Ronald Legon

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1966

Fulbright Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford University, 1964-1965

Courses Taught

University of Baltimore

History 310: Ancient Civilization

IDIS 304: Arts and Ideas

Teaching Experience

Professor 1992- University of Baltimore

Visiting Professor 1983-1994 University of Chicago

Professor 1982-1992 University of Illinois at Chicago

Visiting Associate Professor 1982 University of Chicago

Associate Professor 1970-1982 University of Illinois at Chicago

Assistant Professor 1967-1970 University of Illinois at Chicago

Assistant Professor 1966-1967 Brooklyn College, CUNY

Instructor 1965-1966 Brooklyn College, CUNY

Current Research

Member of the Copenhagen Polis Centre, a group of twenty international scholars compiling a comprehensive survey of all the Greek city-states (poleis) during the archaic and classical periods. Responsible for chapter on the Isthmus states, Korinth, Megara, Sikyon, etc., in volume to be published by Oxford University Press in 1998.

Relations among the Greek city-states, 6th - 4th centuries, B. C.

Fifth Century B. C. Greek Historiography

Book

Megara: The Political History of a Greek City-State to 336 B.C., Cornell University Press (Ithaca, 1981) 324 pp. Selected by Choice as "an outstanding academic book for 1981."

Selected Articles

"Thucydides and the Case for Contemporary History" in Polis and Polemos; Essays in Honor of Donald Kagan, ed. by Charles D. Hamilton and Peter Krentz, Regina Press (Claremont, CA, 1997), pp. 1-21.

"Teaching Homer as History," in Approaches to the Teaching of Homer, Modern Language Association, ed. by K. Myrsiades. (New York, 1987) pp. 89-95.

"Ancient Greece" in World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago, 1987) Vol. G, pp. 350-367.

"The Megarian Decree and the Balance of Greek Naval Power," Classical Philology 58 (1973) pp. 161-171.

"Samos in the Delian League," Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte 21 (1971) pp. 145-158.

"The Peace of Nicias," The Journal of Peace Research (1969) pp. 321-332.

"Megara and Mytilene," Phoenix: The Journal of the Classical Association of Canada 22 (1968) pp. 200-226.

"Phliasian Politics and Policy in the Early Fourth Century B.C.," Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte 16 (1967) pp. 324-337.

Foreign Research and Travel

Greece, Italy, Great Britain, Denmark

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