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John Rundin Lecturer, Classics Program jsrundin@ucdavis.edu 713 Sproul Hall (530) 752-2424

Lecturer in Classics at UC Davis since 2005

Teaching Interests
Latin and Greek Language; Latin and Greek Literature; Greek Religion.

Research Interests
Greek Religion; Ancient Eroticism; Ancient Philosophy.

Education
University of California at Berkeley, Ph. D. (Classics) 1994
University of Illinois, Chicago, B.A. (Greek, Latin, and German)

Publications
Review of Thomas Hubbard, Homosexuality in Greece and Rome, Mouseion 6 (2006) 74-77

"The Naturalist Platonism of Jack London's 'The Red One'" Excavatio 19 (2004) 334-47

"Pozo Moro, Child Sacrifice and the Greek Legendary Tradition," Journal of Biblical Literature 123 (2004) 425-47

"The Epicurean Morality of Vergil's Bucolics," Classical World 96 (2003) 159-177

Review of Iaroslav Lebedynsky, Les Scythes: La civilisation des steppes (VIIe-IIIe siècles av. J.-C.), Journal of Indo-European Studies 31 (2003) 453-456

Review of Dirk Steuernagel, Menschenopfer und Mord am Altar: Griechische Mythen in etruskischen Gräbern, in the Journal of Indo-European Studies 29 (2001) 417-20

"The Vegetarianism of Empedocles," Ancient World 29 (1998) 19-36

"Hercules Comes to the Suburban Octoplex," Animation World Magazine 2.4 (July 1997) www.awn.com

"A Politics of Eating," American Journal of Philology 117 (1996), 179-215