Jim
Marks
Department
of Classics
University
of Florida
380 Dauer Hall,
PO
Box 117435
Gainesville, FL
32611
jmarks@ufl.edu
phone: 352-392-2075
fax: 352-846-0297
research
interests
archaic Greek
poetry, Greek and
Roman epic, ancient religion
employment &
education
Visiting Assistant
Professor, University of Florida, 2004-present
Mellon
Postdoctoral
Fellow in classics, University of Chicago, 2002-2004
PhD in Classics,
University of Texas
at Austin, 2001
courses
Greek
Beginning Greek
(GRE1130/1131)
Survey of Ancient Greek Poetry (GRW2220)
New
Testament Greek
(GRW2250)
Survey of Ancient
Greek Prose (GRW3102)
Ancient Greek
Historians
(GRW4380)
Homer & Greek
Epic-Undergraduate (GRW
4340)
Homeric
Epic-Graduate (GRW6347-Odyssey); (GRW6347-Iliad)
Non-Homeric
Epic (Hesiod, Homeric Hymns)-Graduate (GRW6384)
Latin
Cicero (LNW3644)
Virgil (LNW2321, LNW3660)
Ovid's Metamorphoses
(LNW3320)
Survey of Latin Poetry (LNW3930)
Caesar's Bellum
Civile (LNW3930)
The Latin Novel (LNW 3220)
Roman Elegy & Lyric (LNW3320)
Classics
in
Translation
Ancient Greek and
Roman Epic (CLT3930, CLA3930)
Ancient Graeco-Roman
Religion (CLT3371)
The Glory That Was Greece (CLA2100)
Jason & The Argonauts: An Epic Adventure From Ancient Greece (IDH1391)
publications
2012. "Arkhous Au
Nêôn Ereô:
A Programmatic Function of the Iliadic Catalogue of Ships." in Montanari, Franco, Antonios Rengakos and Christos Tsagalis, edd. Homeric contexts: neoanalysis and the interpretation of oral poetry. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 101-114.
2011. review of
Jenny Strauss Clay, Homer's Trojan
Theater: Space, Vision, and Memory in the Iliad. BMCR 2011.08.23.
2011. review of Deborah Steiner, Homer.
Odyssey Books XVII and XVIII.
New England Classical Journal
38.3: 195-197.
2011.
review of Alex Purves, Space and
Time in Ancient Greek Narrative.
New England Classical Journal 38.1:53-55.
2010. "Inset
Narratives in the Epic Cycle." Classics@
Volume 6: Efimia Karakantza, ed. The Center for Hellenic Studies
of Harvard University.
2010.
"Context as hypertext: divine rescue scenes in
the Iliad." in Homeric Hypertextuality. Trends
in Classics Vol. 2 No.2: 300-322.
2009. review of Bruce Heiden, Homer's
Cosmic Fabrication: Choice and Design in the Iliad. New England Classical Journal 36.4:
274-6.
2008.
Zeus
in the Odyssey. Center for Hellenic Studies/Harvard
University Press.
2008. review of Margalit Finkelberg, Greeks
and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition. Classical Bulletin
83.2: 259-61.
2005.
“The
ongoing neikos: Thersites, Odysseus and Achilleus.” American
Journal of Philology 126.1: 1-31.
2003.
“Alternative
Odysseys: the case of Odysseus and Thoas.” Transactions
of the American Philological Association 133: 209-26.
2002.
“The
junction between the Kypria and the Iliad.” Phoenix
56: 1-24.