Jim
Marks
Department
of Classics
University
of Florida
139 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 (GRW647)
Non-Homeric Epic
(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)
Classics
in
Translation
Ancient Greek and
Roman Epic (CLT3930, CLA3930)
Ancient Graeco-Roman
Religion (CLT3371)
The Glory That Was Greece (CLA2100)
publications
forthcoming (2010):
"Context as hypertext: divine rescue scenes in the Iliad." in Homeric Hypertextuality: a Walter
de Gruyter Trends in Classics Special Issue.
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.