David W. Tandy

Academic History

• Ph.D. (Classical Philology), Yale University, 1979
• M.Phil. (Classical Philology), Yale University, 1976
• M.A. (Classical Philology), Yale University, 1974
• B.A. (Greek), Yale College, 1972 

Current Position:

• Professor and Head, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Selected Publications:

• Editor. From Political Economy to Anthropology: Situating Economic Life in Past Societies. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1994 (with C.A.M. Duncan)
• Hesiod's Works and Days. Introduction and Commentary for the Social Sciences. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996 (with Walter C. Neale).
• Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Issued in paperback 2000. 
• Editor. Prehistory and History: Ethnicity, Class and Political Economy. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2001 
• "Greece, Classical and Earlier." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 2.467-472. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
• "Trade and Commerce in Archilochos, Sappho, and Alkaios." In MELAMMU V, edited by Robert Rollinger and Christoph Ulf, 183-194. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004.
• "Lysias 1: A note on a text's background and background noise," Classical Bulletin 81.2(2005):187-193.

My primary current project is Sappho's Brother, an economic history of the archaic period. 

Current Public Service:

• Secretary-Treasurer, Tennessee Classical Association 
• President of the Board, Candoro Arts and Heritage Center
• Member, Finance Committee, Classical Association of the Middle West and South
• Member, Finance Committee, American Philological Association

Contact Information

David W. Tandy
Department of Classics 
1101 McClung Tower 
The University of Tennessee 
Knoxville, TN 37996-0413

Phone: (865) 974-5383 
Fax: (865) 974-7173
dtandy@utk.edu