Patricia Elizabeth Easterling

Patricia Elizabeth Easterling , née Fairfax (born March 11, 1934 in Blackburn ) is a British Graecist .

life and work

After visiting the Witton Park High School in Blackburn Easterling Classics on studying Newnham College of Cambridge University , among others at Joyce Reynolds and acquired in 1955 a BA with first class honors and distinction. After a year as a lecturer at the University of Manchester (1957–1958), she moved to Cambridge as a Fellow of Newnham College and a member of the Classics Faculty. In 1987 she became Professor of Greek at University College London .

In 1994 she returned to Cambridge and Newnham College as the 36th Regius Professor of Greek . This made her the first and so far only woman to hold this chair since it was founded by Henry VIII . In 1995 she was elected a member of the Academia Europaea . In 1998 she became a member of the British Academy . After her retirement in 2001, she was made an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College.

Easterling has co- edited the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics with Edward J. Kenney for over thirty years .

One student from her time at Newnham College is Mary Beard .

Research priorities

Easterling works mainly on Greek tragedy and its history of reception and on Greek theater . She is one of the leading interpreters of the tragedy poet Sophocles . She is currently working on a commentary on Oedipus on Colonus .

Fonts (selection)

Editorships

• (Ed., With Edith Hall ): Greek and Roman actors. Aspects of an ancient profession. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2002, (online) . - Review by: Anne Duncan, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003-09-36 .
• (Ed.): The Cambridge companion to Greek tragedy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1997, (online) . - Review by: Victor Bers, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 06/02/1999 .
• (Ed., With EJ Kenney): The Cambridge history of classical literature, Vol. I: Greek literature . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1985, (online) .
• (Ed., With JV Muir): Greek Religion and Society. 1985, (online) .

Edition with commentary

• (Ed.): Sophocles, Trachiniae . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1982 ( Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics ).

items

• Constructing the Heroic. In: Christopher Pelling (Ed.), Greek Tragedy and the Historian. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1997, pp. 21-37.
• Tragedy and ritual. "Cry 'Woe, woe' but may the good prevail!" In: Mètis. Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens  3, 1988, pp. 87-109, (online) .
• The end of the Trachiniae. In: Illinois Classical Studies 6, 1981, 56-74.
• The Infanticide in Euripides' Medea. In: Yale Classical Studies 25, 1977, 177–191.

literature

• Simon Goldhill , Edith Hall (Ed.): Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition. Essays in honor of PE Easterling on her 75th birthday. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-88785-4 , (Table of Contents and Photograph) (PDF). - Review by: Richard Rader, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.12.29 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Patricia Elizabeth Easterling in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Gareth McPherson: The Cambridge don who taught Mary Beard 'what it is to learn' . In: Cambridge News , Wednesday 19 March 2014.
• Cambridge University, Faculty of Classics: Personal Page - (with photograph)
• British Academy: Personal Page
• Didaskalia. The Journal for Ancient Performance: Patricia Easterling, Board Member
• Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama: Entry Patricia E. Easterling .
• philpapers: Directory of articles and essays by Pat Easterling

Individual evidence

1. ^ Membership directory: Patricia Easterling. Academia Europaea, accessed November 4, 2017 .