JONATHAN P. ZARECKI

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, GREENSBORO

Il Colosseo

Roma

May 2007

Biography

Jonathan earned his B.A. in Classics and Classical Civilization from Colby College in Waterville, ME in May 1999.  While at Colby, he was captain of both the indoor and outdoor track teams, finishing 9th in the hammer throw at the 1999 NCAA Division III National Championships, and he spent the summer of 1997 in Greece.  His M.A. in Classics was conferred in May 2001 by the University of Florida, and he spent the summer following his M.A. at the American Academy in Rome’s summer program.

He took his Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Florida in 6 August 2005.  His dissertation, Cicero’s Ideal Statesman in Theory and Practice, was directed by Prof. Lewis A. Sussman, with Profs. Konstantinos Kapparis, Jennifer A. Rea, and Robert A. Hatch serving as readers.  Though his specialty lies in Roman prose and political philosophy, he maintains an active interest in Roman rhetoric, the topography of the city of Rome, and Greek epic poetry.  He recently had an article on the Pandora narrative in Hesiod published by GRBS, and is currently preparing articles for submission on Horace’s tribute to Vergil in C.4.15, the leges provinciae governing Cyprus and Cilicia, and Caesar’s legacy as presented in Cicero’s De Officiis.  He was recently awarded a New Faculty Research Grant from UNCG to work on his book project, a theoretical reconstruction of the fifth book of Cicero’s De Republica and a re-evaluation of Cicero’s attitudes towards monarchial rule in Rome.

He came to UNCG after serving as an Instructional Assistant Professor of Classics at Illinois State University in Normal, IL during the 2005-2006 academic year.

His teaching experience at UF, ISU, and UNCG includes over 20 semester courses of introductory Latin, all levels of introductory Greek, and upper level translation courses in Cicero, Petronius, Suetonius, Plautus, Euripides, and Homer.  He has also taught lecture courses on the literature of the late Republic, Greek history, mythology, classics in contemporary culture, and post-WWII war narratives.

Outside of academia, Jonathan enjoys traveling around the U.S., jogging, reading about World War II, and cheering on his beloved Boston Red Sox.