Alex Gottesman, Assistant Professor, received his B.A. from Hunter College of the City University of New York, and his M.A. and PhD from the University of Chicago. He is interested, broadly, in Greek literature and culture, and more specifically in Greek ideas about law, politics and economics. He is currently revising his dissertation for publication. The project, provisionally entitled Theatrical Democracy in Ancient Athens, examines how theatricality was used in Athenian politics, what its connection was to ideas of status and expense, and what kinds of responses it elicited from critics. Additional interests include rhetoric and performance (an article on the Homeric rhetorical figure of kertomia, and the kind of performance it denoted, appears in Classical Quarterly 58), and ideas about property and propriety. gottesman@temple.edu