Nicholas F. Jones
PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1975
My areas of expertise, specialization, and current interest are Greek and Latin languages, classical philology, historiography, social history, Greek comedy, and gender studies. At the undergraduate level, I teach large classes in mythology, history, and gender studies as well as the Greek and Latin sequences. At the graduate level, recent seminars in Greek and Latin include Pliny’s Letters, Aristophanes and Menander, and Hesiod; and for the future I am contemplating a course on the historiography of Athens. All my work is textual, while drawing inspiration from the social sciences, literary theory, American history and culture, and Socratic introspection.
Most of my research has found its way into books on ancient Athens. My current project, nearing completion, is a textbook Politics and Society in Ancient Greece in the Praeger Series in the Ancient World. I am also one of the contributors to the Brill New Jacoby, a new English-language edition (Greek text, translation, and commentary) of Felix Jacoby’s Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. My assignment comprises 37 writers on Athens, including the Atthidographers Androtion and Philochorus. I will be working full time on the BNJ through the academic year 2011-2012.
Among my honors are fellowships from Fulbright, ACLS, and NEH, the last-mentioned held while in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Spring 2005 I was Hyde Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. My free-time personal pursuits include music, large format film photography, gardening, housekeeping, and various family activities.
Selected Books
- Public Organization in Ancient Greece. A Documentary Study, Philadelphia: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society 1987
- Ancient Greece: State and Society, Prentice Hall 1997
- The Associations of Classical Athens: The Response to Democracy, Oxford University Press 1999
- Rural Athens Under the Democracy, University of Pennsylvania Press 2004
Selected Articles
- “Perses, Work ‘in Season’, and the Purpose of Hesiod’s Works & Days,” CJ 79 (1984) 307-323
- “Enrollment Clauses in Greek Citizenship Decrees,” ZPE 87 (1991) 79-102
- “Pliny the Younger’s Vesuvius Letters (6.16 and 20),” CW 95 (2001) 31-48
- Contact Information
- Office: 1522 Cathedral of Learning
- Phone: (412) 624-4475
- E-mail: nfjones@pitt.edu
- Office Hours, spring 2008
- Before and after class; by appointment; by email (voice mail discouraged)
spring Term 2008 Courses
| Course Listing | Name | Days | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classics 0034/0035/Relgst 0788 | Men and Women in the Ancient Mediterranean (+Writ Practicum) | MWF | 2:00-2:50 pm | LAWRN 105 |
| Classics 1210/Hist 1783 | Greek History | MWF | 3:00-3:50 pm | CL G24 |
