John Marincola (Ph.D., Brown) is the Leon Golden Professor of Classics. He specializes in Greek and Roman historiography and rhetoric. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (Cambridge, 1997), Greek Historians (Oxford, 2001), and (with Michael A. Flower) Herodotus: Histories Book IX (Cambridge, 2002).  He has edited A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography (Blackwell, 2007) and co-edited (with Carolyn Dewald) the Cambridge Companion to Herodotus (Cambridge, 2006); he has revised the Penguin edition of Herodotus' Histories (1996; further revised edition, 2003), and will soon publish a revision of Plutarch's Rise and Fall of Athens (Penguin, 2007). He has written articles on many Greek and Roman historians and is currently at work on a book on Hellenistic historiography.

Recent and forthcoming graduate courses at FSU include Hesiod, Herodotus, Josephus, Thucydides, and Sallust, as well as a seminar on problems in Hellenistic history.