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Courses and Instruction

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA (2000 – present)

a. Graduate Courses

  • Women and Gender in the Graeco-Roman World (scheduled, Fall 2018)
  • ROMAN BIOGRAPHY Primary Readings: Xenophon: Cyropaedia, Cornelius Nepos: Cyrus, Agesilaus, Epameinondas, Suetonius: Caligula (Fall 2016)
  • The hetaira in the plays of Roman Comedy (Spring 2015)
  • Roman Medical Authors (Fall 2014)
  • Pliny Natural History (Spring 2014)
  • Roman Rhetoric (Spring 2013). Primary Readings: Cicero Brutus and De Oratore
  • Athenian Law and Society (Fall 2010 [Online Distance learning]; Spring 2003 [Online Distance Learning], Spring 2002 [Campus])
  • (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/Athenian_Law.html)
  • Greek and Roman Medical Authors (Fall 2010)
    (Website:http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/G&R_Medical_Authors/ANCIENT_MEDICINE.html)
  • Palaeography and Textual Criticism in the Attic Orators (Special Topic, Spring 2003)
  • Lysias (Special Topic, Spring 2004)
  • Lucian (Fall 2008, Fall 2012)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/Lucian/Lucian.html)
  • Latin Christian Authors (Fall 2011 [scheduled: Online Distance Learning]; Summer Institute 2007)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/EC/Lactantius.html)
  • Greece and the Near East (Spring 2005: Two sections, one on Campus and one Online Distance Learning)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/GP/Persia_Greece.html)
  • Rapid Reading Latin (Fall 2006)
  • The Greek Novel: Chariton (Fall 2008)
  • Greek Prose Composition (Spring 2011; Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2005)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/GPC.html)
  • History and Methodology in Classical Scholarship (Spring 2008)
  • Byzantine Greek for Medievalists (Spring 2011, Fall 2010; Fall 2006)
  • Byzantine Hymnography. (Scheduled for Spring 2011)

b. Undergraduate Courses

  • Rome and Christianity (Spring 2014)
    (Website: http://users.clas.ufl.edu/kapparis/Rome_Christianity/R&C.html)
  • Trials from Classical Athens (Spring 2012)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/Trials/trials.html)
  • The Grandeur that was Rome (Summer 2011)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/Grandeur_Rome/Rome.html)
  • Gender and Sexuality in the Graeco-Roman World (Spring 2011; Spring 2008, Spring 2005)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/Gender/Gender.html)
  • Greek Women Authors: From Sappho to the present (Fall 2005 (Honors), Fall 2003 (Honors), Spring 2002 (Honors)
  • The Literature and Culture of Byzantium (Fall 2007; Spring 2012 [Scheduled])
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/byzantium/byzantium.html)
  • Greek Cities: Sparta (Fall 2011 [Scheduled]; Fall 2008)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/Sparta/Sparta1.html)
  • Greek Cities: Athens, Ancient and Modern (Fall 2004: Honors and Regular Sections, Fall 2002: Honors)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/AOC/Athindex.htm)
  • Classics and Science Fiction (Spring 2003)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/SCIFI/scifi.html)
  • Subversive Literature from Archilochos to Kazantzakis (Fall 2006, Fall 2005 (Honors), Fall 2001 (Honors))
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/CLT3930.html)
  • A Journey to the Land of the Gods (Modern Greek literature in translation) (Fall 2000, Honors)
    (http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/MGIntr.htm)
  • Greek Historians (Fall 2004, Fall 2001)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/GreekHistorians.html)
  • Attic Orators (Fall 2003, Spring 2001)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/AtticOrators.html)
  • Accelerated Beginners Ancient Greek I and II Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Summer 2004)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/BAG.html)
  • Intermediate Modern Greek (Fall 2000)
  • Greece Yesterday and Today (Spring 2009, 2008, 2003, 2002, 2001)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/GRYT/GYT.html)
  • Survey of Modern Greek Literature since 1830 (Spring 2007, Fall 2002, Spring 2001)
    (Website: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/kapparis/MGIntr.htm)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: THE QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST (1998-2000)
Ancient History:

Year 1: (Fall 1998, Fall 1999)

City states and superpowers (478-404 BCE)

Year 2: (Spring 1998, Spring 1999)

Greece and Macedon (404-338 BCE)

Athenian society through contemporary documents (Spring 1999)
(A study of inscriptions which illustrate Athenian law, society, daily life and institutions.)

Year 3: (Year-long course: 1998-1999; 1999-2000)

Athenian Law and Society

Classical Studies, Year 1 (Fall 1999)

Introduction to Classical Greek Literature and Culture

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (1997-8)

Classical Civilisation, Year 1:
Classical Civilisation Honours:
Greek 1:
Beginners Language (2 semesters)
Greek 2:
Language, Prose composition
Greek 3:
Aristophanes Wasps (in Greek), Menander Dyskolos (In Greek), Birds and Ekklesiazousai (in translation)
Greek Honours
Aristophanes Frogs (in Greek)

DISSERTATION SUPERVISION / GRADUATE COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES
(In reverse chronological order)

Current Students

  • Gian Vittorio Rossi’s Eudemia: Annotated Edition of Books 1-5, with an Introduction and Translation. Jennifer Nelson, Ph.D. Chair.
  • Musical Instruments and literary themes in Roman authors. April Spratley, Ph.D.,Chair
  • Literary perceptions of Prostitution in Roman Authors, Paloma Rodriguez, Ph.D. Chair
  • Lactantius, On the Anger of God (De ira dei), Tim Griffith, Ph.D. Chair.
  • Prokatalepsis in the Attic Orators, Todd Bohlander, Ph.D. Member
  • Solon the Poet, Solon the Lawgiver, Solon the Sage:
The Changing Narrative and Historical Personage of Solon of Athens, Andrew Clark, Ph.D. Member
  • Dedicatory and funerary epigrams in archaic and classical inscriptions, Maria Papaioannou, Ph.D. Member
  • Ovid’s Metamrphosesas a new type of comic theatre during the Augustan age. Emilie Jordan, Ph.D. Member. 

Graduated

  • Widows and Charity in the Early Church, Keith Wessel, Ph.D., Chair. Graduated 2017.
  • The Characters of Latin Declamation, Miller Krause, Ph.D., Chair. Graduated 2017.
  • Galen De Tremore, Introduction, Text and Commentary, Sara Agnelli, Ph.D., Chair. Graduated 2016
  • Pliny the Fabulist: Pliny the Elder and Animals as Role Models, Rachel Ash, MA, Chair. Graduated 2016.
  • The Expanding Body: Anatomical Vocabulary and its Dissemination in Classical Athens, Tyson Sukava, Ph.D. External (University of British Columbia), Graduated 2015.
  • Heresy and Historiography in the Late Roman Empire, Anna Lankina, Ph.D. External (History Department). Graduated 2015.
  • Imperial Titles for an Imagined Empire: Representing Authority in Greek and Latin Historical Writing of the Sixth Century. Danielle Reid, M.A. (History Department). Graduated 2015.
  • Coming Home to Drama: Alternative Paradigms of Nostos in Sophoklean Tragedy, David Hetrick, Ph.D. Graduated 2015.
  • Restoring the Past in the High Empire: the Sanctuary of Asclepius at Epidaurus, David Hoot, Ph.D. Graduated 2015.
  • Mors Honestissima: Cicero and the Contemplation of Suicide in the Late Republic. William Smith III, Ph.D. Graduated 2015.
  • Population Dynamics in Ancient Greek Civil Wars, Insurgencies, and Revolts: a Systems Approach to Stasis, Jeffrey Yeakel, Ph.D. Graduated 2014.
  • Byzantine Themata and Muslim Incursions, Sean Platzer (History Department), MA, Graduated 2014.
  • The Anatomy of Roman Epic: a study of poetic violence, James Lohmar, Ph.D. Graduated 2013.
  • Satire in the Historia Augusta, Shawn Daniels, Ph.D., Graduated 2013.
  • Historicizing Satire: Juvenal, Historiography, and Moralizing Discourse, Michael Ritter, D.
  • Effect and Ethos of Music in Greek and Roman Authors – Exposition and Evaluation, Andreas Kramarz, Ph.D, Graduated 2013.
  • Columella, Res Rustica 10: A Study and Commentary, David White, Ph.D. Graduated 2013.
  • “Quo Ruitis, Generosa Domus”: Memory and the Elegiac Model in Ovid”s Fasti, Robert Brewer, Ph.D. Graduated 2012
  • Women”s Work in Attic Comedy, Kat Klos, M.A. Chair. Graduated 2012
  • They Don”t All Look Alike: Body Modification and Ethnic Identity in Ancient Athens. Daniel Schneck, MA. Graduated 2011.
  • Missives and Missiles: Catullus as Invective poet, Bryan Sansbury, MA, Graduated 2011
  • The Rhetoric and Conceptualization of Enmity in the Attic Orators, Andrew Alwine, Ph.D. Graduated 2010.
  • The Roman voices of Lucian, Eleni Bozia, D., Co-Chair. Graduated 2009.
  • Hero Cult in Euripides, Rebecca Rohdenburg, A., Chair. Graduated 2009.
  • Unraveling Roman Identity: Propertius, Callimachus And Elegies 4.9-11, George Hendren, M.A. Graduated 2009.
  • Inventing the Comedian: Aristophanic self-definition through Barbarians, Kory Plockmeyer, M.A. Graduated 2009
  • The Strategy and Tactics of Piratical Attacks in Thucydides, Jeffrey Yeakel, M.A. Graduated 2009
  • The Complete Fragments of Ctesias of Knidos, translated with Introduction and Commentary, Andrew Nichols, D., Chair. Graduated 2008.
  • Ethnicity and Jewish Identity in Josephus, David McClister Ph.D., Chair. Graduated 2008.
  • The discourse of Masculinity in Demosthenes 21 and Aeschines 1, Seth Boutin, A.
  • Inventio Pindarica: The Altered Myths of Olympian 7, Pythian 1, Pythian 2, and Isthmian 8, Jay Arns, M.A. Graduated March 2008.
  • Nationhood and Greek Identity in 4th Century Sicily, Andrew Alwine, M.A. Graduated 2007.
  • Hippocrates Epidemics: Ancient and Modern Medical Practice, Antony Strazzula, M.A. Chair. Graduated 2007.
  • Women Outside the Palace: Euripidean Women and Their Space, Jeannie Nguyen, M.A. Graduated 2007.
  • An Unpublished Manuscript of Cicero’s Laelius de Amicitia, Cato Maior de Senectute and Paradoxa Stoicorum, Dustin Heinen, M.A.: Graduated April 2006.
  • Cicero”s Ideal Statesman in Theory and Practice, Jonathan Zarecki, Ph.D.
  • Relation of Gender to Inner Spaces in Euripides, Michael Wheeler, M.A.
  • Eunuchs in Greek and Roman Literature, Jennifer Blackwell, M.L. Chair.
  • Abortion in Augustan Rome, Amanda Austin, MA Latin. Chair.
  • Solon”s Legislation, Nicolaos Karkavelias, Supervisor, M.A. Ancient History (Queen”s University of Belfast).
  • Contraception and Abortion in Ancient Rome, Christina Nielsen, MA Social Anthropology. Internal Examiner (Queen”s University of Belfast).
  • Ancient Greek Medicine and Medical Ethics, Lisa Sen. M.A., Classical Studies. (University of Glasgow).

Undergraduate Honors Thesis

  • Medical Education in the Ancient Greek World, Blaine Helmich, 2016
  • A History of Malaria in the Epidemics of Hippocrates, Michael Schmoll, 2015.
  • Evolution of tactics from the Greek phalanx to the Roman Army, Harrison B. Powell (History Department, 2014).
  • The Female Patient
Women in the writings of Greco-Roman Medical Authors Lauren MacKinnon (Women’s Studies Center, 2014)