Richard P. Martin

Current Projects

• Homeric poetry, concerning which I am engaged on two books: Rhapsodizing Homer (about the meaning of ancient competitive performance for our understanding of the poems of Homer, Hesiod, and the hymns) and The Last Hero Song: Telemachus and the Generation of the Odyssey (about the self-consciousness of the Odyssey in terms of the end of a tradition).
• Greek lyric in relation to art and music: working on studies in performances as represented in myth and mythic art.
• Greek myth and religion: finishing one volume (a collection of essays by others on the analysis of Greek myth and a mass-market paperback retelling of myths, with notes) and starting another on Homer's theological poetics.
• Homer on the Web: full-scale multimedia presentation of the Odyssey via internet.

Selected Publications

• The Birds, Aristophanes trans. Paul Muldoon, with R. Martin (1999)
• "The Scythian Accent: Anacharsis and the Cynics" in B. Branham & M.-O. Goulet-Caze, eds. The Cynics (1997): 136-55.
• ·      "Similes and Performance" in E. Bakker and A. Kahane, eds. Written Voices, Spoken Signs (1997): 138-166.
• ·      "The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom" in C. Dougherty and L. Kurke, eds. Cultural Poetics of Archaic Greece (1993): 108-128.
• "Telemachus and the Last Hero Song." Colby Quarterly 29.3 (1993): 222-40.
• "Hesiod's Metanastic Poetics." Ramus 21.1 (1992): 11-33.
• The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad (1989).
• Healing, Sacrifice, and Battle: Amechania and Related Concepts in Early Greek Poetry (1983).