Jim
Marks
Department
of Classics
University
of Florida
258 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)
Ovid's Love Poetry (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.