College of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Professor
Phone: (239)590-1245
E-Mail: npopov-reynolds@fgcu.edu
Office: Library 461C

Assistant Professor, Ancient History
Ph.D., Classics and Program in the Ancient World, Princeton (2008)
B.A., Univ. of Virginia (2002)

Research and teaching interests:
Greek and Roman military history; Greek and Roman law; Roman historiography; the classical tradition in Medieval France and contemporary Russia

Courses offered:
Ancient European History
Civic Conflict and Civil War in the Ancient World
Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean
Alexander the Great
Greek Law
Roman Law
Engineering and Technology in the Ancient Mediterranean
Slavery and Unfree Labor in the Ancient Mediterranean
Women in the Ancient World

Recent and upcoming publications:

Article: "Spoken like a Soldier: Soldier Speech as a Speech Genre in Classical Athens," under revision for publication.

Review of Ian Hughes, Belisarius: The Last Roman General for Bryn Mawr Classical Review (November 2009)

Entries on L. Flavius Arrianus; Alexander Historians; Justin (Roman Historian); Commentarii and Hypomnemata; and Aeneas Tacticus for the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History (forthcoming, 2010)

"The Place of Soldier Speech in a Democracy at War: Aeschylus and Michael Moore," in Michael B. Cosmopoulos, ed., Experiencing War: Trauma and Society in Ancient Greece and Today (Chicago: Ares Publishers, 2007)

"Escribiendo en Agua: Catulo 70 y 72," Nova Tellus 21:2 (November 2003)

Recent and upcoming conference papers:

"Discussions of Violence within the Army in Athenian Lawsuits: Lysias 3 and Demosthenes 54." To be presented at "Justice in the Greco-Roman World," conference at the University of Western Ontario, March 2010

"The Heroic Soldier as Exemplum in Cato and Livy." Presented at "Livy and Intertextuality," conference at the University of Texas at Austin, October 2009

"A History of Violence: Discussions of Poor Military Records in Athenian Lawsuits." Presented at "Acts and Ethics of War and Violence in the Greco-Roman World," conference at UNC-Chapel Hill, March 2008

"The Anti-War Soldier of Aeschylus' Agamemnon." Presented at "Achilles in Iraq," conference at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, April 2004

"The Game of Troy and Augustus." Presented at the American Philological Association (APA) conference in San Francisco, 2004