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Shawn D O'Bryhim Professor of Classics

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Education

  • University of Texas at Austin -  Ph.D. in Classics, 1987-1991
    鈥婦issertation: The Amathusian Myths of Ovid鈥檚 Metamorphoses 10.

  • University of Texas at Austin -  M.A. in Classics, 1985-1987

  • Ball State University - M.A. in Latin, 1983-1985

  • Ball State University - B.A. in Secondary Education, 1979-1983

  • American Academy in Rome -  Summer, 1991

  • American School of Classical Studies at Athens -  Summer, 1984

Publications
WORK IN PROGRESS

  • Translation and introduction to Plautus' Mercator for a compendium of ancient comedy (ed. S. James), University of Wisconsin Press.

  • "The Identity of Ipsithilla (Catullus 32)."

BOOKS

  • A Student's Commentary on Book 10 on Ovid's Metamorphoses. (Wiley Blackwell 2021).

  • Beginning Latin: The Complete Course (Create Space 2018). 

  • Ancient Comedy: Translations and Interpretations of Four Representative Plays (editor and contributor; University of Texas Press, 2001.

CHAPTERS

  • "Stock Characters and Stereotypes," forthcoming in D. Dutsch and F. Franko, ed., Blackwell Companion to Plautus.

  • 鈥淭ragedy and Comedy in the Roman Participatory Context,鈥 in The Blackwell Companion to Greek and Roman Politics, ed. Dean Hammer.  (Oxford 2015) 446-58.

  • "Menander's Dyskolos," in Ancient Comedy: Translations and Interpretations of Four Representative Plays (University of Texas Press 2001).

ARTICLES
  • "Claudius' Slippery Humiliation (Suetonius, Claudius 8)." Forthcoming in Classical Quarterly.
  • "Mutilating Demipho in Platus' Mercator," Classical Quarterly (2019) 453-5. 
  • "The Marriage of Knemon in Menander's Dyskolos," Classical World 112.4 (2019) 279-82.
  • "The Bee Omen at Vergil, Aeneid  7.64-8,"  Mnemosyne (2017) 1-4.

  • "Egnatius as Dux Gregis (Cat. 37 and 39)," Classical Philology 113.3 (2018).

  • "Catullus' Mullets and Radishes (c. 15.18-19),"  Mnemosyne 70 (2017) 325-30.

  • "The Economics of Agalmatophilia," Classical Journal 110.4 (2015) 419-29.

  • "Arachne's Victory," New England Classical Journal 41.4 (2014) 288-302.

  • 鈥淐onveying Knemon (Menander, Dyskolos 758),鈥 Classical Philology 109 (2014) 263-6.

  • "Reconsidering Catullus' Sparrow (c. 2-3)," Latomus16 (2012) 101-13.

  • "Malodorous Aemilius (Cat. 97)," Classical Philology 107 (2012) 150-6.

  • 鈥淭ruth from Fiction in Catullus鈥 Gellius Poems,鈥 Classical Bulletin 85 (2009) 1-9.

  • 鈥淧hoenicium in the Wax (Pl. Ps. 20-37),鈥 Mnemosyne 63 (2010) 635-9.

  • 鈥淢yrrha鈥檚 鈥榃edding鈥 (Ov. Met. 10.446-470),鈥 Classical Quarterly 58 (2007) 190-5.

  • 鈥淎donis in Plautus鈥 Pseudolus,鈥 Classical Philology 102 (2007) 304-7.

  • 鈥淐atullus 23 and Roman Comedy,鈥 Transactions of the American Philological Society 137 (2007) 133-45.

  • 鈥淎n Oracular Scene from the Pozo Moro Funerary Monument,鈥 Near Eastern Archaeology64 (2001) 67-70.

  • 鈥淭he Ritual of Human Sacrifice in Euripides鈥 Iphigenia Among the Taurians,鈥 Classical Bulletin 75.1 (1999) 23-35.

  • 鈥淥vid鈥檚 Myth of the Cerastae and Phoenician Human Sacrifice on Cyprus,鈥 Rivista di Studi Fenici 27 (1999) 3-20.

  • 鈥淭he Sphere-Bearing Anthropomorphic Figurines of Amathus, Cyprus,鈥 Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 306 (1997) 39-45.

  • 鈥淗esiod and the Cretan Cave,鈥 Rheinisches Museum f眉r Philologie 140 (1997) 95-6.

  • 鈥淭he Deities on the Kotchati Sanctuary Model,鈥 Journal of Prehistoric Religion 10 (1996) 7-14.

  • 鈥淎 New Interpretation of Hesiod, Theogony 35,鈥 Hermes 124 (1996) 131-9.

  • 鈥淗ercules鈥 Gesture at Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.210,鈥&苍产蝉辫;Rheinisches Museum f眉r Philologie135 (1992) 383-4.

  • 鈥淗annibal鈥檚 Elephants and the Crossing of the Rhone,鈥 Classical Quarterly41 (1991) 121-5.

  • 鈥淥vid鈥檚 Version of Callisto鈥檚 Punishment,鈥 Hermes 118 (1990) 75-80.

  • 鈥淭he Originality of Plautus鈥 Casina,鈥 American Journal of Philology 110 (1989) 81-103.

  • 鈥淣estor: Wit or Windbag at Metamorphoses 12,鈥 The Augustan Age 8 (1988) 49-53.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

  • 鈥淧lautus鈥 in the Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, ed. Thomas J. Sienkewicz (Salem Press, 2001).

REVIEWS

  • Review of L. P. E. Parker, The Songs of Aristophanes, Classical Outlook 75.4 (1998) 2.

PATENTS
  • Ken Krebs and Shawn O'Bryhim, Portable Copystand for Enhancing Ink/Parchment Contrast (US patent issued 2017).
CREATIVE WORK
  • Up in Smoke; a musical adaptation of Menander's Dyskolos with a small-group course on adapting Menander. 

  • "Catullus 10 as Film Noir," Tellus 6 (2015) 9-10; literary translation.

  • The Messengers (Create Space 2010); novel.

  • FUBAR: The Musical (2007); a musical adaptation of Plautus' Amphytryo with students in a course on performing ancient comedy. 

  • 鈥淐atullus 43,鈥 Plume 9 (2006) 10; literary translation.

  • 鈥淐atullus 7,鈥 Plume 8 (2005) 2-3; literary translation.

  • 鈥淭he Polymetric Chorus from The Frogs,鈥 Plume 8 (2005) 22-7; literary translation.

ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS 
  • Shawn O'Bryhim and Ken Krebs, "Peering beneath the surface of Ancient Manuscripts," Scientific American blog, July 10, 2017.
  • UV image and analysis of Cod. Heid. N.F. 12 Gregorius Papa, I. Homiliae in Evangelia 10.-11. Jh.
Presentations
CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • "Egnatius as Dux Gregis (Cat. 37 and 39)," Classical Association of England and Wales 2015.

  • 鈥淰isual Rhetoric in Ovid鈥檚 Myth of Arachne (Ov., Met. 6.70-102),鈥 Classical Association of England and Wales 2014.

  • 鈥淚n the Footsteps of the Greek Agamatophiliacs,鈥 Desiring Statues: Statuary, Sexuality and History, Conference at the University of Exeter, April 26-7, 2012.

  • 鈥淭ruth from Fiction in Catullus鈥 Gellius Poems,鈥 Truth, Fiction, and Reality: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Katowice, Poland 2008.

  • 鈥淭he Economics of Agalmatophilia,鈥 American Philological Association 2007.

  • 鈥淭he Astronomical Significance of the Tellus Relief,鈥 Classical Association of England and Wales 2006.

  • 鈥淐atullus 23 and Roman Comedy,鈥 Classical Association of the Atlantic States 2005.

  • 鈥淎donis in Plautus鈥 Pseudolus,鈥 Classical Association of England and Wales 2004.

  • 鈥淐hanging Roles in Plautus鈥 Pseudolus,鈥 Classical Association of the Middle West and South 2004.

  • 鈥淎n Oracular Scene from the Pozo Moro Funerary Monument,鈥 American Schools of Research Annual Conference 1999.

  • 鈥淭he Ritual of Human Sacrifice in Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians,鈥 Classical Association of the Middle West and South 1998.

  • 鈥淭he Deities from the Kotchati Sanctuary Models,鈥 American Schools of Oriental Research, Central States Annual Meeting 1996.

  • 鈥淭he Sphere-Bearing Anthropomorphic Figurines of Amathus, Cyprus,鈥 American Institute of Archaeology 1994.

  • 鈥淒ance, Old Man, Dance: Torturing Knemon in Menander鈥檚 Dyscolus,鈥 Panel on New Comedy, Novus et Antiquus Conference, Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies, Ball State University, 1994.

  • 鈥淎 Reassessment of Ovid鈥檚 Myth of Pygmalion,鈥 Classical Association of the Middle West and South 1992.

  • 鈥淧ygmalion鈥檚 Gifts: Ovid鈥檚 Knowledge of Cypriot Cult,鈥 Classical Association of the Middle West and South 1991.

  • 鈥淗esiod and the Curetes,鈥 American Philological Association 1990.

  • 鈥淥vid鈥檚 Myth of the Propoetides,鈥 Panel on Ancient Prostitution, Classical Association of the Middle West and South 1990.

  • 鈥淗annibal鈥檚 Elephants and the Crossing of the Rhone,鈥 American Philological Association 1989.

  • 鈥淎 New Type of Contaminatio,鈥 Classical Association of the Middle West and South Southern Section 1988.

  • 鈥淣estor: Wit or Windbag at Metamorphoses 12,鈥 Classical Association of the Middle West and  South 1988.

  • 鈥淎 Goat by Any Other Name: Naming the Senex in Plautus鈥 Casina,鈥 Classical Association of the Middle West and South 1987.

  • 鈥淭he Humiliation of the Senex in Plautus鈥 Casina,鈥 Classical Association of the Middle West and South 1986.

INVITED PAPERS

  • 鈥淔or the Love of a Statue,鈥 Mary Washington College Eta Sigma Phi Lecture 2012.

  • 鈥淏allio Moves Uptown: Social Mobility in Plautus鈥 Pseudolus,鈥 Hollins University Latin Seminar 2001.

PATENTS 
  • Ken Krebs and Shawn O'Bryhim, Portable Copystand for Enhancing Ink/Parchment Contrast (US Patent issued 2017).