Katz, Nathaniel | Classics | Department of Religious Studies & Classics

nathanielkatz@arizona.edu

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Katz, Nathaniel

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Dr. Nathaniel Katz earned his PhD in Classics at the University of Texas at Austin and his BA from Kenyon College. He is a Roman historian researching Roman imperial self-representation and regime change. His current research examines Roman imperial assassinations with a particular focus on the political affordances those moments of sudden violence gave the various actors in Roman politics. His other work uses literature, documentary sources, and coins to see how the emperor’s subjects reacted to his political messaging. He also once got a perfect score in Seinfeld trivia.

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CLAS 160D2 – Classical Mythology: Ancient Stories and What they Tell Us

The myths, legends, and folktales of the Greeks, Romans and the peoples of the ancient Near East have remained popular for thousands of years. Together we'll not only learn about these stories themselves, but also think about why these stories are so popular, where they came from, and what insights they give us into the various people and cultures who created and reinterpreted them across the millennia.

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GRK 201 – Intermediate Classical Greek I

Selections from Greek prose texts.

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