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Vanessa B. Gorman

Vanessa B. Gorman

Associate Professor of History; Vice Chair

Contact Information:


619 Oldfather Hall

Department of History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
Phone: (402) 472-3243
Fax: (402) 472-8839
E-mail: email address


Joined the Department:

August 1994


Expertise:

  • Ancient Greece
  • Rome

Education:

Ph.D. in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, May 1993

Courses Taught:

HIST 209 001 Spring 2009 Ancient Greece
UHON 395H 001 Spring 2009 Homer and the Trojan War
HIST 412 001 Fall 2008 City-States in Classical Greece
HIST 417 001 Spring 2008 ROMAN REV 133BC-68AD
HIST 210 001 Spring 2008 ANCIENT ROME

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Books:

Gorman, Vanessa B., ed. Oikistes: Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World. Offered in Honor of A. J. Graham. Leiden: Brill, 2002.
Gorman, Vanessa B. Miletos, the Ornament of Ionia: A History of the City to 400 BCE. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2001.

Articles:

Gorman, Vanessa B. "The TRUPHE of the Sybarites: A Historiographical Problem in Athenaeus" Journal of Hellenic Studies. (2007): vol. 127: 38-60.
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Conference Papers:

" "Shipwrecking on Luxury" in Athenaeus." Paper presented at American Philological Association, January 8, 2007.