Research

Sarah Bolmarcich, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, received her BA from Smith College in Massachusetts and her MA and PhD from the University of Virginia. She has participated in the Summer Session and Regular Member programs at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, as well as a year of postdoctoral research there and a summer spent at the American Numismatic Society in New York City. Her research interests center on Greek history, Greek prose literature, and ancient international relations.

Teaching

Dr. Bolmarcich’s teaching interests center on ancient Greek and Roman history and Greek and Latin literature. At Trinity she is teaching intermediate Greek and Literary Classics of the Ancient Greek World. Past courses include mythology, Greek civilization, History of the Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Sparta, and Women in Greece. She has taught at Loyola College in Maryland, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Minnesota.

Selected Publications

• “The Athenian Regulations for Samos (IG i3 48) Again,” Chiron (2009): 43-62
• “The Date of the ‘Oath of the Peloponnesian League’,” Historia 57.1 (2008): 65-79
• “The Afterlife of a Treaty,” Classical Quarterly 57.2 (2007): 13-25
• “Oaths in Greek International Relations,” in A. H. Sommerstein and J. Fletcher, eds., Horkos (Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007): 26-38
• “Thucydides 1.19.1 and the Peloponnesian League,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 45.1 (February 2005): 5-34
• “Hellenistic Sepulchral Epigrams on Homer.” in M. A. Harder et al., eds., Hellenistic Epigrams: Fifth Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry (Peeters, 2002): 67-83
• “Homophrosyne in the Odyssey,” Classical Philology 96.3 (July 2001): 205-213

Awards

• Macatee Fellowship for research in Britain, University of Texas at Austin, summer 2008
• Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant, Harvard University, summer 2006
• Jacob Hirsch Fellowship (Senior Associate Member), American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004-2005
• Fulbright Fellowship to Greece, Institute of International Education; Honorary
• Martin Ostwald Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2002-03