Associate ProfessorPatrick O'Sullivan
Associate Professor
Classics
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- Associate ProfessorClassics
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- Rm 103B UC Arts City Location- 3 Hereford Street
TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy
My teaching experience includes Latin and Greek at all levels and reading authors from Archaic and Classical Greece (Homer, Sophocles, Plato, et al.) to the Roman Republic and Imperial periods (Catullus, Vergil, Suetonius, et al.). I also teach courses in translation on diverse aspects of Graeco-Roman cultural history and literature such as Mythology, Ancient Sport, Homeric Epic, Greek Art (incl. working with artefacts from the Teece Museum), Philosophy and Ancient Aesthetics. I have also supervised numerous dissertations at BA Hons., MA and PhD levels on a wide array of topics, as well as Research Essays as part of the PACE programme.
CLAS 224/324: Greek Philosophy
TEACHING & SUPERVISION
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Thesis: Rhetoric and Gender in Greek Tragedy: Sophocles’ Ajax and Trachiniae.16 Feb 2026
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMA Thesis: The Honest Art of Deception: Lying to Friends in Homer, Hesiod and Sophocles1 Jan 2026 - 30 Jun 2026
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Thesis: Homeric Underpinning of Later Conceptions of Megalopsychia1 Mar 2024 - 11 Dec 2024
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Research Essay: Socrates the Satyr: Wisdom as Madness in Plato’s Symposium1 Jul 2021 - 1 Nov 2021
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Research Essay: Kalos inscriptions and Erôs in the Greek Symposium20 Feb 2019 - 1 Nov 2019
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMA Thesis: The Ambivalent Heroism of Ajax in the Odes of Pindar1 Mar 2018 - 1 Jan 2019
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Research Essay: Centaurs and Satyrs19 Feb 2018 - 28 Jun 2018
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Research Essay: Herakles in the James Logie Collection’s Glass Lantern Slide Collection19 Feb 2018 - 22 Jun 2018
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Thesis: Aspects of Euripides' Cyclops1 Feb 2018 - 1 Nov 2018
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Thesis: The Comic Heroism of Odysseus in Homer’s Iliad20 Feb 2016 - 15 Nov 2016
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Thesis: Aspects of Art, Erôs and Pity: Visual Artworks in the Tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides20 Feb 2015 - 15 Nov 2015
- COURSE TAUGHT1 Feb 2015
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Research Essay: The Problematizing Figure of Ajax expressed in Archaic and Classical Literature and Greek Art’1 Jul 2014 - 15 Nov 2014
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONMA Thesis: Intellectual voices in Herodotus’ narrative of the divine1 Jan 2014 - 1 Jan 2018
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Thesis: Aristophanic Cleon as Burlesque Tyrannical Ogre1 Jan 2013 - 1 Jan 2013
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Thesis: Water is Best: Okeanos and Pontos in Early Greek Epic1 Jan 2013 - 1 Jan 2013
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Thesis: Brain and Brawn: Perceptions of Athletic Skill and Sophia in Homer and Pindar1 Jan 2012 - 1 Jan 2012
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Thesis: 'The Various Opinions in Euripides' Electra: the Views on Clytaemestra'1 Jan 2011 - 1 Jan 2011
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Thesis: Homeric Echoes: Emotion & Ambivalence In Early Greek Art1 Jan 2011 - 1 Jan 2012
- COURSE TAUGHTCLAS460: APPROACHES TO CLASSICAL STUDIES: CONCEPTS OF CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD1 Feb 2010 - 31 Oct 2017
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Thesis: 'Herakles from Antiquity to Aotearoa: Aspects of the Hero in Ancient Literature and Modern New Zealand Art'1 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2010
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONPhD Thesis: Antisthenes’ Odysseus: its Context in Ancient Literature and Culture1 Jan 2010 - 31 May 2017
- COURSE TAUGHT2 Feb 2009
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONBA Honours Thesis: 'The use and Abuse of Achilles in Catullus and Ovid'1 Jan 2009 - 1 Jan 2009
