PhD University of Michigan
MA Dalhousie University
BA University of King's College
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Greek tragedy; poetry, religion, and myth (especially origins and traditions); Senecan tragedy; literary papyrology;
Department of Classics
366 University College
220 Dysart Road
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB
Canada R3T 2M8
Tel (204) 474-9278
Fax (204) 474-7684
email: mike_sampson@umanitoba.ca
Courses for 2011-12
CLAS 2612: Greek Literature in Translation (Fall term)
GREEK 3810: Aristophanes (Fall term)
CLAS 1270: Introduction to Ancient Greek Culture (Winter term)
Publications
Borges, C. and C.M. Sampson, edd. (in press), New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection: Mythographic Lyric and a Catalogue of Poetic First Lines (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press) 'New Texts from Ancient Cultures' series.
"Universals, Plot and Form in Aristotle's Poetics" Animus 13 (2009): 4-21.
"Callimachean Tradition and the Muse’s Hymn to Ceres (Met. 5.341-661)" forthcoming in TAPA 142 (2012).
"A Note on Archilochus fr.177 and the Anthropomorphic Fa çade in Early Fable" forthcoming in CQ.
"A New Epic Fragment--on Achilles' Helmet? (P.Princ. inv. AM 14601 A)." Forthcoming in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 49 (2012).
Book Reviews
- L. Savignago, Eisthesis: Il sistema dei margini nei papiri dei poeti tragici (Alessandria: 2008), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.1.28.
- J.W. Joyce (trans.), Thebaid: A Song of Thebes (Ithaca: 2008), Classical Bulletin 85.2: 138-40.
- F.I. Zeitlin, Under the Sign of the Shield: semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes, Second edition (Lanham: 2009), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.09.12.
- C.-F. de Roguin, «et recouvre d'une montagne leur cité!» La fin du monde des héros dans les épopées homériques (Göttingen: 2007), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.10.06.
- S. Amendola, Donne e Preghiera: Le preghiere dei personaggi femminili nelle tragedie superstiti di Eschilo (Amsterdam: 2006), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.04.38.
