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)