Faculty
Thomas Scanlon
University of Vienna, post-doctoral Fulbright Fellow, 1978-79
Ohio State University, Ph.D. 1978, M.A. 1975
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, dissertation-year fellowship, 1976-77
British School of Archaeology, Athens, Summer 1977
American School of Classical Studies, Summer Session, 1975
Duquesne University, B.A. 1972
Email: thomas.scanlon@ucr.edu
Thomas F. Scanlon is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of California, Riverside, currently living in London, UK. Email: scanlon@ucr.edu
Publications include Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Oxford U.P., 2021, ed.), Greek Historiography (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), Greek Poetry and Sport, Classics@ (Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard, 2015, ed.), Oxford Readings in Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds, 2 vols. (Oxford U.P., 2014, ed.), Eros and Greek Athletics (Oxford U.P., 2002), Olympia and Macedonia: Games, Gymnasia and Politics (Thessaloniki Society of Toronto, 1997), Spes Frustrata: Hope in Sallust (Carl Winter, Heidelberg U. P. 1987), Greek and Roman Athletics: A Bibliography (Ares Press, Chicago, 1984), and The Influence of Thucydides on Sallust (Carl Winter, Heidelberg U. P 1980). His research areas include Greek sport, Greek gender studies, Greek religion, and Greek and Roman historiography. Current major project is a study of Masculinity, Sports, and Violence, Ancient and Modern.