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John Svarlien teaches courses in Latin and ancient Greek, literature, mythology, gender and sexuality, and other aspects of the cultural history of the Greco-Roman world. He also teaches in Transylvania’s core courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Svarlien has published on Roman satire, and his translations of Latin literature have appeared in journals and on the\u00a0Diotima<\/em>\u00a0website. His translations of Ovid’s\u00a0Amores<\/em>\u00a0have been published in an anthology of Latin lyric and elegiac poetry, and his verse translation of Horace’s\u00a0Satires\u00a0<\/em>is forthcoming. His special interests are Augustan Rome and the history of liberal arts education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Academic History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1989
M.A., The Florida State University, 1981
B.A., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1976<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courses Taught at Transy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Latin
Ancient Greek
Introduction to Greek and Roman Mythology
Women in Antiquity
Literature of the Greco-Roman World<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Recent Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Verse translations of Horace\u2019 Satires published in Literary Imagination and on the Diotima website<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verse translations of Ovid\u2019s Amores appeared in the anthology Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry (Garland, 1995)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Areas of Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Latin literature
Greek literature
Greco-Roman mythology
Gender and sexuality in the ancient world<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3721,"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"Relevanssi image attachment filter Relevanssi index exclude","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"academic_division":[72,57,68],"class_list":["post-260","faculty","type-faculty","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nSvarlien, John - Website Experiments<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/experiments\/faculty\/jsvarlien\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Svarlien, John\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Svarlien teaches courses in Latin and ancient Greek, literature, mythology, gender and sexuality, and other aspects of the cultural history of the Greco-Roman world. 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