Research and Teaching Specializations
- Greek Poetry and Poetics, Archaic through Hellenistic
- Greek Tragedy, especially Euripides
- Hellenistic Poetry
- Greek and Roman Mythology, Mythography
Background
Allen J. Romano (Ph.D. Stanford) did his undergraduate work at the University of Pennsylvania before completing his graduate degree at Stanford University. Before coming to Florida State in 2007 he was a Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago from 2005-2007. His research includes all areas of Greek literature and culture, but focuses especially on Greek poetry and drama. He is currently completeing a book-length study of etiological myths in Greek poetry and drama. This study spans literature of the archaic, classical, and Hellenistic periods with particular emphases in hymn, tragedy, and Callimachus. Other research has focused on ancient poetics, epigram, and sound effects in ancient poetry.
Research Projects in Progress
- (book) The Craft of Origins: Explanatory Myths and Ancient Greek Poetics
- Tragedy and Hellenistic Aesthetics
- Sacrifice in Tragedy
Recent Publications and Lectures
Articles
- "The Invention of Marriage: Hermaphroditus and Salmacis at Halicarnassus"CQ forthcoming
- "Callimachus and Contemporary Criticism" in The Brill Companion to Callimachus, Susan Stephens, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus (eds.) forthcoming
- "Sophoclean Etiology" in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference in Hellenic Civilization: Space and Time in Ancient Theatre, Ionna Papadapoulou (ed.) (Autumn 2009 forthcoming)
- Review of K. Gutzwiller, A Guide to Hellenistic Literature (NECJ August 2008)
- (with D. Lavigne) "Reading the Signs: The Arrangement of the New Posidippus Roll (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309, IV.7-VI.8)" ZPE 146: 13-24. (2004)
Lectures
- "Sacrifice Corrupted: Misunderstandings in Tragic Metaphor", FSU, April 2009
- "Lyric Etiology" University of Texas, San Antonio (March 2009)
- "Cup-heads and Comic Etiology" American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 9-11, 2009
- “Sophoclean Etiology” at Space & Time in Ancient Theatre, Second International Conference on Hellenic Culture and Civilization, Alexandroupolis, May 14-18, 2008
- "Euphonic Criticism and the Euripidean Ear", CAMWS, Cincinnati, April 12, 2007
- "Explanatory Myth and the Fallacy of Poetic Panhellenism" at Regionalism and Globalism in Antiquity, Vancouver, March 16-17, 2007
- "Myths and Innovations" at Euripides: The First Hellenistic Poet?, University of Chicago, Nov. 11-12, 2006
- "Greek Explanatory Myth and Euripides' Hippolytus" Franke Humanities Center, University of Chicago, April 3, 2006
Recent Courses
Graduate
- Homer's Iliad
- Last Plays: Euripides’ Bacchae and Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus
- Plautus and Terence
- Tragedy and Parody: Euripides' Helen and Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae (at UChicago)
Undergraduate
- Greek Language:
Beginning Greek II, Intermediate Greek, Euripides' Medea
- Courses in English Translation (i.e. no ancient languagesrequired): Classical Myth, Greek Tragedy
Current Courses (Fall 2009)
- GRE1121: Beginning Greek II
- GRW4340 / GRW5345 : Elegy and Iambus
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