Martha C. Taylor
Classics Department Faculty

Office Information
HU 321B
(410) 617-2636
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. She has published articles on Salamis and the Piraeus, and her book Salamis and the Salaminioi: the history of an unofficial Athenian demos appeared in 1997 in the series Archaia Hellas. An article on Thucydides' presentation of the coup of the Four Hundred in Athens recently appeared in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, and she has an article forthcoming in Hesperia on the honors accorded the heroes of Phyle. She is currently at work on a book on Thucydides' presentation of Pericles and his vision of the city.