Mark E. Landon

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

Specialization
Classical archaeology

Mark Landon is trained as both a classicist and an archaeologist. He enjoys teaching courses on a wide variety of topics, from Latin poetry to the art and architecture of ancient Greece.

After receiving his B.A. in classics at the University of California, Berkeley, Landon spent two years at King's College, Cambridge, as a Marshall Scholar and earned a second B.A. before returning to Berkeley to complete his studies in classical archaeology. From 1990 to 1994, he lived and worked in Greece as a Fulbright Scholar and fellow of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He has excavated at the sites of Corinth and Nemea in southern Greece, and in the course of his work on the water supply of ancient Corinth he spent several months exploring the network of subterranean supply tunnels and sewers that still lie buried beneath ruins of the Greek and Roman city (a task that required a prodigious number of flashlight batteries and a high level of tolerance for the company of bats).

Landon is the author of "Beyond Peirene: Toward a Broader View of Corinthian Water Supply" in Corinth XX: The Centenary, 1896-1996 (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2003). Before coming to Mount Holyoke, Landon held positions at a number of institutions, including Ohio University, Cornell University, and the College of the Holy Cross.