DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS   Rutgers University, 131 George Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1414

Thomas J. Figueira  Office: Lucy Stone Hall Rm. 312  Phone: (732) 445-6372/932-9797  Fax: (732) 932-9246  E-mail: figueira@rci.rutgers.edu Recent courses:   S 2006 1- Moral Epistles of Seneca 2- Ancient Warfare & Diplomacy F 2005 1- Greek and Roman Slavery 2- Women in Antiquity 3- Studies in Classics F 2004 1- Classical Greek Prose 2- Greek Historical Writings 3- Seminar in Ancient History: Spartan Society S 2003 1- Women in Antiquity 2- Seminar in Greek Prose F 2002 1- Greek & Roman Slavery 2- History of Livy S 2002 1- Greek Social Institutions 2- Rise of the Roman Republic F 2001 1- Early Greece    2- Greek Civilization Graduate Seminars are in bold

Thomas Figueira holds the rank of Professor (II) of Classics and of Ancient History. He is affiliated with the Departments of Classics and of History at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He teaches courses in the Greek and Latin languages (prose and poetry) on all levels from elementary offerings through graduate seminars; courses in classical civilization and archaeology; and Greek and Roman history. He has taught over fifty different undergraduate and graduate courses. Figueira has been an active scholar in the fields of Greek history and literature. His books are Aegina: Economy and Society (New York 1981: now available through Ayer Publishing); Athens and Aigina in the Age of Imperial Colonization (Johns Hopkins University Press 1991); Excursions in Epichoric History (Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham MD 1993); The Power of Money: Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire (University of Pennsylvania Press 1998); as co-author, Wisdom from the Ancients: Enduring Business Lessons from Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and The Illustrious Leaders of Ancient Greece and Rome (Perseus Press, Boston 2001; as editor, Spartan Society (Classical Press of Wales, 2004); and as co-editor, Theognis and Megara: Poetry and Polis (Baltimore 1985: now available through Books on Demand). The work of Figueira and of Gregory Nagy on Theognis is available as Web Theognis on the website of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University. Figueira has published around eighty articles, chapters, contributions, and reviews. Fans of Figueirean analysis may wish to check the attached Publication List for past and forthcoming scholarship. He has spoken recently at University College, University of London, January 2004; at the Fifth International Sparta Seminar, Université de Rennes II, September 2004; at “How Hellenistic was Hellenistic Sparta? Continuity, Change, and Intercultural Contact In Third-Century Laconia,” Joint Session, APA and AIA, Boston, January, 2005; (with D.M. Figueira) at Dynamics of the Reception of World Literature, 6th International Conference of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature, Tartu, Estonia, September, 2005; and at Fall Meeting, Ancient History Colloquium of the Mid-Atlantic States, Hunter College, November, 2005. During 2006, Figueira will be speaking in July at a conference on Xenophon at the Université de Lyon, France; in late July at a conference on the Athenian economy in Sounion, Greece: and in September at the Sixth International Sparta Seminar at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Figueira is working on a number of topics, including Attic demography; the Athenian tribute system; the economy of Sparta; the hero Aiakos; and the genesis of the democratic mind.

Figueira is also a Fellow of Livingston College at Rutgers, where he has served as Chair of the Executive Council of Fellows.

In Fall term, 2005, undergraduate students are working with Figueira in the 300-level Classics and History courses Greek and Roman Slavery and Women in Antiquity, as well as the graduate colloquium, Studies in Classics. During Spring 2006, he is teaching Ancient Warfare & Diplomacy for the History program and an undergraduate Latin seminar on the Moral Epistles of Seneca.

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