Tom Garvey came to Kenyon in 2010 from UVA, a newly-minted PhD with a dissertation on Coming of Age in Homer. His areas of research in the Classics are wide-ranging: while his favorite individual authors are Homer, Ovid, Lucian and Plutarch, Garvey is also keenly interested in Greek and Roman Religion, Ancient Eating and the Philosophy of Vegetarianism, and Classical Mythology in the Western Tradition (esp. Classics in Science Fiction and Cinema). A year spent traveling to archaeological sites and museums in Greece, Turkey, and most of Eastern Europe has also inculcated an abiding respect for how material culture contributes to our understanding of the ancient world. For his work off the Hill with the Kenyon Habitat for Humanity group, Tom was honored as the College's 2010-2011 Advisor of the Year.

Education

Ph.D: University of Virginia
BA: Santa Clara University

Selected Publications

"A Woman's Unease About Her Property," BASP 47 (2010) 87-92.
"An Oxyrhynchite Marriage Contract as School Exercise?" BASP 47 (2010) 67-73.
"Priene." Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford 2009).
"Stoa." Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford 2009).
"Plato's Atlantis Story: A Prose Hymn to Athena." GRBS 48 (2008): 381-392.

Courses Taught

Currently Offered
CLAS 101 - Greek Literature
CLAS 191 - Science Fiction and the Classics
GREK 111-112Y - Intensive Introductory Greek

Previously Offered
CLAS 111 - Greek History
GREK 302 - The Second Sophistic
GREK 393 - Individual Study: Plato's Apology & Kebes' Pinax