James Jan Sullivan

Visiting Assistant Professor

Office: Jones Hall 308 D

Department of Classical Studies

Jones Hall 210

Tulane University

New Orleans, LA 70118

Office phone: 504-247-1356

jsulliv1@tulane.edu


EDUCATION:

B.A. Columbia University 2001
M.A. University of Chicago 2002
Ph.D. University of Chicago 2007

Dissertation: Thucydides Politicus: The Political Dimension of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.


TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Athenian Democracy; Greek Political Thought; Modern Theory of Democracy; Athenian Tragedy; Thucydidean Historiography.


PUBLICATIONS:

Under Review: "Some Thoughts on Line 1202 of the Theognidea."

Forthcoming: "The Role of the Herald Talthybius in Euripides' Trojan Women" in Mnemosyne.

Review of R. Osborne "The Old Oligarch" LACTOR 2, 2nd Edition, BMCR 2005.07.79.


PAPERS:

"The Trierarchy in Thucydides" 2007 APA Annual Meeting, San Diego, Greek Historiography session, January 7, 2007.

"Thucydides and Athenian Democracy" Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago, June 1, 2006.


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