Professor Eric Csapo

Professor
Department of Classics & Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
office: MacCallum-Brennan 710
phone: 612 9351-7078
fax: 612 9351-3918

• Greek literature and culture
• Greek and Roman drama
• History of the ancient theatre
• myth

• 1977: BA Honours Classics, University of British Columbia
• 1977/8: Study in Greek Philosophy, Christian Albrechts Universität, Kiel, Germany (DAAD Stipend)
• 1978/9: Study in Law, McGill Law School, McGill University, Montreal
• 1981: MA Classics, University of Toronto
• 1981/2: Regular Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Thomas Day Seymour Fellow)
• 1987: PhD Classics, University of Toronto. Thesis: Stock Scenes in Greek Comedy, supervised by E.R. Fantham and J.N. Grant.

• “The Dolphins of Dionysus,” in E. Csapo and M.C. Miller, eds., Poetry, Theory, Praxis (Oxbow, Oxford 2003) 69-98.
• "The Politics of the New Music," in P. Murray and P.J. Wilson, eds., Music and the Muses: The Culture of ‘Mousike’ in the Classical Athenian City (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004) 207-248.
• “Some Social and Economic Conditions behind the Rise of the Acting Profession in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.,” in C. Hugoniot, F. Hurlet, S. Milanezi, eds., Le Statut de l'acteur dans l'antiquité grecque et romaine (Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais 2004) 53-76.
• Theories of Mythology (Blackwell, Oxford 2005, repr. with corrections 2005). xii + 338 pages.
• The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Elsewhere: From Ritual to Drama (Cambridge UP, New York 2006). Jointly edited with M. Miller.
• “The Men who Built the Theatres: Theatropolai, Theatronai and Arkhitektones,” f in P. Wilson, ed. Epigraphy of the Greek Theatre (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007) 87-115.
• “The Iconography of the Exarchos,” forthcoming in MeditArch 19 (2007).
• “Cockfights, Contradictions, and the Mythopoetics of Ancient Greek Culture,” forthcoming in ARTS (2007).
• “Timotheus and the New Music,” forthcoming in F. Budelmann, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge). Jointly authored with P.J. Wilson.