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Open University: Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, GB

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Magdalen College, University of Oxford: Oxford, GB

2022-09-01 to present | Associate Professor (Classics)
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Laura Swift

The Open University: Milton Keynes, GB

2012-04 to 2022-08
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Laura Swift

University College London: London, GB

2010 to 2012
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Laura Swift

New College: Oxford, GB

2009 to 2010
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Trinity College: Oxford, GB

2006 to 2009
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Education and qualifications (1)

University of Oxford Magdalen College: Oxford, GB

2003 to 2006 | DPhil
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Funding (7)

Making Theatre in a Time of Covid

2020 to 2020 | Grant
British Academy (London, GB)
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Laura Swift

The Art of Fragments

2018 to 2021 | Award
British Academy (London, GB)
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Philip Leverhulme Prize

2016-10 to 2019-09 | Award
Leverhulme Trust (London, GB)
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Ancient Fragments

2014-11 to present | Award
School of Advanced Study, British Academy, AHRC (London, GB)
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Communicating Greece and Rome

2014-10 to present | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Bristol, GB)
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Humboldt Fellowship

2012-10 to present | Award
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (Bonn, DE)
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Laura Swift

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

2010-09 to 2012-08 | Award
Leverhulme Trust (London, GB)
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Works (32)

Euripides: Bacchae

2024 | Book | Author
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82936

Contributors: William Allan; Laura Swift
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A Companion to Greek Lyric

2022-06 | Other | Editor
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 82769
Contributors: Laura Swift
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Negotiating hegemony in early Greek Poetry

2021-06 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID:

71517

Part of ISBN: 9780367193140
Contributors: Zucchetti, Emilio; Cimino, Anna Maria; Laura Swift
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Sappho and the Gods

2021-03 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 72396
Contributors: Finglass, Patrick; Kelly, Adrian; Laura Swift
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Phoenician Women

2020-09-24 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 71518
Contributors: Markantonatos, Andreas; Laura Swift
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Ajax the Hero

2019-05-02 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 57451
Contributors: Stuttard, David; Laura Swift
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Archilochus: The Poems: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

2019-02-19 | Book | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 53948
Contributors: Laura Swift
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Thinking with Brothers in Sappho and Beyond

Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada
2018 | Journal article | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 53102
Contributors: Laura Swift
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Moralizing Strategies in Early Greek Poetry

2018-03-19 | Other | Editor
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 53103
Contributors: Allan, William; Laura Swift
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Competing generic narratives in Aeschylus' Oresteia

2018-02-28 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 50667
Contributors: Andujar, Rosa; Hadjimichael, Theodora; Coward, Thomas; Laura Swift
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Greek Theatre and Imperial Image: OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Components 21 and 22

2017-07-13 | Book | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 50476
Contributors: Hancock-Jones, Robert; Renshaw, James; Laura Swift
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Narratorial Authority and its Subversion in Archilochus

2017-03 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 47970
Contributors: Bakker, Egbert; Laura Swift
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Medea

2016-12-27 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 47981
Contributors: McClure, Laura; Laura Swift
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Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts

2016-10-06 | Book | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 47564
Contributors: Laura Swift
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Visual Imagery in Parthenaic Song

2016-04-26 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 45250
Contributors: Cazzato, Vanessa; Lardinois, André; Laura Swift
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Iambus and Elegy: New Approaches

2016-02-18 | Other | Editor
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 44122
Contributors: Laura Swift; Carey, Chris
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Poetics and precedents in Archilochus’ erotic imagery

2016-02-18 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 44123
Contributors: Swift, Laura; Carey, Chris; Laura Swift
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Lyric visions of epic combat: the spectacle of war in archaic personal song

2015-10-22 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 44124
Contributors: Bakogianni, Anastasia; Hope, Valerie; Laura Swift
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Stesichorus on Stage

2015-06 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 43449
Contributors: Finglass, P. J.; Kelly, A.; Laura Swift
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Negotiating seduction: Archilochus’ Cologne Epode and the transformation of epic

Philologus
2015-06-08 | Journal article | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 43448
Contributors: Laura Swift
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Telephus on Paros: genealogy and myth in the 'new Archilochus' poem (P. Oxy. 4708)

Classical Quarterly
2014-12 | Journal article | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 40720
Contributors: Laura Swift
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The animal fable and Greek iambus: <i>ainoi</i> and half-<i>ainoi</i> in Archilochus

2014-11 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 40729
Contributors: Werner, C.; Sebastini, B.; Laura Swift
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Conflicting identities in the Euripidean chorus

2013-05 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 36686
Contributors: Gagné, Renaud; Hopman, Marianne; Laura Swift
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Archilochus the ‘anti-hero’? Heroism, flight and values in Homer and the new Archilochus fragment (P.Oxy. LXIX 4708)

Journal of Hellenic Studies
2012-11 | Journal article | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 35697
Contributors: Laura Swift
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Paeanic and Epinician healing in Euripides' <i>Alcestis</i>

2012-01 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 33557
Contributors: Rosenbloom, David; Davidson, John; Laura Swift
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Epinician and tragic worlds: the case of Sophocles' <i>Trachiniae</i>

2011 | Book chapter | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 33491
Contributors: Athanassaki, Lucia; Bowie, Ewen; Laura Swift
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The hidden chorus: echoes of genre in tragic lyric

2010-01 | Book | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 33483
Contributors: Laura Swift
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The symbolism of space in Euripidean choral fantasy (<i>Hipp</i>. 732-85, <i>Med</i>. 824-65, <i>Bacch</i>. 370-433)

Classical Quarterly
2009-12 | Journal article | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 33488
Contributors: Laura Swift
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How to make a goddess angry: making sense of the Demeter Ode in Euripides' <i>Helen</i>

Classical Philology
2009-10 | Journal article | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 33490
Contributors: Laura Swift
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Sexual and familial distortion in Euripides' <i>Phoenissae</i>

Transactions of the American Philological Association
2009-04 | Journal article | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 33489
Contributors: Laura Swift
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Euripides: Ion

2008-05 | Book | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 33485
Contributors: Laura Swift
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Mixed choruses and marriage songs: a new interpretation of the third stasimon of the <i>Hippolytos</i>

Journal of Hellenic Studies
2006-11 | Journal article | Author
SOURCE-WORK-ID: 33486
Contributors: Laura Swift
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