Dal's Classics Department brings the wisdom of the past into the classroom. But you'll also have the opportunity to participate in the department's rendition of the Pythian Games - the ancient Greek forerunner to the Olympics. Find out more about our Pythian Games competitions.
Engaging with the past in the present
Professors in Dalhousie's Department of Classics actively engage in publishing - and editing - scholarly articles in a wide range of research areas. Below is just a sample of some of our recent publications.
"Janamejaya's Last Question." Journal of Indian Philosophy 37 (6), 2009: 597-625.
"Draupadi'sFall: Snowballs, Cathedrals, and Synchronous Readings of the Mahabharata." International Journal of Hindu Studies 15 (1), 2011: 111-137.
"The Fructification of the Tale of a Tree: The Parijataharana in the Harivamsa and its Appendices." Journal of the American Oriental Society 133 (2), 2013: 249-268.
Dr. Eli Diamond
Mortal Imitations of Divine Life: The Nature of the Soul in Aristotle’s De Anima (Northwestern University Press, forthcoming 2014)
“Parallel Trials: The Dramatic Structure of Plato’s Euthyphro” in Classical Quarterly 62 (02): 523-531 (2012)
“The Relation Between the Divided Line and the Constitutions in Plato’s Republic,” in Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought, vol. 23, no. 1, 2006, pp. 74-94.
“Aristotle’s Appropriation of Plato’s Sun Allegory in De Anima” forthcoming in APEIRON.
“The Common Structure of Religion, Politics and Philosophy in Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus” in the on-line journal Animus, vol. 12, 2008.
Dr. Daniela Rodica Firanescu
“Ma‘ani al-kalam chez az-Zarkashi. Interrogation et performance,” Romano-Arabica, III. Bucharest: University of Bucharest, Centre for Arab Studies, 2004.
Exclamation in Modern Literary Arabic. A Pragmatic Perspective (doctorate thesis published in English). Bucuresti: Editura Universitatii Bucuresti, 2003.
Geneza cercurilor. Filiatia spirituala. (“The Genesis of the Circles. The spiritual filiations”), introductory study, notes and translation into Romanian of Ibn Arabi’s treatise “Kitab nasab al-khirqa.” Bucuresti: Kriterion (Bibliotheca Islamica), 2003.
“Le modalisateur aspectuel-temporel qam en arabe syrien.” Proceedings of the 5th Conference of AIDA, Cadiz (2002). Universidad de Cadiz Publicationes, 2003.
“De l’amour et la coquetterie en islam arabe médiéval. La perspective d’as-Suyuti,” Romano-Arabica, II. Bucharest : University of Bucharest, Center for Arab Studies, 2002.
Dr. Michael Fournier
“The Platonic Structure of Cicero’s Tusculanae.” Accepted for inclusion in Plato and Platonisms: The Constitution of a Tradition, eds. Mark Beck and Jan Opsomer, publisher TBA.
“Boethius and Homer,” The Downside Review 128 (2010): 183-204.
“Anselm’s Proslogion and the Problem of Writing in Plato’s Phaedrus,” The McNeese Review 48 (2010): 1-26.
“Ring Structure in Chapters Six to Thirteen of Anselm’s Proslogion,” Dionysius 27 (2009): 127-144.
“Seneca on Platonic Apatheia,” Classica et Mediaevalia 60 (2009): 211-36.
Dr. Leona MacLeod
"Dolos and Dike in Sophokles’ Elektra: An Ethical Study." Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2001.
“Marauding Maenads: The First Messenger Speech in the Bacchae.” Mnemosyne 59, 2006: 578-84.
"Recognizing Dionysos: The Second Messenger Speech in the Bacchae.” Scholia 17, 2008: 1-13.
In progress: A book on the narrative art of Greek tragedy.
Dr. Peter O'Brien
"Ammianus Marcellinus, the Caesar Julian, and Rhetorical Failure." Cahiers des Études Anciennes 50 (2013): 139-160.
“Constantian Rhetoric and Ammianus’ Transformation of Political Discourse.” Dialogues d’histoire ancienne suppl. 8 (2013): 211-248.
"La Franciade de Le Brun: Poétique Ovidienne de l'Exil en Nouvelle-France." Tangence no. 99 (2012): 35-60.
“An Unnoticed Reminiscence of Aeneid 10.517-20 at Ammianus Marcellinus 22.12.6,” Mnemosyne 60.4 (2007): 662-668.
“Ammianus Epicus: Virgilian Allusion in the Res Gestae,” Phoenix 60.3-4 (2006): 274-303.
Dr. Alexander Treiger
Inspired Knowledge in Islamic Thought: Al-Ghazālī’s Theory of Mystical Cognition and Its Avicennian Foundation (Culture and Civilization in the Middle East, 27). London: Routledge, 2012. (http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415783071)
The Orthodox Church in the Arab World (700-1700): An Anthology of Sources. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press (co-edited with S. Noble; forthcoming in 2014).
“Al-Ghazālī’s ‘Mirror Christology’ and Its Possible East-Syriac Sources.” Muslim World 101.4 (2011): 698-713.
“Avicenna’s Notion of Transcendental Modulation of Existence (taškīk al-wuğūd, analogia entis) and Its Greek and Arabic Sources,” in: F. Opwis and D.C. Reisman (eds.), Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion: Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas. Leiden: Brill, 2012, pp. 327-363.
“The Arabic Version of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite’s Mystical Theology, Chapter 1: Introduction, Critical Edition, and Translation,” Le Muséon 120.3-4 (2007): 365-393.
Dr. Emily Varto
“Of This Descent and Blood: Kinship in the Developing Greek Polis.”The Classics and Early Anthropology: A Companion to Classical Reception, edited by E. Varto. Brill. (edited volume, book manuscript in preparation; anticipated publication in January 2016)
“Interacting Ideas of Kinship and the Nature of Greek Influence on Orientalizing Pontecagnano.” In Griechen in Übersee und der historische Raum. Göttinger Studien zur Mediterranen Archäologie, Band 3, edited by Johannes Bergemann, p. 213-17. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2012.
“Lessons from the Demise and Renewal of Kinship Studies.” In Family and Life Course Studies, Rosetta: Papers of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham 8, 2010.
