University of Manitoba - Faculty of Arts - Classics - C. Michael Sampson
C. Michael Sampson

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@umanitoba.ca

COURSES FOR for 2013- 2014

Fall 2013

GRK 1010: Introduction to Ancient Greek 1
LATN 3880: Poetry of the Silver Age
CLAS 2612/ENGL 2490: Greek Literature in Translation

Winter 2014

GRK 1020: Introduction to Ancient Greek 2
CLAS 2520: Greek and Roman Mythology

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 PoeticsAnimus 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). 

• "Euripides, Orestes 1246." Forthcoming in the Classical Quarterly

• "Nauplius at Troy: Aeschylus fr. 451k (Radt)." Forthcoming in Archiv für Papyrusforschung 59.1 (2013).

BOOK REVIEWS

• A. Tzanetou, City of Suppliants.  Tragedy and the Athenian Empire   (Austin:2012). Forthcoming in the Classical Review 63.2 (2013). 

• J. Fletcher, Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama (Cambridge: 2012). the Classical Review 63.1 (2013): 35-37. 

• P. Kyriakou, The Past in Aeschylus and Sophocles (Berlin & New York: 2011). the Classical Review 63 (2013): 25-27. 

• L. Savignago, Eisthesis: Il sistema dei margini nei papiri dei poeti tragici (Alessandria: 2008), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.1.28

• J.W. Joyce (trans.), Thebaid: A Song of Thebes (Ithaca: 2008), Classical Bulletin 85.2: 138-40. 

• F.I. Zeitlin, Under the Sign of the Shield: semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes, Second edition (Lanham: 2009), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.09.12

• C.-F. de Roguin, «et recouvre d'une montagne leur cité!» La fin du monde des héros dans les épopées homériques (Göttingen: 2007), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.10.06

• S. Amendola, Donne e Preghiera: Le preghiere dei personaggi femminili nelle tragedie superstiti di Eschilo (Amsterdam: 2006), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.04.38.