Publications by John Davidson
Forthcoming
The Mythology of James K. Baxter (with Geoff Miles and Paul Millar).
Books
Greek Drama III: Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee (edited by John Davidson, Frances Muecke and Peter Wilson), Bulle
Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 87 (London 2006) pp. xiii and 307.
Theatres of Action: Papers for Chris Dearden (edited by John Davidson and Arthur Pomeroy), Prudentia Supplement
Auckland 2003.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
1994-2007
„Euripides‟Bacchae in New Zealand Dress‟, Antichthon 41 (2007) 97-108.
„New “Greek” Plays in Dunedin‟, NZACT 34.1 (March 2007) 32-35.
„Sophocles and Homer: Some Issues of Vocabulary‟, in I.J.F. de Jong and A. Rijksbaron (edd.), Sophocles and the G
Language (Mnemosyne Supplement 269), Brill (Leiden and Boston), 2006, pp. 25-38.
„The Sickness and the Cure: Classics in the 21st Century‟, Wai-te-ata Press, Victoria University of Wellington, n.d., p
„What about the Greeks who went to Troy? Three Tragic Contexts and Homer‟, Classica et Mediaevalia 57 (2006) 5„‟Greek Drama: Image and Audience(s)‟, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 48 (2005) 1-13.
„Theatrical Production‟, in Justina Gregory (ed.), A Companion to Greek Tragedy, Blackwell Publishing, Malden (MA)
and Carlton (Victoria) (2005) 194-211.„
Some New Zealand Poetic Faces of Dionysus‟, in Theatres of Action: Papers for Chris Dearden, Prudentia Suppleme
(Auckland 2003) 224-37.
„Carcinus and the Temple: a Problem in the Athenian Theater‟, Classical Philology [U.S.A.]98 (2003) 109-22.
„Sophocles‟ Trachiniae and the Odyssey‟, Athenaeum 91 (2003) 517-23.
„Olympia and the chariot-race of Pelops‟, in D. Phillips and D. Pritchard (eds.), Sport and Festival in the Ancient Gre
Classical Press of Wales, Swansea (2003) 101-22.
Performance disasters in the Athenian theatre‟, Omnibus 46, 2003, pp. 4-6.
„Some New Zealand Poetic Faces of Dionysus‟, in Theatres of Action: Papers for Chris Dearden, Prudentia Suppleme
Auckland 2003, pp. 224-37.
„Carcinus and the Temple: a Problem in the Athenian Theater‟, Classical Philology 98, 2003, pp.109-22.
„Sophocles‟ Trachiniae and the Odyssey‟, Athenaeum 91, 2003, pp. 517-23.
„Olympia and the chariot-race of Pelops‟, in D. Phillips and D. Pritchard (eds.), Sport and Festival in the Ancient Gre
Classical Press of Wales, Swansea, 2003, pp. 101-22.
„Arrival at the Cave: The Odyssey and Greek Drama‟, Wiener Studien, 115, 2002, pp 45-57
„The Absence of Alkemene in the Trakhiniai‟, Hermes, 129, 2001, pp 551-553
„Sophocles, Electra 197-200‟, La Parola del Passato, 61, 2001, pp 199-202
„Sophocles, Philoctetes: The Encounter of the Generations‟, Wurzburger Jahrbucher fur die Altertumswissenschaft, 2
pp 27-39
‘Troades 442 Revisited‟, Rheinisches Museum fur Philologie 144, 2001, pp 107-108
„It's All a Myth: Mythologizing the Curriculum‟, NZACT, 28, 3, 2001, pp 99-104
„Beware of the Danger: A Homeric Motif in Fifth Century Drama‟, Classica et Mediaevalia, 51, 2000, pp 17-28
„Alkmene: Mother of a Child Prodigy‟, Scholia, 9, 2000, pp 2-11
„A Puzzle in Antoninus Liberalis 33‟, Acta Classica, 43, 2000, pp 157-160
„Sophocles, Trachiniae 100-101‟, Athenaeum, 87, 1999, pp 533-539
„Rhadamanthys and the Family of Herakles‟, L’Antiquité Classique, 68, 1999, pp 247-52
„SOPH. EL. 489-91 AGAIN‟, Mnemosyne, 50, 1997, pp 199-201
„Homer and the Sophoclean Prophet Motif‟, Eranos, 95, 1997, pp 57-61
„Two Notes on Euripides‟ Heraclidae‟, Athenaeum, 84, 1996, pp 243-47
'Homer and Sophocles' Philoctetes', in 'Stage Directions: Essays in Ancient Drama in Honour of E.W. Handley', Bulle
Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 66, 1995, pp 25-35
„Zeus and the Stone Substitute‟, Hermes, 123, 1995, pp 363-369
„Two Substitutions in Greek Myth‟, L’Antiquité Classique, 64, 1995, pp 205-210
„Prometheus Vinctus on the Athenian Stage‟, Greece and Rome, 41, 1994, pp 33-40
„Sophocles and the Odyssey‟, Mnemosyne, 47, 1994, pp 375-379
„Greek Heroes and New Zealand Poetry, Prudentia, 26, 1994, pp 1-14
Journal Articles, 1975-1993
'The Parodos of Sophocles' Ajax', Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 22, 1975, pp 163-7
'James K. Baxter and the Classics', Islands, 14, Summer 1975, pp 451-64
'Catullus, Horace and Baxter', Islands, 15, Autumn 1976, pp 86-94
'A Fragment of Archilochus', Mate, 26 July 1976, pp 36-39
'Sophocles, Ajax 192-200', Mnemosyne, 29, 1976, pp 129-35
'Philoctetes Down Under', Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association, 47, May 197
56
'Some Thoughts on Ovid, Amores 1,3', in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, 2 (Collection Latomus), Bru
1980, pp 278-85
'Odysseus, Baxter and New Zealand Poetry', Landfall, 134, June 1980, pp 107-19
'Venus is Rising: The Goddess in New Zealand Poetry', Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 15.1, August 1980, pp
'The Parodos of the Antigone: A Poetic Study', Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 30, 1983, pp 41-51
'Sophocles, Ajax 172-79', American Journal of Philology, 104, 1983, pp 192-98
'Sophocles, Ajax 148-50', Mnemosyne, 37, 1984, pp 438-40
'Sophoclean Dramaturgy and the Ajax Burial Debates', Ramus, 14, 1985, pp 16-29
'The Circle and the Tragic Chorus', Greece and Rome, 33, 1986, pp 73-81
„The Sophoclean Battleground', Eranos, 84, 1986, pp 107-17
'Chorus, Theatre, Text and Sophocles', in Studies in Honour of T.B.L. Webster, vol. 1, Bristol Classical Press, 1986,
'A Sophoclean Periphrasis', Glotta, 64, 1986, pp 20-24
'Sophocles, Electra 489-491', Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 16, 1986, pp 973-976
'Anacreon, Homer and the Young Woman from Lesbos', Mnemosyne, 40, 1987, pp 132-137
„Sophocles, Antigone 134‟, Mnemosyne, 40, 1987, pp 268-75
'Sophocles, Trachiniae 497', La Parola del Passato, 235, 1987, pp 286-90
'Homer and Sophocles' Electra', Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 35, 1988, pp 45-72
'Aeschylus, Persae 161-4', Mnemosyne, 42, 1989, pp 82-86
'The Literary Background to Sophocles' Ajax 154-63', Eranos, 87, 1989, pp 91-96.
„Tragic Daughter of Atlas?‟, Mnemosyne , 45, 1992, pp 367-371
„Sophocles, Antigone 1226-1230 Revisited‟, Hermes, 120, 1992, pp 502-503
'Starting a Choral Ode: Some Sophoclean Techniques', Prudentia, 23, 1991, pp 31-44
'The Philoctetes Stasimon', Liverpool Classical Monthly, 16.8, October 1991, pp 125-28
„Oh Brotherly Head: Sophocles, Electra 1164 and Related Matters‟, Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, N.S. 38, 1
87-96
'The Cave of Philoctetes', Mnemosyne , 43, 1990, pp 307-15
'The Daughters of Agamemnon (Soph. El. 153-163)', Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, 133, 1990, pp 407-09
'The Sophoclean Axe', Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, 133, 1990, pp 410.
Conference Papers, Seminars, Invited Lectures
„Sophocles and the Language of Homeric Allusion‟, Sophocles and the Greek Language Colloquium, Amsterdam, Sep
2003, repeated for The Homer Seminar II, Canberra, December 2003.
„The Challenges of Greek Drama‟, Auckland Classical Association, November 2003, repeated for ASCS Conference, B
February 2004, and for Sydney Classics/Ancient History seminar series, April 2004.
„In the Beginning: creation myths – answers from ancient Greece‟, Centre for Continuing Education Lecture Series,
Wellington, April 2004.
„Performance and the Metamorphoses‟, Pacific Rim Roman Literature Seminar, Sydney, July 2004.
„The Ancient Olympic Games: myth and reality‟, Hellenic-New Zealand Congress Seminar, Wellington, July 2004.
„Griechisches Drama: Bild und Zuschauer‟, Free University Berlin, January 2005
„Greek Drama: Commercials and Consumers‟, CAC Conference, Banff, Canada, May 2005, also for Wellington Classi
Association, May 2005
„Marpessa and Pallene: two mythological heroines‟, VUW Classics Seminar, May 2005
„Euripides‟ Bacchae in modern dress‟, ASCS conference, Newcastle (NSW), February 2007
'The Classical Mythology of James K. Baxter‟, U3A, Wellington, March 2007
„The Odyssean Journey in modern Literature‟, Centre for Continuing Education Lecture Series, Wellington, October 2
„Homer, Euripides, and Iphigenia‟, ASCS Conference, Christchurch, January 2008.
„James K. Baxter and Classical Myth‟, Kapiti WEA, Paraparaumu, March 2008.
„Sophocles' Philoctetes: The Generation Game‟, ASCS Conference, Adelaide, February 2001
'James K. Baxter and the Classics', New Zealand Universities Classics Conference, Auckland, May 1975
'Polyunsaturated Odysseus', New Zealand Universities Classics Conference, Dunedin, May 1978
'Sophocles, Poet of Contrast', 19th AULLA Congress, Brisbane, August 1978
'The Logic of Sophoclean Choral Odes', Greek Drama Seminar, Sydney, August 1982
'Dionysus in New Zealand Poetry', Wellington Classical Association, June 1983; Otago Classical Association, Novemb
'Sophoclean Dramaturgy and the Ajax Burial Debates', New Zealand Universities Classics Conference, Auckland, Ma
'James K. Baxter and Greek Mythology', VUW Continuing Education Seminar, August 1984
'The Role of the Chorus in Greek Drama', Wellington Classical Association, May 1986
'Starting a Choral Ode: Sophocles' Solution', Greek Drama Colloquium, Christchurch, September 1986
'Sophocles and the Tragic Moment', Canterbury Classical Association, April 1990
'The Cave of Philoctetes', New Zealand Universities Classics Conference, Dunedin, May 1990
'Sophocles and Homer: Some Signposts' ASCS Conference, Perth, February 1991
'Life as Drama: The Vision of Ancient Greece', VUW Continuing Education Seminar, Gisborne, September 1991
'The Odyssey and the Philoctetes: A Connection?' Greek Drama Colloquium, Christchurch, February 1992
'The Mystery of Dionysus: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Drama', VUW Continuing Education Seminar, June 1992
„Prometheus Vinctus on the Athenian Stage‟, 27th AULLA Congress, Dunedin, February 1993
'Greek Myth: An Exploration', VUW Continuing Education Seminar, March 1993
'James K. Baxter at Colonus' New Zealand Universities Classics Conference, Christchurch, May 1993
'Aristophanes Workshop', NZACT Biennial Conference, Wellington, August 1993
'Sophocles and James K. Baxter at Colonus', Classical Association Conference, Exeter, April 1994
'Now You See Her, Now You Don't: Alkmene, Mother of Herakles' ASCS/AULLA Conference, Armidale, February 1995
'Alkmene, Aspalis, Stones and Statues: Two Substitutions in Greek Myth', Wellington Classical Association, Septemb
'Antoninus Liberalis and the story of Prokris the Athenian', Otago Classical Association, November 1995
„Metamorphosis in Greek Myth‟, VUW Continuing Education Seminar, June 1996
„Furious Footage: Sophocles‟ Electra 489-91‟, New Zealand Universities Classics Conference, Palmerston North, July
„Antoninus Liberalis and the Story of Prokris the Athenian‟, ASCS/AULLA Conference, Sydney, February 1997
„The Lost Tragedies of Euripides‟, VUW Continuing Education Seminar, May 1997
„Teaching Greek Tragedy to Advanced Students‟, CLARU Conference, Sydney, October 1997
„Thermopylae or Balaclava: The Future of Latin and Greek in New Zealand Universities‟, Otago Classical Association,
November 1997
„Did the Myths Believe in their Greeks?‟, ASCS Conference, Brisbane, July 1998
„Homer and Euripides: Some Connections‟, AULLA Conference, Auckland, February 1999
„Euripides, Homer and Sophocles‟, Euripides and Tragic Theatre Conference, Banff, May 1999
„Homer and Tragedy: A Test Case‟, New Zealand Universities Classics Conference, Auckland, July 1999
„The Story that was Troy: Walls and Wooden Horses‟, VUW Continuing Education Seminar, July 1999
„Inward and Outward in the Greek Theatre‟, University of Canterbury, August 1999
„Homer and Euripides‟ Troades‟, University of Freiburg, November 1999
„Homer and Euripides: Some Test Cases‟, University of Tübingen, December 1999
„Sophocles, Homer and Euripides: Some Connections‟, University of Göttingen, January 2000
„Homer, Sophocles and Euripides: Some Connections‟, University of Marburg, February 2000
„The Mask and the Man: Questions of Identity in the Greek Tragic Theatre‟, London Festival of Greek Drama, Februa
„Homer and Tragedy: Two Test Cases‟, Classical Association Conference, Bristol, April 2000
„Competition and Prize in Myth‟, Olympia and the Olympics, Sydney, July 2000
„Olympia: Myth and Mystique‟, VUW Continuing Education Seminar, October 2000
„Einige Fragen zu Griechische Tragödie: Inszenierung, Masken, Chor, Mythen‟, University of Marburg, February 2002
„Greek Theatre: Image and Audiences‟, the 4th T.B.L. Webster Memorial Lecture, University of London, January 200
„Performance Disasters on the Athenian Stage‟, London Festival of Greek Drama, February 2003.
Radio Talks
'Greek Mythology and New Zealand Poetry', Concert Programme, 1977 Greek Week Series
'Sophocles and Euripides', Concert Programme, 1978 European Tragedy Series
'David Rudkin's Adaptation of Euripides' Hecuba', Concert Programme, 1985
„The Ancient Olympic Games‟, National Programme, 2000.
Review Articles
'Rob Jackaman to Pay Pound', Climate, 28, Autumn 1978, pp 65-71
'Crusading for Literature', New Zealand Listener, September 28, 1985, p 29.
Reviews
Review of Ruth Scodel Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek Tr
(B.G.Teubner, Stuttgart and Leipzig 1999), The Classical Journal 95 (2000) 265-68.
Review of C.K. Stead The Right Thing (Auckland University Press 2000),
New Zealand Books 10.4 (October 2000) 5-6.
Review of Barbara Goward Telling Tragedy: Narrative Technique in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides (London: Du
1999), Prudentia 32 (2000) 193-95.
Review of Ian Wedde The Commonplace Odes (Auckland University Press 2001), New Zealand Books 11.4 (October
18.
Review of Andreas Bagordo, Reminiszenen früher Lyrik bei den attischen Tragikern: Beiträge zur Anspielungstechni
poetischen Tradition, Zetemata 118 (Munich: C.H. Beck 2003), [email protected] (October 26, 2004).
Review of Jon Hesk, Sophocles: Ajax, Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy (London: Duckworth 20
Scholia Reviews ns 14.24 (2005), http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/05-24hes.htm
Review of David Kovacs (ed.), Euripides: Loeb Classical Library, Vols IV, V and VI (Cambridge [Mass.] and London:
University Press 1999, 2002, 2002), Scholia Reviews ns 14.31 (2005), http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/Kova
Review of J. Mossman (ed.), Euripides, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003)
Review 55 no. 2 (2005) 414-16.
Review of Ian C. Storey and Arlene Allan, A Guide to ancient Greek Drama (Blackwell Publishing: Malden [MA], Oxfo
Carlton 2005), NZACT 32.3 (September 2005) 117-18.
Review of Hanna M. Roisman, Sophocles: Philoctetes, and Emma Griffiths, Euripides: Heracles, Duckworth Compani
Greek and Roman Tragedy (London. Duckworth 2005 and 2006), Scholia Reviews ns 16.2 (2007),
http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/
Review of Jenny March (ed.) Sophocles Electra (Aris and Phillips: Warminster 2001), Prudentia 35.2 (2004) 240-44
'Review of C. K. Stead, The Right Thing, New Zealand Books, 10, 4, 2000, pp 5-6
'Review of Ruth Scodel, Credible Impossibilities: Conventiona and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek T
The Classical Journal, 95, 2000, pp 265-268
„Review of Barbara Goward, Telling Tragedy: Narrative Technique in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides‟, Prudentia
2000, pp 193-195
„Review of Ian Wedde, The Commonplace Odes‟, New Zealand Books, 11, 4, 2001, p 18
'Review of Familiar Ground (New Zealand poetry)', Islands, 15, Autumn 1976, pp 105-08
'Review of New Translations from Cambridge', NZACT, 7:1, March 1980, pp 17-19
'Review of Richard Jenkyns, The Victorians and Ancient Greece', The Literary Review, no.32, January 1981, pp 14-1
'Review of R.P Winnington-Ingram, Sophocles: An Interpretation', AUMLA, 56, 1981, pp 233-34
'Review of E. Segal (ed), Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy', AUMLA, 64, 1985, pp 248-50
'Review of Fleur Adcock, The Virgin and the Nightingale', New Zealand Listener, July 12, 1986, p 36
'Review of Richard Matthews, Classical New Zealand Poetry', NZACT, 13:1, May 1986, pp 8-9
' Review of C. K. Stead, Between', The Dominion, May 1988
'Review of Michael Lloyd (ed), Euripides Andromache, Warminster: Aris and Phillips, 1994', Prudentia, 28, 1996, pp
'Review of C. Collard, M.J. Cropp and K.H. Lee (eds), Euripides Selected Fragmentary Plays, Volume 1, Warminster:
Phillips, 1995', Prudentia, 29, 1997, pp 60-64
'Review of Wellington Productions of Aeschylus‟ Septem and Persae', Didaskalia, 4.1, Spring 1997
'Review of Video of Euripides‟ Bacchae', NZACT, 25:3, September 1998, pp 117-18.
Poetry
'On Reading the Young New Zealand Poets', Mate, 25, January 1976, pp 60-62
'Thoughts at a Victorian Garden Party', Landfall, 121, March 1977, pp 47-50
'Five Poems', Landfall, 124, December 1977, pp 292-94
'Flying Kites', Landfall, 126, June 1978, pp 118-19
'Seven Poems', Outrigger, new series, vol.2, no.5, September 1978, pp 1-7
'Nine Poems', Outrigger, new series, vol.3, no.4, July 1979, pp 141-50
'Seven Poems', Outrigger, new series, vol.3, no.5, September 1979, pp 199-203
'At Otaki', Ocarina, vol.9, special edition, 11, May 1979, p 18
'Two Poems', Climate, 30, Spring 1979, pp 21-22
'Nine Poems', Outrigger, new series, vol.3, no.6, November 1979, pp 253-60
'Two Poems', Landfall, 132, December 1979, pp 305-07
'Two Poems', Landfall, 134, June 1980, pp 119-22.
„London Poetry Reading February 1981‟, Manhire at 60: a Book for Bill, VUP/Sport, Wellington 2006 66-7.
Short Stories
'The Bride of Death', Climate, 32, 1981, pp 21-24
'Modus Operandi', Landfall, 142, June 1982, pp 139-43.