Naomi A. Weiss

Department Chair
Professor of the Classics
Naomi Weiss
Boylston 214
617.495.9623
nweiss@fas.harvard.edu
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Research interests: archaic and classical Greek literature, especially drama (tragedy, comedy, satyr play); ancient Greek music, dance, and performance culture; generic interactions; materiality and affect; reception studies.

Host of Ancient Greece Today, a podcast that brings together scholars and artists to explore the ancient Greek world and how it is used and reimagined in the present day.

Foster, Margaret, Leslie Kurke, and Naomi Weiss, eds. 2019. Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models. Leiden: Brill.
Foster, Margaret, Leslie Kurke, and Naomi Weiss, eds. 2019. Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models. Leiden: Brill.
Curtis, Lauren, and Naomi Weiss, eds. 2021. Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Curtis, Lauren, and Naomi Weiss, eds. 2021. Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Weiss, Naomi. 2023. Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama. Oakland: University of California Press.
Weiss, Naomi. 2023. Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama. Oakland: University of California Press.
Weiss, Naomi. 2018. The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater. Oakland: University of California Press.
Weiss, Naomi. 2018. The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater. Oakland: University of California Press.