Curriculum Vitae
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.
Courses Offered
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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