Judith Mossman

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Biography

After undergraduate and graduate work at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford, I moved to Trinity College, Dublin, until I moved to Nottingham in January 2004. I am married with one son.

Expertise Summary

I am interested in two periods of Greek literature, the fifth century BC and the second/third century AD. These periods are linked by the obsession of later Greek writers for the literature and culture of the classical age. I am especially interested in Greek drama, particularly the tragedies of Euripides (and, increasingly, Sophocles), and particularly in the portrayal of female characters in Greek tragedy. I am currently finishing an edition of Euripides' Medea for Aris and Phillips and preparing a book on women's speech in tragedy which will focus on gender-specific communication as expressed in the stylised language of tragedy, rhetoric and characterisation. In my work on later Greek literature I have focussed on the use of cultural references, particularly to tragedy and epic, to create character in biography and to bolster or subvert argument in Plutarch's moral essays. I am beginning to look at this area in the humorist Lucian as well as in Plutarch.

Research Summary

I am currently working on an edition of Euripides' Medea for Aris and Phillips and a book on The Female Voice: Women's Rhetoric in Greek Tragedy, to be published by Oxford University Press. I am also… read more

Recent Publications

• JUDITH MOSSMAN, 2012. 'Holinshed and the Classics'. In: , IAN ARCHER, FELICITY HEAL and PAULINA KEWES, eds., The Oxford Companion to Holinshed Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
• JUDITH MOSSMAN, 2012. 'Philotimia and Greekness in Lucian'. In: LUC VAN DER STOCKT and GEERT ROSKAM, eds., The Lash of Ambition Peeters. 169-82 (In Press.)
• MOSSMAN, JUDITH, 2011. Euripides: Medea Aris and Phillips.
• MOSSMAN, J M, 2010. A Life Unparalleled: Plutarch's Artaxerxes. In: NOREEN HUMBLE, ed., Plutarch's Lives: Parallelism and Purpose Classical Press of Wales. 145-68

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Current Research

I am currently working on an edition of Euripides' Medea for Aris and Phillips and a book on The Female Voice: Women's Rhetoric in Greek Tragedy, to be published by Oxford University Press. I am also preparing two articles on Plutarch, one on the Life of Artaxerxes, and one on Plutarch and English biography.

Past Research

My previous research includes work on Euripides and on Plutarch, including Plutarch's influence on Shakespeare: my first book was on Euripides' Hecuba, and I have since published more on Euripides and produced a number of articles and two edited volumes on Plutarch.

Future Research

I would like to develop my interest in later Greek literature by working further on Lucian, a writer of the second/third century AD, focussing on a group of his humorous works set in the underworld

• JUDITH MOSSMAN, 2012. 'Holinshed and the Classics'. In: , IAN ARCHER, FELICITY HEAL and PAULINA KEWES, eds., The Oxford Companion to Holinshed Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
• JUDITH MOSSMAN, 2012. 'Philotimia and Greekness in Lucian'. In: LUC VAN DER STOCKT and GEERT ROSKAM, eds., The Lash of Ambition Peeters. 169-82 (In Press.)
• MOSSMAN, JUDITH, 2011. Euripides: Medea Aris and Phillips.
• MOSSMAN, J M, 2010. A Life Unparalleled: Plutarch's Artaxerxes. In: NOREEN HUMBLE, ed., Plutarch's Lives: Parallelism and Purpose Classical Press of Wales. 145-68
• MOSSMAN, JUDITH, 2010. Reading the Euripidean Hypothesis. In: MARIETTA HORSTER and CHRISTIANE REITZ, eds., Condensing texts -condensed texts 98. Franz Steiner Verlag. 247-67
• MOSSMAN, JUDITH, 2007. Heracles, Prometheus, and the Play of Genres in [Lucian]'s Amores. In: S.C.R. SWAIN, S. J. HARRISON AND J. ELSNER, ed., Severan Culture Cambridge University Press. 146-59
• JUDITH MOSSMAN, 2007. Plutarch and English Biography Hermathena. 183, 71-96 (In Press.)
• MCGING, B. and MOSSMAN, J., eds., 2006. The limits of ancient biography Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.
• MOSSMAN, J., 2006. Plutarch on Animals: rhetorical strategies in the de sollertia animalium Hermathena. 179(Winter 2005), 141-63
• MOSSMAN, J., 2006. Travel writing, history and biography. In: MCGING, B. and MOSSMAN, J., eds., The Limits of Ancient Biography Swansea: Classical Press of Wales.. 281-303
• MOSSMAN, J., 2005. Taxis ou barbaros: Greek and Roman in Plutarch's Pyrrhus Classical Quarterly. 55(2), 498-517
• MOSSMAN, J., 2005. Women's Voices. In: GREGORY, J., ed., A Companion to Greek tragedy Oxford: Blackwell. 352-65
• MOSSMAN, J., ed., 2003. Euripides Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• MOSSMAN, J., 2001. Women's speech in Greek tragedy: the case of Electra and Clytemnestra in Euripides' Electra Classical Quarterly. 51(2), 374-384