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Dr Neil O'Sullivan


MA Melb., PhD Cantab.

Chair of Discipline
Senior Lecturer

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

Consultation times during teaching weeks 2008.2:
Mondays & Thursdays 10-11

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 thĂȘlus 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 hĂȘ kaloumenĂȘ rhĂȘtorikĂȘ" 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

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: Hörer und Leser von Literatur im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Tuebingen 1994) Classical Review 47 (1997) 281-2

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

B. Cassin, ParmĂ©nide. Sur la nature ou sur l'Ă©tant. La langue de l'ĂȘtre? (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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