(l-r) Drs. Hanna Roisman, Kerill O'Neill and Joseph Roisman participating in a conference at Be'er Sheva University, Israel.

All three members of the Classics Department faculty made the list of the six best professors at Colby College [Choosing the Right College: The Whole Truth about America's 100 Top Schools, by Jeffrey O. Nelson and Gregory Wolfe (1998), 143].

Hanna Roisman (B.A. and M.A. Tel Aviv University; Ph.D. University of Washington) devotes the bulk of her time to teaching and research in Greek literature and language. She has served as the Chair for several years, and has overseen the rapid growth of the Department in that time. She is currently engaged in research on Homer's Iliad, and on Classics and Contemporary Film Aside from numerous journal articles, she is the author of the following books: Loyalty in Early Greek Epic and Tragedy, Hain 1984; The Odyssey Re-Formed, with F. M. Ahl, Cornell University Press 1996; and Nothing is As It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides' Hippolytus, Rowman and Littlefield 1999; Euripides' Alcestis, A Commentary for Students, The University of Oklahoma Press, 2003, with C.E.A. Luschnig; and Sophocles: Philoctetes Duckworth, 2005.

Drs. Joseph Roisman, Hanna Roisman and Kerill O'Neill participating in a conference in Argentina

Joseph Roisman( B.A. and M.A. Tel Aviv University; Ph.D. University of Washington) is our resident Ancient Historian. He teaches a wide range of courses covering Greek and Roman history and culture and ancient military history. He has published extensively in Greek history, historiography, and literature, including the following books: The General Demosthenes and his Art of Military Surprise, Stuttgart 1993; Alexander the Great: Ancient and Modern Perspectives, Lexington, Mass.1995; and (editor), Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great, Leiden 2003; The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity according to the Attic Orators, Berkeley 2005. His most recent book is The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens (Berkeley 2006)  He is currently engaged in a new project focusing on sources for Greek history.

Kerill O'Neill, Department Chair (B.A. Trinity College, Dublin; Ph.D. Cornell University) focuses primarily on Latin literature and language in his teaching and research. He also teaches a cycle of mythology courses. His scholarly work consists of publications and papers on Latin Love Elegy, Greek Tragedy, and Intertextuality. His research interests focus on the influence of erotic magic on Latin love elegy and on the interaction of modern cinema with ancient culture. He is currently completing a book provisionally entitled Songs of the Magic Muse: Erotic Spells and the Discourse of Latin Love Elegy.