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Name Susan Stephens
Position Professor
Institutional Affiliation Stanford University
Latitude 37.427861
Longitude -122.170587
Research Interests

Papyrology, "the political and social dimensions of Hellenistic literature (and its later reception) and ancient Greek fiction writing."
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Websites https://classics.stanford.edu/people/susan-stephens
Publications

"EDITED VOLUMES
1. Lionel Pearson: Selected Papers (Chico, 1983) with D. Lateiner.
2. Rituals in Ink with Alessandro Barchiesi and Jörg Rüpke (Franz Steiner Verlag,
Stuttgart, 2004)
Reviews: AAHG 2005 58 (3-4): 200-201 Karl Christ | MH 2005 62 (4): 265 Fritz Graf |
REL 2005 83 : 392-393 Gérard Freyburger.
3. Classics and National Cultures, with Phiroze Vasunia. Oxford. 2010. Review BMCR,
TLS.
4. Brill’s Companion to Callimachus, with Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, and Luigi Lehnus,
eds. (Leiden, 2011) i-xviii, 1-707. Review J. J. Clauss, BMCR, London Review of Books,
December 2012.
BOOKS
1. Oxyrhynchus Papyri XLV (Oxford, 1977) with A. Bowman, J. Shelton, M. West.
173 pp.
Reviews: REG XCI 1978 211-212 Irigoin | StudPap XVIII 1979 154-156 Votto |
CR XXIX 1979 296-297 Thomas | ZRG XCV 1978 353-360 Wolff | Gnomon LI
1979 1-8 Luppe | CE LIV 1979 N° 107 156-161 Drochmans-Ruelle | Orientalia
XLVIII 1979 147 O'Callaghan | Iura XXIX 1978 [1982] 214-220 Foti Talamanca.
2. Didymi in Demosthenem Commenta (Teubner, Stuttgart, 1983) with Lionel
Pearson, i-xx, 1-87 pp.
Reviews: Gnomon LIX 1987 213-223 Wankel | CPh LXXXII 1987 265-269
Rusten.
3. Yale Papyri in the Beinecke Library II (American Studies in Papyrology 24:
Chico, 1985) i-xxxvii, 1-167 + plates.
Reviews: ZRG CIV 1987 889-890 Rupprecht. | CE LXI 1986 N° 122 335-339
Lenaerts | CB LXV 1989 119-120 Devine | Enchoria XVI 1988 169-173 Cockle |
JEA LXXV 1989 291-295 Kramer.
4. Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments. Introduction, Text, Translation and
Commentary (Princeton, 1995) with John J. Winkler, i-xvi, 3-541.
Reviews: AC 1997 66 : 420 Daniel Donnet | Athenaeum 1997 85 (1) : 305-307
Nicoletta Marini | BMCRev 1996 7 (1) : 81-84 Gerald N. Sandy | LEC 1996 64
(3) : 300-301 Alfons Wouters | REG 1996 109 (1) : 310-312 Alain Billault |
Scholia 1997 6 : 136-138 Herwig Maehler | TLS 1996 N° 4854 : 9-10
Jasper Griffin | CR 1998 N. S. 48 (1) : 23-25 John R. Morgan | CB 1999 75 (1) :
85-97 Edmund Paul Cueva.
Now in electronic reprint.
5. Greek Prose Composition (Bryn Mawr Textbooks, 1996) 1-187. 2nd revised
edition 2012.
6. Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria (Berkeley and Los
Angeles, 2003) i-xvi, 1-292 + plates.
Reviews: BMCR 2003.06.43 Silvia Barbantani | AC 2004 73 : 343-344 Daniel
Donnet | CPh 2004 99 (3) : 267-272 Mark Payne | CJ 2004-2005 100 (1) : 99-102
Paul Ojennus | Gnomon 2005 77 (2) : 99-104 Simon Goldhill | JAOS 2004 124
(2) : 368-369 Arthur M. F. W. Verhoogt | NECJ 2004 31 (3) : 307-309 Jon
Steffen Bruss | Phoenix 2005 59 (1-2): 161-165 James J. Clauss.
7. Callimachus in Context. From Plato to the Augustan Poets. With Benjamin
Acosta-Hughes (Cambridge, 2012) v-xvi, 1-328. Reviews: Peter Green, London
Review of Books, December 2012; Marco Fantuzzi, Classical Journal, 2013,
Stephen Heyworth, BMCR, 2013, Jane Lightfoot, JHS, February 2014.
Paperback edition 2015.
8. The Hymns of Callimachus. Edited with Introduction, Translation and
Commentary (Oxford, 2015) viii-xiv, 1-324.
ARTICLES
1. "Lease of Land," Collectanea Papyrologica: Texts Published in Honor of H.C. Youtie, vol.
II (Köln, 1976) 535-541.
2. "Nine Orders to Pay from Oxyrhynchus," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 31
(1978) 145-160, reprinted in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri XLIX, nos. 3513-3521 (Oxford,
1983) 251-257.
3. "Aristophanes, Poiesis," Papyri Greek & Egyptian: Edited by Various Hands in
Honour of Eric Gardner Turner on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday (=
Graeco-Roman Memoirs 68) No. 4 (Oxford, 1981) 23-25.
4. Two Fragments of New Comedy, Oxyrhynchus Papyri XLIX, nos. 3431-3432
(Oxford, 1983) 1-10.
5. "The Arginusae Theme in Greek Rhetorical Theory and Practice," Bulletin of the American
Society of Papyrologists 21:3-4 (1983) 71-81.
6. "The Ancient Title of the Ad Demonicum," Yale Classical Studies 28 (Cambridge, 1985) 5-9.
7. "A Eulogy for Christian Martyrs?," Festschrift for William Willis, = Bulletin of the
American Society of Papyrologists 22:1-4 (1985), 333-345.
8. "Book Production," Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome, vol. I
(1988) 421-436.
9. "Complaints of Police Brutality," with T. Caulfield and A. Estner, Zeitschrift für
Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 76 (1989) 241-254.
10. "Recycled Demosthenes," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 77 (1989) 271-72.
11. "The Rhetorical Papyrus P. Hamb. 134," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik
77 (1989) 267-70.
12. "Hellenistic Queens," entry for Women's Studies Encyclopedia, Vol. III: History,
Philosophy and Religion, ed. H. Tierney (Greenwood Press, 1991) vol. III 200-202
(reprinted, 1996).
13. "Six Documents from the Yale Collection" with Naphtali Lewis, Zeitschrift für
Papyrologie und Epigraphik 88 (1991) 169-176.
14. "An Epikrisis Return and Other Documentary Fragments from the Yale Collection,"
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 90 (1993) 221-226.
15. "Who Read Ancient Novels?" The Search for the Ancient Novel, edited by James Tatum
(Johns Hopkins Press (1994) 405-418.
16. "Alcibiades in the Rhetorical Tradition," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 105
(1995) 215-224.
17. "Fragments of Lost Novels," in Handbook of the Ancient Novel, ed. Gareth Schmeling
(Brill, 1996) 655-83. Revised edition 2003.
18. "Callimachus at Court," Hellenistica Groningana 3 (1998) 167-85.
19. "Writing Epic in the Ptolemaic Court," Hellenistica Groningana 4 (2000) 195-215.
20. "Aetia fr. 1.5: I told my story like a child," with B. Acosta-Hughes, Zeitschrift für
Papyrologie und Epigraphik 136 (2001) 214-16.
21. "Commenting on Fragments" in The Classical Commentary: History, Practices, Theory
edited by R. Gibson and Christina Kraus (Brill, 2002) 67-88.
22. "Rereading Callimachus’ Aetia Fragment 1", with B. Acosta-Hughes, Classical Philology
97 (2002) 238-55.
23. “Egyptian Callimachus,” Callimaque. Entretiens sur L’Antiquité classique, 48 (Geneva:
Fondation Hardt, 2002), 235-70.
24. “For You, Arsinoe…,” in Acosta-Hughes, B., and Kosmetatou, E. (eds.), Labored in
Papyrus Leaves—Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil.
Vogl. VIII 309) (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), 161-76.
25. “The Manuscript: Posidippus on Papyrus” with Dirk Obbink in Acosta-Hughes, B., and
Kosmetatou, E. (eds.), Labored in Papyrus Leaves (Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2004), 7-15.
26. “Linus Song”, Hermathena (2002-3) 10-24.
27. “Whose Rituals in Ink?” in Barchiesi, Rüpke, Stephens, eds., Rituals in Ink (Franz Steiner
Verlag, Stuttgart, 2004) 155-58.
28. “Battle of the Books” in Kathryn Gutzwiller, ed. The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic
Poetry Book (Oxford, 2005) 220-239.
29. “Posidippus’ Poetry Book: Where Macedon Meets Egypt,” in WV Harris and G. Ruffini,
eds., Ancient Alexandria: between Greece and Egypt (Brill, 2004) 63-86.
30. “Lessons of the Crocodile” for "Imperial Trauma: The Powerlessness of the Powerful"
Symposium on Imperial Trauma, part I. Common Knowledge 11:2 (2005) 215-39.
Reprinted in Peace and Mind: Civilian Scholarship from Common Knowledge, ed. J. M.
Perl (Aurora, Colorado, 2011) 311-46.
31. “Ptolemaic Pastoral", Companion to Pastoral, eds. M. Fantuzzi and T. Papanghelis (Brill,
2006) 91-118.
32. "Cultural Identity" for Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Novel, ed. Tim Whitmarsh,
(Cambridge, 2008) 56-71.
33. "“Ptolemaic Epic” Brill Companion to Apollonius Rhodius, 2nd revised edition (Leiden
2008) 95-114.
34. "Hellenistic Culture" for Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies, eds. G. Boys-Stones and B.
Graziosi (Oxford, 2009) 86-97.
35. "Ptolemaic Alexandria" for A Companion to Hellenistic Literature, eds. J. Clauss and M.
Cuypers (Blackwell, 2010) 46-61.
36. “The New Alexandrian Library” in Classics and National Cultures, eds. Stephens and
Vasunia (Oxford, 2010) 267-84.
37. “Literary Quarrels" Atti della seconda gionata di studi su Callimaco, eds. A. Martina and
A.-T. Cozzoli (Rome, 2011) 35-50.
38. Introduction, Brill’s Companion to Callimachus, with Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, and Luigi
Lehnus, eds. (Leiden, 2011) 1-19.
39. Remapping the Mediterranean: The Argo Adventure in Apollonius and Callimachus",
Culture in Pieces. Festschrift for Peter Parsons, eds. D. Obbink and R. Rutherford (Oxford
2011) 188-207.
40. “Plato’s Egyptian Republic” in Greco-Aegyptiaca, ed. Ian Rutherford. Oxford,
forthcoming.
41. “Deregulating Poetry” in The City Dancing: Performance and Culture in Plato’s Laws, ed.
A. Peponi (Cambridge, 2013) 371-91.
42. “Writing Alexandria as the (Common)place”, Mythe et Pouvior à l’époque
héllenistique, eds. C. Cusset, N. Le Meur-Weissman, F. Levin. Hellenistica
Groningana 18 (2013) 137-153.
43. “Fictions of Cultural Authority”, The Romance Between Greece and the East,
Cambridge, ed. T. Whitmarsh (Cambridge, 2013) 197-218.
44. “The Other Greek Novels”, Blackwell’s Companion to the Ancient Novel, eds. E.
Cueva and S. N. Bryne (Malden, 2014) 147-58.
45. “The Ancient City in Literature,” Cambridge Companion to the City in
Literature, ed. Kevin McNamara (Cambridge 2014) 31-41.
46. “The (Geo)Politics of Imagining Ancient Alexandria,” in Imagining Space,
eds. M. Asper and V. Rimell (Heidelberg) forthcoming.
47. “Callimachus and his Narrators”, Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of
Greek Hymns, eds. A. Faulkner and O. Hodkinson Brill 2015: 49-68.
48. “Sappho in the Unmaking,” Sappho in the Twenty-first Century, ed. B. AcostaHughes.
Forthcoming.
BOOK REVIEWS
1. Women in the Ancient World: The Arethusa Papers, ed. J. Peradotto and J. P. Sullivan,
Signs, 11, no. 1 (1985) 186-187.
2. Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and
Achilles Tatius, Shadi Bartsch. American Journal of Philology, 112.4 (1991) 567-570.
3. Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt: A Social History, Richard Alston, Bryn Mawr
Classical Review 7.8 (1996) 665-7
4. Landowners and Tenants in Roman Egypt. The Social Relations of Agriculture in the
Oxyrhynchite Nome. Jane Rowlandson. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8.4 (1997) 380-86.
5. Oxford Studies in the Greek Novel, ed. Simon Swain, Oxford Studies in the Roman Novel,
ed. Stephen Harrison, Classical Review, 2000
6. Posidippi Pellaei quae supersunt omnia, eds. Colin Austin and Guido Bastiannini. Bryn
Mawr Classical Review, 2003.
7. Bookrolls and Scribes of Oxyrhynchus, Stephen Johnson. Bryn Mawr Classical Review,
2005.
8. Ancient Greek Literature, Tim Whitmarsh. Classical Review, 2005.
9. The Narrator in Archaic and Hellenistic Greek Poetry, Andrew Morrison. Classical
Review, 2008.
10. Brill Companion to Hellenistic Epigram down to Philip, edited by Peter Bing and Jon
Steffan Bruss (Leiden, 2007) in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, 2009.
11. Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism, Ian Moyer. Classical Journal, 2013.
DIGITAL MEDIA PROJECTS
1. Callimachus, Aetia. Dickinson Classical Commentaries.
dcc.dickinson.edu/subjects/callimachus-aetia
2. Sports and the University, with Blakey Vermeule (English)."
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