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Kenneth Rothwell

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    I am Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where I have taught since 1995.
    My research has largely focused on Aristophanes and ancient Greek comedy. I am the author of two monographs: Politics and Persuasion in Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990), based on my Columbia dissertation, and Nature, Culture and the Origins of Greek Comedy: A Study of Animal Choruses (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007; paperback 2010).
    I was the editor and translator of Federico Borromeo, Sacred Painting and Museum. I Tatti Renaissance Library, Vol. 44. Harvard Univ. Press, 2010), with introduction and notes by Pamela M. Jones (also of UMass Boston, Department of Art, and my wife). More recently, I completed an edition of Aristophanes' Wasps for the Oxford Greek and Latin College Commentary series (2019).

    I am now working on a book on the human body in Greek drama, comparing Aristophanes and Greek tragedy.

    In addition to teaching a large number of upper-level classes on Greek and Latin authors, I regularly offer introductory courses on Athenian Democracy, Greek & Roman Mythology, and Magic & Science in Greece & Rome. In recent years I have taught seminars on Herodotus, Thucydides, Greek Lyric poetry, and a course on Homer's Odyssey in which all students were military veterans.
    I recently served as President of the Classical Association of Massachusetts (see under "Links").

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