Thea Selliaas Thorsen

Postdoctoral fellow in Classics, Greek and Latin

Projects

* Postdoctoral research project (supported by the Norwegian Research Council): The Fame of Sappho. Studies in the Sapphic Reception of Catullus, Horace and Ovid (2009-2012)

* Fame in Sappho and Horace, paper the Advanced Seminar in the Humanities, Venice International University (2008-2009)

* Sappho's Roman Reception, international workshop at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford/NTNU (2010)

* Greek and Roman Games in the Computer Age, Anthology (in progress)

* Companion to Latin Love Elegy (in progress)

 

Areas of Interest

* Latin Augustan poetry (especially Ovid)

* Greek Archaic poetry (especially Sappho)

* Poetic Genres (lyric and elegy)

* Metra

* The History of Classical Philological Scholarship

* Modern Literary Theory (especially R. Barthes)

* Gender and Classical Literature

* Translation and Classical Literature

* Reception Studies (especially Classics and Computer Games/ Virtual Worlds)

 

Published Books

1. The Creation of a Writer. The Epistula Sapphus and Ovid's Early Poetry, doctoral thesis in the progress of being revised for the Cambridge University Press

2. Translation of Ovid's Remedia Amoris (Kjærlighetskuren) and Epistulae Heroidum (XVI-XXI) (Brevveksling mellom helt og heltinne) into Norwegian verse (forthcoming 2009, Gyldendal Norsk forlag)

3. Vi og antikken (We and the Ancient World), didactic introduction with other authors (forthcoming 2009, Aschehoug Forlag)

4. Ovid's Ars Amandi – Kunsten å elske, metrical translation into Norwegian (2006, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag)

5. Ovid's Amores – Kjærlighetseventyr, metrical translation into Norwegian (2002, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag)

6. Ovid's Heroides – Heltinnebrev, metrical translation into Norwegian (2001, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag

 

 

Lenker:

• Greek and Roman Games in the Computer Age