Dr Sebastiana Nervegna

ARC 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

Books

• Menander in Antiquity: the Contexts of Reception. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2012)
• Canonizing Poets and Plays: Classical Greek Tragedy in the Hellenistic Period (in preparation)

Articles and Chapters

• “Graphic Comedy,” forthcoming (2012) in M. Fontaine and A. Scafuro eds., The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy. Oxford University Press
• “The Reception of Fifth-Century Tragedy in the Fourth Century BC,” forthcoming (2012) in H. Roisman ed., Encyclopaedia of Greek Tragedy. Wiley-Blackwell
• “Contexts of Reception in Antiquity,” forthcoming in M. Revermann ed., The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
• “The Tragic Canon in the Fourth Century BC,” forthcoming in E. Csapo, R.J. Green and P.J. Wilson eds., Death of Drama or Birth of an Industry? The Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC.”
• “Illustrating Menander’s Comedies in the Roman West and in the Greek East,” forthcoming in W. von Hasse ed., Ancient Comedy and its Reception. Essays in Honour of Jeffrey Henderson. Boston
• “Menander’s Theophoroumene between Greece and Rome,” AJP 131 (2010) 23-68.
• “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

• Ariana Traill, Women and the Comic Plot in Menander (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2008). The Classical Review 60 (2010) 54-5
• Simonetta Grandolini ed., Lirica e Teatro in Grecia. Il Testo e la sua Ricezione (Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane: 2005). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.08.56

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