Charles Odahl
Classical Languages Advisor
Classical languages, ancient and medieval
208-426-3220
codahl@boisestate.edu
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Charles Odahl holds BA and MA degrees in European History and Classical Languages from the California State University system, and a Ph.D. degree in Greek, Roman, and Medieval European History from the University of California, San Diego (1976). He has served at Boise State University since 1975, and teaches history courses in Western Civilization, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Augustus & the Golden Age of Rome, Early Christianity, Constantine, the Byzantine Empire and Medieval Europe; and Latin courses in Elementary Classical Latin Language & Literature, Advanced Classical Latin Language & Literature, Augustan Age Latin, Early Church Latin, Constantine & the Latin Fathers, and Medieval Latin.

Professor Odahl's research specialties are the Roman Empire, the early Church, and Constantine & late antiquity. He has lived, taught, and traveled extensively in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin studying the extant texts, coins, statuary, architecture and historical sites of the ancient, medieval and Renaissance eras, and has amassed a personal collection of over 7000 slides and prints of relevant material he uses to great advantage in classroom lectures and professional and public presentations. His recent publications include a textbook on Early Christian Latin Literature (Chicago, 1993); articles on "A Pagan's Reaction to Constantine's Conversion - Religious References in the Trier Panegyric of A.D. 313" in The Ancient World (1990), "Constantine's Epistle to the Bishops at the Council of Arles - A Defense of Imperial Authorship," in The Journal of Religious History (1993), "The Christian Basilicas of Constantinian Rome," in The Ancient World (1995), and "God and Constantine: Divine Sanction for Imperial Rule in the First Christian Emperor's Early Letters and Art," in The Catholic Historical Review (1995), and four articles on Constantinian topics in the Encyclopedia of the Ancient World; plus numerous book reviews in The Ancient World, Church History, The Catholic Historical Review, and The Historian. His forthcoming book entitled Constantine and the Christian Empire is scheduled for publication in spring 2004 (London & New York: Routledge).

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