Naomi Weiss
Classics graduate student (naomi.weiss)

Greek Tragedy, particularly Aeschylus; Homer and Hesiod; Near Eastern influences on Greek literature and thought; literary theory.
BA (Hons) Classics, University of Oxford, Somerville College (2006); MSt, Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, University of Oxford, New College (2007).

Selected publications

"Recognition and Identity in Euripides' Ion", in Proceedings of Recognition from Antiquity to the Postmodern and Beyond, a special issue of The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (University of Alberta Press, forthcoming)

"A Psychoanalytical Reading of Euripides' Ion: Repetition, Development and Identity", Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 51 (2008) 39-50.

Personal statement

Conference papers:

"Repetition, recognition and identity in Euripides' Ion", Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, April 2008

 Seminar papers:

 "Freud and Greek Tragedy: Does a Psychoanalytical Approach Work?", The Graduate Colloquium, New College, University of Oxford, May 2007

"Hecuba and Helen: Troades 860-1059", University of Oxford, February 2007

"Sound, Sight and Silence in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes", University of Oxford, February 2007