Alex Purves
Assistant Professor, Acting Undergraduate Advisor Spring 2008
Greek Epic & Classical Literature
Dodd 247M
310-825-1101
purves@humnet.ucla.edu

Alex Purves joined the UCLA faculty in 2002 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Her specialty is Greek literature and culture from the archaic and classical periods. She is currently at work on two books – the first on the representation of space in the early Greek epic and prose tradition; the second on the bodies of gods in archaic Greek poetry. She has published articles on Aristophanes, Hesiod, Homer, and Herodotus. For some of her recent work, see “Unmarked Space: Odysseus and the Inland Journey,” in Arethusa 39 (2006) pp. 1-20, “The Plot Unravels: Darius’s Numbered Days in Scythia,” Helios 33.1 (2006) pp. 1-26, and “Falling into Time in Homer’s Iliad,” in Classical Antiquity 25.1 (2006) pp. 179-209. In 2005-2006, Alex Purves was a junior fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C., an ACLS fellow, and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend.
At UCLA, Professor Purves teaches courses in Classical Mythology and ancient Greek language and literature, as well as courses in the Honors Collegium.

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