Field of Classics

Faculty in the Department of Classics

Frederick M. Ahl
Professor, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow (also a member of the Department of Comparative Literature). Greek and Roman Epic and Drama, Intellectual History of Greece and Rome.
Author of Lucan: An Introduction; Seneca: Three Tragedies; Metaformations: Soundplay and Wordplay in Ovid and Other Classical Poets; Sophocles' Oedipus: Evidence and Self-Conviction; Statius' Thebaid: A Reconsideration; (with Hanna Roisman) The Odyssey Re-Formed; articles on Greek music, Homeric narrative, ancient rhetoric, and Roman imperial poetry. Editor of the translation series Masters of Latin Literature. Currently working on Seneca: Four Tragedies, Aeneid 6: A Commentary with Translation, translation of the Aeneid into English.

Kimberly Bowes
Assistant Professor. Archaeology of late antiquity; archaeology of religion; domestic architecture; landscape archaeology; later Roman economies.
Author of Private Worship and Public Values: Religious Change in Late Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2008. Co-editor of Between Text and Territory: Survey and Excavation in the terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno, British School Monographs, Rome/London, 2007 with Richard Hodges and Karen Francis; of Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Approaches, Brill, Leiden, 2005 with Michael Kulikowski. Current projects include a book on later Roman villas, wealth and economics and an excavation of a Roman estate village in central Sicily (Sofiana Project).

Charles Brittain
Professor. Ancient Philosophy, especially Hellenistic epistemology and ethics, and Platonist psychology and ethics.
Author of Philo of Larissa, and translator, with Tad Brennan, of Simplicius' Commentary on the Handbook of Epictetus. Currently working on Cicero and Augustine.

Kevin Clinton
Professor. Greek Religion, Literature, and Epigraphy.
Author of The Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries; Myth and Cult: Iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries; Eleusis, The Inscriptions on Stone: Documents of the Sanctuary of the Two Goddesses and the Public Documents of the Deme, vol. I, Texts, vol. II, Commentary (forthcoming); and articles on Greek literature, religion, and inscriptions. Current work: various studies in Greek literature and religion, including books on the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Mysteries of the Great Gods in Samothrace. Supervisor of the project for the Computerization of Greek Inscriptions.

John E. Coleman
Professor. Aegean and Classical Archaeology, especially in Greece and Cyprus.
Director of the Cornell Halai and East Lokris Project (CHELP)(Greece). Author of Kephala (Keos I) and Excavations at Pylos in Elis; co-author of Alambra (on the Cornell excavations at Alambra in Cyprus). Co-editor of Greeks and Barbarians.

Gail Fine
Professor. Ancient Philosophy.
Author of On Ideas: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato and articles on ancient philosophy, especially on various topics in epistemology and metaphysics. Editor of Plato I: Metaphysics and Epistemology and Plato II: Ethics, Politics, Religion and the Soul.

Michael Fontaine
Assistant Professor. Latin Literature, especially Republican drama, Augustan poetry, textual criticism, and wordplay.
Author of articles on Plautus and Virgil. Book in progress: Error and Ambiguity in Plautine Comedy.

Terence Irwin
Professor, and Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy. Greek Philosophy. Also interested in and regularly teaches courses on ethical theory and Kant.
Recently taught courses on the history of ethics, on Plotinus, on Hellenistic philosophy, and on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Publications include Plato's Ethics, Plato's Gorgias, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle's First Principles, Classical Thought, and articles on Greek philosophy.

David P. Mankin
Associate Professor. Latin Literature.

Sturt W. Manning
Professor, and Director of The Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology at Cornell University. Aegean, Cypriot, and east Mediterranean prehistory; Archaeological science; Classical archaeology and art; Dendrochronology, dendroclimatology, dendrochemistry, and climate change science; Radiocarbon dating.
Archaeological interests focus on the Aegean, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, especially investigating changing forms of social complexity and social relations, trade, and temporal timescales. Director of fieldwork projects from 1990 to the present in Cyprus spanning from the Late Roman period back to the earliest Neolithic. Archaeological science interests focus around the development and application of tree-ring and radiocarbon analyses to archaeology and environmental science especially as relevant to the Mediterranean and Near East.

Alan J. Nussbaum
Professor (also Linguistics). Indo-European Linguistics, Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics, Homer, Old Latin.
Author of Head and Horn in Indo-European; Two Studies in Greek and Homeric Linguistics; and articles on Greek, Latin, and Italic.

Hayden Pelliccia
Associate Professor. Greek Literature.
Author of Mind, Body, and Speech in Homer and Pindar and articles and reviews on Greek literature. Editor of Selected Dialogues of Plato.

Pietro Pucci
Goldwin Smith Professor of Classics. Greek Epic, Drama, Mythology, and Textual Criticism.
Author of Hesiod and the Language of Poetry; The Violence of Pity in Euripides' Medea; Odysseus Polutropos; Oedipus and the Fabrication of the Father; Enigma, Segreto, Oracolo; The Song of the Sirens: Essays on Homer, Xenophon; Apology of Socrates; Sofocle, Filottete, Introduzione e commento.

Hunter R. Rawlings III
Professor and University President Emeritus. Greek History and Historiography.
Author of A Semantic Study of prophasis to 400 B.C. and The Structure of Thucydides' History.

Eric Rebillard
Professor (also of History). Roman history, especially Late Antiquity and Early Christianity.
Author of In hora mortis: évolution de la pastorale chrétienne de la mort aux IVe et Ve siècles dans lOccident latin (École française de Rome, 1994) and Religion et sépulture: lÉglise, les vivants et les morts dans l'Antiquité tardive (EHESS, 2003). Co-editor of Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire = Orthodoxy, Christianity, history (École française de Rome, 2000) with Susanna Elm and Antonella Romano; Hellénisme et christianisme: questions de religion, de philosophie et d'histoire dans l'Antiquité tardive (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2004) with Michel Narcy. Currently working on the interactions of Christians with non-Christians in the Roman Empire (2nd-4th c.). Also editor of L'Année philologique on the Internet (www.annee-philologique.com).

Jeffrey Rusten
Professor. Greek Comedy, Tragedy, Historiography, Religion and Literary Papyri.
Author of Dionysius Scytobrachion. Editor of Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War Book II; Sophocles, Oidipous Tyrannos: A Commentary; and Theophrastus, The Characters (Loeb Classical Library).

Barry S. Strauss
Professor (also History). Ancient Greek History.
Author of Athens After the Peloponnesian War: Class, Faction and Policy 403-386 B.C.; Fathers and Sons in Athens: Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War; The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Ancient Greece and Western Civilization; The Trojan War: A New History, and Rowing Against the Current: On Learning to Scull at Forty. Co-author of The Anatomy of Error: Ancient Military Disasters and Their Lessons for Modern Strategists and Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment. Co-editor of Hegemonic Rivalry from Thucydides to the Nuclear Age and of War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War.

Faculty in Other Departments

Annetta Alexandridis
Assistant Professor, Art History and Archaeology. Roman portrait, Greek myth and iconography, Archaeology and photography.
Author of Die Frauen des römischen Kaiserhauses. Eine Untersuchung ihrer bildlichen Darstellung von Livia bis Iulia Domna (Mainz: Zabern 2004) and Archäologie der Photographie. Bilder aus der Photothek der Berliner Antikensammlung (together with Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer; Mainz: Zabern: 2004). Current research project on Shifting Species: The iconography of metamorphosis and zoophilia in Greek myth.

Tad Brennan
Professor. Hellenistic Philosophy, Ancient Ethics.

Kathryn L. Gleason
Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture. Landscapes and Gardens of the Ancient Roman World, particularly Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Project Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Excavations at Caesarea Maritima. Co-Principal Investigator of the American Academy in Rome Excavations at "Horace's Villa", Licenza, Italy. Co-editor with Naomi F. Miller of The Archaeology of Garden and Field.

Kimberly Haines-Eitzen
Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies. Early Christianity.

Scott MacDonald
Professor, Philosophy, and Norma K. Regan Professor in Christian Studies. Ancient and Medieval Philosophy.
Editor of Being and Goodness: The Concept of the Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology. Articles published on Aristotle, Augustine, Boethius, and a variety of topics in medieval philosophy.

Andrew Ramage
Professor Emeritus, Art History and Archaeology. Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology, Archaeology of Asia Minor, Ceramics.
Associate Director of Cornell-Harvard Sardis Expedition. Author of Lydian Houses and Architectural Terracottas and co-author of King Croesus' Gold: Excavations at Sardis and the History of Gold Refining and Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine (4 th edition).

Carin Ruff
Assistant Professor, Medieval and Renaissance Latin Literature

Michael Weiss
Associate Professor, Linguistics. Indo-European Linguistics; Historical Phonology and Morphology of Greek, Latin, and the Sabellic Languages.
Currently working on a book about the Iguvine Tables, the most important surviving texts in the Umbrian language.

updated 11/12/2007