Sean Harrigan
Sean graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in Ancient Greek Language and Literature and English and came to Yale after an enjoyable stint in the Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies at Penn. He is primarily interested in Greek poetry and is currently at work on a dissertation that examines the ways in which the language of archaic choral lyric reflects its connection to religious ritual. More broadly, he is interested in Greek religion, ritual studies, pragmatics, and mythography.
Dissertation
- Pindar and the Poetics of Reperformance (supervised by Egbert Bakker)
Recent Presentations
- "Mythical Poets and Epichoric Authority: Olen of Lykia on Delos," July 2011 (Authorship, Authority, and Authenticity in Archaic and Classical Greek Song, Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song, New Haven, CT)
- "Sympotic Reperformance of Pindar’s Epinikia," January 2011 (Annual Meeting of the APA, San Antonio, Texas)
- "Rhyming Women in Pindar’s and Alkman’s Partheneia," November 2010 (UCLA graduate conference)
Courses Recently Taught
- Greek 131 Greek Prose: An Introduction (Fall 2011)
- Latin 141 Latin Poetry: An Introduction (Spring 2010)
- Greek 110 Elements of Greek Grammar (Fall 2009)
