NEWS FROM MEMBERS 2005-6
BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY
Professor Charles Odahl (Ancient
History and Latin) was the banquet speaker for the conference of
northwest Lutheran Pastors in the spring of 2005. He also led another
"Ancient Capitals and Sacred Sites" Study Tour to Rome, Thessalonica,
and Istanbul in the early summer, taking participants into many sites
not open to the public (e.g., Hagia Eirene Cathedral and St. John
Studion monastery in Istanbul). The four Latin students on the tour who
received subventions from CAPN were most grateful for the monetary
assistance). The 1st edition hardback of Dr. Odahl's book on
Constantine and the Christian Empire went through two printings in
2004--05; and Routledge commissioned him to do an expanded 2nd edition
which comes out in paperback this winter to commemorate the
seventeenhundredth anniversary of Constantine's acclamation to the
emperorship in 306--upgraded maps, new illustrations, and expanded
notes and bibliography make up the bulk of the additions.
Students from the BSU Latin Minor
Certification Program have been placed in many Idaho high schools and
private academies in recent years, including Marilyn Kennings, Carrie
Jackson, Larry Stamps, Thomas Velasco, and Debbie Chester. Two recent
MA graduates in Ancient History and Classical Languages, Kevin Cole and
Aaron Campbell, have gone on to doctoral programs at the University of
Virginia and the University of Arizona respectively. Matthew Recla and
Joshua Haskett are completing their theses on Ancient History topics
(the Martyrs of Sabeste and Hadrian's Wall) this year, and will also be
going on to doctoral studies in the near future.
This fall Professor Odahl helped host (and
wrote a newspaper article about) the famed British religion scholar
Karen Armstrong (A History of God, Jerusalem, etc.), who gave the
university's "Distinguished Lecture" to a sold out crowd in October.
The Boise community continues to have a healthy interest in ancient
history, religion, literature and art; and the university courses in
those subjects taught by Dr. Odahl in history and Dr. Lee Ann Turner in
Art continue to fill to capacity each term.
EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
As of September 2004 Dr. Georgia (Bonnie) Bazemore
has replaced Fred Lauritsen in the History Department of Eastern
Washington University. In the summer of 2006 she plans to return
to her dig on Cyprus, this time bringing several students with her.
Prof. Bazemore writes, “As Fred said, I have
taken over his place in the History Department, and am now the official
ancient historian here. We have started our Classics Club here at
EWU, in which we are now in our second year, and have 15 members, and a
Latin tutor! a student who has been learning Latin with me and can now
teach the class. We are planning on attending as a Club the
Portland Meetings in March, and at least two if not three of our
students hope to present papers. We are looking forward to being active
members of CAPN!”
GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
Andrew Goldman (Gonzaga University) completed his
second excavation season of the Roman town at Gordion, Turkey.
The 2005 field season was a successful one: the discovery of additional
examples of Roman armor and projectile weapons has helped to confirm
that the town was a minor military post, making the site the first
excavated Roman military installation in Turkey. Among his team
of nine people were several Gonzaga students, who were taught field
methodology and ancient history as part of their experience.
He'll be reporting on his recent finds in a lecture at the AIA-APA
meeting in Montreal in early January. He has also continued to
bring in speakers (and is soliciting for more!) for the Archaeology and
Ancient History Lecture Series at Gonzaga that he began last
year. A number of speakers have been booked during the Spring
2006 semester for the second year of the series; if you wish further
information, please email Andy at: goldman@gonzaga.edu. These
lectures are free and open to the public.
LINFIELD COLLEGE
Beverly Berg is still teaching ancient history part
time at Linfield College in McMinnville Oregon, and taking students to
Greece or Italy during January abroad. She also works part time
for Pirages Rare Books, writing the descriptions of contents for the
catalogue, and generally telling them what the Latin means. She will be
directing a two-week program, Magna Graecia, in southern Italy this
coming summer for the Vergilian Society, and would love to see some
CAPN members participate.
PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
Classics at Pacific Lutheran University continues to
thrive. Latin 101 regularly enrolls 20-25 students, and last
year's Latin 201-02 class was the largest in the program's
history. This year Greek 101 enrollment reached capacity (25) and
appeared--mirabile dictu!--among the list of "closed" classes for
the first time ever. In terms of the program itself, developments
in offerings (moving some courses into upper division and adding a
"special topics" course) and the addition of a Classical Studies minor
with three semesters minimum of language study are in the
works. Classics has also been working over the last two
years to make PLU a partner with UPS and Willamette in the northwest
consortium of the ICCS Rome Centro, and this seems to have finally been
approved. Our sincere thanks goes to Eric Orlin at UPS for his
generous assistance in helping us convince our Wang Center, and to both
him and Ortwin Knorr for their patience.
Both Rochelle Snee and Eric Nelson have been busy in
their individual spheres. PLU faculty have undertaken to revise
the general education program, and Rochelle was asked to be a part of
last year's Working Group on Principles of General Education that
drafted and passed a guiding document through the faculty
assembly. This year, she was recalled from administrative
seclusion as Augusta Perpetua to become acting chair of the Department
of Languages and Literatures, overseeing a multi-lingual (Spanish,
French, German, Chinese, Norwegian, Latin, Greek) and interdisciplinary
(Classics, Scandinavian Studies, Chinese Studies) empire.
Eric Nelson, besides departmental ab epistulis, is
chair of PLU's Instructional Resources Committee for the third year,
which is close to finalizing a set of standards for classrooms and
other learning spaces to be used in budgeting and maintenance. He
received a Kelmer-Roe Research Fellowship for '05-'06, which promotes
joint faculty-student research activities in the Humanities, for work
with student Steve Erbey (Classics/Biology). They are presently
working on Steve's capstone project, a historical look at epilepsy
which seeks to lay part of its identification as the "sacred" disease
with the experience of patients, especially those of temporal lobe
epilepsy. This work is a part of a larger project involving a medical
and cultural history of the role of the eye and facial expressions in
the diagnosis of mental states. This year also saw
the publication of Eric Nelson's article, "Coan Promotions and the
Authorship of the Presbeutikos," in Hippocrates in Context
[=Studies in Ancient Medicine 31] (Brill 2005), and a popular book The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Ancient Greece (together with Susan K.
Allard-Nelson, Penguin USA 2005) as a companion for his The Complete
Idiot's Guide to the Roman Empire (2002). Eric was also featured
as a part of the History Channel's Rome: Engineering an Empire, which,
according to the producer, was the highest-rated History Channel
program this year and fourth in the channel's history with nearly 6
million viewers over two principal showings.
REED COLLEGE
The classics department at Reed has unusually large
enrolments this year, which has been keeping us all busy.
This year Walter Englert is teaching Beginning
Greek, advanced Greek (Thucydides), second year Latin (Virgil's
Aeneid), and first-year Humanities. He gave two papers at conferences
in 2005, one on "Seneca's On Providence and the Problem of Evil" at the
April 2005 ACTC (Association for Core Texts and Courses) meeting in
Vancouver, B.C., and one at the November 2005 PAMLA Conference at
Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA on "Ataraxia and Joy: Epicurus'
View of Pleasure and Happiness." He also wrote 19 articles on
ancient atomists this summer for the "Biographical Encyclopedia of
Ancient Scientists", forthcoming from Routledge, and is working on
papers on Cicero, Seneca, and Epicurus. He was also the coordinator of
the eighteenth annual Reed Latin Forum for Oregon and Washington High
School Latin students and teachers in November 2005, and assisted the
Classic Greek Theatre company stage a production of Euripides' Alcestis
(in English) at the Reed College amphitheater in September 2005
This year Ellen Millender is teaching Classics
courses as well as first-year Humanities. Her classes include a
survey of Greek history from Homer to the Peloponnesian War, beginning
Latin, and an advanced Latin course entitled "Views of Augustus," which
focuses on the Res Gestae and Suetonius' Life of Augustus. She is
continuing to edit her book on Spartan women, which is due out the
summer of 2006. This summer she will present a paper on
Xenophon's treatment of Spartans abroad at an international Sparta
conference in Lyon and she is also writing an article on Thucydides'
treatment of the Spartan King Archidamus II.
Ellen Millender is now in her third year at Reed and
is currently having tremendous fun teaching a course on barbarians that
examines Greek and Roman constructions of self and other. She is
currently editing a collection of essays on Spartan Women entitled
Unveiling Spartan Women, for the Classical Press of Wales and
Duckworth; her own essay in the volume is entitled “Women Behind the
Throne: Wealth, Kingship, and the Making of Spartan Female Political
Power.” She has also lectured on Spartan female political power before
the Portland chapter of the AIA as well as at a conference in Sparta,
and at the APA she co-organized a panel on Hellenistic Sparta. She has
also finished a piece on Spartan mercenary warfare, which will appear
next year and which she was lucky enough to deliver at a conference in
Rennes in September.
Alex Nice spent the summer in Rome attending the NEH
summer seminar 'Roman Religion in its cultural context' under the
direction of Professor Karl Galinsky. Aside from reviews for BMCR and
Scholia, Alex's paper on Alexander the Great's resident prophet ('The
reputation of the mantis Aristander') is forthcoming in a special issue
of Acta Classica in honor of Professor John Atkinson. He also provided
two lengthy contributions on Caesar's Gallic War Commentaries and
Livy's Ab Urbe Condita for the collection 'Classical Literature and its
Times' (currently in press). Alex is also teaching in Classics and
Humanities, including a course on religious practices in the Spring.
Nigel Nicholson has been busy organizing the Spring
2006 CAPN meeting and processing membership subscriptions, and
represented CAPN on a panel at CAAS in October on the history of the
regional Classical Associations. A book, Aristocracy and Athletics in
Archaic and Classical Greece, was published by Cambridge University
Press in August, and through a Reed grant that supported collaborative
work with an undergraduate, Rachel Preminger, he has begin work on the
relationship between Western Locrian identity and its athletes. Among
his classes are a couple of new ones, on Roman Elegy (third-year Latin)
and Xenophon’s Anabasis (Second-year Greek).
As an Emeritus Professor, Dick Tron contributes to
contribute the occasional class to the department; most recently he
offered a Greek literature seminar
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
At Simon Fraser University Christopher Morrissey is
defending his doctoral thesis "Mirror of Princes: René
Girard, Aristotle, and the Rebirth of Tragedy", Friday, November 18,
2005. David Mirhady is on sabbatical in the fall of 2005 and
working on a project on Athens' Democratic Judges.
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
The Department of Classical, NE and Religious
Studies at UBC has appointed a new Head, Professor Roger Wilson who is
currently Head of Archaeology at the University of Nottingham in the
UK. Prof. Wilson is a distinguished archaeologist known for his
work on Roman Britain and his massive study of Roman Sicily.
Prof. Podlecki has just published Aeschylus,
Prometheus Bound edited with introduction, English translation
and commentary published by Aris & Phillips (now oxbow
Books), Oxford, United Kingdom.
Hector Williams continued his work on UBC's projects
at Mytilene and Stymphalos last spring and summer. With Dr. John
Hayes he continued the study of pottery and lamps from the Sanctuary of
Demeter at the former site. At Stymphalos with a team of
geophysicists and palaeopathologists he continued a resistivity and
magnetometric survey of the late classical city (work under direction
of Mr. Ben Gourley, University of York, UK) as well as excavating new
early Christian graves and studying the human remains from earlier
seasons (work under direction of Dr. Sandra Garvie-Lok, University of
Alberta).
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
In addition to serving in her second year as
Department Head of Classics, Lowell Bowditch has published "Hermeneutic
Uncertainty and the Female Subject in Ovid's Art of Love," in
eds. R. Ancona and E. Greene, The Gendered Dynamics of Latin Love
Poetry (Baltimore 2005) 271-295.
The Department of Classics is especially pleased to
welcome our new assistant professor José González.
His interests include Greek poetry (archaic to Hellenistic), ancient
rhetoric and literary criticism, historical linguistics, and Greek
dialects. His research focuses on the intersection between literary and
other modes of social performance (such as religious rituals and
festivals). I am particularly interested in the ways 'literary
performance' (poetry and prose) serves the symbolic articulation of
culture; and in the dialectic that obtains between the performer, his
work, and his larger cultural matrix. Current projects include a study
of the nature and function of the Homeric Hymns in the oral culture of
ancient Greece; and an analysis of the connection that mimesis bears to
performance.
Jeff Hurwit has been active giving talks: “The
Uses of the Past on the Athenian Acropolis,” Art Institute of Chicago
(Boshell Foundation Lecture), October 15, 2005; “What’s Wrong
with this Picture: The Dexileos Stele and the Problem of Heroic Nudity”
Portland State Univ., Dec. 2, 2005. He has also recently
published the volume “Periklean Athens and its Legacy” (Texas 2005),
co-edited with Judith Barringer (University of Edinburgh) and an
article "The Setting of the Parthenon," in J. Neils, ed., *The
Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present* (Cambridge 2005).
Mary Jaeger has returned from a year's sabbatical,
and is now teaching Greek (Lysias) and Latin (Caesar). In
September 2004, she visted UT Knoxville as the Haines-Morris
Distinguished Lecturer, and delivered a talk titled: "Who Killed
Archimedes? Anger, Grief and Regret in Imperial Narrative." A
highlight of the year was the spring quarter spent mostly at Victoria
University, Wellington, with side trips to speak at Otago University in
Dunedin and Canterbury University in Christchurch. It was fun to
be part of New Zealand's vibrant and active Classics community.
Among other projects, she is working on a paper on the
classically-inspired poetry of Ruth Combellack, wife of the late
Homerist, Frederick Combellack. A plea to CAPN members who may
have known the Combellacks: if you have any information about them, or
memories of them, and are willing to share, please let me know.
Malcolm Wilson has published an article on Aristotle
and Galileo, “Autonomy and the Mistress Discipline in European Thought”
in Engaging Europe (edd. Gould and Sheridan) Rowman and Littlefield,
2005. He wrote the article for Aristotle for the Biographical
Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists (forthcoming). He
spent the spring quarter with Mary Jaeger and their son Seth in New
Zealand at Victoria University, and gave a talk on “Plato and the
Internet” there, at University of Canterbury (Christchurch) and at
Otago University (Dunedin). H e also gave a
talk, “The Role of Per se Abstraction in the Unity of an Aristotelian
Science” at the Canadian Philosophical Association meeting in London,
Canada in May.
UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND
Aislinn Melchior will be presenting a paper on "The
Crisis of Rhetoric in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae" at the annual meeting
of the American Philological Association in Montreal on January 6.
Ili Nagy is retiring after 18 years of extraordinary
service to the Classics department (as well as her real obligations to
the Art Department). She is excited about being able to spend
more time on her research in the coming years and will be quite active
in the Classics community in the Puget Sound region.
Eric Orlin contributed a chapter on "Urban Religion
in the Middle and Late Republic." to A Companion to Roman Religion,
which is being edited by Jorg Ruepke and published by Blackwell in the
coming year (he hopes!).
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
Academic year 2004-05 was a good one for the
department. Twenty-one undergraduates received BAs in our four
majors; four graduating seniors entered graduate programs in Classics;
two graduate students completed MAs and two, PhDs; seven of our
graduate students gave papers at conferences; six of our PhDs began
tenure track positions; and five PhDs/ABDs received or renewed
temporary positions outside of the UW. Graduate student Eric Ross
won three fellowships, two from the Graduate School and one from the
Simpson Center for the Humanities; Associate Professor Catherine
Connors won a fellowship from the Simpson Center, our Assistant to the
Chair Douglas Machle won a Distinguished Staff Award, and Alain Gowing
was promoted to Full Professor. What is more, our enrollments in
Greek and Latin continue to be high: there are 66 undergraduates
studying Greek this fall and 198 studying Latin. We have
fifty-two majors in the department: twenty-seven majors in Classics
(Latin and Greek), two in Greek, seven in Latin, and sixteen in
Classical Studies; there are also twenty-six students enrolled in our
four minors.
The following reports describe some of the activities of the faculty:
Lawrence Bliquez published his essay "The Hippocratic Surgical
Instrumentarium, a Study in Nomenclature" in Medicina nei Secoli as
well as a translation of Aetius 16.44 for Women's Life in Greece and
Rome (third edition). Larry also made appearances not only at
local High Schools, where he is always a great hit, but also on the
Discovery Channel where he was a featured expert for the documentary on
ancient plastic surgery.
Ruby Blondell gave a number of papers last year, including "Plato the
'Dramatist'," "How do you solve a problem like Medea," and "Always Look
on the Bright Side of Death." In addition to working on a number
of projects, Ruby is on the Editorial Board of BMCR and AJP, serves as
departmental Graduate Advisor, and is the treasurer of the Lambda
Classical Caucus.
James Clauss saw the publication of two articles, "Vergil's Sixth
Eclogue: The Aetia in Rome" and "Large and Illyrical waters in Vergil's
Eighth Eclogue" and gave papers at his alma mater (UC Berkeley) and the
APA. Jim also appeared on two televised documentaries, one on
Jason and the Argonauts and the other on the Odyssey, both produced by
the BBC.
Catherine Connors published three articles: "Monkey Business:
Imitation, Authenticity, and Identity from Pithekoussai to Plautus,"
"From Turnips to Turbot: Allusion to Epic in Roman Satire," and "John
Barclay: 1582-1621." Cathy won a Research Fellowship from the
Simpson Center for the Humanities for 2005-06 to pursue her project on
the topic of Roman Geographies.
Alain Gowing was promoted to full-professorship in 2005. His book
Empire and Memory. The Representation of the Roman Republic in
Imperial Culture was recently published by Cambridge University
Press. Alain serves on the Editorial Boards of CA and BMCR and
holds the office of Secretary of the Advisory Council of the American
Academy in Rome. He also gave the Sixth Annual AIA/ Faculty
Lecture at the UW on the topic of "Of Texts and Tombs: The Archaeology
of Roman Memory."
Michael Halleran left his position as Professor of Classics and
Divisional Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences to become the Dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami.
His many contributions to the department and college will be sorely
missed.
Stephen Hinds's paper "Defamiliarizing Latin Literature, from Petrarch
to Pulp Fiction" was published recently. He also gave a number of
papers around the world, including Oxford University and the Italian
universities at Rome, Florence, and Arezzo on topics ranging from Ovid
to Petrarch. Stephen serves on the Goodwin Award Selection
Committee for the APA and is on the Editorial Boards of AJP and SIFC.
Alexander Hollmann joined the faculty this fall. Alex comes to us
from Washington DC where he spent a year of research at the Center for
Hellenic Studies. His interests include Herodotus, Greek
literature of the Classical and Imperial periods, Greek Religion and
Ancient Magic. His paper "A Curse Tablet from the Circus at
Antioch" appeared last year.
Olga Levaniouk will see the publication of her paper "The Toys of
Dionysos" in a forthcoming issue of HSCP. In the Autumn quarter
she taught at the University of Crete (Rethymno) and gave several
papers during the year at the Universities of Athens, Crete, Victoria,
and Bowdoin College. Olga received a Loeb Library Foundation
Grant last year and is Associate Editor of the Greek Studies Series of
Lexington Press.
Timothy Power's paper "The Politics of Polychordia: Ion of Chios Fr.
32W" will be published in the coming year. He is currently
working on a number of other projects, including fourth century BC
dithyramb and a book-length study of the culture of Kitharoidia.
Tim is Associate Editor of the Greek Studies Series of Lexington Press
and is the volunteer coordinator of an ESL program for Vietnamese
immigrants.
Sarah Culpepper Stroup has two papers in press ("Invaluable
Collections: The Illusion of Poetic Presence in Martial's Xenia and
Apophoreta" and "Making Memory: Ritual, Rhetoric, and Violence in Roman
Triumph") and another forthcoming ("Greek Rhetoric Meets Rome:
Expansion, Resistance, and Acculturation"). She delivered a paper
on "Cicero's Tusculan Villa and the Roman Literary Imagination" at a
conference at Stanford.
EMERITI
Pierre MacKay attended a conference in Chalkis where he spoke about the
Dominican priory built in 1250, transcribed reports of the Medieval
Venetian government on Greece, and completed a paper on
Thermopylae. Daniel Harmon spent time during the autumn studying
archeological sites near Rome and Naples and offered a graduate seminar
on archaic and early Republican Latin last summer. Paul Pascal
reports that he still enjoys retirement, though he does find time to
give the occasional lecture on the Dies Irae and Latin Inscriptions in
Seattle.
WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE
Stephen Berard recently published a book in Latin about quantum
physics. Information can be found on the "Boreoccidentales" site
at
http://www.wenval.cc/boreoccidentales/boreo_latin/boreo_cataracta_latin/
04.asp and on the publisher's site at
http://users.skynet.be/Melissalatina/ . He would also like
to announce next summer's
spoken-Latin Conventiculum Vasintoniense, which will be held on the
University of Washington campus. Descriptions in Latin and
English can
be found at
http://www.wenval.cc/boreoccidentales/boreo_latin/conventiculum.asp .
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY
Ortwin Knorr was elected Chair of the Classical Studies Program in
October. He has just submitted his first positions request, for a
tenure-track position in Ancient History: Wish us luck!
Ortwin continues as AIA Salem Program Coordinator and is proud to
report record attendance numbers for the first three lectures of this
year: more than 100 listeners for Bonnie Effros (SUNY Binghamton) on
Merovingian graves, 68 for Patrick Kirch (UC Berkeley) on „The Origins
of Maori Culture,” and 81 for Susan Alcock (U Michigan) on „Roman Power
Lunches in the Eastern Roman Empire.” In addition, Ortwin
recently had a great time giving a talk on Terence at the University of
Oregon and has an article on Terentian metatheater in a forthcoming
Zetemata volume.
Mary Bachvarova, our
resident Hellenist and expert in all things Anatolian, is currently
awaiting the publication of five articles. In January 2006, she is
scheduled to speak on „"Milesian Tales at a Mycenaean Feast:
Deer-Hunting, Ismenian Apollo, and the Hittite LAMMA Gods" at the
Mycenaean Thebes Conference at Concordia College. In March, she will
present a talk entitled, "Defining the SIR3 Genre: Its Formal
Characteristics and the Implications for our Understanding of the Plot
of the 'Song of Release'," at the 216th Annual Meeting of the American
Oriental Society in Seattle. Mary has spearheaded a successful
grant to organize the first-ever Oregon Undergraduate Conference in
Classics at Willamette, and currently plans to
hold this conference in Fall 2006.
Scott Pike, a geoarchaeologist who started this fall
at Willamette in Environmental and Earth Science, and his Greek
colleague, Olga Palagia (University of Athens), have just received a
rare permit to analyze a fragment from the late 5th Century BC frieze
of the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae, Arcadia, in the National
Museum in Athens, Greece. Scott is an expert on the provenience of
ancient marble. With the help of the Mediterranean White Marble
Database, Scott expects that he can trace the marble from this frieze
back to the very quarry where it originated,
and he anticipates reporting the results of his study at the 9th
International ASMOSIA conference this June in France.
Last, but not least, Visiting Assistant
Professor Michael Williams is doing a great job teaching elementary
Latin, a survey of Roman history, and an interdisciplinary
writing-centered freshmen seminar on „War and its Alternatives”. His
manuscript, „Authorised Lives: Christian Biography between Eusebius and
Augustine”, under contract with Cambridge University Press, is almost
completed. He has all our support for his job interviews this year at
the APA convention in Montreal, but frankly, we wish we could simply
keep him.
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Brian Lavelle (presently of Loyola University of
Chicago) writes: “I am unsure if I communicated this before, but my
book, "Fame, Money and Power: the Rise of Peisistratos and
'Democratic' Tyranny at Athens" was published in January of this year
by the University of Michigan Press. I attended "Archilochos and
his Age," the Second International Conference on the Archaeology of
Paros and the Cyclades, October 7-9, 2005, and gave a paper then
entitled "The Servant of Enyalios."
Mike McKeehan who's taught in the public schools in
Cheney for the past 25 years and taught Latin every chance he had is
retiring at the end of this year. The past three years he has
taught Cheney's elementary gifted program and had some great Latin
students.
Lorina Quartarone (the University of Saint Thomas,
Saint Paul, MN) spent
much of the summer travelling in Europe, where she gleefully tried out
her new digital camera. She is happy to report that she now has
an extensive foundation for her digital image library comprising shots
from Rome, Athens, Mycenae, Olympia, Delphi, Corinth, Epidaurus, and
various museums in Greece and Germany. This semester, she is
teaching elementary Latin and enjoying creating a new course that she
will teach next semester, "Perspectives of Gender in Antiquity," the
proposal for which earned her a course release
funded by the Luann Dummer Center For Women Curriculum Development
Grant. Her article "Teaching the Aeneid through Ecofeminism" will
appear in CW Winter 2006, and her review of "Vergil, Philodemus and the
Augustans" by David Armstrong, et al., which appeared in BMCR last
spring, is visible at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005.04.64.html.
She also delivered "Furor and Irony in the Aeneid" at the last joint
CAPN/CACW conference last February.
Dr. Thomas Talboy is now writing the online course
in Greek Drama for the
University of London, Royal Holloway. The course takes advantage
of emerging internet technology to reach a broad audience of distance
learners. and will consist of online lectures, email and chat
components. By reaching such a diverse audience, Dr. Talboy also
hopes to trace the performance of Greek Drama throughout the world.