Faculty Experts- Classics
Name: Owen CramerTitle: M.C. Gile Professor of Classics
Office phone: (719) 389-6443
E-mail: ocramer@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: B.A. Oberlin College, 1962; Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, 1973
Came to CC in: 1965
Courses taught at CC: Current courses: Reinvention of the Greeks (history and culture, 1500 BC - the present); Latin for Beginners; reading courses in Latin and Greek; The Romans (culture/history from early Iron Age to Late Antiquity); The Invention of History (ancient history writers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius).
Previous courses: Introduction to Comparative Literature; Athenian Democracy; Ancient Multicultures; Greek Language; seminar on comedy (Aristophanes to the 20th century); Epic into Novel. Also have co-taught Comprehensive Foundations of Education and Arts and Humanities for MAT students and experienced teachers.
Areas of expertise: Homer and other ancient Greek writers: Achilles in Vietnam; ancient heroics and modern war-fighting; Athenian democracy: How democracy came into the world, Democracy and imperialism - ancient and modern; Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Late Antiquity from Hadrian to the Muslim Conquests): "Why isn't 'Gladiator' a good picture of what went wrong in the Roman Empire?"
Major publications: Papers on "Speech and Silence in the [Homeric] Iliad" (Classical Journal 1976) and the formulaic epic diction in the Odyssey (Transactions of the American Philological Association 1974).
Other areas of personal/professional interest: Music; travel to Greece, Germany, France, Italy, Japan; politics: the Mike Merrifield campaign, 2002; education
Pertinent biographical information: Lived in Greece in the late 1950's and graduated from high school there; classical music critic of the Colorado Springs Sun before it went extinct in 1986
Name: Marcia Dobson
Title: Professor
Office phone: (719) 389- 6442
E-mail: mdobson@ColoradoCollege.edu
Education: Ph.D. Harvard University, classical philology; Ph.D. Pacifica Graduate Institute, clinical psychology with emphasis on depth psychology
Came to CC: 1976
Courses: Ancient Greek and Latin; Myth and Meaning; Discovering the Unconscious; Ancient Greek Drama; Greek History and Philosophy; Myth and Symbol: The Life of C.G. Jung
Areas of expertise: Classical mythology; depth psychology (C.G. Jung); dreams and the unconscious; psychoanalysis in the contemporary world - Freud's legacy; selfpsychology; write and present in the fields of ancient Greek myth and drama in relation to psychoanalysis in its various forms (especially Jung and Heinz Kohut)
Major publications: Various articles on myth
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