Froma I. Zeitlin

Professor of Classics and the Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature

Princeton University

Fall 2009

Tuesday 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Fall 2009

CLA506 Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus' Oresteia

Background

A.B. Radcliffe ’54, M.A. Catholic University ’65, Ph.D. Columbia ’70.

Professor Zeitlin teaches and publishes extensively in the areas of Greek tragedy, Greek lyric poetry, mythology, and poetics. Her books include Under the Sign of the Shield: Semiotics and Aeschylus’ ’Seven Against Thebes’; Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature and Nothing to Do with Dionysos? (joint ed.). She has also published many articles on. among others, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Vergil, and Petronius. Professor Zeitlin is also a Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Program in Judaic Studies.