Mark Thatcher
Associate Professor of the Practice
Biography
Mark Thatcher specializes in Greek history and culture of the Archaic and Classical periods, with a particular focus on cross-cultural connections and concepts of ethnicity and identity in ancient Greece, and on the history of Sicily. His first book investigated how Greeks in Sicily and southern Italy negotiated between multiple types of identity, including ethnicity, polis identity, regional identity, and overarching Hellenic identity, and shows how juxtapositions and contrasts between a community’s multiple (and often contested) identities shaped its social and political history. He is working on a second book on the Sicilian Expedition; other ongoing projects explore Sicily in the Hellenistic period and myth and identity in the Greek West.
Official evaluation summary
Courses taught
- CLAS2205 Greek History
- CLAS1011 Elementary Latin II
- CLAS1010 Elementary Latin I
- CLAS2207 Greeks and Barbarians
- CLAS2250 Multiculturalism in the Roman Empire
- CLAS4212 Ancient Sicily
- CLAS3302 Greek Rhetoric
- CLAS1053 Intermediate Ancient Greek II
- CLAS3320 Roman Civil War Literature
- CLAS3382 Herodotus I
- HIST2201 Greek History
- HIST2837 Multiculturalism in the Roman Empire