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Name Melissa Funke
Position Assistant Professor
Institutional Affiliation University of Winnipeg
Latitude 49.892712
Longitude -97.153338
Research Interests

Greek tragic fragments, gender and sexuality in antiquity, Greek literature of the Roman Empire, Greek colour terminology

Websites http://classics.uwinnipeg.ca/faculty.html
Publications

Publications Include
Forthcoming. “Colour Blind: The Use of Greek Colour Terminology in Cultural Linguistics in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.” In The Classics and Early Anthropology: A Companion in Classical Reception, edited by E. Varto. Leiden: Brill.

2016. “The Menandrian World of Alciphron’s Letters.” In Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire, edited by C.W. Marshall and Tom Hawkins. London: Bloomsbury.

2012. “The Construction of Female Sexuality in Alciphron and Longus.” In Narrating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel, edited by M. Pinheiro, M. Skinner, and F. Zeitlin, pp. 181-95. Berlin: De Gruyter.

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