Patrick O’Sullivan

Patrick O'Sullivan is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, Australia, and University of Cambridge, and is associate professor of classics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has won awards for his teaching and research, and his publications focus on Archaic and Classical Greek intellectual and cultural history, and ancient aesthetics. In 2008 he was involved as translator and actor in a full production of Euripides’ Cyclops, produced in Christchurch, New Zealand, which was linked to his (co-authored) book on Greek satyric drama, published in 2013. He has a contract for a forthcoming book, provisionally titled The Rhetoric of Greek Art. Other ongoing projects include athletics and poetics in Pindar’s victory odes, vision and emotion in Thucydides’s history, and Hercules in Roman epic.