Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi

Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi has been working in recent years on Greek aesthetics. She is especially interested in the Greek notions of aesthetic pleasure and aesthetic response as these are represented and debated in poetic and philosophical texts. Her book Frontiers of Pleasure: Models of Aesthetic Response in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought ( http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ClassicalStudies/?view=usa... ) is forthcoming. She has also been working on the aesthetics of dance in Greek culture and is preparing a volume on Dance and Aesthetic Perception in Greece, to include her relevant published work and papers given in various venues in the US and in Europe. In addition, she is editing a volume on Performance and Culture in Plato’s Laws ( to be published by CUP) and a volume on Lyric and the Visual (the latter, with André Lardinois and Richard Martin as co-editors, to be published by Brill).

Since she came to Stanford she has been teaching graduate seminars such as Aesthetics and Politics of Dance in Ancient Greece (Spring 2003, as a visiting Professor), Choral Poetry and Performance (2005 and 2008), Criticism, Interpretation and Reception in Antiquity: the case of Sappho (2006), Mimesis in Poetry and Philosophy (with Andrea Nightingale, 2007), Pleasure in Greek Thought ( 2009), Sappho, Plato, Proust (both undergraduate and graduate, 2010), The Relationship between the Verbal and the Visual in Greek Culture ( 2010) , Mousike in Theory and Performance (with Reviel Netz, 2010). She has also taught undergraduate classes such as the Majors seminar, freshman seminars, and courses in Greek. She is currently involved in four dissertation projects (in three of them as the main advisor or co-advisor) some of which are relevant to her interests in Greek aesthetics.

She is a founding member of the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song, an international network of scholars that promotes the study of Greek lyric poetry and its performance contexts.