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NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS Spring 2009

Letter from the Chair CClassicslassInsidei thisc issue…s his is my prospects from around the world; this year last “Letter seven of the eight applicants to whom we News from the Faculty ...... 2 Tfrom the made offers accepted a place, and in the fall Chair”. After they will join students from Iceland, Israel, Faculty Bookshelf ...... 5 fi ve years in the China, New Zealand, Greece, and Brit- Chairmanship, in ain, as well as from the United States and Senior Theses ...... 6 June 2009 I hand Canada. Results are still coming in from Historicisms and Formalisms: over the fasces to the job–market as I write: so far we may Ted Champlin, congratulate Carey Seal and Nadya Popov A Graduate Conference ...... 7 who has been on tenure–track positions at UC–Davis Denis Feeney, Chair Graduate News ...... 8 part of Princeton and Florida Gulf Coast University respec- Classics since 1975. I am delighted that we tively, and Emily Pillinger and Chris Noble A Lacedaimonian Adventure...... 10 have Ted’s wisdom and experience to rely have Post–Doctoral Fellowships at Bristol on in what will undoubtedly be diffi cult University and the Humboldt University Dissertations ...... 12 times ahead, for Princeton is not at all im- in Berlin. mune from the effects of the market slump. Janet Downie joined the faculty in Alumni News ...... 13 The University’s administration, however, fall 2008, bringing her expertise in the Lectures ...... 15 has the trust of all of us. We are confi dent increasingly important fi eld of the Greek that the department and the University literature of the “Second Sophistic”. Con- will continue to excel in our core missions stanze Güthenke, who works on the Greek of teaching and research. tradition in the modern world, has been Our students keep amazing us with promoted to the rank of Associate Profes- their achievements. Earlier this year 15 sor with tenure, and we are delighted to Princeton undergraduates were elected see our collaboration with the Program in early to Phi Beta Kappa, of whom two Hellenic Studies becoming even stronger were classics majors, Stephen Hammer as a result. Andrew Feldherr and Joshua and Will Sullivan. Stephen then went on Katz have both become full Professors as a to win a Rhodes Scholarship, one of three recognition of their outstanding reputation Princeton undergraduates so honored this as scholars. We are also keenly looking for- year. Zach Squire was the Valedictorian for ward to the arrival of Michael Koortbojian the Class of 2008 last June. We continue as a senior appointment in the Depart- to attract larger numbers of concentra- ment of Art and Archaeology; we place a tors than used to be the case until quite very high priority on material culture as a recently, with 39 from the two classes of crucial part of our students’ training, and 2009 and 2010. The graduate students it is excellent to see the traditional strength likewise excel. In 2008, Kellam Conover of Princeton in this fi eld being maintained was one of four graduate students awarded through such strong replacement. We will the university’s most prestigious honor, the be tightening our belts for a period, but Jacobus Fellowship; this year, Tom Zanker the outstanding human capital within the won a Whiting Fellowship and Carey Seal department and the University will see an Honorifi c, while Gil Gambash was us through this recession. Princeton will awarded a Hyde Fellowship. Our gradu- continue to be a superb place to study and ate program attracts some of the very best teach our subject. ■ 2. Princeton Classics News from the Faculty

Yelena Baraz Ted Champlin Marc Domingo GygaxJanet Downie Denis Feeney Andrew Feldherr

Yelena Baraz saw the publication of her ❄ on “The Conception of Space in Ancient most time–consuming Thesaurus Linguae Greece” at an international conference in Janet Downie Latinae (TLL) article, pugno, in the latest joined the department in honor of Jean–Pierre Vernant and Pierre fascicle. Her chapter on the semantic and September, after completing her Ph.D. at Vidal–Naquet in Tarragona and gave lec- cultural dimensions of superbia as a Ro- the University of Chicago in June. As dis- tures on the fi nancing of building projects man anti–value, which she expects to be sertation work wrapped up in the spring, in the Hellenistic world at the Catalan In- a fi rst step in a larger project on Roman she put the fi nishing touches on two ar- stitute of Classical Archaeology as well as pride, came out in the Brill volume Kakos: ticles related to that project. The fi rst—in- on Hellenistic inscriptions at the University Badness in Classical Antiquity, edited by vestigating some of the ethical dimensions of Münster in Germany. He continued do- Sacred Tales Ralph Rosen and Ineke Sluiter. She gave of Aelius Aristides’ —has now ing research on Greek euergetism, gift–ex- the Arlene Fromchuck Memorial Lecture appeared in the recent Aristides volume change, Lycia and the reception of classics entitled “Otiose Otium: Status of Writing co–edited by W.V. Harris and B. Holmes. for a book project, several papers and an in Late Republican Rome” at Brooklyn The second, on a motif of inspiration in article in the new Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sacred Tales College and conducted a workshop on the the , is forthcoming in the Ancient History. The Classical Quarterly TLL for graduate students at the Uni- May 2009 issue of : versity of Pennsylvania. She enjoyed the “A Pindaric Charioteer: Aelius Aristides ❄ and his Divine Literary Editor (Oration challenge of teaching her fi rst graduate Denis Feeney published four reviews in 50.45).” Since coming to Princeton she seminar on Roman Epistolography to a the Times Literary Supplement, London has been working on a paper on the Per- great group of students in the fall. She also Review of Books, Classical Review and gamene Asclepieium for a conference panel began advising freshmen and sophomores BMCR. A paperback edition of Caesar’s on healing sanctuaries, as well as an article as a Fellow of Whitman College, a wonder- Calendar (2007) appeared in December on myth and local allegiance in Philostra- ful opportunity to meet undergraduates 2008. He gave lectures at NYU, UVA, Le- tus’ Heroicus. Teaching the department’s outside of Classics. In addition to continu- high, Toronto, and Columbia, and was the lecture course on Classical Mythology ing her work on Cicero’s philosophica, William J. Battle Lecturer in Austin, TX. in the fall semester was an invigorating she is engaged in article–length projects In April 2008 he co–organized the fi fth an- exercise in “big picture” thinking — both on Catullus and Vergil. She is on leave in nual ‘Corridor Latinfest’, in which faculty about the ancient world, and about un- Spring 2009, following the arrival of her and graduate students from Penn, Rutgers, dergraduate culture at Princeton! In the twin girls. Columbia and Princeton meet for a day– spring, she enjoyed teaching a course on long informal seminar: this time we met at ❄ Greek Epideictic Oratory From Gorgias to Columbia to discuss Tacitus’ Agricola. Dio Chrysostom. In the fi rst busy months, On leave in the spring, Ted Champlin she has thoroughly enjoyed getting to spent six weeks as a visiting scholar at the ❄ know faculty and graduate students in the American Academy in Rome, working on department and is grateful for the warm Andrew Feldherr is enjoying another year Tiberius on Capri, and catching up with welcome extended by all her colleagues in keeping feet to the fi re and noses to the the fl ood of new material, exhibitions, and classics and beyond. grindstone as DGS —in which his greatest excavations. He also published an article accomplishment so far has been a dramatic on that much–maligned emperor as a ❄ increase in graduate alumni, thanks to his fi gure in folklore, “Tiberius the Wise” (in perpetual harassment. His Ovid book ap- Marc Domingo Gygax was on leave at the Historia 2008). In the fall, he lectured proaches another milestone in its Zeno- Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology at Penn State and, as the Salmon Visit- nian progress towards publication. But in Tarragona (ICAC) and the Depart- ing Professor at McMaster University in his Cambridge Companion to the Roman ment of Prehistory, Ancient History and Canada. At home, he taught Latin 203, Historians is now in production. From now Archaeology of the University of Barcelona Introduction to Augustan Literature, new on, his only Companion will be his golden during the academic year 2008–09. In the to him and a marvelous excuse for selecting retriever, Clio. and rapping with pleasure to the Greatest summer, he spent two weeks on Rhodes Hits of the Golden Age; also CLA 218 The visiting archaeological sites and museums ❄ with the support of a Stanley Seeger Fel- Roman Republic, old but still fun, mainly The year 2008 was a busy one for Har- because of four brilliant preceptors, Anna lowship of the Program in Hellenic Stud- ies. During the rest of the academic year, riet Flower as she continued to serve as Dolganov, Emily Kutzer–Rice, Geir Tho- Departmental Representative for a second rarinsson, and Katerina Tsolakidou. July he also traveled to Rome, Athens, Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Paestum and year. Our undergraduate program is 1st he will succeed the irreplaceable Denis fl ourishing, with 18 seniors graduating in Feeney as chair. several places of archaeological interest in the Iberian Peninsula. He chaired a panel June of 2008 and 21 seniors enrolled this Princeton Classics 3.

Harriet Flower Michael Flower Andrew Ford Constanze Güthenke Brooke Holmes Bob Kaster past fall. In October 2008, she participated (11 students) also visited places far off the Refereed Panel for the next three annual in an external review of the Intercolle- beaten path—so this expedition proved to meetings of American Philological Conven- giate Center for Classical Studies in Rome be much more than a circuit of the custom- tion. The topic, “Pindar In and Out of (known as the “Centro” and administered ary destinations. The days spent in Sparta Context,” is designed to fi nd what literary by Duke University), where many of were especially timely for Flower, since approaches may add to the prevailing soci- our majors have spent a happy semester upon returning he was able to incorporate ological studies of the poet. He was happy abroad. During this year, Flower fi nished a new insights into his forthcoming article and proud to be a member of the Jury book manuscript about Roman republican “Spartan ‘Religion’ and Greek ‘Religion’,” when Pauline defended a revised version of politics and historical periodization entitled due to appear next fall in Stephen Hodkin- her Princeton dissertation at the Sorbonne, Roman Republics, which was accepted for son, ed., Sparta: Comparative Approaches earning top honors in November. publication by Princeton University Press. (Classical Press of Wales). This piece will The book will appear in the fall of 2009. form a set with two other articles in the ❄ With T. Corey Brennan, chair of classics at area of Greek religion that were published Constanze Güthenke spent the spring se- Rutgers University, she co–edited a collec- during this academic year: “The Iamidae: mester 2008 on sabbatical in Paris, funded tion of seven essays entitled East and West, A Mantic Family and its Public Image,” in as part of her John Maclean University based on a conference held at Princeton in B. Dignas and K. Trampedach, eds., Prac- Presidential Preceptorship. While there, April 2006 to mark the retirement of Glen titioners of the Divine: Greek Priests and yes, she did eat and drink well, but she also W. Bowersock from the Institute for Ad- Religious Offi cials from Homer to Heliodor- got some real writing done. She fi nished vanced Study in Princeton. This volume is us (Center for Hellenic Studies 2008) and an article on German Philhellenism and being published as a Loeb Classical Mono- “Athenian Religion and the Peloponnesian romantic love, published in a volume Eu- graph by the Department of the Classics War,” in Athenian Art in the Peloponnesian ropean Philhellenism; an article on German at Harvard University. Her new research War, Olga Palagia, ed., (Cambridge Uni- classical scholarship around 1800 that is project is about political and religious life versity Press 2009). forthcoming in the journal Representations; in the neighborhoods of the city of Rome ❄ several long book reviews; and some chap- in the republican period and under the fi rst ters of a book–length study on German emperor Augustus, provisionally entitled Andrew Ford’s ongoing project of re- classical scholarship in the 19th century. Local Community in Republican Rome. In search into the Greek system of literary Her interest in the history of classics and 2008, Harriet Flower was chosen to be a genres has reached classical prose with philology as a discipline in a transnational corresponding member of the Deutsches the publication of “The beginnings of sense led her to speak on classical scholar- Archäologisches Institut in Germany. dialogue: Socratic discourses and fourth– ship in Greece after 1945 at a conference at ❄ century prose” in The End of Dialogue in Oxford University in June 2008. The pub- Antiquity, edited by Simon Goldhill for lished version of that talk is about to go to Michael Flower once again co–taught the Cambridge. His long–term interest in the press in a volume on Historicizing Classics Program in the Ancient World Graduate topic underwrites a monograph on a poem (see also our Princeton Stanford Working Seminar, this time with Nino Luraghi. of disputed genre by Aristotle, which Papers in Classics website). In November, The topic was “Sparta and the Pelopon- is now with a press. Lectures this year she spoke about the issue of the biographi- nese”. This course is the Oxford–Princeton include San Antonio, Lille, Paris, and this cal at a London conference on Scholar- exchange graduate seminar, and it was Ox- Spring, Berlin, where Froma Zeitlin and ship and Reception, and she has just been ford’s turn to host three days of collabora- Christian Wildberg represented Princeton made an Associate Editor of a new journal tive meetings. The papers by the Princeton at a conference on Dionysus. Under- on classical reception forthcoming from students, as was only to be expected, were graduate teaching included an introductory Oxford University Press. In August, she exceptionally well received. In addition survey for Comparative Literature and a led a group of Princeton alumni on a trip to the Oxford trip, Flower and Luraghi memorable class on Greek Tragedy that to the Greek Aegean where she lectured hosted a one–day conference on Sparta focused on the fi gure of Electra in three on the ancient and modern Mediterranean, (modeled on last year’s Pindar event). But plays. He was delighted that the very Homer, and contemporary Greek culture, the real highlight of the course was a ten– bright group developed a taste for Eurip- history and literature, while the boat was day trip to Greece over fall break (made ides’ theatrical Orestes, though feels a little following a somewhat different route than possible by the generosity of the Program abashed at having been unable to dissuade expected, thanks to high winds, enjoying in Hellenic Studies), during which the them from dismissing Sophocles’ Electra an almost Odyssean experience, minus the Princeton seminar visited some of the as tedious. With his dissertation advisee, monsters. major sites of the Peloponnese: Sparta, Anna Uhlig, and Pauline LeVen (now at Messene, Pylos, and Olympia. The class Yale), he has organized an ongoing Continued on page 4 4. Princeton Classics

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Joshua Katz Nino Luraghi Janet Martin Brent Shaw Christian Wildberg Froma Zeitlin

❄ spring—and is (still) waiting for the same more committees, panels, and boards than distinguished press to bring out his trans- he can keep straight. Brooke Holmes just completed her fi rst lations of Seneca’s On Anger and On Clem- semester teaching at Princeton after a year ency. A few other things are also in various ❄ at the Institute for Advanced Study and is stages of forthcoming–ness: an article In the fall of 2008, Nino Luraghi had the excited to be fully engaged in the intel- on a neglected witness to the text of the great pleasure of team–teaching the PAW lectual life of the department. Teaching Saturnalia, to appear in a Festschrift for graduate seminar with Michael Flower. “Survey of Greek Literature” proved to be Elaine Fantham that’s being edited by two The topic was Sparta and the Pelopon- an intense and rewarding experience and recent Princetonians, Katharina Volk and nese and the program included a 10–day a wonderful opportunity to meet the fi rst Mira Seo, along with Rolando Ferri; an trip to Laconia and Messenia, a one–day and second–year graduate students. This essay on political demonstrations in the late conference featuring two guest speakers fall she published an article on Euripides’ Roman Republic, in the Blackwell Compan- (Paul Christesen from Dartmouth and Heracles in Classical Antiquity and her ion to Greek and Roman Political Thought, Tom Figueira from Rutgers), and a joint co–edited volume, Aelius Aristides Between edited by yet another former Princetonian, session in Oxford with Oxonian gradu- Greece, Rome, and the Gods, appeared from Ryan Balot; a chapter on ‘Scholarship’ for ates who had been working on a parallel Brill and included her piece on the Sacred the Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies seminar during the semester. Other than Tales. She gave a number of papers, includ- edited by Alessandro Barchiesi and Walter that, he published The Ancient Messenians: ing at the Plato and Platonisms conference Scheidel (neither of them Princetonians, Constructions of Ethnicity and Memory at the University of South Carolina; on alas); and a long article on the Saturnalia’s (Cambridge) and is still recovering. Cur- Euripides’ Orestes at the Second Interna- medieval history. rent projects include four edited volumes tional Conference on Hellenic Civilization with topics ranging from the crisis of the in Alexandroupolis; and on the ethics of ❄ Peloponnesian League to fourth century pleasure in classical medical writing at the Now Director of the Program in Linguis- BCE Greek historiography and a book on fi rst Colloquium Hippocraticum to be held tics, Joshua Katz is optimistic against archaic Greek tyranny. With Andrea De in the U.S. at the University of Texas– all odds that he can press on with things Giorgi, currently teaching at Case Western Austin. Her book, The Symptom and the Reserve University, but a native of Torino Subject: The Emergence of the Body in An- he actually enjoys — teaching, scholar- ship, and reading mysteries — despite like himself, he is planning a new historical cient Greece, is forthcoming from Princeton an onerous administrative load. High atlas of the ancient world, to be published University Press later this year. She is at points of 2008 were winning the Phi by Oxford University Press. work on a short book on gender for the Beta Kappa Teaching Award, giving the series Ancients and Moderns (I.B. Tauris keynote linguistic address at the 20th An- ❄ and OUP–USA), various articles, and a nual UCLA Indo–European Conference, book project on sympatheia. In the spring, Janet Martin delivered a talk on Aristo- blogging for the admitted students in the she taught a new course in translation on phanes’ Lysistrata and Mai Zetterling’s Class of 2012, teaching his ever–delightful ancient medicine. 1968 feminist antiwar fi lm Flikorna / The Freshman Seminar “Ancient Egypt and Girls (about a modern touring production ❄ its Hieroglyphs,” starting a weekly “lin- of the comedy) at a panel on teaching with guistics table” at the Tap Room with an fi lms at the fall 2008 Princeton meeting Bob Kaster is hugely enjoying his sabbati- enthusiastic bunch of scarily knowledge- of the Classical Association of the Atlantic cal this year as an Old Dominion Professor able graduate students, and visiting Crete States / Classical Association of New Jer- in Princeton’s Humanities Council, perched in preparation for this past fall’s course on sey. At the January 2009 APA meeting in in a small offi ce on the third fl oor above Linear B. He gave a number of talks and Philadelphia she gave a talk on laughter in J. Crew, with a fi ne view of the kiosk in published among other things “The Origin Hrotsvitha’s Passion of St. Gongolf for the Palmer Square and nothing standing be- of the Greek Pluperfect” (Die Sprache) Medieval Latin Studies Group panel. Saturnalia tween him and Macrobius’ . The and “Vergil Translates Aratus: Phaenom- work on the Loeb Classical Library edition ena 1–2 and Georgics 1.1–2” (Materiali e ❄ goes well, and now there’s an Oxford Clas- Discussioni), the latter dedicated to Elaine For Brent Shaw, 2008 featured the con- sical Text edition beckoning a bit farther Fantham. He remains the member of the down the line, which will allow him to tinued delights of directing the Program faculty in charge of helping Princetonians in the Ancient World, with its annual high- provide the text with the critical apparatus win Marshall and Rhodes Scholarships it deserves. At the same time, he’s laying light of the joint graduate seminar with (we had another very successful year!), a graduate students at Oxford University. the groundwork for a short book on the columnist for the Daily Princetonian, an Appian Way for the University of Chicago adviser at Forbes College, and a member of Press—a trip to Italy is planned for the Continued on page 6 Princeton Classics 5. Faculty Bookshelf

Aelius Aristides between Greece, The Ancient Messenians. Constructions World Together, Worlds Apart Rome, and the Gods of Ethnicity and Memory A History of the World from the Beginnings edited by W.V. Harris & Brooke Holmes by Nino Luraghi of Humankind to the Present Brill, 2008 University of California Press, 2008 Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Brent Shaw, & others W.W. Norton, 2008

Wealthy, conceited, hypochondriac (or per- Early in the archaic period of Greek his- True to its title, this uniquely integrated haps just an invalid), obsessively religious, tory, Messenia was annexed and partially text highlights the stories and themes in the orator Aelius Aristides (117 to about settled by its powerful neighbour, Sparta. world history that tied cultures and regions 180) is not the most attractive fi gure of Achieving independence in the fourth cen- together, and in some cases, drove them his age, but because he is one of the best– tury BC, the inhabitants of Messenia set apart. In this second edition, the book’s known — and he is intimately known, about trying to forge an identity for them- non–Eurocentric approach continues with thanks to his Sacred Tales — his works are selves separate from their previous identity expansions of the original eleven world a vital source for the cultural and religious as Spartan subjects, refunctionalising or history “turning point” stories from the and political history of Greece under the simply erasing their Spartan heritage. modern period to include ten more “turn- Roman Empire. The papers gathered here, Professor Luraghi provides a thorough ing point” stories from the earlier periods the fruit of a conference held at Columbia examination of the history of Messenian of world history. From the history of the in 2007, form the most intense study of identity and consequently addresses a world’s fi rst cities built on the great rivers Aristides and his context to have been range of questions and issues whose inter- of Afro–Eurasia, to the formation of the published since the classic work of Charles est and importance have only been widely Silk Road, to the rise of nation–states, and Behr 40 years ago. recognised by ancient historians during the the story of modern globalization, Worlds last decade. By a detailed scrutiny of the Together, Worlds Apart provides students ancient written sources and the archaeo- with the stories that changed history and logical evidence, the book reconstructs how enables them to make the connections they the Messenians perceived and constructed need in order to better understand how the their own ethnicity at different points in world came to be what it is today. time, by applying to Messenian ethnicity insights developed by anthropologists and early medieval historians. 6. Princeton Classics

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In January 2008, we hosted the Oxford of the University of Toronto in Canada in papers: “Troy und Tragödie” at a confer- students at Princeton, while in January late October. Entitled “Bringing in the ence, Theater und Fest, Berlin, in March 2009 we took our students to the common Sheaves,” the lectures were an economic, (text translated in German for conference graduate seminar—this year on Sparta historical, and literary study of the process volume as of November 2008); “Theban and Messenia—to Oxford and London. of harvesting, specifi cally the reaping of Laments,” for conference Perceptions of Through the generosity of the Program in cereal crops, in the world of the later Ro- Polis–Religion: Inside/Outside: A Sympo- Hellenic Studies, we have been able to add man empire. There now remains the task sium in Memory of Christiane Sourvinou– a week–long study excursion to Greece of turning the oral versions of the lectures Inwood, Reading, UK, in June; “Gendered during the fall term break, led this year into a book manuscript. Ambiguities, Hybrid formations, and the by Michael Flower and Nino Luraghi. A Imaginary of the Body in Achilles Tatius,” discussion of historical problems connected ❄ at ICAN 08 (International Conference on with Sparta was also added to the seminar Christian Wildberg is now in his third the Ancient Novel), Lisbon, in July and this year. This was a successful event that year of enjoying the privileges and com- an expanded version,“Troy and Tragedy: might well become a permanent addition to mitments as Master of Forbes College, but The Conscience of Hellas” as the Alex- the seminar. In May 2008, Brent delivered is also back in the folds of the department ander Stubbs lecture, University College, the George L. Mosse lectures on various from a year’s leave of absence. He gave a University of Toronto, in October. She aspects of sectarian violence in late antiq- seminar on the development of Platonism was also patron and participant in Round uity to the Department of History at the in antiquity and is now teaching a course Table: “Relire Jean–Pierre Vernant,” Paris Hebrew University, Jerusalem. One was on Homer. He is slated to edit a handbook Oct 9–12, 2008 (conference in honor of devoted to the role of singing and chant- of Neoplatonism for Oxford University Jean–Pierre Vernant). She has also pub- ing in the mobilization of violence, while Press, and serves as coordinating editor lished the following two essays: “Religion” the other considered the role of state forces of both the series Philosophia Antiqua in Cambridge Companion to the Ancient in the besieging of dissident religious (Brill) and Studien und Texte für Antike Novel, ed. Tim Whitmarsh (Cambridge; communities in three different historical und Christentum (STAC, Mohr Siebeck). book selected by Choice as an Outstand- perspectives: Africa in the age of Augus- So, if you happen to have any unpublished ing Academic Title of 2008) and “Inti- tine, 17th–century Muscovy of the Old book manuscripts in the drawer, send him mate Relations: Children, Childbearing, Believers, and the 20th–century example a proposal … and Parentage on the Euripidean Stage,” of the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas. in Performance, Iconography, Reception: The most challenging series of talks, how- ❄ Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin, eds. M. ever, were the week–long Robson Classical Froma Zeitlin was on leave in 2007–08. Revermann and P. Wilson (Oxford). Lectures delivered at the Victoria College In 2008, she has presented the following ■

Senior Theses 2008

Nicholas J. Adam Harvey S. Lederman Natalia T. Rodriguez Caesar’s Invasion of Italy, January 11th to Reading to Write and Writing to Read: Pro Clodia March 17th, 49 BCE Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Raj G. Seshadri Arrangement of Words Mackenzie C. Bushy Genre In Augustan Poetry Through Love, Deversorium Vitiorum: The Fama and Facta Mary C. Leemputte Wine, and War of Roman Baiae The Power of the Feminine: Gods, Mortals, Nathaniel A. Slater and Cosmic Change in the Homeric Hymns Michael P. Cacchio St. Augustine and the Hortensius of Cicero The Extramarital Implications of Extramarital Patricia S. Li Aaron L. Souza Affairs – An Inquiry Into Roman Adultery and Odysseus the Returning Veteran: Posttrau- The Theory and Practice of Latin Archaism: the Lex Julia De Adulteriis Coercendis matic Stress Disorder in the Odyssey Fronto, Gellius, and Apuleius’ Nicholas P. Cox Caroline R. Loevner Metamorphoses The Republican War – Rome’s Idealistic Ere Our Troubles Come. A novel. Zachary A. Squire Foreign Policy Venture James M. McBride Property and the Conception of the State Anthony G. Jean–Pierre Functions of Mythological Excursus In Ovid’s in Cicero An Analysis of the Historicity in the Battle Ars Amatoria Theodore E. Yale Scenes of the Iliad Whitney B. Moser Studies in Sefer Zerubbabel Ashley Johnson The Filmmaker Mythologized – Classical Women, Workers, and Worth: An Investiga- Paradigms in Markopoulos’ The Illiac tion of Human Value in Ancient Rome Passion Princeton Classics 7. Historicisms and Formalisms: A Graduate Conference by Rose MacLean

ast April’s graduate conference, “His- contextualization, Uden was able to dem- a somewhat similar tack in their elegantly toricisms and Formalisms,” started off onstrate the similarities between Pater and choreographed joint presentation, “Chil- Lwith a bang. Stephen Hinds, in his historicist critics who undertake analyses of dren of History: a Benjaminian approach keynote “Unpacking the Urn,” explored a less overtly fi ctive variety. to the Pre–Socratics.” As their title sug- the dynamic between these two interpre- In a similar vein, Henry Day’s contri- gests, they drew inspiration from Benjamin tive paradigms, which have traditionally bution, “Beyond Textuality: experience, to investigate formal pathways connecting (though perhaps falsely) been at odds with the sublime, and Lucan’s Bellum Civile,” Heraclitus’ and Parmenides’ work on time, each other.* Hinds’ engaging discussion confronted a paradox that emerges from history and epistemology to contemporary of Propertius 1.21 and 22 took prosopog- the belief that everything is a text — name- material and intellectual milieux, partially raphy as a test case for the extremes of ly that the critic is crippled by the instabil- visible in Elean pottery technologies and both ‘–isms’ and pointed out, inter alia, ity of language but at the same time faces a the allegory of the child as philosopher. In the tendency of contextualizing readings new reductive ontology that replaces posi- the process, Ellis and Valentine advocated to gloss over aesthetic details. By way of tivism. Whereas Uden looked to imagina- for an interpretive model whose inclu- striking a balance, Hinds mapped out the tion for a fresh methodological perspective, sion of multiple categories of evidence is connections between a verse inscription for Day trained his sights on subjective experi- predicated on an understanding of histori- D. Terentius Gentianus and the poetry of ence, both as represented in ancient texts cism and formalism as dialectally related, Catullus and Horace, and asked what the and as a feature of our encounters with rather than diametrically opposed, modes implications would be of understanding them. Shifting the focus from ‘objective’ to of reading. these intertexts as ‘attentive’ or ‘inatten- experiential concerns would, he suggested, Likewise, in “Manubial Temples tive.’ Throughout, he emphasized the help to surmount the diffi culty of produc- and the Aesthetics of Identity Formation diffi culty of transferring Greenblattian new ing meaningful readings in a world where in Republican Rome,” Maggie Popkin historicism to the fi eld of classical stud- meaning often has little purchase. deployed the tools of aesthetics (in her ies, where our entire archive is essentially Uden and Day’s interpretations of case, art historical equivalents of ‘close already part of the canon. These issues, Pater and Lucan, respectively, also high- reading’) to investigate the ways in which Hinds reminded us, achieve even greater lighted some of the diffi culties involved in public buildings actively contributed to complexity when refracted through the lay- traversing the space between theorizing the negotiation of Hellenistic and Roman ers of reception that govern our experience about methodologies and actually imple- identity among the urban elite during the of ancient textual and material artefacts. menting them. Likewise, Tom Phillips Punic Wars. Popkin’s salutary emphasis Guided by these insights, and by De- presented a discussion of “Time and Text: not just on individual structures but on nis Feeney’s introductory remarks on the the reading of Pythian IV” that exam- their interaction with the civic landscape genesis and parameters of the conference, ined the shortcomings of various types of added further nuance to our understanding we commenced with the graduate papers. contextualization — whether caused by a of how aesthetics infl uenced Roman social In “Intertextuality in Historicist and For- paucity of external evidence or the biases and cultural formation. At the same time, malist Criticism,” Stephen Kidd suggested of the method itself — and suggested a she offered an interdisciplinary voice to our a way of thinking about the textuality of solution that would accommodate both the collaborative attempts at coming to terms scholarship that helped elucidate some of uniqueness of Pindar’s epinician and its with the range of critical practices and as- the differences between the formalist and embeddedness within ancient Greek cul- sumptions that fall within the formalist and historicist agendas. He argued that, hav- ture. Indeed, for Phillips, one of the poem’s historicist rubrics. ing broadened our defi nition of a text to aesthetic features is the fact that it brings While consensus remained as elusive include history itself, we can understand these issues into awareness. as ever, the conversation itself was useful formalist and historicist readings as par- These attempts to map out the posi- and necessary at a moment when histori- ticipating in two types of intertextuality. In tion of critical analysis within a textual- cism’s grasp on classical scholarship seems evaluating the distinctions between these ist paradigm were complemented by to be weakening but the road forward (or intertextualities, Kidd brought us to the two papers that looked specifi cally at the backward?) has yet to be charted with any heart of the issue. We were interested not dialogue between literary and material real clearness of vision. In confronting this just in what methodologies are most appro- artefacts. Francesca Martelli, in “Plumbing problem head on, the conference at least priate to our evidence, but in what it means Helicon: poetic property in the material provided some reassurance that no matter to do this kind of work in the fi rst place. world,” uncovered moments in Statius’ what avenues we choose to follow, our Two other papers spoke to the prob- Silvae where the poet integrates physi- decisions will have benefi ted from a more lem of describing the role of the critic cal objects into literary topoi in ways that comprehensive knowledge of our own in- when textuality is brought to the fore. In advertise the interplay between the types of tellectual traditions and, crucially, from an “Spring, Silence and the ‘Burden of Prec- cultural capital made available by these two open discussion with colleagues of diverse edent’: Walter Pater on the Pervigilium media. Points of incongruity, such as the interests and backgrounds. Veneris,” James Uden explored the poten- use of road–building as a vehicle for Cal- tial of imaginative literature to perform limachean aesthetics, reveal how “reality” the offi ces of conventional scholarly prose. can be made to accommodate poetry in this * A version of Hinds’ talk is forthcoming Pater’s novel Marius the Epicurean contains two–way exchange. Through an aestheti- under the title “Between Historicism and a descriptive account of the composition cally oriented version of material contextu- Formalism” in the Oxford Handbook to of an otherwise anonymous poem, the alization, Martelli was able to address what Roman Studies, edited by A. Barchiesi and Pervigilium Veneris; and by reading this were ultimately formalistic concerns. W. Scheidel. passage as an instance of historical Richard Ellis and Jody Valentine took ■ 8. Princeton Classics Graduate News

Michelle Andrews is a third–year gradu- weekly Spanish conversation table. In December, Adam Gitner advanced to ate student in the program. This past sum- candidacy with a dissertation proposal mer she spent a wondrous research month ❄ on the presence of the Greek language in traversing Greece by land and sea, from Kate M. Brassel joined the classics de- Latin literature. He spent two weeks last Delphi to Mycenae, Athens to Crete, two partment in the fall as a fi rst–year gradu- summer at the University of Leiden attend- particular highpoints of which were her lei- ate student, having completed her B.A. ing a short introduction to Vedic Sanskrit surely drive through the lush vales of Ar- at Columbia College in 2006 and M. and recently traveled to Greece for the cadia and the vista of the Aegean from the Phil. at Cambridge in 2007. Last year, fi rst time in order to attend a conference top on Mt. Cynthus on the island of Delos. she tried her hand at corporate paralegal in Thessaloniki on ancient scholarship and Some academic highlights from this past work but eventually came to her senses. grammar. Incidentally, it was also his fi rst year include the completion of her Greek Kate happily looks forward to read- exposure to tear gas. and Latin general exams and a foray into ing more good texts with good people here, ❄ the fi eld of Greek bucolic poetry and its in Princeton. pastoral antecedents under the supervision Richard Hutchins is new to the depart- of Andrew Ford. In her fi nal semester of ❄ ment this year, having recently completed a pre–dissertation coursework, she continued After spending a relaxing summer climb- M.A. in Classics at Washington University to pursue her research interests in the bu- ing and relaxing in the Mediterranean, in St. Louis and, prior to that, a Post–Bac colic tradition via close readings of Vergil’s Kellam Conover returned to Princeton for at the University of Pennsylvania. His in- Bucolica with Andrew Feldherr and took an equally enjoyable time working on his terests include Platonism, Late Antiquity, part in an eagerly awaited seminar on the dissertation, “Bribery in Classical Athens.” Greek Literature, and great espresso. Catullan corpus taught by Denis Feeney. He aims to fi nish up this year under the ❄ Later in the spring, Michelle will deliver generous grant of a Graduate Prize Fellow- a paper on Livy’s narrative of the rape of ship from the University Center for Human David Kaufman spent the fall semester Lucretia entitled, “The Case of Lucretia: Values. Although he will miss Princeton reading Greek literature, studying the Sto- A Linguistic Construction of Absence” at dearly, he is off to law school in the fall, ics and practicing his jump shot. Next se- the Annual Meeting of CAMWS in Min- where he hopes to make the classics de- mester will likely be similar, except that he neapolis. This summer, after successfully partment proud by preaching the enduring hopes to read even more Greek literature completing her fi nal general examination in relevance of classical antiquity to current and to move on to left–handed sky–hooks. Greek History, she hopes to travel to Rome debates on law and public policy. This summer he plans to attend a papy- and participate in the American Academy’s rology course and to study for the Latin Classical Summer School. ❄ general exam. ❄ Gil Gambash approaches the fi nal stages ❄ of his doctoral dissertation, under the Rosa M. Andújar is a fourth–year gradu- supervision of Brent Shaw, which exam- ate student. After presenting a paper on Dawn LaValle is a fi rst–year student in ines offi cial Roman responses to indigenous the elite and elusive Classical and Hel- Heliodorus at ICAN IV in Lisbon, she resistance movements. In the course of the spent most of the fall 2008 semester as a lenic Studies program (currently the only last year he has been looking at two case member!). She received a B.A. in Clas- Visiting Graduate Student at the Univer- studies in particular: the Boudican revolt sity of Cambridge’s Faculty of Classics for sics at the University of Chicago in 2005 in Britain in 60/61 CE; and the fi rst great and a Masters in Early Christian Studies their Michaelmas term, working on her revolt in Judea, which broke out in 66, and dissertation which is provisionally en- at Notre Dame in 2007. The year before was not fully quelled for several years. He coming to Princeton was spent as a “Mo- titled “The Chorus in Dialogue: Reading spent a long summer in Israel, looking at Lyric Exchanges in Greek Tragedy.” At nastic Intern” at the farm Abbey of Regina the archaeology of the great revolt. During Laudis in Connecticut, learning how to Cambridge she co–taught a fortnightly the summer he was also invited to con- discussion class on theories and critiques milk cows, care for bees, and operate heavy tribute to a collection of essays edited by machinery. In addition to the rural life and of tragedy, from Aristotle to Adorno, to H. Cotton, J. Geiger, and G. Stiebel. The fi nal–year New Hall undergraduates read- wholesome activities, Dawn is interested in product was an article on “Offi cial Roman the literature of Late Antiquity (especially ing the English Tripos Part II Tragedy Responses to Indigenous Resistance Move- Paper. She also attended a textual criticism, Greek Christian poetry) and friendship ments: Aspects of Commemoration,” which (academically and practically). transmission, and paleography class on will appear in the forthcoming publica- Sophocles’ Electra. This spring semester, tion. In the fall, Gil moved with his family ❄ Rosa is teaching CLG 103 Ancient Greek: to Oxford’s Wolfson College, where he is An Intensive Introduction (a.k.a. “Turbo spending the year on Princeton’s Hyde Jacob L. Mackey is working on his dis- Greek”). She will serve as the “local Fellowship. He is working on his disserta- sertation, “A Nicer Knowledge of Belief: scholar” for the Newark Public Library as tion under the guidance of Martin Good- Some Cognitive Aspects of Roman Reli- part of the NEH funded Page and Stage: man and Fergus Millar and hopes to see as gion.” In the fall he taught Latin 101 Be- Theater, Tradition and Culture in America much as possible of the archaeology of the ginner’s Latin. This spring he is teaching partnership between the Aquila Theatre Boudican revolt while in England. Latin 103 An Intensive Introduction. He Company, the Urban Libraries Council, is also leading the Senior Thesis Writers’ and the American Philological Association. ❄ Colloquium. Rosa is also a Graduate Fellow at Mathey College, where she continues to run a ❄ Princeton Classics 9.

Rose MacLean has thoroughly enjoyed in all things Greek: modern, survey, linear Iran and Azerbaijan, among the many the past 12 months, though it must be B, and Sparta. As part of the Program in highlights of which were visiting the great admitted that she is partial to those subse- the Ancient World seminar on Sparta, he reliefs and apadana at Persepolis; search- quent to the completion of her fi nal general travelled to Greece in October and Oxford ing for the easternmost Roman inscription exam, Roman history, in October. In the in January, where he presented a paper on yet found, inscribed at Gobustan by Livius midst of preparing for generals, she saw in dialect in Thucydides. His interests range Maximus under the emperor Domitian; April the long–awaited execution of plans from the literary to the archaeological, and not being shot when he came upon for the graduate conference “Historicisms but are chiefl y (for the moment) linguis- a truckers’ demonstration on the way to & Formalisms,” which turned out to be tic. He is doing a spot of Latin in the Shush/Susa. Freiburg, where he spent a wonderful weekend, both intellectually spring semester and is looking forward to August working on his German, proved to and socially, and a real testament to the adventuring somewhere in Europe over the be slightly more sedate, but no less stimu- strength of our graduate community. In summer. lating, particularly as he was one of only addition to these spring term activities, she two anglophones in his class. Russian, not took a course on the Roman family with ❄ English, was the language of choice among Brent Shaw and, in an attempt to expand Jason Pedicone is planning on fi nishing the participants. Now safely in Princeton, her disciplinary horizons, on narrative his general examinations this May and he has been thinking about identity in Hel- in Greek art with William Childs in the submitting his dissertation proposal on lenistic Greece by means of papers given art & archaeology department. She also early Latin lyric before packing his bags at Berkeley and Oxford; tussling with covered some geographical distance by for the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, the general examinations; and will spend commuting to New York University for where he will spend his fourth year doing the next academic year in Athens at the a seminar on political thought in Roman a specialization in Greek lyric poetry. He American School. Before then, a summer literature taught by Joy Connolly. Her own is precepting in Nino Luraghi’s Classical at Middlebury looms. coursework completed, Rose took a turn Greek history lecture course this spring. ❄ at the front of the classroom as an instruc- His other activities include co–heading tor for Latin 105 this fall; she couldn’t be Princeton’s spoken Latin table and a fl edg- Anna Uhlig is now in her fourth year of more happy with this new aspect of her ling spoken Ancient Greek table that he study. She spent most of the fall studying work at Princeton and is looking forward started this year. in Cambridge, England, and fi lled her days to more of the same. In the meantime, with tea and Pindar. She has delivered she is researching a dissertation topic that ❄ papers on Homer (Cambridge) and Pindar would deal with the interplay between Ro- Meredith Safran is in the last year of (Open University). She returned to Princ- man literary and popular culture through dissertating on the topic “Civis Romana: eton for the spring where she continued to the evidence of textual and epigraphical Female civic identity in Livy’s AUC I”. work on her dissertation, taught Homer sources, with the history of the individual This fall, she delivered two papers at with Christian Wildberg, and watched as its primary focus. Montclair State University, where she also impatiently for the blooms of the 500 tulip ❄ taught Classical Mythology, and is deliver- bulbs she planted in her backyard. She is ing another paper on “Women, Wealth, full of excitement for her fi rst trip to main- Danielle Meinrath spent an enjoyable and the Common Good” at the University land Greece this summer where, in addi- and illuminating week last summer at the of Michigan conference on decadence in tion to attending the international meeting International Conference on the Ancient antiquity. Meredith has been teaching for of the Network for the Study of Archaic Novel (ICAN) in Lisbon, where she gave a the Core Curriculum at Brooklyn College/ and Classical Greek Song at Delphi, she paper entitled, “Religion and resolution in CUNY and at Fordham University– hopes to win the crown in a proposed the fi nal books of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Lincoln Center. armed footrace. and Heliodorus’ Aethiopica.” She began her second year with a great American rite– ❄ ❄ of–passage, her fi rst interstate, transconti- Carey Seal served as a preceptor in the Tom Zanker is now in his fi fth year of nental road–trip — but only got as far as spring of 2008 for CLA/ENG 208, Ori- study and is at work on his dissertation, Ohio, where she presented the 2008 John gins and Nature of English Vocabulary, “Narratives of Cultural Pessimism in ancilla J. Winkler memorial lecture “The and is at work on his dissertation, “Philos- Horace’s Odes and Epodes”, which looks and her ass: re–reading Photis in Apuleius’ ophy and Community in Seneca’s Prose.” at the different ways in which Horace Metamorphoses ” at Oberlin College. She His article on Alasdair MacIntyre’s concep- conceives of the collapse of Rome and how is currently in hibernation, preparing for tion of the polis appeared last summer in a these motifs change over the course of his Generals. collection of essays devoted to MacIntyre’s works. He spent the summer at Corpus ❄ work. In November, Carey presented a Christi College, Oxford, where he met with paper at the University of Colorado on Professor Stephen Harrison to discuss Simon Oswald is a fi rst year student, Seneca’s use of slavery in developing his his ideas; he traveled back to the UK in having completed an M.A. in Greek at the idea of the philosophical life. April to give a paper on the subject at the University of Auckland, with his disserta- Classical Association’s annual conference tion on the relationship between word ❄ in Glasgow. Current side projects include order and metrics in Pindar. He spent John Tully is very much enjoying his a paper on Horace’s reply to the Vergilian the summer at the Goethe–Institut in fi rst year in the department at Princeton, golden age, whose return is attached to Freiburg and his fi rst semester immersed perhaps too much. Last summer, he visited Continued on page 10 10. Princeton Classics A Lacedaimonian Adventure by Simon Osward

Day One (Thursday and Friday, 23–4 southeast of modern Sparta, the site of a Hagesichora and her chorus of girls in Alc- October). One dreary fall day in Octo- bronze age settlement and the impressive man’s Parthenion we danced to the delight ber, under the gaze of the tired sun and Menelaion, an archaic to Roman period of the onlookers, wowing them with our with the crunching of complaining leaves monument to Menelaeus and Helen, of skill and fi nesse. underfoot, eleven brave students set out Troy fame. The Menelaion altar itself from Princeton with their fearless lead- received its fi rst blood–sacrifi ce since Day Four (Monday, 27 October). A trip ers Professors Michael Flower and Nino antiquity, when one limb–tangled student to the Throne of Apollo in the ancient Luraghi, curious for what lay ahead and spectacularly tumbled down the rampart, Spartan village of Amyklai and under eager for adventure. “To Greece!” cried overcome by the enormity of the occasion. the shadow of Mt. Taygetus was comple- Michael and the fl ock did not disobey their But all was alright, and the detail of our mented by a visit to the bronze–age tholos shepherd. examination of the site was matched only tomb of Vaphio; the one helped in our A bus, two planes, a time change, by the natural beauty of the location. understanding of the classical city, the and a breakfast in Amsterdam later, and With the coming of lunchtime came other in demonstrating that the history of we arrived at Athens. Off the plane and not lunch but Mystras, a stunning hillside the region was not limited to the one most onto a bus and down to Sparta we raced ensemble of Byzantine/Medieval churches famous period. We then darted down to — Sparta, the focus of our semester. That and buildings west of modern Sparta. Left Gythio for a visit to the History and Eth- night we fought off the fatigue of travel- to our own devices, we explored the ruins, nology Museum of Mani, the Roman the- ling by closely examining the environs of gaining an appreciation of the fl uidity of ater, and ... lunch, at long last! From there modern Sparta, recognizing the importance the history of the locale. And left to their it was farewell to Sparta, and we sped to in establishing our own local syssition for own devices, some people naturally became Kalamata to set up base via the spectacular the time ahead. separated from the remainder and hope- Langada Pass, the same treacherous route lessly lost in the labyrinth of winding that the Spartiates themselves took to reach Day Two (Saturday, 25 October). streets and tracks; only the steady gong the environs of Messenia. Our bus proved Rosy–fi ngered Dawn stretched her hands signaling closing time drew them from faster than ancient reports of traversing the through our windows and onto our beds, their haunts and back to the bus. distance, however, and we reached Kalama- but they were empty, as the routine had We concluded the day with a quick ta unscathed. begun: we were to live as the ancient reconnaissance of the Spartan acropolis. Spartans themselves, shunning all but The amount of archaeological surveying Day Five (Tuesday, 28 October). It was the necessities of life, of which lunch was and digging that remains to be done there Okhi (‘No’) Day in Greece, so we refused not. The morning began on a hill to the installed confi dence in us as to the future to rest and journeyed on. At the important of Spartan studies. We disputed some of Mycenaean/Dark Age site of Nichoria the more controversial remains of the area; we meandered about, impressed by the Graduate News this invariably ended up in attributing the remains of tholoi tombs and houses. The Continued from page 9 building to whatever area of Sparta the sea breeze of the Bay of Navarino then student was focusing upon. One of the called, and we drifted down on it back Augustus in book six of the Aeneid but is more sensational ‘discoveries’ was the site towards the sea. After lunch at the Voï- missing from Horace’s later works. Besides of the Spartan archives, complete with an dokoilia Bay, we were presented with a his academic endeavors, Tom is currently ‘ancient’ codex that curiously anticipated problem: to walk the bay (the long way) to a Resident Graduate Student at Forbes 20th century books in every respect includ- the middle/late Helladic Tomb of Thrasy- College, where, taking a leaf from Nero’s ing date of copyright. medes, critical for cult activity studies, or book, he recently organized, promoted, simply to swim to it. Five brave, handsome and served as impresario for a grandiose Day Three (Sunday, 26 October). We men chose the latter option and impressed concert featuring himself. began at the Spartan Museum; natu- the remainder with their strength and an rally, to beat the Sunday morning rush we unexpected but not un–hoped for result at ❄ camped out at its doors early despite the its conclusion. Like a lion that has gone for Donna Zuckerberg is now in her second curious looks from the staff inside. With a swim wearing only white boxer shorts year of study. She spent last summer in Olga Palagia as our guide, a leading au- and who accomplishes feats of daring, and Rome studying Latin with Reginaldus thority on Spartan archaeology and sculp- strides purposely and proudly once he has Foster. In the fall, she was working on two ture from Athens University, we discovered returned to land, oblivious to his onlookers papers. The fi rst is a study of quotations more about Lakonia in a morning than if and state of dress, so did one of the brave from Homer in Cicero’s letters which she we had read any book. A trip to the Sanc- men rise from the waves and march up to presented in a conference at UVA in the tuary of Artemis Orthia followed and the tomb. spring. The second paper is about Eurip- once again the ‘connections’ of our leaders Following this excitement the group ides and Aristophanes and, with some luck, were on display; although closed for the split up for the afternoon. The ladies might turn into a dissertation topic. Her off–season the sanctuary was opened for enjoyed a dip in the sea whilst the men other projects include studying for generals us. We polished off the day with a return hiked up the hillside to Nestor’s Cave and planning her wedding next September. to the acropolis and a close examination and the fort of Classical Pylos, towering of the theater and its inscriptions. ‘The above the island of Sphacteria, famous Last Night in Sparta’, as it became known, from Thucydides’ account of the battle in was spent mingling with the locals. Like the Peloponnesian War. The site is now ■ dominated by the Venetian palaiokastro, Princeton Classics 11.

The group on the steps of the stadium at Messene. Photo by Kleanthis Sidiropoulos. but with classical remains still visible. That buildings remain on site, but largely made with a quiet beer under the gaze of the night the group enjoyed a well–deserved up of blocks pulled from the Classical/Hel- Philopappos Monument on Philopappos drink in Kalamata at the appropriately lenistic/Roman ruins; parts of the Byz- Hill; they were thankful for the welcome named Bar Bar. antine buildings are being dismantled for company of 100 stray dogs (a Herodotean restoration purposes. This did not go down estimate). That evening the group dined Day Six (Wednesday, 29 October). It well with the Byzantine students of the together for the last time in the excellent was time for another museum stake–out, so group. Naturally, there was no comment company of Dimitri Gondicas from Hel- we visited the Benakeion Archaeological from the classicists. Following our tour of lenic Studies. Continuing the fi ne tradi- Museum in Kalamata. This was followed Messenia, Spartan in endurance but not tion of our predecessors we then raided by a spectacular tour of the largely un– laconic in detail, we enjoyed a late (very the annual ASCSA Halloween Party at excavated perioikic polis of Thouria, led late) lunch with the director of excavations, the gracious invitation of the hosts. In the by the knowledgeable owner of the land, Petros Themelis. In the modern town of spirit of the trip we then boarded the bus Mr Antonis Trangl. We saw a plethora Olympia that night, we feasted on local to the airport at 3:30 a.m. in time to catch of tholoi tombs in the hillside and were kebabs and sipped ouzo in preparation for the most horribly–timed fl ight home in the fortunate enough to stumble across a cur- the athletics of the day ahead. history of horribly–timed fl ights. rent Athens University excavation and We would like to thank Nino Lu- receive an impromptu tour by its director. Day Eight (Friday, 31 October). The raghi and Michael Flower for their expert Then it was onwards to the famous walls penultimate day of our trip at Olympia guidance during the trip and spectacu- of Messenia, built under the auspices of was abbreviated in relation to Messenia (in larly successful itinerary that left no stone the Theban general Epaminondas, defeater fact it is said that even a day on Mercury unturned, no track untrod, and no rest stop of the Spartans at Leuctra in 371 B.C. We — 58 earth days — would pale in com- entertained. And in addition our thanks to roved about the wonderfully preserved parison). After visiting the pillar of the the generous support of Dimitri Gondicas, fortifi cations and marveled at yet another Messenians and the Nike of Paionios the the Committee on Hellenic Studies and scenic location: the Greeks certainly had an group split up to take in the remainder of especially Mr. Stanley Seeger, without eye for the aesthetic. the sights and museum at leisure. A victory whom none of this would have been pos- in the foot–race at the stadium was later sible. The trip was integral to our under- Day Seven (Thursday, 30 October). ruled invalid when it was observed that standing of ancient Sparta and the regional This day belonged entirely to the polis of there was only one competitor. We then dynamics of Lakonia, and it is diffi cult to Messenia, one of the chief focuses of our boarded the bus and returned to Athens. express the degree to which a survey of the semester. This time our guide was the topography, sights, and museums added to fi eld director of the excavation, Kleanthis Day Nine (Saturday, 1 November). The our education. And fi nally a note regarding Sidiropoulos. Particular attention was paid day was left to our own devices; sights vis- the success of the trip for interdisciplinary to the theater, temple of Artemis Orthia, ited included the National Archaeological studies: fi ve departments were represented and stadium. On this site, we witnessed Museum, the Epigraphic Museum, the and the bonds and friendships forged fi rst hand one of the many issues facing Numismatic Museum, the Acropolis, ensure that the PAW program has a strong archaeologists at such locations. Several the Agora, and the Pynx. A couple of the future ahead indeed. relatively well–preserved Byzantine more handsome students took in the sunset ■ 12. Princeton Classics Dissertations

Jessica Clark one, as is frequently claimed. Rather, these intertextual, semantic, and narratological Vestigia Cladis: The Afterlife of Defeat in developments, along with the conquest of analysis. the Roman Historical Imagination the Greek world by Rome, caused adjust- The BC deploys complex language ments in use of the term and in the larger and ideas to participate in its broader My dissertation considers the ways in interrelation of ethics and politics of which cultural context, to redefi ne the nature of which the Roman Republic responded to parrhesia can serve as an indicator. the State and what it means to be a Roman its military defeats from the Second Punic The fi rst part of the dissertation differ- citizen. Caesar’s work thus promotes a War (218–202 B.C.) through the end entiates between ancient parrhesia and the distinctively Caesarean understanding of of the second century B.C. Responses to modern liberal concept of free speech, sets community and takes its meaning vis–à–vis defeat during the Republic have often been out the functions and limitations of frank- both Caesar’s program of self–representa- presented in generalizing and moral terms, ness in Classical Athens, and introduces tion to his contemporaries and the political such as praise for Roman fortitude and self- the term’s semantic–conceptual fi eld. This debate that animated the passage from the sacrifi ce. I suggest that Roman responses section also includes a study of the Classi- Roman Republic to the Empire. should instead be viewed as the particular cal and Hellenistic fi gures who epitomized production of individual generations, and frankness for Roman–era writers, followed Eugenia Lao thus that the range of responses varied by the anaylsis through a wide range of Restoring the Treasury of Mind: The Practi- with time and historical circumstances; later Greek texts of the term parrhesia in cal Knowledge of the Natural History the varied commemorative presentations connection with other important words and of defeats that we fi nd in Roman histori- themes, including truth, freedom, status, My dissertation is both an anatomy of the cal writing through the centuries illustrate gender, and kingship. Naturalis Historia and a hypothetical ac- the ideological needs of their producers, The second part of my dissertation count of its life among its earliest readers. I but do not necessarily refl ect contemporary performs close readings of prominent explore the relationship between the work’s reactions to defeats. I discuss this process Imperial Greek texts that focus on frank form and its use–value by comparing the as the “rewriting” of defeats within larger speech. Dio Chrysostom’s To the Alexan- text’s structure, content, and poetics with historical narratives of triumphs, hege- drians provides an example of the continu- a number of social and intellectual prac- monic expansion, and the development of ing relevance of parrhesia to civic politics tices current among its intended audience. an idealized “Roman” character. in the High Empire, while Plutarch’s How At the heart of my account is the Natu- I consider the defeats of the Sec- to Tell a Flatterer from a Friend allows ralis Historia’s utility for sharpening the ond Punic War and their contemporary a view into the fraught world of aristo- memory and conducting skilled conversa- consequences for Rome’s inherited civic, cratic relations in the Greek cities. Finally, tion. I argue that the work’s symmetrical, religious, and economic systems; the Lucian’s Fisherman shows us a satirical mirroring structure engaged with artifi cial literary presentations of the war and its version of the cultural authority conferred memory technique and mnemonic feats to commemoration in the second century by by parrhesia. present itself as a memorable text and to Latin poets and historians, Rome’s elite challenge its audience’s powers of recol- families, and the Achaean historian Poly- Luca Grillo lection. In addition, the work’s digressive bius; the defeats of the second century, and Ideology and Community in Caesar’s Bel- style, which has recently received atten- the evolving relationship between these lum Civile tion as one of the work’s most distinctive defeats and the celebrations of the triumph characteristics, set up a dynamic of reading in that period; and the commemoration of Recent scholarship consistently considered that paralleled face–to–face conversation, civil wars during the fi rst century B.C. at Caesar’s Bellum Civile (BC) an unfi nished especially dinner-table conversation. How- Rome. I employ primarily literary sources, work or propaganda, unworthy of be- ever, the very social world to which the augmented by material evidence (such as ing called “literature.” This dissertation, work was directed undercut the ideology of inscriptions) where possible. “Ideology and Community in Caesar’s austerity explicitly espoused in the text. Bellum Civile,” reassesses its literary value Dana Fields and signifi cance in the context of the late Pauline LeVen The Rhetoric of Parrhesia in Roman Greece Republic. The Many-Headed Muse: Tradition and Starting from a close reading of pas- Innovation in Fourth–Century B.C. Greek My dissertation argues that the use of sages where charged vocabulary occurs, Lyric Poetry the word parrhesia (“free and/or frank I examine the narrative strategies that speech”) provides a window onto the inter- Caesar deploys to present a seemingly ob- This dissertation gives an overview of the section of ethics and politics in later Greek jective reconstruction of the civil war and extant 800 lines of lyric poetry composed society. While the term parrhesia origi- yet rewrite a partisan version of history ac- between 425 B.C. and the end of the clas- nated in Classical Athens and maintained cording to his interests. Caesar’s pure style sical period. The overarching question throughout its history strong conceptual engages the readers, creates a work of high the study addresses concerns the alleged ties to Athenian democracy, its ethical sig- literature and promotes a unitary ideology: demise of lyric in the last quarter of the nifi cance is also apparent from our earliest Caesar represents the Roman state and fi fth century B.C. attestations. The focus of Plato in particu- Pompey its enemy; those who follow Cae- In addition to collecting the evidence lar on ethical parrhesia had great infl uence sar remain loyal to the ideal of the Repub- for lyric composition and practice in the on subsequent thought. Nevertheless, lic, but those who follow Pompey destroy late–classical period, it explores the dy- neither Platonic philosophy nor the rise of it. This literary and ideological value of the namics between tradition and innovation in monarchy in the Greek world transformed BC emerges upon close reading techniques the production, performance, and reception parrhesia from a political value to an ethical developed for Latin poetry and oratory, like Princeton Classics 13. of late–classical lyric poetry and examines mass. It is also established that Spirit and by the term phônê (voicalized sound), (2) four issues: the creation of a “death of Appetite belong to the nutritive faculty of the signifi catum, i.e. that for which the lyric” fi ction in our main sources (Ath- Plotinus’ lower–soul, and that the pas- phonetic material stands, and (3) the rela- enaeus and pseudo–Plutarch, following the sions are not consciousness–involving, but tion between signifi cans and signifi catum. I highly partisan views of Plato and Aristotle become available to our conscious minds begin by explaining what sort of phonetic on musical history); the persistence of through their reception by our perceptual material according to Aristotle can be a archaic models along with topoi of innova- faculty. Chapter 4 argues that the ethical signifi cans and can therefore be properly tion in dithyrambs, nomes, paeans, and goal of apatheia (‘freedom from passions’) called phônê. To that end, I provide a phys- hymns of the fourth century; the change in is not the complete eradication of passions, iological account of which animal sounds poets’ self-representation and understand- but rather the condition of the wise man’s count as phônê, as well as a psychological ing of the lyric genres and performance reason whereby it stands aloof from the evaluation of the cognitive content of the over the course of the classical period; and evaluative attitudes ordinarily expressed in vocalized sounds under consideration in De the evolution of the image of the lyric poet the passions. Interpretatione: names, verbs, and assertive between archaic and late–classical times as sentences. Once I have made clear what refl ected in anecdotes told by Peripatetic Simon Noriega-Olmos sort of signifi cans Aristotle has in mind, I writers and Hellenistic poets. Language, Thought and Reality in Aristo- then turn to the signifi catum, which is, in By combining a close reading of the tle’s De Interpretatione and De Anima Aristotle’s view, the psychological reference poems with attention to their intellectual of names, verbs and assertive sentences, and cultural context, the study argues that My dissertation reconstructs the theory i.e. noêmata (thoughts). The two issues at our evidence suggests a tradition of lyric of signifi cation implicit in Aristotle’s stake here are what logical properties a sig- poetry that continually adapts to the new De Interpretatione and its psychological nifi catum must have in order to be signifi ed performance contexts and modes of trans- background in the De Anima, a project by the phonetic material of a name, verb mission of the late–classical period. This that has often been envisioned by scholars or assertive sentence, and why noêmata work thus sheds light on a literary and but has never been systematically under- can fulfi ll those logical conditions. Finally, epigraphic corpus that has received little taken. This study develops in three stages unlike other modern interpreters, I offer critical attention and bridges a gap in our that correspond to the three elements an account of the signifi cans—signifi catum understanding of Greek literary history be- involved in every notion of signifi cation: relation that lies outside the traditional tween the classical and Hellenistic periods. (1) the phonetic element or signifi cans, ‘semantic triangle’ and the modern under- which in Aristotle’s vocabulary is denoted standing of ‘convention’. This approach not Christopher Isaac Noble Continued on page 14 Plotinus on the Passions ALUMNI NEWS My dissertation is a study of Plotinus’ theory of the passions, the emotions and Since August 2008, Paolo Asso GS’02 value of a education in the Classics for a desires attributed by Platonists to the non- is Assistant Professor of Latin in the practicing allergist!” rational soul–parts Spirit and Appetite (in Department of Classical Studies at the accordance with the tripartite model of soul University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. developed in Plato’s Republic). In it, I show He completed his edition of Lucan, Chaya Litvack ‘05 completed the M.A. how Plotinus attempts to resolve questions Civil War, Book IV and is editing A Brill Program in the Humanities at University inherent in the Platonist tradition about Companion to Lucan. He hopes that his of Chicago in June 2008. She is currently the role of soul and body in the passions, research on Africa in the ancient literary working in the marketing department at and the status of the passions in the life of imagination will fi nd its fi nal outcome in University of Toronto Press. the wise man. Chapter 1 offers an analysis a monograph. of the argument that our souls gain access to embodied experiences (including the Kelli Rudolph ‘02 is assistant professor passions) through the generation of a Paul D. Downs ’74 recently joined, as a of ancient philosophy in the Classics De- secondary psychic entity (the lower-soul) partner, the New York offi ce of the law partment at Grand Valley State Univer- comprising those psychic capacities that di- fi rm of Jones Day. “Classics,” he writes, sity. She successfully defended her thesis rectly involve the body. Chapter 2 presents “is a great preparation for the law.” and will graduate from University of a new interpretation of Plotinus’ doctrine Cambridge in July. She enjoys teaching that the soul, including its ‘passionate’ and is managing to carve out some time to fi nish an article on Democritus’ theory part, is ‘impassible.’ Since what Plotinus Edward R. Kinnebrew ’59 reports that of vision and prepare papers for confer- denies the soul are only physical–type Herbert Jordan ’61 (an English major) ences in Glasgow and Exeter. changes, he can maintain this position by has recently published a well–received assigning changes of that type to the body, translation of Homer’s Iliad with Univer- while formulating a contrasting account sity of Oklahoma Press. Karen (Franklin) Zeller ’82 lives in of the nature of psychic changes. Chapter Oregon, where she teaches Latin, Greek, 3 investigates the theoretical basis for the English and music courses for home- attribution of quasi–psychic ‘pre–passions’ Don Klein ’59 is taking an alumni course schoolers and charter school students, to the body. This chapter argues that these on Chaucer with Professor Fleming and from grade 3 through AP Latin courses. states, which serve to prompt desider- fi nding his classics background an asset This broad range of courses allows her to ative states in soul, are made possible by when encountering references to Cicero, continue developing oral Latin skill with a theoretical novelty (the “soul–trace”) Ovid and Vergil. He writes: “Ah, the youngsters and still enjoy sharing her originally posited to explain the immanent favorite poets with older teens. vital characteristics of an organism’s bodily 14. Princeton Classics Dissertations Continued from page 13 ians and historians, in particular Livy. knowledge) view of Athenian laborers as The dissertation comprises an introduction socially marginal fi gures has obscured our only does justice to Aristotle’s philosophi- and six chapters. The introduction lays out appreciation for the growth and utilization cal methodology and offers fresh solutions the most important sources, both ancient of actual, ancient “common knowledge” to some semantic puzzles, as for instance and modern, for my dissertation. The fi rst on the part of ancient laborers. All of that of empty names (e.g. ‘goat–stag’), but chapter examines the Roman context of the this took place within a political system, also breaks new ground by exploring the Sibylline Books, looking at the location of Athenian direct democracy, which thrived interconnection between the linguistic and the Books, the composition of the priest- on the development of social capital and psychological aspects of Aristotle’s theory hood that read them, and the timing of the cooperative exchange of ideas and tech- of signifi cation. expiation in Rome. nical expertise among all classes and sta- The second chapter examines the tuses, citizen and non–citizen alike. There- Nadejda Popov–Reynolds Books as text, and the ways in which this fore, elite depictions of laborers as radically Soldier Speech Acts in Greek and Roman text was applied to Roman expiation. This uninformed and fundamentally unfi t to act Literature chapter demystifi es the Books’ nature and as political agents, and as base characters origins. It shows that they were not a fi xed in general, ought to be understood as nor- My dissertation surveys the phenomenon collection dating back to the late regal mative responses to the developing power of speech acts of common soldiers in Greek period, but an assembly of oracles gathered and effectiveness of working people within and Roman literature and society from Ar- and revised over time. the context of democratic Athens. chaic Greece to Late Antiquity. Examples The third chapter explores the foreign of soldier speech are found in all periods nature of the Sibylline Books and the Marie Louise von Glinski and genres of Greek and Roman literature. expiatory rituals that they advised. The Likeness and Identity: The Problem of the Historical evidence from Classical Athens last three chapters explore the political Simile in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and all periods of Roman history suggests and social applications of the oracles as that soldier speech was not only a literary they evolved over time: the period before This dissertation examines the fi gure of the device, but a historical category of speech 83 B.C., when the Books were destroyed simile in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in order to as well. Thus the main questions I set out in the Capitoline fi re (Chapter 4), the late illuminate the central concern of the poem: to answer are the following: republic (Chapter 5), and the early empire the manipulation of shapes. In proposing 1. What was the function of soldier speech (Chapter 6). a likeness that is based on both similar- in ancient literature and society? Also, ity and contrast, the simile engages with what was the relationship of literary and Robert Sobak the problem of how identity is construed historical soldier speech in Greece and Skill, Exchange and Common-Knowledge: and determined by surface impression. Rome? Studies on Craftsmen and Craftsmanship in The simile occupies a unique ontologi- 2. Why do some soldier speeches in litera- Democratic Athens cal position in the poem, in that it never ture succeed in their aim, while others fail? substitutes one thing with another but es- A related question is: why are some soldier This project undertakes a re-examination tablishes relationships between them. Thus speeches presented as problematic in the of labor and its representations in ancient it is ideally suited to illustrate ideas and literary tradition? Athens in order to shed light on the worlds processes that go beyond the affi rmative Based on the evidence of Greek and of elite and non–elite Athenians alike. I and to become the medium of the imagina- Roman literature, law, epigraphy, and fi rst examine and discuss literary depic- tion. Stressing the openness of the simile in speech–act theory, I argue that the strong tions of workshops in order to demon- the lack of congruence between tenor and presence of soldier speech in literary and strate that the democratic city of Athens vehicle, I show the simile’s potential for historical evidence suggests that contrary was marked by a strong culture of social, internal refl ection on the text. communis opinio to , soldiers in antiquity intellectual and political exchange within The study is anchored around four did not live silently on the fringes of soci- the context of economic production. I then major and interrelated issues in scholar- ety. Rather, both in literature and in reality, offer select interpretations of portrayals ship on the poem, namely the phenom- they were vocal and active participants of of workshops and workers on Attic vases enon of metamorphosis, the status of both everyday life and crucial historical from the sixth and fi fth centuries B.C. In the divine, the debate on genre and the events. so doing I show that labor and laborers, far phenomenon of fi ctionality. The fi rst and from being consistently and overwhelm- second chapters deal with the constitution Susan Satterfi eld ingly portrayed in a negative fashion, or as of human and divine identity, especially Rome’s Own Sibyl: The Sibylline Books in banal “genre” types, provide vase–painters through interaction with the animal other. the Roman Republic and Early Empire (laborers themselves) with opportuni- The third chapter examines the issue of ties to examine and challenge Athenian genre that is inherent in the simile itself My dissertation examines the role of the social codes and relationships. I then turn and becomes accentuated by the generi- Sibylline Books in Roman society and to shoemakers and their products in order cally diverse context of the Metamorphoses. politics. The Sibylline Books, composed to demonstrate that the sort of connectiv- The last chapter shows the simile refl ecting in Greek hexameter, provided ritual ity illustrated in the fi rst three chapters on the fi ctional experience, in responding instructions for appeasing the gods after a is refl ected in the technical processes of to and provoking illusion through textual prodigy — a sign conveying their anger — shoe production, both with respect to means. Through close reading of the text had occurred. My dissertation focuses not the variability of fi nal products, and with the impact of the simile is shown to radiate on the content of the oracles (the texts are respect to the social networks of produc- out of its immediate context and becomes almost entirely lost), but on their context: tion necessary for the creation of such a point of departure for re-evaluating the prodigy reporting and expiation as we see products. Finally, I conclude the disserta- debate on these issues. it at work in the lists compiled by antiquar- tion by showing how the modern (common ■ Princeton Classics 15.

Lectures 2008–09

September 18 November 12 February 18 Magie Lecture Lecture AIA Lecture “The Ancient Historiography of Numa” “The Poem Against the Pagans—Solved “The Looting of the Iraq Museum” Christopher Smith at Last” Donny George University of St. Andrews, Scotland Alan Cameron SUNY Stony Brook September 24 Columbia University February 25 Lecture November 19 Lecture “Appolonius and the Reception of Epic” Lecture “Why Read Latin Literature Through Nita Krevans “The Smarter Many and the Best Few: Japan? Refl ections on Latecomers and University of Minnesota Decision Making in Athenian Democracy” Their Literary Histories” October 15 Gabriel Herman Wiebke Denecke Columbia University Prentice Lecture Hebrew University “Eros and Empire: Sallust, Virgil and November 21 March 2 the Narrative of Civil War” Conference Lecture John Marincola “Ancient Sparta: A Discussion” “Roman Paintings in the Luxor Temple” The Florida State University Thomas J. Figueira, Rutgers University Susan Auth, Independent Scholar October 17 Paul Christesen, Dartmouth College March 31 Michael Flower and Nino Luraghi, Re- Workshop Lecture spondents “lliadic Themes in Cavafy, Kazantzakis, “Bones and History” and Seferis” December 8 Peter Garnsey Michael Paschalis Lecture Cambridge University University of Crete “Passage and Perception in the Sanctuary April 2 of the Gods on Samothrace” October 20 Lecture Bonna Wescoat Seminar “Justice as Giving Each His Due: Emory University “Varium Et Elegans: A Seminar Confer- Aristotle, Cicero, Ulpian” ence on Varro’s Menippean Satires” February 17 Peter Garnsey Peter Wiseman, University of Exeter Lecture Cambridge University Elaine Fantham, Princeton University “Catullus 62” April 15 Kirk Freudenburg, Yale University Stephen Hayworth AIA Lecture James Ker, University of Pennsylvania Wadham College, Oxford “Monumental Tombs near Troy – October 21 February 18 Recent Discoveries” Lecture Faber Lecture Brian Rose “Varro and Cicero” “Ancient Goods: the tria genera bonorum University of Pennsylvania Peter Wiseman in ancient philosophy” April 22 University of Exeter Brad Inwood Lecture University of Toronto November 5 “Rewriting History from Inscriptions: Lecture New Perspectives on Hadrian and the “The Latin Intertexts (Virgil, Ovid) of Bar Kochba Revolt” Alexandre Dumas’ Queen Margot” Werner Eck Michael Paschalis University of Cologne University of Crete

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