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Philip Kaplan

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.

--Livy 1.1 (de Selincourt trans.)

When I am tempted, as I sometimes am, to envy the extreme competence of colleagues engaged in writing ancient or medieval history, I find consolation in the reflexion that they are so competent mainly because they are so ignorant of their subject.

--E. H. Carr, What is History?

I am an Associate Professor at the University of North Florida. My field is Ancient History, and my special areas of interest are:

• Early Greek colonization and trade
• Greek contacts with the Near East
• Ancient geography and travel
• Archaeology and social history

You can also learn more about me from my Curriculum Vitae.

Courses I am teaching in the Fall of 2006:

• EUH 1000: Freshman Core I: Western Civilization to 1648
• EUH 3403/HIS 5406 (FC) Ancient Greece

Courses I have taught in the past:

• EUH 3411/HIS 5934:  (FC) Ancient Rome
• ASH 3200 (FC):  Ancient Near East
• IDH 2935 EJ 168: Slavery, Ancient and Modern
• EUH 4932 AA 002: From Homer to Herodotus: The Archaic Age of Greece
• HIS 3932 CE 512:  Freedom and Slavery
• HIS 3932 CH 280: Greek and Roman Myth
• HIS 4936/5934:  Alexander the Great
• EUH 6935: Readings in European History I
• Persuasion and Power: Ancient and Modern Rhetoric

This page is maintained by me; send comments & questions to: pkaplan@unf.edu
Photo copyright Paul Halsall
Last update: 27 June 2006