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Lawrence Kowerski III
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Office: 1445 HW
Phone: (212) 772-5007
Fax: (212) 772-5138
email: lkowersk@hunter.cuny.edu
Specialties: Greek history and historiography, early Greek poetry (elegy
and lyric), Greek papyrology and epigraphy.
Image: Poxy 3965 frs.
1 and 2, the "new Simonides"
(fr.11.9-45 W2) taken from (here)
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Lawrence Kowerski received
his PhD. from Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey in 2003 with the dissertation, Simonides
on the Persian Wars: A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the “New Simonides.” He is currently revising this
dissertation for the Routledge Series
“Studies in Classics: Outstanding Dissertations” and expects
that it will appear in 2005. Besides Simonides,
he is currently working on projects concerning the opening hymns of the Theognidea and Herodotus’ account of Polykrates. His interests include early Greek poetry
(especially elegy and lyric), Greek historiography and the link between
prose history and poetic commemorations, papyrology,
and Greek epigraphy. He has taught at Hunter since 2003.
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Education
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Ph.D., Classics
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Rutgers University-2003
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M.A., Classics
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Rutgers University-2000
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B.A., Classics/English (Honors)
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Gettysburg College-1997
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Summer Session
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American School, Athens-2001
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Post-Baccalaureate, Classical
Studies
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University of Pennsylvania-1998
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Interests
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1) Early Greek Poetry
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3) Greek Tragedy
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2) Greek and Roman
Historiography
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4) Papyrology
and Epigraphy
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Dissertation
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Simonides on the Persian Wars: A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the
“New Simonides” (Advisor: Lowell Edmunds)
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Positions
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Hunter College (CUNY)
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Assistant Professor-2004 -
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Hunter College (CUNY)
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Visiting Assistant
Professor-2003-2004
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Rutgers University
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Lecturer*- 2002
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Teaching Assistant- 1998-2002
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*Through Rutgers-Brookdale Partnership at Monmouth County
satellite campus.
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Teaching at Hunter
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Classical Mythology
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CLA 101
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Greek and Latin Roots of English
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CLA 110
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Greek Civilization
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CLA 201
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Writing the Ancient Past (Historiography)
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CLA 307/HIST 341
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Greek History
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CLA 306
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Beginning Greek
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GRK 101
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Sophocles
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GRK 305
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Attic Orators
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GRK 307
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Honors
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Tytus Summer Residency
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University of Cincinnati
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2004
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Fulbright, IIE Fellowship
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American School of
Classical Studies in Athens
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2003-2004 (declined)
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Louis Bevier Fellowship
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Rutgers University
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2002-2003
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Dissertation Teaching
Assistantship
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Rutgers University
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2002-2003 (declined)
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Valergakis Fund grant for American
School
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Rutgers University
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2001
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Graduate School Teaching Assistantship
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Rutgers University
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1998-2002
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Publications
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Simonides on the Persian Wars: A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the
“New Simonides” (2005, forthcoming
in the Routledge series “Studies in
Classics: Outstanding Dissertations.”)
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Papers
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- “Commemoration and Praise: Some
Considerations of Genre in Simonides’
Verses on the Battle of Plataea
(Simon. fr. 11 W2).” CAAS, Spring
Meeting, New York,
2004.
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- “A Historical Elegy: Simonides
on the Battles of Artemisium and Salamis.”
APA Annual Meeting, New
Orleans, scheduled January, 2003.
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- “A Dialogic Moment: The Transition Between Prooimion and Narrative
at Iliad 1.8.” CAAS, Fall Meeting Philadelphia, 2002.
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- “Sulla and his Commentarii:
The Relationship between Ancient Autobiography and History.”
CAAS, Fall Meeting, Philadelphia,
2000.
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- “Originality and Reproduction: Sulla and
His Commentarii.” Authorship and the
Materiality of the Text, graduate student conference, Rutgers, 2000.
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Works In Progress
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“Reshaping Prooimia: A Strategy of Allusion in Theognidea 1-4.” An article on allusion in the Thegonidea.
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Professional Activities
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Head Librarian, Department of
Classics, Rutgers
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2001-2003
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Co-organizer, “Talking
Texts: Speaker and Addressee in the Ancient World,”
graduate student conference, Rutgers
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2002
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President, Classics Graduate
Student Association, Rutgers
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1999-2002
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Organizer, Classics Graduate
Student Association Lecture Series, Rutgers
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1999-2002
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Representative, Classics
Department, T. A. Liaisons Project, Rutgers
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1999
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