Richard Martin

Current projects

Homeric poetry, concerning which I am engaged on two books: Rhapsodizing Homer (about the meaning of ancient competitive performance for our understanding of the poems of Homer, Hesiod, and the hymns) and The Last Hero Song: Telemachus and the Generation of the Odyssey (about the self-consciousness of the Odyssey in terms of the end of a tradition)

Greek lyric in relation to art and music: working on studies in performances as represented in myth and mythic art

Greek myth and religion: finishing two volumes: a collection of essays by others on the analysis of Greek myth and a mass-market paperback retelling of myths, with notes.

Homer on the Web: full-scale multimedia presentation of the Odyssey via internet.

Select publications

The Birds, Aristophanes trans. Paul Muldoon, with R. Martin (1999)

"The Scythian Accent: Anacharsis and the Cynics" in B. Branham & M.-O. Goulet-Caze eds. The Cynics (1997): 136-55

"Similes and Performance" in E. Bakker and A. Kahane eds. Written Voices, Spoken Signs (1997): 138-166

"The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom" in C. Dougherty and L. Kurke eds. Cultural Poetics of Archaic Greece (1993): 108-128

"Telemachus and the Last Hero Song" Colby Quarterly 29.3 (1993): 222-40

"Hesiod's Metanastic Poetics" Ramus 21.1 (1992): 11-33

The Language of Heroes: Speech and Performance in the Iliad (1989)

Healing, Sacrifice, and Battle: Amechania and Related Concepts in Early Greek Poetry (1983)