William G. Thalmann

William Gregory Thalmann (born 1947) is an American classical scholar, known for his work on ancient Greek literature from the archaic to the Hellenistic period.

Biography Thalmann was born in 1947. He was educated at Amherst College, graduating BA in 1969, and then at Yale University, obtaining his PhD in 1975, with a thesis titled "The Seven Against Thebes of Aeschylus: A Study in Dramatic Technique".

He then served as an assistant and associate professor of Classics at Yale University from 1975 to 1984, and as an associate professor of Classics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges from 1984 to 1987. He then moved to the University of Southern California, serving as Professor of Classics from 1987 to 2001 and as a Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature from 2001 onwards. He is now Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature.

Selected publications