaedrus

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Suppliant Women

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Homeric Hymns and Other Hom...

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Homer and the Sacred City

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Hesiod's Theogony: from Nea...

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The Oxford Handbook of Hesi...

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Arion: A Journal

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