dekel.htmEdan Dekel
Assistant Professor of Classics

Classics Department
Stetson Hall d17
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267
(413) 597-2450 (office)
(413) 597-4305 (fax)

edekel@williams.edu


Teaching

At Williams, each of the Classics faculty teaches a wide range of courses, and we take turns teaching many of the courses in our curriculum. We value this broad interaction with the field of Classics and with our students; in addition this breadth enriches the more focused work of our research.

Courses Recently Taught

    Greek and Latin

  • Advanced Greek: Greek Lyric Poetry
  • Advanced Latin: The Invention of Love: Catullus and the Roman Elegists
  • Intermediate Latin: The Early Empire
  • Advanced Latin: Virgil's Aeneid
  • Courses in Translation

  • From Adam to Noah: Literary Imagination and the Primeval History in Genesis
  • Ancient Wisdom Literature
  • The Legend of the Wandering Jew
  • The Hebrew Bible
  • The Book of Job and Joban Literature

Research

    Areas of Interest

  • Greek and Roman Poetry
  • Comparative Epic
  • Biblical Studies
  • Ancient Judaism
  • Medieval Literature

Education

  • Ph.D. (2005) University of California, Berkeley
  • B.A. (1996) Brown University

Updated 1/28/08