Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Princeton University 1971
  • M.S., Princeton University 1968
  • B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1964
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Research Professor in the Department of Classical Studies, Classical Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2015
  • Professor with Tenure, Classical Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1996 - 2013
  • Dean of the Humanities, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2012 - 2013
  • Chair, Deparment of Classical Studies, Classical Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003 - 2007
  • Professor of Theater Studies, Theater Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2001 - 2006
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, Classical Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1977 - 1996
  • Assistant Professor with Tenure, Classical Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1974 - 1977
  • Assistant Professor, Classical Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1971 - 1974
  • Instructor, University, Classical Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1968 - 1971
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • JUL 27, 2016

    Dancing to the Continuing Relevance of the Trojan War

  • MAY 30, 2013

    The Humanities in Transition
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  Awards & Honors

  • Fellows. Center for Hellenic Studies. 1980
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • Greece (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • China (Country) 
    • Italy (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Translatable: Creativity and Knowledge Formation Across Cultures awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2009
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • editor, P. H. A Companion to Aeschylus, 2014.
    • Co-edited, Alan, and Alan Shapiro. The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Alcestis, Cyclops, Helen, Medea. Oxford University Press, 2010.
    • Co-edited, Alan, and Alan Shapiro. The Complete Sophocles: Volume I: The Theban Plays. Oxford University Press, 2010.
    • Co-edited, Alan, and Alan Shapiro. The Complete Euripides: Volume II: Electra, Euripides in Aulis, Euripides in Tauris, Orestes. Oxford University Press, 2010.
    • Co-edited, Brian, and Alan Shapiro. The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia. Oxford University Press, 2010.
    • Co-edited, Brian, and Alan Shapiro. The Complete Euripides: Volume I: Andromache, Hecuba, Rhesos, Trojan Women. Oxford University Press, 2010.
    • Co-edited, Alan, and Alan Shapiro. The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II, Persians and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2009.
    • Co-edited, Alan, and Alan Shapiro. The Complete Euripides: Volume III, Hippolytus and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2009.
    • Co-edited, Alan, and Alan Shapiro. The Complete Euripides: Volume IV, Bacchae and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2009.
    • Co-edited, Alan, and Alan Shapiro. The Complete Sophocles: Volume II, Electra and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2009.
    • Burian, P. H. Euripides, Helen. Aris and Phillips Classical Texts, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2007.
    • Shapiro, Alan. Aeschylus, Oresteia. Oxford University Press, New York, 2003.
    • Burian, P. H. Aeschylus, The Suppliants. Princeton University Press: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, Princeton, 1991.
    • Burian, P. H. Aristophanes, Birds. Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Bryn Mawr, Penn, 1991.
    • Else, Gerald F. Plato and Aristotle on Poetry, edited with Introduction, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1987.
    • Burian, P. H. Directions in Euripidean Criticism: A Collection of Essays Edited with "Selected Bibliography of Euripidean Criticism since World War II". Duke University Press, 1985.
    • Burian, P., and Brian Swann. The Greek Tragedy in New Translations:. Oxford University Press, New York, 1981.

  • Academic Articles

    • Hall, Review of E. “The Theatrical Cast of Athens.” Journal of Hellenic Studies 129 (2009): 147–48.
    • Burian, P. H. “Introduction, Notes and Glossary,” 2008.
    • Burian, P. H. “Review of M. McDonald and J. M. Walton, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre.” Classical Review 58 (2008): 347–50.
    • Burian, P. H. “Review of J. Gregory, ed., A Companion to Greek Tragedy and I. C. Storey and A. Allan, A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama.” Journal of Hellenic Studies 127 (2007): 163–65.
    • Peter Burian, N. J. “Biologia, democrazia e donne nelle Eumenidi di Eschilo.” Lexis 24 (2006): 45–57.
    • Burian, P. H. “Review of D. Mendelsohn, Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays.” Classical Review 55 (2004): 26–27.
    • Peter Burian, E. “"Sepulchers," a translation of Ugo Foscolo, "Carme dei Sepolcri" with brief introduction and notes.” Literary Imagination 4 (2002): 17–30.
    • Burian, P. H. “Review of John Porter, Eric Csapo, C.W. Marshall, Robert C. Ketterer, eds., Crossing the Stages: The Production, Performance and Reception of Ancient Theater (Syllecta Classica 10).” Bryn Mawr Classical Review 11 (January 2000).
    • Burian, P. H. “Review of Ralf Krumeich, Nikolaus Pechstein, and Berndt Seidensticker, eds., Das griechische Satyrspiel.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review 11 (January 2000).
    • Mills, Review of Sophie. “Theseus, Tragedy and the Athenian Empire.” American Journal of Philology 121 (January 2000): 149–53.
    • Peter Burian, E. “Translation, the Profession, and the Poets.” American Journal of Philology 121 (2000): 299–307.
    • Peter Burian, E. “Notes and Commentary" to William Arrowsmith's posthumously published lecture, “Euripides and the Dramaturgy of Crisis.” Literary Imagination 1 (1999): 227–35.
    • Peter Burian, E. “'You can build a heavy-beamed poem out of this': Derek Walcott's Odyssey.” Classical World 93 (1999): 71–81.
    • Peter Burian, E. “" 'All that Greek manure under the green bananas': Derek Walcott's Odyssey".” South Atlantic Quarterly 96 (1997): 359–77.
    • Burian, P. H. “Review of Pietro Pucci, Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father and Charles Segal, Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge.” Classical Journal 91 (January 1995): 202–9.
    • Burian, P. H. “Review of Giulia Sissa, Greek Virginity.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 2 (January 1992): 641–44.
    • Burian, P. H. “Review of Mary Whitlock Blundell, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus.” Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2 (January 1991): 261–62.
    • Burian, P. H. “Review of Gilbert and Sarah Lawall, Euripides’ Hippolytus: A Companion with Translation.” Classical Outlook 69 (January 1989): 70–70.
    • Peter Burian, F. K. “Zeus soter tritos and Some Triads in Aeschylus' Oresteia.” American Journal of Philology 107 (1986): 332–42.
    • Burian, P. H. “Review of William M. Calder, III. (ed.), Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Selected Correspondence 1869-1931.” Classical World 79 (January 1985): 51–52.
    • Burian, P. H. “Review of C. W. Macleod, ed. Homer, Iliad, Book XXIV.” Edited by Fred Smith. Classical Outlook 62 (January 1984): 69–70.
    • Burian, P., Peter Burian, and N. J. Richardson. “The Epigram on Apollonius of Tyana.” Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 22 (1981): 283–85.
    • Peter Burian, W. G. “Translations of poems by Giorgio Mannacio.” Poetry Now 30 (1981): 29.
    • Burian, Peter, and Norman Guttman. “A Climate for Liberal Learning.” Duke Alumni Register, May 1980, 6–9.
    • Burian, P. H. “Review of W. S. Merwin and George E. Dimock, Jr., Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis.” American Journal of Philology 101 (January 1980): 97–98.
    • Burian, P. H. “Translations of poems by Giorgio Mannacio.” Edited by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann. Italian Poetry Today, 1979, 118–19.
    • Peter Burian, T. M. “Euripides' Heraclidae: An Interpretation.” Classical Philology 72 (1977): 1–21.
    • Burian, P. H. “"Alcestis Resurrected," review of William Arrowsmith’s translation of Euripides’ Alcestis.” American Poetry Review 5 (January 1976): 43–45.
    • Peter Burian, C. “Euripides the Contortionist.” Arion 3 (January 1976): 97–113.
    • Burian, P. H. “Euripides, Supplices 694 ff.” The Classical Review 24, no. 2 (January 1, 1974): 175–76. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X00242753.
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    • Burian, P. H. “Suppliant and Saviour: Oedipus at Colonus.” Phoenix 28 (1974): 408–29.
    • Peter Burian, N. J. “Pelasgus and Politics in Aeschylus' Danaid Trilogy.” Wiener Studien 8 (1974): 5–14.
    • Peter Burian, T. M. “Supplication and Hero Cult in Sophocles' Ajax.” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 13 (1972): 151–56.

  • Book Sections

    • Burian, P. H. “Sophocles’ Polyphonic Ajax.” In Blackwell Companion to Sophocles, edited by Kirk Ormand, 2012.
    • Burian, P. H. “Athenian Tragedy as Democratic Discourse.” In Why Athens: A Reappraisal of Trgic Politics, edited by D. M. Carter, 95–117. Oxford University Press, 2010.
    • Burian, P. H. “Aeschylus.” In The Classical Tradition, edited by A. Grafton, G. W. Most, and S. Settis, 10–11. Harcvard University Press, 2010.
    • Burian, P. H. “Euripides’ Helen.” In Euripides V (Greek Tragedy in New Translations), 225–391. Oxford University Press, 2010.
    • Burian, P. H. “Euripides.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome., edited by Michael Gagarin and Elaine Fantham, 3:129–41. Oxford University Press, 2010.
    • Burian, P. H. “Gender and the City: Antigone from Hegel to Butler and Back.” In When Worlds Elide, edited by J. P. Euben and K. Bassi, 255–99. Lexington Books [Rowman and Littlefield], 2010.
    • Burian, P. H. “Inconclusive Conclusion: The Ending(s) of the Oedipus Tyrannus.” In Sophocles and the Tragic Tradition, edited by E. Hall and S. Goldhill, 99–118. Cambridge Univeristy Press (2009), 2009.
    • Burian, P. H. “City, Farewell!: Genos, Polis and Gender in Aeschylus’s Seven Against Thebes and Euripides’ Phoenician Women.” In Tragedy and Sexual Difference, edited by D. McCoskey and E. Zakin, 16–45. SUNY Press, 2009.
    • Burian, P. H. “Parola di donna? La voce di Lisistrata e la fantasia comica.” In Atti Del Convegno Di Studi “Comicità e Riso Nella Commedia Antica,” Cagliari 2005, edited by P. Mureddu and G. F. Nieddu, 131–41. Amsterdam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 2007.
    • Burian, P. H. “Voce di donna: Le Troiane nella guerra del Peloponneso.” In Evento, Racconto, Scrittura Nell’antichità Classica, edited by A. Casanova and P. Desideri. Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di scienze dell’ antichità, Università degli studi di Firenze (Florence, Italy), 2002.
    • Burian, P. H. “Aeschylus: "Oresteia", "Persians", "Prometheus Bound", "Seven Against Thebes", and "Suppliants." Gilbert Murray as Literary Translator.” In Encyclopedia of Literary Translation, edited by O. Classe. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.
    • Burian, P. H. “Myth into Muthos: the Shaping of Tragic Plot.” In The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, edited by P. E. Easterling, 178–208. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
    • Burian, P. H. “Tragedy Adapted for Stages and Screens: the Renaissance to the Present.” In The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, edited by P. E. Easterling, 228–83. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
    • Burian, P. H. “Introduction, Notes and Glossary.” In The Greek Tragedy in New Translations: Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.
    • Burian, P. H. “On Being a Political Animal in the Academic Zoo.” In The Academic’s Handbook, edited by A Leigh DeNeef and Craufurd Goodwin, 65–72. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995.
    • Burian, P. H. “Logos and Pathos: The Politics of the Suppliant Women.” In Directions in Euripidean Criticism, 129–221. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985.
    • Burian, P., and Brian Swann. “Euripides, The Phoenician Women.” In The Greek Tragedy in New Translations: Oxford University Press, New York, 1981.
    • Burian, P. H. “The Play before the Prologue: Initial Tableaux on the Greek Stage.” In Ancient and Modern: Essays in Honor of Gerald F. Else, 79–94. Ann Arbor: Center for the Coordination of Ancient and Modern Studies, 1977.

  • Other Articles

    • Burian, P. H. “The Play of Orfeo.” The Literary Imagination, 2011.

  • Journal Issues

    • Davis, Gregson, Peter Burian, and Jenny Strauss Clay, eds. “Euphrosyne.” Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde. De Gruyter, 2020.
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Schubert's Greek Lyre: Epic heroes in Romantic Lieder. November 30, 2010  2010
  • Ambition, Public and Private, in Aristophanes' Birds and Euripides' Phoenician Women. August 10, 2009  2009
  • Dramma e democrazia nel quinto secolo a.C.: A cycle of six lectures given as Visiting Professor (short term): A cycle of six lectures given as Visiting Professor (short term). July 1, 2008  2008
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  Service to the Profession

  • Co-organizer : Translatable: Creativity and Knowledge Formation Across Cultures, an interdisciplinary conference on the poetics and pragmatics of literary translatio. January 13, 2009  2009

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