St. Bonaventure University

Faculty Emeriti


Matz, David S

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  • ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT
    Classics
    ACADEMIC SCHOOL
    School of Arts and Sciences

    TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES
    Professor Emeritus, Classics
    CONTACT
    OFFICE
    COURSES TAUGHT
    • Latin (all levels)
    • Greek Civilization
    • Roman Civilization
    • Homer's Iliad (Honors)
    ACADEMIC DEGREES
    • Ph.D., University of Minnesota
    • M.A., University of Minnesota
    • B.A., Lawrence University
    OTHER EDUCATION
    PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
    ACCOMPLISHMENTS

    Books Published: 

    • Greek and Roman Sport: A Dictionary of Athletes and Events. McFarland & Company, 1991.
    • Ancient World Lists and Numbers. McFarland & Company, 1995.
    • An Ancient Rome Chronology 264-27 B.C. McFarland & Company, 1997.
    • Famous Firsts in the Greek and Roman World. McFarland & Company, 2000.
    • Daily Life of the Ancient Romans. Greenwood Press, 2002. Republished in soft cover by Hackett Publications, 2008.
    • Daily Life Through World History in Primary Documents. Volume I: The Ancient World. Greenwood Press, 2009.
    • Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life. ABC-CLIO, 2012.
    TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
    CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS/PROJECTS
    My latest book, Roman Sports, A-Z.  Athletes, Venues, Events, and Teams (McFarland & Co.) will be published shortly. I’m also working on a book for ABC-CLIO, on common misconceptions about the ancient Greeks.
    PERSONAL INTERESTS/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
    In addition to teaching classes and writing books, I’m also a second baseman/third baseman on an over-50 baseball team in Jamestown, N.Y. We play our games in beautiful Diethrick Park.

    I served as an assistant women’s softball coach at SBU for 10 years, finally "retiring" after the 2011 season, and I’ve also worked as a coach and instructor at Bona Baseball Coach Larry Sudbrook’s two-week summer baseball camps. And I taught a short course on baseball analytics at Chautauqua Institution in the summer of 2019.

    Dr. Matz at bat in his other life:

    Dr. Matz at bat in his other life.


















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