Allen J. Romano

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 and Teaching Specializations

• Greek Poetry and Poetics, Archaic through Hellenistic
• Greek Tragedy, especially Euripides
• Hellenistic Poetry
• Greek and Roman Mythology, Mythography