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Simon Oswald

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame [email protected]

Professional Referees

Joshua Katz ([email protected]) Nino Luraghi ([email protected]) Nathan Arrington ([email protected]) Andrew Ford ([email protected]) Kathryn Morgan ([email protected]) Joseph Day ([email protected])

Education 2008-2014 Princeton University PhD Classics (2008-2014) MA Classics (2011) 2007 University of Auckland MA (Greek), First Class Honours Thesis: The Laudator and the Laudandus: Word Order and (Supervisor: Vivienne Gray) Emphasis in Pindar 2006 University of Auckland BA (Hons) (Greek), First Class Honours 2002-2005 University of Auckland BA (Double Major) Greek History and Greek Language BSc Geophysics (coastal change, cartography, and GIS)

Dissertation 2014 Trends in Early Epigram Supervisors: Nino Luraghi, Andrew Ford, Joshua Katz; Reader: Joseph Day

Teaching Experience Notre Dame 2016: Greek 1 (Athenaze) Uncovering the Past: Fact or Fiction? Text and Object in Greece and Rome 2017: Greek 2 (Athenaze) Ancient Sports

UCLA 2014: Greek 1: Elementary Greek (Keller and Russell) Greek 20: Intermediate Greek (Hansen and Quinn, , ) Life of Themistokles 2015: Greek 2: Elementary Greek (Keller and Russell) Greek 115: Advanced Greek (Attic : Lysias On the Murder of , Against ; 1-3) Simon Olynthiacs Classics 10: Discovering the Greeks (Greek Civilization 1) Classics 51a: Art and Archaeology of (Bintliff, Renfrew and Bahn)

Princeton 2013: Latin 105: Catullus and his Age (Catullus: selections; Martial: Caesar: selections Gallic Wars 2011: Classics 216/HIS 216: Archaic and Classical Greek History

University of Auckland 2007: Greek 200: Intermediate Greek Prose Composition Ancient History 102: Greek History Latin 100 and 101: Elementary Latin (Tuakana tutor: ) Latin via Ovid Departmental Tutor: Greek 100-101; Classics 110 (Myth) and 130 (Love and Death); Ancient History 100 (Ancient Egypt), 102 (Greece), and 103 (Rome). 2006: Ancient History 102: Greek History

Excavation Experience 2013-16 Stryme, Thrace. Field Director, June-July (Princeton University and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture). 2012-13 Pylos, Palace of Nestor. Rescue Excavations, Nov-Dec, Feb. Supervisor and GIS support (Cincinnati and Hellenic Ministry of Culture). 2012 Bylazora Hellenistic Akropolis, Sveti-Nikole, of Macedonia. Trench Supervisor (TFAHR). 2012 Corinth. Trench Supervisor (ASCSA). 2011 Morgantina Granary Project, Sicily. Trench Supervisor (UVA and Princeton University). 2010 Morgantina Baths Project, Sicily. Volunteer (UVA). 2009 Bylazora Hellenistic Akropolis, Sveti-Nikole, Republic of Macedonia. Volunteer (TFAHR).

Publications (*peer reviewed) 2017 ‘The Graffiti of Stryme’ and commentary. Forthcoming in I, 2017. Stryme 2016a ‘ 1119’: New Edition and Commentary: P.Oxy.680 ‘Life of Solon’. FGrHist Die Fragmente der . Brill.* Forthcoming 2016. Griechischen Historiker IVa, The Biographical Papyri 2016b ‘A New Fragment of 2.41: Edited with Introduction and Commentary.’ Oxyrhynchus ##. Oxford. Forthcoming 2016-17. Papyri 2014a ‘Metrical Laws.’ . Leiden.* Brill Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics 2014b ‘Consonant Change.’ . Leiden.* Brill Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics 2012 ‘An Inscribed Stone from the Acropolis.’ E.M. Matthews and W. Neidinger (eds.) The Bylazora . . The Texas Foundation for Archaeological and Historical Excavations: 2008-2012 Vol I Research. Canyon Lake, 2012: 79-83.

Publications (in progress) ‘In Search of the Origins of Epinician’. ‘Serious Hymn Fun in Aristophanes’. ‘The Epigrammatic Evidence for Poetic Networks in Early Greece’. ‘Addendum to I: New Archaic and Classical Verse Inscriptions. Edited with Commentary’. CEG

Reviews L. Nordgren. Greek Interjections: Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics. Berlin – Boston, 2015. . Forthcoming JHS 2017. C.H. George. Expressions of Time in Ancient Greek. Cambridge, 2014. 2015.09.44, September 28. BMCR

Popular Article ‘Back from the Future: Re-humanising History? The Islamic State and the Impact of the Present on the Past in the Present’. (https://medium.com/eidolon/back-from-the-future-fdf55441ba64), Oct. Eidolon 2015.

Fellowships, Awards, and Grants 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow Scholarship, Fondation Hardt, Spring 2015 Visiting Senior Associate Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at 2014-15 Onassis Doctoral Fellowship for research in Greece [declined for position at UCLA] 2013 Stanley J. Seegar Summer Fellowship, Program in 2013 Best Individual Paper Saturday session, APA, Seattle 2012-13 Edward Capps Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2012-13 Thomas F. Curley III Memorial Fellow, Princeton 2012 Stanley J. Seegar Summer Fellowship, Program in Hellenic Studies 2011-12 Thomas Day Seymour Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2011 Rehak Travelling Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2011 Stanley J. Seegar Summer Fellowship, Program in Hellenic Studies 2011 Curley Summer Fellowship, Graduate School, Princeton 2010 Stanley J. Seegar Summer Fellowship, Program in Hellenic Studies. 2009-10 Joseph E Croft Fellowship, Princeton University 2009 Stanley J. Seegar Summer Fellowship, Program in Hellenic Studies 2008-9 Perkins Prize, Princeton University 2008 US Fulbright Scholar Award, US $30000/year + school fees for doctoral studies in the US [declined for full Princeton fellowship] 2008 Summer Scholarship in Greek. Research assistant for V. Gray. University of Auckland 2006-7 MA Scholarship, full tuition + $10000 stipend/year, University of Auckland 2006-7 Minerval Trust Prize for services to Greek and Latin, Classics Dept., University of Auckland 2007 Summer Scholarship in Greek. Research assistant for V. Gray on the language of Xenophon, University of Auckland 2007 John Mulgan Memorial Prize for top graduate in Greek, University of Auckland 2006 Kolibari Scholarship for study in Greece, Victoria University of Wellington 2005 Senior Scholarship in Greek, University of Auckland 2004 Senior Prize in Environmental Science, University of Auckland 2003 John Mulgan Memorial Prize for top undergraduate in Greek, University of Auckland 2002 Annual Prize in Ancient History

Paper Presentations (*scheduled) 2017* ‘Active Phrygians and Passive Greeks: the Phrygian Alphabet Comes to Greece’. AIA Annual Meeting, Toronto, 8 Jan. 2016* ‘In Search of Early Epinician’. Lecture Series, University of Notre Dame, 9 Nov. 2016 ‘The Dark Side of Greece: Black Magic and Grim Religion’. Keynote, University of Kentucky Undergraduate Classics Conference, 29 Oct. 2016 ‘The Song Cultures of Early Greece: the Epigraphic Evidence’. Job talk. Florida State University, 29 Jan. 2015 ‘Pindar’s Poetics’. PIE Workshop. 25 Feb. ‘Pindar’s Debt to Poetry Past’. Job talk. University of Tennessee at Knoxville. 6 Feb. 2014 ‘A New Interpretation of the Polyandrion at Ambracia’. UCLA 17 Nov. ‘Problems with the 'Elite' Hypothesis: (Anti)social Networking in Greece 1000-600 BCE’. Job talk. University of Cincinnati, 11 Feb. 2013 ‘The Adventures of the Corinthian Alphabet’. ASCSA, Athens, 14 Feb. ‘The Peculiar Case of the Earliest Greek Epigrams’. APA, Seattle, 5 Jan. 2011 ‘New Gods : Old Rome’. Oxford, 13 Jan. 2010 ‘But who will Build the Buildings? Greek Builders and Constructs of Professionalism’.

. Harvard, 24 April. Professionalism in the Ancient World ‘The Sikel-phabet: Transmission and Perception’. Centre and Region in the Ancient . Princeton-Oxford conference, Princeton, 14 Jan. Mediterranean 2009 ‘The Geography of the Paeonian Akropolis at Sveti-Nikole’. Sveti-Nikole, Republic of Macedonia, 24 June. ‘Lakonian Dialect in Thucydides’. . Princeton-Oxford conference, Oxford, 15-16 Jan. 2007 ‘Word Order and Metrics in Pindar’. University of Auckland, 18 Sept.