Classics Department
Ellen Millender
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Associate Professor of Classics
Greek and Roman history, Archaic and Classical Sparta, women in the ancient world
ellen.millender@reed.edu
On campus:
ETC 216
Phone: x7667
Off campus:
Professor Ellen Millender
Department of Classics
Reed College
Portland, OR 97202
Phone: 503-517-7667
Fax: 503-777-7769
Education and Experience
I received a BA and MA in Classics from Brown Univerity in 1986, a second BA (and gratuitous MA)in Literae Humaniores from Oxford University in 1989, and my Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. After teaching at Bowdoin College and the University of Iowa, I came to Reed in 2002 and received tenure in 2005.
Courses 2006-2007
Fall 2006
Latin 110: Beginning Latin
Greek 210: Intermediate Greek: Lysias 1 and 3
Classics 373/History 393: The Rise of the Roman Empire 264 BCE - 14 CE
Spring 2007
Latin 110: Beginning Greek
Classics 375/History 395: Women in the Ancient World
Publications and Papers
Books:
Editor, Unveiling Spartan Women. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2007.
Articles:
"“Foxes at Home, Lions Abroad: Spartan Commanders in Xenophon’s Anabasis.” In N. Richer, ed., Sparta and Xenophon. Forthcoming.
“Women Behind the Throne: Wealth, Kingship, and the Making of Spartan Female Political Power.” Forthcoming in E. Millender, ed., Unveiling Spartan Women. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2007.
"The Politics of Spartan Mercenary Service.” In S. Hodkinson and A. Powell, eds., Sparta and War. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2006.
“Herodotus and Spartan Despotism.” In A. Powell and S. Hodkinson, eds., Sparta: Beyond the Mirage, 1-61. Swansea and London: Classical Press of Wales and Duckworth, 2002.
“Nomos Despotes: Spartan Obedience and Athenian Lawfulness in Fifth-Century Greek Thought.” In E. Robinson and V. Gorman, eds., Oikistes: Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World Offered in Honor of A. J. Graham, 33-59. Leiden: Brill, 2002.
“Spartan Literacy Revisited,” Classical Antiquity 20 (2001), 121-64.
“Athenian Ideology and the Empowered Spartan Woman.” In S. Hodkinson and A. Powell, eds., Sparta: New Perspectives, 355-91. London and Swansea: Duckworth and the Classical Press of Wales, 1999.
Book Reviews:
Review of N. Luraghi and S. E. Alcock, eds., Helots and Their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures (Cambridge, Mass., 2003), in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2005.06.26.
Review of L. Llewellyn-Jones, Aphrodite’s Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece (Swansea, 2003), in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2004.06.09.
Review of S. Hodkinson, Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta (London, 2000), in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2001.07.26.
