Greek Drama. Homeric Poetry and Translation. The Reception of Antiquity (especially Mythology in Modernism). Metrics and Prosody.

• Intermediate Latin: Literature (LAT 30a) (Fall 2007)
  
• Topics in Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology (CLAS 145b, sec. 2) (Spring 2008)
  
  Pan-Hellenic Sanctuaries and the City-State in Ancient Greece: from the Classical to the Hellenistic Period
  

Translations of Homeric epic and Greek tragedy. The Norton Anthology of Greek Poetry, eds. Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley, Karen van Dyck. W. W. Norton (forthcoming).

"Choral Identity in Sophocles' Oedipus Coloneus." American Journal of Philology, vol. 126.3. September 2005.

"An Achaean Suitor" (verse). Arion, vol. 12.2. Fall 2004.

Office: Rabb 258

Office Hours (Spring 2008): Tu/Fr 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m., or by appointment

Phone: (781) 736-2180 (department office); office phone TBA

Email: usdhuga@brandeis.edu

Umit Singh Dhuga received his B.A. in Classics from Amherst College, and his M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. in Classics from Columbia University, where he wrote his dissertation on Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy. He has taught at Montclair State University and Columbia University. Professor Dhuga's chief research interests are Greek Drama; Homeric Poetry and Translation; The Reception of Antiquity (especially Mythology in Modernism); and Metrics and Prosody.

We are pleased to have Professor Dhuga with us in 2007-08. In fall 2007, he taught "Intermediate Latin," while Professor Cheryl L. Walker was on sabbatical. In spring 2008, he is teaching a new topic in the CLAS 145b series of "Topics in Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology": "The Pan-Hellenic Sanctuaries and the Polis in Ancient Greece: from the Classical to the Hellenistic Period."

Photograph of Umit Singh Dhuga per The Frick Collection & Frick Art Reference Library, New York City, 2006.

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