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thomas.scanlon@ucr.edu

THOMAS SCANLON
Department Chair and Director of the Linguistics and Comparative Ancient Civilizations
Chair and Professor, Classics/Comparative Ancient Civilizations/Comparative Literature
Ph.D. in Classics, Ohio State University, 1978

Tom Scanlon’s teaching interests encompass most areas of Greek and Roman literature and culture, including courses on religion, gender, mythology, ancient sports, and most genres of Greek and Latin literature.  He has taught graduate seminars on the Roman Historians, Thucydides, and Sallust.  His research specializations include ancient Greek and Roman historical writing, Greek and Roman Sports, Gender and Sexuality, and Religion in the ancient world.  He is a founder and former director of the Tri-Campus Graduate Program in Classics (UCI, UCR, UCSD), and a founder and current director of the UCR B.A. major program in Comparative Ancient Civilizations.  His major recent publication is Eros and Greek Athletics (Oxford UP, 2002).

Professor Scanlon’s favorite recent courses taught are “War and Imperialism in the Ancient World” (with parallels between Rome and the modern US) and “Sexuality and Gender in the Ancient World”. His favorite Greek island is Naxos (with or without Ariadne.) Ancient authors he would want if he were stranded on a deserted island include (in alphabetical order): Aristophanes, Catullus, Euripides, Herodotus, Homer, Plato, Sallust, Sappho, Sophocles, Thucydides, Vergil. On second thought . . . he’ll take his laptop and have the TLG and PHI (Greek and Latin) CDs on the island. His favorite European city is a toss-up between London and Athens. His favorite Non-European city is a toss-up among Tunis, Marrakech, and Varanasi.

Professor Scanlon's Curriculum Vitae