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Thomas R. Martin is the Jeremiah O’Connor Professor in Classics. As an undergraduate he studied abroad in Rome and earned his AB degree at Princeton University; as a graduate student he studied abroad in Athens and earned his PhD at Harvard University. He currently teaches courses on ancient Greek and Latin language and literature, Alexander the Great and Asia, and democracy and rhetoric. His scholarly publications concern a range of topics in ancient Greek and Latin historical authors and Greek and Roman history. Prof. Martin is also one of the founders of the online Perseus Project and the author of its overview of ancient Greek history. He has appeared in a number of video and recorded programs on ancient Greece and Rome. [See the list on pp. 11-12 in his current CV.] His most recent book is Phocion: Good Citizen in a Divided Democracy (Yale Univ. Press, 2024). Written for readers who are interested in the early development of democracy, but who are not specialists in ancient history, the book explores the lessons that we can today learn from thinking about the long and ultimately disastrous political career of the Athenian leader Phocion (ca. 402-318 BCE). Prof. Martin asks how and why Phocion initially became famous and influential among his fellow citizens at Athens, but then ended up being blamed and executed as a national traitor during the period of Athenians’ fall from being a leading international power and of the violent fracturing of their renowned “direct democracy.”
Date
4-15-2025
Recommended Citation
Martin, Thomas R., ""Authors on the Hill" presents: Thomas R. Martin" (2025). Authors on the Hill. 24.
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/aoth/24