David
Grant Smith
Assistant Professor
Department of Classics HUM 367
San Francisco State University
Recent Courses
2008-2009
CLAR 515: Greek Civilization I
CLAS 700: Proseminar: Texts and Contexts
GREK 101: Elementary Ancient Greek
CLAS 360: Greek and Roman Mythology
2007-2008
CLAS 360: Greek and Roman Mythology
CLAS 360: Greek and Roman Mythology
GREK 4/741: Greek Epic II (Hes. & HHs)
CLAS 360: Greek and Roman Mythology
CLAS 360: Greek and Roman Mythology
GREK 101: Elementary Ancient Greek
CLAS 720: Pindar (Seminar)
2006-2007 (On Leave)
CLAS 360: Greek and Roman Mythology
2005-2006
CLAS 360: Greek and Roman Mythology
CLAS/HUM 410: Classical Culture: Greece
CLAS 360: Greek and Roman Mythology
CLAR 5/835: Seminar: Greek Sicily
GREK 4/730: Oratory (Lys., Thuc., Pl.)
CLAS 360: Greek and Roman Mythology
CLAS 360: Greek and Roman Mythology
2004-2005
LATN 4/755: Latin Elegy & Lyric
LATN 102: Elementary Latin II
GREK 4/740: Homer (Iliad 1, 9, 24)
CLAR 516: Greek Civilization II
CLAS 360: Greek and Roman Mythology
CLAS 700: Proseminar: Texts and Contexts
CLAS 100: Beginning Latin I
CLAR 515: Greek Civilization I
CLAS 360: Greek and Roman Mythology
2003
CLAS/HUM 410: Classical Culture: Greece
2003-2004 (UT Knoxville)
CLAS 253: Classical Lit. in Translation
CLAS 264: 2nd Year Greek (NT & Hdt.)
CLAS/HIST 310: Greek History
CLAS 111: Beginning Latin I
CLAS 405: 3rd Year Greek (PV & Cyc.)
Employment
- Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University 2004-present
- Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee Knoxville 2003-2004
Education
- Ph.D. Stanford University (Classics) 2003
- M.A. San Francisco State University (Classics) 1997
- B.A. San Francisco State University (Classics & Philosophy) 1995
Interests
- Greek Literature, especially Poetry and Historiography
- Cultural History, especially of Greek Italy and Sicily
- Archaic and Classical Greek History and Archaeology
- Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality
Publications
- "A Regional Performance Culture? The Case of Syracuse" forthcoming in F. De Angelis (ed.), Regionalism and Globalism in Antiquity (Brill)
- Review of Jonathan Hall, A History of the Archaic Greek World: Ca. 1200-479 BCE (Blackwell: 2006) forthcoming in Ancient West & East
- "Thucydides' Ignorant Athenians and the Drama of the Sicilian Expedition", Syllecta Classica 15 (2004): 33-70 (abstract)
- Review of Franco De Angelis, Megara Hyblaia and Selinous. The Development of Two Greek City-States in Archaic Sicily. Oxford University School of Archaeology, Monograph 55. (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2003), BMCR 2005.01.28
- Review of Louisa Moscati Castelnuovo (ed.), Identita e Prassi Storica nel Mediterraneo Greco (Milano: Edizioni ET, 2002), BMCR 2004.01.24
Papers and Presentations
- November 2008: "Aeschylus' Aetnaeae and the Identity of Xouthos: Poetic Appropriation of Sicily from Stesichorus to Euripides" paper to be delivered at the Theatre Outside Athens conference, Northwestern University
- May 2008: "Eighth-Century BC Town Planning in Sicily: Is It Something?" presentation at the SFSU Faculty Colloquium Series
- November 2007: "Poetics and Colonization in Archaic Sicily" paper delivered at The Ohio State University Department of Greek and Latin (Columbus, Ohio)
- April 2007: "The Iambistai of Syracuse" paper delivered to the Early Greek Poetry panel,CAMWS 2007 (Cincinnati)
- March 2007: "A Regional Literary Culture? The Case of Syracuse" paper delivered at the CACW/CAPN conference "Regionalism and Globalism in Antiquity", University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)
- November 2006: "Rock, Scissors, Paper: How to win yourself a Roman province" presented at Latin Day XXV, University of Tennessee (Knoxville)
- May 2006: "Alcibiades, Athens, and the Tyranny of Sicily" paper delivered to the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at UC Berkeley
- November 2005: "Allusion and Intersex: The Dynamics of Amalgamation in Roman Poetry" paper delivered at the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, Texas Tech University
- April 2004: "At What Price Freedom? Fear and Loathing at the Court of Gelon (Hdt. 7.153-167)" paper presented at the the Greek Tyrants panel at CAMWS 2004 (St. Louis)
- March 2003: “Off the Map: Reading the Greek West in the Hellenistic Age” presented at the Sicily Panel, Classical Associations of the Pacific Northwest and Canadian West Conference: Texts and Material Culture (Univ. of Calgary)
- January 2003: "Acting the Fools: Thucydides on the Dramatic Origins of the Sicilian Expedition)" presented at the Greek Historiography panel at the 2003 Meeting of the APA, New Orleans (abstract)
Awards
- SFSU Presidential Award for Probationary Faculty 2006-2007
- SFSU Vice-President's Assigned Time Award 2006
- University of Tennessee Innovative Technology Center “Faculty First” Grant 2004
- Giles Whiting Dissertation Fellowship 2002-2003
Other Activities
- President, California Classical Association (Northern Section) 2007-2009 (website) PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW FORUM
- Vice-President, California Classical Association (Northern Section) 2005-2007
- Faculty Advisor for the SFSU Classics Students Association (website) 2004-present
- Semantic history of the word laos for the Stanford Humanities Center's "Crowds" Project (website) 2003
- Stanford University Excavations at Monte Polizzo, Sicily 2001-2003
