Benjamin Haller received a B.A., Summa Cum Laude, in Classics with a specialization in Ancient Greek from the College of William and Mary and a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Pittsburgh.  His dissertation addressed poetics of landscape description in Homer's Odyssey.  In addition to being Coordinator for the Classics Department, he has served as Co-Chair of the Educational Programs Committee, and will begin serving as Faculty Secretary in Fall of 2012.  He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and is active in a number of regional and national professional organizations.

Journals

Haller, Benjamin S. (forthcoming). 2013. “Duplicitous Dolios: Alternative Narratives of Odysseus’ Nostos in Odyssey 4 and 24." Transactions of the American Philological Association 134.2

Haller, Benjamin S. (forthcoming). “Exoteric Edens and Esoteric Classicism: Francis Daniel Pastorius and Augustan Poetry.”  Classical World.

Haller, Benjamin S. (forthcoming). 2013. “Homeric Parody, the Isle of the Blessed, and the Nature of Paideia in Lucian's Verae Historiae.” In Reception: Transactions of the International Conference on the Ancient Novel In Lisbon, Portugal, July 2008.

Haller, Benjamin S. 2009. "The Gates of Horn and Ivory in Odyssey 19: Penelope's Call for Deeds, Not Words." Classical Philology 104:397-417.

Encyclopedias

Haller, Benjamin S. 2011. "Doulichion." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell. 

------. 2011. "Echinades." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell. 

------. 2011. "Geography." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell. 

------. 2011. "Ionian Islands." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell. 

------. 2011. "Ithaca." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell. 

------. 2011. "Landscape." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell. 

------. 2011. "Zakynthos." In Blackwell Homer Encyclopedia, ed. Margalit Finkelberg. Oxford: Blackwell.

------. 2009. "Antigone." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. Michael Gagarin. New York: Oxford University Press.

------. 2009. "Narcissus." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. Michael Gagaarin. New
York: Oxford University Press.

------. 2009. “Pandora.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. Michael Gagarin. New
York: Oxford University Press.

------. 2009 “Pygmalion.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. Michael Gagarin. New York:  Oxford University Press.

• Ancient Greek Language, Literature, and Culture
• Homer
• Ancient Greek Epic
• Ancient Latin Language, Literature, and Culture