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).

• P. Kyriakou, The Past in Aeschylus and Sophocles (Berline & New York: 2011). Forthcoming in the Classical Review 63.1 (2013).
• 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.