Richard W. Parker

Department of Classics

Associate Professor, Greek Language and Literature, Greek History
BA, MA (University of California-Santa Barbara), PhD (University of British Columbia), American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1980-1981)

Mailing Address:
Department of Classics
Brock University
St Catharines ON L2S 3A1 CANADA

Phone: 905 688 5550 ext 5206
Fax: 905 984 4859
Email: rparker@brocku.ca

Teaching 2012-2013:

• GREE 2P01: Language & Literature I (fall)
• GREE 4P05: Historians I (fall)
• CLAS 4V38/5V38: War and Peace in Ancient Greece (winter)
• GREE 5V02: Xenophon (winter)

Research:
My research interests lie in the areas of Greek historiography and Greek history, especially Greek warfare, mercenaries and military officers and officials. Current pursuits include investigations into “Light Infantry” in Classical Greece such as: the use of terminology for light infantry in the Classical historians; perceptions of the status of different types of light infantry; vocabulary for shaft weapons (doru, doration, akontion, palton, etc.)

Current projects include studies of: Nikostratos of Argos (active ca. 365-340 BCE); a study of the textual transmission of Cicero Brutus 104 (re: “Diophanes” of Mytilene); the usage of terminology for ‘light infantry’ in Herodotos, Thucydides, Xenophon and their contemporaries.

Selected Publications:

• “A Fragment of a Diocletianic Tax Assessment from Mytilene” (with E.H. Williams), Echos du Monde Classique/Classical Views XXXIX, n.s. 14 (1995) 267-273.
• “Potamon of Mytilene and his Family,” Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 85 (1991) 115-129; 89 (1991) 38 (=corrigendum ad p. 129)
• “A Greek Inscription from Lesbos Honoring a Julio-Claudian,” Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 75 (1988) 175-178.