Kyle Mahoney is an archaeologist and ancient historian. He has a B.A. from Gettysburg College in Classics and Greek (2008) and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Ancient History (2016). He joined the Classics faculty at Swarthmore in 2018, and he previously taught at Temple University and Sewanee: The University of the South. Kyle teaches courses on Greek and Roman Archaeology, Ancient History, and Greek and Latin Language.

Kyle is the Assistant Director of the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project in Greece, where he has worked since 2010. He has worked extensively as an archaeologist in Greece, and has particiapated in archaeological research in Italy and Albania. Kyle's interests lie in the study of ancient Greek inscriptions, etymology, Mycenology, the history of the Peloponnese, ancient ethnic identitites,  ancient athletics, and ancient religions.

Website: https://swarthmore.academia.edu/KyleMahoney

Courses

Latin and Greek: Lyric, Pastoral, and Elegiac Poetry (LATN 011); Livy and Early Rome (LATN 036); Intensive First-Year Greek (GREK 001 and 002); Homer’s Iliad (GREK 012); Introduction to Plato’s Republic (GREK 013); Linear B (GREK 016)

Honors Capstone: Greek and Roman Religion: Text, Theory, and Archaeology (CLST 108)

Civilization Courses in Translation: Athletics and the Competitive Spirit in Ancient Greece (CLST 026); Classical Mythology (CLST 036); Ancient Egypt (ANCH 028); Greek Art and Archaeology (ANCH 022); The Roman Republic (ANCH 032)

First Year Seminars: Identities in Antiquity: Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (CLST 010); Rome: The Archaeology of Empire (ANCH 011); The World of the Pharaohs: An Introduction to Egyptology (ANCH 012); In Search of the Trojan War (ANCH 013)

Publications

Beth Shean Studies: A Hellenistic Inscription and a Roman Portrait of Alexander the Great from Nysa-Scythopolis, Their Lives and Afterlives, co-author with Irene Bald Romano (American Philosophical Society)

“Sacrificial Ritual and the Palace of Nestor: A Reanalysis of the Ta Tablets,” co-author with Jacob Morton and Nicholas G. Blackwell, American Journal of Archaeology 127:2 (2023): pp. 167-187.

“The Inscriptions of Mt. Lykaion,” to be published in the series Mt. Lykaion Studies, eds. D.G. Romano, M.E. Voyatzis, M. Petropoulos, and A. Karapanagiotou, Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Forthcoming) (245 pp. + 17 figs.)

“The New Arcadian Festival Calendar and Iliad 7 on Lykourgos and Areithoos,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 213 (2020): pp. 85-97.

“Mycenaean Mt. Lykaion and the Linear B Documents,” in K. Tausend (ed.), Arkadien im Altertum / Ancient Arcadia. Geschichte und Kultur einer antiken Gebirgslandschaft / History and Culture of a Mountainous Region, Graz: Unipress Verlag, 2018, pp. 11-35.

“Mycenaean E-pi-ko-wo and Alphabetic Greek Ἐπίκουρος Revisited,” Kadmos: Zeitschrift für vor- und frühgriechische Epigraphik 56 (2017): pp. 39-88.