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Erika Weiberg

Erika Weiberg

Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
Classical Studies
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Selected Publications

Demanding witness: Women and the trauma of homecoming in Greek Tragedy

Book · February 22, 2024 Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' Women of Trachis, and Euripides' Heracles and Helen. Through discussions of modern tra ... Full text Cite

FALSE REPORTS AND WAITING WIVES ON THE HOME FRONT IN AESCHYLUS’ AGAMEMNON AND SOPHOCLES’ TRACHINIAE

Journal Article Classical Philology · April 1, 2022 Nostos plays such as Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Sophocles’ Trachiniae can be productively read within the context of the fifth-century Athenian home front. Focusing on wives’ receipt of false reports about their husbands in Agamemnon and Trachiniae, this art ... Full text Cite

The Bed and the Tomb

Journal Article Mnemosyne · January 28, 2020 AbstractBuilding on recent work on the materiality of props in Greek tragedy, this article focuses attention on Proteus’ tomb in Euripides’ Helen as a potent stage property that becomes central t ... Full text Cite

Learning to Bear Witness: Tragic Bystanders in Sophocles’ Trachiniae

Chapter · January 1, 2020 Drawing on trauma theory and writing about the Holocaust, this chapter argues that Sophocles’ Trachiniae is attuned to the complexities not just of surviving trauma, but also of bearing witness to it. Three levels of bearing witness to trauma can be identi ... Cite

Weapons as Friends and Foes in Sophocles’ Ajax and Euripides’ Heracles

Chapter · August 1, 2018 Sophocles’ Ajax and Euripides’ Heracles stage a warrior’s suicide and rejection of suicide, respectively, as confrontations with weapons as material friends and foes. Drawing connections between recent work on moral injury and the new materialist concept o ... Cite