Background
Sheila Herron Murnaghan was born on November 16, 1951, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Francis Dominic Murnaghan Junior and Jane Espy Hughes. The same year the family immigrated to the United States.
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
In 1973, Murnaghan received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University.
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
In 1975, Murnaghan received a Bachelor of Arts from Newnham College in Cambridge, England.
University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Murnaghan received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University North Carolina in 1980.
(Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey reveals the signi...)
Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey reveals the significance of the Odyssey's plot, in particular the many scenes of recognition that make up the hero's homecoming and dramatize the cardinal values of Homeric society, an aristocratic culture organized around recognition in the broader senses of honor, privilege, status, and fame.
https://www.amazon.com/Disguise-Recognition-Odyssey-Greek-Studies/dp/0739129538/?tag=2022091-20
1987
(Women and Slaves in Classical Culture examines how ancien...)
Women and Slaves in Classical Culture examines how ancient societies were organized around slave-holding and the subordination of women to reveal how women and slaves interacted with one another in both the cultural representations and the social realities of the Greco-Roman world.
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Slaves-Greco-Roman-Culture-Differential/dp/0415162297/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye ...)
Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye for those episodes that figure most prominently in the study of mythology.
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Homer-Hackett-Classics/dp/0872205401/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this s...)
While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this selection also highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature.
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Iliad-Homer/dp/0872205428/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(In this new translation of the Homeric Hymns, Sarah Ruden...)
In this new translation of the Homeric Hymns, Sarah Ruden employs a melodious and flexible non-rhyming line of eleven syllables, offering a close approximation of Greek hexameter verse in natural English rhythms. The result is a Homeric Hymns marked by its accuracy, simplicity, and economy of movement.
https://www.amazon.com/Homeric-Hymns-Hackett-Classics-Homer/dp/0872207250/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translatio...)
This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages. Sheila Murnaghan's Introduction, a shortened version of her essay for the unabridged edition, is ideal for readers new to this remarkable tale of the homecoming of Odysseus.
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Odyssey-Hackett-Classics/dp/0872208990/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five yea...)
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format - annotated text, contexts, and criticism - helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
https://www.amazon.com/Medea-Norton-Critical-Editions-Euripides/dp/0393265455/?tag=2022091-20
2018
(Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the write...)
Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the writers of the Beat Generation were deeply engaged with the classical tradition. Many of them were university-trained and highly conscious of their literary forebears, and they frequently incorporated their knowledge of Greco-Roman literature into their own subversive, experimental practice.
https://www.amazon.com/Hip-Sublime-Classical-Tradition-Identitie/dp/0814213553/?tag=2022091-20
2018
(The dissemination of classical material to children has l...)
The dissemination of classical material to children has long been a major form of popularization with far-reaching effects, although until very recently it has received almost no attention within the growing field of classical reception studies. This volume explores the ways in which children encountered the world of ancient Greece and Rome in Britain and the United States over a century-long period beginning in the 1850s, as well as adults' literary responses to their own childhood encounters with antiquity.
https://www.amazon.com/Childhood-Classics-1850-1965-Classical-Presences/dp/0199583471/?tag=2022091-20
2018
Sheila Herron Murnaghan was born on November 16, 1951, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Francis Dominic Murnaghan Junior and Jane Espy Hughes. The same year the family immigrated to the United States.
In 1973, Murnaghan received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University. In 1975, she received a Bachelor of Arts from Newnham College in Cambridge, England, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University North Carolina in 1980.
From 1981 to 1982, Murnaghan worked as Mellon fellow at Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and then, from 1984-85, she worked Morse fellow there. From 1985 to 1988, she was assistant director of Whitney Humanities Center.
In 1987, she began to work there as a lecturer, then became an assistant professor, and after that she became an associate professor of classical studies. In 1990, Murnaghan began working as an associate professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where she is now the Alfred Reginald Allen Memorial Professor of Greek.
(Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey reveals the signi...)
1987(Women and Slaves in Classical Culture examines how ancien...)
1998(The dissemination of classical material to children has l...)
2018(This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo's translatio...)
2007(While preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this s...)
2000(In this new translation of the Homeric Hymns, Sarah Ruden...)
2005(Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five yea...)
2018(Despite their self-presentation as iconoclasts, the write...)
2018(Selections from both Iliad and Odyssey, made with an eye ...)
2000Murnaghan is a member of the Modern Language Association and American Philological Association.
On July 25, 1980, Murnaghan married Hugh Bernard Gordon. They have two children: George Murnaghan Gordon and Jane Espy Gordon.