Jonathan Vickers

Instructor

BA (Manitoba), MA (Western), PhD (Western)

Office: Lawson Hall 3205A
Email: jvicker6@uwo.ca

 

Special Interests:

Ancient sport, spectacle, and thaumaturgy; Greek literature (broadly, but especially Comedy); the body in Greek culture; children in Greek culture; Greek vase painting; Greek social history.

Teaching (2025-2026):

Latin 1000-002: Introductory Latin

Publications:

  • 2019. “The Lion Cub Ainos, Suppositious Children, and Thesmophoriazusae,” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 162.1: 1-34.
  • 2019. “Equestrian Acrobatics in Archaic Greece,” in Aryballos I: Studies in Honour of Nigel B. Crowther, ed. K. Solez (= Mouseion 16.3: 471-491).
  • 2019. “The Presence of Tumbling in Ancient Greek Athletics,” Nikephoros 27 (2014): 101-120.
  • 2019. Review of T. Heine Nielsen, 2018. Two Studies in the History of Ancient Greek Athletics. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Mouseion 16.2: 365-367.