dekel.htmEdan Dekel
Assistant Professor of Classics
(On leave 2008–2009)

Department of Classics
North Academic Building 146
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267
(413) 597-2540

E-mail


Teaching—Recent Courses

    Greek and Latin

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

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

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 8/26/08