Kemezis, Adam
Assistant Professor
Department of History and Classics
University of Alberta
Ph.D - University of Michigan (2006)
AB - Stanford University (1999)
Office and Hours:
Tory Bldg. 2-41
M 10-11, W 1-2, or by appointment or by chance
E-Mail: kemezis@ualberta.ca
Office Phone: 780-492-2588
Professional Interests
-- Ancient Historiography
-- Greek Literature of Roman Empire
-- Political and Cultural History of Roman Empire (esp. 2c-3c AD)
Current and prospective students who are interested in doing graduate work or undergraduate theses in any of these areas, or in Roman prose literature more generally, are encouraged to contact me.
Courses
Current Courses (Winter Semester 2011)
Latin 104 - Beginner's Latin II (syllabus)
Classics 102 - Greco-Roman Mythology (syllabus)
Past Courses
Latin 101 - Beginner's Latin I (syllabus)
Latin 301 - Intermediate Latin (syllabus)
Latin 488/510 - Cicero (syllabus)
Classics 103 - Intro to Ancient Greece (syllabus)
Classics 104 - Intro to Ancient Rome (syllabus)
Classics 221 - Literature of Greece and Rome (syllabus)
Classics 283 - Introductory Roman History II (syllabus)
Classics 360 - Ancient Historiography (syllabus)
Classics 399 - Greco-Roman Warfare (syllabus)
Publications and Scholarly Activity
Articles:
"Commemoration of the Antonine Aristocracy in Cassius Dio and the Historia Augusta." Forthcoming in Classical Quarterly.
"Narrative of Cultural Geography in Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists," in Perceptions of the Second Sophistic and its Times - Regards sur la seconde sophistique et son époque, Thomas Schmidt and Pascale Fleury, eds. Toronto, 2011.
"Lucian, Fronto and the Absence of Contemporary History under the Antonines," in American Journal of Philology 131 (2010) 285-325.
"Augustus the Ironic Paradigm: Cassius Dio's Portrayal of the Lex Julia and Lex Papia Poppaea," in Phoenix 61 (2007): 270-85.
Entries "Commodus" and "Philip the Arab" in Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Reviews:
Kristoffel Demoen and Danny Praet (eds.), Theios Sophistes: Essays on Flavius Philostratus' Vita Apollonii. In BMCR Oct. 2009.
Christopher P. Jones (ed.), Philostratus. Apollonius of Tyana: Letters of Apollonius; Ancient Testimonia; Eusebius's Reply to Hierocles. Loeb Classical Library, 458. In BMCR July 2007.
Peter Michael Swan, The Augustan Succession: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History, Books 55-56 (9 B.C. - A.D. 14). In BMCR Mar. 2005.
Book Project:
Rewriting Dynasties: Greek Narratives of Roman History under the Severans. Manuscript in progress.
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