Edan 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

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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

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Research

Areas of Interest

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

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Education

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

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Updated 8/26/08