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NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS Spring 2011

Letter from the Chair n the spring of 2012 Latinists, one multidex- lecturer at the University of Freiburg, will the department is trous linguist, and six join us in the fall as assistant professor of Ischeduled to undergo historians, but (as can be classics and hellenic studies, concentrat- its first academic review expected with faculty) ing on post-classical and Byzantine Greek. since 1996. In such a this is where confusion With this second joint appointment with review a small panel of enters. Our historians the Program in Hellenic Studies, we distinguished scholars regularly teach language further strengthen our ties with Hellenic from other institutions courses, all of us at some Studies and our commitment to the post- gives us a thorough going time teach humanities classical world. over, to praise our virtues, Classicsand other courses, and As to the future, I offer not a crystal to tactfully expose our freshman seminars, not ball but a wish list, and again reconceived sins of commission and to mention many cross­- boundaries are involved. First, I would like omission, and to submit listed or jointly taught to balance our strength in post-classical recommendations for im- courses, some of us serve Greek with the revival of mediaeval Latin, provement. Even here in as associated faculty in for which there is both strong support Lake Wobegon we admit other departments and in other departments and healthy signs that in some areas we may Ted Champlin, Chair programs or frequently as of student interest. A new appointment be less above average than in others— program directors (not to mention college in Latin would also relieve our severely uncomfortable though scrutiny may be, masters, university committee members, strained language program—we regularly we all recognize its value and necessity. In etc.). I hasten to define this as a creative turn away students from oversubscribed the following pages you will read as usual confusion—uncertain boundaries offer courses. Second, I would like to reaffirm about the triumphs and adventures of the beckoning vistas of interdisciplinarity and our close ties with the Department of denizens of East Pyne, but I thought that redefinition. Comparative Literature, both through our here I might offer a sketch of the present I can report recent progress on two current excellent faculty with comparative and of a possible future. fronts. We have always had close ties with interests and through the appointment, First some basic statistics, which the Department of Art and Archaeology. eventually, of another Hellenist specializing may not be familiar to all. We are now, in After being hit by retirements, the classical in Greek drama. And third, I would like to university terms, a department of small program there is being rebuilt under the Continued on page 3 to medium size, serving some 36 majors, direction (since 2009) of a distinguished including 22 juniors and 14 seniors, and Roman art historian, Michael Koortbojian, some 35 enrolled graduate students. Each who has proven a good friend of our depart- Inside this issue… year our offerings, which range from ment. This year Michael brought on board small classes and seminars to large lecture Nathan Arrington (A.B. Princeton, Ph.D. News from the Faculty...... 2 courses, tend to enroll over 700 students. Berkeley) as Greek art historian and archae- Faculty Bookshelf...... 6 Our communal and academic life is made ologist, and he is currently heading a search unimaginably easier by the good work for a third colleague. As a token of our com- Senior Theses 2010...... 7 of our four office staff, whose individual mitment, the Department of Classics and the praises I sang last year. Our faculty con- Program in Hellenic Studies jointly support Princeton in Israel...... 8 sists of some 16 academics: 15 professors one half of Nathan’s appointment. Dissertations...... 9 (10 full, two associate, three assistant) and Even closer to home, a successful one senior research scholar. search has just added another colleague to Zeitlin Retires...... 10 As to field, the chair crudely clas- our department. Emmanuel Bourbouhakis Graduate Student News...... 12 sifies our faculty as five Hellenists, four (A.B. McGill, Ph.D. Harvard), currently a 2. Princeton Classics News from the Faculty

Yelena Baraz Ted Champlin Marc Domingo Gygax Janet Downie Denis Feeney Andrew Feldherr

Yelena Baraz is the setting for another paper soon to M. Satlow for the series Ancient World: After teaching Roman Satire to a great appear, “Sex on Capri”, which investi- Comparative Histories (Wiley-Blackwell). group of undergraduates in the spring, I gates the shocking allegations about his began a year–long sabbatical, supported by retirement there, both more and less than Janet Downie Princeton and a grant from the Loeb Clas- meets the eye. A high point of the year On leave this year, I have been busy with sical Foundation. I am currently a visitor was a research trip to Rhodes in early two projects. First, a book on one of at the Institute for Advanced Study, where September, where (based part of the time, the more experimental pieces of literary I enjoy the peace, the conversations, the naturally, in the Aquagrande Exclusive self-presentation from the ancient world: birch trees that remind me of home, and Deluxe Resort Hotel) I literally stood in “Aelius Aristides’ Hieroi Logoi”. An article of course, the food. In July I gave a talk the footsteps of Tiberius and found the related to the dissertation phase of this on Cicero and translation at a conference value of seeing the island through his project—“Portrait d’un Rhéteur: Aelius in Swansea entitled “Author/Translator in eyes. But of course the emperor always Aristide comme initié mystique et athlète the European Tradition”. A longer ver- had to return to Rome, where I think he dans les Discours Sacrés”—has recently sion of the same talk was presented at the proved a cannier ruler than his critics appeared in a volume on Second Sophis- Humboldt University in Berlin in October. make out, using his notorious addiction to tic literature edited by T. Schmidt and P. The visit to Berlin was part of a longer mythology as a potent weapon in winning Fleury for the University of Toronto Press. trip to Germany: for two weeks I worked popularity. I have argued this in a lecture A chapter on the practice of dream inter- in the archive of the Thesaurus Linguae given most recently last year at Trinity pretation in the Hieroi Logoi is forthcom- Latinae (TLL) in Munich, researching the College Hartford—it will appear as a long ing in a volume of essays on dreams and concepts relevant to my book project on paper later this year, and its lessons ap- healing in Greece, from ancient to modern. Roman pride. Incidentally, the last TLL plied to the corridor in East Pyne. Moving into new terrain, I am now inves- articles, including popularis and pone, tigating Imperial-era conceptualizations of appeared last winter. In December, I gave Marc Domingo Gygax landscape as a way of understanding the a talk on Pliny and dreams at Indiana I continued to serve as departmental rep- relationship between literary and visual University in Bloomington. The article resentative of the classics department, and culture in Greco–Roman Asia Minor. In version will appear in Transactions of the in this capacity I was pleased to see a sub- this connection, I have presented papers American Philological Association (TAPA) stantial increase in the number of majors. on myth and landscape in Philostratus’ He- in due course. Currently, I am occupied In the fall I again offered my freshman roicus at the University of Chicago and the with final revisions of my first book on the seminar on “Truth and Objectivity in An- ancient studies seminar at the Institute for cultural and political dimensions of Cicero’s cient and Modern Historiography”, and in Advanced Study. By September, I will be philosophical works. the spring an undergraduate course on the back in the full stream of department life philosophies of the history of Greek and and teaching—with Classical Mythology Edward Champlin Roman historians, as well as a graduate and the Greek novel in the fall semester. Gloomy, reclusive, suspicious, and mis- seminar on Greek historical inscriptions. understood by all—my admiration of the In July I worked in the archive of the Reial Denis Feeney emperor Tiberius has only deepened as I Acadèmia de Bones Lletres of Barcelona I enjoyed a year’s sabbatical (summer pass the halfway point of my chairman- on a paper on the unpublished scholarship 2009-summer 2010), assisted by Guggen- ship. Tiberius loved getting away from of J.A. Llobet i Vall-llosera (1799–1862). heim and ACLS Fellowships. From January it all, years on Rhodes, years ruling the In October I gave a talk at the University to June 2010 I was a visiting fellow at Trin- empire from Capri, relaxation in his of Basel, where I presented part of a new ity College, Cambridge, where I was able to secluded Shangri-La on the coast of research project, undertaken in collabora- catch up with many old friends and began Latium at Sperlonga. In 2010 I followed tion with an economist, on rational choice writing a book on why the Romans had a him. At Sperlonga, Sejanus saved his life theory and mechanisms of voluntary literature in Latin when they really shouldn’t and cemented his position as the second contributions to public goods in the clas- have had one (plus risking a coronary row- man at Rome, for reasons I discuss in sical and Hellenistic polis. In the spring ing in Trinity’s Fellows Eight, with Philip a paper on “The Emperor Who Never I travelled again to Barcelona to join for Hardie as cox). Two particular highlights of Was”, forthcoming, which I gave most a third time, the evaluation committee of the sabbatical: going home to New Zealand recently last year at Montclair State the Catalan Institution for Research and to lecture at the University of Auckland on University—some lovely pictures of the Advanced Studies (ICREA). I submit- archaic Roman literature, and taking a trip to famous cave appear in a briefer version, ted a paper on “Gift-Giving and Power- see friends in Italy, giving talks at Pisa, Flor- “My Sejanus”, in the NEH’s magazine Relationships in Greek Social Praxis and ence, Rome, and Arezzo. I published papers Humanities (http://www.neh.gov/news/ Public Discourse” for the volume The Gift on the Manlii Torquati in Horace and Catul- humanities/2010-09/Sejanus.html). Capri in Antiquity, which is being edited by lus in a Festschrift for my old friend Tony Princeton Classics 3.

Harriet Flower Michael Flower Andrew Ford Constanze Güthenke Brooke Holmes Bob Kaster

Woodman, on Shakespeare’s Antony and reflection over a snowy winter in Princeton, Andrew Ford Cleopatra in a volume on Roman civil war, followed by a study trip to Ostia and Pom- After a leave in spring 2010, I came back on ‘Time and Calendar’ in the new Oxford peii in the summer. There I studied and to wonderful classes. In fall, a strong group Handbook to Roman Studies, and photographed many of the best examples of in Greek Lyric tackled Pindar and the lat- on Plautus’ Pseudolus in Classical Philol- painted shrines for the lares, Roman gods est finds of Simonides and Sappho; Spring ogy, together with reviews for Times Liter- of place in the neighborhood, household, finds me teaching the Medea, and good ary Supplement and The New York Times and on journeys. In addition, I looked at old Beginner’s Greek. On the publishing Book Review. It’s been fun to get back to street shrines for these gods in situ in both front, I spent an appalling amount of time teaching: in fall 2010 I had a wonderful ancient urban landscapes. I gave talks on correcting horrible Greek in the proofs group of students in a graduate seminar my new research on Roman religion at (from Oxford!) of my book on Aristotle on the beginnings of Latin literature, Georgetown and Columbia Universities. as poet; as I write, it is scheduled to come and also had the chance to be once again In September, I spoke at a conference on out soon. Birds in the hand include an a member of the group teaching in the rhetoric in republican Rome and discussed essay “Plato’s Two Hesiod’s,” in a collec- amazing Humanities 216–217 freshman with colleagues there the possibility of a tion entitled Plato and Hesiod published by course, where the teachers get to enjoy the new edition of the fragments of the Roman Oxford in 2010; studying Plato’s quota- company of some of the university’s best orators from the republican period, which tions of Hesiod, I found a striking differ- students while reading with them some of would be a team effort for an international ence between the way he used the Works the best books ever written. group of scholars. In August I moved, and Days and the Theogony. Out of my with my whole family, into the master’s ever simmering interest in poetics, I pub- Andrew Feldherr house for Mathey College (one of Prince- lished “ΣΩKPATIKOI ΛOΓOI in Aristotle The past year finally saw the publica- ton’s six residential colleges for under- and Fourth-Century Theories of Genre” tion of my book on Ovid’s Metamorphoses graduates) and started a four–year term as in Classical Philology. This rather unread- (Playing Gods, Princeton University Press) master in that college. This new position able essay is mostly for insiders, but it digs which I’ve been promising for as long has brought much to learn about university into delightfully obscure corners of our as there have been newsletters. Another life and many interesting new opportuni- evidence to find out how Aristotle fitted collection, a collective history of histori- ties to interact with undergraduates outside Plato’s dialogues into his scheme of Greek ography in antiquity, which I co-edited, is the classroom. genres. Denis Feeney and I have compact- due out from Oxford University Press any ed to offer a seminar next year on ancient day. This flurry of projects that have finally Michael Flower literary criticism and I can hardly wait. lurched to completion makes the future an I was on sabbatical leave during the spring Lastly, it gave me great pleasure to contrib- increasingly ominous void, but I look for- semester of 2010 and during the fall se- ute to a Festschrift honoring Pietro Pucci, ward to getting back to a planned commen- mester of 2011. The second leave was made my undergraduate teacher at Cornell. “’A tary on Sallust’s Catiline once I hand over possible by a very generous fellowship Continued on page 4 the reins of the graduate program, as well from The Loeb Classical Library Founda- as to a project on Book VIII of the Aeneid. tion. Although I missed the interaction Meanwhile, teaching has been a particular with students in the classroom, these two Chair’s Letter pleasure this year. I had the chance to teach semesters of leave allowed me to finish my Continued from page 1 a new undergraduate course with Danielle book on Xenophon’s Anabasis for the series Meinrath and John-Paul Young on epic Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature. explore ways to further integrate the clas- after Vergil—it was a delight both to work My principal focus was to apply narratol- sical art historians and archaeologists into with them and to dip a toe into Renais- ogy and reader response theory to Xeno- our department. sance Latin epic and a foot into Statius’ phon’s most famous work. I also wrote These are personal musings and wonderful Thebaid. Currently, I’m playing a lengthy, and broadly interdisciplinary, incomplete. Many other opinions will be Bullwinkle to the Rocky of Bob Kaster (cf. essay on “Spartan Religion” for the forth- heard, needs expressed, and strategies his analogy below) in a graduate seminar coming Blackwell Companion to Ancient developed, as we gear up for next year’s on Seneca’s Letters. Sparta, edited by Anton Powell. Apart review in two preliminary stages: with the from the joys involved in moving house visit of our Advisory Council in May; and Harriet I. Flower (into the master’s lodging for Mathey Col- then with a departmental retreat in the fall. The year started with a very welcome sab- lege), I focused all of my efforts on finish- If you would like to add any thoughts on batical semester, which began at the end of ing my manuscript before the beginning of the future of the department, I really would January. 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News from the Faculty Continued from page 3 Cardiff, Oslo, London, Montréal, Toronto, and New York. I was delighted to have the opportunity to travel to Egypt for a little over two weeks in November with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship through the Program in Hellenic Studies as part of my new project on the concept of sympatheia in the Hellenistic period. The Joshua Katz Nino Luraghi Brent Shaw Christian Wildberg project has also gotten a boost from a year of academic leave, which began in fall 2010 Song to Match my Song’: Lyric Doubling the disturbance of philology. and is being generously supported by an in Euripides’ Helen” was my first foray This coming spring I will have the ACLS Fellowship and the Elias Boudinot into Greek tragedy, and I was delighted to opportunity to think further through new Bicentenntial Preceptorship at Princeton. see it was placed in the book (Authority, trends in Reception Studies and the ques- An idyllic month at the Fondation Hardt Allusion, and Truth from de Gruyter) right tion of how to encourage new collaborative research center in the fall provided ideal after a piece on Helen by Froma Zeitlin, forms of work and writing, when I teach conditions for me to finish my manuscript who is happily still very much active in our a graduate seminar with my colleague on gender, which should appear in the intellectual life as a professor emerita. Anthony Grafton from the history depart- series “Ancients and Moderns” next year. ment on the Classical Tradition from the Constanze Güthenke Renaissance to Romanticism. I have also Bob Kaster I am continuing work on my book project been part of a reading group in Classi- I am writing this account in San Antonio, on German classical scholarship in the cal Receptions that was started this year during a lull in the excitement that is the long 19th century, which I am extending, by one of our graduate students, Jessica annual meeting of the American Philo- beyond the monograph, to questions of Wright. Another treat was to speak in a logical Association, where I am handing the development of the discipline in other panel discussion about the “Iliad and War” off my portfolio as vice president for places, too, especially in Greece and the at McCarter Theater here in Princeton, in program—nostalgia contends with relief, United States. I have been invited to speak the context of an excellent new production with relief right now holding the upper about the history of classics at conferences of “An Iliad” with Stephen Spinelli, based hand. Teaching this year has been and will in Cambridge, England, Northwestern on Bob Fagles’ translation. continue to be a source of great pleasure: University, and this coming semester at another round with LAT 101 in the fall, Harvard, Yale, Birmingham, and Lon- Brooke Holmes and an upper-level undergraduate course don. I continue as an associate editor for In the spring of 2010, I was pleased to on Sallust and Caesar. In the spring it the Classical Receptions Journal (Oxford see my book The Symptom and the Sub- will be all Seneca, with an undergraduate University Press), in which I have also ject: The Emergence of the Physical Body course reading De ira and the Medea, and published on recent developments in the in Ancient Greece, appear from Princeton a graduate seminar on the Moral Epistles history of classical scholarship. In April University Press. I also published several co-taught with Andrew Feldherr. (In this 2010, Edmund Richardson, then a post- related articles, including two for the first connection I’m reminded of what was said doc in the Program in Hellenic Studies, volume of A Cultural History of the Human about the partnership of Fred Astaire and and I organized a one-day colloquium on Body, edited by Daniel H. Garrison, and Ginger Rogers, to the effect that he made “Images of the Classical Scholar”, which an extended study of the medical analogy her classy while she made him sexy— ranged from Roman scholars to Freud and in Plato in the volume When Worlds Elide: mutatis mutandis, of course.) I will solo Classics, Politics, with a grad seminar on Lucan in the fall, Culture, edited by a notion that doubles my colleagues over Peter Euben and with laughter whenever they think of it. Karen Bassi. I gave On the research side, this year set a mark talks at Duquesne I surely won’t repeat in the balance of my University (Depart- career, with three books appearing since ment of Phi- June: Seneca: Anger, Mercy, Revenge, my losophy), Indiana translation of Seneca’s De ira and De clem- University (Depart- entia, partnered with Martha Nussbaum’s ment of the History Apocolocyntosis, from the University of and Philosophy of Chicago Press; Studies on the Text of Mac- Science), and the robius’ “Saturnalia,” published by Oxford Sorbonne (UFR de for the APA’s monograph series; and then grec, Paris-IV), as the monograph’s raison d’être, the three- well as the key- volume Loeb Classical Library edition of note address at the Macrobius’ Saturnalia, the only project that biannual graduate invariably caused people to say, “Now that Froma I. Zeitlin (left) and Andrew Feldherr (right) congratulate student conference will be useful!,” when they learned what I Rosa M. Andújar on the occasion of her receiving an APGA at SUNY-Buffalo, was up to. Sometime in the course of 2011 Teaching Award for 2010 awarded by the Graduate School and presented an Oxford Classical Text edition of the and the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni on papers at confer- Saturnalia will follow, and beyond that my May 29, 2010. Congratulations Rosa! ences in Helsinki, libellus on traveling the Appian Way, Princeton Classics 5.

under contract with the University of Chi- history department and from the Society Latin in the fall, I did not foresee what a cago Press’s Culture Trails series. Right of Fellows and including colleagues from joy it would be. To see the scope of Latin now, and for the foreseeable future, I am classics, history, politics and the Center texts spread out over a millennium of post- collating manuscripts for an OCT of Sue- for Human Values, as well as from other Roman history, and to share the enthusiasm tonius’ Caesars. Four and a half down, dear universities, from Harvard to Vienna —by­ of the students who read them with me, was God, twelve and a half more to go. any standard, an impressive example of the greatest reward of this past year. what can be done by harnessing together Joshua Katz some of the powerful intellectual energies Christian Wildberg I feel extremely fortunate to have been al- that flow through this university. Confer- Basically, my big news is that I am back— lowed to spend the fall—or, rather, autumn ences in Urbino and Muenster brought back in the department, back in the office, —in paradise: All Souls College, Oxford. some variety at the end of the season. From back in the classroom. There is a lot that O, to have a key to the Codrington Library the end of June I have started a seriously I miss about playing an active part in the again! Still, my delight in my students and needed research leave, and nomadism has residential college system, but the inevita- colleagues at Princeton remains undimin- become a way of life. Konstanz (Germany) ble fragmentation of one’s time and energy ished, though I did use up quite a bit of in July, working with colleagues there that comes with the job of college master 2010 on planes and trains, giving seminars on a joint project on ancient monarchies, took its toll. If I ventured to enumerate and/or lectures at Columbia, Cornell, Penn then the Italian Alps to get some rest and all those half-begun, half-finished projects State, Phillips Exeter Academy, UCLA, a few hikes, then another conference in and ideas that currently fill my desk and the Institute of Classical Studies (London), September, in Cividale del Friuli. The fall drawers, I would never get to embark upon and the Universities of Leeds, Oxford, was spent in Rome, peacefully reading and any one of them. One such project is the and Copenhagen, as well as to Princeton writing in the library of the École française documentation of the intellectual history alumni in Utah. Among my publications de Rome, in Palazzo Farnese. Since the of Athens in late antiquity, a collaborative are articles on linguistics and inherited beginning of my leave I have completed effort with the German historian Johannes poetics for The Oxford Handbook of Roman three articles—on Ephorus of Cumae, on Hahn. Last spring, our wonderful Program Studies and A Companion to the Ancient monarchy in Greek political discourse, and in Hellenic Studies co-sponsored our work- Greek Language, respectively; a polemic on the battle of Kosovo and the Messenian in-progress colloquium on that topic. The on etymological practice (“Nonne lexica wars—and written two conference papers, summer was crowned by sojourn on the etymologica multiplicanda sunt?”) in and more generally, accumulated readings, island of Crete, where we took a handful of Classical Dictionaries: Past, Present and thoughts and ideas, many of which I am classical philosophy students for a week- Future; and a couple of entries for a fat ref- looking forward to imposing on colleagues long intensive reading course of Aristotle’s erence work titled The Classical Tradition, and students at the earliest occasion. De memoria. Memorable indeed! The high- one of whose editors is my colleague Tony light of the fall was the company of a de- Grafton. Highlights of a very busy year, Brent Shaw lightful group of graduate students in my in which I was honored to win fellowships All of my adventures this year were con- seminar on spurious philosophical letters. from the John Simon Guggenheim Memo- nected with becoming acting director of This year, I am serving as interim director rial Foundation and the Loeb Classical the Program in the Ancient World (PAW), of the Program in Classical Philosophy; Library Foundation, were teaching Homer temporarily replacing Nino Luraghi. As we hosted a very successful conference in to a wacky group of undergraduates, lead- acting director, I was responsible for teach- December, with Sarah Broadie, Charles ing the irrepressible inaugural cohort of ing the PAW graduate seminar in the fall. Brittain and Stephen Menn as the main Behrman Undergraduate Fellows, being Beyond the cooperation with a host of speakers. I’d say it is good to be back! ■ described as “[p]ink-faced and bespec- eminent scholars in teaching the seminar on tacled” in an otherwise positive article in “Ritual Specialists in the Ancient World”, the Princeton Alumni Weekly on my recent other duties included guiding the students freshman seminar, receiving interesting on an archaeological tour in Israel during mail (not all of it favorable) in response to the fall term break. The journey was filled my monthly column in the Daily Princeton- with excitement and thrills, both planned ian, and fêting Froma Zeitlin with a pretty and unplanned. I was also responsible for great conference, “Mythmaking,” which taking the graduate students on a journey I had the pleasure of organizing together to Oxford in mid-January, where we parti- with Brooke Holmes. cipated in a joint conference with graduate students engaged in a parallel seminar at Nino Luraghi Oxford University. I also did serious work, Two thousand ten was a memorable year. including seeing to final publication the The spring was taken up by teaching the third edition of the world history textbook new Greek history proseminar, designed Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, written to introduce graduate students to vari- with faculty in the history department at ous aspects, methods, and concerns of the Princeton. Its success in pushing aside rival discipline, and Thucydides, my favorite textbooks is causing me much happiness. I ancient author. A highlight of the semester am within a whisper of seeing my book on was the Day of the Bad King, an interdis- “Sacred Violence” to full publication. All ciplinary conference on anti-monarchic dis- the courses and seminars were rewarding to courses from antiquity to the Renaissance, teach, but I would like to single out a special co-organized with colleagues from the case. In volunteering to take on Medieval Apocolocyntosis 6. Princeton Classics Faculty Bookshelf Playing Gods: Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Politics of Fiction by Andrew Feldherr. Princeton University Press, 2010

This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid’s epic poem of transforma- tions, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods argues that Ovid uses the problem of fiction in the text to redefine the power of poetry in Augustan Rome. The book also provides the fullest account yet of how the poem relates to the range of cultural phenomena that defined and projected Augustan authority, including spectacle, theater, and the visual arts.

Andrew Feldherr argues that a key to the political as well as literary power of the Metamorphoses is the way it manipulates its readers’ awareness that its stories cannot possibly be true. By continually juxtaposing the imaginary and the real, Ovid shows how a poem made up of fictions can and cannot acquire the authority and presence of other discursive forms. One important way that the poem does this is through narratives that create a “double vision” by casting characters as both mythical figures and enduring presences in the physical landscapes of its readers. This narrative device creates the kind of tensions between identification and distance that Augustan Romans would have felt when experiencing imperial spectacle and other contemporary cultural forms.

The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece by Brooke Holmes. Princeton University Press, 2010

The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, mov- ing through classical-era medical treatises, and closing with studies of early ethical philosophy and Euripidean tragedy, this book rewrites the traditional story of the rise of body-soul dualism in ancient Greece. Brooke Holmes demonstrates that as the body (sôma) became a subject of physical inquiry, it decisively changed ancient Greek ideas about the meaning of suffering, the soul, and human nature.

By undertaking a new examination of biological and medical evidence from the sixth through fourth centuries BCE, Holmes argues that it was in large part through changing interpretations of symp- toms that people began to perceive the physical body with the senses and the mind. Once attributed primarily to social agents like gods and daemons, symptoms began to be explained by physicians in terms of the physical substances hidden inside the person. Imagining a daemonic space inside the person but largely below the threshold of feeling, these physicians helped to radically transform what it meant for human beings to be vulnerable, and ushered in a new ethics centered on the responsibility of taking care of the self.

The Symptom and the Subject highlights with fresh importance how classical Greek discoveries made possible new and deeply influential ways of thinking about the human subject.

Seneca: Anger, Mercy, Revenge (De ira and De clementia translated with notes and introductions, with Martha C. Nussbaum’s translation of Apocolocyntosis) translated by Robert A. Kaster. University of Chicago Press, 2010

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and adviser to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, this engaging collection restores Seneca—whose works have been highly praised by modern authors from Desiderius Erasmus to Ralph Waldo Emerson—to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities.

Anger, Mercy, Revenge comprises three key writings: the moral essays On Anger and On Clemency— which were penned as advice for the then young emperor, Nero—and the Apocolocyntosis, a brilliant satire lampooning the end of the reign of Claudius. Friend and tutor, as well as philosopher, Seneca welcomed the age of Nero in tones alternately serious, poetic, and comic—making Anger, Mercy, Revenge a work just as complicated, astute, and ambitious as its author. Princeton Classics 7.

Studies on the Text of Macrobius’ “Saturnalia,” The American Philological Association Monograph Series by Robert A. Kaster. Oxford University Press, 2010

Studies on the Text of Macrobius’ Saturnalia is a companion to new editions of Macrobius’ encyclo- pedic dialogue that are to appear in the Loeb Classical Library and the Oxford Classical Texts series. The first chapter reports the results of a new survey of all the extant manuscripts of the work written before the 13th century and provides the first detailed stemma, which allows the early medieval ar- chetype to be reconstructed more reliably than previously. Chapter 2 discusses some of the nearly 300 passages in which the new text differs from the standard edition of James Willis (Teubner 1963); the critical discussions then continue in Chapter 3, which considers some questions of editorial practice posed by a text whose author was not just the author but also, to a very extensive degree, a copyist himself. Three appendixes supplement the arguments in the body of the monograph.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, Third Edition by Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Robert Tignor, and Michael Tsin. W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emer- gence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to 19th-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation- states and empires, and more. In the Third Edition, the text has been compressed and streamlined to heighten emphasis on world history stories and themes throughout.

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Benedict Baerst Coleman Connelly Jonathan Giuffrida The Nature of the Roman Army Causae Irarum Saevique Dolores: Understand- “Shapes Within the Mist”: Shelley and ing Juno’s Emotions in the Aeneid Keats Reading the Classics Peter Baltera Independent Women: Mimesis & Gendered Isha Marina De Bartolo Jordan Hussey-Anderson Space in Aristophanes’ Women Plays Hermione and Kleopatra: Two Princeton From Footloose to Foundational: Female Papyri Concerning Women in Ptolemaic Figures in Greek and South Slavic Epics Lucas Barron and Roman Egypt Philosophy as a Way of Death: Porphyry and Kevin Moch the Strains of an Ancient Discipline Sydney Engle Si Cives Huc Usque Licet: The Citizen and The Agrodolce of Roman Morality the Individual in Lucan’s Bellum Civile Phillip Braun Reconsidering Cicero’s De Amicitia as a Nicole Fegeas Elizabeh Presser Search for Realism The White Swans Sing: Ovid’s Heroines Traces of Morality in Plautine Comedy: in Dialogue Divine Qualities in Three Plays Laura Breckenridge Confronting Medea: Exploring the Kathleen Fletcher Sherry Zhang Duality of the Other Virgil Reloaded: Poetic Succession in Alumnaesophia: Princeton Women in the the Commedia Classical Tradition, 1969-2009 Yujhan Claros martinid by claros with a commentary on the Ariel Frost martinid by yujhan and the failure of miltonic Care or Cure? Negotiating the Physician- marriage by yujhan claros Patient Relationship in Classical Senior Theses Greco-Roman Medicine 2010 8. Princeton Classics Princeton in Israel by Simon Oswald and John Tully

he Princetonians were a slightly lead us on an epic six-hour less fractious group this year than tour of the site, even arrang- Tyesteryear’s Sicilian expedition, so ing for the eager-to-close we decided we could cope with spending museum at the base to stay an entire week in each other’s company, open a bit longer for us! rather than separating into two competing This also meant we had a factions. The group itself was, however, particularly intimate visit to no less eclectic, including students from Qumran, as first dusk and art and archaeology, classics, and religion, then night fell around us as and ranging from young whippersnappers we explored the small settle- in their first year to calm DCE-types, all ment and its various phases, under the able direction of our dominus, some of us more closely than Brent Shaw, and conditor Aryeh Amihay. others as the perils of shaft- Shivta Sobota Group The first four days we spent in Jeru- graves-by-night claimed salem, starting with a visit to the Shrine of new victims. Being the the Book, where Hannah Cotton kindly led intrepid modern travelers us in a tour of the conservation laboratories we are, of course no one had where scholars work to unravel the secrets thought to bring a torch, of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and discussed but there were enough some of the fragments on which she has mobile phones and cameras been working. That was quite enough for to guide the way. the first day, so we spent the remainder of We spent the second the afternoon enjoying the spectacle of the day exploring the walls and artefacts in the Israel National Museum old city of Jerusalem. Start- before whiling away the evening over hum- ing from a vantage point mus and Maccabeer, as our favorite tipple near Hebrew University, we soon became known. slowly circled in under the No night could be too rowdy—or so guidance of Oren Gutfeld Masada From Below our dominus thought—as he insisted we be until we reached the Tower on the bus at 7 a.m. to head to the heights of David Museum, which is of Masada. Dreams of clambering up and housed in a citadel dating conquering the behemoth, however, were back 2,200 years and which swiftly dispelled as we approached, and has been reconstructed with good reason—Guy Stiebel, an adher- countless times over the cen- ent of the marathon rather than the sprint, turies. Then, after a hearty like all good archaeologists, proceeded to lunch, we headed under- ground, chasing archaeolog- ical remains across the city until we reached the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at dusk, and turned to more mundane thoughts—such as Jerusalem Damascus Gate By Night how precisely to get out of the Old City. sarcophagi. The inscriptions mention On Thursday, we departed for Tel famous rabbis, merchants and officials Aviv. Before we arrived, Avner Ecker from across the area and beyond, while the whisked us round the sites of Sepphoris imagery covering the tombs and walls is (Zippori), and Beth She’arim. Sepphoris important for its insight into what might is perhaps most famous for its mosaics, once have been called “folk art”, and re- including one depicting the Nile in all her veals many differing degrees of Hellenistic glory, another narrating episodes from the influence. life of Dionysus, and one in a Synagogue On Friday, we returned south for with a complex zodiac mosaic floor, scenes our journey into the desert, to the town from Bible stories and tens of inscriptions of Shivta in the Negev in the company of in Greek and Aramaic. Beth She’arim, by Haim Goldfus, a fascinating ghost town contrast, houses more than twenty complex in an excellent state of preservation. The catacombs full of tombs, which mostly date intense heat and barrenness begged the from the second to fourth centuries AD. question of the IQ of the ancient Shivtans, The largest contains no fewer than sixteen but a careful lesson on paleoarchaeology burial halls and perhaps 400 tombs of and the variable climate record quickly Sepphoris Nile House Mosaic Centaur varying types, from troughs to loculi to Continued on page 9 Princeton Classics 9. Dissertations Pavlos Avlamis Byzantium. I then situated the Life in the predominantly by one strain of second- Aesopic lives: Greek Imperial literature and broader context of Imperial Greek litera- wave feminism. As a result of pursuing a urban popular culture ture and its oblique modes of representing modern political agenda, this influential urban space and time. Finally, I explored scholarship has often engaged the text from The Roman period of Greek literature is the nature of the allure that everyday real- a position of reception, at the expense of marked by a growing obsession of Greek ism held for Imperial readers by interpret- a close interpretation of the text within its speaking literati linking themselves to the ing the aesthetics of narratives that mixed historical context. In response, by consider- glorious past of Greece. These pepaideu- erotic themes with urban settings. ing separately and together all the female menoi, largely urban dwellers in the upper actors in Book I, the dissertation posits socio-economic strata of their societies, Kellam Conover an alternative interpretation of Livy’s (re) began to speak and write in an archaiz- Bribery in Classical Athens construction of the pre-Republican era to ing register that imitated the language of emphasize women’s foundational roles not classical Athens, while they also became Bribery (dorodokia) was the single most only as objects within a male-dominated vested in reading and writing fictional heavily legislated crime in Athens. Whole political sphere, but repeatedly as moral narratives set in pre-Roman times. A result institutions were reformed, repeatedly, and agents capable of formulating and imple- of this trend was that Imperial Greek au- no fewer than seven legal processes were menting political actions from a “feminine” thors tended to gloss over their immediate created for prosecuting the giving or tak- position, albeit in response to logic and ac- environment: the contemporary city of the ing of bribes, by a range of public officials tions that may be coded as “masculine”. In eastern Mediterranean, its daily rhythms, and private citizens, in a range of contexts. the process, Livy’s first book explores the and the everyday places of its social life— My dissertation asks why these particular variety of positions from which a woman the streets, the market, the bathhouses, the regulations emerged when and in the form might formulate a sense of self in relation barbershop. This omission was strategic; it that they did. It thereby uncovers the to the civitas, as part of Livy’s overarching was a way for this elite to position them- integral role that bribery—in law, politics, project of elucidating what human choices selves away and above the many in their and political thought—played in Athens’ enable a highly functional society—and cities. democratic development. which ones destroy it. However, as I made the case in my dis- The Athenians had no word for a sertation, the popular and common cultural “bribe,” and the law only vaguely defined Tom Zanker domain of everyday life is inescapable. bribes as gifts (dora) given or received Narratives of Cultural Pessimism in Horace’s It permeated the elitist barriers of Impe- “to the harm of the people.” Still, bribery Odes and Epodes rial Greek fiction and it can be traced in accusations were rampant, and the nature a variety of literary tropes, particularly in of these accusations focused on the result This dissertation investigates how Horace’s less-studied texts. For this reason I used of the dora. As I detail, the Athenians Odes and Epodes make use of narratives as a central focus the anonymous Life of consistently conjured up the figure of the concerning the failure and collapse of the Aesop, an Imperial serio-comic fictional bi- corrupt man, or dorodokos, to explain bad city of Rome. Its aim is first to demon- ography of the fabulist. I showed how the political results and delegitimize political strate the diversity of explicitly pessimistic very themes and structure of the text put practices. He was a central figure in public models within the Horatian corpus, the everyday urban life center stage. Studying discourse—a conceptual bogeyman whose different notions of culpability they imply, the fluid and changing textual transmission attributes evolved alongside changing ideas and the various trajectories they map of the work, I argued that these everyday about democratic politics. for the Roman future. After considering themes were the focus of attention for the Just as the Athenians thought through the intellectual heritage of each model, Life’s copyists and readers in antiquity and their polity by thinking with the dorodo- it traces Horace’s narratives of cultural kos, their anti-bribery measures reflected, pessimism through his works, noting how Princeton in Israel and sometimes shaped in important ways, they change and adapt before their final Continued from page 8 the broader development of the democ- disappearance in his later poetry. It focuses racy. Indeed, some of the hallmarks of the particularly on Horace’s rhetorical use of exposed us as the ignorant ones. democracy—public accountability, selection these narratives, and its line of argument Finally, on Saturday, we visited by lot, and a clearer demarcation between is influenced by the distinction between Caesarea with Peter Gendelman, admiring public and private spheres—emerged from genuine cultural pessimism and that of the picturesque ruins together with one of concerns about bribery. In a sense, the “palingenesis”, which involves the depre- the largest porphyry statues ever found, story of Athens’ anti-bribery legislation cation of a perceived decadence but also possibly representing Hadrian. A quick reveals a new story about the democracy, suggests that cultural rebirth is imminent. visit to another incredible aquaduct and told from the shadows as it were. It shows that by the time of his first collec- a fleeting dip in the sea were reward for tion of Odes Horace has begun to employ another thorough day of learning. Sadly, Meredith Safran narratives of cultural pessimism exclusively though, our stay in Israel was coming to an Civis Romana: Women and Civic Identity for the characterization of Rome’s putative end, and it was time to reflect on all we had in Livy’s AUC I savior from its plight—Augustus. learned, though not before thanking Brent Shaw, Aryeh Amihay, the Program in the My dissertation pursues two goals. First, [For news about our Graduate Ancient World, Stanley Seeger, and the it reassesses the current state of scholar- Students, please see our online version Progam in Hellenic Studies, and all those ship concerning Livy’s representation who so kindly gave their time to welcome at www.princeton.edu/classics.] of women in the crucial first book of Ab and to assist us. ■ urbe condita, which has been driven ■ 10. Princeton Classics Froma Zeitlin Retires by Brooke Holmes and Joshua Katz

fter three and one-half decades at Tragedy,” Tim Whitmarsh, Lecturer in Princeton, Froma Zeitlin retired in Greek and E. P. Warren Praelector at the AJune 2010. During these years, and University of Oxford (Corpus Christi Col- as the Ewing Professor of Greek Language lege), brought together Hellenism and He- and Literature from 1992 to 2010, she braism to reflect on an understudied corner helped make Princeton one of the leading of Greek tragedy’s rich afterlife. Next came centers for the study of Greek literature “‘Pharoah’s Army Got Drownded’: Some and, through her pioneering engagements Reflections on Jewish Narrative and Chris- with post-War French thought, anthropol- tian Meaning in Late Antiquity,” in which ogy, and feminist theory, an intellectual Jaś Elsner, the Humfry Payne Senior Re- epicenter within the field of classics. No search Fellow in Classical Archaeology and less impressive has been her impact at Art at the University of Oxford (Corpus Princeton as a professor of Comparative Christi College), uncovered the semantic Literature, an important early member of richness of cultural intersections in antiq- the Program for the Study of Women and uity from an iconographical perspective. Gender, and the visionary force behind the The day culminated with “Jewels Behind Program in Jewish (later Judaic) Studies, the Smoke: An Appreciation of Froma,” of which she was the longtime Director. eloquent and moving reflections on the In honor of Froma’s remarkable legacy, honoree’s inimitable presence—not just as the Department of Classics, with the en- a scholar but as a teacher and a friend—by thusiastic support of 17 other departments the internationally renowned critic, writer, and programs across the University, orga- and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn (Ph.D. nized a one-day public conference on May ’94). 8th: “Mythmaking: Celebrating the Work Former students and other admirers of Froma I. Zeitlin,” held in the lovely Froma I. Zeitlin turned out in full force for the conference, Chancellor Green Rotunda. The event, af- which was preceded the evening before by fectionately dubbed “FromaFest,” brought eroticized landscapes of Greek poetic and a festive dinner at Palmer House, attended together seven distinguished scholars rhetorical theory in a talk titled “Sex and by President Shirley Tilghman, and fol- whose work carries on Froma’s visionary the Sophist.” Simon Goldhill, professor lowed by a gala reception at the Princeton approach to the study of classical antiquity. of classics at the University of Cambridge University Art Museum. At both events, Edith Hall, who holds the Research Chair (King’s College), combined formal analysis Froma’s family and colleagues paid further in Classical Theatre at Royal Holloway with literary acuity to bring to life “The tribute to her extraordinary career. Much University of London, kicked the day off Choral Voice in Sophocles.” After lunch, as anyone who knows Froma would expect, with a spirited argument for seeing the Page duBois, Distinguished Professor of the conference marked not only an end, Iphigenia of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Tauris Classics and Comparative Literature at the but a new beginning. She continues with as a “quest heroine.” She was followed by University of California, San Diego, offered undiminished energy to research, publish, Nancy Worman (Ph.D. ’94), professor of a critical-imaginative exercise in getting and travel widely from her new home base classics at Barnard College, Columbia Uni- into the mindset of Greek polytheism. In in Firestone Library. versity, who led the audience through some his paper, “Ezekiel’s Exagoge: Diasporic ■

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September 28 February 15 April 5 Lecture Lecture Prentice Lecture “Magic Squares and How to Make “The Rhetoric of Monotheism in the “Virgil’s Humor in the Aeneid” Them: Text as Figure on the Tabulae Roman Empire” Frederick M. Ahl Iliacae” Alfons Fürst Cornell University David Petrain University of Muenster, Germany Vanderbilt University April 11 February 22 Lecture October 20 Lecture “Liddell and Scott: The Secret History” Lecture “Ad instantiam domini papae: Papal Christopher Stray “Divine and Human in the Homeric Involvement in the Spreading of Greek Swansea University Hymn to Aphrodite” Culture in the Medieval Latin West” Seth Schein Réka Forrai University of California, Davis Central European University April 16 Conference “Classics & Technology Workshop” November 8 March 1 Keynote: David Mimno Lecture Lecture Nancy Barthelemy “Thebes in Etruria: The Etruscans and “The Second Choral Ode in Euripides’ David Jenkins the Visual Tradition of Myth” Helen. From Lament to Activity - a Donna Sanclemente Francesco de Angelis Symbolic and Performative Reading” Harry Schmidt Columbia University Anton Bierl Janet Temos Universität Basel Christian Wildberg

November 15 April 19 Lecture March 8 Lecture “Tiro’s Monument: Ad familiares 16 “Adultery and the Invention of the and Letters in the Roman Empire” Lecture “Acting as Cicero and Against Cicero: Novel” Josiah Osgood Tim Whitmarsh Georgetown University The Mock-Trial in Apuleius Meta- morphoses 3.3-11” Corpus Christi College, University Giuseppe La Bua of Oxford University of Rome La Sapienza December 4-5 Conference Classical Philosophy Conference March 22 Lecture December 6 “The Greek Chorus: Our German Eyes” Lecture Simon Goldhill “The Gods of Callimachus” University of Cambridge and Richard Hunter Fellow at King’s College University of Cambridge

April 1-2 December 14 Conference Lecture “Classic Villains” “Why Aristotle Has No Theory of Classics Graduate Student Lyric Poetry” Colloquium Stephen Menn Keynote: Adrienne Mayor McGill University 12. Princeton Classics Graduate Student News

Rosa M. Andujar University as an assistant professor. Villains conference here in Princeton, and I am a sixth-year student and a part-time present papers on Seneca and drunkenness lecturer, currently completing my disserta- d at a conference in Boston in March, and tion “The Chorus in Dialogue: Reading Seneca and hypocrisy at a conference in Lyric Exchanges in Greek Tragedy”. In Adam Gitner Paris in May. 2010 I delivered a paper entitled “Manag- I am finishing my dissertation on Hor- ing Mourning in Sophocles’ Antigone” at ace (“Horace and the Greek Language: d the Bryn Mawr Classics Colloquium. I was Aspects of Literary Bilingualism”), which also one of the five recipients of the annual has provided material for a recent talk Dawn LaValle APGA Graduate Teaching Award (see at the APA Annual Convention in San I had a productive and eventful year since photo on page 4 of this newsletter) honor- Antonio on Horace’s literary terminology. I the last newsletter. I passed the Greek His- ing excellence in undergraduate teaching. have also been invited to attend the Craven tory exam in the spring, and immediately This academic year I am in charge of the Literary Seminar at Cambridge University got to put my knowledge of Hellenistic his- department’s intermediate Greek sequence where I will contribute a paper on Varro’s tory to test while traveling in Turkey over (Plato in the fall, Homer in the spring) account of the relationship between Latin the summer. I also went to the Republic while co-directing the Classics Senior and Greek. In addition to my research, of Georgia where I hiked mountains, sang Thesis Writing Workshop. I have introduced students to the joys of Georgian music and swam in the Black Latin grammar in general (LAT102) and Sea. Like the Argonauts, I escaped Geor- d the rewards of Catullus and Cornelius gia alive to return to Greece where I spent Nepos (LAT105). Besides teaching, the rest of the summer in Thessaloniki Samuel Cooper researching, and shoveling snow, I have and environs, working on Modern Greek, I spent a wonderful summer touring the enjoyed getting to know the graduating meeting people, and going to monasteries. archaeological sites of Greece with the seniors in our senior thesis workshop and During the school year, I finished my final American School of Classical Studies at I am excited to help lead a Neo-Latin paper and passed the Latin General Exam Athens summer session. Traveling inde- reading group (“Latin Letters on Latin (whew!), in addition to barely keeping up pendently, I was caught in a rainstorm on Letters”) that will begin this spring. with my regular duties of beekeeping, sing- Mount Kynthos in Delos and visited many ing, and being a resident student graduate. stunning sites in Turkey, from the swampy d Spring semester will be spent on a leave of Atemision at Ephesus to Hattusa to the absence with my family in Minnesota. neolithic settlement at Catalhoyuk (which Madeleine K. Jones I saw in the company of a Turkish kebab The tone for last year was set by the course d chef/rug salesman/taxi driver and an of readings in Senecan tragedy that I un- American soldier infatuated with Alexan- dertook with Professor Feldherr in the fall Danielle Meinrath der the Great). Back in Princeton, I passed semester. Like Atreus in Seneca’s Thyestes¸ I am happily post-Generals. This makes my first general exam, flirted with Hittite, I have found that attempts at mastery (for a nice change from my 18 months of and fell in love with Badiou. I am currently Atreus, mastery of the universe crumbling reading-list immersion, when I was seen exploring secret connections between ani- around him, for her, generals curricula) are so infrequently that a professor once com- mals in Greek temple sculpture, Pythago- never satisfied, but rather the further one pared me to a groundhog. Appropriately, rean mathematics, and ontology. gets, the more one realizes one has to cover. I participated in the animal’s panel of the However, unlike Atreus, who was provoked Celtic Conference in Classics in Edinburgh d by this frustration into a crime so impious last summer, giving a paper on the Aeneas/ and bloody its polluting effects stained his dog, Turnus/stag simile in the Aeneid. Meghan DiLuzio descendents for generations, I am enjoy- Now in my fourth year, I am working on I am currently completing my disserta- ing the challenges proffered by the general a dissertation on exemplarity in Ovid’s tion, a study of female religious officials in exams (which I hope to take this year), and Metamorphoses, and was an instructor for the city of Rome during the Republican I look forward to building upon the small Professor Feldherr’s new course on post- period. Last summer, I spent time in Italy knowledge base I have gained in studying Virgilian epic last semester, translating researching visual representations of the for them. some wonderfully diverse texts with some Vestal Virgins. In the fall, I served as a In my spare time I have been think- very talented undergraduates. The old ad- preceptor for CLA 218: The Roman Re- ing about the relationship between ritual, age about learning a subject best through public and I am a preceptor for CLA 216: tautology, and totalitarianism in Seneca’s teaching it holds true, I discovered, for Archaic and Classical Greece this spring. Oedipus, and also about the polluting everything but scansion. I presented papers based on ongoing aspects of love and death, as they appear research at the CAAS annual meeting in in the Ceyx and Alcyone episode of Ovid’s d October and at UCLA’s graduate student Metamorphoses, having benefited from the conference “That’s What She Said: The useful comments I received in January Mallory Monaco Construction and Expression of Women’s when I presented a paper on the latter top- I spent the last year conquering exams, Voices in Antiquity” in November. I am ic at the Postgraduate Works in Progress taming students, finding coins, and reading also a graduate research fellow at the Cen- seminar at the Institute of Classical Studies Plutarch. I precepted for Hellenistic His- ter for the Study of Religion at Princeton in London. tory in the spring, and in the fall was an as- University. Next fall, I will be joining the I will take a break from Roman history sistant instructor for an intermediate Latin Department of Classics at Baylor to deliver the response to a paper at the course covering Catullus and Cornelius Princeton Classics 13.

Nepos; the students were entertained, and on my dissertation. I miss Princeton, but significant specimens. I would like to thank seemed to have even learned things. After I was happy to learn that a strange person Rick Witschonke, Peter van Alfen, and finishing general exams in May, I spent the named Jacob allegedly knows how to move Andrew Meadows for their hospitality and first half of the summer reading Plutarch the island closer. In the meantime I make support while in New York, as well as the and the second half excavating the bath do with visiting occasionally, but of course curators at the Numismatic, Goulandris, complexes at the Hellenistic site of Mor- leaving the island can be tricky for several and Benaki museums and the Alpha Bank gantina, Sicily. Coins, inscribed tubenoses, mysterious reasons, like teaching responsi- Collection in Athens, the Münzkabinett in and mulberry granita were among the bilities, which have included Turbo Greek, Berlin, the BNF in Paris, and the Kun- most important finds of the season. After Greek Civilization, Livy, and Medieval sthistorisches Museum in Vienna for their a quick trip to Malta—cartruts galore!—I Latin. willing welcome and unfailing enthusiasm. returned to Princeton to continue work Without their help, such projects would be on my dissertation proposal, which was d impossible. successfully defended in November. The d provisional title is “Plutarch on the Hel- Daniel Tober lenistic Age”, and the draft of a chapter on I finished my general exams in the fall and the Philopoemen-Flamininus pair is near- I am happy to start work on my disserta- Gina White ing completion. I have also been organizing tion, which is likely to have something to I started the Princeton Classics Ph.D. a graduate student colloquium on “Classic do with the great Atthidographer, Philo- program in fall, having spent a year work- Villains” with Simon Oswald, featuring choros. I have an article on Spartan local ing off my Wanderlust by teaching English keynote speaker Adrienne Mayor. In my history in the current issue of Historia and in Chile and volunteer farming around the spare time, I am the chair of the graduate a review forthcoming in Storia della Sto- east coast. I received a A.B. in Classics recruitment committee, and captain of a riografia. Thanks to the department’s gen- from Brasenose College, Oxford, and an blossoming department intramural athlet- erosity, I was able to spend last summer in M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania ics program in ultimate frisbee, indoor France working on my French, which I can and am delighted to have the opportunity soccer, and dodgeball. now more ably read, and I expect that with to continue these studies at Princeton. continued practice I will one day be able to d understand what my wife and children are d talking about. I very much enjoyed serving Simon Oswald as a preceptor for Marc Domingo Gygax’s Jessica Wright I have spent the past 12 months bravely course in Hellenistic history, and I look Two thousand and ten was a time for captaining the Classics Ultimate Frisbee, forward to future teaching opportunities at increasing focus on Late Antique Africa (a Indoor Soccer, and Dodgeball Teams to Princeton. Program in the Ancient World Princeton- glorious victory (punctuated by bitter de- Oxford paper on the bishop Fulgentius; feat), as well as setting a new squash match d the celebrated Augustine class with Peter winning streak of eight months over my Brown), and on reception (both ancient peer and arch nemesis, the illustrious clas- John Tully and modern), including the formation sical philosopher D.H. Kaufman. I drifted I had an enjoyable year away at the Ameri- of a Classical Reception Studies reading through summer on a houseboat in Oxford, can School of Classical Studies at Athens, group with a number of other graduates editing manuscripts from the Oxyrhynchus and would like to thank the director of and undergraduate students. Following an collection, studying Modern Greek and the school, Jack Davis, and the Mellon action-packed summer in Europe (excava- researching epigraphy at the American professor, Margie Miles, for their warm tion and language study in Italy, Berlin, School of Classical Studies at Athens, welcome, as well as the trustees of the and Paris), I returned with some relief and on a dig in Morgantina, Sicily. In my school for their kindness in awarding me to settle into preparation for the Gener- leisure time I completed program require- the James Rignall Wheeler Fellowship to als, and am now becoming familiar with ments, visited Israel over fall break with help defray costs. While in Athens, I took the geography of the Firestone history the Program in the Ancient World (PAW) part in the various extensive trips orga- collection (more complicated at times than seminar, presented papers on Roman nized by the school in Greece, Sicily, and Hellenistic dynasties). religion in Oxford at the annual Princeton- Lycia, I excavated in Corinth, and travelled d Oxford PAW conference and at Harvard on extensively on my own doing research for workmen in Classical Greece, and trekked my dissertation—every weekend a different through the rainforests of Costa Rica and island. Some trips were more successful Donna Zuckerberg across the archipelago of Malta in search than others. I arrived in Andros to find I am a fourth year student and I am happy of the elusive Cebus capucinus and timid that all the museums there had been closed to have completed my general exams Hippopotamus melitensis. by ministerial decree three days before, but last spring. In December I successfully all were very stimulating, and put me in a defended my dissertation proposal on d good position to burrow away in Firestone the influence of Aristophanic parodies on when I returned in September. Before Euripides. I then realized that I would now Geir Thorarinsson returning to Princeton, however, I spent actually have to write the dissertation. I am I left Princeton in June and headed back to the summer working on the Hellenistic currently working on, in no particular or- the island (cue eerie theme from “Lost”), coinage of Paros, first at the American der, coming to terms with the enormity of where I enjoy teaching classics at the Numismatic Society, and then in various this task, my first chapter, and teaching the University of Iceland as well as working museums in Europe as I chased down Iliad to a group of eager undergraduates. ■ 14. Princeton Classics

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