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CAM Newsletter Classical Association of Minnesota Autumnus MMVI CAM Newsletter Classical Association of Minnesota Autumnus MMVI Annual CAM meeting at the 11:00-12:00: Guest lecture by Prof. Cynthia Campus Center, University of Damon, Amherst College: “The ‘splendid idea’ and the ‘hatrack’: Goethe and Twain in Minnesota, Saturday, Pompeii.” November 4th, 2006 12:00-1:00: Lunch (box lunches, sodas, water) 1:00-2:30: Afternoon Session. The 26th annual meeting of the Classical Michelle Vitt and Teresa Rogusiki will conduct Association of Minnesota will take place at the a workshop on using oral Latin in the classroom. Campus Center of the University of Minnesota. Come prepared to speak Latin! (Latine loqui Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. See directions parati venite!). There will also be a discussion on last page. Our keynote speaker is Cynthia led by the members of the executive committee Damon of Amherst College. on the financial state of CAM, including the potential benefits and costs of assuming not for Program profit status. 9:30-10:00: Registration & continental breakfast (coffee, OJ, muffins). CAM Annual Dues: $20 for regular members, $10 for emeriti and students. Meeting Registration Fee: $15 (advance registration $10) and an additional $10.00 for lunch. Please RSVP to Steve Smith ([email protected]) by Tuesday, October About the keynote speaker: 31 if you are planning on attending – you can also reserve a lunch ($10) at that time. Professor Cynthia Damon was educated at Stanford University (B.A. in History 1979, PhD in Classics If you wish to send payment in advance and get 1989) with a brief interlude out east at Boston College the advance meeting registration rate, send (M.A. in Classics 1984). She teaches at Amherst checks made out to CAM and postmarked by College where she is professor of Classics and Tuesday October 31 to: department chair. She served as editor of TAPA 2001- Ellen Sassenberg 2005 and is currently the president of the Classical Mayo High School Association of New England. She has written several 1420 SE 11th Ave articles on the history, society, and historiography of Rochester, MN 55904 the Romans, in addition to 3 books - The Mask of the 10:00 Call to Order. Parasite: A Pathology of Roman Patronage 10:00-10:45: Reports (each school represented (University of Michigan Press, 1997), Tacitus has 2-3 minutes to describe the state of Histories 1 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and Latin/Greek/Classics there and to announce any Caesar's Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2006 special upcoming event. (co-written with W. W. Batstone)). At Amherst she 10:45-11:00 Presentation of the CAM Teacher regularly teaches all levels of Latin and Greek, as well of the Year award. as courses on Roman history, literature, and Pompeii. Upcoming events Since 1991, the Athienou Archaeological Project has been excavating a rural sanctuary in the Malloura Additional lecture by CAM keynote valley, located in the central-eastern part of Cyprus. speaker Cynthia Damon: Our investigations are making important contributions to the study of Cypriote religious cult, especially in the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Title: “Truth or Truth-Like? Rhetoric and periods (ca. 750-50 B.C.). Through the close study of Roman Historiography.” the finds from the sanctuary, especially the limestone At University of Minnesota, Twin Cities votive sculptures related to divine images, the mixing Friday, Nov. 3, 4:00 PM in 275 Nicholson Hall, of local styles and tastes with foreign (e.g., Greek, 216 Pillsbury Drive. Phoenician, Egyptian) artistic elements can be info: 612-625-5353 or [email protected] evaluated first-hand. Moreover, comparisons with other sites in the region offer valuable evidence regarding artistic communication and socio-economic exchanges within the island. As a result, a more lucid picture of the complexity of Cypriote culture, art, and religion during these periods begins to emerge. 3. Thursday, April 05, 2007 at 6:00 PM at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Cyprian Broodbank, University College, London 2006-2007 MN-AIA Lecture Schedule (Kress Lecture): “Before Aphrodite: The Island Minnesota Society of the Archaeological of Kythera and the Minoans in the Aegean.” Institute of America (MN-AIA) Abstract: After 1900 BC the Minoan palace-states of Donald Hammer, President Crete became the most powerful entities in the Aegean. Their cultural, economic and, according to All lectures are free and open to the public. some scholars, political influence was widely felt throughout the islands and coastlands of the southern 1. Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 6:00 PM at Aegean, especially in the Neopalatial period (c. 1700- the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. 1450 BC). For some, the archaeological signature James K. Hoffmeier, director of the North Sinai from the Aegean islands at this time indicates Cretan Archaeological Project: “Egypt and Exodus” rule, a so-called ‘Minoan thalassocracy’, whilst Abstract: James K. Hoffmeier has been researching others prefer ‘minoanisation’, or the adoption by the Wilderness narratives of the Bible’s books of local people of Cretan customs, styles and ways of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers. He has uncovered doing things, as the main explanatory framework. important new evidence, including a major New Since the pioneering excavation by Nicolas Kingdom fort at Tell el-Borg that was occupied Coldstream and George Huxley in the 1960s of a during the Israelite exodus. Hoffmeier employs these putative Cretan colony at the port of Kastri on archaeological findings to shed new light on the route Kythera, a key stepping-stone later associated with of the exodus from Egypt. He also investigates the the cult of Aphrodite, this Aegean island has played a location of Mount Sinai, and events surrounding the central role in the debate concerning the nature and story of Moses. extent of Cretan networks. Since 1998, the Kythera Island Project, an inter-disciplinary research project 2. Thursday, March 08, 2007 at 6:00 PM at under my co-direction, has been shedding new light the Minneapolis Institute of Arts on the ‘Minoans’ of Kythera. Fieldwork has Derek Counts, University of Wisconsin- comprised an intensive field survey investigating all periods of the island’s history, supported by GIS, Milwaukee: “Divine Symbols and Local technological analysis of pottery production, and Traditions: A Regional Approach to Cypriote geoarchaeology, as well as archival and other Religion.” research into later periods. This lecture will focus on Abstract: The island of Cyprus, situated at the the insights that we have gained into the nature and crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean, possesses an origins of the first Cretan settlers, the explosion of incredibly diverse archaeological record. Contact Minoan culture, population and trade now seen in the with Greece, Anatolia, the Near East, and Egypt Neopalatial age, and the transformations of Kytheran guaranteed a constant movement of art, ideas, and identities and social power. even people to and from the island. There is perhaps no better place to witness the impact of these exchanges than in the study of Cypriote religion. 4. Thursday, May 03, 2007 at 6:00 PM at the of a person devoted to a cause and interest which Minneapolis Institute of Arts. she truly loves… In… an impersonal system, I… appreciate a teacher who is willing to Lanny Bell, Brown University (Abemayor acknowledge her students as people. Lecture): The University Museum Tombs at Furthermore, she is an advocate for her students Dira Abu El-Naga, Thebes.” Abstract: The unpublished Ramesside tombs at Dira in the school district. Under the threat of budget Abu el-Naga South lie just across the escarpment cuts and the elimination of opportunities…, Ms. from the Valley of the Kings. This site has been Sassenberg defends the student cause and strives investigated by two expeditions from the University to preserve the well-being of the Latin program. of Pennsylvania Museum. There, in enormous rock- [She] is not only a patrona of the Latin cut tombs with commanding views of the whole language, but she is a patrona of her students.” Theban plain, were buried some of the most powerful (Molly Bowen, Mayo class of 2003) officials of the realm under Ramesses II (1270-1212 BC) and his immediate successors; these include three High Priests of Amun-Re of Karnak (Nebwenenef, Bekenkhons I, and Roma-Roy), a Third Prophet of Amun-Re (Tjaneger), two Viceroys of Kush (Setau and Anhotep), and two Commandants of the Troops of Kush (Pennesuttaui and Nakhtmin). A teir of much smaller tombs of lesser officials, mostly priests, is located on a lower terrace. This lecture will concentrate on excavation techniques, the architecture and decoration of the tombs in this complex, and conservation efforts undertaken on behalf of their restoration and preservation. Some of the most significant artifacts associated with the use and reuse of the tombs will also be featured. Ancient theatrical offerings Keep an eye out for the following productions in the Twin Cities area scheduled for the 2006- 2007 season: Sophocles’ Antigone, running Oct. 24 - Nov. 19, 2006, directed and adapted by Greg Banks for the Children’s Theatre Company. Next spring Sophocles’ Electra will be performed by the University of Minnesota’s Actor Training Program on March 1-4, 2007 directed by Sandra Shotwell. Last, but not least, Anne Groton announces plans for St. Olaf College's biennial Latin play: “This year our Other announcements students will be performing Plautus' Menaechmi. As many of you know, our plays are performed From Rochester Mayo High School our own in an easy-to-understand mixture of English and Ellen Sassenberg, CAM’s teacher of the year in Latin, with songs and musical accompaniment. 2005, won the Precollegiate teaching award Our audiences include all ages--children to given by the American Philological Association.
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