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Dr Neil O'Sullivan


MA Melb., PhD Cantab.


Senior Lecturer

Room: Arts Building, 1.05
Telephone: (61 8) 6488 2163
Email: neil.osullivan@uwa.edu.au

Consultations 2009.2
Mondays & Thursdays 10-11
during teaching weeks.

Research interests

Ancient literary criticism, Greek language and literature

Publications

Book

Alcidamas, Aristophanes and the Beginnings of Greek Stylistic Theory [Hermes Einzelschriften 60] (Stuttgart 1992) 168 pp. [Rosen's BMCR review]

Chapters

[with P. O'Sullivan] "Chapter 3: The Arts" in John T Kirby (ed.) World Eras volume 6: Classical Greek Civilization, 800-323 BCE (Detroit 2001) 41-94

"Alcidamas" in M. Ballif & M. Moran (edd.) Classical rhetorics and rhetoricians (Westport 2005) 14-18

"Prodicus" in ibid. 282-6

Articles

"Two notes on [Vergil] Catalepton 2" Classical Quarterly 36 (1986) 496-501

"ho thelus horos (Aeschylus Agamemnon 485)" American Journal of Philology 110 (1989) 484-7

"Vergil, Aristophanes, and the bears" Vergilius 35 (1989) 55-8

"Sophoclean logic (Antigone 175-81)" Journal of Hellenic Studies 110 (1990) 191-2

"Aristophanes and Wagner" Antike und Abendland 36 (1990) 67-81

"Aristophanes, Wagner and Die Meistersinger" Studies in Music 25 (1991) 73-80

"Anxieties and influences: Wagner, Nietzsche and the Greeks" Classicum 18 (1992) 3-9

"Plato and he kaloumene rhetorike" Mnemosyne 46 (1993) 87-9

"Allusions of grandeur? Thoughts on allusion-hunting in Latin poetry" Electronic Antiquity 1.5 (October 1993) [Farrell's response]

"Pericles and Protagoras" Greece and Rome 42 (1995) 15-23

"Aristotle on dramatic probability" Classical Journal 91 (1995) 47-63

"Written and spoken in the First Sophistic" in I. Worthington (ed.) Voice into Text: Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece [Mnemosyne supplementum 157] (Leiden 1996) 115-127

"Caecilius, the 'canons' of writers, and the origins of Atticism" in W. Dominik (ed.) Roman Eloquence: Rhetoric in Society and Literature (London and New York 1997) 32-49

"Pede Poena claudo (Horace Odes 3.2.32)" Rheinisches Museum 141 (1998) 92-4

"Poetry from old rope: a neglected emendation in Aristophanes, Frogs 1298" Classical Quarterly 50 (2000) 297-8

"Aristophanes' first critic: Cratinus Fr. 342 K-A" in J. Davidson, F. Muecke & P. Wilson (edd.) Greek Drama III. Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee [BICS Supplement 87] (London 2006) 163-169

"The authenticity of [Alcidamas] Odysseus: two new linguistic considerations" Classical Quarterly 58 (2008) 638-647

Reviews

D. A. Russell, Criticism in Antiquity (Second ed. London 1995) Ancient History: Resources for Teachers 25 (1995) 172-5

Y. L. Too, The Rhetoric of Identity in Isocrates: Text, Power, Pedagogy (Cambridge 1995) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7.2 (1996) 167-74

S. Usener, Isokrates, Platon und ihr Publikum: Hoerer und Leser von Literatur im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Tuebingen 1994) Classical Review 47 (1997) 281-2

P. Draeger, Stilistische Untersuchungen zu Pherekydes von Athen. Ein Beitrag zur aeltesten ionischen Prosa (Stuttgart 1995) Classical Review 48 (1998) 178

B. Cassin, Parmenide. Sur la nature ou sur l'etant. La langue de l'etre? (Paris 1998) Classical Review 52 (2002) 369-70

J.V. Muir (ed.) Alcidamas. The works and fragments (London 2001) Prudentia 36 (2004) 182-5

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