Podcast Host

Naomi Weiss

Naomi is Professor of the Classics at Harvard. Originally from Cambridge, England, she was educated at the University of Oxford and the University of California, Berkeley. Primarily a scholar of archaic and classical Greek literature and culture, she is the author of The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Tragedy (2018) and Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama (2023), which was awarded the 2024 Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies. She has co-edited Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models (2019) and Music and Memory in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds (2021). Currently, she is working on a new commentary on Euripides’ Orestes, an edited volume entitled Cultural Poetics in Ancient Greece: New Directions, and a short monograph entitled Tragic Repetition. She is series co-editor of Cambridge Elements in Greek and Roman Drama and Performance.