Dr. Naomi Weiss

Naomi Weiss is Professor of Classics at Harvard University. She has published widely on archaic and classical Greek poetry and performance culture, especially drama. She is the author of The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater (University of California Press 2018) and Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama (University of California Press 2023; winner of the Goodman Award of Merit from the Society of Classical Studies). She has co-edited Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models (Brill 2020, with Margaret Foster and Leslie Kurke) and Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds (Cambridge University Press 2021, with Lauren Curtis), and is working on a third volume, provisionally entitled Cultural Poetics in Ancient Greece: New Directions (with Margaret Foster). Weiss is also series co-editor of the “Cambridge Elements” series, Ancient Greek and Roman Performance and Drama. She is currently collaborating with Sarah Olsen (Williams College) on a new commentary on Euripides’Orestes for Cambridge University Press.