Myth and Modernity

(he/him) A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Richard II, Pearl Theatre; Funk It Up About Nothin’, Joe’s Pub. Regional: A Good Guy, Rogue Machine; Macbeth, Othello, Utah Shakespeare Festival; Seven Guitars, Yale Rep; Pericles, Guthrie/Folger/Oregon Shakespeare Festival; All The Way, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; The Great Society, Seattle Rep; Eurydice, Milwaukee Rep; The Bomb-itty of Errors, Hudson Valley Shakespeare; Topdog/Underdog, Renaissance Theaterworks; The Tempest, Shakespeare Center Los Angeles. Film/TV: The Tragedy of Macbeth, “Chicago Med,” “S.W.A.T.,” “Stuck in the Middle.”

David F. Elmer is the Eliot Professor of Greek Literature at Harvard University and Faculty Dean of Eliot House. His research and teaching center on the Homeric epics, early Greek poetry, ancient narrative fiction, and oral traditions. He has served as Chair of the Harvard Department of the Classics and currently serves as Editor of the journal Oral Tradition.

Emily Greenwood is the James F. Rothenberg Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. She was formerly professor of Classics and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and the John M. Musser Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Classics at Yale University. Her research and teaching focus on Ancient Greek literature and the translation, adaptation, and recycling of Greek and Roman Classics in later traditions.

Phoebe Segal is the Mary Bryce Comstock Senior Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She holds a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from Columbia University and has excavated in Greece, Italy, and Cyprus. She has curated gallery renovations, including Homer and the Epics and the Early Greek Gallery. Most recently, she curated Power of the People: Art and Democracy, in which she explored the ways in which ideas about democracy have been expressed in works of art since fifth-century Athens. She is currently writing a book on the MFA’s pair of Etruscan stone sarcophagi featuring married couples poignantly embracing for eternity.

Naomi Weiss is Professor of the Classics and Chair of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University. She has published widely on archaic and classical Greek poetry and performance culture, especially drama. She is the author of The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater (University of California Press 2018) and Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama (University of California Press 2023; winner of the Goodman Award of Merit from the Society of Classical Studies).