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Seth L. Schein Professor, Comparative Literature Program slschein@ucdavis.edu 915 Sproul Hall (530) 752-0470

EDUCATION

• 1967 Ph.D. Columbia University (Greek and Latin)
• 1964 M.A. University of California, Berkeley (Greek)
• 1963 A.B. Columbia College (English)
• 1965, 1967-68 American School of Classical Studies, Athens (Summer Member, Associate Member)

EMPLOYMENT

1992-present Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Davis Director, 1992-95; Graduate Adviser, 1992-93, 1997-2001; Chair, Graduate Group in Comparative Literature, 2002-2004

1995(Fall) Visiting Professor of Classics, UC Berkeley

1988-1992 Professor of Comparative Literature, Queens College, and of Comparative Literature and Classics, The Graduate School, City University of New York (Chair, Queens College, 1990-92)

1979-1988 Associate to Full Professor of Classical Literature, UC Santa Cruz

1973-1979 Assistant to Associate Professor of Classics, State University of New York, College at Purchase

1968-1973 Instructor to Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin, Columbia University

SPECIAL INTERESTS

Greek and Roman literature, culture, and thought, especially Greek epic, tragedy, and lyric poetry; comparative epic and drama; history of literary theory; gender; Shakespeare and classical antiquity

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

2003-Sophokles'Philoktetes: Translation with Introduction, Notes, and Interpretive Essay, Focus Classical Library (Focus Publishing: Newburyport)

1996-Reading the Odyssey: Selecting Interpretive Essays. (Princeton University Press: Princeton); 2nd printing, 1997

1984-The Mortal Hero: An Introduction to Homer's Iliad (University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles, London); 3rd printing, 1995; translation into Serbo-Croatian by Zdeslav Dukat, Smrtni Junak (Globus Publishing Company: Zagreb, 1989); translation inot Modern Greek (Athens, 2006)

1979-The Iambic Trimeter in Aeschylus and Sophocles: A Study in Metrical Form (E.J. Brill, Leiden)1996

ARTICLES (last 12 years)

2007-"'Our Debt to Greece and Rome': Canon, Class, and Ideology," A Companion to Classical Receptions (Blackwell: Oxford): forthcoming

2007-"An American Homer for the Twentieth Century," Homer in the Twentieth Century, ed. B. Graziosi and E. Greenwood (Oxford University Press: Oxford): forthcoming

2006-"The Iliad and Odyssey in Sophokles' Philoktetes: Generic Complexity and Ethical Ambiguity," Greek Drama III, ed. J. Davidson, F. Muecke, and P. Wilson, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, London: forthcoming

2006-"O Achilles kai I Kêdeia tou Patroklou stê Rapsodia 23 tis Iliadas" ("Achilles and the Funeral Games of Patroklos in Book 23 of the Iliad"), Athla kai Epathla sta Omêrika Epê, International Symposium on the Odyssey, Sept 15-19, 2004, Ithaca, Greece (Center for Odyssey Studies: Ithaca, Greece, 2006): forthcoming

2005-"Divine and Human in Sophokles' Philoktetes," The Soul of Tragedy: Essays on Athenian Drama, ed. S. Oberhelmen and V. Pedrick (University of Chicago Press: Chicago): 26-46

2002-"Mythological Allusion in the Odyssey," Omero:Tremila Anni Dopo, ed. F. Montanari (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Rome): 185-201

2002-"Odysseus and the Language of Violence in Sophokles' Philoktetes,"Studi italiani di filologia classica, 3 Ser.20: 45-49

2002-"The Horses of Achilles in Book 17 of the Iliad,"EPEA PTEROENTA: Beitrage zur Homerforschung. Festschrift for WOLFGANG KULLMANN um 75. Geburtstag, edd. M. Reichel and A. Rengakos (Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart): 193-205

2001-"Klasika grammata kai politismikes spoudes," in NEKKRA GRAMMATA; Oi Klassikes Spudes ston 21o Aiona, ed. A. Rengakos (EKDOSEIS PATAKI (Athens, Greece): 213-24 (in Greek).

2001-"Mythological Allusion in the Odyssey," Proceedings of the Congress OMERO: TREMILA ANNI DOPO(6-8 July 2000) (Storia e Letteratura: Rome, forthcoming): 185-201

2001-"Herakles and Odysseus' Bow: Mythological Allusion in the Odyssey," ERANOS: Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on the Odyssey, 2-7 September 2000,ed. M. Apostolopoulou (Center for Odyssey Studies: Ithaca, Greece): 395-407

2001-"Herakles and the Ending of Sophokles' Philoktetes," Studi italiani di filologia classica, 3 Ser. 19 (2001), pp. 38-52

1999-"Homeric Intertextuality: Two Examples," in Euphrosyne: Studies in Ancient Epic and its Legacy in Honor of Demetrios N. Maronitis, ed. J.N. Kazazis and A. Rengakos (F. Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart), pp. 349-56

1999-"Cultural Studies and Classics: Contrasts and Opportunities," in Contextualizing Classics: Ideology, Performance, Dialogue. Essays in Honor of John J. Peradotto, ed. T. Falkner, N. Felson, and D. Konstan (Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford), pp. 297-311

1998-"Verbal Adjectives in Sophocles: Necessity and Morality," Classical Philology 93 (1998): 293-307

1998-"Milman Parry and the Literary Interpretation of Homeric Poetry," in Hommage à Milman Parry: Le Style formulaire de l'épopée homérique et la théorie de l'oralité poétique ed. F. Létoublon (J. Gieben: Amsterdam): 275-81

1997-"Divinity and Moral Agency in Sophoclean Tragedy," in What is a god? Studies in the nature of Greek divinity , Ed. A.B. Lloyd (Duckworth: London): 123-38

1997-"The Iliad: Structure and Interpretation," in A New Companion to Homer, ed. I. Morris and B.B. Powell (E.J. Brill: Leiden): 345-59

1996-"Introduction," in Reading the Odyssey: Selected Interpretive Essays, ed. S.L. Schein (Princeton University Press: Princeton): 3-32

1995-"Female Representations and Interpreting the Odyssey," The Distaff Side: Representing the Female in Homer's Odyssey, ed. B. Cohen (Oxford University Press: New York and Oxford): 17-27

1995-"Oi gunaikes kai o Iliadikos Heroismos," in EUCHEN ODUSSEI: Transactions of the Seventh International Symposium on the Odyssey, Sept 3-8, 1993, Ithaca, Greece (Center for Odyssey Studies: Ithaca, Greece, 1995): 89-98 (in Greek)

1994-"Cavafy and Iliad 24: A Modern Alexandrian Interprets Homer," Homer, ed. K.C. King (Garland Publishing Co.: New York): 177-89

IN PROGRESS

an edition of Sophocles' Philoctetes for Cambridge University Press ("Greek and Latin Classics")

a translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia for Focus Classical Library

OTHER

2006-Organized conference at UCD on "Sophoclean Drama and Its Continuing Cultural Impact
1999-Advisory Board, UCD Consortium for Women and Research
1998-2003 University of California Press Editorial Committee
1997-Organized conference at UCD on "The Odyssey and Its Continuing Cultural Impact
1994-97 Advisory Board, UCD Humanities Institute
1986-88 American Philological Association Committee on the Status of Women and of Minority Groups (Chair, 1988)
1987-90 American Philological Association Program Committee