Eddie Lowry Jr.

  Eddie Lowrie Jr.

 

Education

  • Ph.D., Harvard University
  • M.Div., Harvard University
  • B.A., Hampden-Sydney College

 

Current Courses Taught

  • Latin (elementary, intermediate, advanced)
  • Classical Greek (on demand)
  • Mythology
  • Etymology
  • Rome’s Rise to World Power
  • Foundations of Western Civilization

 

 

 

Awards and Honors

  • President, Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers, 2001-02.
  • OVATIO (award for distinguished professional service), Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2000.
  • Chair, Joint Committee on Classics in American Education of the American Philological Association and the American Classical League, 1997-99.
  • Excellence in Leadership: Faculty/Staff Mentor Award, Ripon College, April 1999.
  • Latin Teacher of the Year Award, Wisconsin Latin Teachers Association, November 1995.

 

 

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • “Glaucus, the Leaves, and the Heroic Boast of Iliad 6.146-211,” in The Ages of Homer, A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule, ed. by Jane B. Carter and Sarah P. Morris (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995), 193-203.
  • Thersites: A Study in Comic Shame, Harvard Dissertations in the Classics Series (New York Garland Publishing, 1991).

 

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • Greek and Roman Mythology
  • Religions in the Ancient World
  • Classical Epic