Barry Baldwin has published The Latin and Greek Poems of Samuel Johnson
(Duckworth). Martin Cropp has a Killam fellowship for the Autumn term.
He is working on Iphigenia in Tauris for Aris & Phillips.
Michael Dewar's edition, translation and commentary on Claudii
Claudiani Panegyricus De Sexto Consulatu Honori Augusti will be published
by Oxford in 1996. He is also contributing an article on Statius and Venantius
Fortunatus to an epicedion for the 1900th anniversary of the death of Statius
(ed. by Fernand Delarue, Poitiers). We are happy to keep Bill Hutton -
and Martha Jones - for a fourth year. Bill is continuing to develop
computer-assisted instruction software for language classes. Mary
Walbank will hold a senior fellowship in the Humanities Institute during
the Winter semester; she will be working on the coinage of Roman Corinth and on
ancient coins in the Nickle collection. Haijo Westra's The Berlin
Commentary on Martianus Capella, Bk. I was published by Brill in 1994. Bk.
II is in progress. Haijo will present "Die philologie nouvelle und die
Herausgabe von lateinischen Texten des Mittelalter's" at the University of Bonn
in October. Last summer he led a seminar on Martianus Capella for the
University of Groningen. We are sorry to say goodbye to Rob Cousland
(honourable mention in the last round of U of C teaching awards), but our loss
is UBC's gain. The Calgary Society for Mediterranean Studies programme will
take its eager members to Greece, Syria, Malta, Albania--and metallurgy. The
October 28th colloquium is on "Roman Homes and Gardens."
Enrollments remain healthy in both languages at all levels. Seven seniors are
writing senior theses in Classics this year. Last year three of our juniors
studied for a semester at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in
Rome, and another is applying to spend Spring, 1996 there. Richard Tron
is on sabbatical this Fall, but will be back teaching Latin and Greek courses
in the Spring. Walter Englert is back from a summer in Rome, where he
participated in an NEH Seminar on "Death, Commemoration, and Society in Ancient
Rome" directed by Richard Saller (Chicago) and John Bodel (Rutgers). He worked
on a paper dealing with Cicero's conceptions of death and consolatio.
He also was the coordinator of the seventh annual Reed Latin Forum for Oregon
high school Latin teachers and students in November, 1994. David
Silverman presented a paper on divorce in Athenian law at the University of
Oregon in February, 1995, another paper on the structure of the Athenian tax
code at the CAPN meeting in March, 1995, and will speak on the reforms of the
Athenian tax code at the APA convention in December, 1995. He has a review of
a new book on Alexander the Great which will appear shortly in the Bryn Mawr
Classical Review, and has been active at Reed College in the development of
electronic resources for pedagogical and research purposes. Nigel
Nicholson joins the department from Wellesley College, where he taught in
1994-1995. He has recently published "Victory without Defeat? Carnival
Laughter and its Appropriation in Pindar's Victory Odes," in Carnivalizing
Difference: Bakhtin and the Other (Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic
Press), edd. P. A. Miller, C. Platter, et al., and delivered a paper ("Nemean
4.57-8: Ambiguity, Parallel Narratives and the Representation of Character in
Pindar's Odes") at the 1994 APA Convention in Atlanta. Bruce King comes
to Reed from the University of Chicago, where he was managing editor of
Classical Philology and finishing his dissertation, The End of
Adventure: On the Future of the Iliadic Hero. He will be giving a paper at
the 1995 APA Convention in San Diego entitled "The Heroized and Humanized
Monster in Stesichorus' Geryoneis."
Very little new is happening at EWU. We are building a $20 million+ addition
on to the library and the publicity touts the wonders of space and machines but
nothing about books. Fred Lauritsen was one of 25 participants to
attend an NEH Institute at Brown U. last summer. The Institute was called "The
Image and Reality of Women in Ancient Near Eastern Societies."
Graduates of the BSU History and Classical Languages program have been busy
with study, travel and teaching this past year. Jody Mabe, former CAPN
Scholarship recipient and Latin teacher at Boise and Borah High Schools,
received a grant to study in the south of France this past summer in an NEH
Summer Seminar on "Petrarch and Provence." Kevin Cole and Thomas
Talboy, who are currently completing MA degrees in Ancient History and
Latin Literature at BSU, received CAPN scholarships to participate in the three
week tour/seminar to Italy and Turkey led and guided by BSU Professor Charles
Odahl this past summer. The Meridian School District west of Boise has opened
a new High School this year--Eagle High School, and Kevin Cole is a finalist
for the teaching position there in Latin. Thomas Talboy is teaching first year
Greek as an Adjunct Instructor this year at BSU. Marilyn Kennings, a
former CAPN Scholarship recipient and now a Latin teacher at Centennial High
School in Meridian, also participated in the BSU summer tour/seminar, and has
begun study this fall for an MA in Ancient and Medieval History at BSU. Some
twenty BSU students and Boise community members went abroad with Dr. Odahl to
study the transformation of the Roman world from paganism to Christianity in
the 1995 BSU Classical and Christian Study Tour on "Ancient Capitals and Sacred
Sites in Italy and Turkey."
Charles Odahl, Professor of Ancient History and Director of Classical
Languages at BSU, has the cover article on "The Christian Basilicas of
Constantinian Rome," in The Ancient World, Vol. XXVI, 1 (1995), pp.
3-28, and the lead article on "God and Constantine: Divine Sanction for
Imperial Rule in the First Christian Emperor's Early Letters and Art," in
The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. LXXXI, 3 (1995), pp. 327-352, in
circulation this fall. His book reviews on T. D. Barnes' From Eusebius to
Augustine and M. Grant's Constantine the Great are in the summer and
fall issues of the CHR; his review of S. Drummond and L. Nelson's The
Western Frontiers of Imperial Rome is in the summer issue of The
Historian; and his review of J. Pelikan's Christianity and Classical
Culture will be in the winter issue of The Ancient World. He has
been asked by the Wethersfield Institute for Catholic and Cultural Studies in
New York City to participate in the "Two Millennia of Christianity" project.
Fifty scholars of Christian Church history have been selected to make public
presentations and write chapters on the history of Catholicism from the
Apostolic period to modern times over the next five years. The year 1995 is
dedicated to the Apostolic/Patristic Periods, and ten presentations related to
the first five centuries of Church history are being made in New York through
the year. Dr. Odahl's presentation on "Constantine and the Christian Basilicas
of 4th Century Rome" is scheduled for October 18th; he has also been invited to
speak on Constantinian topics as the guest of the Classics Department and
Religious Studies Program at the State University of New York in Albany this
fall.
During the spring term of 1995, the departments of Classics and of Religious
Studies merged to form a single department with two divisions, with the
programs of each division remaining separate. The department head is
Anthony Barrett, head of the former Classics Department. One result of
the merger is that the new combined department has made three appointments, one
in the Classics program, a second in the Religious Studies program, and a third
whose duties are spread between both divisions. The Classics appointee is
Carl Johnson, an alumnus of the University of British Columbia, who has
recently completed his PhD at the University of Toronto with a dissertation on
Ptolemaic Egypt. The joint appointment is R. Cousland, another Canadian
scholar, and the Religious Studies appointment is D. Arbel, who hails from
Israel. These three new appointments have added greatly to the strength of the
department. Anthony Barrett's book, Agrippina, the Mother of
Nero is now in the process of publication, and should appear early next
year. The publisher is Batsford in London. Professor Barrett also led a group
of students this summer to England to excavate for another season at the
Romano-British site of 'The Lunt' in Warwickshire. J. A. (Allan) S.
Evans' book, The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power
is in the process of being printed, and is scheduled to appear in March,
1996. The cost will be about 39 pounds, and the publisher is Routledge, 11 New
Fetter Lane, London. Allan Evans will also give up the co-editorship of
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History this year. Volume XV of
this series is currently in press and will appear soon. Evans has been first
editor, and then co-editor of this series since 1977. At this point, we expect
that the series will continue under the editorship of two faculty members at
the University of Victoria. The publisher is AMS Press, New York. The
Times Literary Supplement for Nov. 25, 1994, devoted nine pages to a
'Learned Journals' section, and the history journal selected for review was
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History. The reviewer, David
Abulafia of Oxford, wrote that Studies in Medieval and Renaissance
History 'is enviably international in authorship.' Allan Evans
addressed the British Columbia chapter of the Royal Society of Canada on 'The
Legacy of Edward Gibbon' in the fall of 1994 and in the spring of 1995,
addressed the Third International Congress on the Classical Tradition at Boston
University on 'Edward Gibbon and the Invention of Orientalism'. Evans was
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1992. Elizabeth Bongie,
professor emeritus in the department of Classics, has just published a
translation in the Peregrina Translation Series, which is produced by
the Peregrina Publishing Co. of Toronto. The title is The Life of Blessed
Syncletica, a fifth-century Greek text preserved among the writings of
Athanasius of Alexandria and incorrectly attributed to him. Some brief
extracts from the Life were included in The Sayings of the Desert
Fathers, and it was through translations of The Sayings that the
name of Syncletica and her reputation as a model and teacher of female
anchoretic practice and spirituality have become known. Professor Bongie's
translation is the first English translation as a separate book.
Thanks to generous grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada, UBC's two archaeological projects in Greece continued from
June to August this last summer. Directed since 1982 by Prof. Hector
Williams, survey and excavation work at Stymphalos in Arcadia, and Mytilene
on Lesbos have uncovered much new information about two important but neglected
sites. At Stymphalos, this year's dig uncovered a late classical sanctuary,
possibly to Athena Polias, and recovered major elements of an archaic
kore in a destroyed temple. Prof. Williams' team also found parts of
an entire city block and two adjacent streets in the S-E area of the city,
where geophysical survey in earlier seasons had revealed the grid-plan of the
ancient town. Work continued on the city walls too, revealing what may be one
of the earliest artillery towers in Greece. A total of 53 faculty,
professional staff, graduate students and undergraduate volunteers took part.
At Mytilene, a staff of ten continued preparations for publication of our six
major seasons of excavation in a sanctuary of Demeter, a medieval church and a
Turkish village complex on the acropolis of the ancient city, and at a
multi-period site near the North Harbour. Carol Brynolfson and Kathi
Sherwood made progress with the more than 2000 terracotta figurines found
in the excavations: both presented papers at various conferences. Jenny
Price and Sally Cottam also have nearly completed their study of the
Hellenistic and Roman glass from the Demeter Sanctuary, the first such study
done in the N-E Aegean.
In Vancouver, Hector Williams and several graduate students continued
the series of introductory 'hands-on' classes for high-school students taking
Grade XII Western Civilization courses. Over 100 students too the three-hour
course at UBC's Museum of Anthropology. This year the program has been
expanded to include retired people at Elder College.
Enrollments remain healthy in all Classics section offerings. Linda
Gillison's Latin 211 has sixteen students this term, all working hard on
De Amicitia, and several of them veterans of last spring's Italy Study
Program.
Last year's inaugural of the U. of Montana "See Rome and Die" study program was
a roaring success, with James Scott of Classics and Phil
Fandozzi, a colleague from Liberal Studies, leading a group of 36--count
'em!--undergraduates through nine weeks in Italy. John Madden joined
the group for two weeks in Italy and put the students through their on-site
paces. Linda Rutland Gillison will direct the program for 1996 and is
in the planning and publicizing stage of that process. Like last year, in 1996
the group will spend most of its time in Rome but will travel briefly in the
south and the north. The program is suitable for all undergraduates and last
year's group was a varied bunch--majors in English, Classics, Latin, Biology,
History, Finance, and more. The program is a real study experience, with
students earning 15 academic credits for five weeks of orientation seminar and
nine weeks' work in Italy. The curriculum for '96 will include John
Madden's Art History class and Linda Gillison's Roman History class.
This year we plan to take a much smaller group and expect that all
participants, after the grueling orientation and nine weeks in country, will
have learned a lot about our heritage from those old Romans and the various
adaptations of it which have flowered in Italy in subsequent centuries.
This autumn, UM enjoyed a visit from old friends, Paul and Naomi
Pascal. While Naomi began a vacation from UW Press, the Missoula campus
took full advantage of Paul's expertise. He gave a slide lecture on "The
Fortification Walls of Ancient Rome," to which we invited Latin students from
several local high schools along with UM students. After working through the
"Confession of the Archpoet" with a collection of 30 budding Latinists and
guests in the afternoon, Paul presented a public lecture on the "Dies Irae in
the Western Musical Tradition" in the evening, with 65 people of varied
interests in the audience. Paul's offerings were so diversely attractive that
his visit was sponsored jointly by The Davidson Honors College, the Department
of Foreign Languages/Classics, the Department of Music, the Chalice of Repose
Project, and the Religious Studies Program. It was a chance for those of us on
campus whose interests intersect all too rarely to get together for fun and
profit. A couple of authors whose books Naomi has edited at UW Press are here
in Missoula, so there was a lot of material for conversation. We had a
terrific time!!
The Classics section has proposed to the Faculty Senate a new emphasis/major
within the Classics major, the major in Classical Civilization. We anticipate
that the new offering will appear in the 1996-7 catalog. Though such a major
has been available in many universities for years, until now the Montana
student had to choose either a Latin major or a Classics major, the latter
demanding heavy commitment to both Classical languages. The new emphasis will
allow students who want to study in the area of Classics but feel they cannot
commit so much time to language study to arrange courses in a new way, focusing
on Greece and Rome through history, philosophy, religious studies, art history,
women's studies, and so on. There will also be a minor in Classical
Civilization. We confess, off the record, of course, that by offering this
option we hope to attract some new students who will taste Greek and Latin and
come to share our addiction!
UM looks forward to hosting the CAPN meeting on March 29-30, 1996. Jim
Scott is making the plans for the meeting and we encourage all of you to
attend. The weather should be pleasant, as some of you will remember from the
last CAPN gathering here, back in 1979.
Kathryn E. Meyer and Mary Ann Eng gave a multi-media presentation on
"Blacks in Antiquity" to the World Civilizations faculty in April, 1995. Kathy
is continuing as a non-tenured member of the History Department teaching
Western and World Civilizations courses as well as occasional honors and
seminar classes on Roman history.
Burma P. Williams and Richard S. Williams have had an article
"Finger Numbers in the Greco-Roman World and the Early Middle Ages," accepted
for publication by Isis, the Journal of the History of Science Society.
It will appear in the December, 1995 issue. Rick will be on sabbatical in the
spring semester to continue work on A. Gabinius.
Lowell Bowditch has received a grant from the University of Oregon's Humanities
Center. She will spend this spring in residence at the center doing research
on Horace and Augustan patronage. Jeff Hurwitt taught in the NICSA
program in Siena last spring. His article "Beautiful Evil: Pandora and the
Athena Parthenos" has recently appeared in the American Journal of
Archaeology and his essay, "The Doryphoros: Looking Backward," is included
in the recently published collection, Polykleitos, the Doryphoros and
Tradition, edited by W. Moon (Madison 1995). Mary Jaeger's article,
"Reconstructing Rome: The Campus Martius and Horace, Ode 1.8," has just come
out in the Arethusa issue devoted to Horace (spring/fall '95).
Steven Lowenstam is the Northwest Professor for the NICSA program in
London this fall. His article "The Sources of the Odyssey Landscapes is
forthcoming this spring in Echos du Monde Classique. C. Bennett
Pascal's essay on Tibullus, "Rura Cano," has recently appeared in
Collection Latomus. Steven Shankman received a $10,000 teaching
award from the Rippey Fund in order to enhance undergraduate teaching. Steve
used this grant to develop an introductory World Literature course comparing
the literature of ancient Greece and ancient China. As part of his research,
he also traveled to China this past summer. Malcolm Wilson gave a talk
on "Speusippus on Knowledge and Division" at the International Conference on
Aristotle's Biology in Homburg, Germany this past summer. His talk will be
published in the proceedings volume.
Bill Barry spent spring semester in Rome, working at the American Academy on a
book on Roman popular violence. Of late, he has developed a keen interest in
statue-smashing and corpse mutilation.
Ili Nagy finished her first summer as director of the Classical Summer
School of the American Academy in Rome. She had twenty three dedicated
students including twelve teachers. The program was a success thanks to many
devoted colleagues who contributed considerably by giving lectures and
conducting site visits. She hopes to lure more students from the northwest for
next summer's course. Currently she is back to working on Etruscan mirrors and
has assumed the unenviable position as chair of the art department.
There has been much activity in the Department this year. Michael
Halleran's commentary on the Hippolytus is being published by Aris
& Phillips and will be out later this fall. Larry Bliquez currently
serves as Vice-president of the Society for Ancient Medicine; he has also been
elected to serve a four-year term on the College Council, which oversees tenure
and promotion cases and advises the Dean on policy matters. Dan Harmon,
in addition to being co-director of the UW's Rome Center, is working on a
translation of Filippo Coarelli's well-known archaeological guide to Rome.
Working with him on that project is Jim Clauss, who delivered a paper on
"Hannibal in Catiline: The Opening of the Third Decade of Livy's Ab Urbe
Condita" at last April's CAMWS meeting. Over the spring break he organized
and led a whirlwind ten-day study trip to Rome for ten students from the UW
Office of Minority Affairs. Alain Gowing arrived in Rome on the final
day of Jim's trip to conduct the Department's 9th annual Classical Seminar in
Rome. He had several pleasant rendezvous with CAPN members Jim Scott
(UofM) and Bill Barry (UPS). This summer he taught an NEH Summer
Seminar for School Teachers on "Cicero's Philosophical Works and the Crisis of
the Roman Republic." Mary Whitlock Blundell traveled to Reed College to
deliver a paper on "Plato: an Equal-Opportunity Paternalist" in connection with
the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Reed's Humanities program. She will
pursue her work on character in Plato during a leave this spring. Stephen
Hinds returns to the fray after a productive, year-long leave as an NEH
fellow. In the course of the year he delivered papers at Iowa, Florida State
University, Bristol, Oxford and Keele on the topic of his most recent project,
a book on intertextuality in Roman poetry. Merle Langdon was also on
leave this past fall to conduct field work in Attica. While in Athens, he
participated in a conference on H. G. Lolling sponsored by the German
Archaeological Institute, delivering a paper entitled "Lolling's Topographical
Work on Salamis." Sheila Colwell continues work on a book on Pindar and
the Psalms while on leave this year as an honorary Associate of the
Department of Greek, Roman and Egyptian Studies at Monash University
(Australia). In addition to serving as CAPN's Secretary-Treasurer,
Catherine Connors helped organize a panel at last March's meeting in
Banff on Mapping Empire: Roman Geographies of Conquest; her own
contribution to the topic was a paper on "Lucan's Nile: A Geography of the
Unknown." She was also invited to Wesleyan University where she gave a talk on
"Recognitions of Odysseus and Other Blasts from the Past in Petronius'
Satyricon." Pierre MacKay's translation of the "The City of
Boudonitza," from the Seyahatname of Evliya Çelebi, is now
included in the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. Tugboat
has published his piece on "A Typesetter's Toolkit", in which he explores the
history -- and future -- of Greek fonts and typesetting.
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