Stephen Scully
Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Office Hours (Fall 2009)
STH 402
M:1-2PM and 3:30-4:30PM
W: 10-11AM
Contact
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 402
Boston, MA 02215
617.353.4572 (p)
617.353.1610 (f)
sscully@bu.edu
Education
1978 PhD Brown University
1973 MA University of North Carolina
1970 BA New York University
Positions Held
Associate Professor, Boston University, 1992-present
Assistant Professor, Boston University, 1982-1992
Mellon Scholar, The Johns Hopkins University, 1979-1981
Visiting Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, 1978-1979
Instructor, Connecticut College, 1977
Instructor, Rhode Island College, 1977
Awards and Grants
Senior Society of Fellows, Boston University, 1998-99, 2001-2002,
2003-2007
Distinguished Teaching Award, Boston University, CAS Honor's Program, 2002
American Academy in Rome, Visiting Scholar, 2000-2001
Outstanding Academic Book 1991-92, Homer and the Sacred City (Choice)
Junior Society of Fellows, Boston University, 1986-1987
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1983
Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship, 1983
Books
Hesiod's Theogony, from Babylonian Creation Myths to Paradise Lost
(Oxford University Press) (scheduled for 2008)
Introduction for George Chapman's Homeric Hymns (Princeton University Press, 2008).
Plato's Phaedrus, translation, introduction, essay (Focus Press) (2003).
Euripides' Suppliant Women, translated with Rosanna Warren. Introduction
and Notes. Oxford University Press (1995). Performed at the Folger's
Theater in Washington, DC (1993); at Stanford University (1993);
and Off Broadway in New York by Quirk Productions (1987).
Homer and the Sacred City (Myth and Poetics Series) Cornell Univ.
Press (Hardback, 1990; Paperback, 1994). Lengthy discussion: Walter
Donlan, "The Homeric City in History," Arion 5 (1997),
242-52; Peter Rose, "Ideology in the Iliad," Arethusa 30 (1997), 151-99.
The Chorus in Greek Tragedy and Culture, co-edited with Herbert
Colder, Arion 3.1 (1994) and 4.1 (1996).
GIS mapping project: religious sites in the Argolid and Troizen
(in progress).
Selected Articles
"A Homer for the Twenty-first Century," Arion 17.1 (2009) 147-71.
“Apollo and the Dance of the Olympians” in Apolline Politics and Poetics (edd. Lucia Athanassaki, Richard Martin, John Miller) (The European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 2009) 91-107.
"Measured Speech in Plato's Phaedrus," Antiphilesis: Studies in Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature and Culture. In honour of John-Theophanes A. Papademetriou (Franz Steiner, 2009) 286-92.
"The Fate of Troy" in Homer's Illiad on the Screen (ed. M. Winkler) (Blackwell, 2007) 119-30.
"Homeric Epithets and Translation," A review article in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 11.5 (2006) 404-15.
"Hesiod, scepter-bearing poet," A review article in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 11.3 (2005) 424-34.
"Eros and Warfare in Virgil's Aeneid and Homer's Illiad," Being There Together: Essays in Honor of Michael C.J. Putnam, edd. Philip Thibodeau and Harry Haskill (Afton, Minnesota 2003) 181-97.
"Reading the Shield of Achilles: Anger, Terror, and Delight," HSCP 101 (2003) 29-47.
"Weisheitsliteratur III," Der Neue Pauly Band 12/2 (2002) 448-51.
"'Redfining Fire' in Aeneid 8," Vergilius 46 (2000) 93-113.
"Orchestra and Stage in Oedipus Tyrannos and the Theatre of
Dionysos," Syllecta Classica 10 (1999) 65-86.
"The Nature of the Greek Gods and Early Greek Poetry"
in Philosophies of Nature: The Human Dimension, eds. R. Cohen and
A. Tauber (1998) 163-76.
"Whose Greece?" Review article in International Journal
of the Classical Tradition 4.2 (1997) 247-55.
"Freud's Antiquities: A View from the Couch," Arion 5.2
(1997) 222-33.
"Reflections of Olympus: Images of Order in Hesiod's Theogony and Plato's Republic," Acta: First Panhellenic and Intern.
Conference on Ancient Greek Lit., ed. J.-Th. Papademetriou (Athens,
1997) 75-95.
"Archaeology as a Metaphor for Analysis?" LA Times Sunday
Op-ed page 1/29/95.
"Doubling in the Tale of Odysseus," Classical World 80
(1987) 401-17.
"'The Classical Tradition in the Renaissance' and 'The Classical
Tradition in Modern Literature': Syllabi," in The Classical
Tradition: Teaching and Research, APA Educational Papers 4 (1987)
20-21 and 25-27.
"Studies of Narrative and Speech in the Iliad," Arethusa,
Audience-Oriented Criticism and the Classics 19 (1986) 135-153.
"The Language of Achilles: the ochthesas Formulas," TAPA 114 (1984) 11-27.
"The Bard as Custodian of Society: Odyssey 3.261-272," Quaderni
Urbinati n.s. 8 (1981) 67-83.
