Dr. Rebecca Futo Kennedy Affiliation: Faculty Title: Assistant Professor Specialty: Athenian Tragedy, Greek and Roman Historiography, Greek Political and Cultural History, Ethnography and Geography in the Classical World Office: 417 Fellows Email: kennedyr@denison.edu Phone: 740-587-8675 B.A. in Classical Studies from Thurgood Marshall College at the University of California at San Diego, 1997 M.A. in Greek and Latin from The Ohio State University, 1999 Ph.D. in Greek and Latin from The Ohio State University, 2003 See full resume [pdf]

Research

Professor Kennedy's research interests include Athenian political history of the 5th century BC, Greek and Roman historiography and the influence of imperialism on Greek tragedy. Her current projects include a source book for the study of race and ethnicity in antiquity (under contract with Hackett Press), a series of essays on the relationship between geography, ethnography and imperialism in Greek and Roman texts, and a project on the Aspasia, the position of metic women in fifth-century Athens and the influence of 19th century British views of women on our understanding of the position of women in classical Athens, especially hetairai and metics.

Teaching

Upcoming Courses (2011-2012 AY):

•    GREK 111: Beginning Greek: Homeric Greek (Fall)
•    GREK 322: Greek Tragedy: Medea (Fall)
•    LAT 211: Latin Prose and Poetry: Catullus and Cicero (Fall)
•    GREK 112: Intermediate  Greek: Homeric Greek con't (Spring)
•    CLAS 301: Art and Politics in Classical Antiquity (Spring)

Recent Course (2009-2011):

•    CLAS 101: Classical Cultures (Fall 2009, Fall 2010)
•    CLAS 201: Ancient Greece (Spring 2010)
•    CLAS 301: Race and Ethnicity in Antiquity (Spring 2011)
•    GREK 112: Intermediate  Greek (Spring 2011)
•    GREK 211: Greek Prose and Poetry (Lysias and Euripides; Fall 2010)
•    GREK 341: Invention of Athens (Funeral Oratory and Civic Identity; Spring 2011)
•    LATN 111-112: Beginning-Intermediate Latin (Fall 2009-Spring 2010)
•    LATN 311: Roman Historiography (Caesar's Civil War; Spring 2010)

Publications

Published
• Athena’s Justice: Athena, Athens and the Concept of Justice in Greek Tragedy (Lang Classical Series, Vol. 16, Peter Lang Publishing, 2009; Reviewed in Classical Review 60.2:349-351; Greece & Rome 57.2:390)
• “Justice, Geography and Empire in Aeschylus’ Eumenides” Classical Antiquity 25:35-72 (2006).
• Book Review: Martha Taylor, Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War (Cambridge University Press, 2010). New England Classical Journal 38.2.
•Book Review: Sowerby, R. The Greeks: an introduction to their culture, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2009). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.02.36
•Book Review: Rosenbloom, D. Aeschylus: Persians (Duckworth, 2006) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.11.24.
• Book Review: Storey, I. and A. Allan A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (Blackwell, 2005). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.43.
• Book Review: Anderson, G. The Athenian Experiment: Building an Imagined Community in Ancient Attica, 508-490BC (Michigan, 2003) Classical Journal 100.3 (2005) 316-318.

Forthcoming or Under Review
•  “Geography in Greek Tragedy” (2000 word essay) in The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy (forthcoming; Wiley-Blackwell)
• Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: A Sourcebook (with Sydnor Roy; under contract at Hackett Publishing)
• Book Review: Ruth Scodel, An Introduction to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2010) for The Ancient History Bulletin
• "A Tale of Two Kings: Competing Aspects of Power in Aeschylus’ Persians” for New Approaches to Greek Drama (Ramus special issue)

In Progress
  • Courtesans, Concubines and Slaves?: Aspasia and the Position of Metic Women in Fifth-Century Athens (monograph)
 

Presentations

Select Recent Presentations

• "Freedom and Imperial Ideology in Aeschylus' Persians" (APA, Jan 2011)
• “Imperial Identity and the Persian King in Aeschylus' Persians” (OCC, Oct 2010)
• “Herodotus and the Politics of ethnos” (CAMWS, March 2010)
• “A Culture of Justice: The Courts in Athenian Tragedy and the Visual Arts” (International Colloquium on Justice in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds, University of Western Ontario, March 2010)
• “Tyranny, Amnesty and the Death of Socrates” SUNY-Potsdam (invited; May 2009)
• “Unjust Athena: An Argument for a Later Date for Sophocles'  Ajax” (APA 2009)
• “Redeeming the Maids and Penelope's Guilt in Atwood's Penelopiad” (CAMWS 2008)
• “Dramatizing Defeat: A Tragic Messenger Speech in Thucydides’ History” (CAMWS 2007)