Departments

• Classics

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~classics/faculty/christesen.html

Contact Information

Email: paul.christesen@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-2073
Office: 6086 Reed Hall

Education

A.B. Dartmouth College; Lehman College, City University of New York; M.A. Columbia University; M. Phil. Columbia University; Ph.D. Columbia University

Areas of Expertise

Greek history and historiography; Greek athletics; Greek economic history; Neronian Literature

Selected Works

• "Imagining Olympia: Hippias of Elis and the First Olympic Victor List," in A Tall Order: Writing the Social History of the Ancient World Essays in Honor of William V. Harris, Z Várhelyi and J Aubert (eds.) (2005) 319-356.
• "Utopia on the Eurotas: Economic Aspects of the Spartan Mirage," in Spartan Society, T Figueira (ed.), (2004) 309-337.
• "Economic Rationalism in Fourth-Century Athens," Greece and Rome, 50 (2003) 1-26.
• "On the Meaning of gymnazao," Nikephoros (Zeitschrift für Sport and Kultur im Altertum), 15 (2002) 7-37.
• "Ex omnibus in unum, nec hoc nec illud: Genre and Generic Juxtaposition in Petronius' Satyricon," co-authored with Z Torlone, Materiali e Discussioni, 49 (2002) 1-38.

Current Projects

Ancient Greek History and Olympic Victor Lists; "The Birth of the Periodos and the Transformation of Athletics in Sixth-Century Greece;" "Xenophon's Cyropaedia and Military Reform in Sparta;" "The Olympic Victor List of Eusebius: Background, Text, and Translation;" "The Birth of the Periodos and the Transformation of Athletics in Sixth-Century Greece"