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Spring 2019 Letter from the Chair by Andrew Feldherr

ny of you dropping by East Pyne (and I hope you all will next time you are engulfed by the orange bubble) A will find a very different department. While we will never stop missing our recent retirees, Ted, Brent, Bob, and Christian (not to speak of Nino Luraghi, who left us to become Wykeham Professor at Oxford), the many wonderful new colleagues we have brought to Princeton during the same time period are making their presence felt all the more. This year it has been a special pleasure to welcome three new members of the faculty. Barbara Graziosi and Johannes Haubold have at last settled in East Pyne after their tremendous successes as professors of Greek at Durham, and Caroline Cheung, a scholar of Roman and material , joins us from Berkeley by way of the American Academy in . Each has brought exciting ideas for courses and new intellectual opportunities for us all. More reason for celebration comes from the exceptional honors won this year by our colleague Harriet Flower, who has also ended her time as Head of Mathey College. Last his term as chair of the department. It will be a fantastic spring, Harriet received the university’s highest honor for opportunity for him, and for all of us, as it has been a great achievements in the humanities, the Howard T. Behrman privilege for me to serve in that role. That privilege has been Award, and in case those laurels provided insufficient material a pleasure as well thanks to the wonderful support I received for resting, her most recent book, The Dancing Lares and from all my colleagues in the department and, in particular, the Serpent in the Garden (which really should have been the the incomparable contributions of Nancy Blaustein, our title of a mystery novel!) has just won a Goodwin Award department manager and everyone who works or has worked for Outstanding Publications from the Society for Classical in our office, Jill Arbeiter, Kai Laidlaw, Brittany Masterson, Studies. (Another of this year’s recipients, Amy Richlin, who and Eileen Robinson (with a shout out to Stephanie won for Slave Theater in The Roman , is of course an Lewandowski and Donna Sanclemente, who have gone undergraduate alumna and good friend of the department.) on to other positions in the University). Their energy and One of our undergraduate concentrators received a pretty dedication have made us the envy of the university, and much significant honor as well. Nicolette D’Angelo, not content with of the special atmosphere so familiar to students and faculty of winning a Beinecke Scholarship, was just selected for a comes from them. as well, the first in the department since Liz Butterworth in 2011. She is but one member of an extraordinary senior class, many of whom I expect will go on to further study in To make a contribution to the classics. And looking beyond that group, congratulations to Department of Classics, please contact the Jaylin Lugardo, honored with a Mellon Mays Fellowship, Office of Development at 609-258-8972. who appeared this spring in a 60 Minutes on initiatives in affirmative action. (“Why Bill and Melinda Gates Put 20,000 Students Through College,” cbsnews.com) The big news on the graduate front—pausing to welcome our new cohort of six entering students!—was an initiative Inside this issue spearheaded by Michael Flower (enjoying a year’s leave as Faculty News...... 3 Old Dominion Fellow following an exemplary term as DGS) and Dan-el Padilla Peralta to award an annual pre-doctoral Graduate Student News...... 7 fellowship designed to promote diversity. This fellowship, Faculty Publications...... 8 which, after a year of advanced study, guarantees acceptance Alumni Spotlight...... 9 to our doctoral program, helps establish our department as a leader, both in the field and the university, in increasing access Summer Study in Paris...... 10 and participation in the discipline for members of historically Graduate Dissertations...... 11 underrepresented groups. You can read more about this plan in an interview with Michael and Dan-el published on the Society Undergraduate Award...... 12 for Classical Studies blog. (“Diversifying Classics: A New Senior Theses...... 13 Initiative at Princeton,” classicalstudies.org) Course Preview...... 14 The leadership that Michael Flower has shown here and in many other ways brings me to the last piece of good Lectures & Events...... 15 news I have to share. Starting July 1st, Michael will begin

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Yelena Baraz Najman, a workshop entitled Philological areas and the transition between a I devoted most of last year Reflections to take place in Princeton in dolium-centered storage system to one to completing a book April, and co-editing, with Christopher featuring the barrel, and an article traces manuscript on Roman Moore of Penn State, a Cambridge development in dolium repairs and pride. From a very small Companion to the Sophists (to feature a technology transfer. I co-presented a paper seed—a sense of unease chapter of our own Andrew Ford). Finally, in an AIA/SCS panel I co-organized, about our assumption that it has been a pleasure and an inspiration “Systems of Knowledge and Strategic we knew what to return to the East Jersey State Prison Planning in Ancient Industries,” at the meant when he asked his Muse to ‘take this fall for a class on “Justice in the Epic Annual Meeting to pursue my interests pride’ in Odes 3.30—it has grown into ” headed by our own Tom Davies in craft production and workshops. a study of this emotional concept in and Teddy Fassberg. I’ve also been working on a paper that the Roman world that argues for an explores cabbage as a moral compass in overwhelmingly negative meaning of Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis and editions for papyri from Tebtunis and Oxyrhynchus. I’ve pride in republican discourse and traces After recent forays into had many wonderful experiences this a small, but influential strand of positive such subjects as Byzantine academic year. I taught Latin courses on redefinition in Augustan , with funerary laments for , , and , and a seminar a patchy, but distinctive afterlife in the deceased children, a on . During Fall Break, I led tours Flavians and in late antique poetry, Byzantine treatise on the especially panegyric. As wonderful as it (de)formative role of through Pompeii, the Roman , the was to have a year to write, I was delighted insincerity and , and several museums for the to come back to teaching in the fall. I dissembling on social life, and the links Humanities Sequence trip to Rome—one have enjoyed teaching a graduate seminar between and medieval highlight was an ancient Roman dinner on the Latin tradition that took political identity, I am resuming work over (with togas and stolas!) in a replica us from Vergil’s Eclogues through ‘non- the next year on Byzantine letter-writing Pompeian house. pastoral’ Augustan texts that engage of the 10th–12th c. for a planned monograph with the genre all the way to late antique on medieval Greek epistolary culture. Marc Domingo Gygax Christian experiments. The conversations This upcoming year will see publication During the last months I in the course will stay with me as I go of articles on: the reciprocal ties between have been working on four back to working on Calpurnius Siculus verse and prose during the ‘long twelfth book chapters for edited and the pastoral tradition. A paper on century’ in , following a highly volumes: a piece dealing bucolic competition, with a focus on successful conference on the subject last with the status, foundation its disintegration in Calpurnius’ sixth summer hosted by the Austrian Academy and evolution of a eclogue, just out in a Brill volume Eris and of Sciences; and the place of friendship Seleucid military colony in Aemulatio, is part of my continuing work as an enabling feature of letter-writing Hellenistic , based on a paper on this understudied corpus. between socially unequal correspondents in presented at a conference on ancient medieval Byzantium. Finally, this Spring, Greek mercenaries celebrated in Kyoto; Joshua Billings I will teach a graduate seminar titled a contribution exploring the role of “Beyond Transmission: the Reception of Readers of this newsletter euergetism in the embedded economy Literature in the Middle will be unsurprised to of the Greek for a volume on Ages,” as part of an ongoing collaborative know that I am (still) extramercantile economies of project on medieval , a subject working on a book on and Rome; an essay on the reception which a number of colleagues and I are drama and in of in contemporary preparing to take up at a round table of the fifth-century BCE , historiography after the Linguistic Turn International Byzantine Studies Congress which explores the for a collective book on Thucydides in Istanbul in 2021. consequences of placing drama at the and historiography; and a paper on the center of classical Greek intellectual relationship between benefactions and history. The chapters trace the ways that Caroline Cheung leadership in the ancient Greek world particular scenic forms shape, solicit, and After two years for a volume on leadership in the ancient enable structured conceptual thought— researching and writing Mediterranean and the Near East. My creating, I argue, something like a method my dissertation in Rome, projects for the rest of the academic year parallel to the methods being developed I joined the department in include an article on Livy’s version of the by those we anachronistically call September 2018. Since Treaty of (188 BC); an article on “philosophers.” I am on leave in 2018–19, my arrival, I’ve been Thucydides and the modern and ancient and at the time of writing am optimistic drafting material for my anthropologies of gift-exchange; and a about completing a draft by the end of book project, which studies the industries paper discussing examples of irreligiosity the leave; next year’s newsletter will tell if of dolia, large ceramic containers typically in the work of Thucydides for an this is foolhardy. My other major projects used for wine fermentation and storage. international conference on irreligiosity in for the year are collaborative: organizing, New chapters focus on the relationship archaic and to be held at together with André Laks and Hindy between storage in urban and rural the University of Zaragoza in May.

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Denis Feeney and faculty, mostly from Princeton and of Historical Fiction in ”. Spending the academic the Scuola Normale Superiore at Pisa, I have also written a long self-standing year 2018–19 on sabbatical for a two-day collective reading of a article on the intertextual relationship leave in Oxford, I have Latin text. This year’s topic was Pliny’s between ’s Anabasis and been able to complete two riveting Panegyric for the Cyropaedia, a project that actually grew articles that have been on (seriously,… who knew?). While an out of our department reading group last my mind for some time, errant March nor’easter kept most of spring (our current graduate students and I have done all the our contingent by their fireplaces in the chose the Cyropaedia as the semester’s work of preparing my collected articles Garden State, those of us who made it will text). I continue to pursue my interest in never forget the experience. for publication by Cambridge University Greek . After many delays, my Press. This last job took far longer than essay “Divination and the ‘Real Presence’ I had imagined, since half of the articles Harriet Flower of the Divine in Ancient Greece” will didn’t exist in electronic form, and 2018 was a year of huge soon be published by Oxford University regularizing all the citations to an author- changes for me (and for Press (UK) in an edited volume called date system meant retrieving all kinds of my whole family). I Negotiating, Communicating, Relating: obscure bibliographical details that my completed my 8-year term Approaches to Ancient Divination. My breezy junior self took for granted. I also as Head of College in essay concludes with a discussion of the began editing work on a volume I am Mathey College, a unique Ghost among the Lakota Sioux, in co-editing with a colleague in Princeton’s experience that will my second daring venture into comparative German Department, Joel Lande. This remain a highlight of my academic career religion (“Understanding Through is an interdisciplinary study of “How and of my time at Princeton. In the Spring, Tibet” in last April’s Greece & Rome was Begin”, arising ultimately from I was deeply honored to receive a Howard my first)! a Humanities Sequence Capstone Seminar T. Behrman Award for Distinguished that Joel and I co-taught in Spring 2017, Achievement in the Humanities from and proximately from a conference on the . In June, I moved Andrew Ford subject that we organized in Spring 2018. out of 23 University Place (a wonderful This year “’ Finally, I have begun proper work on the home that will be warmly remembered) eikôn of and the book on 338 BCE that Dan-el Padilla and took a sabbatical leave in the Fall Platonic Text: Symp. Peralta and I are writing together. For semester. Conference papers took me on 215a-222d” appeared in someone who is not exactly an historian, memorable trips to , and the Power of this has been a challenging—though very Washington and Lee University, the Fritz Images, ed. R. G. exciting—process. And for someone who Thyssen Stiftung in Cologne, and the Edmonds III and has never collaborated on writing anything Pontifical Catholic University of Chile P. Destrée (Brill, 2017), pp. 11–28. Also longer than two pages, it has been a lesson in Santiago. In addition to new research appearing: “On the nonexistence of tragic in how valuable it is to get out of the silo. on Cato the Elder’s speeches and on the odes,” my “Afterword” to Paths of Song: Roman triumph under Augustus, my The Lyric Dimension of Greek , on-going book project considers the way Andrew Feldherr ed. Rosa Andujar and Thomas Coward autobiography was first written in Latin Despite entering into the in the early first century BC. I will be (Brill, 2018) pp. 367–380. A lightly homestretch of chairmania, offering new readings of the fragments of revised version of “The Genre of Genres: this has not been an the early memoirists in their political and Paeans and Paian in Early Greek Poetry,” unproductive year cultural context, as well as looking at the originally published in Poetica 38/3-4 (although not in ways that use of first-person narratives in Latin more (2006), is included in Oxford Readings will make exciting generally. in Greek Lyric Poetry, edited by Ian reading!). I spent most of Rutherford (Oxford Readings in Classical the summer working together with my Studies, 2019), pp. 166–186. Among talks colleague Will Batstone at Ohio State Michael A. Flower were “ and the to get a complete version of our Oxford I am on leave this in the age of the sophists,” a Keynote Readings in Classical Studies volume academic year and have address for the conference, Sophistic Views on in the hands of the press. the honor of being an Old of the Epic Past from the Classical to the Spoiler alert: next year’s update will Dominion Professor in find me bearing up bravely under the Princeton’s Society of Imperial Age, at University of Winchester very uncongenial task of proofreading Fellows. The Society’s in September 2018 and a Greek Day said volume. A welcome opportunity to weekly lunch talks have lecture at UMBC on Homer’s in expand my horizons, both in an intellectual given me an opportunity to interact with November 2018. My primary current sense and as an acknowledgement of the some very brilliant young scholars from project is a on ’s splendid vistas offered by the venue, came many different fields and this has proved for Cambridge Press’s Green and from the second official Cortona Colloquium to be one of the highlights of my year. Yellow series, but I am also working up on . This is a new annual My main research project has been to articles on various Greek lyric poems and event bringing together graduate students work on my book manuscript, “The Art on Greek literary history.

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Barbara Graziosi advanced reading group in that language. Stanford, as the Webster Lecturer, UCLA, This is the end of my first My research this year has likewise explored Davis, and Dartmouth, as the Zarbin semester here at Princeton several ancient , focusing in Lecturer, a tour that culminated with a and I thoroughly enjoyed particular on the work of the ‘Chaldeans’, talk at the Fórum do Futuro in Porto. A the company of both late Babylonian thinkers whose capacity to wonderful conference in November on students and colleagues, predict and interpret celestial movement, “undead texts” let me reckon again with who made me feel and the more generally, was much Bruno Snell in a short paper that will be welcome and took time to in demand in the ancient Mediterranean, published in Public Culture. My co-edited explain all sorts of things—from the including in Greece and Rome. I have just volume (with Emanuela Bianchi and Sara intricacies of the curriculum to the finished editing, together with John Steele Brill), Antiquities beyond Humanism— meaning of double yellow lines (before (Brown) and Kathryn Stevens (Durham), which includes my long essay on Stoic taking my NJ driving test). Meanwhile, a volume on the so-called Astronomical sympathy and “cosmobiology”—will several research projects came to Diaries, continuous records of planetary appear in the spring in OUP’s “Classics in completion: the volume Tombs of the and historical events written in Babylon Theory” series. This year is also witness Ancient Poets: Between Literary Reception over a period of some 500 years (6th–1st to the publication of articles on the and Material Culture appeared with century BCE): it will shortly appear Hippocratic body, bios in contemporary Oxford University Press in November with Brill. Two further papers chart the continental philosophy, the pseudo- 2018, as did articles on the Homeric text development of Chaldean ‘philosophy’ Aristotelian Problemata, canonicity, and the (in The Life of Texts: Evidence in Textual and its connections to both Stoicism and historiography of the sexed body for the Production, Transmission and Reception, Neoplatonism. Another strand of my Cambridge Companion to , the Bloomsbury) and on the performance of research has focused on ancient epic, journal Political Concepts, and a number of ancient epic on the modern stage (in Epic with a conference paper on Byzantine edited volumes. Performances from the into the Homeric exegesis (Oxford, June 2018) Twenty-First Century, Oxford University and forthcoming chapters on epic forms Joshua T. Katz Press). I reviewed new editions of the (Epische Bauformen, ed. C. Reitz and S. As always, I enjoy Odyssey with Johannes Haubold (for Bryn Finkmann), political speech in Greek and prowling around Mawr Classical Review), and of ’ Akkadian epic (in Der Alte Orient und die linguistic and literary Oedipus Tyrannus with Joshua Billings Entstehung der athenischen Demokratie, ed. problems that range from (in the Times Literary Supplement); I C. Horst), and on embodied knowledge the Proto-Indo-European also wrote about Roman empresses all by in Greek and Akkadian didactic poetry of 5500 years ago to myself (in the Times Higher ). (in Didactic Poetry: Knowledge, Power, twenty-first-century My short book entitled Homer (OUP, Tradition ed. Lilah Grace Canevaro and experimental fiction. Six papers appeared 2016) will appear in paperback in the Donncha O’Rourke). Invitations to speak in 2018: “Gods and Vowels” (in Sound ‘Very Short Introductions’ series early next in Edinburgh, Columbus (Ohio), Malibu, and the Ancient Senses, ed. Shane Butler & year and in Italian translation for UTET and Singapore will keep me busy next Sarah Nooter), “Μῆνιν ἄειδε, θεά and the shortly afterwards. I also hear that the year! Form of the Homeric Word for ‘Goddess’” hardback version will be presented as a gift (in Language and Meter, ed. Dieter Gunkel to the Trustees of Princeton University, Brooke Holmes & Olav Hackstein), “The and which makes me happy, as I hope it will After a summer that Analogues of ’s Poetry” (in The be accepted as a token of gratitude for all included workshops I Oxford Handbook of Hesiod, ed. Alexander the institutional support we receive here in co-organized in Mumbai C. Loney & Stephen Scully), “Toward an the Classics Department. Next year seems and Athens, a short Indo-European Commentary on Hesiod” to be shaping up well with invitations teaching engagement for (in Proceedings of the 28th Annual UCLA to deliver three lectures at Cornell, as the International Cavafy Indo-European Conference, ed. David M. Townsend Visiting Lecturer, as well as Summer School, and a Goldstein, Stephanie W. Jamison & Brent the annual Valla-Balzan lecture at the keynote for the exhibition “Blind Faith” Vine), “Exercises in Wile” (in Cultures Accademia dei Lincei in Palazzo Corsini, at the Haus der Kunst in Munich, I’m and of Wordplay and Wordplay Rome. grateful to be able to spend all of 2018– Research, ed. Esme Winter-Froemel & 2019 as a Fellow at the Dorothy and Verena Thaler), and “The Walker and Johannes Haubold Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars the Wake: Analysis of Non-intrinsic I joined the department and Writers at the New York Public Philological Isolates” (in ’Pataphilology: in summer 2018 and Library and as a Guggenheim Fellow. The An Irreader, ed. Sean Gurd & Vincent thoroughly enjoyed my opportunity to go to work each day in such W.J. van Gerven Oei), the last written first semester here: as well a storied public institution, in the company together with one Princeton colleague, as teaching courses in of amazing scholars, novelists, and poets, Michael D. Gordin, and dedicated to Latin and Greek, I has been inspiring as I work to complete another, David Bellos. Recent talks have introduced an informal at long last my book on sympathy and the considered Homer (in Chicago), Plato beginners’ class in Akkadian, the language concept of Nature in antiquity. I was able (in Nice), St. Augustine (in Cologne, at of the ancient Babylonians, and a more to test some of the book’s claims this fall at a delightful conference in honor of Bob

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Kaster organized by my former student edition of the The Golden Fleece, whose outside the classroom: from a virtual trip Adam Gitner), and commonalities between introduction I completed on a gloriously to Thebes through a performance of The early Greek and early Chinese literature sunlit train ride from Los Angeles to Bacchae in Brooklyn to an actual sojourn in (Zurich). Santa Barbara last spring. Two essays on Delphi and Athens over fall break! classical reception in the Hispanophone Daniela Mairhofer Caribbean are migrating towards the printed page as their edited-volume shells Emeritae/i News Having waved good-bye to move towards production, and a revised a two-volume book (the and expanded version of my UCLA Robert Kaster sheer size of which has left Palevsky lecture on “Citizenship’s insular My retirement last June me a little proof-damaged, cases” will soon appear in a special issue was preceded, some weeks I must admit), and of Humanities. By next year, you should earlier, by the appearance late-antique prison also expect an update from Denis and me of the edition of the literature, I am on leave on our collaborative 338 BCE book, whose Servian commentaries on for the whole academic year 2018/19. writing will commence in earnest this Aeneid 9-12 that I As one might expect, I am working on spring. Sabbatical has been restorative, completed and saw something, somewhere. A very long time if peripatetic: in the fall, short-term through to publication after Charles ago, in pre-Princeton times, somebody lecture trips to Kansas, Kenyon, Penn Murgia’s death, and was followed a few worked on something somewhere, too State, Vanderbilt, and Washington; in the weeks later by a splendid conference, (presumably not while on sabbatical). spring, visits to U. San Francisco (as a “Guardians of Language Change,” For various reasons, the author decided Visiting Fellow), UTSA (as Brackenridge that Adam Gitner had very generously to disguise his identity and whereabouts Distinguished Visiting Professor), and organized in Cologne to mark the thirtieth and to label his extensive piece of work Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study (as anniversary of my first book. More recently ‘a whole lot of nothing’. It has been my an International Visiting Fellow). Come I have sent my annotated translations mission for some time now to show that June, I’ll be all traveled out—and ready to of ’s Brutus and Orator to OUP- ‘nothing’ was indeed quite something and crack down on course prep for fall 2019. USA, where they await the judgment of to bring to light the author’s identity and the Press’s readers, and I’ve submitted to whereabouts. I hope he doesn’t mind. Katerina Stergiopoulou OUP-UK a formal proposal for an edition of Seneca’s De beneficiis, De clementia, I have spent most of 2018 and Apocolocyntosis for the Oxford Dan-el Padilla Peralta finishing up my book Classical Texts series. Some other projects Achievement unlocked: the project, Towards a are also on the list—for example, working manuscript for Divine Modernist Hellenism: Ezra with Sam Huskey to produce an online, Institutions: Religion and Pound, H.D., and the open-access version of the Servius for State Formation in Translation of Greece. the Library of Digital Latin Texts—and Republican Rome has After dedicating winter should be sufficient to keep me occupied finally landed in the hands and spring to archival research, I and off the streets well into my permanent of my patient editor at completed the (perhaps too lengthy) final sabbatical. Princeton University Press. While not chapter on H.D.’s epic poem Helen in an especially uplifting year for people of , in which I argue for the poem’s color or immigrants—the communities at deep and detailed classical intertextuality Brent Shaw the heart of my personal and professional and show the ways it both deploys and Continuity continues to be identities—2018 did see the publication subverts conventional philological and the keynote of being an of several articles: in Classical Antiquity, a translation methods. I presented part emeritus. The completion prosopographically flexed reconstruction of this new work, focusing on H.D.’s of the last graduate of third-century BC Roman history that conception of translation, in the Modernist students under my aegis is received some plaudits on Twitter for Studies Association conference this within sight. Research its allusive title (“Hammer time: the November. I had a busy few weeks in work continues to be done Publicii Malleoli between cult and cultural Greece over the summer, giving a lecture on various projects but, very history”); in Arethusa, a shorter and not on C.P. Cavafy’s intralingual citation disappointingly, not one of them has quite as wittily branded meditation on practice as part of the Princeton Athens made its way to print this year. In terms ecology and epistemology in Cicero; in Center inaugural Summer Institute of other ‘live’ participation, however, I Histos and Gnomon, reviews of Princeton (focused on the long history of the Greek was pleased to join in the celebration of PhD alum Craige Champion’s Peace of language), and participating in the Liquid the fiftieth anniversary of the program the Gods and friend-of-Princeton-Classics Antiquity workshop, where I spoke on the in and Mediterranean Jörg Rüpke’s Religious deviance in the question of the “palinode” (again inspired Archaeology at UC Berkeley in September. Roman world. I was also pleased to see the by my research into H.D. and her classical I contributed some thoughts on the origins new edition of Robert Graves’ The Siege intertexts). This fall, I have greatly enjoyed and significance of the in and Fall of —for which I supplied my first semester of teaching at Princeton, the formation of the . Among an introduction—appear in bookstores; and especially the wonderful opportunities the other public talks that I would like in 2019 it will be joined by a second my students and I have had for learning to note were one on the Christian martyr

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Perpetua given in late September, on what William Dingee from teaching obligations, I’m also glad was a happy celebration in honor of the As of October, I have to be back in the classroom this fall as retirement of Barbara Gold from Hamilton. completed my second a preceptor for Marc Domingo Gygax’s And a more difficult and probing talk and final general exam Greek history course. This spring, I am looking forward to co-teaching on the same subject was delivered to the and have now begun to a seminar with Hendrik Lorenz in Philadelphia Seminar on Christian origins weigh a few options for Philosophy, entitled “Marginalized in early December. Although formal a dissertation in Latin Groups in Ancient Philosophy: Women, university teaching has ended, I had a most literature. After quite a ‘Barbarians,’ and Slaves.” In connection enjoyable brief tilt at pedagogy in a series few years of contemplation and revision, with this course, I am collaborating of lectures on ‘the origins of martyrdom’ I am pleased to say that the project with Linda McNulty Perez, another delivered to the University’s Community which originated as my master’s thesis graduate student in Classics, on Auditing Program in the fall term. The has now been published in Classical building a database of inquiries at students, all attending out of pure interest Receptions Journal as “Did Their Walk That Way? Ezra made by enslaved men and and from a diverse set of backgrounds, women; so far, the results are already were a joy to teach. Finally, I am looking Pound’s Homage to Sextus Propertius as a Complaint Against Classical opening up new research questions I forward to organizing a workshop/round- hope to pursue in the coming years. table on new perspectives on slavery in the Philology.” Roman world at Florida State University in Wintor Scott spring of 2019. I would hope that some of René de Nicolay The character of this the research being done in the interim will After a rich summer in Fall reminds me of see print in 2019. , I was very Plotinus, who, not happy to be back in satisfied with his good old Princeton. My Froma Zeitlin knowledge gained at program for the , joined the I have been Professor semester included expedition of the Emeritus for a long time starting to prepare for Emperor Gordian to learn the now (since 2010) but I Greek generals (with the welcome help philosophy prevailing among the continue to be active, of the Greek survey), and plunging Indians. Just so during the summer of teaching courses for into the depths of Plotinus’ philosophy. 2018, I found myself in Pune, , Comparative Literature on I am still under the water, but find it a studying in sanskrtam bāshañam the a regular basis, and also beautiful place. Thanks to Sara Magrin Rig Veda, supported by AIIS and an teaching in the summer at the Bread Loaf for this! Otherwise, things have been award from Berkeley for the study of School of English in Vermont (2018) quite peaceful. Squash has entered my Sanskrit. From here I arrived prepared with a return again in 2019. I have also life, thanks to Teddy Fassberg: I did to begin a series of projects that my trip continued to publish: most recently on the not imagine how calming it could be to to India inspired. The first took root ancient Greek novel and more generally smash a little rubber ball against a wall. from an interest in the epic of Pābūjī, an on Greek literature under the empire: Skeptics should get initiated! oral-epic sung currently among the cow- “Apodêmia: The Adventure of Travel herders of Rajasthan. Wishing to know in the Greek Novel,” In Journeys in the Emily Hulme Kozey first-hand what it takes to be an oral Roman East: Imagined and Real, ed. I am pleased to report poet, I memorized Book I of the Iliad Maren R. Niehoff (Mohr-Siebeck 2017) that two articles related and several passages of the Bhagavad- 157-82.; “Longus and Achilles Tatius,” to my dissertation Gita, a task which I can happily confirm in D. Richter and W. Johnson, eds. The research have been accomplished and whose fruits will be Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic accepted for publication put on performance this Spring. When (Oxford 2018) 405-19; 712-13.; “From this year: “Another Peri not rhapsodizing, I have been bursting the Neck Up: Kissing and Other Oral Technes Literature: the boundaries of the prescriptive Obsessions in Achilles Tatius.” Re-Wiring Inquiries about One’s Craft at Dodona” Attic/Ionic literary dialect by taking the Ancient Novel: Greek Novels, vol I has come out in Greece & Rome this a tour in the non-literary dialects of (Ancient Narrative Supplement 24.1) eds. fall, and “The Good-Directedness ancient Greece and looking into its E. Cueva, S. Harrison, H. Mason, Wm. of Techne and the Status of Rhetoric in Indo-European past with the aid of the Owens, S. Schwartz, 95–108 (Barkhuis the Platonic Dialogues” is forthcoming linguist Donald Ringe at the University 2018).; “Life Trajectories: Iphigenia, in Apeiron. The dissertation of Pennsylvania. For the upcoming year Helen, and Achilles on the Black Sea.” itself, Philosophia and Philotechnia: The I’m excited to begin thinking more In and Performance around the Techne Theme in the Platonic Dialogues, deeply on the theology of paganism in Ancient Black Sea, eds. E. Hall, D, Braund, is coming along, too; I expect to defend south-east/west traditions and to search R. Wyles (CUP 2019). My current plan this spring. After a very productive year for creative ways to engage with texts is to arrange for a collection(s) of various on the University Center for Human ahistorically and outside of formalistic essays on Greek literature, from Homer to Values prize fellowship that released me categories of literary criticism. the Second Sophistic.

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Serviani in Vergili Aeneidos libros IX–XII commentarii Edited by Charles E. Murgia, Robert A. Kaster Oxford University Press (2018)

The Servian commentaries on Vergil are doubly distinguished: they are among the very few ancient commentaries on texts to survive essentially intact; and they exist in two radically different forms—the original commentary created by the grammarian Servius early in the fifth century, emphasizing grammar and syntax, and an augmented version produced in the seventh century when a reader blended his Servius with much other recherché ancient lore. In the 1920s, the medievalist Edward Kennard Rand undertook to produce a truly modern edition that would fully reveal for the first time the character of the commentaries’ two versions. All did not go smoothly, however: a volume devoted to Aeneid 1-2 appeared in 1946, and another, with the commentaries on Aeneid 3-5, in 1965; this edition of the commentaries on Aeneid 9-12 is the first new contribution to the series to appear in more than fifty years. On his death in 2013, Charles E. Murgia left publishable versions of the text, upper and lower critical apparatuses, and large parts of the introduction, and he had gathered most of the data for a testimonial apparatus. Robert A. Kaster completed the work on the testimonia and introduction (using some of Murgia’s other writings to supplement the latter), added some subsidiary elements, and prepared the whole for publication. Thanks primarily to Murgia’s work, this edition is superior to its predecessors in the series, and to all other editions of Servius, in every respect.

Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library Daniela Mairhofer Bodleian Library Publishers, University of Oxford (2018)

The Bodleian Library in Oxford is one of the few libraries outside Germany with a substantial number of medieval manuscripts from the German-speaking lands. These manuscripts, most of which were acquired by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s, during the Thirty Years’ War, mainly consist of major groups of codices from ecclesiastical houses in the -Main area, that is Würzburg, Mainz, and Eberbach. Their potential contribution to the religious and intellectual history of these foundations and to the study of German medieval culture is immeasurable. This book is the first major publication on the Mainz manuscript collection at Oxford. It contains descriptions of over one hundred medieval, manuscripts, mostly Latin, from the Charterhouse St Michael at Mainz, which was founded in the early 1320s and is now lost. Dating from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, they reflect the spirituality and literary interest of the Carthusian order. Published in two volumes, the book is prefaced by an extensive introduction discussing the Laudian manuscripts from Germany and their journey to England, the history of the Mainz Charterhouse and its library including a textual analysis of the books it once hosted. This is followed by authoritative and superbly detailed descriptions of contents, including information about the physical characteristics, decoration, binding, and provenance of the manuscripts. Each manuscript is illustrated.

Rome, Empire of Plunder: The Dynamics of Cultural Appropriation Edited by Matthew P. Loar, Carolyn MacDonald, Dan-el Padilla Peralta Cambridge University Press (2017)

Bringing together philologists, historians, and archaeologists, Rome, Empire of Plunder bridges disciplinary divides in pursuit of an interdisciplinary understanding of Roman cultural appropriation— approached not as a set of distinct practices but as a hydra-headed phenomenon through which Rome made and remade itself, as a Republic and as an Empire, on Italian soil and abroad. The studies gathered in this volume range from the literary thefts of the first Latin comic poets to the grand-scale spoliation of Egyptian obelisks by a succession of , and from to to Qasr Ibrim. Applying a range of theoretical perspectives on cultural appropriation, contributors probe the violent interactions and chance contingencies that sent cargo of all sorts into circulation around the Roman Mediterranean, causing recurrent distortions in their individual and aggregate meanings. The result is an innovative and nuanced investigation of Roman cultural appropriation and imperial power.

8 Alumni Spotlight by Kevin Moch ’10

came to Princeton in the fall of 2006 already determined have had the opportunity to dive more deeply into the worlds of to major in Classics. I had studied Latin for three years, material culture, cultural anthropology, and linguistics, as well I but never been in a Latin class: my rural North Dakota as to have spent invaluable hours delving deep into texts new high school hadn’t offered languages, so I took Latin through and old. During a seminar on Propertian elegy with Kathleen distance education instead, mailing my homework each week McCarthy, in particular, I started to think about the relationship to a teacher across the state. I had only ever read Latin prose, between local Italian identity and Roman identity in authors of the however, so I was in for a bit of shock when I enrolled in Ted 1st century BC. I eventually came back to the Mantuanus himself, Champlin’s (poetry-heavy) “Invective, Slander, and Insult” my and began a dissertation on the role of local Italian identity in first semester. I can still remember spending hours in the depths Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics. The dissertation has brought of Firestone despairing over my translation of 7, poring its own rewards and opportunities, and work on the project has pulled me back to repeatedly over the past couple years, both for research and to present my work, including a year-long stint as a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome through last July. I will finish the dissertation this year and graduate in “I can assert with confidence that May. Fulfilling in a different way has been the teaching I’ve done at following where passion led was Berkeley. In teaching, I am reminded constantly of my time at the best choice I have made.” Princeton—of the amazing teaching and support I received while there; of the trenchant ideas and methodologies I was given to pass down. I’ve taught the Odyssey and Aeneid to students in classical mythology and composition courses, and shared insights about those texts from the scholars who know them best. I’ve over dictionary and grammar, convinced I would have to drop. taught a Turbo Greek class of my own, fully aware each day that Thankfully, as happens, I improved, and my experience that I was channeling one of the best instructors I’ve had. I’ve led a semester was so rewarding that I decided to major in Classics. lecture course on Roman civilization, teaching texts I came to love The next semester I took Champlin’s and through the grace and generosity of those who taught them to me. enrolled in Josh Katz’ Turbo Greek with an amazing group of And I’ve taught Latin classes where I witness students struggle budding Hellenists. While I still know my optatives, it’s auditory through their own first assignment, only to emerge at semester’s demonstrations of the circumflex accent and the visual mnemonic end having truly improved in of arm-as-elephant-trunk for the perfect active of lambano that their ability to read Latin and remain the most vivid and indelible memories from that semester. understand antiquity. As I brave All my academic experiences at Princeton were extraordinary, the uncertainties of the academic but none held a candle to those in the Classics department. I read job market this year, I cannot say Seneca and Vergil with Yelena Baraz, who would later kindly with certainty what will happen agree to be my (inimitable) thesis advisor; it was my paper for her next, or where I will be next year. Vergil seminar, writing on the old man of Tarentum in Georgics But I can assert with confidence that following where passion led 4, that I first truly understood the magic of constructing and was the best choice I have made. supporting an argument. I traveled to Rome for the first time to Happen what may, I know I have study spoken Latin with Fr. Reginald Foster, surrounded by dear gained innumerable skills and friends and wonderful graduate students the entire summer. I read experiences, effable and not, to the Aeneid for the first time in Latin with Denis Feeney, while carry me forward. simultaneously reading the Odyssey in Greek with Froma Zeitlin, in an unforgettable class which already made an appearance in this spotlight in 2015. I can still remember Andrew Feldherr lecturing on ’s address to Nero at the start of his Civil War during a lecture for “The Other Side of Rome”; the poem stuck with me, and I would go on to write a JP on Lucan’s with Andrew the Alumni News Needed following semester. Lucan’s epic became my senior thesis topic, and the process of writing it was so transformative, that I began to take the idea of going to graduate school seriously. Would you like to contribute I spent the year following graduation teaching English in a news for our next issue? small city in ’s Hunan province through Princeton-in-.

I had hoped to figure out whether I liked teaching; I discovered I loved it. I put in my graduate school applications—with the help Email us at: of many—and returned to the States the following year to start [email protected] a Ph.D. in Classics at UC Berkeley. Graduate school has been a period of incredible growth and learning. The classical world has been thrown upon to me in new ways, and I’m thankful to

9 Plato in Paris, Summer 2018 by Emily Hulme Kozey, PhD candidate

magine you have a ring—but not just any ring. This one is special. When you put this ring on, you I disappear, and can do whatever you like: slip into a bank vault unnoticed, make your way backstage at every concert, steal jewelry and famous art as you wish. You might think this is Tolkein’s ring, but there’s an earlier version of the myth: the story of the ring of Gyges from Plato’s Republic. Glaucon tells there the story of a shepherd who discovers just such a ring and uses it to conspire against a king. This is used to challenge the view that anyone actually wants to do the right thing: just and unjust people alike, Glaucon argues, would put this ring on and take what they want without compunction. It is only the fact that other people see us, and can punish us, that keeps us from doing wrong. This summer, thirteen students, led by Professor Benjamin Morison and me, contemplated this philosophical challenge and Plato’s complex reply to it: over ten books, the philosopher shows how he thinks this is not just a matter of ethics, but of understanding human psychology, the role of art and literature, and the very nature of reality. The course was run as a Princeton abroad seminar at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. We spent over ninety Daniel Shepard, Vickie Talvola, Delaney Thull, James Brown-Kinsella, hours in the classroom, reconstructing each move in the and Alex Haykel, enjoying the Seine this summer philosophical argument. We talked about the historical and cultural context of the dialogue, thinking about how radical Plato’s proposal for the equality of women is, and how general some of his claims about art and drama are. Outside of the classroom, several trips were planned to increase our understanding. One session took us to the Louvre, where Mathilde Etot of the Sorbonne guided us through the phases of development in Greek vase painting and . The course will run again this coming summer. I would highly recommend the course to students who would enjoy a focused seminar that makes plenty of time for close reading. Danielle Hoffman, a participant from the 2018 course, put it well: “I think part of what made the seminar such a rewarding and special academic experience was how different its pacing was from other courses I have taken at Princeton. Partaking in one course for five weeks in which we were able to dedicate so much time and energy to one text, without having to balance the pressures of other courses and extracurricular commitments, created a very unique environment where we were able to reach such an incredible depth of analysis and enthusiasm for the work at hand. This course pushed me intellectually in such a different way than does a typical semester at Princeton in that the challenges did not come from Will Nolan, Alex Haykel, Daniel Shepard, and Delaney Thull, having to push through and stay on top of constant contemplating the Form of the Good during “Plato in Paris.” assignments and readings but rather came from striving to understand and discuss a text at a level of nuance and attention to detail that I had never done before and am so grateful to have been given the opportunity to do last summer.”

10 Graduate Dissertations

Anna Dolgonov role. The goal in rectifying a transgression was to propitiate Empire of Law: Legal Culture and Imperial Rule in the the wronged deities and to realign Roman actions with divine of Egypt interests.

My dissertation seeks to shed light on the administration of Vanya Visnjic justice in the provinces of the , arguably the most The Invention of Duty: Stoicism as Deontology prominent public interface between the Empire and its subjects, as well as the sphere in which Rome left its most far-reaching Philosophers today generally believe that duty-based and lasting legacy in the Mediterranean world. In order to do (deontological) ethics was an innovation of the Enlightenment, so, the study integrates, for the first time, the voluminous and spearheaded by the work of Immanuel Kant in particular. While underexploited evidence of documentary papyri from Roman the ancient and Romans had notions of civic, military, Egypt into a broader investigation of judicial administration in and religious duty, they are thought to have lacked a notion of the Roman provinces, from its origins under the Republic to the purely moral duty. In this work, I argue that the Stoics in the threshold of late Antiquity at the end of the third century CE. The third century BCE did in fact develop a notion of moral duty study examines the sphere of law and courts in the Roman empire as well as a sophisticated deontological ethical theory built from several perspectives: first, by considering around that notion. The Stoic concept of duty the institutional framework within which Roman (καθῆκον in Greek, in Latin) has been courts administered justice to provincials, misunderstood until now for a variety of reasons, then by considering the significance of Roman including the paucity of literary evidence from record-keeping and archival institutions for the the . My thesis painstakingly imperial legal order, then by examining how collects and collates the surviving evidence and Roman provincial courts dealt with local laws offers a reconstruction and analysis of the Stoic and traditions. Finally, the study examines the theory of duty. It ends with a comparison of agency of legal practitioners in the development Stoic καθῆκον with the Kantian theory of duty. of the Roman imperial legal sphere, as well as the An important implication of this study is that significance of the adoption of distinctly Roman it bridges part of the perceived gap between models of legal culture by civic elites in Roman ancient and modern ethics. The Stoic idea of Egypt and elsewhere in the Roman empire. By cosmopolitanism—according to which we have systematically bringing the rich papyrological moral obligations to our fellow humans for material from Egypt to bear on broader questions no other reason than the fact that we share a of law and legal culture in the Roman provinces, common humanity—is as modern-sounding as my dissertation seeks to open new horizons for it is relevant to contemporary scholarship and the study of Roman legal history and to develop broader ethical debates. new perspectives on the institutional and cultural impact of Roman imperial rule. Clem Wood Exemplarity in : Literary, Cultural, and Political Caroline Mann Contexts Religious Transgression in the Roman Republic My dissertation is the first full study of the role of exemplarity in I argue that religious transgression was an observable cultural Tacitus’ historical works. While Roman historians traditionally phenomenon during the Roman Republic. It occurred in a variety presented figures, events, or deeds from the past asexempla for of forms, from petty thefts committed out of greed, to elaborate readers to imitate or avoid, Tacitus emphasizes the challenges to cursing rituals. Willful, knowing actions that violated correct this purpose in his of Imperial Rome, which he depicts religious behavior caused religious crises that had potentially as a world where imitation can be dangerous and the scope for deleterious consequences for both the responsible individual and action limited because of corrupt senators or hostile emperors. for the community or state. Religious transgression was most In response, I argue, Tacitus shifts the focus of exemplarity from fundamentally a problem of violating the will of the gods. The reproducing actions to learning from models of judgment and Romans had underlying assumptions that the will of the gods was evaluation. My dissertation falls into two main parts. In the first, knowable, and that to disregard it could cause disaster. Divine I examine how Tacitus builds his conception of exemplarity in the vengeance was viewed as a very real threat, and operated in Agricola, Histories, and Annals through an intertextual dialogue concert with civic methods of punishment. Moments of religious with Sallust and Livy. In the second, I read Tacitus in light of wrongdoing were opportunities to realign public actions with contemporary debates about the roles of senators and principes in the preferences of the gods, both by punishing transgressors Imperial Rome, with frequent comparison to his contemporary and by enacting expiatory actions. Roman political institutions, ’s Letters and Panegyric. I argue that Tacitus’ particularly the senate, played the key roles in determining what oblique and ambiguous exempla constitute both an alternative to had gone wrong religiously and how to rectify it. In smaller and reflection of the emperors’ appropriation of the sociocultural communities, equivalent civic bodies or magistrates fulfilled that and political practices of the Roman elite.

11 Senior Nicolette D’Angelo Awarded Rhodes Scholarship by the Office of Communications

’Angelo, of Hewitt, New Jersey, is majoring in classics Last summer, D’Angelo interned at the Institute at Princeton and pursuing certificates in creative in Rome, helping write educational materials for the study of D writing, humanistic studies, and gender and sexuality Greek and Latin. She also teaches Latin to elementary school studies. She plans to pursue the M.St. in Classics at Oxford. students through Princeton Young Achievers. As a first-generation college student from a public school “I’ve had the opportunity to teach Latin using a living without Greek or Latin courses, D’Angelo had no exposure language model that acknowledges the powerful relationship to classics before coming to Princeton. Her passion for between the personal lives of students and ancient literature,” classics was sparked in her first year at Princeton during the D’Angelo said. She one day hopes to become a professor in Humanities Sequence, a year-long, team-taught survey of the classics at a public university. . Upon learning she had won the Rhodes Scholarship, Her interests lie in exposing more people to classics and D’Angelo was reminded of another November weekend four in understanding ancient texts through a modern lens. Her years ago. research puts contemporary issues in conversation with ancient “After receiving warm congratulations from the [Rhodes] works, examining society’s potential biases, interests and selection committee, I immediately called my mother and cried assumptions. with her after sharing my unreal, euphoric news,” D’Angelo “I hope to use my Rhodes Scholarship to establish a public said. “I can’t help but remember calling her in November platform for displaying the relevance of antiquity to our during my first year of college, in tears, to say that I was world today,” she said. “In the West, we prize concepts like finding my courses too difficult, that I feared I would never be , republicanism and philosophy from our classical able to succeed at a school like Princeton, to call her three years past, yet we can also trace back to this time some of today’s later with very different news is the greatest thanks I can give most unsavory societal norms: for example, the exclusion of my parents for their unconditional support of my education. women and other marginalized voices from power. By using I owe everything to the love, support and mentorship of my my work and translations to broaden the audience of classics family, friends and teachers.” to new populations at a place as storied as Oxford, I hope to D’Angelo said she is proud to be among a diverse group of inspire budding classicists and non-classicists alike to examine Rhodes Scholarship winners. According to the Rhodes Trust, the global reception of ideas from the amazing yet deeply almost half of the 32 American finalists are either immigrants troubling worlds of ancient Greece and .” or first-generation students and 21 are women. In her junior year, D’Angelo received the national Beinecke In addition to her interest Scholarship that supports promising students in their graduate in classics, D’Angelo is a studies in the arts, humanities and social sciences. She also is a residential college adviser in recipient of Princeton’s Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence. Mathey College. She is editor of “Nicolette is able to combine a commitment to The Nassau Literary Review, a understanding the ancient world on its own terms with peer mentor at the Humanities making it speak to contemporary concerns,” said Yelena Baraz, Council, a fellow at the Writing associate professor of classics. “All the work Nicolette does, Center, managing editor of academic and creative, is personally meaningful. From her first “Tortoise: A Journal of Writing day in the Humanities Sequence she has intensely engaged Pedagogy,” and a member of the with the tradition we were teaching and, in her engagement, Behrman Undergraduate Society she was both transforming it and preparing to add to it.” of Fellows.

REUNIONS 2019

Please join us for the annual Department of Classics alumni breakfast.

Friday, May 31 10 to 11:00 a.m. Prentice Library 143 East Pyne

We look forward to welcoming you back to Classics!

12 Senior Theses 2018

Olivia Allen Craft and Consequence of Self-Presentation: Hippocratic Texts and Epidaurian Inscriptions

Hannah Baumann Greek Art, Roman Text: A Study of Ekphrasis in Catullus 64 and Vergil’s Aeneid

Geeyoung (Erica) Choi De Mulieribus Verbis: Ventriloquisms of Women’s Speech in

Matthew Edelstein Critiques of the Warrior Ethos: An Analysis of Select Episodes of Aristeia in the Aeneid and the Thebaid

Brigid Ehrmantraut ‘Fog on the Barrow-downs’: Mythologization of Tumuli in Old Irish, Old English, and Insular Latin Literature

Aidan Gray History before . History in Egypt, and Greece

James Haynes The Eagle, the Dragon, and the Cross: in the Ancient Roman Empire and Christianity in Contemporary China

Mary Lively Crisis at Rome: A Study of Rhetoric in Cicero’s Second Philippic

Oscar Mahoney Mnemonicon

Catherine Saterson Corpus Illustration by Mali Skotheim PhD ’16

The Princeton Classics Club is running the second annual Princeton Certamen in March. A certamen is a quiz-bowl with questions based on Roman history, culture, mythology, literature, and language. Hosting high school and middle school students from all over the country, the Club hopes to inspire passion for the classics and the Junior Classical League (JCL) with a competitive yet friendly contest. Visit www.princetoncertamen.org for more information.

13 Classics Course Preview

Fall 2019

CLA 212 Classical Mythology (LA) Joshua Billings

An introduction to classical myths in their ancient contexts and in their application to wider human concerns (such as the origin of the universe, the place of men and women in it, and the challenges posed by living together in families and larger, political communities). This course will focus on some of the greatest works of ancient literature and art in order to investigate the inherent flexibility and continued relevance of classical myth. It will also consider how the category of ‘myth’ was defined in antiquity and how it relates to later celebrations of the human imagination.

CLA 338 Odyssey Katerina Stergiopoulou

This course will trace the modern and contemporary afterlives of Homer’s Odyssey—from Joyce’s Ulysses to Walcott’s Omeros to Atwood’s Penelopiad—while also thinking about the history of its translation and reception more broadly. Is “the news in the Odyssey … still news,” as poet Ezra Pound once claimed?

CLA 405 Akkadian Johannes Haubold

This course offers an introduction to Akkadian, the language of ancient Babylon. The first half of the course introduces students to the basic concepts of Akkadian (Old Babylonian) grammar and the cuneiform script. In the second half students consolidate their knowledge of the language by reading selections from classic Babylonian texts, such as the famous Law Code of King Hammurabi and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Spring 2020

CLA 231 / HLS 231 The Birth of Biomedicine: Bodies, Physicians, and Patients in Classical Antiquity (EM) Brooke Holmes

Where does begin in the West? In this course, we will go back to the earliest medical texts written in ancient Greece that try to give an account of disease as a natural phenomenon that happens inside the biological body. Our aim is not simply to reconstruct the theories of health and disease that these authors put forth. It is also to see the kinds of questions and problems that arise when healers take responsibility for the care and treatment of bodies.

CLG 103 Ancient Greek: Intensive Introduction Melissa Haynes

An intensive introduction to classical Greek, this course is equivalent to CLG101/102, and will allow you to enroll in CLG105 in the Fall. Students can expect daily assignments, weekly quizzes, and a brisk pace through elementary Greek grammar and syntax.

14 Classics Lectures & Events 2018–19

September 26 December 1–2 April 4–5 “Translating Antiquity” Lunch Series Conference Conference Karen Emmerich “Classical Philosophy Conference: Princeton University “Philological Reflections” Ancient Logic and Epistemology” Sponsored by the Humanities Council Sponsored by the Department of Classics, International Co-Sponsored by the Department of Classics Fund, Comparative Antiquity September 27 December 4 Lecture Lecture April 6 Sergio Casali Sara Magrin Discussion University of Rome Tor Vergata University of California, Berkeley Pierre Judet de la Combe “Evander and the Invention of the “Being of Two Minds: Plotinus’ ÉHESS, CNRS Paris Prehistory of in Virgil’s Aeneid” Account of Psychological Conflict in “On Homer: A Roundtable Discussion Ennead 4.3.31” October 4–5 with Pierre Judet de la Combe” Conference February 4 “Domestic Violence: The Limits and Lecture April 16 Possibilities of a Concept” Emily Wilson Faber Lecture University of Pennsylvania Co-Sponsored by the Department of Classics Page duBois “Translating the Odyssey Again: How UC San Diego October 22 and Why, with Emily Wilson”

Lecture Co-Sponsored by the Department of Classics “The of the Swarm” Kathryn Tempest Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the University of Roehampton March 7 Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the “Fake Letters: Authors and Agendas in Lecture Humanities Council the Ancient World” Sean Gurd University of Missouri Sponsored by the Program in the Ancient World May 1 “Sacred Forgery/The Genesis of “Translating Antiquity” Lunch Series November 15 Antiquity/Armand Schwerner’s Tablets” Michael Wood Prentice Lecture Princeton University Christopher B. Krebs March 8–10 Production Sponsored by the Humanities Council “Classics as Crime Fiction: A The Odyssey May 9 Conversation with , Labienus, Co-Sponsored by the Department of Classics and ” Conference March 26 Celebration of Leonard Barkan November 16 Lecture Lunch Lecture Francesca Romana Berno Co-Sponsored by the Department of Classics Christopher B. Krebs Sapienza University of Rome Stanford University May 17–18 “From Chaos to Chaos: Janus’ Speech in “Naked? Fortunately Not. The Gallic Fasti 1 and the Gates of War” Conference Wars as Literary Texts” “The Roman Republic in the Long March 29–30 November 29–30 Conference Fourth Century, 367–264 BCE” Conference Sponsored by the Department of Classics, Art & “The Filologos and the Antiquarius. Archaeology, Humanities Council, Program in the “FAKE FRIENDS: A Symposium on Art Studying Language and Objects in Ancient World, Center for Collaborative History, History and Comparison” ” PIIRS, University Center For Human Values, Princeton Co-Sponsored by the Department of Classics Co-Sponsored by the Department of Classics Environmental Institute

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In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity

Faculty Melissa Haynes Advisory Council About the Cover Yelena Baraz Brooke Holmes Scott Clemons ’90 Illustrated by Mali Skotheim PhD ’16, it is a view of the of Morgantina, a Greek Joshua Katz Joshua Billings Joan Breton Connelly ’76 city in central that flourished in the Emmanuel Bourbouhakis Daniela Mairhofer Joy Connolly ’91 Hellenistic period. Princeton University Caroline Cheung Dan-el Padilla Peralta Carol Cronheim ’86 led the first major excavation there in 1955. Morgantina was situated in a fertile, grain- Katerina Stergiopoulou Marc Domingo Gygax Andrew Porter ’03 producing region, and the importance of Denis Feeney Harry Schmidt grain to the economic life of the city was Andrew Feldherr Staff Wesley Wright ’90 even celebrated on its coins, one example of which hangs from the wheat garlands. The Harriet Flower Jill Arbeiter eagle refers to a dream found in the diviner Michael Flower Nancy Blaustein Artemidorus’ book of dream-interpretations Andrew Ford Kai Laidlaw (book 5, chapter 57), of an eagle flying over a theater, thought to portend that the Barbara Graziosi Brittany Masterson dreamer’s future child will become illustrious Johannes Haubold Eileen Robinson and well known in the community.