Kevin Crotty

Crotty’s courses include Classical Mythology; Homer; and Law, Litigation and Justice in the Ancient World. His research interests include myth, archaic Greek poetry, Plato and legal theory.

Kevin Crotty

Kevin Crotty

Professor of Classics, The J. Donald Childress Professor in Foreign Languages

On Leave

Education

  • Harvard Law, JD 1984
  • Yale Ph.D. (Classics) 1975
  • Columbia University, BA 1971

Research

  • Myth, Archaic Greek Poetry, Plato, Legal Theory

Teaching

  • CLAS 201: Classical Myth
  • CLAS 208: Classical Epic Tradition from Homer to Joyce
  • Democracy, Law and Litigation in Ancient Athens
  • Several Courses in Advanced Ancient Greek, including:  Homer, Tragedy, Greek History, Greek Philosophy

Selected Publications

  • The Philosopher’s Song: The Poets’ Influence on Plato (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2009)
  • Law’s Interior: Legal and Literary Constructions of the Self (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001)
  • The Poetics of Supplication: Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994)
  • Song and Action: The Victory Odes of Pindar (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982)