About Professor Peter Wilson
Professor Wilson’s research interests include: History of the Classical theatre; Greek literature and culture from Homer to the Hellenistic age and the sociology of Greek music.
Current project
Accounting for the Ancient Theatre: a new social and economic history of Classical Greek drama (Chief Investigator, with Professor Eric Csapo)
Selected publications
Books
The Athenian Institution of the ‘Khoregia’: the Chorus, the City and the Stage, Cambridge University Press 2000; paperback edition 2003
Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies, ed., Oxford University Press 2007
Drama III: Studies in Honour of Kevin Lee, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 87 (London) 2006, ed. with F. Muecke, J. Davidson
Music and the Muses: the Culture of ‘Mousike’ in the Classical Athenian City, ed. with P. Murray, Oxford University Press 2004
Articles
‘Choruses for sale in Thorikos?: a speculative note on SEG 34, 107’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 161 (2007) 125-32.
‘Pronomos and Potamon: two pipers and two epigrams’ Journal of Hellenic Studies 127 (2007) 141-149.
‘Comic victory: the end, and going beyond’ in Visualizing the Tragic: Essays in Honour of Froma I. Zeitlin, eds. J. Elsner, H. Foley, S. Goldhill, E. Hall, C. Kraus, Oxford University Press, 2007, 257-87
‘The Athenian Thargelia’ in The Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies, ed. P. Wilson, Oxford University Press, 2007, 150-184
‘Sicilian choruses’ in The Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies, ed. P. Wilson, Oxford University Press, 2007, 351-377
‘diken in the Oresteia of Aeschylus’ in Greek Drama III: Studies in Honour of Kevin Lee, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 87 eds. P. Wilson, F. Muecke, J. Davidson, London, 2006, 187-201
‘The Music of Tragedy’, in The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy, ed. J. Gregory, Blackwell’s Oxford, 2005, 198-93
‘Jebb’s Ajax’ a critical introduction to a re-edition, under the general editorship of P. Easterling, of Sir Richard Jebb’s Commentary on the ‘Ajax’ of Sophocles, Bristol Classics Press 2004
‘Athenian Strings’, in Music and the Muses: the Culture of ‘Mousike’ in the Classical Athenian City, eds. P. Wilson and P. Murray, Oxford University Press, 2004, 269-306
‘The Politics of Dance: dithyrambic contest and social order in Greece’, in Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World, eds. D. Phillips and D. Pritchard, Classical Press of Wales and Duckworth, 2003, 165-198
‘The Sound of Cultural Conflict: Kritias and the culture of mousike in Athens’, in The Cultures within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, eds. L. Kurke and C. Dougherty, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 181-206
‘The Musicians among the Actors’, in Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession, eds. P. Easterling and E. Hall, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 41-70
‘Powers of horror and laughter: the great age of drama’ in Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds: a New Perspective, ed. O. Taplin, Oxford University Press, 2000, 88-132
‘Euripides’ Tragic Muse’, Euripides and Tragic Theatre in the Late Fifth Century (Illinois Classical Studies 24-25) eds. M. Cropp, K. Lee, D. Sansone, 2000, 427-450
‘The Aulos in Athens’, in Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy, eds. S. Goldhill and R. Osborne, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 58-95
‘Leading the Tragic Khoros: tragic prestige in the democratic city’, in Greek Tragedy and the Ancient Historian, ed. C. B. R. Pelling, Oxford University Press, 1997, 81-108
‘Tragic Rhetoric: the use of tragedy and the tragic in the fourth century’, in Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond, ed. M. Silk, Oxford University Press, 1996, 310-331
‘The “Aetiology” of Tragedy in the Oresteia’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Association 39 (1993) 169-180; co-authored with Oliver Taplin
‘Demosthenes 21, Against Meidias: democratic abuse’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Association 37 (1991) 164-195