Edmund M. Burke

Professor
Humanities

Research/Teaching Areas
Current Projects
Recent Publications and Work in Progress
Academic Background

Courses

ClA 105, (section 01)
History 275, (section 00)
Humanities 125, (section 01)
English 305, (section 00)
ENG 305, (section 1)
HON 715, (section 1)
Humanities 115, (section 00)
HIS 275, (section 1)
Honors 715, (section 00)
English 115, (section 00)
HONORS 705, (section 00)
ENG-old 305, (section 1)

Research/Teaching Areas

Greek Economic and Social History of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.E.

Philip II of Macedonia and Alexander the Great.

Rome of the Late Republic and Early Empire.

Roman Egypt.

Current Projects

Work currently under review is concerned with the early political career of Demosthenes, an Athenian orator of the 4th century B.C.E., who in his later career led Greek opposition to Macedonia. The issue under examination concerns an elite bias at work in his early speeches and how that bais played out in the various political arenas of Athens.

Recent Publications and Work in Progress

"The Looting of the Estate of the Elder Demosthenes," Classica et Mediaevalia 49 (1998) 45-65.

"Elite Bias in the Early Political Speeches of Demosthenes," under review.

Academic Background

A.B. College of the Holy Cross 1968 (Classics [English, and Philosophy])

M.A. Tufts University 1971 (Classics/Ancient History)

Ph.D. Tufts University 1972 (Classics/Ancient History)

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