My research focuses on ancient Greek literature, philosophy, and religion, as well as the intellectual history of Classics as a discipline. I am particularly interested in the knowledge practices of the Hellenistic and Imperial period that sustained genres and fields of study as diverse as Aristotelian problemata, commentary on Homeric epic, and ancient ethnographic literature. I am now working on a study of ancient Greek debates about the nature of myth and cult provisionally entitled After Aristotle and Before Theology: The Invention of Religion in Hellenistic and Imperial Greece.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n I am currently preparing articles and chapters on ancient Greek commentary and kindred genres, especially as they relate to the interpretation of Homer\u2019s Iliad <\/em>and Odyssey<\/em>. In these studies, I read commentary through the lens of intellectual history. Although largely anonymous and difficult to date with any precision, ancient Greek commentary reveals not only scholarly practices and processes that perdured over centuries in major sites of scholarship in the ancient Mediterranean world, but also the tacit ambitions, desires, and anxieties of a scholarly community at pains to preserve their literary and cultural heritage in a rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Politics of Dance: Eunomia<\/em> and the Exception of Dionysus in Plato\u2019s Laws<\/em>,\u201d CQ (forthcoming).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeyond Grand Theories and Family Resemblances: Toward a Discursive Approach to Greek Sacrifice,\u201d M\u00e8tis: Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens (forthcoming).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFrom Mythos to Logos: Jean-Pierre Vernant, Max Weber, and the Narrative of Occidental Rationalization,\u201d Modern Intellectual History 14 (2017): 477\u2013506. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Divination Contest of Calchas and Mopsus and Aristophanes\u2019 Knights,<\/em>\u201d GRBS57 (2017): 910\u2013934.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Translation (with introduction) of Arnaldo Momigliano, \u201cThe Rules of the Game in the Study of Ancient History\u201d (\u201cLe regole del giuoco nello studio della storia antica\u201d), History and Theory 55 (2016): 39\u201345.<\/p>\n\n\n\nResearch related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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