Peter Meineck
PhD Classics, University of Nottingham.
BA (hons) Ancient World Studies, University College London.
Peter Meineck is Professor of Classics In the Modern World at NYU and specializes in the performance, reception and history of ancient drama and cognitive theory. He teaches Greek literature and mythology. He has also held appointments at Princeton University and the University of South Carolina and is also Special Lecturer at the University of Nottingham in the UK. He is originally from London and now resides in New York. He has studied in the departments of Greek and Latin at University College London (BA hons) and the University of Nottingham (PhD) and worked extensively in London and New York Theatre. He is also the Artistic Director of Aquila Theatre which he founded in 1991 to present innovative productions of classical drama and has since produced and/or directed 47 shows, wrote, translated or adapted 18, and designed lighting for 33 in New York, London, Holland, Germany, Greece, Scotland, Canada, Bermuda, and the United States in venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, the ancient Stadium at Delphi, Lincoln Center, and the White House. (www.aquilatheatre.com). He is also heavily involved in Aquila’s education program at Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem and Aquila’s national education programs Theatre Breakthroughs and Workshop America. He also directs Aquila Theatre's YouStories veterans' humanities program.
Professor Meineck has published several volumes of translations of Greek drama and his translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia was awarded the 2001/2 Louis Galantiere Award by the American Translators Association. He received the 2009 NYU Golden Dozen Teaching Award and a 2009 Humanities Initiative Team Teaching Award and a 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman's Special Award. He has recorded several series of lectures for Recorded Books and the Barnes & Noble Portable Professor Series (When Gods Walked The Earth, Classical Mythology: The Greeks, Classical Mythology; The Romans, Greek Drama). Peter also contributes regular articles on the performing arts and the Classics for the journal Arion. His 2009 article “These Are Men Whose Minds The Dead Have Ravished: The Philoctetes Project” can be read at http://www.bu.edu/arion/archive/volume-17/. Professor Meineck also works as a mythology consultant, such as to Will Smith on the film I am Legend, National Geographic, Warner Bros. Disney and FuseTV and is also director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives program, a national collaboration between the theatre and the public library with the Urban Libraries Council, NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies, the American Philological Association and the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies. He has received many prestigious grants for his work with Aquila including The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York State Council for the Humanities. The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Charles Hayden Foundation, The Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, The Lucile Lortel Foundation and the New York Times Foundation. Professor Meineck has served with the Royal Marines, is a volunteer Firefighter and EMT with Bedford Fire Department in New York and is and the proud father of Sofia Estrella and Marina Hippolyta.
Professor Meineck is currently working on a book on cognitive science and Greek drama and editing a volume for Palgrave entitled "Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks".
Books
The Electra Plays (Libation Bearers). Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2009)
Sophocles: Four Plays – Ajax, Electra, Trachiniae, Philoctetes. With Paul Woodruff. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2007)
Sophocles: ‘Theban Plays’ with P. Woodruff. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2003)
Aristophanes’ Clouds in The Trials of Socrates, E. D. Reece (ed.) Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2001)
Aeschylus’ Eumenides and Aristophanes’ Clouds in Readings in Classical Political Thought, P. T. Steinberger (ed.) Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2000)
Aristophanes’ Clouds with intro by Ian C. Storey. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2000)
Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus With P. Woodruff. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2000)
Aeschylus’ Oresteia with intro by Helene Foley. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 1998)
Aristophanes Vol. 1. Wasps, Birds and Clouds with intro by Ian C. Storey. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 1998)
Greek Theatre Production. The LSTC Press (London 1990).
BA (hons) Ancient World Studies, University College London.
Peter Meineck is Professor of Classics In the Modern World at NYU and specializes in the performance, reception and history of ancient drama and cognitive theory. He teaches Greek literature and mythology. He has also held appointments at Princeton University and the University of South Carolina and is also Special Lecturer at the University of Nottingham in the UK. He is originally from London and now resides in New York. He has studied in the departments of Greek and Latin at University College London (BA hons) and the University of Nottingham (PhD) and worked extensively in London and New York Theatre. He is also the Artistic Director of Aquila Theatre which he founded in 1991 to present innovative productions of classical drama and has since produced and/or directed 47 shows, wrote, translated or adapted 18, and designed lighting for 33 in New York, London, Holland, Germany, Greece, Scotland, Canada, Bermuda, and the United States in venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, the ancient Stadium at Delphi, Lincoln Center, and the White House. (www.aquilatheatre.com). He is also heavily involved in Aquila’s education program at Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem and Aquila’s national education programs Theatre Breakthroughs and Workshop America. He also directs Aquila Theatre's YouStories veterans' humanities program.
Professor Meineck has published several volumes of translations of Greek drama and his translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia was awarded the 2001/2 Louis Galantiere Award by the American Translators Association. He received the 2009 NYU Golden Dozen Teaching Award and a 2009 Humanities Initiative Team Teaching Award and a 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman's Special Award. He has recorded several series of lectures for Recorded Books and the Barnes & Noble Portable Professor Series (When Gods Walked The Earth, Classical Mythology: The Greeks, Classical Mythology; The Romans, Greek Drama). Peter also contributes regular articles on the performing arts and the Classics for the journal Arion. His 2009 article “These Are Men Whose Minds The Dead Have Ravished: The Philoctetes Project” can be read at http://www.bu.edu/arion/archive/volume-17/. Professor Meineck also works as a mythology consultant, such as to Will Smith on the film I am Legend, National Geographic, Warner Bros. Disney and FuseTV and is also director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives program, a national collaboration between the theatre and the public library with the Urban Libraries Council, NYU’s Center for Ancient Studies, the American Philological Association and the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies. He has received many prestigious grants for his work with Aquila including The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, The New York State Council for the Humanities. The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Charles Hayden Foundation, The Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, The Lucile Lortel Foundation and the New York Times Foundation. Professor Meineck has served with the Royal Marines, is a volunteer Firefighter and EMT with Bedford Fire Department in New York and is and the proud father of Sofia Estrella and Marina Hippolyta.
Professor Meineck is currently working on a book on cognitive science and Greek drama and editing a volume for Palgrave entitled "Combat Trauma and the Ancient Greeks".
Books
The Electra Plays (Libation Bearers). Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2009)
Sophocles: Four Plays – Ajax, Electra, Trachiniae, Philoctetes. With Paul Woodruff. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2007)
Sophocles: ‘Theban Plays’ with P. Woodruff. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2003)
Aristophanes’ Clouds in The Trials of Socrates, E. D. Reece (ed.) Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2001)
Aeschylus’ Eumenides and Aristophanes’ Clouds in Readings in Classical Political Thought, P. T. Steinberger (ed.) Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2000)
Aristophanes’ Clouds with intro by Ian C. Storey. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2000)
Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus With P. Woodruff. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 2000)
Aeschylus’ Oresteia with intro by Helene Foley. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 1998)
Aristophanes Vol. 1. Wasps, Birds and Clouds with intro by Ian C. Storey. Hackett Publishing (Cambridge 1998)
Greek Theatre Production. The LSTC Press (London 1990).
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Topics covered in this wide-ranging collection include: cognitive linguistics applied to Homeric and early Greek texts, Roman cultural semantics, linguistic embodiment in Latin literature, group identities in Greek lyric, cognitive dissonance in historiography, kinesthetic empathy in Sappho, artificial intelligence in Hesiod and Greek drama, the enactivism of Roman statues and memory and art in the Roman Empire.
This ground-breaking work is the first to organize the field, allowing both scholars and students access to the methodologies, bibliographies and techniques of the cognitive sciences and how they have been applied to classics.
In recent years, classicists have begun aggressively to explore the impact of performance on the ways in which Greek and Roman plays are constructed and appreciated, both in their original performance context and in reperformances down to the present day. While never losing sight of the playscripts, it is necessary to adopt a more inclusive point of view, one integrating insights from archaeology, art, history, performance theory, theatre semiotics, theatrical praxis, and modern performance reception. This volume contributes to the restoration of a much-needed balance between performance and text: it is devoted to exploring how performance-related considerations (including stage business, masks, costumes, props, performance space, and stage-sets) help us attain an enhanced appreciation of ancient theatre.