Dr Sebastiana Nervegna

Kevin Lee Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Classics and Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Room 492, F09
Madsen
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
phone: 9114 0935
fax: 9351 3918

Fields of Expertise

Greek and Roman Drama

Education

Ph.D. University of Toronto, 2005

Laurea in Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Bologna, 1999

Book project

Menander in Antiquity: The Contexts of Reception

Articles and Chapters

“Contexts of Reception in Antiquity,” forthcoming in M. Revermann ed., The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

“Menander’s Theophoroumene between Greece and Rome,” forthcoming in American Journal of Philology

“Menander,” The Literary Encyclopedia

“Staging Scenes or Plays? Theatrical Revivals of ‘Old’ Greek Drama in Antiquity,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 162. 14-42

Reviews

Review of S. Grandolini ed., Lirica e Teatro in Grecia. Il Testo e la sua Ricezione (Naples: 2005), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.08.56

Review of A. Traill, Women and the Comic Plot in Menander (Cambridge: 2008), forthcoming in The Classical Review

Select Conferences Papers

“Actors, Readers and Learned Guests: Greek Drama and Private Entertainment,” Classical Association of Canada, Annual Meeting. Montréal, 2008

“Menander’s Theophoroumene between Greece and Rome,” American Philological Association, Annual Meeting. Chicago, 2008

“Actors’ Papyri and Rhetorical Schools,” American Philological Association, Annual Meeting. Montréal, 2006

“The Reception of Menander during his Lifetime,” American Philological Association, Annual Meeting. Boston, 2005

“Menander and the Athenian Polis,” Classical Association of Canada, Annual Meeting. Quebéc City, 2004