PhD University of Michigan
MA Dalhousie University
BA University of King's College
Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERSTS
Greek tragedy; poetry, religion, and myth (especially origins and traditions); Senecan tragedy; literary papyrology;
220 Dysart Road, Room 366 University College
Winnipeg, MB Canada R3T 2M8
Tel 204-474-9278 Fax 204-474-7684
email: mike.sampson@ad.umanitoba.ca
COURSES for 2012-2013
Fall 2012
GREEK 1010: Introduction to Ancient Greek 1, A01 crn 10013 MWF 1130
GREEK 3790: The Greek Tragedians, A01 crn 14947 time to be determined, contact Dr. Sampson
Winter 2013
GREEK 1020: Introduction to Ancient Greek 2, A01 crn 20007 MWF 1130
CLAS 3680: topic: Greek and Roman Tragedy, T01 crn 24612, TTh 1430
PUBLICATIONS
Borges, C. and C.M. Sampson, (2012), New Literary Papyri from the Michigan Collection: Mythographic Lyric and a Catalogue of Poetic First Lines (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press) 'New Texts from Ancient Cultures' series.
"Universals, Plot and Form in Aristotle's Poetics" Animus 13 (2009): 4-21.
"Callimachean Tradition and the Muse’s Hymn to Ceres (Ov. Met. 5.341-661)" Transactions of the American Philological Association 142.1 (2012): 83-103.
"A Note on Archilochus fr.177 and the Anthropomorphic Façade in Early Fable." the Classical Quarterly 62.2 (2012): 466-75.
"A New Epic Fragment--on Achilles' Helmet? (P.Princ. inv. AM 14601 A)." Forthcoming in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 49 (2012).
BOOK REVIEWS
· A. Tzanetou, City of Suppliants. Tragedy and the Athenian Empire. (Austin: 2012). Forthcoming in The Classical Review.
J. Fletcher, Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama. (Cambridge: 2012). Forthcoming in The Classical Review 63.1 (2013).
