Michael Lurie
Assistant Professor
Department of Classics
Dartmouth College
United States of America
Biography
Michael Lurie is working as Assistant Professor at department of Classics, Dartmouth college, USA. His current project looks at traditions of pessimism in Greek pre-Platonic literature and philosophy and the central, yet strangely neglected role the notion of 'Greek pessimism' plays in Burckhardt’s and Nietzsche’s anti-modernist interpretations of Greek culture. His work is concerned with Greek and Roman literature and thought, from Homer to late antiquity, and their reception in the intellectual history of Europe.
Research Interest
Classics, Greek Literature, Greek Tragedy, Greek and Roman Intellectual History, The Classical Tradition
Publications
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Die Suche nach der Schuld. Sophokles’ Oedipus Rex, Aristoteles’ Poetik und das Tragödienverständnis der Neuzeit (München/Leipzig: Teubner 2004; repr. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter 2013)
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‘Facing up to tragedy: Toward an intellectual history of Sophocles in Europe from Camerarius to Nietzsche’, in: The Blackwell Companion to Sophocles, ed. K. Ormand (Oxford 2012) 440–461
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Der schiffbrüchige Odysseus oder: Wie Arkesilaos zum Skeptiker wurde. Zu Timon von Phleius fr. 806 SH (32 D), Philologus (2014) 183–186
