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Andrew Porter

Andrew Porter

  • Professor, History (Classics, Greek, & Latin)

Education

  • Ph.D., Classical Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia, (2004-2007)
  • M.A., Classical Languages, University of Missouri-Columbia (2002-2004)
  • M.A., Classics, Dalhousie University, Canada (1997-2000)
  • M.Div., Hon., Biblical Languages and Literature, Acadia Divinity College, Canada (1986-1989)
  • B.A. Double Major, History; Classics, Acadia University, Canada (1983-1986; 1995-1997)

Published Monographs

  • 2022 Homer and the Epic Cycle: Recovering the Oral Traditional Relationship (Brill).
  • 2019 Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer (Harvard University Press).

Books Nearing Completion

  • 2027 The Ancient Origins and Rising Threats to American Democracy
  • 2027 A Student's Greek Grammar of Syntax and Morphology: Homeric, Classical, and New Testament  
  • 2027 Select Readings from the Attic Orators: The Earliest Court, Assembly, and Public Speeches in the Western World

Office Hours

Tuesdays and Thursdays 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. in Holton Hall 324.

Courses Taught

  • CLASSIC 170 - Classical Mythology
  • CLASSIC 201 - Classical Civilization
  • CLASSIC 304 - Epic Questions
  • LATIN 205 - Third Semester Latin
  • GREEK 103 -  First Semester Greek
  • GREEK 502 - Greek Poetry, the Oresteia

Teaching Interests

V.  infra, Research Interests

Research Interests

  • Ancient Democracy, Institutions of Ancient Greek Poleis
  • Greek Grammar & Lexicography; Greek Pedagogy
  • The Attic Orators
  • Greek Epic
  • New Testament
  • US History
  • Greek Drama 
     

Related Activities

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Victor Davis Hanson. 2002, Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power. Anchor Books.

Sowell, Thomas. 2023. Social Justice Fallacies. Basic Books. 

Bonhhoeffer, Dietrich. 1997 (1937). The Cost of Discipleship. Touchstone.

 
Comic Relief (a Conservative Comic):
 
As one conservative comedian put it, “They had diversity training at work. Thank God! Before I took diversity Training, I was treating everyone the same.”
 
Favorite Songs:
 
"When holden' hands meant something baby"
 

Other Employment History

  • Ancient Language Instruction among Home Schoolers

Biographical Sketch

V. Surpa

Selected Publications

Porter, Andrew. 2022 Homer and the Epic Cycle: Recovering the Oral Traditional Relationship (Brill)
Porter, Andrew. 2019 Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer (Harvard CHS)