Brooke Holmes

Assistant Professor

Princeton University

Fall 2009

Wednesday & Thursday 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Fall 2009

CLA212/HUM212 Classical Mythology

CLG105 Socrates

Background

Brooke Holmes was trained in Classics and Comparative Literature.  She works in Greek literature, the history of medicine and the natural sciences in the Greco-Roman world, and ancient philosophy, with a particular interest in the conceptualizations of the physical world in these traditions and their points of intersection. Her first book, The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Body in Ancient Greece, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.  She has also written on Lucretius, the Iliad, Euripides’ Heracles, Plato, and Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales, and is in the process of co-editing collections on Aelius Aristides and the reception of Epicureanism.  Her next major project undertakes an examination of the concept of sympatheia in the natural world and the use of the “pathetic fallacy” in Hellenistic poetry. She continues to work on tragedy, and also has strong interests in contemporary critical theory; a short book on gender for the series Ancients and Moderns (I.B. Tauris & OUP-USA) is in progress.