All Outputs (16)

The Conditionality of Helenus’ Oracle and Tragic Choice in Sophocles’ Philoctetes (2024)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (online). The Conditionality of Helenus’ Oracle and Tragic Choice in Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Mnemosyne: A Journal of Classical Studies, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1163/1568525x-bja10270

Helenus’ oracle in Sophocles’ Philoctetes is commonly misunderstood as an unqualified revelation of an immutable future: the gods have fated Philoctetes to rejoin the Greek army at Troy. This has occasioned further misinterpretations of the play, es... Read More about The Conditionality of Helenus’ Oracle and Tragic Choice in Sophocles’ Philoctetes.

Ethnography in the Past Tense: The Amazons in Apollonius' Argonautica (2023)
Book Chapter
McPhee, B. D. Ethnography in the Past Tense: The Amazons in Apollonius' Argonautica. In C. Bloomfield-Gadêlha, & E. Hall (Eds.), Time, Tense and Genre in Ancient Greek Literature. Oxford University Press. Manuscript submitted for publication

Orpheus’ Head at the Mouth of the Meles: Conon Narratives 45 (2022)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (2022). Orpheus’ Head at the Mouth of the Meles: Conon Narratives 45. Classical Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in Classical Antiquity, 117(1), 209-219. https://doi.org/10.1086/717158

Off to Scythia: Apollonius Arg. 1, 307-311, and Ananius fr. 1 West (2022)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (2022). Off to Scythia: Apollonius Arg. 1, 307-311, and Ananius fr. 1 West

All Brawn and No Brain? Mythopoetic Trajectories in Heracles' Monster Combat Myths (2022)
Book Chapter
McPhee, B. D. (2022). All Brawn and No Brain? Mythopoetic Trajectories in Heracles' Monster Combat Myths. In T. Husøy, U. Furlan, & H. Bohun (Eds.), Narratives of Power in the Ancient World (107-153). Cambridge Scholars Press

The Argo, Danaus, and Sesostris: On Allusions to Two First-Ship Traditions in Apollonius’s Argonautica (2021)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (2021). The Argo, Danaus, and Sesostris: On Allusions to Two First-Ship Traditions in Apollonius’s Argonautica. Yearbook of ancient Greek epic online, 5(1), 166-195. https://doi.org/10.1163/24688487-00501005

Power Divine: Apollonius' Medea and the Goddesses of the Homeric Hymns (2021)
Book Chapter
McPhee, B. D. (2021). Power Divine: Apollonius' Medea and the Goddesses of the Homeric Hymns. In J. Klooster, G. Wakker, R. Regtuit, & A. Harder (Eds.), Women and Power in Hellenistic Poetry (245-270). Peeters Publishers. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv28bqkm1.15

(Adhuc) Virgineusque Helicon: A Subtextual Rape in Ovid's Catalogue of Mountains (Met. 2.219) (2019)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (2019). (Adhuc) Virgineusque Helicon: A Subtextual Rape in Ovid's Catalogue of Mountains (Met. 2.219). Classical Quarterly, 69(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/s0009838819000922

Erulus and the Moliones: An Iliadic Intertext in Aeneid 8.560-567 (2019)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (2019). Erulus and the Moliones: An Iliadic Intertext in Aeneid 8.560-567. Harvard studies in classical philology, 110, 271-277

Phineus' Perpetual Night: Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.2-4, and Apollonius, Argonautica 2.178-497 (2018)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (2018). Phineus' Perpetual Night: Ovid, Metamorphoses 7.2-4, and Apollonius, Argonautica 2.178-497. Hermathena, 195, 55-69

A Mad King in a Mad World: The Death of Cambyses in Herodotus (2018)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (2018). A Mad King in a Mad World: The Death of Cambyses in Herodotus. Histos, 12, 71-96

Mythological Innovations in Corinna's Asopides Poem (fr. 654.ii-iv PMG) (2018)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (2018). Mythological Innovations in Corinna's Asopides Poem (fr. 654.ii-iv PMG). Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies, 58(2), 198-222

Apollo, Dionysus, and the Multivalent Birds of Euripides’ Ion (2017)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (2017). Apollo, Dionysus, and the Multivalent Birds of Euripides’ Ion. Classical World, 110(4), 475-489. https://doi.org/10.1353/clw.2017.0039

Numbers and Acrostics: Two Notes on Jason’s Prayer at Pagasae in Apollonius’ Argonautica (2017)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (2017). Numbers and Acrostics: Two Notes on Jason’s Prayer at Pagasae in Apollonius’ Argonautica. Akropolis (Podgorica. Online), 1, 111-120. https://doi.org/10.35296/jhs.v1i0.6

The Parentage of Rhodes in Pindar Olympian 7.13–14 (2017)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (2017). The Parentage of Rhodes in Pindar Olympian 7.13–14. Classical Philology: A Journal Devoted to Research in Classical Antiquity, 112(2), 228-232. https://doi.org/10.1086/691350

Walk, Don’t Run: Jesus’s Water Walking Is Unparalleled in Greco-Roman Mythology (2016)
Journal Article
McPhee, B. D. (2016). Walk, Don’t Run: Jesus’s Water Walking Is Unparalleled in Greco-Roman Mythology. Journal of Biblical Literature, 135(4), https://doi.org/10.1353/jbl.2016.0047