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Associate Professor David Christenson

Department of Classics
Learning Services Building, Room 220
1512 E. First St.
PO Box 210105
Tucson, AZ 85721-0105

Telephone: 520-621-5326

Fax: 520-621-3678

christed@email.arizona.edu

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Research Interests:

  • Greek and Roman Theater
  • Augustan Poetry
  • Ancient Novel
  • Greek Athletics 

Major Publications:

Journal Articles:

  • Articles on Cicero, Plautus, Vergil, and the Greek Novel.

Courses Taught at the U of A:

  • Classics 195, Freshmen Colloquium (Ancient and Modern Comedy)
  • Classics 240, Ancient Athletics
  • Classics 250B, Latin Literature in Translation
  • Classics 596a, Graduate Seminar (Ancient Festival Performances)
  • Classics 299, 499, 599, Independent Studies (various topics)
  • Greek 102, Elementary Greek II
  • Greek 402/502, Reading Course (Herodotus, Longus)
  • Greek 402/502, Reading Course (Aristophanes)
  • Greek 402/502, Reading Course (Hesiod & Archaic Lyric Poetry)
  • Greek 299, 499, 599, Independent Studies (various authors, genres, and topics)
  • Latin 101, Elementary Latin I
  • Latin 112, Intensive Summer Latin I
  • Latin 201, Intermediate LatinI
  • Latin 202, Intermediate Latin II
  • Latin 212, Intensive Summer Latin II
  • Latin 400, Republican Prose
  • Latin 401/501, Reading Course (Roman Satire)
  • Latin 401/501, Reading Course (Lucretius)
  • Latin 401/501, Reading Course (Plautus)
  • Latin 401/501, Reading Course (Terence)
  • Latin 413/513, Augustan Literature
  • Latin 426/526, Roman Historians
  • Latin 299, 399, 499, 599, Independent Studies (various authors, genres, topics and pedagogy)

    M.A. Thesis Committees Directed or Served:

  • Cohn, Maggie, Rethinking Rage: The Philosophical and Rhetorical Context for Umbricius' Anger in Satire 3 of Juvenal (2008)
  • Kearns, Catherine, The Gardens of Roman Gaul (2008)
  • Jacobson, Sarah, Illa mihi sedes: The Domus in c. 68 of Catullus (2007)
  • Schrepfer-Tarter, Amy, Vocabulary Learning Modules in the Secondary Latin Classroom (2007)
  • Williams, Joey, Laboring at the Edges of Empire: The Division of Labor in Romano-British Pottery Workshops (2007)
  • Cohen, Holly, Spes Surgentis Iuli: Ascanius in the Carthage Episode (2005)
  • Smith, Damon, An Interpretation of the Greek Infancy Gospel of Thomas (2004)
  • McCarthy, Ryan, Vrbs Oritur: The Parilia Meets Politics in the Age of Augustus (2004)
  • Jorgensen, Amanda, Ovid's Myrrha Episode: Intratext, Intertext, Context (2004)
  • Rivera, Mark, A Political Interpretation of Aeschylus's Eumenides (2004)
  • DeLeeuw, Jason, The Geography and Ethnography of Ancient Iberia in Greek and Roman Authors before the Arab Invasion (2003)
  • Ivanyi, Cord, Nihil sub Sole Novum: A Consideration of What the Past Says about the Present in American Education (2003)
  • Showalter, Jesse, The Apple's Role: Acontius and Cydippe in Latin Love Elegy (2003)
  • Trinacty, Christopher, A Poetics of Desire: A Comparative Study of the Hylas Myth (2000)
  • LaBarge, Scott, Two for the Price of One: Aristotle on Simultaneous Learning (1999).

     

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