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321 Eaton Hall Department of Classics Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 |
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Associate Professor of Classics and Adjunct Professor of History, Professor Hirsch has also been chair of the Classics Department and Director of the World Civilizations Program and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. After receiving a Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University, he has been teaching at Tufts for 25 years. He is the author of The Friendship of the Barbarians: Xenophon and the Persian Empire and co-author of The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History. His special interests include the interactions between Greco-Roman civilization and other peoples of the ancient world, and global and comparative approaches to the study of antiquity. He regularly offers courses on the history of ancient Greece and on Greek language and literature, and for many years participated in excavations in France.
History of Ancient Greece The Rise of the Greeks Athens in the Age of Pericles Greeks and Barbarians The Age of Alexander The Classical Historians Homer Archaic Greek Poetry Herodotus Thucydides Fourth Century Oratory Ages of Exploration Time and Festivals in World Civilizations The Roman Empire as a Multicultural Phenomenon France Before France: Celtic and Roman Gaul |
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Associate Professor Steven W. Hirsch Adjunct Professor of History Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern history Office: 205 Eaton Hall Telephone: 617-627-3506 Fax: 617-627-2896 Email: steven.hirsch@tufts.edu |
