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Susan LapeProfessor of ClassicsContact Information E-mail: lape@email.usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-3676 Office: THH 224 |
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 Ph.D. , princeton university, 1/1998
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Description of Research |
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Susan Lape joined the USC faculty in 2005 as Associate Professor of Classics. Her research and teaching interests focus on ancient comedy, democracy, law, political, cultural, and natural history, and theories of identity and the self. She teaches courses on Greek history, law, democracy, Athenian comedy and tragedy, race and ethnicity, and Roman comedy. She recently completed a book, Reproducing Athens: Menander's Comedy, Democratic Culture, and the Hellenistic City. She is currently working on two book projects, Demosthenes: Democracy in Difficult Times under contract with Longman and The Racial Democracy: Hereditarian Thinking, History, and Citizen Identity in Ancient Athens. |
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| Greek Drama, Law, Cultural History, Athenian Democracy | |
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book review , Catherine Osborne. Dumb beasts and dead philosophers: humanity and the humane in ancient philosophy and literature / Catherine Osborne. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007. xi, 262 p. 9780199282067. Journal of Hellenic Studies. 2008., 2007-2008
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