2012-01-01
- It is our great pleasure to announce that Professor Brian Walters, currently visiting, will be joining us permanently. He has just accepted our offer of a tenure-track position.
Professor Walters, PhD University of California at Los Angeles (2011), is a specialist in Latin Prose Literature (Violence in Cicero). He holds a visiting appointment at our Department this year. He is in the process of...
2012-01-01 - After fending off Persia in the fifth century BCE, Athens assumed a leadership position in the Aegean world. Initially it led the Delian League, a military alliance against the Persians, but eventually the league evolved into an empire with Athens in control and exacting tribute from its former allies. Athenians justified this subjection of their allies by emphasizing their fairness and...