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P E Easterling

Patricia Elizabeth Easterling is an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, England, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She was Professor of Greek at University College London from 1987 to 1994, then the 37th Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge from 1994 until she retired in 2001.

She works mainly on Greek literature, particularly tragedy; she also studies the survival and reception of ancient drama. She has been a General Editor of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series since its foundation over thirty years ago, and has published an edition within this series of Sophocles’ Trachiniae (1982). Her most recent book is Greek and Roman Actors (Cambridge 2002), co-edited with Edith Hall. She is currently writing a commentary on Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus.

Publications

Books

• Sophocles: Trachiniae, edited, Cambridge, 1982
• Greek Religion and Society, edited with J V Muir, 1984
• The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, General editor with E J Kenney
• The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, Editor, 1997
• Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession, edited with Edith Hall, 2002

Articles

• Constructing the Heroic in Christopher Pelling, Greek Tragedy and the Historian, Oxford, 1997: 21-37
• The Infanticide in Euripides' Medea, Yale Classical Studies 25 (1977): 177-191

External links

• Profile of P E Easterling
• Homer, Tragedy and Beyond: Essays in honour of P E Easterling, New Hellenic Society 1991