Kevin Crotty Professor of Classics, The J. Donald Childress Professor in Foreign Languages

Tucker Hall 102
540-458-8910
crottyk@wlu.edu
on sabbatical Fall 2024

Education

Harvard Law, JD 1984

Yale Ph.D. (Classics) 1975

Columbia University, BA 1971

Research

Myth, Archaic Greek Poetry, Plato, Legal Theory

Teaching

CLAS 201: Classical Myth

CLAS 208: Classical Epic Tradition from Homer to Joyce

Democracy, Law and Litigation in Ancient Athens

Several Courses in Advanced Ancient Greek, including:  Homer, Tragedy, Greek History, Greek Philosophy

 

Selected Publications

The Philosopher's Song:  The Poets' Influence on Plato (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2009)

Law's Interior: Legal and Literary Constructions of the Self (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001)

The Poetics of Supplication: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994)

Song and Action:  The Victory Odes of Pindar (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982)