 S.
Douglas Olson
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
612-625-0513
sdolson@umn.edu
On leave 2008-2009 at the National Humanities Center.
Education
B.A. Haverford College (1980)
M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School (1982)
M.A. Bryn Mawr College (1984)
Ph.D. Bryn Mawr College(1987)
American School of Classical Studies in Athens (1985-87)
Curriculum
Vitae (PDF)
Interests
I am interested in Greek literature of all genres and periods, but in particular in Attic Comedy and its reception in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. My current project is a new 7-volume Loeb edition of the Learned Banqueters (or Deipnosophists) of Athenaeus of Naucratis, which represents our most significant sources of fragments of Old, Middle and New Comedy, as well as of much of what we know of scores of other nominally "lost" authors and works. I am also the editor of the Classical Journal, the website for which can be visited at: http://www.classicaljournal.org
Major Publications
2008
Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters Vol. III (Loeb Classical Library 224) (Harvard University Press, 2008)
2007 
Broken Laughter: Select Fragments of Greek Comedy (Oxford University Press, 2007)
BMCR Review
2006
Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters Vol. I (Loeb Classical Library 204) (Harvard University Press, 2006)
BMCR Review
Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters Vol. II (Loeb Classical Library 208) (Harvard University Press, 2006)
BMCR Review
2004
 Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae (with Colin Austin) (Oxford University Press, 2004) cvi + 363 pp.
2002
 Aristophanes: Acharnians (Oxford, 2002; revised paperback version Oxford, 2004);cii + 379 pp.
2000
 Archestratos of Gela: Text, Translation, and Commentary (with Alexander Sens) (Oxford, 2000) lxii + 261 pp.
1999
Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century BCE (with Alexander Sens) (American Classical Studies 44: Atlanta, 1999) 172 pp.
1998
 Aristophanes: Peace (Oxford, 1998; revised paperback version Oxford, 2003) lxxiv + 330 pp.
1995
Blood and Iron: Stories and Storytelling in Homer's Odyssey (Mnemosyne Supplement 148: Leiden, 1995) x + 260 pp.
Articles available through JSTOR links:
Complete list
Individual links:
Cario and the New World of Aristophanes' Plutus, Transactions of the American Philological Association 119, (1989), pp. 193-199
The Stories of Agamemnon in Homer's Odyssey, Transactions of the American Philological Association 120, (1990), pp. 57-71
Politics and Poetry in Aristophanes' Wasps, Transactions of the American Philological Association 126, (1996), pp. 129-150
Economics and Ideology in Aristophanes' Wealth, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 93, (1990), pp. 223-242
Politics and the Lost Euripidean Philoctetes, Hesperia, 60 (1991), pp. 269-283
Firewood and Charcoal in Classical Athens, Hesperia 60 (1991), pp. 411-420
On the Text of Sophocles "Oedipus Tyrannus" 1524-30, Phoenix 43 (1989), pp. 189-195
The 'Love Duet' in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae, The Classical Quarterly, New Series 38 (1988), pp. 328-330
Names and Naming in Aristophanic Comedy, The Classical Quarterly, New Series, 42 (1992), pp. 304-319
Studies in the Later Manuscript Tradition of Aristophanes' Peace, The Classical Quarterly, New Series 48 (1998), pp. 62-74
Kleon's Eyebrows (Cratin. fr. 228 K-A) and Late 5th-Century Comic Portrait-Masks, The Classical Quarterly, New Series 49 (1999), pp. 320-321
An Emendation in Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics, The Classical Quarterly, New Series 46 (1996), pp. 596-596
The Staging of Aristophanes, EC. 504-727, The American Journal of Philology 110 (1989), pp. 223-226
The Stories of Helen and Menelaus (Odyssey 4.240-89) and the Return of Odysseus, The American Journal of Philology 110 (1989), pp. 387-394
Was Carcinus I a Tragic Playwright?: A Response, Classical Philology 92 (1997), pp. 258-260
Servants' Suggestions in Homer's "Odyssey", The Classical Journal 87 (1992), pp. 219-227
Telemachos' Laugh (Od. 21.101-105), The Classical Journal 89 (1994), pp. 369-372
Dicaeopolis' Motivations in Aristophanes' Acharnians, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 111 (1991), pp. 200-203 |
