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Andrew Wolpert

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Office: 138 Dauer Hall

Andrew Wolpert (PhD, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, University of Chicago, 1995) is a Greek historian who has written primarily on classical Athens, with particular attention to questions concerning ancient Greek society, democratic political culture, and Athenian law. He joined the University of Florida after teaching in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University and the Departments of Classics and History at the University of Wisconsin, where he served as the Associate Chair of History. Wolpert is the author of Remembering Defeat: Civil War and Civic Memory in Classical Athens (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2002) and coauthor of Legal Speeches from Democratic Athens: Sources for Athenian History (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2011). Presently, he is preparing a commentary on the speeches of Lysias and a multi-volume encyclopedia on Thucydides.