Joe Park Poe

Over a long career my research interests have undergone several changes. For the last twenty years I have concerned myself mainly with Greek tragic drama, but I have also written on Latin elegiac poetry, the Aeneid, Senecan tragedy, Roman topography, and Aristophanes. I offer courses in Greek drama, Senecan drama, Latin literature of the Golden Age, and the political and social history of the Roman Republic.

Livy, History of Rome (selections translated with Moses Hadas), New York (Modern Library) 1962.

Caesurae in the Hexameter Line of Latin Elegiac Verse = Hermes Einzelschriften 29, Wiesbaden 1974.

Heroism and Divine Justice in Sophocles' Philoctetes = Mnemosyne Supplement 34, Leiden 1974.

Genre and Meaning in Sophocles’ “Ajax” = Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 172, Frankfurt 1987.

“The Altar in the Fifth-Century Theater,” Classical Antiquity 8 (1989) 116-139.

“Octavia Praetexta and its Senecan Model,” American Journal of Philology 110 (1989)434-59.

“Entrance-Announcements and Entrance-Speeches in Greek Tragedy,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 94 (1992) 121-56.

“The Supposed Conventional Meanings of Dramatic Masks: A Re–examination of Pollux 4. 133–54,” Philologus 140 (1996) 306–328.

“Multiplicity, Discontinuity, and Visual Meaning in Aristophanic Comedy,”Rheinisches Museum n.F. 143 (2000) 255–95.

“Unconventional Procedures in Rhesus,” Philologus 148 (2004) 21-33.

"The Cothurnus and Greek Tragedy," in Stephan Heilen et al. edd., In Pursuit of Wissenschaft: Festschrift für William M. Calder zum 75. Geburtstag (Hildesheim 2008) 341–50

“Description of Action in the Narratives of Euripidean and Sophoclean Drama,” Mnemosyne 62 (2009) 357–77.

Web publications:

Appendices for "Description of Action in the Narratives of Euripidean and Sophoclean Tragedy," Mnemosyne 62 (2009), 357-77.

Joe Park Poe
Professor Emeritus

EDUCATION Columbia College, 1954-58. A.B. Cornell University, 1958-59. A.M. Columbia University, 1959-61. Ph.D. 1966. RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS Over a long career my research interests have undergone several changes. For the last twenty years I have concerned myself mainly with Greek tragic drama, but I have also written on Latin elegiac poetry, the Aeneid, Senecan tragedy, Roman topography, and Aristophanes. I offer courses in Greek drama, Senecan drama, Latin literature of the Golden Age, and the political and social history of the Roman Republic. PUBLICATIONS Books and longer monographs: Livy, History of Rome (selections translated with Moses Hadas), New York (Modern Library) 1962. Caesurae in the Hexameter Line of Latin Elegiac Verse = Hermes Einzelschriften 29, Wiesbaden 1974. Heroism and Divine Justice in Sophocles' Philoctetes = Mnemosyne Supplement 34, Leiden 1974. Genre and Meaning in Sophocles’ “Ajax” = Beiträge zur klassischen Philologie 172, Frankfurt 1987. Representative articles : “The Altar in the Fifth-Century Theater,” Classical Antiquity 8 (1989) 116-139. “Octavia Praetexta and its Senecan Model,” American Journal of Philology 110 (1989)434-59. “Entrance-Announcements and Entrance-Speeches in Greek Tragedy,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 94 (1992) 121-56. “The Periaktoi and Actors’ Entrances,” Hermes. 121 (1993) 377–82. “The Supposed Conventional Meanings of Dramatic Masks: A Re–examination of Pollux 4. 133–54,” Philologus 140 (1996) 306–328. “Multiplicity, Discontinuity, and Visual Meaning in Aristophanic Comedy,”Rheinisches Museum n.F. 143 (2000) 255–95. “Unconventional Procedures in Rhesus,” Philologus 148 (2004) 21-33. "The Cothurnus and Greek Tragedy," in Stephan Heilen et al. edd., In Pursuit of Wissenschaft: Festschrift für William M. Calder zum 75. Geburtstag (Hildesheim 2008) 341–50 “Description of Action in the Narratives of Euripidean and Sophoclean Drama,” Mnemosyne 62 (2009) 357–77. Web publications: Appendices for "Description of Action in the Narratives of Euripidean and Sophoclean Tragedy," Mnemosyne 62 (2009), 357-77.
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