Childhood and the Classics: Britain and America, 1850-1965

About Deborah H. RobertsSheila Murnaghan

Sheila Murnaghan earned an AB from Harvard University a BA from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from the University of North Carolina. She taught at Yale University from 1979 until 1990 then moved to the University of Pennsylvania where she is currently the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek. Her research focuses on ancient Greek epic and tragedy gender in classical culture and classical reception especially in the twentieth century. She is the author of Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey (2nd ed.; Lexington Books 2011) and the co-editor of Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations (Routledge 1998; with Sandra R. Joshel) Odyssean Identities In Modern Cultures: The Journey Home (Ohio State University Press 2014; with Hunter Gardner) and Hip Sublime: Beat Writers and the Classical Tradition (Ohio State University Press 2018; with Ralph M. Rosen). Deborah H. Roberts has a BA from Swarthmore College an MA from Stanford University and a PhD from Yale University. She is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Haverford College where she has taught since 1977. Her research has been primarily concerned with Greek tragedy classical reception and translation studies with a focus on the translation of Greek tragedy and of Greek and Latin texts once held to require expurgation. She is the author of Apollo and his Oracle in the Oresteia (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1984) co-editor of Classical Closure: Reading the End in Greek and Latin Literature (Princeton University Press 1997; with Francis M. Dunn and Don Fowler) and translator of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (Hackett 2012) and Euripides' Ion (University of Pennsylvania Press 1999) and Andromache (University of Chicago Press 2013).