P. E. Easterling

Patricia Elizabeth Easterling,

Easterling was the first woman to chair the Council of University Classical Departments. In 1994, she returned to Cambridge and Newnham as the 36th Regius Professor of Greek, the first (and so far only) woman to hold that post since its endowment by Henry VIII.^[9]

In 1998, Easterling was elected a Fellow of the British Academy,^[10] and in 2013 was made associé étranger de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres at the Institut de France, and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.^[11] She was the first Chair of the Management Committee of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon Project,^[12] and is a patron of the charity 'Classics for All'.^[13]

On 22 January 2000, Easterling received an

Easterling works mainly on Greek literature, particularly tragedy; she also studies the survival and reception of ancient drama.^[17] She has had a long association with the Joint Association of Classical Teachers and with its Greek Summer School at Bryanston School in Dorset, giving lectures there on an occasional basis.^[18]

Easterling has been a General Editor of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series since its foundation over thirty years ago, and has published an edition within this series of

• Trachiniae
  , edited, Cambridge, 1982
• Greek Religion and Society, edited with J. V. Muir, 1984
• The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, General editor with E. J. Kenney
• The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, Editor, 1997
• Greek Scripts: An Illustrated Introduction, edited with Carol Handley (Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2001)
• Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession, edited with Edith Hall, 2002
• Sophocles: Electra and Other Plays (Penguin, 2008)

Articles

• 'Constructing the Heroic' in Christopher Pelling, Greek Tragedy and the Historian, Oxford, 1997: 21–37
• 'The Infanticide in Euripides' Medea', Yale Classical Studies 25 (1977): 177–191
• "From Repertoire to Canon." in Easterling, P. E. (ed.) Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, 1997, pp. 211–227.
• "Narrative on the Greek Tragic Stage." Defining Greek Narrative, 2014, pp. 226–240.

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