Jeremy McInerney

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Professor of Classical Studies; Faculty Co-Director, Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies

Education:

  • PhD, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
  • MA, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
  • BA (Honors), Diploma of Education, Macquarie University, 1980

Research interests:

  • Greek epigraphy
  • Greek social and political history
  • Greek sanctuaries

Selected publications:

  • Cattle of the Sun: Herding and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece (2010)
  • The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis (1999)
  • Blackwell's Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean (2014) 
  • (With Ineke Sluiter) Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity (2016)
  • A New History of Ancient Greece (2018)

Courses taught:

  • Undergraduate
    • Greek History
    • Demosthenes
    • Greek World after Alexander
    • Rhetoric and the Community
    • Religion and the Polis
  • Graduate
    • Problems in Greek History
    • Greek Epigraphy
    • Polybius
    • Greek Sanctuaries

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