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Kirk Ormand
Kirk Ormand is Nathan Greenberg Professor of Classics at Oberlin College, and President of the Society for Classical Studies. His research specialties include sexuality in the ancient world, archaic Greek poetry (especially Archilochus, Sappho and Hesiod), Sophocles, Euripides, Ovid, and the Greek novel. He is the author of Exchange and the Maiden (University of Texas Press, 1999), Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (revised edition, University of Texas Press, 2018), the Companion to Sophocles (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Ancient Sex: New Essays (Ohio State University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a book on archaic Greek invective poetry.
Kirk Ormand is Nathan Greenberg Professor of Classics at Oberlin College, and President of the Society for Classical Studies. His research specialties include sexuality in the ancient world, archaic Greek poetry (especially Archilochus, Sappho and Hesiod), Sophocles, Euripides, Ovid, and the Greek novel. He is the author of Exchange and the Maiden (University of Texas Press, 1999), Controlling Desires: Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome (revised edition, University of Texas Press, 2018), the Companion to Sophocles (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and Archaic Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Ancient Sex: New Essays (Ohio State University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a book on archaic Greek invective poetry.
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