James Robson

James Robson is Professor of Classical Studies at The Open University. His research focuses on classical Greek sex and sexuality and the comic playwright, Aristophanes, especially the humour, obscenity and sexuality of his plays, and their translation and re-performance in English. His previous publications include: Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes (Narr, 2006); Aristophanes: An Introduction (Duckworth/Bloomsbury, 2010) and Sex and Sexuality in Classical Athens (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). More recently, he has co-edited Sex in Antiquity: Reconsidering Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World (Routledge, 2015). He is currently leading the production of a new module, Greek and Roman Myth: Stories and Histories, which will welcome its first cohort of students in October 2022.

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