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MTaylor@Loyola.edu Biography
Martha C. Taylor received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is currently Associate Professor of Classics, History and Art History. She is a "Centrista," having spent the Spring of her Junior year at The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, and has excavated in the Athenian Agora, at a villa outside Rome, at Ancient Corinth, and at Panakton on the border betwen Athens and Boiotia. She is a fellow of The American School of Classical Studies in Athens. At Loyola she has taught introductory, intermediate and advanced Greek and Latin, literature in translation, several courses in the History department, courses in Gender Studies and Art History, and has been a member of Loyola's Honors Program faculty. Professor Taylor's research concentrates on the history and archaeology of Athens and its empire. Her first book, Salamis and the Salaminioi: the history of an unofficial Athenian demos (Gieben, 1997) studied the people and community on the Athenian island of Salamis. Her second book, Thucydides, Pericles and the idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian war (forthcoming in 2009 from Cambridge University Press) investigates Thucydides’ subtle critique of Pericles’ radical redefinition of Athens. Professor Taylor has written articles on Salaminian coinage, the Peiraieus, the coup of the 400 oligarchs in Athens, and the honors accorded the heroes of Phyle. She is currently at work on a number of entries on Athenian cult for the Encyclopedia of Ancient History (forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell in 2010). |
