Dr. David Sweet
Associate Professor of Classics
Anselm #110
Office Hours: MWF 3:00-4:00
dsweet@udallas.edu
Teaching Fields & Research Interests
Greek Epic and Tragedy, Herodotus, Plato
Latin Poetry (Catullus, Vergil, Horace, Juvenal), Cicero
Degree(s)/Education
A.B.(English), Harvard College
M.A.(English), University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.(Classics), University of California, Berkeley
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor of Classics, University of Dallas, 2004-present
Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Dallas, l979-2004
Lecturer in Classics, University of California at Berkeley, l975-78
Instructor in Classics, Ohio State University, l970-74
Other Positions
Dean, Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts (2001-2013)
Director, Institute of Philosophic Studies (2001-2013)
Director, Graduate Program in Humanities (l985-92, 1994-2013)
Chairman, Classics Department (2000-01, 2012-2024)
Director, Classics Program (1987-1992)
Articles and Essays
“Some Principles at Work in Hesiod’s Theogony.” Expositions, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. Vol. 6, No. 1 (2012), 90-97. Expositions is a journal published by the Villanova Center for Liberal Education. http://expositions.journals.villanova.edu/issue/view/103
“The Noose of Words in Herodotus’ Persians and Euripides’ Hippolytus,” a talk given at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, December 1, 2007
“Catullus 65: Grief and Poetry,” Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, v.XIII, Editions Latomus; Brussels (2006) 87-96
“Conscience and Co-Knowledge in Hamlet and Classical Antiquity,” a talk given at the annual meeting of the Association of Core Texts and Courses, in Vancouver, April 8, 2005
“Catullus 11: a Study in Perspective,” Latomus, Revue d’Études Latines 46 (l987) 510-526
“Plato’s Greater Hippias,” a translation with notes and an interpretive essay included in The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, Thomas L. Pangle (ed.), Cornell U.P., l987
“Juvenal’s Satire 4: Poetic Uses of Indirection,” California Studies in Classical Antiquity 12 (l979) 283-303
Links
“The Noose of Words in Herodotus’ Persians and Euripides’ Hippolytus,”
“Conscience and Co-Knowledge in Hamlet and Classical Antiquity,”
“Why We Study Foreign Languages” [Adobe Acrobat PDF – 160.47 KB]