Faculty

An Overview

The Department of Classics consists of 19 teaching-and-research, concurrent, professional, and emeritus faculty whose interests range from linguistics to ancient Mediterranean civilization to contemporary issues confronting the Middle East. Here are some recent publication by members of our Classics and Middle Eastern Studies faculty:

Joseph P. Amar, Dionysius bar Salibi, A Response to the Arabs. Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, Scriptores Syri, vols. 614 and 615; Louvain, 2005

W. Martin Bloomer, editor, The Contest of Language. University of Notre Dame Press, 2005

David Ladouceur, The Latin Psalter, Introduction, Selected Text and Commentary. Bristol Classical Press, 2005

Sabine MacCormack, On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru. Princeton, 2007

Professor MacCormack's book won both the 2007 John E. Fagg Prize and the 2007 James A. Rawley Prize in History.

Catherine Schlegel, Satire and the Threat of Speech: Horace’s Satires Book I. University of Wisconsin Press, 2005

Hesiod: The Works and Days and Theogony: A Verse Translation and Commentary, co-authored with Henry Weinfield. University of Michigan Press, 2006

Isabelle Torrance, Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes. London: Duckworth, 2007

Asma Afsaruddin, The First Muslims: History and Memory. OneWorld Publications, 2007

The Anastos Collection

The acquisition of the Milton V. Anastos Library of Byzantine Civilization has given Notre Dame the unique opportunity to be an international research center in Byzantine studies and strengthens significantly the resources of its Medieval Institute, the program in Early Christian Studies and the departments of Theology, Philosophy and The Classics. The Anastos Library is particulary strong in the primary sources of classical and medieval scholarship and adds to Notre Dame's holdings complete runs in more than fifty new journal titles.

The collection reflects the broad interests of Professor Anastos and his conviction that the major sources of Byzantine culture are "the tradition of ancient Greece, the legal and political institutions of pagan Rome, and Christianity," and that this culture's most notable achievements are its art (including architecture), law, and theology.