{"id":3647,"date":"2015-09-02T16:16:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/?post_type=profile&p=3647"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:43:06","slug":"stephen-esposito","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/faculty-profiles\/stephen-esposito\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Esposito"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/h3>\n

Biography<\/h3>\n

I love teaching Greek at all levels. My research has focused on Greek tragedy. I enjoy writing translations and commentaries on the plays, esp. those of Sophocles. Recently I founded the Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentary<\/i> series (Oxford) and spend much of my \u2018free\u2019 time editing the work of the OGLCC contributors and writing my own commentaries.<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/h3>\n

Homer, <\/b>Greek Tragedy, Thucydides, Herodotus, New Testament, Indo-European; also translation and the writing of Greek commentaries.<\/p>\n

Books In Progress<\/h3>\n

Sophocles\u2019 Trachiniae: A Commentary on the Ancient Greek Text <\/i>(This will be the flagship volume of the new Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentaries Series, of which I am the founding editor; Oxford University Press, 2014).<\/p>\n

Sophocles\u2019 Oedipus Tyrannos: A Commentary on the Ancient Greek Text <\/i>(Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentaries Series, OUP, 2014).<\/p>\n

Sophocles\u2019 Trachiniae: Translation, Interpretative Essays, and Notes <\/i>(Focus Publishing, 2014).<\/p>\n

Sophocles\u2019 Ajax: A Commentary on the Ancient Greek Text <\/i>(Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentaries Series; OUP, 2014 or 2015)<\/p>\n

Books<\/h3>\n

Odysseus at Troy: Ajax, Hecuba, and Trojan Women <\/em>ed. Stephen Esposito <\/em>(Focus Publishing, 2010) 280 pp. (Esposito translated Sophocles\u2019 Ajax, <\/em>Diskin Clay translated Euripides\u2019 Trojan Women<\/em>, and <\/em>Robin Mitchell-Boyask translated Euripides\u2019 Hecuba<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Four Plays by Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles and Bacchae <\/em>ed. S. Esposito (Focus Publishing, 2002) 303 pp. (Esposito translated The Bacchae, <\/em>A. J. Podlecki did Medea,<\/em> and <\/em>Michael Halleran did Heracles<\/em> and Hippolytus<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Euripides\u2019 Bacchae: Translation, Interpretative Essay, and Notes <\/em>(Focus Publishing, 1998) 126 pp.<\/p>\n

Teaching<\/h3>\n

I\u2019ve taught many courses in Greek at all levels (Homer, Lyric Poetry, Tragedy, Thucydides, Herodotus, Plato, and the New Testament); and many translation courses on the same. Also I\u2019ve been teaching in the Core Curriculum since its inception 25 years ago and given lectures on Homer and Greek Drama for many of those years. And for many of the last 10 years I have been a guest lecturer on Greek Tragedy in Prof. Elie Wiesel\u2019s seminars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7388,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11488,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/3647\/revisions\/11488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/classics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}