John A. Barsby

ONZM, MA (Cantab) Cert Ed (Brist) LittD (Otago)
Emeritus Professor
Email john.barsby@otago.ac.nz

Professor John Barsby, who is a graduate of Cambridge University , retired from the Chair of Classics in January 2002. He has taught widely in Greek and Latin language and literature; on the research side he has written articles on Catullus and Propertius as well as books on Ovid, Plautus, and Terence. He has recently completed a new Loeb edition of Terence and edited a collection of essays on Greek and Roman drama. He is currently writing a history of the Otago Classics Department. He was awarded the ONZM for services to Classics in New Zealand in 2002.

Recent publications include:

Books

(ed.) Greek and Roman Drama: Translation and Performance(Stuttgart, 2002 )

Terence Vol. I: The Woman of Andros, The Self-Tormentor, The Eunuch (Loeb Classical Library vol. 22). (Cambridge, Mass. 2001)

Terence Vol. II: Phormio, the Mother-in-Law, The Brothers (Loeb Classical Library vol. 23). (Cambridge, Mass. 2001)

Terence: Eunuch edited with commentary (Cambridge 1999)

Terence: The Eunuch, Phormio, The Brothers
(companion to the Penguin translation) (Bristol 1991)

Plautus: Bacchides edited with translation and commentary
(Warminster 1986, 3rd corr. repr. 1991)

Ovid (New Surveys in the Classics)
(Oxford 1978, 2nd edn rev. by J.Booth 1991)

Ovid, Amores I edited with translation and commentary
(Oxford 1973, repr. Bristol 1979, corr. edn 2000)

Recent articles

"Actors and act-divisions in Poenulus and its Greek original." In Studien zu Plautus' Poenulus. T. Baier (ed.). Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag (2004) 93-111.

"Due personaggi della Cistellaria: Alcesimarco, l'adulescens amens e Melenide, la bona meretrix." In Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates VII: Cistellaria. R. Raffaelli and A. Tontini (eds.). Urbino, Edizioni Quattro Venti (2004) 53-68.

"Some aspects of the language of Cistellaria." In Studien zu Plautus' Cistellaria. R. Hartkamp and F. Hurka (eds.). Tübingen, Gunter Narr Verlag (2004) 335-345.

"Another look at Plautus' Cistellaria." In Theatres of Action: Papers for Chris Dearden. J. Davidson and A. Pomeroy (eds.). Supplement to Prudentia 2003. Auckland, Polygraphia (2003) 149-164.

"George Samuel Sale and Other Stories." Scholia n. s. 11 (2002) 192-208.

"Terence and his Greek models." In Due seminari plautine. C. Questa and R. Raffaelli (eds.). Urbino, Edizioni Quattro Venti (2002) 249-275.

"Problems of adaptation in the Eunuchus of Terence." In Intertextualitaet in der grieschish-roemischen Komoedie. N.Slater and B.Zimmermann (eds.). Stuttgart (1993) 160-179.
= Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus and Terence. E. Segal (ed.). Oxford (2002) 230-249.

"Translation and Performance." In Greek and Roman Drama: Translation and Performance. John Barsby (ed.). Stuttgart (2002) 1-6.

"Improvvisazione, metateatro, decostruzione: approcci alle Baccidi di Plauto." In Lecturae Plautinae Sarsinates IV: Bacchides. R. Raffaelli and A. Tontini (eds.). Urbino, Edizioni Quattro Venti (2001) 51-70.

"Ovid: the Elegiae Poems." In Encyclopaedia of Literary Translation into English. O. Classe (ed.). London and Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn (2000) 1029-1032.

"Terence." In Encyclopaedia of Literary Translation into English. O. Classe (ed.). London and Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn (2000) 1384-1386.

"Donatus on Terence: the Eunuchus commentary." In Dramatische Waeldchen: Festschrift fuer Eckard Lefèvre zum 65. Geburtsdag (Spudasmata 80). E. Staerk and G.Vogt-Spira (eds.). Hildesheim (2000)491-513.

"Love in Terence." In Amor Roma: Essays presented to E.J.Kenney on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday. S. M. Braund and R. Mayer (eds.). Cambridge (1999) 5-29.

University of Otago Areas of Research Strength

Professor Barsby has been recognised by the university as a one-man Area of Research Strength in Roman Comedy. For further details, please download this pdf document.