Jim Marks
Department of Classics
University of Florida

125 Dauer Hall, PO Box 117435
Gainesville, FL 32611
jmarks@ufl.edu
phone: 352-379-2075
fax: 352-836-0297

research interests
ancient Greek and Roman epic poetry, ancient religion

employment
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Florida, 2004-present
Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in classics, University of Chicago, 2002-2004
Lecturer in classics, University of Texas at Austin, 2001-2002

education
University of Texas at Austin, 1996-2001.  Ph.D. in classics, 2001
Michigan State University, 1986-1989.  M.S. in microbiology, 1989
Washington State University, 1982-1986.  B.S. in microbiology, 1986

courses
Greek
Beginning Greek (GRE1130/1131)
Survey of Ancient Greek Poetry (GRW2220)
New Testament Greek (GRW2250)
Survey of Ancient Greek Literature (GRW3102)
Ancient Greek Historians (GRW4380)
Homeric Epic (GRW6905/4340, GRW6347)
Non-Homeric Epic (GRW6384)

Latin
Cicero (LNW3644)
Virgil (LNW2321, LNW3660)
Ovid's Metamorphoses (LNW3320)
Survey of Latin Poetry (LNW3930)
Caesar's Bellum Civile (LNW3380)

Classics in Translation
Ancient Greek and Roman Epic (CLT3340, CLA3930)
Ancient Graeco-Roman Religion (CLT3371)
The Glory That Was Greece (CLA2100)


 publications
Marks, J. 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. Cambridge 2006. 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.

conference papers and talks
"The Tyrant as Textual Critic: constructions of authority in Homeric recension myths."  Classical Association of the Middle West and South, March 2006
“Nestor's Nostoi [Odyssey 3.103-312] as a model for Homeric composition.”  American Philological Association, January 2004
“The Case of Hesiod v. Perses [Works and Days 27-382].”  Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, University of Chicago, January 2003
“Who's in Charge Here?  Zeus and Demeter in the Second Homeric Hymn.”  Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, April 2002
“An Aitolian Odyssey: Odyssey 14 and West-Greek Epichoric Tradition.”  American Philological Association, January 2002
“Thersites euêgenês: the social status of the 'worst of the Achaeans.'”  Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2001
“Panhellenism and Intertext: the junction between the Iliad and the Kypria.”  Aspects of Epic conference, Yale University, April 2000
“The Dios boulê in the Odyssey.”  Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 1998