Jesse Weiner
Assistant Professor of Classics
Couper Hall 202315-859-4872
jweiner@hamilton.edu
Jesse Weiner's research and teaching interests encompass Greek and Latin epic poetry, drama and, especially, the many ways in which classical antiquity continues to inform modernity. Weiner has worked as a Latin consultant for Hollywood films and as a scholar with the Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives program. He previously taught classics at Illinois Wesleyan University, California State University Long Beach and the University of California, Irvine, where he earned his doctorate.
Recent Courses Taught
Pompeii
Sexuality and Gender in Greece and Rome
Intermediate Greek: Xenophon's Cyropaedia
Classical Mythology
Advanced Greek: In Defense of Helen
Re-Imagining the Classics
Intermediate Latin: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Elementary Latin
Research Interests
Latin epic poetry, didactic poetry, drama, reception studies
Distinctions
Best Paper (post Ph.D.) in Women's or Gender Studies in Antiquity, Women's Classical Caucus
Theodore Brunner and Luci Berkowitz Graduate Award in Classics: University of California, Irvine
Select Publications
- "Across the Great Divide: Classical Epic and the Poetics of Fantasy,” Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy (2017) pp. 1-58.
- “O'Neill's Aeneid: Virgilian Allusion in Mourning Becomes Electra,” International Journal of the Classical Tradition 20, no.1 (2013). pp. 41-60.
- “Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” in Classical Traditions in Science Fiction, B. Rogers and B. Stevens eds, Oxford University Press (2015). pp 46-74.
- “Mapping Hubris: Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and Odysseus’ Apologoi,” International Journal of the Classical Tradition 22, no. 1 (2015), pp. 116-37.
- “Antigone in Juárez: Tragedy, Politics, and Public Women on Mexico’s Northern Border,” Classical Receptions Journal 7, no. 2 (2015), pp. 276-309.
- “Ted Cruz: Confused about Cicero,” The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2014.
Appointed to the Faculty: 2014
Educational Background
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
M.A., University of California, Irvine
B.A., New College of Florida