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NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS Spring 2016 Letter from the ChairClassics new works in the field is precious. But one department at Berkeley, who was being book I had known for years would go to honored for her book on federations of the top of the pile was our colleague Denis city-states in Hellenistic Greece. And Feeney’s Beyond Greek: The Beginnings before the applause had died down, Jason of Latin Literature, which appeared from Pedicone, with his business partner Eric Harvard University Press last fall. Even Hewett received a President’s Award for with Alice Vavasor’s engagement to John his work with The Paideia Institute. This Grey hanging uncertainly in the balance, remarkably successful organization for I put aside my autumnal indulgence in promoting the classics through summer Trollope for this fascinating exploration of courses, travel, conferences and electronic the development of Roman literary culture media, just to name a few of its activities, through the lens of translation. For anyone has often been mentioned in this newslet- who studied Roman literature, it brilliantly ter for, in addition to Jason, it counts many Andrew Feldherr, Chair answers a question so basic that few of us Princetonians among its leaders, teachers, had even thought to ask it: Why did the and students. My colleagues and I continu- his has been an exciting year of Romans have a literature at all? ally have occasion to feel grateful for its transition and success for the depart- Hardly had Denis set the Romans on work in inspiring high school and college Tment. Colleagues at all levels have the path to centrality in Western literature, students to study classics. produced scholarship of great importance when I received the news that another new Continued on page 3 to the future shape of the discipline, and book, Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Trag- in which we can all take pride. Current edy and German Philosophy, by our newest graduate students have completed path- colleague, Joshua Billings, had won a pres- breaking dissertations and are gaining tigious Goodwin Award from the Society Princeton Classics enviable footholds from which to establish for Classical Studies. (Josh is currently a their careers. Graduate alumni have been fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study; is online! recognized for outstanding contributions to all of us are looking forward to his symbol- classics as scholars and educators. Under- ic trek across the golf course to join us fully graduates will soon have the opportunity next year.) To quote the official citation, to discover new dimensions of the field, “Billings’ book is a model of what recep- @PrincetonCLA thanks to the addition of new faculty work- tion studies can and should be—a path to ing on Greek tragedy and its legacy, and help us to understand better how we have Princeton Classics Roman republican history and religion. arrived at our way of dealing with a given Even as I write we are completing a search Greek or Roman cultural phenomenon.” for a new colleague in Medieval Latin. Josh was joined on the podium by an A little secret about academics, at least alumna of our doctoral program, Em- Follow Us. this one, is that our time for reading even ily Mackil, now professor in the history

Inside this issue… Undergrad Summer Travel...... 6 Graduate News...... 9 Alumni Spotlight: Jason Pedicone...... 7 Dissertations...... 9 News from the Faculty...... 2 In Memoriam...... 7 Q&A: Dan-el Padilla Peralta...... 10 Senior Theses 2015...... 5 Postclassicisms in Brazil...... 8 Lectures...... 11 2. Princeton Classics News from the Faculty

Yelena Baraz Joshua Billings Emmanuel Bourbouhakis Ted Champlin Marc Domingo Gygax Denis Feeney

Yelena Baraz speak (I argue) to broader questions of Tiberius retired to the island paradise Despite the mockery of my colleagues, the Greek Enlightenment. Here and there, of Capri, where he may or may not have I continue to be fascinated by late Latin I also continue to work on the eighteenth devoted himself to a life of scholarship pastoral poetry and Calpurnius Siculus century and German Idealism, where my and wild indulgence. He never returned in particular. An article on Calpurnius’ project begins from scenes of suffering on to Rome. One thousand nine hundred and innovative treatment of natural sound as a beaches to look at the philhellenic imagi- ninety years later, I will retreat this autumn disruption to human creativity came out in nary more broadly. for a year of quiet contemplation in an- the spring 2015 issue of the American Jour- other earthly paradise, as a Member in the nal of Philology and the longer tradition Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis School of Historical Studies at the Institute of post-Vergilian Latin pastoral was well Among the highlights of this past year was for Advanced Study. But then I will return represented at the panel that I organized a conference I organized, “The Sound of to the modest glory of an emeritus carrel in together with Petra Schierl of Basel at the Sense: Orality/Aurality in Byzantine Texts Firestone Library. January 2016 SCS meeting. In between I and Contexts,” attended by scholars from also delivered a paper on bucolic contests at the U.S., U.K., Cyprus, Germany, Austria, Marc Domingo Gygax a conference at St. Anne’s college, Oxford and Ireland. The ground-breaking papers In April 2015, I organized a conference on and a synthesis of my current thinking will be published next year in a larger “Benefactors and the Polis”, which exam- on Capurnius’ pastoral poetics at a lively volume I am editing on orality and literacy ined for the first time, the evolution of pub- interdisciplinary symposium on pastoral at in Byzantium, for Utrecht Studies in Medi- lic giving in the Greek polis from Homeric the CUNY Graduate center. From a differ- eval Literacy. Besides articles on vari- Greece to the Roman empire of the third ent stand of my current research, a chapter ous aspects of medieval Greek literature, and early fourth centuries AD. The speak- on Seneca the Younger’s treatise On the including a tribute to my former teacher, ers, who specialized in different periods of Constancy of the Wise Man appeared in Ihor Ševčenko, or aspects of Homeric Greek history, were Hans van Wees (UC an exciting collected volume on Roman poetics in Byzantine literary criticism, I London), Beate Wagner-Hasel (Univer- philosophy, Roman Reflections. The chap- have been at work on a monograph about sity of Hannover), Marc Domingo Gygax ter both builds on my work on Ciceronian mediaeval Greek letter-writing. This fall I (Princeton University), Robin Osborne philosophy and connects Seneca’s ideas was joined by David Jenkins, our Clas- (Cambridge University), Sitta von Reden about greatness of soul to the current book sics librarian and a keen Byzantinist, as (University of Freiburg), Christof Schuler project on Roman pride. Another offshoot co-editor of a forthcoming edition for the (DAI-Munich), Rolf Strootman (Utrecht of the book, a chapter on accusation of prestigious Teubner series of the Rhetorica University), Carlos Noreña (University kingship in late republican oratory should et grammatica of the 11th c. Byzantine of California-Berkeley), Arjan Zuider- appear in the near future. polymath Michael Psellus. The edition hoek (Ghent University), Onno van Nijf will profile the pedagogical practices of a (University of Groningen), Daniel Caner Joshua Billings watershed Byzantine intellectual. Finally, I (University of Connecticut ), and Chris- I am in the early stages of a project that am preparing a paper on the epistemologi- tophe Goddard (CNRS-Paris). During the looks at drama and intellectual culture in cal ramifications of narrative in Byzantine last few months I have been working on the late fifth century BC. As I understand historiography, for the International Con- the publication of papers delivered at the it now, it has two major components: first gress of Byzantine Studies to be held in conference in what should be an important is thinking through the modern concept of Belgrade next summer. However, all of the volume and on my own individual con- “Enlightenment” as it might apply to the above has been eclipsed by the birth of our tributions to it: an introduction, conclu- period. I am using some of the tools and daughter Penelope this past June, a cuter sions and a chapter on civic euergetism questions of eighteenth-century intellec- taskmaster there’s never been! in classical Athens. In the field of modern tual history in the hopes of articulating a historiography I published articles titled new understanding of the circulation of Ted Champlin “El projecte historiogràfic de Josep Antoni ideas and the stakes of conceptual devel- In the summer of 1976, newly promoted Llobet i Vall-llosera” and “Josep Antoni opments in classical Athens. Second is a from Instructor to Assistant Professor Llobet i Vall-llosera: contribucions a la more focused investigation of the way that of Classics, I moved into the office now història, epigrafia i arqueologia” (both co- certain mythological figures become nodes known as 151 East Pyne. In the summer authored with Albert Cubeles) in, respec- in drama for thinking about issues being of 2016 I will move out, and into retire- tively, the Butlletí de la Reial Acadèmia de discussed more explicitly in intellectual ment. I hope to complete several papers Bones Lletres de Barcelona and the Revista discourse. Some of the major figures so now in the pipeline but above all to finish de Catalunya. far are Helen, Prometheus, Odysseus, and my long-delayed book, Tiberius on Capri. Dionysus, all of whose depictions in drama In the year 26, at what is now my age, Princeton Classics 3.

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I would like to conclude by looking ahead from these achievements to where we are going as a department. A major initiative in the short term will be to make travel an increasingly important part of the education we offer our undergraduates. A few years ago I had the chance to take an Andrew Feldherr Harriet Flower Michael Flower Andrew Ford Ovid class to Rome, and Yelena Baraz set off at spring break with eleven students Denis Feeney In the classroom, it has been a real plea- from her course on the Aeneid. Our hope is My new book, Beyond Greek: The Begin- sure to teach “The Other Side of Rome” through a combination of departmental and nings of Latin Literature, was published on again for the first time in four years. But university resources, with support from our January 1, 2016. In this book I attempted as a reminder of the passing of time, our friends and alums, to organize one course to highlight just how odd it was that the youngest daughter, not even born the first every year around a trip to Greece or Italy. Romans developed a national literature time I led Princeton students through the This first hand experience of the sites and in their own language from 240 BC on, amphitheaters and dining rooms of the material remains of Greek and Roman given that—so far as we can tell—no one empire, now comes to sit in on the lecture culture will add an entirely new dimension else the Romans knew of at the time had a (at least the uncensored ones!). to what we can offer our students. national literature, apart from the Greeks. But we are equally committed to Although I’m no longer going to write the Harriet Flower reaching an audience beyond our concen- book I had next planned, about the impact During a year of leave from teaching trators. This semester, Christian Wild- of Cicero on the Latin poets of the next in 2014-15, I was able to complete my berg’s newly designed course on evil from generation, I did publish a paper about this manuscript entitled The Dancing Lares and antiquity to the present has drawn over in 2015. The Department of Greek and the Serpent in the Garden. This is the first 200 students, which I believe is a record Latin at University College London invited book-length treatment of the lares (protec- in the history of the department, certainly me to give their annual Housman Lecture tive gods of local neighborhoods known as since I’ve been here. Our faculty regularly on March 20, 2014, and since this was vici) that focuses on their role at the cross- participate in the flourishing HUM se- Ovid’s 2056th birthday I thought I should roads shrines (compita), both in town and quence, and Brooke Holmes has just taken talk about Ovid: the paper has now been on the farm. It is an interdisciplinary study over as director of the Interdisciplinary published by University College London that draws on painting and sculpture, Humanities graduate program, which helps as the Sixth Housman Lecture, “Ovid’s images on coins, inscriptions, evidence for graduate students from across the division Ciceronian literary history: end-career ritual, the sacred landscape of the city of develop perspectives and expertise beyond chronology and autobiography.” In Fall Rome, and literary sources in both prose their own field. She has also become a lead- 2016 I’ll be co-teaching a graduate seminar and poetry. I plan to submit the final ver- ing force in an international project called on the Roman Middle Republic with Dan- sion, which will include illustrations, to the “Postclassicisms”, facilitating conversa- el Padilla Peralta, and I hope this will help press at the end of next summer. Despite tions from Berkeley to Brisbane about how crystallize my ideas for what my next book my recent focus on the traditional Roman the classics has mattered in later cultural will be like. religion, I have been continuing to do re- epochs, and how the particular ways in search on Sulla’s self-representation in his which it mattered have in turn transformed Andrew Feldherr unfinished memoirs (published in 22 books our sense of the classics. (Check out the Not to speak of the demands of office, most around 78 BC), as well as on the political project’s website at www.postclassicisms. of my research time this year has been career and strategies of the younger Cato, org). Faculty and graduate students have alternately consumed by Clio and Daphne, especially in the 50s BC. been inspired by asking these questions which is to say that my work is divided be- in a series of conferences and discussion tween historiographic projects and circling Michael Flower groups. Now we would like to engage back to Ovid. On the historiographic front, During the 2014-15 academic year I was on more members of our community with in addition to putting the finishing touches leave and during that time I made progress such investigations—and take advantage on my lectures on Sallust, Will Batstone on several projects, small and large. My of Princeton’s increasing investment in the at OSU and I are also co-editing a volume most immediate task was to edit the The performing arts—by organizing readings of “greatest hits” of Sallustian scholarship Cambridge Companion to Xenophon, which and lectures by translators, writers, and for the Oxford Readings series, and I will is scheduled for publication in Septem- contemporary artists whose work engages be talking about visual representation in ber 2016. This is the first companion or with Greek and Roman antiquity. historiography for a graduate conference in handbook dedicated to this highly innova- Our mission as a department is two- Toronto next month—my first professional tive fourth-century BC philosopher and fold, to find new ways both to enrich the trip north of the border. Other boreal lands historian (I have put “historian” second, education of those who have already made define the horizons for my work on Ovid, because from his own time until the end the choice to study classics and to commu- since I will be giving a paper at a confer- of the 19th century Xenophon was known nicate the vibrancy and importance of our ence in Stockholm later this spring (which primarily as a philosopher). My current field to new students, colleagues, and the will sadly force me to miss reunions, its book project is called The Art of Histori- wider community. We welcome your sug-

alumni breakfast, and the P-rade—my cal Fiction in Ancient Greece. This is an gestions about how best to achieve these dogs’ favorite event of the Princeton year). goals. ■ Continued on page 4 4. Princeton Classics News from the Faculty Continued from page 3

Brooke Holmes Bob Kaster Joshua Katz Nino Luraghi Brent Shaw Christian Wildberg attempt to reassess the nature, purpose, problems around the concept of nature— and tropes of fictionality in the ancient including boundaries between human and by the loss of a substantial portion of the Greek historians to construct a new model non-human nature—in antiquity and their data Charles and his research assistants of how fictionality functioned. At the same consequences for contemporary debates compiled over the years, I hope that I can time, I have been pursing my other main in the theoretical humanities and social recreate the data and complete the work by interest, which is Greek religion. A series sciences. I’m still at work on my book on the end of 2016. The edition will be pub- of articles on Spartan religion, religious the concept of sympathy in antiquity, and lished electronically by the Digital Latin specialists, religious experience, and several articles on the subject appeared in Library project overseen by Sam Huskey; Delphic and Tibetan divination have either print this past year. Second, work related it is hoped that there will be a print version appeared or are forthcoming. My most to my ongoing grant project “Postclas- as well. unusual publication to date has just been sicisms” has proceeded apace, and I’ve published (unusual because it is in Manda- become increasingly interested in method- Joshua Katz rin Chinese!): 色諾芬領導理論中的虔敬 (= ological questions in our field. Much of this I continue to take pleasure in a variety of “Piety in Xenophon’s Theory of Leader- interest comes out of my desire to think offbeat topics in Greek and Latin litera- ship”) in The Chinese Journal of Classical harder about what is at stake in making ture, Indo-European studies, and linguis- Studies, No. 24 (Dec. 2015): pages 30-58. claims about “the Greeks” as the origins of tics, convinced that it is more interesting concepts such as “body” and “nature” that to attack problems that are not generally Andrew Ford so intimately structure our own world- recognized as problems and to consider This year has seen the appearance of “Lit- view. But I’m also broadly intrigued by known problems from a novel perspective erary Criticism and the Poet’s Autonomy” the claims we make about why we should rather than make minor adjustments to in A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics study antiquity in a globalized twenty-first other people’s work. Recently published (Wiley) and the entry on “Ancient Criti- century. I wrote three programmatic texts papers include “Aristotle’s Badger,” which cism” for the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics related to this project that will appear discusses the pseudo-hermaphroditism of (Oxford). Imminent are my editions and in October, Daedalus, and a volume on the spotted hyena in the course of argu- commentary of Ariphron’s “On Health” reception studies entitled Deep Classics; ing that the obscure noun τρόχοϛ in De and Aristotle’s “Hymn to Virtue,” for co-organized workshops in Princeton; generatione animalium 3.6 means ‘badger’; David Sider’s Hellenistic Poetry: A Selec- Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Cortona, Italy (the “Saussure at Play and his Structuralist tion (Michigan) and “Alcibiades’ eikôn beginning of a multi-authored book); and and Post-structuralist Interpreters,” which of Socrates and the Platonic Text: Symp. Berkeley; and took part in the summer tries to provide a holistic view of Ferdinand 215a-222d” for Plato and the Power of school “Globalizing Classics” at the Hum- de Saussure’s legacy by integrating his Images (Brill). As a “core” member, I boldt Universität in Berlin. anagrammatic researches into the story of attended a conference in September of the reception of his work; and “Initiatory our Network for the Study of Archaic Bob Kaster Marrow: A New Interpretation of Gylfag- and Classical Greek Song at Berkeley. I Wrapping up my five-year project on inning 44,” which proposes an explanation thought there was more to be said about Suetonius’s Caesars last spring (5/15), I of an enigmatic passage in the Old Norse the theme, “The Genres of Archaic and sent the files of the OCT edition and its Prose Edda. Three of the papers men- Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and companion monograph to OUP, which tioned in last year’s newsletter as “in press” Models,” and wrote up a paper. “Linus: has since turned them into proofs: both remain so—on the notion of the “frag- the Rise and Fall of Lyric Genre” was volumes will appear in July. With those ment” from an Indo-European perspective, given to NYU’s Classics Department in loads off my desk and mind, I turned to a the origin of the Greek pluperfect, and an December and has subsequently been ac- job for which I had volunteered: to bring unnoticed authorial signature in Vergil’s cepted for the conference volume. In April to publication Charles Murgia’s edition of Georgics—and to their number may now be I will give “The Pathos of the Poetics” as Servius on Aeneid 9-12 (originally vol 5 added “Etymological ‘Alterity’: Depths and the Keynote address for a conference on of the “Harvard” / APA Servius project). Heights,” which looks at the use and abuse “Poetics, Aesthetics, and Literary Theory Though the edition was incomplete when of etymology by non-linguists, including of the Greco-Roman World” to be held at Charles died in 2013, the archive he left in- modern poets. the Graduate Center of the City Univer- cluded drafts of the preface, Latin text, and sity of New York. double apparatus criticus that were essen- Nino Luraghi tially publishable as they stood: my job was Two thousand fifteen was a quiet and Brooke Holmes to turn those drafts into clean electronic enjoyable year. The spring was spent My research interests over the past year copy and complete the apparatus fontium et teaching Thucydides to a group of fearless have continued to cluster in two main testium, which was left only partly drafted. undergraduates and reading Pindar with areas. First, I’m very occupied with Though the latter job has been complicated a group of graduate students, under the Princeton Classics 5.

guidance of Andrew Ford—both enviable empire for our own university press. Most sense of political and cultural discontent. experiences. The summer was spent setting of my time at the moment, however, is On that view, ancient Greek philosophical up a course on ethnicity across history, devoted to work on yet another edition, inquiry into nature would acquire its focal which I am now team teaching with my the fifth, of the ‘World Together, Worlds hermeneutics in the relationship to political colleague Helmut Reimitz from the History Apart’ global history textbook produced by power and unenlightened oppression. department. In the fall, my new course the faculty here at Princeton (most of them After my discovery, a few years ago, of on Greek political thought had its second in the Department of History, so it counts pervasive instances of mechanical inter- run, giving me a chance to come to know as a cooperative interdisciplinary effort). polation in the Corpus Hermeticum, I am some really gifted students from all sorts We intend to take over this world, sweep- now increasingly preoccupied with a new of fields. Most of my research has focused ing all competing texts in world history edition and translation of this fascinating on Herodotus, and in particular on the from the field. und currently little studied document of ways in which his Histories can be put in Egyptian philosophy. dialogue with the events that were unfold- Christian Wildberg Finally, I am broadening and deep- ing as Herodotus was writing. In October I In a series of thematically connected gradu- ening my long-standing interest in the had the immense pleasure of presenting the ate seminars I am exploring the possibil- history of the conception of evil by teach- first results of this work in Freiburg at a ity of conceptualizing the development of ing an undergraduate course entitled conference celebrating the 70th birthday of early Greek philosophy in a novel way, “From Pandora to Psychopathy”. In it, we my mentor Hans-Joachim Gehrke. Mean- moving away from the widespread view examine the ways in which moral evil has while, several studies on early Hellenistic to see it as an enterprise primarily driven been explained in the course of Western Athens have proceeded towards publica- by scientific curiosity for its own sake. intellectual history, from Greek mythology, tion. Three of them will deo volente appear There is considerable evidence that we are theater, and tragedy via Plotinus, Augus- during the next few months. instead looking at a diverse, yet unified and tine, and Kant to Nietzsche, Arendt, and sustained project of articulating a profound modern psychology. ■ Brent Shaw It is always heartening to have responses to Yesenia Arroyo David N. Kong one’s work. My big winner this year was a How Dark, Imagining: The Role of paper entitled “The Myth of the Neronian The Madness of Reason: A Sadean Persecution” published in the Journal of Reading of Senecan Tragedy Myth in “Till We Have Faces” Roman Studies. I only ventured on this perhaps foolhardy venture (of arguing that Daniela R. Bartalini Catherine J. Lambert Nero’s persecution of Christians in 64 CE Saint Fabiola: An Exemplar of A Teacher and His Student: Re-Imag- did not happen) with the encouragement of Social Justice for the Poor in the Early ining the Renaissance Classroom–A my colleague Ted Champlin who, as they Christian Church Marginal Study of a Classics Poet say, has forgotten more about Nero than I will ever learn. The responses were truly Yung In Chae Joshua D. Lyman global in range, and spanning those who The Classical Emergence of Field Testing the Vitruvian Scorpio: An wished to issue their judgment on it from Examination Engineering and Tactical Analysis ‘changing the grounds of early Christian history’ to ‘fatally flawed.’ Never so many Albert D. Choi Jasmine N. Race gratuitous emails on anything that I have The Loans of the Sulpicii: A Transac- Rabbinic Wisdom in Christian Hands: written. Another that involved much more tional Analysis of Capital Flow Across Paul Fagius on “Pirkei Avot” (1541) hard work and which I regarded as just as Class Lines in 1st Century Rome important—part of my continuing efforts Alyssa J. Schmidt to map the relations of Augustine to impe- Dillon O. Ecclesine “She Will Need Her Sisterhood” An rial power of his age—a study of Augus- Analysis of the Relationship Between tine’s personal and formal relations with Dropping the Gloves: A Comparative high-ranking imperial officials of his age, Study of Ancient and Modern Rioting Sisters in Selected Works of Latin Com- has provoked no discernable response. I am at Competitive Spectacles edy and Epic still waiting for scholarly judgment. Other work has continued an interest in ethnic- Andrew D.A. Frazier Mary Rosalie Stoner ity in the Roman Mediterranean, of which More Tragic than Tragedy: The Christian Paideia: Models from the one will appear as a chapter in a celebra- Drama of Thucydides’s History Church Fathers tory volume, a Festschrift as it is called, in honor of Professor Ben Isaac at Tel Aviv— Calvin R. Gross Allan W. Van Morter on the problem of a Roman soldier who Death and Dying in Ancient Greek Changes of Social Values Over suffered from an odd split identity. I also Medicine Time Based on the Teachings of continue to be interested in what might be Authority’Figures in Ancient Rome called micro-level changes in culture in the Neil J. Hannan African provinces of the Roman empire Studies of Unreproved Weakness in Charles W. Waldron and in that regard I have mapped out two Roman Imperial Literature Themistocles and Alcibiades: pieces on the practice of the sacrifice of living infants and the end of this ritual. Work Leaders and the Polis in Thucydides also continues, off and on, on a larger inter- pretative book on the nature of the Roman Senior Theses 2015 6. Princeton Classics Undergraduate Summer Travel Septuaginta Summer School by Ayelet Wenger

his summer, I participated in the I also learned a great deal from infor- annual International Septuaginta mal conversations with my classmates, who TSummer School at the University of came from a variety of countries and back- Göttingen and visited a number of ancient grounds. I had the chance to question a sites in Italy with the help of the Princeton Dominican priest about his understanding Classics Department. of martyrdom, to discuss a questionably Through a series of readings, lectures, messianic passage in the Greek Isaiah with and workshops, this year’s Septuaginta a Russian philologist, and to swap subversive readings of the Song of Songs with a secular Israeli academic. It was delightful “I had never before real- to connect with so many people who share my excitement about early Christian and ized how much infor- Jewish texts and their Greek context. Professor Jack Tannous once men- mation one could glean tioned in class that visiting Ravenna is like stepping into Late Antiquity. Acting on his advice, I spent two days explor- from the intricate, ing the ancient mosaics of Ravenna and even attended a concert in the Basilica of microscopic details of San Vitale. It was unclear who was more astounded by the interspersion of orches- ancient texts.” tra music and Gregorian chants, whether it was the mosaic Abraham poised to slaughter his beloved son or his distant Summer School explored what we can descendant bewilderedly flipping through infer about the authors of the Septuagint her Italian program. Ayelet Wenger from details such as the register of the Other highlights of my trip to Italy in- language and use of loan words. Study- cluded strolling through the ancient houses make as she moves from staring at Etrus- ing the Septuagint with a class of skilled and brothels of Pompeii and Herculaneum can artifacts in the Bologna Archaeological philologists was an eye-opening experience against the eerily peaceful backdrop of Ve- Museum to watching tightrope walkers for me. I was staggered by the complicated suvius, uncomfortably admiring Bernini’s practice in the Parco Montagnola. arguments that can unfold from close glorifications of the rapacious Apollo and As much as I learned about classical readings of such a literal translation and Pluto in the Borghese Gallery, and grap- materials and geography through trac- came to appreciate the exciting nature of pling with the Arch of Titus’s Menorah, a ing maps by finger and foot, I found that philological discovery. I had never before witness to the ruins of Jerusalem amid the the most powerful lessons came through realized how much information one could ruins of Rome. I became both accustomed the unexpected discoveries. My surprises glean from the intricate, microscopic de- to and intrigued by the strange transitions included stepping into a large church, not- tails of ancient texts. that a tourist of the ancient world must ing the clearly modern construction of the ceiling, and a moment later realizing that I’ve walked inside the Pantheon and that Hadrian built this dome. They involved walking along a highway in Ravenna and admiring the deep blue ocean, a creature so distant and different from the mosaics I had been examining all day, before remem- bering that Ravenna’s access to water was the very reason it became the capital of the Western Roman Empire, the very reason that all those mosaics existed in the first place. I am deeply grateful to the Classics Department for giving me the opportunity to immerse myself so intensively in ancient texts and materials, and cannot thank them enough for everything I’ve read, seen, and heard this summer.

■ Ercolano, a Town inside Naples Princeton Classics 7. Alumni Spotlight: Jason Pedicone Ph.D. 13 came to Princeton after earning a B.A. the dining halls, and planning various cul- at Roger Williams University, a small tural and humanistic programs on campus. I liberal arts college in Bristol, Rhode Princeton’s generous summer funding “Princeton’s generous Island without a formal Classical depart- allowed me to pursue my interests in mod- ment, and following several years of itiner- ern languages and stoked my wanderlust. summer funding ant study in Europe. In those in-between I was interested in modern Greece, and years, my time studying with Fr. Reginald thanks to support from the Seeger Center allowed me to pursue Foster, a Carmelite Monk who worked at for Hellenic Studies, I had the opportunity the Vatican as the Secretary of Latin Let- to spend summers at the American School ters, and taught a legendary spoken Latin of Classical Studies at Athens and the Ar- my interests in modern summer program in Rome, was probably istotle University of Thessaloniki, studying the one experience which confirmed my archaeology and modern Greek language languages and stoked decision to pursue a graduate degree in and literature. I also learned French from Classics more than any other. Princeton’s excellent French Depart- my wanderlust.” My time in the Ph.D. program at ment, and spent a year living in the Latin Princeton offered me an opportunity for Quarter in Paris, thanks to an exchange deep reading of Latin and Greek texts, and Princeton has with the Ecole Normale When I had finished my general more foreign travel and language learning. Supérieure. exams and started writing my dissertation, The generals process, though one of the I began to realize that I did not want to be hardest things I have ever done, gave me a traditional academic. While I loved Latin reading fluency in both ancient languages, and Greek literature, language, and teach- for which I am truly grateful. I now look ing, my interests in travel, and program back on the countless late nights in my development had clearly emerged as the twenties spent in Firestone library with passions I wanted to pursue profession- fondness, and sometimes with Vergil’s for- ally. As luck would have it, my mentor, Fr. san et haec olim meminisse iuvabit ringing Foster, retired in 2011, and I co-founded in my ears. The Paideia Institute, a non-profit organi- I always felt called to teach and men- zation dedicated to continuing his mission tor undergraduates and help them nurture of teaching students to speak Latin among their interest in the humanities. I cherished Rome’s ruins in the summers. Since that the opportunities I got to teach ancient time, this organization has grown into a languages and Greek and Roman history vibrant Classics start-up, that provides while a graduate student. I was also very study abroad experiences in Classics all involved in undergraduate student life, over Europe, as well as online classes and serving as a resident advisor in an under- Jason Pedicone Ph.D. ‘13 (donning baseball hat) digital humanities initiatives, an online graduate dorm, leading language tables in is “Living Latin in Rome” with his students. journal, and outreach projects focused on demonstrating the relevance of a classical education in the modern world. In Memoriam I’m deeply grateful to Princeton for Michael M. Wigodsky *64 the countless opportunities it provided William H. Hess *63 me to pursue my interests, eclectic as William Hess, professor emeritus of clas- Michael Wigodsky, retired professor they were. I’m also grateful to the Clas- sics at the University of Utah, died March of classics at Stanford University, died sics Department, and particularly to my 26, 2015, of natural causes. He was 81. May 9, 2014, of cancer. He was 78. advisors, Denis Feeney, Andrew Feldherr, Hess graduated from the University of He graduated from the University of and Andrew Ford, for their open-minded Texas in Austin with a bachelor’s degree Texas in 1957, and was awarded a Ph.D. in support of my alternative, and somewhat and a master’s degree in 1955 and 1959 classics from Princeton in 1964. He was a improbable, vision for what to do with my respectively. In between, he taught high fellow at the American Academy in Rome Ph.D. in Classics. More than that, my fel- school for one year and then served in from 1960 to 1961. After teaching as an low graduate students are not only some of the Army from 1956 to 1958. In 1963, he instructor at Florida State University for my closest friends, they also help run our earned a Ph.D. in classics from Princeton. a year, he went to Stanford in 1962 and organization, serving as head instructors From 1962 to 1968, Hess taught at the remained there until 1998, when he retired in Paideia programs, board members, and University of Texas, Austin. Then, from as a full professor. In 1972 he published trusted advisors. Most of all, I feel very 1968 to 1998, he taught classics at the his book, Virgil and Early Latin Poetry, lucky to have spent time learning about the University of Utah. which was followed by several articles on ancient world with the incredible group of In 1954, Hess married Diane Deb- Latin poetry, as well as on the Epicurean people that Princeton Classics attracts. It nam, and they had two children. Diane library in Herculaneum and its associations has truly enriched my life. died in 1970, and he married Cheryl Pot- with Virgil and Horace. He was a faithful ter Stevens in 1975. Hess is survived by member of the West Coast Aristotelian So- [Jason Pedicone received his Ph.D. from Cheryl; two children; one stepdaughter; ciety until recently, when he began losing a Princeton in 2013 and is currently co- two grandchildren; and four step-grand- long battle against cancer. founder of The Padeia Institute.] children. As published in PAW March 16, 2016 ■ 8. Princeton Classics

national identity was based on a radi- Postclassicisms Network in Brazil cal alienation from an “original culture”. These possibilities also extended to bold by Mathura Umachandram, Classics Graduate Student innovations in the reception of Greco- Roman antiquity. On the other hand, the he recursive nature of history was Brooke Holmes, Ella Haselswerdt, and Brazilian modern subject is tightly policed on my mind as I set out to Brazil. I joined Tim Whitmarsh (Cambridge) and and excludes those who might claim an How is “modernity” constructed as Rosa Andújar (University College London) T indigenous Brazilian identity. The cura- “a happening again” of the past? How is to form the Anglophone équipe. A range tor excitedly glossed over these troubling the past enlisted to strike up difference and of topics addressed “untimeliness” directly aspects to emphasize the untimeliness of strike out to what is considered “new”? (such as Tim Whitmarsh’s “Quantum the project of modernity in this Brave New Muddling over these questions, it also Classics” or Isabele Cardoso’s “Ephemeral- New World. occurred to me that my first journey to ity and Philology”) and indirectly, e.g. how These thoughts fed back into the South America was re-tracing a complex the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity issues around the distinctive dynamics colonial relationship between Europe and can be re-imagined. The issues around of Brazilian nationhood and modernity her former subjects (as a representative of Brazilian modernity (and thus, how clas- that had arisen at UFMG. Pedro Paulo an American university, no less…). A fur- sical antiquity is configured) are complex. A. Funari explored how Jesuit missionar- ther thought bringing these two thoughts I encountered new cultural metaphors for ies spread education in general and Latin together: what does the study of Greco- modernity such as “Tropicalismo” (tropi- in particular. They put their philological Roman antiquity look like in convoluted calism) and “anthropophagy”. The latter prowess towards constructing a lingua post-colonial contexts? is a familiar metaphor in Brazilian cultural franca called Tupí, after the name of the This conference staked out new terri- thought thanks to Oswald de Andrade’s largest tribe, from the amalgamation of tory for the Postclassicisms network, which 1928 groundbreaking, modernity-defining indigenous dialects and languages. This ar- has met on several occasions at the institu- poem Manifesto Antropófago (Cannibal tificial language became a brutally effective tions of the core network members in Manifesto which is as programmatic a tool of control at the expense of the variety Europe and North America. Reprising the statement about modernism as T.S. Eliot of languages that defined native communi- theme of “Untimeliness-Extemporanidade”, could only dream of). As Brazil wrenched ties, now invisible under the linguistic ar- we met our Brazilian colleagues from the itself into nationhood in the 20th cen- tifice of Tupí. This example demonstrated Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais tury, the ways it related to its indigenous how philology can be repurposed as a tech- (UFMG). Previously, I had little idea that past and its past as a colonized country nology of political control and as classicists, Minas Gerais was a state neighboring Rio, convulsed dramatically. Rosa Andújar we must be responsible for how and to let alone that its mineral wealth had made juxtaposed Brazilian modernist poets with what ends our tools of inquiry can be used. it historically one of the richest in Brazil. the case of Mexican Bright Young Things A further contestation of claiming antiquity This much was evident to the naked eye who consumed Latin and Greek texts followed on from this: so entrenched was in the rust patchwork of the landscape and boldly re-used them in forging a new the connection between the Jesuits and scarred with huge quarries (this detail has national identity. Latin that Greek has historically been used stuck fast in my mind ever since because Post conference, I spent a little time in Brazil as a subversive tool. we were only thirty miles away from the in Rio de Janeiro. The Museum de Arte Our two days of fertile discussion was scene of Brazil’s worst ever environmental Moderne (MAM) was holding a 50th followed by some rest and relaxation cour- disaster, when two dams burst at the site of anniversary retrospective of an exhibition tesy of our generous hosts. The extent to an iron mine). originally staged at the museum in 1965 which English dominates the academy was called Opinião. This exhibition had gath- apparent: our Brazilian colleagues were ered together tastemakers to set the cultur- not only generous with their time and ideas al agenda for the coming decade. MAM’s but also their intellectual labor by working retrospective “Opinião 65” noted the extent in their second, third or perhaps fourth to which those who participated were po- language. It was a fascinating moment to litically engaged, energized perhaps by the experience Brazil: in the first instance, Rio military coup of the previous year. Opinião is gearing up to host the Olympics and @ 65 also underscored how conscious theose thus is preparing to display itself on the artists were of their modernity. The cura- world stage in the best light, though that tor’s blurb for the retrospective cited Paulo preparation might involve change of the Emílio Salles Gomes’s programmatic and We want to hear political and built landscape at a dizzy- problematic statement of the Tropicalia ing rate. However, the funding for public movement: from you. institutions such as universities is suffering from a delayed effect of the global “We are neither Europeans nor North recession. In light of these concerns, the Americans. Lacking an original cul- energetic conversations we had over the ture, nothing is foreign to us because Send your two days of our conference are all the more everything is. The painful construction valuable. Obrigada and thank you to Maria of ourselves develops with the rarefied news to: Cecília de Miranda N. Coelho and Brooke dialectic of not being and being some- Holmes for the opportunity to participate. one else.” [If you would like to contribute to the [email protected] On the one hand Brazilian artists Department of Classics, please contact the could find in this statement infinite pos- Office of Development at 609-258-8972.] sibilities for cultural production, because ■ Princeton Classics 9.

I’ve been thinking about how one might Clem Wood Graduate News bring together Aristotelian and William- I am working on my dissertation, which sian political thought in the ethical world- aims to deepen our understanding of Taci- Anna Bonnell-Freidin view of tragedy. At present, I’m looking tus by studying exemplarity in his works It has been exciting to present my work to forward to my spring seminars, in which I in relation to his literary and sociopolitical three audiences over the past year: classi- will venture further into Greek and Roman contexts. After defending my prospectus cists, of course, but also historians of medi- social, cultural, and intellectual history. in May, I participated in the third an- cine and medical practitioners. These ex- nual meeting of the Literary Interactions periences have also been helpful as I write Bryson Sewell under Nerva, Trajan, and Hadrian research my dissertation, Uncertain Beginnings: After completing my MA at the University group, where I met a number of scholars Childbirth and Risk in the Roman Empire. of Minnesota in Classical and Near Eastern doing exciting work on Tacitus and his This semester, I have been working hard Studies and then teaching ancient Greek at contemporaries. In 2016, I hope to see with a graduate student in History of Sci- North Central University for a year, I am the appearance of an article on Herodo- ence to plan an interdisciplinary workshop, starting my Ph.D. at Princeton in the tus in CQ and to submit a contribution “Histories of Reproductive Risk: Antiquity Classical and Hellenic Studies track of the to a Brill volume on ambiguity in Latin to the Present” (March 25-26, 2016). We Classics Department, where I can pursue language and literature that is planned as are grateful for support from a number my interests in Greek philology from a Festschrift for Reginald Foster. I greatly of departments and programs, includ- Homer to medieval Greek literature. This enjoyed my first Princeton teaching experi- ing Classics, the Program in the Ancient year I had the privilege of traveling to ence, precepting in Ted Champlin’s course World, and Postclassicisms. Greece twice, first in July for a month on the Roman Republic in spring 2015. In to study medieval Greek literature at the spring 2016, I am very excited to be an as- Kay Gabriel Gennadius library at the American School sistant instructor in Yelena Baraz’s class on 2015 saw some exciting developments in of Classical Studies in Athens, and then for landscape and topography in the Aeneid, my academic work. Following a successful a week in November as part of the PAW which took us to Campania and Rome in first year in the program, I spent the sum- seminar on Sacred Space. During the March. It has been a pleasure to organize mer preparing for my Greek Literature Oxford-Princeton Colloquium I am the Classical Literature Workshop, a week- general exam, which I passed in October. giving a paper entitled, “What is a ly forum for faculty and graduate students I then received the news that my first Homeric νηός?” to read and discuss Greek and Latin texts. academic publication—a revised seminar paper from my first semester at Princ- eton—will appear in Transgender Studies Dissertations 2015 insistently internalist reinterpretation of Quarterly in a special issue on translation, Latin literature after Cicero. due in March 2016. I presented twice Aaron J. Kachuck at research seminars or conferences at Solitude and Imagination: Cicero, Dawn Lavalle Princeton, through the PAW Pizza and Virgil, Horace, Propertius Methodius of Olympus, Imperial Greek Beer graduate research seminar and the Literature and the Aesthetics of Hope Princeton-Humboldt translation workshop My dissertation tells the story of how organized by Paul Touyz in December Cicero, Virgil, Horace, and Propertius In my dissertation, I apply the recent 2015. I feel lucky to have engaged closely used solitude—as gesture, posture, and advances in scholarship on Imperial Greek with the Postclassicisms network: in July I provocation—to characterize the purpose of Literature to an area that is all too often travelled with the Princeton contingent to literature, and to address the relationship neglected in these studies, the literature the postgraduate conference on the human of art to society, pleasure to utility, and written by the burgeoning Christian intel- and the posthuman, in March at a confer- private meditations to the theater of public lectual networks of the 3rd Century AD. In ence in Brisbane on the classical and the life. Evolving representations of solitude particular, I do this through the prism of contemporary in film and visual art. With interacted extensively with changes in the one particularly creative writer, Methodius Talitha Kearey, a Ph.D. student in the clas- world of politics, in the material conditions of Olympus, who wrote a number of Chris- sics faculty at Cambridge, I am organizing of the book-trade, and in the social status tian philosophical dialogues. Around 290 a postgraduate conference on fragmenta- of the poet. But literature was also a force AD he wrote the most famous of these, a tion in modernist literature and art, which that helped authors problematize social Symposium along the lines of Plato, but Classics and the postclassicisms network values, uses, and contexts, and in ways that conducted by women on the subject of are both supporting generously, and which the sociological turn of classical literary chastity. In this book I analyze the ways in will take place at Princeton in fall 2016. criticism has underemphasized. Building which Methodius, through this dialogue, on the recent pivot to aesthetics in classical both participates in and changes the liter- Owen Phillips scholarship, and what has been called the ary systems of his time. Each chapter looks Last fall was my first at Princeton; I have affective turn in literary studies, I dem- at a different genre with which Methodius enjoyed every minute. Before joining the onstrate that we can better appreciate the interacts in the Symposium: the philo- Department, I completed a MA thesis at particular character of literature in Rome’s sophical dialogue, the symposium proper, McMaster University on Homeric ethical “Cultural Revolution” when we move from the rhetorical set-speech and the poetic tra- and political values and their relation to a vocabulary of strategy, craft, and design, dition of hymnody. I conclude that within those of the polis. This January, I partici- and towards a sustained engagement with each of these generic networks, Methodius pated in and helped organize the Prince- the language, and implications, of struggle, shifts the focus from the past onto the ton-Oxford colloquium on sacred space in confusion, and mood. In doing so, I cri- future in his competition for the hearts and the ancient Mediterranean. In this context, tique common models of literary periodiza- minds of his readers, positioning himself I put forward an argument for the conso- tion, reanalyze the relationship between against the literary nostalgia which is often nance of religious and political discourse Roman literature and its social contexts, seen to characterize the Greek literature of in Archaic and Classical Greece. Recently, and present a richly contextualized and the Imperial period. ■ 10. Princeton Classics Q&A with Dan-el Padilla Peralta ‘06 Dan-el Padilla Peralta is currently a Q You will begin your academic appoint- fellow at Columbia University and ment as assistant professor of classics very author of Undocumented. Our valedic- soon. What does it feel like to know you torian for the class of 2006, Dan-el will are returning to Princeton as a faculty return to Princeton this fall as assistant member? professor in the department of classics. A I’m humbled and excited. Given the Q Why did you choose to study at current state of the academic job market, Princeton? I feel terque quaterque beatus to be gain- fully employed in the field that I love—and A My high school Latin and Greek teach- ecstatic to return to the institution where er planted the seed: having noticed how I first developed a knowledge of that field much I loved the languages and everything and an understanding of my potential role associated with their study, she nudged me within it. I’m also excited to be returning to think about studying Classics in college to a campus in the midst of important (and and told me that Princeton had the best Dan-el Padilla Peralta timely) conversations about the historical department in the country. More inspira- and institutional legacies of racism and tion came from my high school debate interest in helping me grow as a student other forms of structural inequality and coach (I did Lincoln-Douglas, for all of and as a person. Attending Princeton as a marginalization, about which more in a you former debaters out there), a Princeton poor undocumented person of color, I ex- moment… alum whose intellectual discipline and easy perienced some distressing moments: there way with philosophical texts I envied. The were times when it was obvious that I and/ Q What can we expect from you as a clincher: a little over a month before the or the people I identified closest with had professor? early application deadline, I participated in been prejudged as different and inferior; an on-campus “Humanities Symposium” and being a student at Princeton did not A You can certainly expect a steady for high school seniors; I had such a rock- spare me from the indignities of being stream of research, teaching, and advising ing good time that I made up my mind to broke. Examples of the former would not in Roman history, that’s for sure! I’m keen apply on the spot. fit in this space (my memoir Undocumented to continue working on topics in Republi- has all the details…); as for the latter, I’ll can and Imperial religious and cultural his- Q Can you speak about your experience just say that to return home to NYC one tory, and to pair up “traditional” approach- as a student? semester I walked from campus to Prince- es and methods with “new” techniques and ton Junction (I only had enough money for technologies (all while applying pressure to A My years at Princeton were in many the fare from the Junction to NYC), and any neat distinctions between the tradition- respects an under-the-rock dream, to bor- from Penn Station to my parents’ apart- al and the new; one aspect of Classics I’m row an image from Alcman. I was lucky to ment in Spanish Harlem (I had no money very committed to explore in my research find myself in a department (Classics), an left over for the bus or subway). Mentor- and teaching is the discipline’s rich heri- eating club (Terrace), and extracurricular ship, friendship, and intellectual camarade- tage of innovation through interdisciplin- groups (Acción, WPRB Radio, Black rie kept me afloat whenever the challenges ary study). Of particular and quickening Student Union, Rocky College advising) threatened to sink me. interest to me these days are the afterlives where mentors and friends took an active of the classical world, especially in modern American and Latin American contexts; so expect some research and teaching on those The Department of subjects too. Classics is pleased to The triplicate commitment to research/teaching/advising will guide my host the annual moves on another front: what tends to be alumni breakfast during termed “outreach”, but which I see as a necessary and vital extension of a socially reunions weekend. responsible and engaged humanism. I’m looking forward to joining the conversation well underway on campus about what we/ Friday, May 27th Princeton can best do to support the educa- 10:00-11:00 a.m. tion of the currently (and formerly) incar- cerated and other marginalized groups. In connection with this work, I’ll be giving a Prentice Library • 143 East Pyne great deal of thought to how Classics can intervene in debates about citizenship— stay tuned for the launch of a new course We look forward to on citizenship in spring 2017—and social welcoming you back justice more broadly; I’m beginning work on a manifesto of sorts very tentatively to Classics! titled “Black and Brown Humanity/ies.” Princeton Classics 11.

Q Who has had the greatest influence in your life, personally and professionally? Classics Lectures & Events 2015-16

A In the realm of the personal (but the personal and professional are so en- September 29 December 8 tangled!), I’ll single out my parents, who Prentice Lecture “Paying full price: On value-assess- gave me the space to indulge my love of the “Choral Contrasts: Metaphor and ment in Lucilian satire” humanities; my brother, who put up with Performance” Cynthia Damon many years of hearing me recite conjuga- Renaud Gagné University of Pennsylvania tions and declensions aloud (and then University of Cambridge majored in Classics himself); my wife, who December 11-12 challenges me daily to remember the social October 6 Workshop and ethical commitments I have beyond Faber Lecture “Behind the Symbol: the Context the academy; and my high school teach- “Aristotle 600-1200 AD: The Syriac and Legacy of Hypatia of ers. In the domain of the professional, I’d and Arabic Phase” Alexandria” be courting invidia by naming individual members of the Princeton/Oxford/Stan- Dimitri Gutas ford Classics departments—but I want Yale University Co-Sponsored by Seeger Center for Hellen- to acknowledge a debt which cannot be ic Studies, Committee for the Study of Late repaid, to Walter Burkert, whose Greek October 28 Antiquity, Classics Department, Council Religion blew my socks off when I first “The X-Position: ‘Disjunctive’” of the Humanities, Program in Gender and (attempted to) read it as a very impression- Mark Janse Sexuality Studies, Center for the Study of able sixteen-year-old. Ghent University Religion, Classical Philosophy

Q What would you say has been your Co-Sponsored by Department of Clas- March 10 greatest achievement to date? sics, Department of Linguistics and “Poetry and Religion in Late the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies Antiquity” A Resisting my strong temptation to Gianfranco Agosti duck this question and/or deconstruct November 10 Sapienza Università di Roma “greatest”: as a Princeton senior, I par- “Librarianism: Cataloguing with the ticipated in the first episode of the “Sixth Alexandrian Poets” March 23 Quintile” trivia game show—and won. Athena Kirk “Galen and the Plague” Cornell University Rebecca Flemming University of Cambridge Do you have any advice for students Q November 13 who are thinking about studying the March 25-26 Classics? “Borges’ Classics: Citations and Collections of the Greco-Roman Workshop Histories of Reproductive Risk: An- A The study of Classics opens many Past” doors, and not only to an understanding of Laura Jansen tiquity to the Present the ancient Greco-Roman world in all its University of Bristol Co-Sponsored by: Center for Human Val- exhilarating complexity; the journey to the ues, Council of the Humanities, Depart- foreign countries of the past can transform November 20 ment of Classics, Department of History, you in all sorts of (unpredictable) ways. “Divide and Empower. The Graduate School Postclassicisms Network, And don’t you want to know why Jay-Z Metaphysics of Stoics” Program in the Ancient World, Program paraphrases the Euthyphro in “No Church Anna Marmodoro in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Program in the Wild” (https://eidolon.pub/from- University of Oxford in History of Science damocles-to-socrates-fbda6e685c26#. w8dfs171z)? December 4 April 13 “Sub domina meretrice. Circle in the Q Can you share a fun fact about your- “The Text-World of Herodotus” self? Latin West” Robert Fowler Luca Graverini University of Bristol A I’m obsessed with baseball (Yankees Università di Siena fan), so much so that during my first year April 26 of graduate study at Oxford I thought seri- December 5-6 “Sacred Sound Through Space and ously about pursuing a baseball analytics Conference Time: Listening to Ancient Greek writing gig. Basketball is also near and Classical Philosphy Conference ‘Songlines’” dear to my heart, even though the Knicks’ Timothy Power performance these past few years has been Co-Sponsored by Department of Classics, Rutgers University nothing short of heart-rending. I’m shock- Department of Philosophy, the Council of ingly unproductive during those months of the Humanities, the University Center for

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