Associate Professor
210G Ellis Hall
Tel. (740) 597-2104
E-mail: andrewsj@ohio.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley (1988)
Specializations
- Greek Language and Literature
- Thucydides and Greek History
- Athenian Democracy
Courses Taught
- Greek and Latin (all levels)
- CLAS 234: Classical Mythology
- CLAS 311: Gods and Heroes in Greek Epic
- CLAS 313: Greek Sophists and Orators
Research and Publications
My principal area of research is Thucydides as author and historian. In the past I’ve focused on Thucydides as source for fifth-century Athenian democracy. At present I am studying how close examination of democratic ideology in Thucydides helps us to understand the historian’s overall account of Athenian imperialism and the Peloponnesian War. Related to this is a paper which I will present at an American Philological Association panel on “Thucydides and the Discourse of International Relations.”
“Cleon’s Ethopoetics” in Classical Quarterly 44 (1994) 26-39. [Link to full text via JSTOR; restricted access]
“Audience and Ideology in Democratic Athens,” in J.M. Labiano Ilundain, et al., edd., Actas del II Congreso: Rétorica, Política e Ideología (Salamanca 1998)
“Cleon’s Hidden Appeals” in Classical Quarterly 50 (2000)
“Pericles on the Athenian Constitution: Thucydides 2.37″ in the American Journal of Philology 125 (2004)
“Athenagoras and Factional Rhetoric (Thuc. 6.38-40)” (forthcoming).