#  Naomi A. Weiss 

Department Chair

Professor of the Classics

 

 

 



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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](https://podcast.chs.harvard.edu/), 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.



 

 

 



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Foster, Margaret, Leslie Kurke, and Naomi Weiss, eds. 2019. *[Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models](/publications/genre-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](/publications/genre-archaic-and-classical-greek-poetry-theories-and-models)*. Leiden: Brill.



 

 

 

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Curtis, Lauren, and Naomi Weiss, eds. 2021. *[Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds](/publication/music-and-memory-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](/publication/music-and-memory-ancient-greek-and-roman-worlds)*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.



 

 

 

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Weiss, Naomi. 2023. *[Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama](/publications/seeing-theater-phenomenology-classical-greek-drama)*. Oakland: University of California Press.



 

 

Weiss, Naomi. 2023. *[Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama](/publications/seeing-theater-phenomenology-classical-greek-drama)*. Oakland: University of California Press.



 

 

 

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Weiss, Naomi. 2018. *[The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater](/publications/music-tragedy-performance-and-imagination-euripidean-theater)*. Oakland: University of California Press.



 

 

Weiss, Naomi. 2018. *[The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater](/publications/music-tragedy-performance-and-imagination-euripidean-theater)*. Oakland: University of California Press.



 

 

 

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