Curriculum Vitae
PETER M. GREEN
Adjunct Professor, Department of Classics
and Editor, Syllecta Classica

Business Address:
404 Jefferson Building
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Phone: 319-335-0327
E-mail: peter-green-1@uiowa.edu

Education

1950-1954 Ph.D. in Classics, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
1947-1950 B.A. in Classics, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
1954 M.A. [granted automatically four years after B.A.]


Scholarships & Prizes

1949-1950 Prizes for Latin and Greek Verse, and Greek Prose, Composition ; English Essay Prize
1950 Craven University Scholarship and Studentship


Academic Career

1966-1971 Lecturer in Greek History and Literature, College Year in Athens
1971-1972 Visiting Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
1972-1982 Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
1982-1997 James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin; 1997-, Emeritus
1976 Visiting Professor of Classics, U.C.L.A.
1986 Mellon Chair in Humanities, University of Tulane
1997-1998 Visiting Professor of History, University of Iowa
1998- Adjunct Professor of Classics, The University of Iowa
1999- Editor, Syllecta Classica, The University of Iowa
1999 Visiting Professor of History, College Year in Athens
2004 King Charles II Distinguished Visiting Professor in Classics and Ancient History, East Carolina University


Academic Honors

1983-1984 N.E.H. Senior Fellowship for Individual Study and Resarch
2001 Visiting Fellow and Writer-in-Residence, Hellenic Program, Princeton University

 

Recent Publications

Articles

' War and Morality in Fifth-Century Athens: The Case of Euripides' Trojan Women': Ancient History Bulletin 13.3 (1999) 97-110.

'The Sicilian Expedition: The fate of the Athenians debated: Diod. Sic. 13.19-33', Arion 7.2 (1999) 64-78.

'Pergamon and Sperlonga: A Historian's Reactions', in: From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context, ed. N.T. de Grummond, B.S. Ridgway (Berkeley 2000) 166-190.

'Delivering the Go(o)ds: Demetrius Poliorcetes and Hellenistic Divine Kingship', in: Gestures: Essays in Ancient History, Literature and Philosophy presented to Alan L. Boegehold. Ed. G.W. Bakewell & J.P. Sickinger (Oxford 2003) 258-277.

'Politics, Philosophy and Propaganda: Hermias of Atarneus and his Friendship with Aristotle', in: Crossroads of History: The Age of Alexander. Ed. W. Heckel & L.A. Tritle (Claremont, CA 2003) 31-48.

'Occupation and coexistence: the impact of Macedon on Athens, 323-307', in The Macedonians in Athens, 339-329 BC, ed. O. Palagia, S. V. Tracy (Oxford 2003) 1-6.

Books

From Ikaria to the Stars: Classical Mythification, Ancient and Modern. University of Texas Press, 2004.

Ovid: the poems of exile. Tristia and the Black Sea Letters. University of California Press, 2005.

The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition. University of California Press, 2005.

Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1: Greek History 480-431 B.C.-The Alternative Version. University of Texas Press, 2006.

The Hellenistic Age: A Short History. Random House, 2007.

Recent Talks and Lectures

"Magic and the principle of apparent causality in Pliny's Natural History", Carleton University, Ottawa, 21 March 2004.

"The Enigma from Agyrion: Coming to terms with Diodorus Siculus", University of Ottawa, 22 March 2004; Duke University, 15 Nov. 2004.

"Alexander the Great: Icon and Enigma": The 23rd Lawrence F. Brewster Lecture in History. East Carolina University, 10 Nov. 2004.

"Possession and Pneuma: The essential nature of the Delphic oracle", Conference, "Myth after Logos", Ikaria, Greece, 19 June 2005.

Recent Courses Taught

"Herodotus and the Greco-Persian Wars", HIST 5005, East Carolina University, Fall Semester, 2004.

"Alexander the Great and his Age", HIST 5005, East Carolina University, Spring Semester, 2006.

September 2007