Current ProjectsHomeric 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 artGreek 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. >>Complete Vita Past CoursesGreek MythologySerious LaughterAristophanic PerformancesSingers of Tales: Ancient and Contemporary Epic in ActionHorace PublicationsThe 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): 11-33The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad (1989)Healing, Sacrifice, and Battle: Amechania and Related Concepts in Early Greek Poetry (1983)
