Marc Kleijwegt
Associate Professor

eMail: mkleijwegt@wisc.edu
Phone: (608)263-2528
Office: 5219 Mosse Humanities
Mailbox: 5001 Mosse Humanities

Curriculum Vitae: View PDF

Office Hours: Mondays 12:00 - 1:00, Fridays 11:00 - 12:00

Education: PhD: Leiden; MA: Leiden; BA: Leiden

Bio Sketch:

My specializations are Social History; Epigraphy; The Ancient Novel; The Cities and Communities of Roman Italy and the Western Provinces.

My Research and Teaching Interests include The Ancient Novel; Childhood; Slavery; Freedmen; Gladiators; Food. In general, I use a variety of source material to describe and analyze the history of mentalities of the Greco-Roman world. I am currently interested in the Identity(ies) of the Roman Freedman.

Selected Publications:

• Ancient Youth: The Ambiguity of Youth and the Absence of Adolescence in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Amsterdam 1991.
• Textile Manufacturing for a Religious Market: Artemis and Diana as Tycoons of Industry, in: Willem Jongman/Marc Kleijwegt (eds.), After the Past: Essays in Ancient History in Honour of H. W. Pleket, Leiden 2002, 81-135.
• Cum vicensimariis magnam mantissam habet (Petronius Satyricon 65.10), American Journal of Philology 123 (2002), 275-86.
  

Courses Taught:

Lecture Courses:

• History 110 - The Ancient Mediterranean
• History 307 - History of Rome: The Republic - Syllabus 2009 (pdf)

Undergraduate Seminars:

• History 223 - Explorations in European History - Topics: "Roman Women (and Men)" Syllabus 2008 (pdf)
• History 600 - Advanced Seminar in History - Topics: "Roman Slavery"; "Gladiators" Syllabus 2008 (pdf); "The Rule of Augustus: Monarch or Tyranny?" Syllabus 2007 (pdf); "Carnage In Rome" Syllabus 2009 (pdf)

Graduate Courses:

• History 801 - Seminar in Ancient History - Topics: "Roman Biographies"; "Cities, Benefactors and the Family in the Greek East" Syllabus 2008 (pdf)