Mike Lippman
Mike Lippman
Program Scholar for the Palm Beach County Library and the Broward County Library
Mike Lippman recieved his B.A. in English and History from Emory University, his Ph.D. in Classics from Duke University and spent a number of years living in Greece as part of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He has taught at a number of universities across the country for the past ten years. His primary field of study is Greek Comedy, particularly Aristophanes, but he also works on a variety of other subjects both Greek and Roman, including such authors as Homer, Plato, Cicero and Petronius. His most recent publication, on Aristophanes’ Knights and the Nike Bastion of the Acropolis was the subject of a USA Today focus article, found here: www.usatoday.com. His most widely read publication, however, was an essay on Tony Soprano and Aristotle’s Poetics in the book The Sopranos and Philosophy, entitled “Know Thyself, Asshole”. Besides theater, he is interested in the resurrection of ancient athletics and has been both an organizer and official referee for their recent manifestations in Atlanta and Athens, Georgia. He is also the faculty mentor for the annual Sigma Phi EpsilonTragos Quest to Greece where he encourages students to be scholars, actors and athletes. Last year, along with his wife Laura, he co-directed, co-adapted, and played the critical role of “Sheep” in a new staged reading of Euripides’ Cyclops for the Committee of Ancient and Modern Performance at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in Chicago.
