Charles Platter
Professor of Classics
Department Head
220 Park Hall
Phone: 706 542-9260
FAX: 706 542-8503
E-Mail: cplatter@uga.edu

Special Interests

Academic History

Selected Publications

  • Commentary on Plato’s Apology of Socrates (with Paul Allen Miller), forthcoming University of Oklahoma Press
  • Carnivals of Genre in Aristophanic Comedy, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. (see JHUP webpage)
  • History in Dispute, Charles Platter and Paul Allen Miller eds. BC Manley and Company, 2005. Individual chapters written:
    • "General Introduction," pp. xiv-xvii
    • Introduction to "Was the Aeneid Augustan Propaganda?" pp. 189-90
    • Introduction, Pro, and Con to "Was Aristophanes a Reactionary?," pp. 72-80
    • Introduction, Pro, and Con to "Was Plato an Aristocratic Sympathizer with the Oligarchic Factions within the Athenian State?," pp. 154-63
    • Introduction to "Was Roman Decline Inevitable with the Fall of the Republic?," p. 238
    • Con to "Does Marxism Remain a Valid Historical Approach to the Ancient World?" pp. 33-37
    • Introduction and Con to "Was Homer an Oral Poet?" pp. 130-31, 134-37
  • Aristophanes' Acharnians, Bryn Mawr Commentary Series, Hackett Publishing 2003.
  • "Clouds and Wasps on Clouds and Wasps," Prace Komisji Filologii Klasycznej 31 (2003), pp. 5-32.
  • Carnivalizing Difference: Bakhtin and the Other, Charles Platter, Peter Barta, Paul Allen Miller, and David Shepherd, eds. Routledge 2001. Individual chapters written:
    • "Introduction," (with Barta, Miller, and Shepherd), pp. 1-21
    • "Novelistic Discourse in Aristophanes," pp. 51-78
  • "Power, Politics, Discourse: Augustan Elegy and Beyond," Charles Platter and Paul Allen Miller, eds., Classical World 92 (1999), pp. 403-54. Individual chapters written:
    • "Introduction," (with Paul Allen Miller), pp. 403-07
    • "Crux as Symptom: Augustan Elegy and Beyond" (with Paul Allen Miller), pp. 445-54
  • "Classics at the University of Georgia," Latin for the 21st Century, Richard LaFleur, ed., Scott, Foresman, Addison Wesley, 1998, pp. 176-86.
  • Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity, Charles Platter, David Larmour, and Paul Allen Miller, eds., Princeton University Press, 1997. Individual chapter written:
    • "Introduction," (with Larmour and Miller), pp. 1-41
  • Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition, Charles Platter, Barbara Gold, and Paul Allen Miller, eds., SUNY Press, 1997. Individual chapter written:
    • "The Artificial Whore: George Buchanan's Apologia pro lena," pp. 207-22
  • "Comica Adespota 12: Longhairs Get the Gnat," Classical World 89 (1996), pp. 207-12.
  • "Adeste, hendecasyllabi, quot estis?: George Buchanan's Catullan Imitations," Recapturing the Renaissance: New Perspectives on Humanism, Dialogue, and Texts, Diane S. Wood and Paul Allen Miller, eds., New Paradigm Press, 1996, pp. 125-40.
  • "Officium in Catullus and Propertius: A Foucauldian Reading," Classical Philology 90 (1995), pp. 211-24.
  • "Heracles and Deianeira and Nessus: Reverse Chronology in Bacchylides 16," American Journal of Philology 115 (1994), pp. 337-49.
  • "Bakhtin and Ancient Studies," Charles Platter and Paul Allen Miller, eds., Arethusa 26 (1993). Individual chapters written:
    • "Dialogues and Dialogics: By Way of Introduction" (with Paul Allen Miller), pp. 117-21.
    • "The Uninvited Guest: Aristophanes in Bakhtin's 'History of Laughter,'" pp. 201-16.
  • "The Poetics of Prostitution: Buchanan's Ars Lenae" (with Barbara Welch), trans. with commentary, Celestinesca 16 (1992), pp. 35-81.
  • George Buchanan, apologia pro lena, translation reprinted in Bernard Mandeville, A Modest Defense of Public Stews, edited by Irwin Primer (Palgrave-MacMillan 2006).

Research In Progress

 

Last revised September 2007.