Pura's research interests are Greek language, literature and mythology, especially in Homer and in the archaic and Hellenistic periods. She is now also working on Philo of Alexandria and on the images of female figures in Pindar's poetry. 

Pura explores the intersection between poetics and mythology in the Greek tradition, especially in Homer, archaic, and Hellenistic poetry. She is also interested in the problems of the definition and analysis of myths and has pursued research in Greek linguistics (she has published papers and book reviews on all these subjects). Among her most recent publications are articles on Penelope, Helen, Eurydice and Orpheus, Greek and Roman mythology, simile and metaphor, etc. She has also authored several articles (such as Cyclopes and Metaphor) for Homer Encyclopedia, edited by Margalit Finkelberg (Wiley-Blackwell 2011), and a commentary on some selections of Aratus' Phaenomena (co-authored with David Konstan) for Hellenistic Greek Poetry: A Selection, edited by David Sider  (Ann Arbor, 2016: University of Michigan Press). She has collaborated in the multi-authored translation into Spanish of the complete works of the Hellenistic philosopher Philo of Alexandria. Her translation of Philo's De Gigantibus was published in 2010 and her translation of De Virtutibus appeared in 2016.  She is currently working on a book on the representation of female figures in Pindar's poetry, and articles on Philo of Alexandria, Homer, and mythography.

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Commentary of Aratus, Phaenomena 1-62 and 932-972, in Hellenistic Greek Poetry: A Selection (David Sider, ed.).  Ann Arbor, 2016: University of Michigan Press, pp. 108-126 (Co-author: David Konstan).

Translation of Philo of Alexandria’s On the Virtues into Spanish: “Sobre las Virtudes“.  Traducción, introducción y notas por Pura Nieto, revisión de David Konstan, in José Pablo Martín (ed.). Filón de Alejandría.  Obras completas. Volumen IV Madrid, 2016: Trotta, pp. 244-334.

“Pindar's Other Sources: Catalogue and Advice Poetry,” Gaia 18 (2015). Mélanges de littérature et linguistique offerts à Françoise Létoublon.  Textes réunis par Francesca dell´Oro et Odile de Lagacherie, 197-210.

Orfeo, entre el arte y la muerte,” in De Orfeo a David Lynch, edited by David de la Fuente and Fernando Broncano.  Madrid 2015 (Escolar y Mayo editores), 7-33.

“Philo of Alexandria and Greek Poetry,” Studia Philonica Annual 26 (2014), 135-149. (There is a review of the volume by Matthew Kraus in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.09.05).

"Orpheus Reunited with Eurydice (on OF 1076–1077) ", in Tracing Orpheus. Studies of Orphic Fragments (Herrero de Jáuregui , Miguel, Jiménez San Cristóbal, Ana Isabel, Luján Martínez, Eugenio R., Hernández Raquel Martín, , Santamaría Álvarez, Marco Antonio and Torallas Tovar, Sofía, eds.) Berlin, 2011 (Walter de Gruyter), pp. 345-349 (co-author: David Konstan).

Eight articles for Homer Encyclopedia (Margalit Finkelberg, ed.). 3 vols. Malden, Mass.-Oxford UK 2011: Wiley-Blackwell: Cyclopes (1000 words), Metaphor (500 words), Nymphs (500 words), Nereids (500 words), Niobe (250 words), Polyphemus (250 words), Ambrosia (100 words), and Naiads (100 words).

"Casarse con una diosa: Helena y Calipso en la Odisea", in Dic Mihi, Musa, virum. Homenaje al profesor Antonio López Eire (Francisco Cortés Gabaudán and Julián Víctor Méndez Dosuna, eds.), Salamanca 2010 (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca), pp. 489-495.

"Mythology", in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics. (Dee Clayman, general editor for Classics). New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. URL: http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/display/id/obo-9780195389661-0036.

Translation of Philo of Alexandria's On the Giants into Spanish: "Sobre los Gigantes". Traducción, introducción y notas por Pura Nieto, revisión de David Konstan, in José Pablo Martín (ed.). Filón de Alejandría. Obras completas. Volumen II Madrid, 2010: Trotta, pp. 231-261.

Article on "Simile and Metaphor" for the Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. 7 vols. (General editor Michael Gagarin): Oxford University Press 2009 (co-authored with David Konstan).

"Penelope's Absent Song", in Penelope's Revenge. Essays on Gender and Epic, Phoenix, 62.1 (2008), 39- 62.

"Reading Homer in the 21st century", in Reading Homer in the 21st Century. College Literature Special Issue 34.2, (Spring 2007), 29-54.

"Odysseus, Agamemnon and Apollo ", Classical Journal 97 (2002), 319-334.

"Back in the Cave of the Cyclops", American Journal of Philology 121 (2000), 345-366.

“El manto de Hipsípila: Argonáuticas IV. 421-434“, KALON THEAMA. Estudios de Filologia Clásica e Indoeuropeo dedicados a F. Romero Cruz, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 1999, 171-179.

“Algunas reflexiones sobre mitología griega: problemas de definición e interpretación“,  Estudios Clásicos  114 (1998), 7-39.  (Reproduced in the Web site Liceus disseminated by the Spanish Society of Classical Studies).

“Apolo y Aquiles en la Ilíada“, Res Publica Litterarum  20 (1997), 7-47.

“Mensajeros divinos en Homero: Iris y Hermes en la Ilíada y la Odisea“, in Estudios de religión y mito en Grecia y Roma. X Jornadas de Filología Clásica de Castilla y León. (Coord. Jesús Mª. Nieto Ibáñez. León: University of León Press, 1995) 37-52.

“Heracles and Pindar“, Metis 8 (1993) 75-102.

Mοῦνος ἐὼν πολέσι. La soledad del héroe en la Odisea“, in Stephanion. Homenaje a M.C. Giner Soria (Salamanca: University of Salamanca Press, 1988) 135-141.

“Contribution à l'étude stylistique de Tacite: la phrase nominale (Histoires I)“, L'Antiquité Clasique 85 (1988) 204-230.

“Un problema de lengua homérica: la desinencia -φι“, Emerita 55 (1987) 273-306.

 

Some book reviews (see full list in my CV):

Review of B.K.M Brown, The Mirror of Epic. The Iliad and History.  Berrima, NSB: Academic printing and Publishing, 2016. The Classical Review 67.2 October 2017, 325-327. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X17001160.

Dorota Dutsch and Ann Suter (eds.), Ancient Obscenities. Their nature and Use in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds.  University of Michigan Press.  Ann Arbor 2015. Choice, June 2016.

Jessica Wolfe, Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes. Toronto-Buffalo-London: University of Toronto Press 2015. Choice, March 2016

C. Calame, Qu'est-ce que la mythologie grecque? Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 2015. The Classical Review 66, 2016, 13-15. doi:10.1017/ S0009840X15003108

Review of K.A. Morgan, Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2015.  Choice, October 2015.

Review of A. Nicholson, Why Homer Matters. New York: Henry Holt 2014.  Choice, June 2015.

Review of Diane J. Rayor and André Lardinois, Sappho.  A New Translation of the Complete Works. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press 2014.  Choice, March 2015.

Review of Nagy, G. The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours.  Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2013.  Choice, February 2014

Review of Elmer, David F.  The poetics of consent: collective decision making and the Iliad. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2013.  Choice, July 2013

Review of Beck, Deborah.  Speech presentation in Homeric epic.  Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2012.  Choice, April 2013

Review of H. P.  Foley, Reimagining Greek tragedy on the American stage. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press 2012.  Choice, February 2013

Review of S. Goldhill, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy. Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press 2012. Choice, September 2012

Review of S. Murnaghan, Disguise and Recognition in the Odyssey. 2nd ed. Lanham, etc.: Rowman & Littlefield 2011. Choice, January 2012.

Review of M. Ewans, Aristophanes. Lysistrata, The women's Festival and Frogs. Translated and with theatrical commentaries. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 2011, Choice, July 2011.

Review of F. Ferrari, Sappho’s Gift.  The Poet and Her Community.  Translated by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and Lucia Prauscello.  Ann Arbor: Michigan Classical Press, 2010, Choice, January 2011.

Review of K. Sidwell, Aristophanes the Democrat: the Politics of Satirical Comedy during the Peloponnesian War. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009, Choice, August 2010.

Review of A-F. Christidis (ed.), A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity. Cambridge 2006: Cambridge University Press. The Classical World 103.2, 2010, 261-262.

Review of R. Buxton, Forms of Astonishment. Greek Myths of Metamorphosis. Oxford-New York:Oxford University Press 2009, Choice March 2010.

Review of Y. Rinon, Homer and the dual model of the tragic. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan University Press, 2008, Choice April 2009.

Review of F. M. Dunn, Present shock in late fifth-century Greece. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Michigan University Press 2007, Choice May 2008.

Review of S. M. Elliot, The myth of Sisyphus. Renaissance Theories of Human Perfectibility. Madison-Teneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007, Choice January 2008.

Review of J. Roisman, The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Athens. Berkeley-Los Angeles-London: University of California Press, 2006, Choice June 2007

Review of B. Currie. Pindar and the Cult of Heroes. Oxford 2005, Choice June 2006.

Review of F. R. Adrados, A history of the Greek language:from its origins to the present. Leiden-Boston 2005: Brill. Choice 43/7 2006.

Review of J. H. Holoka (ed. and trans.), Simone Weil. The Iliad or the Poem of Force. A critical Edition. New York: Peter Lang, 2003 and 2005), NECJ 33.2 (2006), 137-139.

Review of C. Calame, Myth and History in Ancient Greece. The Symbolic Creation of a Colony. Translated by D. W. Berman. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003 The Symbolic Creation of a Colony (first published as Mythe et histoire dans l'Antiquité grecque. La création symbolique d'une colonie, 1996); and M. Detienne, The Writing of Orpheus. Greek Myth in Cultural Context. Translated by J. Lloyd. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 (first published as L'écriture d'Orphée, 1989), The Classical Review 55 no.2 (2005), 500-502.

Review of D. F. Wilson, Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad. Cambridge 2002, Electronic Antiquity 8.2 (May 2005), no pages (14 pp.).

Review of D. Haug, Les phases de l'évolution de la langue épique. Trois études de linguistique homérique. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. (=Hypomnemata 142) Göttingen 2002, Ordia Prima 3 (2004), 200-204.

2008 (Summer). International Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (UTRA), with Benjamin Folit-Weinberg '09. Dean of the college. Brown University.

2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018: included in Marquis' Who is Who in America, Who's Who of American Women and Who is Who in the World.

2011 (Summer). International Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (UTRA), with Eric LaPointe '12. Dean of the college. Brown University.

2014 (January-April): Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH).  The University of Edinburgh (UK).

2020: Miembro Honorífico del Instituto de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas y de

Humanidades Digitales, Universidad de Salamanca (https://iemyrhd.usal.es/).

2020: Voting Member of the Claustro de Doctores (Doctors Senate), Universidad de Salamanca.

2022: Summer). International Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (UTRA), with Helen Zhou '23. Dean of the college. Brown University.

She is a member of the American Philological Association, the Classical Association of New England, the Spanish Society of Classical Studies (Sociedad Española de Estudios Clásicos), the Society of Biblical Literature, and L'Association d'Études Homériques.

She regularly teaches courses in Greek at all levels on different authors (Homer, Archaic poetry, Plato, Aristophanes, Hellenistic Poetry, Elementary and Intermediate Greek), Greek prose composition and Introduction to Greek Linguistics. She also offers courses in translation (Death in Ancient Greece, Epic Poetry from Homer to Lucan, Heroes and Heroism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Beyond), and a variety of independent studies on different topics (Hesiod, Aratus, Homer, Greek orators, etc.) for both graduate and undergraduate students.