

Assistant Professor
Stokes Hall South 277
Email: thomas.sapsford@bc.edu
The courses I teach on classical civilization are The Chorus, Ancient and Modern, which looks at group performance from the Athenian tragic stage to contemporary flash mobs, and Greco-Roman Egypt, which explores the cultures of Egypt under the rule of the Ptolemies and Caesars and examines the lives of famous individuals, such as Alexander the Great, Cleopatra VII, as well as the daily lives of the Egyptians, Nubians, Jews, Romans, Greeks, and Arabs who inhabited this multiethnic territory.
In addition, I teach courses on imperial Latin authors in the genres of the Roman novel (Petronius), Satire (Juvenal), and Epigram (Martial).
Tom Sapsford's research interests include performance, gender, and sexuality in both ancient Greek and Roman contexts with a specialization in imperial Latin verse. His current book project explores a figure called the kinaidos/cinaedus, who is known in antiquity for his outrageous gender performance and sexuality as well as for his distinctive style of song and dance.
Sapsford is also working on ancient writings about Greek and Roman dance and has written on adaptations of ancient literature by contemporary choreographers. Work on these research strands has been possible thorough support from the Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the University of Oxford.