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Email: td227[at]cam.ac.uk

Tania Demetriou is lecturer at the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge. She works on a range of topics relating to classical reception in the early modern period, with an emphasis on the reception of Greek literature in England and English drama in particular, and on the interaction between the practices of reading, scholarship, translation, and literary imitation in this period (see Select bibliography). 

Tania is a member of the editorial board of this online project on classical mythology and early modern England, www.shakmyth.org.

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• “The non-Ovidian Elizabethan epyllion: Thomas Watson, Christopher Marlowe, Richard Barnfield”. In Interweaving Myths in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (ed. Janice Valls-Russell, Agnès Lafont and Charlotte Coffin). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017: 41-64.

• “Homer and Greek Tragedy in Early Modern England’s Theatres: An Introduction.” Homer and Greek Tragedy in Early Modern England’s Theatres, ed. Tania Demetriou and Tanya Pollard. Special issue of Classical Receptions Journal 9:1 (2017): 1-35.

• Homer and Greek Tragedy in Early Modern England’s Theatres, ed. Tania Demetriou and Tanya Pollard. Special issue of Classical Receptions Journal 9:1 (2017).

• Milton, Drama and Greek Texts, ed. Tania Demetriou and Tanya Pollard. Special issue of The Seventeenth Century 31:2 (2016).

• “The Homeric Question in the Sixteenth Century”, Renaissance Quarterly, 68:2 (2015), 496-557.

• The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500-1660, co-ed. with Rowan Tomlinson (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015)

• “Periphron Penelope and her Early Modern Translations”, in The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500-1660, co-ed. with Rowan Tomlinson (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015), 86-111.

• “Chapman’s Odysses (1614-1615): Translation and Allegory” in Homère à la Renaissance: le mythe et ses transfigurations, ed. Luisa Capodieci (Rome: Académie de France à Rome / Paris: Somogy, 2011), 281-300.