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Allan, William and Swift, Laura (2023). Euripides: Bacchae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (In Press).

Swift, Laura (2019). Archilochus: The Poems: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford University Press.

Hancock-Jones, Robert; Renshaw, James and Swift, Laura (2017). Greek Theatre and Imperial Image: OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Components 21 and 22. Bloomsbury Academic.

Swift, Laura (2016). Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts. Classical World. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Swift, L. A. (2010). The hidden chorus: echoes of genre in tragic lyric. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Swift, Laura (2008). Euripides: Ion. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Drama. London: Duckworth.

Swift, Laura ed. (2022). A Companion to Greek Lyric. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Wiley-Blackwell.

Allan, William and Swift, Laura eds. (2018). Moralizing Strategies in Early Greek Poetry. Mouseion, 15 (1). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Swift, Laura and Carey, Chris eds. (2016). Iambus and Elegy: New Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Swift, Laura (2021). Negotiating hegemony in early Greek Poetry. In: Zucchetti, Emilio and Cimino, Anna Maria eds. Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World. London: Routledge, pp. 44–62.

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Swift, Laura (2021). Sappho and the Gods. In: Finglass, Patrick and Kelly, Adrian eds. The Cambridge Companion to Sappho. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 209–222.

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Swift, Laura (2020). Phoenician Women. In: Markantonatos, Andreas ed. The Brill Companion to Euripides. Brill's Companions to Classical Studies. Leiden: Brill, pp. 342–358.

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Swift, Laura (2019). Ajax the Hero. In: Stuttard, David ed. Looking at Ajax. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 29–41.

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Swift, Laura (2018). Competing generic narratives in Aeschylus' Oresteia. In: Andujar, Rosa; Hadjimichael, Theodora and Coward, Thomas eds. Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy. De Gruyter, pp. 119–136.

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Swift, Laura (2017). Narratorial Authority and its Subversion in Archilochus. In: Bakker, Egbert ed. Authorship and Greek Song: Authority, Authenticity, and Performance. Brill, pp. 161–177.

Swift, Laura (2016). Medea. In: McClure, Laura ed. A Companion to Euripides. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 80–91.

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Swift, Laura (2016). Visual Imagery in Parthenaic Song. In: Cazzato, Vanessa and Lardinois, André eds. The Look of Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual. Studies in Archaic and Classical Greek Song (1). Leiden: Brill, pp. 255–287.

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Swift, Laura (2016). Poetics and precedents in Archilochus’ erotic imagery. In: Swift, Laura and Carey, Chris eds. Iambus and Elegy: New Approaches. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 253–270.

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Swift, Laura (2015). Lyric visions of epic combat: the spectacle of war in archaic personal song. In: Bakogianni, Anastasia and Hope, Valerie eds. War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 93–109.

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Swift, Laura (2015). Stesichorus on Stage. In: Finglass, P. J. and Kelly, A. eds. Stesichorus in Context. Cambridge University Press, pp. 125–144.

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Swift, Laura (2014). The animal fable and Greek iambus: ainoi and half-ainoi in Archilochus. In: Werner, C. and Sebastini, B. eds. Gêneros poéticos na Grécia antiga: Confluências e fronteiras. São Paulo: Humanitas, pp. 49–77.

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Swift, Laura (2013). Conflicting identities in the Euripidean chorus. In: Gagné, Renaud and Hopman, Marianne eds. Choral mediations in Greek tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 130–154.

Swift, Laura (2012). Paeanic and Epinician healing in Euripides' Alcestis. In: Rosenbloom, David and Davidson, John eds. Greek Drama IV: Texts, Contexts, Performance. Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 149–168.

Swift, Laura A. (2011). Epinician and tragic worlds: the case of Sophocles' Trachiniae. In: Athanassaki, Lucia and Bowie, Ewen eds. Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination. Trends in Classics: Supplementary Volumes (10). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 391–413.

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Swift, Laura (2018). Thinking with Brothers in Sappho and Beyond. Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada, 15(1) pp. 71–87.

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Swift, Laura (2015). Negotiating seduction: Archilochus’ Cologne Epode and the transformation of epic. Philologus, 159(1) pp. 2–28.

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Swift, Laura (2014). Telephus on Paros: genealogy and myth in the 'new Archilochus' poem (P. Oxy. 4708). Classical Quarterly, 64(2) pp. 433–447.

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Swift, L. A. (2012). Archilochus the ‘anti-hero’? Heroism, flight and values in Homer and the new Archilochus fragment (P.Oxy. LXIX 4708). Journal of Hellenic Studies, 132 pp. 139–155.

Swift, L. A. (2009). The symbolism of space in Euripidean choral fantasy (Hipp. 732-85, Med. 824-65, Bacch. 370-433). Classical Quarterly, 59(2) pp. 364–382.

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Swift, Laura (2009). How to make a goddess angry: making sense of the Demeter Ode in Euripides' Helen. Classical Philology, 104(4) pp. 418–438.

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Swift, L. A. (2009). Sexual and familial distortion in Euripides' Phoenissae. Transactions of the American Philological Association, 139(1) pp. 53–87.

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Swift, L. A. (2006). Mixed choruses and marriage songs: a new interpretation of the third stasimon of the Hippolytos. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 126 pp. 125–40.