Arlene Allan

BA (Trent), MA (Queen's) PhD (Exeter), Senior Lecturer
Email arlene.allan@otago.ac.nz

Dr Arlene Allan teaches Greek Literature (Homer and Drama), Mythology, and Greek and Latin language. Her research interests include Greek religion and ritual, gender studies, Greek society. She has published articles on Hermes, conflict and Greek athletics and Greek tragedy.

Papers taught 2013

First Semester:

CLASS331: Research Methods in Classical Studies

Second Semester:

CLAS232: Love and War in Graeco-Roman Literature (co-taught with Prof.W. Dominik)

CLAS238: Fantasies, Phobias and Families in Graeco-Roman Myth (co-taught with Prof. W. Dominik)

CLAS332/432: Greek Tragedy in its Historical Context

Recent publications include:

‘Thanks, but no thanks: Oikêia kaka and fdokimasia’ forthcoming in Ancient History Bulletin 26 ( forthcoming, 2012).

‘Turning Remorse to Good Effect? Arginusai, Theramenes and Aristophanes’ Frogs’ in No laughing matter: Studies in Athenian comedy. C.W. Marshall and G. Kovacs (ed). London: Bristol Classical Press, 2012, 101-114.

‘A reconsideration of the MSS attribution at Sophokles’ Philoktetes 671-3’ Mnemosyne 65.2 (2012) 298-94

'The God Above All Gods: The Heavenly Throne-Room of Revelation 4 and Phidias's Zeus,' in J. MacWilliam, S. Puttock, T.Stevenson and R. Taraporewalla (ed.) The Statue of Zeus at Olympia: New Approaches. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011) 123-136.

"Am I Not the One...?" (Sophokles' Phil. 114): Neoptolemos and the Allure of Kleos.' CJ 107.1 (2011) 1-26

"Masters of Manipulation: Euripides and Medea's use of Oaths in Medea"
In Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society eds. A. H. Sommerstein and J. Fletcher (Brisol Phoenix Press 2007) 113-124

“Hermes Agônistes to HermesAgônios: Chaos, Conflict and Hermes in Games and Competitive Festivals”
In Games and Festivals in Classical Antiquity eds. P.S.W. Bell and G.M. Davies (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports 2004)

“Cattle-Stealing Satyrs in Sophocles’ Inachos”
In Shards From Kolonos: Studies in Sophoclean Fragments ed. Alan H. Sommerstein (Bari 2003)

“Situational Aesthetics: the deification of Kairos, Son of Hermes”
In Personification in the Greek World: from Antiquity to Byzantium eds. E. Stafford & J. Herrin
(King's College, London; Centre for Hellenic Studies, 2005)

Co-Authored

I. Storey, M. Boyne and A. Allan “Teaching Euripides’ Hippolytus”
In Approaches to Teaching the Dramas of Euripides ed. Robin Mitchell-Boysak (New York 2002)

I.Storey & A.Allan Blackwell Guide to Ancient Greek Drama ( Oxford 2004)

University of Otago, Division of Humanities Research Cluster

Dr Allan is a member of the Classical Culture and Society Research Cluster.