Andrew Alwine
Associate Professor and Chair of Classics
Education
Ph.D., Classical Philology, University of Florida, 2010
M.A., Classical Philology, University of Florida, 2006
B.A., History and Classics, Baylor University, 2004
Research Interests
Greek history (especially politics and law); Greek oratory; ancient historiography.
Courses Taught
Ancient Greek (GREK) at all levels
Latin (LATN) at all levels
History (HIST): “Ancient Greece,” “Politics and Society in Ancient Greece,” “Ancient Rome,” “Alexander the Great,” "Democracy in the Golden Age of Greece"
Classics in translation (CLAS): “Greek Civilization,” “History of the Classical World,” "Epic," “Classical Greece” (study abroad course)
Freshman Seminar (FYSM): “Citizenship: Ancient and Modern”
Publications
Book
2015. Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens. University of Texas Press.
Articles
2018. “The Soul of Oligarchy: The Rule of the Few in Ancient Greece.” TAPA 148.2: 235-267.
2016. “Freedom and Patronage in the Athenian Democracy,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 136: 1-17.
2011. “A Hyperbolic Statement: Propertius IV.1.38,” Philologus 155.2: 379–382
2009. “The Non-Homeric Cyclops in the Homeric Odyssey,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 49: 323–333.
Reviews
2018. Robin Waterfield, Creators, Conquerors, and Citizens: A History of Ancient Greece (Classical Review)
2018. James Murphy (ed.), Demosthenes’ On the Crown: Rhetorical Perspectives (Bryn Mawr Classical Review)
2013. Robin Osborne, Athens and Athenian Democracy (Classical Bulletin)
Presentations
2018. “Xenophon on the Thirty." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
2017. "Oligarchy in Ancient Greece." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
2016. "Representative Democracy in Late Classical Greece." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
2016. "Patronage and the Athenian Democracy." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
2013. "The Importance of Being Honest: Truth in the Attic Courtrooms." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
2012. "Violence and Revenge in Athenian Society." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
2011. "The Rhetoric of Enmity." Annual Meeting of the American Philological Society.
2010. "Enmity and Probability in the Attic Orators." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
2010. "Ancient and Modern Character Assassination." Florida State Latin Forum.
2008. "The Oligarchic Ideology of Freedom in Fifth-Century Greece." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
2007. "The Non-Homeric Side of the Homeric Cyclops." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
2006. "The Role of Daphnis in Vergil's Eclogues." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
2006. "Preference for Authoritarianism in Fourth-Century Syracuse." Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.