
Areas of Expertise
- Ancient Greek history and historiography
- Political, social, and cultural history of classical Athens
- Greek rhetoric and oratory
Employment
- Associate Professor of Classics, University of Florida, 2006-
- Associate Professor of Classics and History, University of Wisconsin, 2003-2005
- Assistant Professor of Classics and History, University of Wisconsin, 1998-2003
- Assistant Professor of the Classics, Harvard University, 1996-1998
Selected Publications
- “Was Lysias 1 Delivered in an Athenian Court?” Scripta Classica Israelica 44 (2025): 93–113.
- “Ritual, Commemoration, and Memory in the Ancient Mediterranean World,” in Cultural History of War in Antiquity, edited by Gregory Viggiano (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2025), 185–202.
- “Xenophon on the Violence of the Thirty,” in Xenophon on Violence, edited by Aggelos Kapellos (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019), 169–185.
- Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens: Sources for Athenian History, with Konstantinos Kapparis (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2011).
- Remembering Defeat: Civil War and Civic Memory in Ancient Athens (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002).
Contact Information
- Email: wolpert@ufl.edu
- Phone: 352-273-3702
- Office: 138 Dauer Hall