Elliott Piros
Lecturer of Classics and Archaeology
Media
Biography
Dr Elliott Piros received his PhD in Classics from UCLA in 2019 with a dissertation on the Hispano-Roman poet Martial, whose books of epigrams provide valuable and vivid evidence of social life in Imperial Rome. He has taught courses on Greco-Roman antiquity and global ancient history at several institutions: the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Western Kentucky University, Cal State University, Northridge, and UCLA. Among other things, Dr Piros researches the aesthetic dimension of Roman monetary cultures, ancient queer histories, and Roman performance genres such as the dance type known as pantomime. In teaching and publishing, Dr Piros presents the ancient Mediterranean and hinterlands in relation both to other ancient societies and to events occurring on a geological time scale. But he often finds that the best inroads into and uses of the past come from the dilemmas of the world today.
Education
University of California, Los Angeles
PhD
Classics
2019
University of California, Los Angeles
MA
Classics
2015
University of Puget Sound
BA
Classical Languages and Literature
2012
Social
Areas of Expertise
Greek and Latin Novels
Roman Poetry
Classics
Roman Social and Economic History
Accomplishments
Citation for Teaching Excellence
2018
Department of Classics, UCLA
David A. Lupher Philology Prize
2012
University of Puget Sound
Affiliations
- FIGLIF (First-Generation Low-Income Federation) : Founding member, provisional board member, membership coordinator
Event Appearances
“Just as Honeycomb”: Queer Money in Petronius’ cena Trimalchionis
2021 meeting of the Society for Classical Studies Online
2021-01-01
“Full of awareness and life”: The Body of Marius Gratidianus in the Literary Tradition
50th meeting of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest Eugene, Oregon
2020-03-01
Martial and the Pantomime
Spring 2020 meeting of the North Carolina Classical Association Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2020-02-01
Articles
The Materiality of Monetary Value in Martial’s Epigrams
Classical AntiquityThis paper examines representations of money in the epigrams of Martial. I argue that Martial’s poetics are deeply influenced by some of money’s economic functions, even if many of these functions are approached through networks of amicitia.
