Dr. Donald Lateiner

Contact Information

Office: Sturges 216
Phone: 740-368-3575
E-mail: dglatein@owu.edu
Web Site: http://go.owu.edu/~dglatein/

Specialty

Homeric and Ovidian Epics, Greek historiography, especially Herodotus and Thucydides, Ancient Novels, especially Apuleius’ and Heliodorus’

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University
M.A., Cornell University, Stanford University
B.A., University of Chicago

Biography

Professor Lateiner joined Ohio Wesleyan’s faculty in 1979 and is the John R. Wright Professor of Classics. He earned his B.A. in History from the University of Chicago, M.A.s in History and Classics from Cornell and Stanford, and his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford. Study for a year at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens led to publications on Athenian law and politics, and on the Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides. Dr. Lateiner teaches Greek and Latin language and literature courses. He also has taught courses on folklore, archaeology, ancient epic and love and sexuality through the ages. He has written two books: The Historical Method of Herodotus and Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic and edited and annotated Barnes & Noble editions of the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides.

Courses Taught

GREE 110-111, Introduction to Classical Greek
GREE 491, Directed Readings
HMCL 122, Myth, Legend, and Folklore
HMCL 200.2, Epic and Anti Epic
HMCL 222, Archaeology of Ancient Greece and Rome
HMCL 250, The Ancient Novel
HMCL 251, Women in Antiquity
HMCL 310, Literature and Thought of Ancient Greece
LATI 110-111, Introduction to Latin
LATI 225, Continuing Latin
LATI 491, Directed Readings

Major Publications

The Historical Method of Herodotus (1988)

Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic (1995)

Edited and annotated Barnes & Noble editions:

• The Histories of Herodotus (2004)
• Thucydides’ The Peloponnesian War (2006)

In addition, he is the author of over sixty articles in learned journals and over 100 book reviews.

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