Loren J. Samons II
Department Chair
Professor of Classical Studies

Office Hours (Fall 2009)
STH 413, 415
M: 8:30-9:30AM and 2-3PM
W: 2-3PM and by appointment

Contact
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 413
Boston, MA 02215
617.353.2427 (p)
617.353.1610 (f)
ljs@bu.edu

Education
1991 Ph.D. Brown University (Ancient History)
1987 M.A. Brown University
1986 B.A. Baylor University summa cum laude
 
Positions Held
Chair, Boston University, Classical Studies, 2006-present
Professor, Boston University, 2004-present
Associate Dean for Students, 2002-2005
Associate Professor, Boston University, 1999-2004
Assistant Professor, Boston University, 1993-1998
Visiting Assistant Professor, Reed College, 1992-1993
Lecturer, Brown University, Spring 1992

Fellowships and Awards
Onassis Senior Visting Scholar, 2007-08
Honors Program Award for Teaching, 2001
Golden Key Honor Society Award, 2000
Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1998
Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1996
Visiting Senior Associate Member, American School of Classical Studies, 1996
Boston University Society of Fellows, 1995-1996
Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, 1986-1991
Marston-Baylor Fellow, 1989
Phi Beta Kappa, 1986

Current Projects
Kimon and the Creation of Classical Athens (under contract for Cambridge University Press).
 
Publications
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles, editor and contributor (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

What's Wrong With Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship (University of California Press, 2004; paperback, 2007).

Empire of the Owl (Athenian Imperial Finance), Historia Einzelschriften 142 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2000).

Athenian Democracy and Imperialism, editor (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998).

Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles, with C. W. Fornara (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991).

Articles
"Athens - A Democratic Empire," in K. Kagan, ed., The Beginnings of Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, forthcoming)

"Thucydides' Sources and the Spartan Plan at Sphakteria," Hesperia 75 (2006), 525-540.

"Ancient Lessons for Postmoderns," a response in the forum on "The Uses of Classical History for Contemporary Themes," Historically Speaking 6.3 (January/February 2005), pp. 29-30.

"Revolution of Compromise?" in E.W. Robinson, ed., Ancient Greek Democracy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 113-122 [partial reprint of Arion 1998 article with new material added].

"Democracy, Empire and the Search for the Athenian Character", Arion 8.3 (2001), 128-157.

"Socrates, Virtue and the Modern Professor," Journal of Education 182.2 (2000 [2001]), 19-27.

"Aeschylus, the Alkmeonids and the Reform of the Areopagos," Classical Journal 94 (1999), 221-33.

"Kimon, Kallias and Peace with Persia," Historia 47 (1998), 129-140.

"Mass, Elite, and Hoplite-Farmer in Greek History," review and discussion of J.Ober, The Athenian Revolution, and V. Hanson, The Other Greeks, Arion, 3rd ser., 5.3 (1998), 99-123.

"A Note on the Parthenon Inventories and the Date of IG i3 52," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 118 (1997), 179-182.

"The ‘Kallias Decrees’ (IG i3 52) and the Inventories of Athena’s Treasure in the Parthenon," Classical Quarterly 46 (1996), 91-102.

"Rome, Italy and Appius Claudius Caecus before the Pyrrhic Wars," with K. A. Raaflaub and J. D. Richards, in The Age of Pyrrhus, R. Holloway, et al., eds., Archaeologia Transatlantica (1992 [1994]), 13-50.

"Athenian Finance and the Treasury of Athena," Historia 42 (1993), 129-138.

"The Vita Liutbirgae," Classica et Mediaevalia 43 (1992), 273-286.

"Opposition to Augustus," with K. A. Raaflaub, in Between Republic and Empire: Interpretations of Augustus and his Principate, K. A. Raaflaub, M. Toher, eds., (California, 1990), pp. 417-454.

A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, 2 vols., D. R. Woolf, ed., (New York, 1998); the following articles: "Ammianus Marcellinus," p. 29; "C. Iulius Caesar," pp. 131-132; "Felix Jacoby," p. 479; "Procopius," p. 738; "Roman Historiography," pp. 782-783; "Tacitus," pp. 875-876.

Reviews
L. Kurke, Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 10.2 (2003 [2004]), 281-86.

A. Santosuosso, Soldiers, Cittizens, and the Symbols of War (Boulder, CO and Oxford: Westview Press, 1997), International Journal of the Classical Tradition 7.2 (2000 [2002]).

H. Elton, Warfare in Roman Europe, AD 350-425 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), International Journal of the Classical Tradition 6.3 (2000), 470-473.

T. Rood, Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), Relilgious Studies Review 26.1 (2000), 78.

A. K. Goldsworthy, The Roman Army at War, 100 BC - AD 200 (1996), Religious Studies Review 25.1 (1999) 91.

T. Figueira, The Power of Money: Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire (1998), Ancient History Bulletin 12 (1998) 141-2.

A. J. Woodman and R. H. Martin, eds., The Annals of Tacitus. Book 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Religious Studies Review 24.1 (1998), 76.

E. Badian, From Plataea to Potidaea: Studies in the History and Historiography of the Pentecontaetia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), Religious Studies Review 23.2 (1997), 170-171.

K. Robb, Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), History of Education Quarterly 35 (1995), 439-440.