Donald J. Mastronarde, Melpomene Professor of Classics

University of California
Department of Classics
7233 Dwinelle Hall #2520
Berkeley CA 94720-2520

Tel. 510-642-4099, FAX 510-643-2959
e-mail djmastronarde@berkeley.edu

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Professor Mastronarde grew up in Connecticut and was educated at Amherst College, Oxford University, and the University of Toronto. He has taught at UC Berkeley since 1973 and served as Chair of the Department of Classics from 1993 to 2000. He was appointed Melpomene Professor of Classics in 2001. He is Director of the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, a new campus research project. He is the author of a widely used textbook for elementary ancient Greek and an associated web site. He took over support of the GreekKeys font and input program for the American Philological Association in 2001 and has further developed the product through the transition to the standard font encoding known as Unicode. In a more traditional vein of scholarship, he has published extensively on the ancient Athenian tragedian Euripides and various aspects of ancient drama, including interpretation, staging and dramatic technique, textual studies, and commentaries.

The undergraduate courses he has taught most often include Intensive Elementary Greek (Greek 10), Greek Tragedy (Classics 35), Introduction to Greek Civilization (Classics 10A), Greek Drama and Society (Greek 102), and Classics 24 (Freshman Seminar, on various topics). At the graduate level he has taught the proseminar (Classics 200), survey course (Classics 201A or 201B), Advanced Greek Prose Composition (Classics 250), and seminars in Euripides, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Aristotle's Poetics, and Greek Elegiac and Iambic Poetry.

For more information see CV and bibliography.

Class web materials and other links:

Greek 10, Sp 2009, Syllabus

Greek Script on the UC Berkeley Campus

Transliteration of Greek into English (pdf document)

Classified verb list with principal parts for study

Classics 10A Fall 2008 on bSpace (login required)

Classics 10A Fall 2008: additional materials on this site

Syllabus for Classics 10A: Intro to Greek Civilization

Working paper for Critical Editions Seminar at 2008 APA, revised Jan. 10, 2008

Dictys of Crete: Transcription of P.Tebt. 268 based on study of new multi-spectral images.

Report of the Joint APA-AIA Task Force on Electronic Publication

Link for APh and TLG demo (rev. 08/23/08)

Presentation (text, handout, slides) on Unicode for Classicists at Montreal APA Jan. 2006

Computing Resource Guide09 for Classics faculty, graduate students, research visitors

Demotic Egyptian Transliteration and Unicode: information and free keyboards

Coptic Unicode: information and free keyboards

List of corrections in reprintings of Introduction to Attic Greek and of Answer Key

Greek 102: Structure of Tragedy document.

Proseminar Handy URLs listing