Peter O'Connell

Peter O’Connell received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard and an M. Phil. degree from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow.  His interests include Greek prose of all periods, Classical Athenian literature and culture, Greek law and Greek religion.  His dissertation discusses the performative effects of the language of sight in Athenian forensic oratory.  Peter is thrilled to be part of the Stanford Classics Department.  As a Mellon Fellow, he will teach a course on Lysias and Antiphon in the fall and Greek prose composition in the winter and spring.  He looks forward to spending the year preparing his dissertation for publication and beginning a new project on inscribed Athenian decrees.