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Andrew Zissos

Associate Professor and Chair, Classics
School of Humanities

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1997


M.A., University of Calgary, 1993, Classics

Phone: (949) 824-6584
Fax: (949) 824-1966
Email: pzissos@uci.edu

University of California
106 Humanities Office Building 2
Mail Code: 2000
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests 		Latin epic, medieval Latin, Roman culture
   
Academic
Distinctions 		NEH Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, 2000-1
   
Appointments Assistant Professor, Post-Augustan Literature and Culture, University of Texas at Austin, 1997-2001
   
Publications Book

Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1. Edited with Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary. (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Articles

1. "Marriage in the Ruodlieb." Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 32.2 (1997), 53-78.
2. "The Rape of Proserpina in Ovid Met. 5.341-661: Internal Audience and Narrative Distortion." Phoenix 53 (1999), 97-113.
3. "Allusion and Narrative Possibility in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus." Classical Philology 94 (1999), 289-301.
4. "Problems of Time in Ovid Metamorphoses 2." 31-47 in P. Hardie, A. Barchiesi, S. Hinds (edd.), Ovidian Transformations. Essays on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and its reception. (Cambridge 1999). With I. Gildenhard.
5. "Somatic Economies: Tragic Bodies and Poetic Design in Ovid’s Metamorphoses." 162-181 in P. Hardie, A. Barchiesi, S. Hinds (edd.), Ovidian Transformations. Essays on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and its reception. (Cambridge 1999). With I. Gildenhard.
6. "Inspirational Fictions: Autobiography and Generic Reflexivity in Ovid’s Proems." Greece & Rome 47 (2000), 67-79. With I. Gildenhard.
7. "Ovid’s Narcissus (Met. 3.339-510): Echoes of Oedipus." American Journal of Philology 121 (2000), 129-148. With I. Gildenhard.
8. "Reading Models and the Homeric Program in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus." Helios 29 (2002), 69-96.
9. "Spectacle and Elite in the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus." 659-84 in: A. J. Boyle & W. J. Dominik (edd.). Flavian Rome. Culture, Image, Text. (Leiden, 2003).
10. "Visual Compulsions: Phrixus & Helle in the Flavian Argonautica." 71-87 in F. Spaltenstein (ed.), Untersuchungen zu den Argonautica des Valerius Flaccus. Ratis Omnia Vincet III. (Munich 2004).
11. "L’ironia allusiva: Lucan’s Bellum Civile and the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus." 21-38 in P. Esposito and E.M. Ariemma (edd.), Lucano e la tradizione dell’epica latina. (Naples, 2004).
12. "Navigating Genres: Martial 7.19 and the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus." Classical Journal 99 (2004), 405-2
13. "Ovid’s Hecale. Deconstructing Athens in Ovid’s Metamorphoses." Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004), 47-72. With I. Gildenhard.
14. "Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica." Forthcoming in J. Miles Foley (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Epic. (London).
15. "Terminal Middle: the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus." 311-344 in S. Kyriakidis (ed.), The Middle in Latin Poetry (Bari).
16. "Sailing and sea storm in Valerius Flaccus (Arg. 1.574-642): the Rhetoric of Inundation." Forthcoming in R.R. Nauta (ed.), Flavian Poetry.
17. Reception of Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica." International Journal of the Classical Tradition 13 (2006), 165-185.
18. "Barbarian Variations: Tereus, Procne, and Philomela in Ovid (Met. 6.412-674) and Beyond." Dictynna 4 (2007), 1-25. With I. Gildenhard.
19. "Navigating Power: the Argonautica of Valerius Flaccus." Forthcoming in W. Dominik (ed.), Writing Politics.
   
Professional
Societies 		American Academy in Rome
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
   
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