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Dr. Martine Cuypers
Assistant Professor in Greek, Classics

Biography

Dr Martine Cuypers is Lecturer in Greek at Trinity College Dublin. She holds a Ph.D. from Leiden University and has previously worked as a lecturer and research fellow in Hamburg, Leiden, Groningen, Chicago and Washington DC. Her research focuses on epic and the Greek literature and culture of the Hellenistic period and Empire.

Publications and Further Research Outputs

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Syriskos of Chersonesos (807) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby, Second Edition, Leiden, Brill, 2024, [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2024 URL

Classics Ireland, 30, (2023), iv, 99 pp.p, Shane Wallace, Martine Cuypers Journal, 2023 URL

Philistides (11) and Ainesidamos of Tenos (600) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby, Second Edition, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2023, pp6,318 + 3,632 words , [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2023 URL URL

Classics Ireland, 29, (2022), iv, 101 pp.p, Shane Wallace, Martine Cuypers Journal, 2022 URL

Demaratos, Tragoidoumena (12A), Kleitonymos, Tragika (12B), Jason of Byzantion, Tragika (12C), Agathon (801), Diophantos (805) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby, Second Edition, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2022, [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2022 DOI DOI DOI URL URL

Francesca Angiò, Martine Cuypers, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, New poems attributed to Posidippus: a text in progress. Version 14, Classics@, 1, 2021, p1 - 51 Journal Article, 2021 URL

Boukje Verheij, Martine Cuypers, Lucianus, Ware Verhalen, 2nd edition, Amsterdam, Athenaeum, 2019, 1-112pp Book, 2019 URL

Amphitheos(?) of Herakleia (431), Timogenes of Miletos (435), Polygnostos (473), Dionysios of Olbia (804), Glaukos (806) and Demetrios of Odessos (808) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington a.o. , Brill's New Jacoby, Second Edition, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2019, pp1-20 , [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2019 DOI URL DOI DOI DOI DOI DOI

Domitius Kallistratos (433) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby: Fragments of the Greek Historians, Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp1 - 28, [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2018 URL URL

Dei(l)ochos (471) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby: Fragments of the Greek Historians, Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp1 - 43, [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2018 URL

Andy Hinds, Martine Cuypers, Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis: Two Versions, London, Oberon Books / Bloomsbury, 2017, 1-192pp Book, 2017 URL

The Story of Amycus in Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1-177: Narrative, Intertextuality and Intratextuality in, editor(s)Fernando Rodrigues Junior, Breno Basttistin Sebastiani, Bárbara da Costa e Silva , Estudos de Poesia e Prosa Helenística, São Paulo, Humanitas, 2017, pp9 - 24, [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2017

Andy Hinds, Martine Cuypers, Aeschylus' The Oresteia, London, Oberon Books / Bloomsbury, 2017, 1-240pp Book, 2017 URL

Francesca Angiò, Martine Cuypers, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, New poems attributed to Posidippus: a text in progress. Version 13, Classics@, 1, 2016, p1 - 45 Journal Article, 2016 URL URL

Hiero's Question: An Introduction in, editor(s)James J. Clauss, Martine Cuypers, Ahuvia Kahane , The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry: From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond, Stuttgart, Steiner, 2016, pp1 - 17, [James J. Clauss, Martine Cuypers, Ahuvia Kahane] Book Chapter, 2016 URL URL

Promathidas of Herakleia (430) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby: Fragments of the Greek Historians, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2016, pp1 - 23, [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2016 URL

James J. Clauss, Martine Cuypers, Ahuvia Kahane, The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry: From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond, Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016, i-xiv, 1-458pp Book, 2016 URL URL

Patrick D. Roycroft, Martine Cuypers, The Etymology of the Mineral Name 'Apatite': A Clarification, Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, 33, 2015, p71 - 75 Journal Article, 2015 URL

Skythinos of Teos (13), Diogenes of Kyzikos (474) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby: Fragments of the Greek Historians, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2015, pp1-24 , [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2015 URL

Polygnostos (473) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby: Fragments of the Greek Historians, Leiden, Brill, 2015, pp1-3 , [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2015 URL

James J. Clauss, Martine Cuypers, A Companion to Hellenistic Literature, Corrected paperback edition, Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, i-xxvi, 1-550pp Book, 2014 URL DOI

Athenakon (546) and Idomeneus (547) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby: Fragments of the Greek Historians, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2014, pp1-15 , [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2014 URL URL

Androitas of Tenedos (599), Ainesidamos of Tenos (600), Andron of Teos (802), Apollodoros (803) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby: Fragments of the Greek Historians, Leiden, Brill, 2013, pp1-23 , [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2013 URL

Jason of Byzantion (12c), Agathon (801), Diophantos (805), Syriskos of Chersonesos (807) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby: Fragments of the Greek Historians, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2012, pp1-28 , [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2012 URL

Francesca Angiò, Martine Cuypers, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, New poems attributed to Posidippus: a text in progress. Version 12.1, Classics@, 1, 2011, p1 - 43 Journal Article, 2011 URL

Philistides (11), Demaratos (12a), Kleitonymos (12b), Amphitheos of Herakleia (431), Dionysios of Olbia (804), Glaukos (806) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby: Fragments of the Greek Historians, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2010, pp1-30 , [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2010 URL

Martine Cuypers, 'Apollonius of Rhodes', Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, - 1-38 Bibliography, filmography, etc., 2010 DOI URL

James J. Clauss, Martine Cuypers, A Companion to Hellenistic Literature, Chichester and Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, 1-576pp Book, 2010 DOI URL

Francesca Angiò, Martine Cuypers, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, New Poems Attributed to Posidippus: A Text in Progress, Version 11.0, Classics@, 1, 2010, p1 - 42 Journal Article, 2010 URL

Introduction in, editor(s)James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers , A Companion to Hellenistic Literature, Chichester and Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp1 - 14, [James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2010

Historiography, Rhetoric, and Science: Rethinking a Few Assumptions on Hellenistic Prose in, editor(s)James J. Clauss and Martine Cuypers , A Companion to Hellenistic Literature, Chichester and Malden, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp317 - 336, [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2010

Timogenes of Miletos (435) and Demetrios of Odessos (808) in, editor(s)Ian Worthington , Brill's New Jacoby: Fragments of the Greek Historians, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2009, pp1-4 , [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2009 URL

Francesca Angiò, Martine Cuypers, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, New Poems Attributed to Posidippus: A Text in Progress, Version 10.0, Classics@, 1, 2008, p1 - 42 Journal Article, 2008 URL

hypoportis, William A. Beck and Michael Meier-Brügger, Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos, 23, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, pp760 - 760, [Martine Cuypers] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2008

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Francesca Angiò, Martine Cuypers and Elizabeth Kosmetatou, New Poems Attributed to Posidippus: A Text in Progress - Version 9, Classics@, 1, 2007, p1 - 42 Journal Article, 2007 URL

Aratus, Thomas Hockey, Biographical Encyclopaedia of Astronomers, Frankfurt, Springer Science, 2006, pp55 - 55, [Martine Cuypers] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2006

B. Acosta-Hughes, M. Cuypers, E. Kosmetatou, New Poems Attributed to Posidippus: An Electronic Text-in-progress, version 7.0, Classics@, 1, (July), 2006, p1-32 Journal Article, 2006 URL

Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Francesca Angiò, Martine Cuypers, Elizabeth Kosmetatou, New Poems Attributed to Posidippus: An Electronic Text-in-progress, version 8, Classics@, 1, (October), 2006, p1-36 Journal Article, 2006 URL

M. Cuypers, Ptoliporthos Akhilleus: the sack of Methymna in the Lesbou Ktisis, Hermathena, 173/174, 2005, p117 - 135 Journal Article, 2005

Interactional particles and narrative voice in Apollonius and Homer in, editor(s)A. Harder and M. Cuypers , Beginning from Apollo: Studies in Apollonius Rhodius and the Argonautic Tradition, Leuven, Peeters, 2005, pp35 - 69, [M. Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2005

A. Harder and M. Cuypers, Beginning from Apollo: Studies in Apollonius Rhodius and the Argonautic Tradition, Leuven, Peeters, 2005, 1-168pp Book, 2005

Apollonius of Rhodes in, editor(s)Irene J.F. de Jong, René Nünlist and Angus Bowie , Narrators, Narratees, and Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature, Leiden, Brill, 2004, pp43 - 62, [M. Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2004

'Prince and principle: the philosophy of Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus in, editor(s)M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit and G.C. Wakker , Callimachus II (Hellenistica Groningana 7), Leuven, Peeters, 2004, pp95 - 115, [M. Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2004

plissomai, plokamos, plochmos, pneuma, pneumon/pleumon, pneo, pnoie, podaniptra, poipnuo, poluaretos, polubenthes, poludeiras, poludesmos, polukestos, polukmetos, poluknemos, polukrotos, polullistos, polumetis, polumechanie, polumechanos, polupemon, polupikros, poluplanktos, polutropos, popoi, poris/portis/portax, porsu/aino, portitrophos, premnon, W.A. Beck, M. Meier-Brügger, a.o., Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos, 3.20, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2004, pp1-30 , [M. Cuypers] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2004

R. Beekes and M. Cuypers, Nekus, antikru, and metrical lengthening in Homer, Mnemosyne, 56, 2003, p485 - 491 Journal Article, 2003

Apollonians anonymous: aaatos, aatos, and amoton in Argonautica 2.77-78 in, editor(s)D. Accorinti and P. Chuvin , Des Géants à Dionysos, Alessandria, Edizioni dell'Orso, 2003, pp223 - 232, [M. Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2003

M. Cuypers, Reizen in de voetsporen van Herakles: de Argonautika van Apollonios, Hermeneus, 73, 2001, p186 - 192 Journal Article, 2001

pedao, pede, pedila, pepnumenos, petala/ela, pedalion, pedinos, pedos/n, pema, pemaino, penion, pikrogamos, pikros, pissa, planktos, planktosune, plazo, planaomai, planodias, plasso, plastos, plektos, pleko, pleumon, W.A. Beck, M. Meier-Brügger, a.o., Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos, 3.19, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2001, pp1-30 , [M. Cuypers] Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, 2001

B. Verheij and M. Cuypers, Lucianus, Ware Verhalen, Amsterdam, Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 1999, 1-112pp Book, 1999

M. Cuypers, Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1-310: A Commentary, University of Leiden, 1997 Thesis, 1997 URL

Edition and translation of Book 2 in, editor(s)Colloquium Classicum E.D.E.P.O.L. , Georgius Benedicti, De Krijgsdaden van Willem van Oranje (De rebus gestis Guillielmi comitis Nassovii), Leiden, Dimensie, 1990, pp108 - 143, [M. Cuypers] Book Chapter, 1990

Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications

Martine Cuypers, Isidorus and Homer, The Hymns of Isidorus: Poetry, Religion, and Place in the Bi-Cultural World of Ptolemaic Egypt, Paris: Institute of the University of Chicago in Paris, 11-13 July 2023, edited by C.A. Faraone, Sofia Torallas Tovar, Ian Moyer , 2023 Conference Paper, 2023

Martine Cuypers, Making Athens Great Again, Behind the Headlines: History, Hope and the Political Speech, Online, 1 March, 2021, Trinity Long Room Hub and international media partners Invited Talk, 2021 URL

Martine Cuypers, Seascapes and Seashapes: Mapping the Coast in Greek Periplous Literature, Seascapes: Island and Coastal Life in the Aegean and Beyond from Prehistory to the Recent Past, Online, 22 April, 2021, Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies in Athens Invited Talk, 2021

Alexandra Madeła, Sean McGrath, Guy Walker, Martine Cuypers, Meaning between the Lines: allegory and hermeneutics in Greek imperial and late antique literature, 6-7 February 2020, 2020 Meetings /Conferences Organised, 2020

Martine Cuypers, 'Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite', Minerva: Journal of Classical Translation, Issue 2: War(fair), Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, 2019, 10 - 11 Translation, 2019 URL TARA - Full Text

Martine Cuypers, Crocodile Tears: A Lament of Helen from an Egyptian Recycle Bin and the Hellenistic Reception of Euripides, University College Cork, 25 March, 2019 Invited Talk, 2019

Martine Cuypers, Oscar McHale, 'Homer's Odyssey', Conversing the Classics, Dublin, Classical Youth Society of Ireland, 2018, - 42 minutes Broadcast, 2018 URL

Martine Cuypers, Translating Iphigenia in Aulis, Iphigenia in Ireland, NUI Galway, 28 September, 2018 Conference Paper, 2018

Martine Cuypers, A Survey of Hellenistic Tragedy, Review of Hellenistic Tragedy: Texts, Translations and a Critical Survey, by Agnieszka Kotlinska-Toma , Classical Review, 67, (1), 2017, p35-37 Review, 2017 DOI

Homer, Iliad 1.1 in, editor(s)Paul Corcoran , Line of Enquiry: Favourite Lines from Classical Literature, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin Press, 2017, pp24-25 , [Martine Cuypers] Book Chapter, 2017

Martine Cuypers, 'Witte Volder [Dutch translation of 'Pangur Bán']', Translating 'Pangur Bán', Dublin, Trinity Centre for Literary Translation, 2017, 19 - 19 Translation, 2017 TARA - Full Text

M. Cuypers, J.J.H. Klooster, G.C. Wakker, A Tribute to Annette Harder, Chair of Greek Language and Literature, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1991-2017, Groningen, University of Groningen, 2017, 1 - 100pp Book, 2017

Martine Cuypers, Zoe Boland, Alastair Daly, 'Hoi prostatai tes Iernaias demokratias toi demoi ton Iernaion chairein', The Proclamation Translated, Dublin, Centre for Literary Translation, Trinity College Dublin, 2016, - 1 Translation, 2016 URL URL TARA - Full Text

Martine Cuypers, Oscar McHale, 'Conversing the Classics - Episode 5: Euripides' Medea', Dublin, Classical Youth Society of Ireland, 2016, - Broadcast, 2016 URL

Patrick Roycroft, Martine Cuypers, Clarifying the Etymology of Apatite, Elements: An International Magazine of Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Petrology, 11, (3), 2015, p156 - 156 Journal Article, 2015

Martine Cuypers, '"In the Middle of a Chain Reaction: Aeschylus' Agamemnon." In: Programme of the Classic Stage Ireland Production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, in a version by Andy Hinds, 16-31 March 2012', Dublin, Classic Stage Ireland, 2012, - 6-7 Theatre Production, 2012 URL

Martine Cuypers, Epi:log: Still Waiting, Gay Community News, (June), 2012, p46 - 46 Journal Article, 2012 URL

Martine Cuypers, 'A Hellenistic Bibliography - a bibliography on post-classical Greek poetry and its reception', Version 16.0, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, 2012, - Bibliography, filmography, etc., 2012 URL

Martine Cuypers, '"Puzzle Pieces - Shaping Iphigenia in Aulis." In: Programme of the Classic Stage Ireland Production of Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, in a version by Andy Hinds, 17 June - 2 July 2011', Dublin, Classic Stage Ireland, 2011, - 6-7 Theatre Production, 2011 URL

Martine Cuypers, 'A Hellenistic Bibliography', Version 15.0, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, 2011, - Bibliography, filmography, etc., 2011 URL

Martine Cuypers, 'A Hellenistic Bibliography', Version 14.0, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, 2010, - Bibliography, filmography, etc., 2010 URL

Martine Cuypers, 'The Difficulty with Dionysus. In: Programme of the Classic Stage Ireland production of Euripides' Bacchae, January 2010', Dublin, Classic Stage Ireland, 2010, - p7-8 Theatre Production, 2010

Martine Cuypers, 'The Ideal Tragedy? In: Programme of the Classic Stage Ireland production of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, July 2010', Dublin, Classics Stage Ireland, 2010, - p7-8 Theatre Production, 2010 URL

Martine Cuypers, 'Dutch translation of Theocritus, Idyll 17. In: Mark Heerink, Basileus en farao: Egyptische invloeden in Idylle 17 van Theocritus. Phoenix 54.2', 2008, - 121-127 [105-127] Translation, 2008 URL

Martine Cuypers, 'A Hellenistic Bibliography', Version 10.0, Leiden, Universiteit Leiden, 2007, - Bibliography, filmography, etc., 2007 URL

Martine Cuypers, Boukje Verheij, 'Meester van de parodie: Loukianos', Komt een Griek bij de dokter: humor in de oudheid, Amsterdam, Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 2007, 63 - 65 Translation, 2007

M. Cuypers, Review of Quintus of Smyrna, The Trojan Epic, by A. James , Bryn Mawr Classical Review, (2005.07.37), 2005 Review, 2005 URL

M. Cuypers, Review of A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna, Posthomerica V, by A. James and K. Lee , Mnemosyne, 58, 2005, p605-614 Review, 2005

M. Cuypers, Review of A Reading of Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica: The Poetics of Uncertainty, by C.S. Byre , Mnemosyne, 58, 2005, p600-603 Review, 2005

M. Cuypers, Review of The Path of the Argo, by R.J. Clare , Bryn Mawr Classical Review, (2005.02.25), 2005 Review, 2005 URL

Philippi Marnixii, Ratio instituendae juventutis., M. Cuypers, Leiden:, Universiteit Leiden, 2004, - 1-39 Critical Edition (Chapter), 2004 URL

M. Cuypers, 'Philips van Marnix van Sint Aldegonde, Programma voor de opvoeding van de jeugd ', Leiden, Universiteit Leiden, 2004, - 1-38 Translation, 2004 URL

M. Cuypers, Review of Lukian, Die Lügenfreunde, by M. Ebner, a.o. , Classical Review, 53, 2003, p77-78 Review, 2003

M. Cuypers, Review of Hirten in der nicht-bukolischen Dichtung des Hellenismus, by H. Bernsdorff , Bryn Mawr Classical Review, (2002.12.38), 2002 Review, 2002 URL

B. Verheij and M. Cuypers, 'Extract from Lucianus, Ware Verhalen', Klassiek toerisme: reizen met Odysseus, Aeneas en Hannibal, Amsterdam, Muntinga, 2001, 218 - 241 Translation, 2001

M. Cuypers, Review of A Stylistic Commentary on Hermesianax, by P. Kobiliri , Bryn Mawr Classical Review, (2000.04.22), 2000 Review, 2000 URL

B. Verheij and M. Cuypers, 'Extract from Lucianus, Ware Verhalen', Van alfa tot omega: een klassiek ABC, Amsterdam, Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 2000, 126 - 128 Translation, 2000

M. Cuypers, Mnemosyne, A Journal of Classical Studies: Index to Series IV, Volumes 1-48, 1948-1995, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1996, 1-284pp Book, 1996

Research Expertise

Keywords

comparative Indo-European linguistics; Greek epic and post-classical poetry; Greek Literature, History and Culture; Hellenistic history; History of Gender and Sexuality; intertextuality; narratology and linguistics; reception of classical texts in early modern literature; Second Sophistic prose