Name: Stylianos Spyridakis
Profession: Professor
Email: svspyridakis@ucdavis.edu
Professor Spyridakis teaches History at UCD. He was born in Crete and grew up in Greece. He got his PHD at UCLA in Ancient History. He is currently married and has two sons. There are many awesome things about this man but the best are his jokes, and he received the Academic Senate's Distinguished Teaching Award as well as the Excellence in Education Award and Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award. He has taught thousands of students since he came to UCD in 1967. Spyridakis loves the ancient world, the Agean and Crete. He has published many books which include:
The Voice of the People: Mantinades of Crete. Modern Greek Research Series, vol. 12, 2004.
Mantinades: Selected Love Distichs of Crete, Series, Hellenism - Ancient - Medieval - Modern, vol. 23, 1997.
Ancient Greece: Documentary Perspectives with B. Nystrom, Second Edition, Kendall-Hunt, 1997.
Ancient Rome: Documentary Perspectives (with B. Nystrom) Kendall-Hunt, Second Edition 1995.
Cretica: Studies on Ancient Crete. Series Hellenism - Ancient, Medieval, Modern vol. 10, 1992.
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2008-05-16 19:25:12 One of my favorite professors as an undergrad. His lectures on the history of the Roman Empire were amazing. —IDoNotExist
2008-05-17 08:25:28 I took both Greek and Roman history with Dr. Spyridakis. He is one of the best professors at UC Davis. I highly recommend taking at least one course with him—regardless of major. You'll be better for it. —CurlyGirl26
2008-05-17 11:22:30 He teaches 111A (Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt), 111B (ancient Greece), and 111C (ancient Rome) in fall, winter, and spring respectively. I highly recommend taking at least one, because he actually makes history interesting for non-history people. It's a fun class and you can always count on some funny tangents. I think my favorite quote from Winter 2008: "My friends, love does not last forever... but herpes does!" (2/6/08). —RyanCoates
