Ancient Greek Drama; Greek Lyric Poetry; Ancient Aesthetics; Ancient and Modern Theater; Theories of Performance and the Emotions

• The Performance and Politics of Greek Tragedy: Gender and the Emotions (CLAS 180a)
  
• The Greeks and Their Dances (CLAS 181b)
• Ancient Greek Drama: Euripides' Hecuba (GRK 115b) (offered in fall 2008 only, co-taught with Professor Leonard C. Muellner)
• Lovers, Tyrants, and Other Enemies: Greek Tragedy from Aeschylus to Brecht (CLAS 180a)

Office: Rabb 359

Office Hours (Fall 2008): Mo 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., or by appointment

Phone: (781) 736-2186

Email: visvardi@brandeis.edu

Eirene Visvardi received a B.A. in Classics from the University of Crete and an M.Phil. in Classics from the University of Cambridge. In June 2007, she was awarded her Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University, where she completed her dissertation on Dancing the Emotions: Pity and Fear in the Tragic Chorus. She is the 2007-2009 Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Classical Studies and Theater Arts at Brandeis. Her principal areas of research are ancient Greek tragedy, archaic poetry, reception of ancient drama, and theories of performance, gender, and the emotions.

Professor Visvardi has taught classes on Greek and Latin at all levels. At Brandeis, her courses will be cross-listed in Classical Studies and Theater Arts. She will be offering classes that explore the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of dance and dramatic performance from Homer to the Greek dramatists and beyond.

Photograph of Eirene Visvardi at the Classics Department Lounge at Stanford University, taken by Marcus Folch, 2006.

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