Pamela Gordon, Chair and Associate Professor of Classics, has a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. At KU she teaches Greek and Latin at all levels, as well as courses on Greek and Roman literature in translation. She received the Ned Fleming Award for Outstanding Teaching at KU in 1995, and her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies. Gordon's research interests include the literature and culture of both Greece and Rome. Her publications include: Epicurus in Lycia: The Second-Century World of Diogenes of Oenoanda (University of Michigan Press, 1996); "Phaeacian Dido: Lost Pleasures of an Epicurean Intertext," Classical Antiquity 17.2 (1998); "The Lover's Voice in Heroides 15: Or, Why is Sappho a Man?" in Roman Sexualities, edited by Judy Hallett and Marilyn Skinner (Princeton University Press, 1998); "Some Unseen Monster: Rereading Lucretius on Sex," in The Roman Gaze, edited by David Fredrick (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002); and "Remembering the Garden: The Trouble with Women in the School of Epicurus," in Philodemus and the New Testament World, edited by John Fitzgerald, Glenn Holland, and Dirk Obbink (E. J. Brill, 2004). She also wrote the introduction to Stanley Lombardo's Sappho: poems and fragments (Hackett 2002), and serves on the steering committee of the Hellenistic Moral Philosophy unit of the Society of Biblical Literature (http://www.pitts.emory.edu/hmpec/).
CLSX 148 Greek and Roman Mythology