rtordoff


Rob Tordoff

Department of Humanities

Associate Professor

Office: Vanier College, 250
Phone: 416-736-2100 Ext: 70476
Email: rtordoff@yorku.ca
Secondary website: http://www.receptionstudies.info.yorku.ca/


I teach ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, and culture, and the Ancient Greek and Latin languages in the Department of Humanities.

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Degrees

PhD, Cambridge University
BA, Oxford University

Research Interests

Classics , Labour, Slavery, Social memory, Classical Tradition, Ancient Greek Literature and History
Book Chapters

Publication
Year

'Memory and the Rhetoric of ??????? in Aristophanes' Assembly Women,' in Baragwanath, E. and Foster, E. (eds.) Clio and Thalia: Attic Comedy and Historiography. Histos, suppl. 6 (2017), 153-210. http://research.ncl.ac.uk/histos/documents/Ch.6.TordoffMemoryandSoteria.pdf

2017

'Slaves and Slavery', in Glazebrook, A. and Vester, C. (eds.) Themes in Greek Society and Culture: an introduction to Ancient Greece (Oxford University Press: 2017), 218-40.

2017


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall/Winter 2020 AP/HUMA1105 9.0 A Myth and Imagination in Greece and Rome LECT


Upcoming Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Summer 2021 AP/HUMA4107 6.0 A The Ancient Greek and Roman Novel ONLN


I teach ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, and culture, and the Ancient Greek and Latin languages in the Department of Humanities.

Degrees

PhD, Cambridge University
BA, Oxford University

Research Interests

Classics , Labour, Slavery, Social memory, Classical Tradition, Ancient Greek Literature and History

All Publications


Book Chapters

Publication
Year

'Memory and the Rhetoric of ??????? in Aristophanes' Assembly Women,' in Baragwanath, E. and Foster, E. (eds.) Clio and Thalia: Attic Comedy and Historiography. Histos, suppl. 6 (2017), 153-210. http://research.ncl.ac.uk/histos/documents/Ch.6.TordoffMemoryandSoteria.pdf

2017

'Slaves and Slavery', in Glazebrook, A. and Vester, C. (eds.) Themes in Greek Society and Culture: an introduction to Ancient Greece (Oxford University Press: 2017), 218-40.

2017


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Fall/Winter 2020 AP/HUMA1105 9.0 A Myth and Imagination in Greece and Rome LECT


Upcoming Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Summer 2021 AP/HUMA4107 6.0 A The Ancient Greek and Roman Novel ONLN