University of Pittsburgh
Nicholas F. Jones

Nicholas F. Jones

PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1975

(Undergraduate Advisor 2009-10)

My areas of expertise, specialization, and current interest are Greek and Latin languages, classical philology, historiography, social history, Greek comedy, and gender studies. Nearly all my work—teaching and research alike—is essentially textual, while drawing inspiration from the social sciences, literary theory, American history and culture, and Socratic introspection.

At the undergraduate level, I teach lecture classes in classical mythology, Greek and Roman history, and gender studies as well as the Greek and Latin sequences.  Cooperating in Classics 0030 is my wife, Marilyn Morgan Jones, who teaches a contrasting version of “Mythology in the Ancient World.”  Also a product of University of California at Berkeley (BA Classics 1969, MA Latin 1971), Marilyn was a student at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (1967-1968) and a student and traveler with me in Greece (1973-1975) as well.

At the graduate level, my 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.

Most of my research has found its way into books dealing exclusively or in major part with classical Athens.  The most recent, Politics and Society in Ancient Greece, joins other titles in the Praeger Series on the Ancient World.  At present, I am at work as one of the contributors to the Brill New Jacoby, an English-language re-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 Philochoros.  I expect to be working full time on the BNJ through the academic year 2011-2012.  Other on-going projects include several articles for Oxford’s Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome and for the online/print Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History. 

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 large format film photography and darkroom, music, gardening, housekeeping, and various family activities.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

 

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
  • Politics and Society in Ancient Greece, Praeger Series on the Ancient World 2008
Selected Articles
  • “Perses, Work ‘in Season’, and the Purpose of Hesiod’s Works & Days,” CJ 79 (1984) 307-323
  • “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, fall 2009
Before and after class; by appointment; by email (voice mail discouraged)
fall Term 2009 Courses
Course Listing Name Days Time Location
Class 0030/Relgst0083 Myth in the Ancient World MW 2:00-2:50 p.m. CL G24
Greek 1404/2104 Greek Reading:Comedy W 3:00-5:30 p.m. CL 1518
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