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Faculty

Degrees: B.A., Queens College (City University of New York): History M.A., M.Phil., PhD., Yale University: Classics

Research Interests:
Religions of the Roman Empire; Roman provincial identities; the art, archaeology, and epigraphy of Roman Dacia; discourses on conquest, power, and identity in the Roman world, as reflected in literary, epigraphic, and visual media.

Teaching interests:
Latin Language and Literature; Roman History and Historiography; Greco-Roman and Near-Eastern Mythology; Classical Tragedy; Greek and Roman Epic Poetry; Women and Gender in the Greco-Roman World.

Brian Lavelle

Title/s:  Professor Emeritus

Email: blavell@luc.edu

Degrees

B.A., University of California San Diego

M.A., University of California Davis

Ph.D., University of British Columbia

Research Interests

Archaic Greece, Greek tyranny, Athenian democracy

Selected Publications

  • Archaic Greece: the Age of New Reckonings (Wiley-Blackwell).
  • "Peisistratidae," in C. Barron, ed. The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell).
  • "Hippokleides, the 'Dance,' and the Panathenaia," GRBS 54 (2014) 314-41.
  • "Tyranny," in M. Gagarin, ed. Oxford Encyclopaedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford, 2010).
  • "Peisistratos," in M. Gagarin, ed. Oxford Encyclopaedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford, 2010).
  • "The Tyrant-Slayers," in M. Gagarin, ed. Oxford Encyclopaedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford, 2010).