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Andrew Porter

Andrew Porter

  • Professor, History (Classics, Greek, & Latin)
  • Professor and Member of the Graduate Studies Committee, History

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

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

Books Nearing Completion

  • 2027 The Ancient Origins and Rising Threats to America and Other Western Democracies (Nearly completed penultimate draft)
  • 2027 A Student's Greek Grammar of Syntax and Morphology: Homeric, Classical, and New Testament  (Prospectus sent out)
  • 2027 Select Readings from the Attic Orators: The Earliest Court, Assembly, and Public Speeches in the Western World (Completing Introduction)

Office Hours

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

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title
GREEK 103-001 First-Semester Greek

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, Institutions of Democracy from Past to Present
  • 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. 

I am open to working with graduate students in areas of my publications and research. I also have other projects partly completed, such as an introductory textbook of mythology, that could be a project for an Art History student; and other work on the New Testament, that may prove interesting for students of the Bible, that are not listed above. It is always helpful for a student to take a class with their advisor, too, to see if it would be a good fit. Feel free to reach out through email or to visit with me in person. 

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)