Sarah Bolmarcich
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Phone: 480-965-0528
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Durham Hall 402C School of International Letters and Cultures Postal Code 0202 Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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Philadelphia born and bred, Sarah Bolmarcich attended Smith College in Northampton, MA. She went from there to graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (post-baccalaureate program), and at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. She studied abroad at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens as a Fulbright Scholar (2002-2003) and returned on a postdoctoral fellowship in 2004-2005. A summer fellowship at the American Numismatic Society in New York City, NY, gave her a background in ancient numismatics.
She has lived and taught in Baltimore, MD (Loyola College); Ann Arbor, MI (University of Michigan); Austin, TX (University of Texas); Minneapolis, MN (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities); and San Antonio, TX (Trinity University), before arriving at Arizona State University in the fall semester of 2010.
She works on ancient Greek international relations and diplomacy, and publishes often on that topic, as well as papers and articles on Greek history and literature in general.
- Fellow, American Numismatic Society, summer 2005
- Jacob Hirsch Fellow, American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece 2004-05
- Fulbright Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece 2002-2003
- Ph.D. Classics, University of Virginia 2003
- Summer Session II, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece 2000
- M.A. Classics, University of Virginia 1998
- B.A. Classics and Comparative Literature, Smith College 1995
- ancient Greek and Roman international relations and diplomacy
- ancient Greek and Roman history and historiography
- Greek and Roman epigraphy
Publications (*=refereed publication; §=invited publication)
*§Review of S. Scharff, Eid und Außenpolitik: Studien zur religiösen Fundierung der Akzeptanz
zwischenstaatlicher Vereinbarungen im vorrömischen Griechenland (Franz Steiner Verlag
2016) for sehepunkte: Review Journal for History (forthcoming, 2017)
*§With G. M. Muskett (University of Liverpool), “Artists’ Signatures on Archaic Greek Vases,” for
The Artistic Personality in Ancient Greece, eds. K. E. Seaman and P. Schultz (Cambridge 2017): 154-176
*§“Global contexts: the military, federal states, empire, colonization, and international relations:
The Greek democratic context,” in: D. Hammer, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Democracies and Republics: A Comparative Approach (Blackwell 2015): 313-328
“Beyond the Three-Barred Sigma: IG i3 11,” in: J. Bodel and N. Dimitrova, First North American
Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy: Proceedings (Brill 2014): 54-66
§Review of J. Fletcher, Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama (Cambridge 2012),
Mnemosyne 66.3 (2013): 489-492
§Review of J. Ma, N. Papazardakas, and R. Parker, eds., Interpreting the Athenian Empire
(Duckworth 2009), Hermathena 189 (Winter 2013): 103-107
§“The Art of Negotiation in the Peloponnesian War Period,” Maintaining Peace and Interstate
Stability in Archaic and Classical Greece, ed. J. Wilker (Verlag Antike, 2012): 78-91
*§Entries on “Adeimantus,” “Diplomacy, Greek,” “Oaths, Greek and Roman,” “Spondai,” “Stelae,
Greek,” “Symmachia,” and “Themistocles” for the Encyclopedia of Ancient History, eds. R.
Bagnall et al., Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
§Review of L. Tritle, A New History of the Peloponnesian War (Wiley-Blackwell 2010), Classical
Review 61.1 (April 2011): 190-191
*“Communal Values in Ancient Diplomacy, in: Penn-Leiden V: Valuing Others in Antiquity,
eds. R. Rosen and I. Sluiter, Brill 2010, 113-136
*“The Athenian Regulations for Samos (IG i3 48) Again,” Chiron (2009): 45-64
*§Entries on “Assembly (Ekklesia),” “Civil War (stasis),” “Council/Boule,” “Demes,”
“Friendship,” “Metic,” and “Phratry,” for The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. M. Gagarin (Oxford 2009)
*“The Date of the ‘Oath of the Peloponnesian League’,” Historia 57.1 (2008): 65-79
§Review of P. Low, Interstate Relations in Classical Greece: Morality and Power (Cambridge
2007), International History Review (2008): 344-346
§Review of D. Shanske, Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History (Cambridge 2007),
Classical Review 58.1 (2008): 45-47
*“The Afterlife of a Treaty,” Classical Quarterly 57.2 (2007): 13-25
*“Oaths in Greek International Relations,” in A. H. Sommerstein and J. Fletcher, eds., Horkos
(Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007): 26-38
*“Introduction” to J. B. Bury, The Ancient Greek Historians, Barnes & Noble 2006
*“Thucydides 1.19.1 and the Peloponnesian League,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 45.1
(February 2005): 5-34
“Hellenistic Sepulchral Epigrams on Homer.” in M. A. Harder et al., eds., Hellenistic Epigrams:
Fifth Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry (Peeters, 2002): 67-83
*“Homophrosyne in the Odyssey,” Classical Philology 96.3 (July 2001): 205-213
Work in Progress/under Review/under Revision (*=refereed publication; §=invited publication)
*§”Definitions of Peace in Antiquity,” for A Cultural History of Peace, general ed. R. Edsforth, editor of the volume on antiquity S. Ager (expected publication, Bloomsbury 2018)
§Entries on “Pausanias (Spartan king), “Peloponnesian League,” “allies,” “Ariston king of Sparta,” “Anaxandrides son of Leon,” “Archidamus son of Zeuxidamus,” “Astrabacus,” “Eurysthenes,” “Hegesicles,” “Lampito,” “Leobatas,” “Leon king of Sparta,” “Percalus,” and “Procles son of Aristodemus,” for the International Encyclopedia of Herodotus, ed. C. S. Baron (expected publication, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017)
“What Did the Oath of the Delian League Mean?” (article, in progress)
Sparta: A Sourcebook (in progress)
Thucydides and the Diplomacy of Empire (monograph, in progress)
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| GRK 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| GRK 302 | Ancient Greek Literature II |
| SLC 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| GRK 493 | Honors Thesis |
| GRK 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SLC 493 | Honors Thesis |
| GRK 301 | Ancient Greek Literature I |
| GRK 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| LAT 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| GRK 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SLC 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| SLC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| GRK 294 | Special Topics |
| SLC 294 | Special Topics |
| LAT 294 | Special Topics |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| GRK 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| GRK 302 | Ancient Greek Literature II |
| SLC 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| GRK 493 | Honors Thesis |
| GRK 494 | Special Topics |
| LAT 598 | Special Topics |
| LAT 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 493 | Honors Thesis |
| GRK 301 | Ancient Greek Literature I |
| GRK 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| LAT 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SLC 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| SLC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| GRK 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| GRK 302 | Ancient Greek Literature II |
| SLC 493 | Honors Thesis |
| SLC 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| GRK 493 | Honors Thesis |
| GRK 494 | Special Topics |
| LAT 598 | Special Topics |
| LAT 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 493 | Honors Thesis |
| GRK 301 | Ancient Greek Literature I |
| GRK 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| LAT 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| SLC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| GRK 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SLC 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| SLC 590 | Reading and Conference |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| GRK 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| GRK 302 | Ancient Greek Literature II |
| SLC 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| GRK 493 | Honors Thesis |
| GRK 352 | Rise & Fall of Ancient Athens |
| SLC 352 | Rise & Fall of Ancient Athens |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| GRK 301 | Ancient Greek Literature I |
| GRK 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| LAT 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| GRK 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SLC 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| LIA 194 | Special Topics |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| GRK 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| GRK 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| GRK 201 | Intermediate Ancient Greek |
| SLC 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| GRK 493 | Honors Thesis |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 194 | Special Topics |
| LAT 194 | Special Topics |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| GRK 101 | Elementary Ancient Greek |
| GRK 301 | Ancient Greek Literature I |
| GRK 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| LAT 421 | Roman Literature |
| LAT 598 | Special Topics |
| LAT 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| GRK 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| SLC 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 140 | Grk&Lat Roots Biosctfc Trmnlgy |
| GRK 140 | Grk&Lat Roots Biosctfc Trmnlgy |
| LAT 140 | Grk&Lat Roots Biosctfc Trmnlgy |
| BIO 140 | Grk&Lat Roots Biosctfc Trmnlgy |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| GRK 140 | Grk&Lat Roots Biosctfc Trmnlgy |
| LAT 140 | Grk&Lat Roots Biosctfc Trmnlgy |
| SLC 140 | Grk&Lat Roots Biosctfc Trmnlgy |
| BIO 140 | Grk&Lat Roots Biosctfc Trmnlgy |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| GRK 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| GRK 302 | Ancient Greek Literature II |
| GRK 494 | Special Topics |
| SLC 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 142 | Ancient Greek Civilization |
| GRK 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| GRK 493 | Honors Thesis |
| GRK 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| LAT 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 223 | Intro to Greek & Roman Myth |
| SLC 194 | Special Topics |
| LAT 194 | Special Topics |
Papers Delivered
2013 “Teaching Classical Civilization Online,” moderator, Round Table Session, American Philological Association Annual Meeting
2011 “Introduction to Greek Epigraphy,” Professor Lecture, Solis Diaboli, Arizona State University
“Beyond the Three-Barred Sigma: IG i3 11,” American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy conference, San Antonio, TX
2010 “Justice in Greek International Relations,” conference on Justice in the Greco-Roman World, University of Western Ontario
2009 “The Art of Negotiation in the Peloponnesian War Period,” Harvard University, symposium on Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in the Ancient World
2008 “Communal Values in Ancient Diplomacy,” Penn-Leiden Colloquium V: Valuing Others in Antiquity
“Is imperialism infectious? The case of Athens and Sparta,” University at Buffalo-SUNY
2007 “The tyrant-metaphor in Thucydides: negative or positive?”, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Reed College
“The Philaïd Coinage of the Thracian Chersonesus,” panel on “The Function of Numismatic Iconography: Authority or Message?”, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting
2005 “The Philaïd Coinage of the Thracian Chersonesus: Miltiades the Younger and Early Athenian Imperialism?,” American Numismatic Society
“Thucydides and the Constraints of Hegemony,” panel on “Beyond the Cold War: Thucydides and the Discourse of International Relations,” American Philological Association Annual Meeting
2004 “Samos and Lesbos in the Athenian Empire,” American School of Classical Studies at Athens
“Oaths in Greek International Relations,” at “The Oath in Greek Society” conference, University of Nottingham, England
“Thucydidean Diplomacy and the Athenian Empire,” Bryn Mawr College
2003 “Herodotus vs. Thucydides,” University of Maryland, College Park
2002 “Thucydides 1.44.1 and the Terminology of Athenian Diplomacy,” American Philological Association Annual Meeting
2000 “Dead Poet’s Society: Hellenistic Sepulchral Epigrams on Homer,” Fifth Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry, Groningen, the Netherlands
1999 “The Songless Sirens of Apollonius Rhodius,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting
1998 “How Does Telemachus Know? The Reunion of Father and Son in Odyssey 16,” American Philological Association Annual Meeting
“Fate and Fury: Pompey’s Wives in Lucan’s de Bello Civili,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting - Southern Section
“Homophrosyne in the Odyssey,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting
1997 “Subject to Debate: Questions of Leadership in Apollonius’s Argonautica,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting
Awards and Honors
Summer 2014 Undergraduate Student Enrichment (USE) award for a summer research assistant for Sparta: A Sourcebook, Arizona State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Summer 2008 Macatee Fellowship for research in Britain, University of Texas at Austin
Summer 2006 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant, Harvard University
2004-2005 Jacob Hirsch Fellowship (Senior Associate Member), American School of Classical Studies at Athens
2002-2003 Fulbright Fellowship to Greece, Institute of International Education; Honorary Martin Ostwald Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
2001-2002 Dissertation Fellowship, University of Virginia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
1998-2001 DuPont Fellowship, University of Virginia
1997-1998 Dean of the Faculty Fellowship, University of Virginia
1997 Basil L. Gildersleeve Fellowship, University of Virginia Department of Classics.
1995 Smith College, prize for the translation of Latin at sight
Employment
2010-on Multi-Year Lecturer, School of International Languages and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
- Appointed Honors Faculty in the Barrett Honors College, fall 2014
2009-10 Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
2008-09 Temporary Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2006-08 Visiting Lecturer in Classics, University of Texas, Austin, TX
2005-06 Visiting Lecturer in Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2003-04 Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Loyola College-Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Professional Service/Outreach
2017-2018 Guest speaker, “Women in the Ancient World,” Venture Out, Mesa, AZ
Taught mini-course on Ancient Greek Civilization for ASU-OLLI (Tempe Public Library)
Ran a practicum on hoplite tactics at Fall Forum, Arizona State University
Guest lecturer at ASU-OLLI (Maravilla), “Women in the Ancient World”
ACETS evaluator for Latin transfer credits, Arizona State University
Speaker for the Spirit of the Senses salon group, Scottsdale, AZ
- Topic(s): Women in the Ancient World
2016-2019 Member, Student Affairs and Grievances Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University
- Served as chair, 2017-2018
2016-2017 Pedagogical reviewer for instructors and single-year lecturers in the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University
Ran a practicum on hoplite tactics at Fall Forum, Arizona State University, and on the Ancient Olympics at ASU’s Night of the Open Door
Speaker for the Spirit of the Senses salon group, Scottsdale, AZ
- Topic(s): Hesiod
Guest lecture at ASU-OLLI (Maravilla) “The Golden Age of Athens”
Guest speaker, Arizona Junior Classical League, “Superheroes in the Ancient World”
2015-2016 Pedagogical reviewer for instructors and single-year lecturers in the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University
Ran a practicum on hoplite tactics at Fall Forum, Arizona State University
Speaker for the Spirit of the Senses salon group, Scottsdale, AZ
- Topic(s): Who Was Achilles?, “The Aeneid and Homer”
2014-2015 Pedagogical reviewer for instructors and single-year lecturers in the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University
Outside reviewer for tenure, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Ran a practicum on hoplite tactics at Fall Forum, Arizona State University
Speaker for the Spirit of the Senses salon group, Scottsdale, AZ
- Topic(s): Ovid’s Metamorphoses
2013-2016 Elected member of the Student Affairs and Grievances Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, 2013-2016
- Served as chair, 2013-2014
2013-2014 Member, ad hoc Student Affairs and Grievances Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, summer 2013
Latin Certamen speaker (on ancient monsters), Seton Catholic Preparatory School, Chandler, AZ
Ran a practicum on hoplite tactics at Fall Forum, Arizona State University
Speaker for the Spirit of the Senses salon group, Scottsdale, AZ
- Topics: The Fall of the Roman Empire, 1000 BC
2012-13 Latin Certamen speaker (on gladiators), Seton Catholic Preparatory School, Chandler, AZ
Presented a practicum on Roman Elections at Fall Forum and Night of the Open Door, Arizona State University
2011-12 Speaker for the Spirit of the Senses salon group, Scottsdale, AZ
- Topics: The Golden Age of Athens, Roman Religion
Saturnalia speaker at Brophy Preparatory School, Phoenix, AZ
Ran a practicum on hoplite tactics at Fall Forum, Arizona State University
Presented panels on Gladiators, Ancient Marriage, Ancient Coins, Roman Elections, and Digitizing Ancient Rome at The Night of the Open Door, Arizona State University
Developed temporary website for Arizona State University Classics program (http://www.public.asu.edu/~sbolmarc/). Now replaced by Classics page on the School of International Letters and Cultures website.
2006-08 Available through the University of Texas at Austin for outreach talks on Ancient Sparta and the Battle of Actium (the latter tied to the AP Latin Horace/Vergil syllabus). Talks given on Sparta to Warren High School, San Antonio, TX, and Austin Community College-Northridge, History Symposium, Austin, TX.
2006 Set and graded Ph.D. qualifying examinaton in Greek History, University of Texas at Austin
2003 “The Battle of Actium,” Loyola Seminar for High School Teachers of Latin
1998 Co-organizer, University of Virginia Second Annual Classics Graduate Student Conference, “Heroine and Whore: The Role of the Female on the Ancient Stage.”
Referee, Classical Journal, Classical Quarterly
Reader, Yale University Press, Hackett Publishing Company, Wolters Klewer Health