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Volume 86, Number 2 Fall 2012 th In This Issue 84 Annual ΗΣΦ Convention 2 ΗΣΦ: Statement of Purpose and Benefits of Membership Below, Stoney Creek Inn and cheerful 2 About NUNTIUS staff at the registration desk welcomed 2 List of 2012–2013 Officers 2 Members of the Board of Trustees convention-goers. At right, Dr. Levine 2 ΗΣΦ Committees 3 Professor Sienkewicz steps down as Executive called the opening meeting to order. Secretary of ΗΣΦ 3 ΗΣΦ welcomes a New Executive Secretary 4 About the 2012–2013 Officers 5 Address from the outgoing Megas Prytanis Christopher Rios 5 FASTI 6 Abstracts from the 2012 Convention 7 Best Paper at the 2012 Convention 10 Minutes of the 84th Annual ΗΣΦ Convention 13 2012 Scholarship Winners 15 University of Chicago Press 20 Invitation to the 85th National Convention 21 2012 Certamen Procedures and Questions 25 Back Issues of NUNTIUS Wanted 26 ΗΣΦ Has a New Web Site! 26 ΗΣΦ on Facebook 27 Report of the Chair of the Board of Trustees 27 New Ideas from Young Minds: Eta Sigma Phi Honors Thomas J. Sienkewicz at CAMWS-SS 27 ΗΣΦ plans for the Centennial 28 Ovatio for Susan Marquis: Lifetime ­Achievement Award Winner 28 On the selection of Lifetime Achievement Awardees 29 Ovatio for Theodore A. Tarkow: Lifetime Achievement Award Winner 30 Report of the Resolutions Committee 32 Libellis Picturarum: De Scipione, Hannibale, Bello by Jessica Stayton 34 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students APA 2011 35 Response by Professor James J. O’Donnell, Georgetown University 37 Learn to Read Greek, by Andrew Keller and Stephanie Russell: A Review by Kirsten Block 38 Winners of the 2011–2012 Classical Essay Contest at Beta Nu 39 Romanitas by Jason Fulbrook 39 ΗΣΦ Medals 40 Chapter Reports 53 The 2012 College Greek Exam 54 Membership Report for 2011–2012 54 New and Reactivated Chapters 54 Honorary Membership in ΗΣΦ 54 Want to Place an Ad in NUNTIUS? 55 Initiates July 1, 2011 – December 31, 2011 Left, the convention 57 Ubi Sunt Alumni Nostri? ended with a rousing 57 Lifetime subscriptions to NUNTIUS 58 Student Recognitions on the 2012 National rendition of the Latin Exam 60 Why Administer the National Latin Exam to ΗΣΦ song. College Students? 61 NLE Guidelines for College Students 61 Photos Wanted for NUNTIUS Find the minutes 62 Annual ΗΣΦ Summer Travel Scholarships of the meeting and 63 H. R. Butts Scholarship for Fieldwork in Classical­ Archaeology many more photo­ 64 Maurine Dallas Watkins Translation Contests 65 Bernice L. Fox Latin Teaching Scholarship graphs on pages 66 ΗΣΦ Convention Hosts 1925–2013 10–19. 67 ΗΣΦ Honor Cords and Hoods, Jewelry 68 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students APA 2013 ETA SIGMA PHI: Statement of Purpose 2012–2013 OFFICERS Megas Prytanis and Benefits of Membership Kyle Oskvig Epsilon at the University of Iowa The purposes of Eta Sigma Phi, the national • membership card, lapel pin and certificate Classics honorary society, are to develop and • subscription to NUNTIUS, the biannual Megas Hyparchos promote interest in Classical study among newsletter of the society Jordan Dillon students of colleges and universities; to promote • an annual national convention including a Eta Zeta at Truman State University closer fraternal relationship among students certamen and banquet Megas Grammateus who are interested in Classical studies, and to • the opportunity to give academic presentations Brandon Glackin stimulate interest in Classical studies and in the before an audience of peers and scholars Zeta Beta at Temple University history, art, and literature of ancient Greece and • annual sight translation exams in Latin and Rome. Members are elected by local chapters Greek Megale Chrysophylax which have been chartered by the society. Most • honor cords and sashes for graduation Hannah Lantz members are undergraduates but chapters can also • bronze and silver medals of achievement Eta Zeta at Truman State University initiate graduate students, faculty, and honorees. • eligibility for summer travel scholarships to There are more than 180 chapters of Eta Sigma Greece, Rome or southern Italy BOARD OF TRUSTEES Phi throughout the United States. Benefits of • eligibility for a Latin teacher training Antonios Augoustakis (2014), Chair membership include: scholarship Alpha Kappa at the University of Illinois [email protected] Martha Davis (2013) Zeta Beta at Temple University About NUNTIUS [email protected] NUNTIUS is the newsletter of Eta Sigma Phi, the of this lifetime subscription is a single payment of Joseph Garnjobst (2015) national Classics honorary society. It is published $50. 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2 Professor Sienkewicz steps down as Executive Secretary of ΗΣΦ

Dear Members of Eta Sigma Phi: support all the national officers with whom I worked so closely as well as my colleagues During my nine years as Executive Sec- on the Board of Trustees, especially Dr. retary of Eta Sigma Phi, I have had the Martha Davis and Sr. Thérèse Marie pleasure of working with many outstanding Daugherty, as well as Dr. Daniel Levine, undergraduate Classics students and with Dr. Joseph Garnjobst, Dr. Wayne Tucker, many dedicated chapter advisors. I have and Dr. Brent Froberg. never ceased to be amazed by the willing- I look forward to seeing many of you in ness of so many to serve this important Wake Forest in 2013, and, especially, at our organization, one which holds the future of centennial meeting in Chicago in 2014. Classical studies in its hands. I am pleased Let the spirit of earnest endeavor, good that, during my tenure as Executive Sec- will, and friendship pervade the body of retary, with the help and encouragement Eta Sigma Phi and bind us all together. of the Board of Trustees and many others, Eta Sigma Phi has succeeded in becom- Si vales, valeo. ing a much more visible presence in the confidently pass the torch of Executive Classical community. It is now a member Secretary to the capable hands of Dr. Thomas J. Sienkewicz of the National Committee for Latin and David Sick of Rhodes College. As I do, Capron Professor of Classics Greek, the Classical Association of the I would like to thank for their help and Gamma Omicron at Monmouth College Middle West and South (CAMWS), and the American Philological Association. Eta Sigma Phi now not only sponsors under- graduate panels at CAMWS Southern Section but also at the American Philologi- ΗΣΦ welcomes a New cal Association. The organization regularly has informational tables at the joint annual Executive Secretary meeting of the American Philologi- cal Association and the Archaeological Our society has come to greater promi- Institute of America, as well as CAMWS, nence over the past decade in large part the Classical Association of the Atlantic due to the efforts of Tom Sienkewicz, the States (CAAS) and the American Classi- fifteenth Executive Secretary ofΗΣΦ . cal League. Our students are now regular participants I am particularly pleased that, as a in the annual meetings of the APA, result of a generous bequest by Lawrence CAMWS, and the ACL. We now offer a Crowson, late member of Pi at Birming- scholarship for summer work on archaeo- ham Southern University, Eta Sigma Phi logical excavations. Tom’s work built on now has a solid endowment which has that of the fourteen men and women who enabled the organization to fund a $2000 held the position before him, and I have no Summer Fieldwork Scholarship in Classi- grand objective of policy in assuming the cal Archaeology, named after H.R. Butts, role after him. My hope is simply to solidify Mr. Crowson’s beloved Greek professor at the gains made by my predecessors and to Birmingham Southern and one of my pre- establish procedures at the national office decessors as Executive Secretary. With this that make the job easily transferable to endowment the amount of the Translation future Executive Secretaries. Our New E-S brings proof of membership Prizes has also been significantly increased. It was twenty-five years ago in April that One of my most pleasant experiences as I became a member of the Alpha Upsilon ding before; I now encounter it regularly as Secretary Treasurer was rediscovering the chapter of Eta Sigma Phi at the College a resident of Memphis, TN. As a junior in “Song for Eta Sigma Phi” in an old issue of Wooster. The initiation was held in college I also had no idea that the evening of NUNTIUS and reintroducing it to the Professor Vivian Holliday’s home on Forest would begin for me a life-long relationship membership with the addition of transla- Ave. in Wooster, OH. We celebrated after with the society. I am glad now to give back tions in Latin and Greek. the ceremony with banana pudding made to an association that played a significant So, as Eta Sigma Phi looks forward to by Dr. Holliday herself, a native of South part in my own undergraduate education. celebrating its centennial year in 2014, I Carolina. I had never tasted banana pud- — David Sick

3 About the New Officers

Kyle Oskvig Brandon Glackin

Jordan Dillon Hannah Lantz

Megas Prytanis could not have enjoyed it more. We have discovery of ΗΣΦ through the Zeta Beta Kyle Oskvig so much to learn about our history, our Chapter. Not only could I develop my Epsilon at the University of Iowa language, and our very essence as a civi- knowledge of Greek and Roman civiliza- I grew up in the woods of northern Min- lization by looking back to ancient times. tion, I was surrounded by people who nesota until age 11, and then in small-town Though spreading the Classics to others wanted to learn and discuss those same Iowa. After graduating high school, I stuck as a professor would be a fantastic oppor- things. ΗΣΦ has helped me understand it to the Man by doing minimum-wage tunity, currently I am pursuing a pre-law that our society stands upon a foundation manual labor for five years and studying on focus, and I intend on demonstrating to built by the Greeks and the Romans, and my own every night. I eventually decided the field exactly how useful a command- that in order to move forward we must of to make studying my day job, and went off ing knowledge of Latin, Greek, and the occasion look back into our past. to college. This year, I’m a senior at the ancient civilizations and cultures can be in University of Iowa, finishing up a double a legal setting. Until then, however, I am major in Philosophy and Classical Lan- extremely excited and focused on doing Megale Chrysophylax guages, and minors in Biology and Ancient everything I can to promote this wonderful Hannah Lantz Civilization. Next year, I plan to begin organization and further its aim of keeping Eta Zeta at Truman State University graduate study in moral philosophy, with the Classics community alive and thriv- Chairete! I’m Hannah Lantz, and I a focus on ancient perspectives in bioeth- ing. Some of my other hobbies when not am honored to be your current Megale ics. When I’m not studying, I like to play engaged in my studies include drumming, Chrysophylax. I’m from Layton, Utah and guitar and ice hockey, grow facial hair, lift holding a Student Advisor position at currently study Classics and Creative Writ- weights, and eat meat burgers. Truman, and spending some quality time ing at Truman State University. I’ve been with my friends, a great deal of whom are an official part of the Eta Zeta chapter for a my fellow Classicists. little over a year, but classical studies have Megas Hyparchos had an impact on me since I took Latin Jordan Dillon for three weeks the summer before my Eta Zeta at Truman State University Megas Grammateus sophomore year of high school. I’ve really Salvete! I’m Jordan Dillon, a sophomore Brandon Glackin enjoyed learning Greek the past two years at Truman State (Eta Zeta branch), and Zeta Beta at Temple University and seeing where a lot of English words your Megas Hyparchos for this year! I took I have always had an interest in classical find their roots. Thanks for this amazing my first Latin class simply out of curios- history and mythology, and that spark opportunity! ity my freshman year of high school, and was kindled into a roaring flame by my

4 Address from the outgoing Megas Fasti Prytanis Christopher Rios 2012 September 2: Battle of My fellow ΗΣΦ members, Actium October 1: deadline for I’d like to begin my closing address by nominating Lifetime Achievement expressing my gratitude to some very Awardees: submit nominations to deserving people. Firstly, to the University the Chair of the Board of Trustees or of Missouri-Columbia’s Alpha Mu chapter the Executive Secretary for hosting a most successful and enjoyable October 15: Vergil’s birthday 84th national convention of ΗΣΦ. I’d also November 1–3: CAMWS-SS, like to thank the Board of Trustees, and Tallahassee, FL especially Dr. Sienkewicz and Dr. Davis, November 15: annual reports of for their dedication to ΗΣΦ. Addition- chapter officers due ally, gratitude is due Dr. Irby for her hard December 8: Horace’s birthday work on the NUNTIUS, and to my fellow December 17–23 Saturnalia, eugepae! national officers, Lauren, Kyle, and Ashley, December 31: Deadline for call of who not only represented you well at APA, papers for the 2012 convention but who have also performed their duties as national officers wonderfully. What’s 2013 January 3–6: at the APA/AIA more, they have become dear friends of ΗΣΦ joint meeting, Seattle, WA: January mine with whom I shall keep in contact 6, 8:00–10:30 am for many years to come. But the biggest February 1 deadlines: thanks must go to you, the members of · ΗΣΦ Summer Travel Scholarship ΗΣΦ, for without you, there would literally Applications be no organization. lives, but they are still concerned with the · ΗΣΦ Summer Scholarship for Today is a very important day, if you monuments and museum items with which Fieldwork in Classical Archaeology think about it, but I will come back to that they are familiar. This must be true, or else Applications in a short time. I had a realization earlier it wouldn’t have been on the front page of · ΗΣΦ Bernice L. Fox Teacher this school year. Amongst all the rhetoric Yahoo, Wiki, or Google. Training Scholarship Applications and posters belittling the Classics, this field This brings me now to why today is so · Abstracts and Cover Pages for we love so much, I realized that Classical important. Here we are, students of the the ΗΣΦ panel at the American Studies aren’t going anywhere. I should say Classical tradition, gathered to meet fellow Philological Association that I had this realization while staring at members and Classicists, share ideas, and February 15: deadline for Maureen Yahoo’s homepage, and then Wikipedia network. That’s just it, though. People Dallas Watkins Greek and Latin Translation Contest requests and (the ultimate research tool...), and then have been gathering to discuss Classics for submission. (If paper copies of testing CNN. Classical topics were strewn on the millennia; indeed, study of the Classics materials are desired, such a request homepages of these big-name websites. is almost as old as the Classical tradition must be received by February 1). Sure, it was to report that artifacts were itself. We are gathered here today, just like February 25–March 1: administer being stolen in Greece, or repairs were they gathered then. We are the Classical Maureen Dallas Watkins Greek and needed on the Coliseum, or a building had tradition, every one of you here today, and Latin Translation Contest Exams. collapsed at Pompeii...whatever. At their every student of the Classical tradition, March 4: postmark deadline for face value, these stories told what was on past or present. And when I look at it like completed Maureen Dallas Watkins their headline, but on a grander scale, they that, I’d say that the Classics have nothing Greek and Latin Translation Contest showed that people still care. People are to worry about. It’s been here for this long, tests. th still to this day fascinated by these ancient and with the talent in this room and in April 5–7: 85 National Convention at temples, arenas, amphorae, and the cul- libraries and classrooms around the world, the Invitation of Beta Iota at Wake Forest tures which made them; people, no matter I don’t think it’s going anywhere. May 15: Chapter Res Gestae due what they say, continue to be fascinated And at that I leave you. It has been the (submit to the webpage: http://www. by the Classics and the Classical tradition. greatest pleasure and honor to serve you as etasigmaphi.org) They may not realize the ubiquity of Clas- national president of ΗΣΦ, and for that, I sical civilization’s influence on our daily thank each and every one of you. 2014 April 11–13: 86th annual convention in commemoration of the centennial of the founding: Chicago, IL

5 Abstracts from the 2012 Convention

Judgmental Anger or Unreflecting Passion?: The ὀργή of the Athenians in Thucydides by Kirsten Block (Eta Delta)

Book II Abstract: In Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, he employs two senses of ὀργή. Sometimes he employs the original meaning of “impulse” or “passion,” as when the Lakedaimonian king Archi- damos speaks of the course of war coming about through ὀργή. Other times, he uses the sense that it has in the fifth and fourth century authors like Aristotle and the Attic Orators — as an angry feeling con- nected with a sense of judgment, directed toward a particular person for a specific offense deemed worthy of punishment. In Book II, in the context of the ὀργή felt by the Athenians toward their leader Pericles, both senses are apparent, revealing a dif- ference between the way Pericles speaks to the Athenians about their ὀργή and the way the narration describes it. When speaking to the Athenians about their ὀργή, Pericles consistently employs the later sense of the word, seeming to ascribe to the Athenians the capability of render- ing judgment upon others. The narration 2012 panelists (left to right): Anne Cave, Ashley Gilbert, Kirsten Block, and Emily Goodling surrounding his speeches also employs this later sense of the term, yet it mixes my own reading, I now see ancient texts as The Driest Work Ever Written — Just in some indications of the earlier sense as unstable works. This paper is an exercise in Add Water: A Look at Water Systems well. The double sense of the term in the using an apparatus criticus. I have chosen a in Ancient Rome and Modern India by narration reveals that the angry judgment page out of Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita, which Anne Cave (Gamma Omicron) of the Athenians against Pericles, regard- contains discrepancies of various types, less of how Pericles speaks about it to the outlined in the apparatus criticus. I dissect My main research regards the ancient Athenians themselves, actually is a kind of the apparatus criticus, applying it to the water system in the city of Rome in the unreflecting, impulsive passion. text above and following what I find to sec- first century AD during the time of Fron- ondary resources, including commentaries tinus. Its primary purpose is to discuss the and unabridged dictionaries. I investigate benefits and flaws of the aqueduct system A Critical Eye for Livy: Using an the classical scholars whose names appear at that time along with the changes the Apparatus Criticus by Ashley Gilbert within the apparatus. Through my analysis water commissioner Frontinus added to the (Zeta Beta) of the apparatus criticus, I show how an system. Its secondary purpose is to show unstable text requires active and close the universality of those issues by relating Many students go through their entire reading, which means making choices them to a modern system. For informa- undergraduate careers without ever look- through an informed comparison of the tion about Roman aqueducts and water ing down to the bottom of a critical text alternatives provided by discrepancies. transport, I relied primarily on Frontinus’ at the apparatus criticus. Yet a reading of When approached from the right perspec- Latin text De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae for a text which does not take the apparatus tive, these discrepancies can be windows information. I also got information from into account gives too much authority to to discovery. Unstable texts, when looked a variety of sources in JStor articles and the text, treating it as a single work by a at with fresh eyes, may yield surprising new books on aqueducts and engineering in the single author. In reality the transmission results. This is only possible when young ancient world. To supplement the research of manuscripts renders works that were scholars learn to use the apparatus criticus. on Roman aqueducts, I chose a modern originally by a single person into texts by city for comparison. This city, Pune, is multiple authors, from multiple sources. one in which I lived for a span of four Since I have started using apparati critici in months and on which one of my colleagues

6 Best Paper at the 2012 Convention did extensive water supply research. For Inform and Delight: Ekphrasis supplementary information on Pune, I used in Cupid and Psyche by Emily S. my colleague’s research as a base and let Goodling (Eta Delta) it point me in the right direction for other sources. In this research, I have discussed In Cupid and Psyche, a tale embedded in ways in which water commissioner Fronti- the Metamorphoses of the late 2nd-century nus was important to the water systems of AD, Apuleius displays a virtuosic com- Rome, I have found ways in which Romes mand of Latin literary technique. As he ancient aqueduct system is superior to even has his narrator explain at the beginning some modern water systems, and I have of the Metamorphoses1, he wrote so as also outlined some problems which seem to delight and entertain the reader. His universal to the water supply industry. style thus mixes archaisms and words invented on the spot, pleonasm and direct description, and a catalogue of poetic and Inform and Delight: Ekphrasis rhetorical figures. The resulting work, in Cupid and Psyche by Emily S. while occasionally esoteric or strained, is Goodling (Eta Delta) never dull. Apuleius’ creativity is revealed most fully in his use of ekphrasis, a literary In Cupid and Psyche, Apuleius displays a device defined as a pause in narrative for virtuosic command of literary technique, the purpose of detailed description (Fowler revealed most fully in his use of ekphrasis, 1991, 25). His use of ekphrasis, however, a pause in narrative for the purpose of provides readers with more than a display prompts her to take revenge on Psyche, detailed description. Apuleius’ ekphrases, of stylistic virtuosity: the descriptions offer and her authority allows her to manipulate important insights into plot and character the events that drive much of the story. however, offer more than a display of 2 stylistic virtuosity: they provide impor- development . An in-depth analysis of a In the first ekphrasis (IV.31.4-7), Apu- single ekphrasis (IV.31.4-7) and a much tant insights into character development. leius highlights Venus’ authority by using briefer examination of a complementary word choice to invoke an epic or military An analysis of two ekphrases (IV.31.4-7 passage (VI.6.1-4) reveal Apuleius’ ability environment. He opens the description and VI.6.1-4) reveals this ability to work to incorporate meaningful information with Sic effata, a phrase characteristic in meaningful information into even the into even the most elaborate and engaging particular of Virgilian epic (Kenney 1990, most delightful description. Through the description. 126). Later, he uses the words catervae and use of word choice, word order, and liter- The first selection is noteworthy as the exercitus to describe the goddess’ retinue, ary figure, these passages establish Venus’ earliest ekphrasis in Cupid and Psyche. It both terms frequently employed in a divine authority as well as her status as the depicts Venus’ triumphal return to her military context3. To further accent Venus’ goddess of love — both important themes ocean home after she has commanded power, Triton’s companies swim below in the story. In the first ekphrasis, Apuleius Cupid to avenge her slight at the hands of her triumphal chariot biiuges, an adjective highlights Venus’ authority by using literary Psyche, a mortal girl fated with supernatu- formed from the noun iugum, referring technique to invoke an epic or military ral beauty. The second passage describes both to the yoke of a draft animal and to environment. However, he also includes the goddess’ later ascent to heaven to en- the concept of subservience or bondage in references that reflect her divine identity. gage the services of Mercury in the search general. As Sarah Parker points out (1999, With an ear for the entertainment value for Psyche. Through meaningful word 64), this early establishment of Venus’ of his ekphrases, Apuleius also imbues choice, word order, and literary figure, power emphasizes the hubris of those seek- this description with sensual appeal. The Apuleius uses these brief passages to estab- ing to reverence a puella moritura (IV.30.2), second selection forms a structural antithe- lish Venus’ divine authority as well as her and foreshadows Venus’ own authoritative sis to the first, but serves the same purpose. identity as the goddess of love and beauty. manipulation of the events to come. Apuleius exploits the scene’s potential for These attributes are both vital themes in Regardless of the goddess’ warlike ap- delight with colorful word-play, while work- Cupid and Psyche: Venus’ slighted beauty pearance here, however, Apuleius includes ing in necessary information about Venus’ details that remind readers of her status as power and identity. In conjunction, the two 1 See 1.1: At ego tibi sermone isto Mile- the divinity of love and beauty. She takes ekphrases of Venus provide readers with a sio varias fabulas conseram auresque tuas leave of Cupid osculis hiantibus filium diu full portrait of the goddess’ character. Apu- benivolas lepido susurro permulceam. … leius thus uses ekphrasis as a key technique Lector intende: laetaberis. in the development of his figures. Even his 3 All information on vocabulary usage emphasis on stylistic interest supports this 2 For a further general discussion of the and definition has been adapted from cor- goal of characterization, serving to draw the importance of ekphrasis in character devel- responding entries in Lewis and Short’s A eye to essential details. opment, see Fowler 1991 p. 27. Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon, 1951).

7 Best Paper at the 2012 Convention (Continued) ac pressule saviata (“having kissed her son In another typical gesture, Apuleius By placing Venerem as the last noun in the for a long time and greedily, with open- employs the double meaning of various sentence, Apuleius draws attention once mouthed kisses”) — a description, as Kenny words to heighten their impact and illumi- more to the subject of the ekphrasis. states (1990, 126), suitably erotic for the nate several aspects of the scene at once. In addition to vocabulary and word parting of this mother and son. To further He describes the vertex of the sea after order, Apuleius employs literary figures emphasize Venus’ femininity, Apuleius de- Venus’ calming step as sudus, an adjective to add a further layer of interest and scribes the serico tegmine shading her from meaning primarily clear or bright, but also information. Although ecce and resedeo are the sun, a precaution against the tanned dry (se-udus) (Kenney 1990, 127). Readers used with non-human subjects, Apuleius skin that was only cultivated by Roman thus know that Venus, atop her chariot, is introduces an element of personification men. He also makes note of the speculum able to pass over the sea without getting into the phrase ecce iam profundum maris borne before her, a traditional accoutre- wet — a further trait of classical divinity6. sudo resedit vertice. Even the deeps of the ment of Venus and Aphrodite in classical Apuleius also utilizes the double meaning sea come to life in Venus’ company, and myth4. Again, as Parker points out (1999, of bucinat to maintain both a military and react as a human might by physically 65), the inclusion of these details in the oceanic atmosphere: while bucina can refer calming in her authoritative presence. The first major description of Venus establishes to a war trumpet, a bucinum is a type of description of Venus’ entourage imitates her preoccupation with beauty, a fact that shell fish used to dye purple cloth. a traditional epic catalogue — but one drives her jealous actions against Psyche, Apuleius adds a further visual dimen- neither repetitious nor dull, due to the and will ultimately cause her to resort to sion to the scene through meaningful word clever use of chiasmus and alliteration. physical violence against the girl. order. The placement of various words In the first section, adsunt Nerei filiae With an ear for the entertainment value illuminates both their meaning and the chorum canentes et Portunus caerulis barbis of his ekphrasis, Apuleius chooses vocabu- meaning of the phrase as a whole. The hispidus et gravis piscoso sinu Salacia et lary to highlight the vibrancy of the scene first sentence illustrates the divine trait of auriga parvulus delphinis Palaemon (“they itself, while still reflecting Venus’ authority. receiving obedience before it is requested: are present, the daughters of Nereus In keeping with the epic imagery of Sic Apuleius sets ipsum quod incipit velle first, singing a chorus and Portunus hairy effata, Apuleius presents Venus’ retinue as followed by the alliterative and attention- with a blue beard and Salacia heavy a miniature catalogue, such as one might drawing sed statim. A few words later, with fishy folds and Palaemon the little find in Vergil or Homer. With typical focus non moratur is placed ahead of its subject charioteer of a dolphin”), the inner figures on sensual appeal, however, the figures he marinum obsequium — even the verb for (Portunus…Salacia) form a neat chiasmus includes are a riotous mix of Greek and delay is unable to tarry in Venus’ presence. in ABCCBA. While not a true chiasmus, Roman lesser divinities (Nerei filiae, Portu- Similarly, the two sentences introducing the entire list is pleasingly balanced, nus, Salacia, Palaemon, catervae Tritonum). the goddess’ entourage begin with adsunt with Nerei filiae and Palaemon on either Apuleius’ description of these creatures is and iam, both words reflecting, in their end and the ABCCBA structure in the characteristically vivid: the dolphin chari- placement as well as meaning, the immedi- center. Although Apuleius frequently oteer Palaemon is not merely small, parvus, ate response of her followers. uses alliteration in this passage, the final but extra-diminutively parvulus, and Apuleius uses a bracketing effect phrase of the catalogue features a more Portunus does not have a singular caerula several times throughout the passage to pronounced alliteration of Ts and Cs to barba, but the luxurious plural form caerulis further reveal Venus’ character. Through mirror the blasts of the horn: iam passim barbis5. Spatially, Apuleius gives the whole the placement of the word filium within maria persultantes Tritonum catervae scene depth through his repeated use of the description of Venus’ kisses (osculis hic concha sonaci leniter bucinat (“now compound verbs. More than half the verbs hiantibus filium diu ac pressule saviata), everywhere leaping about the seas the and participles in the passage are prefixed readers visually see Cupid’s position in companies of Trition, this one blowing with a preposition expressing some idea of the enthusiastic and controlling embrace gently with a resounding shell”). Apuleius physical motion (resedit, praeceperit, adsunt, of his mother. Later, the final sentence places the adverb leniter in between the persultantes, obstitit, progerit, subnatant, per- is bracketed with talis…exercitus, with more strident sonaci…bucinat, in a clever gentem), even in cases where omitting the exercitus occupying an emphatic position antithesis: for all the references to epic, this prefix would not affect the overall meaning at the end as the “army” surrounds exercitus is not particularly fierce. Venus of the sentence. The scene thus takes on a Venus’ chariot. The words in between, here is returning in triumph, not going to physical dimension, easily visualized in the ad Oceanum pergentem Venerem comitatur war. With Psyche supposedly no longer a mind’s eye of the reader. (“accompanies Venus proceeding to the threat, the goddess has regained her status Ocean”), reflect the sequential chain of of unparalleled majesty. events the scene describes in reverse order. Transitioning from the ocean to the sky, 4 For further discussion of the previous the second ekphrasis of Venus (VI.6.1-4) two attributes, see Kenney p. 128. depicts the goddess’ ascent to heaven to 5 Kenney p. 127. He cites another ex- 6 Kenney p. 126. He also references engage another divinity, Mercury, in her ample of a plural form implying luxuriance Homer Il. 13.29-30, 20.228-9, Matt. 14.25, revenge against Psyche. The description at Petron. 99.5: barbis horrentibus nauta. Mosch. Eur. 114. forms a neat antithesis with the earlier

8 Best Paper at the 2012 Convention (Continued) selection: Venus moves upwards towards divine7, as well as through his emphasis delight and stylistic interest supports this heaven, not downwards towards the sea. on the reaction of the elements to Venus’ goal of characterization, offering readers To reflect this, Apuleius reverses the order presence. Lest readers forget Venus’ other an engaging and memorable backdrop for of the elements in his description. The first characteristics, however, Apuleius includes important information. ekphrasis begins with the calming effect objects in both ekphrases traditionally Venus’ presence has on her environment, associated with physical attractiveness Bibliography works through her retinue, and ends with (the speculum and serico tegmine) or with Fowler, D. P. “Narrate and Describe: the Prob- a brief mention of her conveyance. In con- love in general (the columbae). The more lem of Ekphrasis,” JRS 81 (1991) 25-35 trast, the second ekphrasis opens with a exotic and lovely elements of the descrip- Kenney, E. J. Ed. Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche lengthy discussion of the divine currus, and tions further play into this aspect of Venus’ (Cambridge, 1990) Lewis, C. T., and C. Short, Eds. A Latin Dic- then turns to Venus’ entourage — doves character, echoing her own otherworldly tionary (Oxford: Clarendon, 1951) and sparrows, not sea-divinities. It ends beauty. Apuleius thus ultimately uses Nethercut, William R. “Apuleius’ Literary Art: with the friendly response of the Heavens ekphrasis, technically a pause in narrative, Resonance and Depth in the Metamorpho- themselves, as they recede in the goddess’ as a key technique in the development of ses” The Classical Journal 64 no. 3 (1968): presence (cedunt nubes et Caelum filiae pan- the figure of Venus. Even his emphasis on 110-19. ditur et summus Aether cum gaudio suscipit Parker, Sarah. “Techniques of Description in deam; “the clouds fall back and Heaven is Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche” (McMaster 7 As Parker points out (p. 76), this con- spread out for its daughter and the highest University, 1999) trasts forcibly with Psyche’s utter isolation, Aether with joy receives the goddess”). Schlam, Carl C. The Metamorphoses of Apu- as she faces her feralis thalami in V.34.1 and Despite such differences in structure, leius: on Making an Ass of Oneself (London: however, this second passage serves the later wanders alone in search of Cupid. Duckworth, 1992) same purpose as the first, functioning both to engage the reader and to reveal Venus’ power and status as the divinity of love and IV.31.4-7: 1. Sic effata et osculis hiantibus filium Thus having pronounced, and having kissed her son for diu ac pressule saviata proximas oras reflui litoris a long time and pressingly with open-mouthed kisses, she beauty. petit, plantisque roseis vibrantium fluctuum sought the nearby coast of the back-flowing shore, and As always, Apuleius exploits the scene’s summo rore calcato ecce iam profundum maris having tread with rosy feet the highest spray of the glitter- potential for delight with a riot of colorful sudo resedit vertice, et ipsum quod incipit velle, ing waves, behold! now the deeps of the sea have sat back set statim, quasi pridem praeceperit, non moratur with a clear top, and marine obedience does not delay, the word-play, most notably an especial atten- marinum obsequium: very thing which she began to want, but at once, as if she tion to repeated alliteration that echoes had previously ordered it: the varied songs of the birds (et ceterae 2. adsunt Nerei filiae chorum canentes et Portu- They are present, the daughters of Nereus singing a chorus quae dulce cantitant aves melleis modulis nus caerulis barbis hispidus et gravis piscoso sinu and Portunus hairy with a blue beard and Salacia heavy Salacia et auriga parvulus delphini Palaemon; with fishy folds and Palaemon the little charioteer of a suave resonantes adventum deae pronun- dolphin; tiant; “and other birds who sing sweetly 3. iam passim maria persultantes Tritonum now everywhere leaping about the sea the companies of with honeyed strains gently resounding catervae hic concha sonaci leniter bucinat, ille Triton, this one blowing gently with a resounding shell, proclaim the arrival of the goddess”). To serico tegmine flagrantiae solis obsistit inimici, that one with a silk covering hinders the burning of the alius sub oculis dominae speculum progerit, unfriendly sun, another bears a mirror below the eyes of establish Venus’ divine identity, Apuleius curru biiuges alii subnatant. the mistress, others yoked in pairs swim below the chariot. draws attention to the candidae columbae 4. Talis ad Oceanum pergentem Venerem comi- Such an army accompanied Venus proceeding to the pulling the chariot — doves, as Kenney tatur exercitus. ocean. points out (1990, 197), were frequently VI.6.1-4: 5. At Venus terrenis remediis inqui- But Venus sought heaven, refusing the earthly remedies associated with love and lovers. Again, sitionis abnuens caelum petit. iubet construi of her search. She ordered that a chariot be prepared, however, Apuleius also makes clear Venus’ currum, quem ei Vulcanus aurifex subtili fabrica which Vulcan the goldsmith with subtle craft had eagerly studiose poliverat et ante thalami rudimentum polished for her, and had presented as a gift before the power. The image of the goddess atop her nuptiale munus obtulerat, limae tenuantis nuptial training of her wedding — [a gift] conspicuous by chariot, drawn by four birds, is one of war, detrimento conspicuum et ipsius auri damno the diminishment of his file, making thin, and precious by and, as Parker states (1999, 76), foreshad- pretiosum. the loss of gold itself. ows Venus’ subsequent reaffirmation of her 6. de multis quae circa cubiculum dominae Of the many that stabled around the room of their stabulant procedunt quattuor candidae columbae mistress, four bright doves appeared, and twisting their desire for total revenge against Psyche. et hilaris incessibus picta colla torquentes iugum colored necks with advancing cheer they supported the In conjunction, the two ekphrases of gemmeum subeunt susceptaque domina laetae jeweled yoke, and, joyful, they flew below with the mistress Venus provide readers with a full portrait subvolant. having been taken up of the goddess’ character in Cupid and 7. currum deae prosequentes gannitu constre- Sparrows frisked, following the chariot of the goddess with penti lasciviunt passeres et ceterae quae dulce noisy chattering, and other birds that sing sweetly with Psyche. Apuleius utilizes both physical cantitant aves melleis modulis suave resonantes honeyed strains gently resounding proclaimed the arrival settings to reveal the extent of Venus’ adventum deae pronuntiant. of the goddess. influence and authority, here reaching 8. cedunt nubes et Caelum filiae panditur et The clouds fall back and Heaven is spread out for its from the depths of the sea to the heavens summus aether cum gaudio suscipit deam, nec daughter and the highest Aether with joy receives the god- obvias aquilas vel accipitres rapaces pertimescit dess, and the singing family of great Venus does not fear themselves. He further illustrates Venus’ magnae Veneris canora familia. the hostile eagles or rapacious hawks. power through the combined number and variety of her followers, both animal and Text: Edited E.J. Kenney. Translation: E. Goodling

9 Minutes of the 84th Annual ΗΣΦ Convention by Lauren Milburn Left, Prof. David Schenker welcomes the Delegates The 84th Annual ΗΣΦ Convention was held in Columbia, Missouri, March 16 –18. The annual convention was hosted and organized by the Alpha Mu chapter from the University of Missouri. After arriving in Columbia, chapters reg- istered for the convention at the Stoney Creek Inn and were given the opportunity to meet one another. This not only helped to cultivate a sense of community, but also gave the twenty different chapters in attendance a chance to organize teams for Certamen. Friday’s business meeting commenced at the Inn and the National Vice President, Kyle Oskvig, welcomed everyone to the convention. Kyle then introduced Dr. Sienkewicz to Megas Prytanis Christopher Rios the podium to tell the story about how ΗΣΦ procured its Left, Megale official gavel. [It was donated Chrysophylax by a Mr. Cox and it was a Ashley Gilbert greatly appreciated.] The story was followed by welcom- ing remarks from the Alpha Mu chapter. The Chapter’s sponsor, Dr. David Schenker, formally welcomed everyone, introduced the members of the Alpha Mu chapter, and discussed the array of exciting events that were taking place on campus. After Dr. Schenker spoke, Dr. Martha Davis introduced the board of trustees. Dr. Davis reminded everyone that the board’s purpose is to create continuity and is always available as a resource. Dr. Georgia Irby spoke next Above, Megale Grammateus and encouraged everyone to send their Lauren Milburn contributions to the NUNTIUS. Pic- tures, papers, and pro-con movie reviews Left, Megas Hyparchos are just some examples of how one can Kyle Oskvig contribute to the newsletter. Follow- ing opening remarks, the National Vice President recognized the National officers and asked each officer to step forward to describe their unique roles. This helped ward and answered questions ranging from Saturday March 17th foster interest and helped students gain a Classical geography to naming the great better understanding of the positions they works of Plato. Each team played well, but The morning business meeting took place would enter into if nominated for office in the end team Arkie Plus Una beat the at the Jesse Wrench Auditorium on the during Saturday’s business meeting. National Officer’s team by thirty points. University of Missouri campus. National The official business meeting ended After Certamen the delegates were free to President Christopher Rios presided and a rousing game of Certamen followed. explore Columbia and relish in the spirit of and commenced the meeting with a few During each round two teams stepped for- the Classical community. welcoming remarks. This was followed

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Many of the beautiful conven- tion photographs were taken by professional photographer and ΗΣΦ alumna, Ally Anderson (Alpha Mu). Thanks, Ally!

Top, the 2011–2012 officers Above, a certamen team anticipates the next question! Left, Mrs. Sienkewicz

by chapter reports. At this point at the Translation Contests, the report of the Virginia, and Whitman College, and all convention each chapter stepped forward ΗΣΦ Summer Scholarship winners were were later inducted. Once Kyle finished and presented a report on the Classically announced. Following the announce- discussing new chapters, the meeting themed activities that they organized the ments regarding scholarships, the National moved onto New Business. past year. Some activities that were shared Treasurer, Ashley Gilbert, stepped up to At this point in the meeting Dr. Sienke- included: poetry readings, coffee and the podium to discuss the budget. Ashley wicz announced that he would be retiring discussion with Classics faculty, and bake said that she had no trouble reconciling from his position of Executive Secretary sales celebrating momentous events in the budget and she relayed that more infor- and that Dr. David Sick would be tak- Classical history, such as the Ides of March. mation regarding the process of manag- ing his place on the board. Bids to host The Chapter reports were followed by Dr. ing the budget would be explored during the 2013 and 2014 National conventions David Sick’s report on the Maurine Dallas Committee Meeting time. After Ashley’s followed Dr. Sienkewicz’s announcement. Watkins Sight translation contests. The report, Vice President Kyle Oskvig gave his Wake Forest was nominated to host the winners for Advanced, Intermediate, and report regarding the six new chapters who 2013 National convention and Northwest- Koine Greek, as well as Advanced, Inter- wished to become officially a part ofΗΣΦ . ern University in Chicago was nominated mediate, and Latin Prose Composition can The schools that petitioned were Loyola for 2014. Nominations for the 2012–13 be found on the ΗΣΦ website. University, Luther College, Rice University, National Officers were accepted following After the report on the National Texas at San Antonio, Wesleyan College the convention bids.

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University of Missouri Campus

Please remove your hat and speak quietly in the archway!

12 Minutes (Continued) 2012 Scholarship Winners Following National Officer Nomina- tions the delegates heard four student Brent Malcom Froberg Schlolarship Classics beyond the Latin classroom. He papers. Kristen Block from Eta Delta at to the American School of Classical will attend the Vergilan Society’s summer Hillsdale College presented a paper on Studies in Athens session entitled “The Italy of Caesar and the anger of the Athenians in Thucydides Vergil: A Workshop for Teachers.” Book 2. Following Kristen, National Brandon Jones (Alpha Sigma at Emory Treasurer Ashley Gilbert from Zeta Beta University). Mr. Jones is a PhD student at the University of Washington and an at Temple University presented a paper on H.R. Butts Summer Scholarship for alumnus of Boston College (MA) and using the apparatus criticus in Livy. Anne Fieldwork in Classical Archaeology Cave of Gamma Omicron at Monmouth Emory University (BA). He was elected College compared the water systems of into the Alpha Sigma at Emory in 2003 Clara Sophia Reini (Alpha Eta of the Ancient Rome and Modern India. The and served as its Grammateus in 2004– University of Michigan). She plans to final paper presented was given by Emily 05. Brandon’s research interests range join the University of Michigan Gabii Goodling of Eta Delta at Hillsdale College from Greek and Roman historiography Field School Project in Italy. and focused on the ekphrasis in Cupid and and political history to Roman imperial Psyche. literature and pedagogy. His time in at After lunch the delegates had a choice the ASCSA will be his first opportunity ΗΣΦ Bernice L. Fox Latin Teacher of attending one of six different committee to study in Greece and to fill out that Training Scholarship side of his education. meetings. Ranging from the preparation Thomas Head (Beta Sigma at Mar- of next year’s officers to learning about quette University). Mr. Head has a the organization’s finances, these meetings strong background in Latin, and he has American Academy in Rome acted like focus groups, allowing delegates been doing excellent work teaching Scholarship to provide their input regarding important Latin at the School of St. Mary in Lake national matters. Kathryn Langenfeld (Alpha Mu at the Forest, Illinois, where he has increased Following the colloquia the delegates University of Missouri). Ms. Lagenfeld is Latin enrollments significantly. He were free to visit the Picard Hall Museum a PhD student in Classics at Duke Uni- proposes to use his scholarship funds to of Art and Archaeology on Columbia’s versity and an alumna of the University attend the ACL Institute in Las Vegas campus. The delegates not only took in of Missouri-Columbia. She was elected this June. Because he demonstrates both breathtaking replicas of Classical works, into the Alpha Mu chapter there in eagerness and ability to improve his but also enjoyed learning how to arrange 2006, and served as her chapter’s Gram- teaching through learning new tech- bouquets as a part of Columbia’s Art in mateus, Hyparchos, and Prytanis in suc- niques, perspectives, and approaches, his Bloom. cessive years. Her research interests lie students and the field of Latin serve to Saturday evening the delegates and in the historiography and literary history benefit significantly from his participa- their faculty sponsors gathered once more of the Later Roman Empire and Late tion in the Institute. at the University to share in a banquet and Antiquity. Her summer at the AAR Sarah McGinnis (Zeta Gamma at San an evening of recognition and entertain- will be her first extended stay in Rome Diego State University. Ms. McGinnins ment. After the regalia contest, Dr. Sienke- and will help her prepare for disserta- earned her BA in Classical Languages wicz announced the names of the delegates tion work on Roman topographical and from San Diego State University and who would be presenting their papers at geographical references in the Res Gestae is now enrolled in the Latin teacher the ΗΣΦ panel at the 2013 APA Confer- of Ammianus Marcellinus.­ ence: Kyle Oskvig, David Giovagnoli, credential program at California State Ashley Gilbert, Anne Cave, and Daniel University of Long Beach, where she continues to study Latin language and Poochigian. Theodore A. Tarkow and Theodore Bedrick Scholarship to the pedagogy. She proposes to use her Susan Marquis were then awarded with Vergilian Society at Cumae scholarship funds to attend Septimana ΗΣΦ’s Lifetime Achievement Awards. After the awards were presented, we ended Philip Cortese (Alpha Phi at Millsaps Californiana, a one-week long intensive the night with the rousing hilarity of MU’s College). Mr. Cortese is a middle school Latin course at Loyola Marymount improvisational team Comedy Wars. The Latin teacher at St. Andrew’s Episco- University. After teaching English as troupe was not only clever and humorous; pal School in Ridgeland, MS and an a second language in Chile, Sarah has they often paid homage to the Classical alumnus of Millsaps College, where he been determined to increase her oral world by referencing authors such as Virgil. was elected to the Alpha Phi chapter fluency in both Latin and Spanish. Her in 2009. Philip has been highly success- participation in this workshop will most ful in growing the Latin program at St. certainly benefit her future middle and Andrew’s and expanding awareness of high school students.

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Left, Alpha Mu Prytanis Jennifer England welcomes the Delegates

Delegates, above, and officers, left, listen to the papers

tion will be held at Wake Forest University Sienkewicz in the position of Executive Sunday March 18th and the centennial will be held in Chicago. Secretary. Dr. Davis spoke next on behalf The business meeting commenced at 8:30 Vice President Kyle Oskvig spoke next and of the board of trustees. She mentioned the a.m. at the Stoney Creek Inn. President we welcomed and inducted six new chap- board’s function and role in the organiza- Rios presided. At the start of the meet- ters. Treasurer Ashley Gilbert spoke next tion. This was also Dr. Davis’ last year as ing we decided on the name of the ΗΣΦ about ΗΣΦ’s finances, and thanks to her the chair of the board of trustees. ΗΣΦ owl. After much debate it was decided dedication the budget is in great condition. thanks you, Dr. Davis, for your hard work! that “Quis tis” would suit our mascot best. Dr. Sienkewicz as the Executive Secretary After Dr. Sienkewicz and Dr. Sick cer- Next we heard from Dr. Levine and the gave his report. emoniously changed roles, we began the Resolutions committee. The committee We are indebted to Alpha Mu for their election and induction of the new officers. humorously showed their gratitude to work putting together the convention and It was decided that Kyle Oskvig would the University of Missouri, the officers, their great hospitality. Sadly, this was Dr. serve as the ΗΣΦ President, Jordan Dillon delegates, and board of directors. Following Sienkewicz’s last year as Executive Sec- was inducted as Vice President, Hannah the Dr. Levine’s tribute, the convention retary, and he expressed his gratitude to Lantz as Treasurer, and Brandon Glaekin sites for 2013 and for the centennial in all those who worked with him for many as Secretary. We ended the meeting with a 2014 were discussed. Next year’s conven- years. Dr. David Sick will take over for Dr. rousing rendition of the ΗΣΦ song.

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Delegates enjoy the Picard Hall Museum of Art and Archaeology

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15 th The 84 Annual ΗΣΦ Convention (Scenes from Saturday evening)

Alpha Mu dressed to the nines

Below, the officers in their finery

Regalia Competitors

Bacchus visits the revelers

Left, Comedy Wars (MU Improv)

16 th The 84 Annual ΗΣΦ Convention (Scenes from Saturday evening)

Dr. Levine with Chapter Outreach Winners from Theta Tau at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (Steve Coyne and Phillip Bennett)

Dr. Levine with Certamen Winners and their Oxford Classical Dictionaries

Professor Levine Brings OCDs to Certamen Winners

The Delegates sing the ESPh Anthem

17 th The 84 Annual ΗΣΦ Convention (Scenes from Sunday morning)

Regalia: Eta Zeta at Truman Regalia: Beta Pi at Arkansas Regalia: Zeta Beta at Temple Regalia: Zeta Beta at Temple

The 2012-2013 Officers take the oath of office

Right, our newly sworn Megas Prytanis

2012–13 Officers

18 th The 84 Annual ΗΣΦ Convention (Scenes from Sunday morning)

Megas Hyparchos: emeritus and current

Current Megas Grammateus and Megale Chrysophylax: Megale Grammateus emerita emerita and current

Megas Prytanis: current and emeritus

Alpha Mu 2012

19 Invitation to the 85th National Convention by Beta Iota at Wake Forest

Greetings from the Beta Iota Chapter at Wake Forest University, your host for the 85th Eta Sigma Phi convention. Join us on April 5–7, 2013, in sunny Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for fun and festivities. Events to look for- ward to include interesting scholarly presentations, a Certamen, the tradi- tional banquet (classical dress encour- aged!), and, of course, the camaraderie of your fellow classics enthusiasts. Mark your calendars, because you won’t want to miss this! Accommodations will be available at the Clarion Sundance Plaza Hotel and Spa (336 723-2911). Reserva- tions must be made before March 15, 2013 to guarantee the reduced rate. Shuttles will be provided to and from the airport for a minimal fee. Registration forms will be available at www.etasigmaphi.org after January 1, 2013. For more information, feel free to contact us the local committee at [email protected].

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20 2012 Certamen: Procedures and Questions

We had ten teams of four students in the 2012 TOSS-UP 2: Missouri’s state motto that has a classical name. It is the county competition. Here are their names. is “Salus populi suprema lex esto,” or “Let seat of Lincoln County, the second-fastest the welfare of the people be the supreme growing county in Missouri. According MAUVE MANTICORE law.” “Suprema lex,” of course, means to a recent book, it got its name in 1802, DATIVE-SCHMATIVE “supreme law.” The word “esto,” of course, when a grocer from New York told the VIVACIOUS VESTALS means “Let it be.” What Latin verb does Missouri settlers about his hometown on AEGRA RAEDA “esto” come from, and what is its mood? the east bank of the Hudson River. In the ERINYES [THE VERB SUM ESSE/IMPERATIVE MOOD)] tradition of other New York cities — such VERUS VIR as Syracuse, Rome, Utica, and Ithaca — Bonus 1: Arkansas’ state motto is “regnat CERBERUS AND HIS TAIL this town received a Greek name after the populus,” or “The People Rule.” “Populus,” ARKIES PLUS UNA legendary city that played a key role in the of course, means “the people.” The verb OFFICERS Trojan War. What is the name of this Mis- “regnat,” of course, means “rule.” What 63 BCE souri town? [TROY, MISSOURI] Latin verb does “regnat” come from, and what is its mood? [THE VERB REGNO, REGNARE/ The second round: INDICATIVE MOOD] · Dative-Schmative vs. Vivacious Vestals. 2012 TOSS-UP 4: According to Herodo- Winner: Dative-Schmative. Bonus 2: The state motto of Iowa is “esto tus, Κing Croesus of Lydia consulted the · Verus Vir vs. Arkies Plus Una: perpetua,” or “Let it be perpetual.” “Per- Delphic Oracle, which told him that he Winner: Arkies Plus Una petua,” of course, means “perpetual.” The would destroy a great empire if he would · Officers vs. 63 BCE: word “esto,” of course, means “Let it be.” make war on another kingdom. Which Winner: Officers What Latin verb does “esto” come from, kingdom had he asked about? [PERSIA] and what are its four principal parts? Bonus 1: At Delphi in 480 BCE, when The Finals: [SUM, ESSE, FUI, FUTURUS] the invading Persian forces marched along · Dative-Schmative vs. Officers: Bonus 3: The state motto of Michigan is the base of Mt. Parnassus near Athena’s Winner: Officers “si quaeris peninsulam amoenam, circum- temple, Herodotus describes some marvel- · Officers vs. Arkies Plus Una: spice,” or “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, ous events that caused them to panic Winner: Arkies Plus Una look around.” The word “peninsulam” of and run away. Name one of these events. course means “peninsula,” and the word [THUNDERBOLTS CRASHED ON THEM/ CRAGS Finalist team members: FROM MT. PARNASSUS FELL ON THEM/ A WAR CRY “circumspice,” of course, means “look · Dative-Schmative: Matt Watton, CAME OUT OF THE SANCTUARY.] around.” What Latin verb does “circum- Eammon Conners, Andy Pollak, Trung spice” come from, and what is its mood? Bonus 2: Herodotus tells us that when Pham [THE VERB CIRCUMSPICIO, CIRCUMSPICERE/ the Athenian emissaries went to Delphi · Officers: Kyle Oskvig, Ashley Gilbert, IMPERATIVE] for an oracle to help them against the Lauren Milburn, Christopher Rios Persian invasion in 480 BCE, the oracle · Arkies Plus Una: Amanda D’Onofrio, told them that only a wall of wood would Tiffany Montgomery, Jacob Purcell, 2012 TOSS-UP 3: We are meeting in stand intact and help them and their Virginia Huff the lovely city of Columbia, Missouri. If children. What were two interpretations the word Columbia comes from the word of this oracle? [WOODEN STOCKADE AROUND Columbus, what winged animal lies in its ACROPOLIS/ SHIPS] Highlights from Certamen: Some favor- etymology? In other words, what does the ite questions, as every educated person Bonus 3: Before the Battle of Marathon, Latin word COLUMBUS mean? [DOVE, knows and when to use your teacher Herodotus reports, the aged Hippias had PIGEON] voice. a violent fit of sneezing and coughing Bonus 1: Nestled amongst the rolling hills that caused him to lose one of his teeth in 2012 TOSS UP 1: What does Certamen and limestone of Southwest St. Louis the sand. How did Hippias interpret this [WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO CONQUER mean? [STRUGGLE or CONTEST] County you will find beautiful Eureka, “omen”? THIS LAND. MY TOOTH HAS CLAIMED THE ONLY Missouri. From what Greek verb does it Bonus 1: What is the genitive form of BIT OF IT THAT BELONGED TO ME.] take its name? [εὑρίσκω] Certamen? [CERTAMINIS] Bonus 2: Which principal part of that Bonus 2: What is the gender of Certamen? 2012 TOSS-UP 5: “Speak, Memory- Of Greek verb does the word EUREKA repre- [NEUTER] the cunning hero, / The wanderer, blown sent? [PERFECT ACTIVE/PERFECT TENSE] off course time and again/ After he plun- Bonus 3: Give the ablative plural form of Bonus 3: North of I-70 between St. Louis dered Troy’s sacred heights. / Speak of all CERTAMEN [CERTAMINIBUS] and Columbia, lies a small Missouri town the cities he saw, the minds he grasped, /

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The suffering deep in his heart at sea…” have been separated most of their lives? Bonus 2: What are the three names of the What literary work begins with these lines? [MENAECHMI, THE BROTHERS MENAECHMUS] author of the Epistulae Ex Ponto and the [ODYSSEY, HOMER] Tristia? [PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO] Bonus 2: Which of Terence’s plays is set Bonus 1: Name the work that opens with in Athens, in front of the houses of Simo Bonus 3: What are the three names of the these lines: “In nova fert animus mutatas and Glycerium, and deals with a girl from Dictator famous for his proscriptions and dicere formas/ Corpora. Di, coeptis – nam Andros? [THE GIRL FROM ANDROS, ANDRIA] two marches on Rome? [LUCIUS CORNELIUS vos mutastis et illas/ Adspirate meis…” SULLA] Bonus 3: Which play of Plautus is set in [METAMORPHOSES, OVID] Athens, in front of the houses of Bonus 2: Name the work that opens with Theopropides and Simo, and deals with 2012 TOSS-UP 11: Greek and Latin these lines: “Aeneadum genetrix, homi- a haunted house? [THE HAUNTED HOUSE, prepositions are followed by certain cases num divomque voluptas, / alma Venus, MOSTELLARIA] to create specific meanings. For example, caeli subter labentia signa/ quae mare the Latin preposition “de” takes the navigerum, quae terras frugiferentis/ con- ablative case, meaning “concerning,” or celebras…” [DE RERUM NATURA, LUCRETIUS] 2012 TOSS-UP 8: What Roman sport “about.” What case does its Greek equiva- involves use of the expression POLLICE Bonus 3: Name the work that opens with lent, περί take in order to mean the same VERSO? [GLADIATORIAL COMBAT] these lines: “When Rome was first a city, thing? [GENITIVE CASE] its rulers were kings. Then Lucius Junius Bonus 1: The Colosseum at Rome was Bonus 1: What case follows the Latin Brutus created the consulate and free built during the reign of two Roman preposition circa, meaning “around, near, Republican institutions in general. Dicta- Emperors. Name one of them. [VESPASIAN, about”? [ACCUSATIVE CASE] torships were assumed in emergencies. A TITUS] council of Ten did not last more than two Bonus 2: What case follows the Greek Bonus 2: What was another name the years…” [ANNALS, TACITUS] preposition ἐν, meaning “in” or “on”? Romans gave to the Colosseum? [FLAVIAN [DATIVE CASE] AMPHITHEATER/ AMPHITHEATRUM FLAVIANUM] Bonus 3: What case follows the Latin 2012 TOSS-UP 6: Name the literary Bonus 3: Besides gladiatorial combats, the preposition prae, meaning “before, in front work that contains these characters: Flavian Amphitheater was used for of”? [ABLATIVE CASE] Kinesias, Myrrhine, Lampito, Calonice, VENATIONES. What are they? [HUNTING Lysistrata. [LYSISTRATA, ARISTOPHANES] AND KILLING ANIMALS FOR ENTERTAINMENT] Bonus 1: Name the literary work that 2012 TOSS-UP 12: Greek and Latin contains these characters: Dionysos, Xan- prepositions are followed by certain cases 2012 TOSS-UP 9: What metrical verse thias, a Corpse, Charon, a Maid of Perse- to create specific meanings. For example, form did Catullus use in his first poem, and phone, Euripides, Aeschylus, a Chorus of the Greek preposition σύν takes the in forty-two others? [HENDECASYLLABIC LINES, Frogs. [FROGS, ARISTOPHANES] dative case, meaning “with” or “together HENDECASYLLABLES, ELEVEN-SYLLABLE LINES] with.” What case does its Latin equivalent, Bonus 2: Name the literary work that Bonus 1: What metrical verse form did cum take in order to mean the same thing? contains these characters: Pyrgopolynices, Ovid use in the Heroides, the Ars Amato- [ABLATIVE CASE] Artotrogus, Palaestrio, Periplectomenus, ria, and the Fasti? [ELEGIAC COUPLETS/ELEGY] Sceledrus, Philocomasium, Cario, Lurcio. Bonus 1: What case follows the Greek [MILES GLORIOSUS/BRAGGART SOLDIER, ­PLAUTUS] Bonus 2: What metrical verse form did preposition ἀπό, meaning “away from”? Vergil use in the Aeneid? [DACTYLIC HEXAM- [GENITIVE CASE] Bonus 3: Name the literary work that ETER] contains these characters: Aphrodite, Bonus 2: What case follows the Latin Nurse, Phaedra, Theseus, Artemis, and Bonus 3: What metrical verse form did preposition pro, meaning “in front of, in Hippolytus. [HIPPOLYTUS, EURIPIDES] Juvenal use in his Satires? [DACYTLIC HEXAM- favor of, on behalf of”? [ABLATIVE CASE] ETER] Bonus 3: What case follows the Greek preposition εἰς, meaning “into”? 2012 TOSS-UP 7: Name two authors of [ACCUSATIVE CASE] Roman Comedy. [PLAUTUS, TERENCE, ACCIUS, 2012 TOSS-UP 10: What are the prae- PACUVIUS, CAECILIUS, LUCILIUS] nomen, nomen and cognomen of the Roman conqueror of Gaul? [CAIUS IULIUS CAESAR] Bonus 1: Which of Plautus’ plays is set 2012 TOSS-UP 13: Knowing the Greek in Epidamnus, in front of the houses of Bonus 1: What are the three names of and Latin terms for colors can help us Menaechmus and Erotium, and deals with the author of the Catilinarian orations? understand the meanings of English words. the reunification of twin brothers who [MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO] For example, people who know their

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Greek would expect erythrocytes to be what 2012 TOSS-UP 16: Which direction Bonus 2: What would one expect to hear color? [RED] would a chariot have to drive in order to from a ῥαψῳδός? [SONG/EPIC POEM] travel from Rome to Pompeii? [SOUTH OR Bonus 1: What color would you expect a Bonus 3: What would one expect to hear SOUTHEAST] melanoma to be? [BLACK] from a ψευδομάντις (pseudomantis)? Bonus 1: Which direction would a sailor [FALSE PROPHECY] Bonus 2: What color would you expect have to sail in order to go from Syracuse to cyanide to be? [BLUE] Olympia? [EAST OR NORTHEAST] Bonus 3: What color would you expect a 2012 TOSS-UP 20: On what part of his Bonus 2: Which direction would a ship viridian laser to be? [GREEN] body would a soldier wear his GREAVES? have to travel in order to sail from Crete to [SHIN/LEG] Alexandria? [SOUTH OR SOUTHEAST] Bonus 1: On what part of his body would 2012 TOSS-UP 14: As all educated Bonus 3: Which direction would a a soldier wear his CALIGAE? [FOOT] people know, Brad Pitt played Achilles traveler have to walk in order to get from in Wolfgang Peterson’s movie TROY. Athens to Thebes? [NORTH OR NORTHWEST] Bonus 2: On what part of his body would Strangely enough, in this film, Hector kills a soldier wear his CUIRASS? [TORSO/CHEST/ both Ajax and Menelaus. According to UPPER BODY] ancient Greek tradition, which of these 2012 TOSS-UP 17: What image might Bonus 3: On what part of his body would two Achaean heroes did not die at Troy? one expect to find on a coin of Athens in a soldier wear his GALEA? [HEAD] [MENELAUS] the fifth century BCE? [ATHENA/OLIVE/OWL] Bonus 1: Briefly, how did the greater Ajax, Bonus 1: What image might one expect to the son of Telamon die at Troy? [SUICIDE] find on a coin from the island of Aegina? 2012 TOSS-UP 21: What is the main [A TURTLE] theme of Plato’s dialogue SYMPOSIUM? Bonus 2: Briefly, how did Achilles die at [LOVE/EROS] Troy? [PARIS’ ARROW IN HIS HEEL] Bonus 2: What image might one expect to find on a coin from Corinth? [ATHENA/ Bonus 1: What is the main theme of Pla- Bonus 3: In the Iliad, which dead Achae- PEGASUS] to’s APOLOGY? [THE DEFENSE OF SOCRATES/ an’s ghost appeared to Achilles and asked KNOWING NOTHING/SOPHIA/MAKING WEAKER to be buried? [PATROCLUS] Bonus 3: Arrange in order from least to ARGUMENT STRONGER, ETC.] greatest value these Roman coin denomi- nations: SESTERTIUS, DENARIUS, AS. Bonus 2: What is the main theme of Plato’s REPUBLIC? [JUSTICE/THE IDEAL 2012 TOSS-UP 15: [AS, SESTERTIUS, DENARIUS] As all educated people know, Gerard Butler STATE/HOW BEST TO GOVERN] played Leonidas in Zach Snyder’s movie Bonus 3: What is the main theme of 300, based on Frank Miller’s comic series 2012 TOSS-UP 18: Which of the these Plato’s ION? [POETIC INSPIRATION/RHAPSODIC about the Battle of Thermopylae. Strangely Roman Emperors reigned first: NERO or SKILL: DIVINE OR HUMAN?] enough, in this film the traitor Ephialtes CLAUDIUS? [CLAUDIUS] is a hunchbacked Lacedaemonian reject, Bonus 1: Which of these Roman Emper- and the Spartan ephors are leprosy-ridden ors reigned first: TITUS or VESPASIAN? TOSS-UP 22: What is the main theme of priests. According to Herodotus, what did [VESPASIAN] Cicero’s dialogue DE SENECTUTE? the “real” Ephialtes do that resulted in the [OLD AGE] death of the Spartans at Thermopylae? [HE Bonus 2: Which of these Roman Bonus 1: What is the main theme of Cice- SHOWED THE PERSIANS THE SECRET PATH TO Emperors reigned first: DOMITIAN or ro’s dialogue DE NATURA DEORUM? OUTFLANK THE SPARTAN POSITION.] HADRIAN? [DOMITIAN] [THEOLOGY/THE NATURE OF THE GODS/PHILOSO- Bonus 1: What about the topography of Bonus 3: Which of these Roman PHY OF STOICS, EPICUREANS, SCEPTICS] Thermopylae made it a good place for the Emperors reigned first: HADRIAN OR Bonus 2: What is the main theme of Spartans to slow down the Persian advance? MARCUS AURELIUS? [HADRIAN] [IT WAS A NARROW PATH BETWEEN MOUNTAIN Cicero’s dialogue LAELIUS DE AMICI- [FRIENDSHIP] AND SEA, AND THUS EASILY DEFENDED.] TIA? 2012 TOSS-UP 19: What would one Bonus 2: What does THERMOPYLAE Bonus 3: What is the main theme of expect to hear from a Sibyl? [ORACLE/PROPH- Cicero’s TUSCULANAE DISPUTATIO- mean? [HOT GATES] ECY/PREDICTION] NES? [STOIC PHILOSOPHY/DEATH/PAIN/GRIEF/ Bonus 3: Which Greek god was associ- Bonus 1: What would one expect to hear VIRTUE/PERTURBATIONS OF THE MIND] ated with the hot springs at Thermopylae? from an ἀοιδός? [SONG/EPIC POEM] [HERACLES]

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2012 TOSS-UP 23: On what occasion Bonus 1: Who was the sister of Hector? “INSULA” be used for? [LIVING QUARTERS/ would you expect someone to shout “O [CASSANDRA] HABITATION/RESIDENCE] HYMEN HYMENAEE”? [A WEDDING] Bonus 2: Who was the sister of Orestes? Bonus 2: What kind of building does the Bonus 1: On what occasion would you [ELECTRA] following definition describe? “a rectangu- expect someone to shout “εὐοῖ Βρόμιε, ὦ lar building with an ambulatory or else a Bonus 3: Who was the sister of Julius Διόνυσε”? [WORSHIP/RITUAL OF BACCHUS/ central nave and lateral aisles and lit by a Caesar? [JULIA WAS THE NAME OF BOTH HIS DIONYSUS] clerestory.” [BASILICA] SISTERS] Bonus 2: On what occasion would you Bonus 3: Where might one expect to find expect someone to shout “VAE VICTIS !” an OPISTHODOMUS? [THE REAR (ROOM) [AFTER CONQUERING SOMEONE/WHEN TAUNT- 2012 TOSS-UP 27: Who was the legend- OF A TEMPLE] ING THE VANQUISHED/MISTREATING A DEFEATED ary lawgiver of Sparta? [LYCURGUS] ENEMY] Bonus 1: Who was the Greek lawgiver 2012 TOSS-UP 30: Which ancient Bonus 3: On what occasion would you whose “constitution” from the early 6th Greek physician is credited with writing expect someone to shout “ἰὴ παιάν”? century BCE the later Athenian democ- [AT A VICTORY/ CALLING A HEALER/GOING TO treatises about healing and making an racy claimed to emulate? [SOLON] WAR/FESTIVALS OF APOLLO/FUNERALS] “oath” for physicians? [HIPPOCRATES] Bonus 2: What do we call the fifth-cen- Bonus 1: Which ancient Greek thinker tury BCE collection of Roman laws that is credited with propounding the atomic 2012 TOSS-UP 24: What is meant by represent the first written compendium theory? [DEMOCRITUS (OF ABDERA)] the expression “DAMNATIO MEMO- of laws in Latin? [THE TWELVE TABLES/LEGES RIAE”? [BLOTTING OUT SOMEONE’S NAME DUODECIM TABULARUM] Bonus 2: Which ancient Greek physicist is FROM DOCUENTS/OFFICIAL POLICY OF ELIMI- credited with making advances in the use of Bonus 3: Which Greek island was particu- NATING MEMORY OF AN INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS fulcrum and lever, and who famously said, larly famous for its laws? One of its legend- GONE OUT OF FAVOR/PRETENDING THEY NEVER “Give me a place to stand, and I shall move EXISTED.] ary kings, Rhadamanthys was said to have the earth!” [ARCHIMEDES (OF SYRACUSE)]­ been their lawgiver, and to have served as Bonus 1: What is meant by the expression a judge in the underworld. [CRETE] Bonus 3: Which ancient Greek scientist “MARE NOSTRUM”? [ROMAN EXPRESSION in Egypt was able to measure the circum- FOR MEDITERRANEAN SEA/OUR SEA/SHOWS THAT ference of the world with a high degree of THEY POSSESS IT] 2012 TOSS-UP 28: What part of the accuracy? [ERATOSTHENES (OF CYRENE)] Bonus 2: What is meant by the expression Underworld is infamous for containing “PUNICA FIDES”? [TREACHERY/DISLOYALTY/ famous mythological characters who are FALSENESS/CARTHAGINIAN DUPLICITY] undergoing special punishments? 2012 TOSS-UP 31: St. Paul lived in [TARTARUS] Ephesus for a time, where he fell afoul of Bonus 3: What is meant by the expression the idol- makers, who were they selling “A B OVO USQUE AD MALA”? [FROM Bonus 1: Who had to spend eternity car- images of a goddess whose temple was one BEGINNING TO END/DESCRIPTION OF A ROMAN rying water in leaky containers as punish- of the seven wonders of the ancient world. MEAL/SOUP TO NUTS] ment for killing their husbands on their Which goddess was she? [ARTEMIS/DIANA] wedding night? [DANAIDS/DAUGHTERS OF DANAUS] Bonus 1: Ephesus was originally a port 2012 TOSS-UP 25: Who was the brother city. On what body of water is it located? Bonus 2: Who was tied to a burning of Romulus? [REMUS] [AEGEAN SEA] wheel for all time as punishment for his Bonus 1: Who was the brother of attack on the queen of the gods and other Bonus 2: In what modern country is the Agamemnon? [MENELAUS] crimes? [IXION] site of Ephesus located? [TURKEY] Bonus 2: Who was the brother of Gaius Bonus 3: Who was sentenced to eternal Bonus 3: Ephesus was originally a Greek Gracchus? [TIBERIUS GRACCHUS] stone-pushing for his attempts to trick the town. What is the ancient Greek name of gods on numerous occasions? [SISYPHUS] the region in which it was located? [IONIA] Bonus 3: What are the individual names of Helen’s brothers the DIOSCURI? [CASTOR AND POLLUX/POLYDEUCES] 2012 TOSS-UP 29: In what sort of build- 2012 TOSS-UP 32: Which mountain ing complex would one expect to find a was the home to the oracular site of FRIGIDARIUM? [ROMAN BATH] Delphi? [MT. PARNASSUS] 2012 TOSS-UP 26: Who was the sister of Apollo? [ARTEMIS/DIANA] Bonus 1: What would a building called Bonus 1: Which mountain in central

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Grece was the home of the centaurs, the Bonus 2: Which god was worshipped at 2012 TOSS-UP 38: What words do the site of the marriage of Peleus and Thetis the CONSUALIA? [CONSUS] letters S. P. Q. R. stand for? [SENATUS POPU- and was the mountain that the giants piled LUSQUE ROMANUS] Bonus 3: Which god was worshipped at onto Mt. Ossa to reach Mt. Olympus? the LUPERCALIA? [LUPERCUS/FAUNUS] Bonus: Name three of the seven hills of [MT. PELION] Rome. You get points for each you name Bonus 2: Which Titan who supported the correctly. [PALATINE, CAPITOLINE, AVENTINE, heavens was turned into a mountain range 2012 TOSS-UP 36: The Romans called CAELIAN, ESQUILINE, VIMINAL, QUIRINAL/COLLINE] in northwestern Africa, near the Pillars of this god “Stator” and named a temple after Heracles? [ATLAS] him in this aspect because they believed it was his influence that caused them to 2012 TOSS-UP 39: What age, according Bonus 3: What is the mountain range that “stop” in their flight when they fought the to Hesiod and other Greek and Roman runs most of the length of Italy? [APPENNINE Sabines. Who was this god? [JUPITER] poets, represented the second of the world’s MOUNTAINS] periods, fabled as a time that was volup- Bonus: Name the following divinities from tuous and godless, and much inferior in their epithets: simplicity and true happiness to the golden 2012 TOSS-UP 33: Who was metamor- 1. “Laughter-loving” [APHRODITE/VENUS] age which preceded it? [SILVER AGE] phosed into a flower beside a mirror-like 2. “Cow-eyed” [HERA/JUNO] body of water? [NARCISSUS] 3. “Silver-Bowed” [APOLLO] Bonus: Name the following three metals: 1. Imported from Britain to give strength Bonus 1: Which beautiful young man to copper and to form bronze. [TIN] beloved of Apollo turned into a flower 2012 TOSS-UP 37: What does the 2. It gave its name to the Greek Dark Age. when Apollo mistakenly killed him with a following describe? “Book 1, after an [IRON] discus? [HYACINTHUS] introductory address to Venus as goddess 3. Hephaestus used it as the main ingredi- Bonus 2: Ovid tells the story of Klytie, of creation, starts from the principle of the ent in Achilles’ shield. [GOLD] who loved the sun god and was turned permanence of matter and demonstrates into a flower when he abandoned her. the existence of matter in the form of What flower did she become?[HELIOTROPE/ “first-bodies” or particles, and of void as 2012 Toss Up 40: In order to gain forget- SUNFLOWER/FLOWER THAT POINTS TO THE SUN] empty space. He then shows that the first- fulness in the Underworld, a soul would bodies are “atoms,” solid, indivisible, and drink from this river. [LETHE] Bonus 3: When Apollo chased Daphne, eternal.” [DE RERUM NATURA, (LUCRETIUS)] she changed into a tree. What kind of tree Bonus: Name the following Rivers: did she become? [LAUREL/DAPHNE] Bonus: Give the author and title of the 1. It flows through Babylon.[EUPHRATES] following three literary works from these 2. It flows through Rome.[TIBER] descriptions. 3. It flows through Alexandria. [NILE] 2012 TOSS-UP 34: What was Teiresias’ 1. The voyage of Aeneas to Italy, and his physical handicap? [BLINDNESS] challenges there. [VERGIL AENEID] 2. The Birth of the Gods, and challenges 2012 TOSS-UP 41: Who wrote a Guide Bonus 1: What physical handicap did to Zeus’ rule. [HESIOD THEOGONY] to Greece in the second century CE, Oedipus have? [SWOLLEN FEET/BLINDNESS: 3. The turning into a Pumpkin of the which has such excellent descriptions that ACCEPT EITHER ANSWER] Emperor Claudius. [SENECA ­APOCOLOCYNTOSIS] modern Archaeologists have used it to Bonus 2: What physical handicap did Philoctetes have? [SUPPURATING FOOT] Bonus 3: What physical handicap did the Back Issues of NUNTIUS Wanted Roman emperor Claudius have? [HE WAS A STAMMERER/STUTTERER/HIS HEAD SHOOK, HIS The Eta Sigma Phi Archives are missing the following issues of the NUNTIUS. If KNEES WERE WEAK/HE SLOBBERED WHEN HE WAS you or your school have any of these issues, please contact the Executive Secretary: EXCITED. ACCEPT ANY OF THESE ANSWERS.] Vol. 1, No. 3-4; Vol. 2, No. 1-2, 4; Vol. 3, No. 4; Vol. 4, No. 4; Vol. 5, No. 5; Vol. 6, No. 4; Vol. 18, No. 2; Vol. 18, No. 3; Vol 19-21 (these are the war years and there 2012 TOSS-UP 35: Which two gods may have been no issues in that period); Vol. 24, No. 2; Vol. 29, No. 4; Vol. 35, No. were worshipped at the Eleusinian Myster- 3; Vol. 35, No. 4; Vol. 40, No. 2; Vol. 41, No. 1; Vol. 41, No. 2; Vol. 41, No. 3; Vol. 45, No. 3; Vol. 47, No. 2; Vol. 54, No. 1; Vol. 55, No. 2; Vol. 56, No. 1; Vol. 58, No. ies? [DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE] 2; Vol. 60, No. 2; Vol. 64, No. 2; Vol. 65, No. 1; Vol. 65, No. 2; Vol. 66, No. 1; Vol. Bonus 1: Which god was worshipped at 67, No. 2; Vol. 68, No. 1; Vol. 68, No. 2; Vol. 69, No. 1; Vol. 69, No.2; Vol. 70, No. 1; the LENAIA? [DIONYSOS] Vol. 70, No. 2; Vol. 71, No. 1; Vol. 71, No. 2.

25 2012 Certamen: Procedures (Continued) help them identify buildings which they 2012 Toss Up 43: Who was the clever Bonus 1: Who sculpted the statue of Zeus dig up? [PAUSANIAS] Athenian commander whose lie tricked at Olympia? [PHIDIAS CARIA] Xerxes into attacking the combined Greek Bonus: Name the compass directions Bonus 2: What kingdom did Mausolus forces at Salamis in 480 BCE? which ancient travelers would have to head rule? [ASIA MINOR] [THEMISTOCLES] in order to make the following journeys: Bonus 3: What god did the Colossus of 1. From Rome to Brundisium [SOUTH(EAST)] Bonus 1: Who was the Spartan com- Rhodes represent? [HELIOS/SUN] 2. From Naples to Messina [DUE SOUTH] mander credited with the victory over the 3. From Delphi to Corinth [(SOUTH)EAST] Persians in 479 BCE at Plataia? [PAUSANIAS] Bonus 2: Who was the Spartan com- 2012 TOSS-UP 45: Name three of the mander who fended off the Persians at traditional “Seven Sages” of Ancient 2012 TOSS-UP 42: Which of the follow- Thermopylae for many days before suc- Greece. SOLON, CLEOBULUS, PERIANDER, ing Romans was born earliest? cumbing to front and rear attacks in 480 CHILON, THALES, BIAS, PITTACUS Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (commonly BCE? [LEONIDAS] known as Sulla), or Marcus Tullius Cicero, Bonus 1: Which of the Seven Sages gave or Gaius Marius? [GAIUS MARIUS 157 (CORNE- Bonus 3: Who was the Athenian gen- laws to his country and left for ten years LIUS SULLA 138); (M. CICERO 106)] eral who had the command against the immediately thereafter? [SOLON OF ATHENS] Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 Bonus 1: What was the year of Cicero’s Bonus 2: Which of the Seven Sages had BCE? [MILTIADES] Consulship? [63 BCE] the reputation as a cruel tyrant? [PERIANDER OF CORINTH] Bonus 2: In what year did Sulla enact a leg- islative program designed to put power firmly 2012 TOSS-UP 44: Name three of the Bonus 3: Which of the Seven Sages most in the hands in the Senate, whose number “Seven Wonders” of the Ancient World. likely knew Sappho? [PITTACUS OF MITYLENE] he increased from 300 to 600? [81 BCE] [HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON, PHAROS OF ALEXANDRIA, ZEUS AT OLYMPIA, PYRAMIDS, Bonus 3: Name at least one of Marius’ COLOSSUS OF RHODES, ARTEMIS TEMPLE AT EPHE- seven consular years. [107, 104, 103, 102, 101, 100, SUS, MAUSOLEUM] 86 BCE]

ΗΣΦ Has a New Web Site! Eta Sigma Phi Eta Sigma Phi is proud to launch its new There are several features of the new Now on Facebook website at www.etasigmaphi.org. When site worthy of note: David Sick became Executive Secretary, Eta Sigma Phi now hosts a Fan Page it was necessary to move the website from · It is now possible to subscribe to the site. on Facebook. To “Like” the Fan Monmouth College, where it had been Subscribers will receive an e-mail alert- Page, simply head to www.facebook. maintained at the previous national office. ing them of new content. com/EtaSigmaPhi. This page helps The Center for Hellenic Studies kindly · It should be fairly easy now to post everyone know where members are agreed to host the site at no cost, but, contributions. Anyone who registers for active, makes it easy to find friends through the magic of the internet, it can the site will be able to post to the site, (especially after conventions), and now be found at this predictable URL. The although these postings will be vetted provides a quick way to disseminate Center also provided valuable technical by the national office or the society’s information. support and advice. Allie Marbry, Pro- officers. Please post excellent student We would also love it if people grams Coordinator for Fellowships and work or important notices on the site. would put up pictures from their Curricular Development at the Center and · The on-line forms may be found under chapters and from conventions, an alumna of the Beta Psi chapter, helped the Membership menu. Submitting these along with posting news about their to design and build the site. on-line saves on postage for both local chapters and providing ideas for Staff at the Center and at the national chapters and the national society. activities. Be sure to friend national office worked diligently over the summer to · The site includes a map giving the move most of the recent content from the location of every chapter of Eta Sigma officers; you can even friend Profes- old site to the new one. The old site at Mon- Phi (See http://www.etasigmaphi.org/­ sor Sienkewicz! mouth will be maintained as an archive. chapters).

26 Report of the Chair of the Board of Trustees, 2012

Those of you who attended the convention Secretary, but will continue to meet with first one for undergraduate presentations at this March in Columbia, Missouri know us in the capacity of Honorary Trustee. the conference that annually defines and that it is with great regret for the past good The ΗΣΦ panel at CAMWS-Southern redefines the Classics profession. times in ΗΣΦ, but also with anticipation Section will be named in his honor, in I will miss being your Chair, but am of enjoyment of your fellowship in the years recognition of his efforts on our behalf. already looking ahead to meeting with you to come that I have prepared this final Among his contributions to our Society all at Wake Forest in 2013, and at our fan- report as Chair of the Board. the spotlight falls brightest on his creation tastic Centennial Celebration in Chicago The duties of the Board of Trustees are of that CAMWS panel, which gives under- in 2014. many and varied, and include everything graduate students regular biennial oppor- from financial and policy decisions to per- tunities to present scholarly papers, and Quistis nos omnes feliciter tueatur! sonnel matters. Policy decisions will come his creation of the APA panel, the very Martha A. Davis, Temple University before the assembly for approval, and the Executive Secretary will tell you about the latest developments in such areas as our relationship with other Classics organiza- New Ideas from Young Minds: tions. The financial reports will be given by the Executive Secretary and our former Eta Sigma Phi Honors Thomas J. Executive Secretary, now an Honorary Trustee, Professor Brent Froberg. It is my Sienkewicz at CAMWS-SS task to report to you all on the person- nel changes that are on the agenda of the At the 92nd meeting of the Southern Passion? The ὀργή of the Athenians in Board. Section of CAMWS, Eta Sigma Phi will Thucydides, Book II: Kristen Block (Eta The terms of office for Professor Joseph sponsor a panel of papers presented by Delta at Hillsdale College) Garnjobst and Sister Thérèse Dougherty undergraduate members of the society. 2. The (Roman) Triumph of Seneca’s expired this year. Professor Garnjobst, of This panel will honor the contributions of Medea: Michelle Currie (Beta Psi at Hillsdale College, has accepted another Thomas J. Sienkewicz to the society and Rhodes College) term of three years, subject to ratification the discipline. Prof. Sienkewicz recently 3. Inform and Delight: Ekphrasis in Cupid by the assembly. Sister Thérèse will retire resigned his post as Executive Secretary and Psyche: Emily S. Goodling (Eta from her long and gracious service on the of ΗΣΦ to serve as Secretary-Treasurer Delta at Hillsdale College) Board, sometimes as Chair, and will hence- of CAMWS. The conference will be held 4. The Sons of Heroes in Greek Epic: Sean forth be welcome among us as an Honor- from November 1–3 in Tallahassee, FL. Minion (Zeta Chi at Xavier University) ary Trustee. In her place Professor Mary The presenters will speak on a wide range 5. The Provenance of Mithras: Andrew Pendergraft of Wake Forest University will of topics within classical studies: Zigler (Gamma Sigma at University of begin a three year term as Trustee, subject 1. Judgmental Wrath or Unreflecting Texas at Austin) to ratification by the assembly. As I step down from the chairmanship but finish my current term on the Board with one more year, Professor Antonios Augoustakis of the University of Illinois will assume the duties of Chair. He will bring his own special and effective form of ΗΣΦ plans for the Centennial! leadership to the office. As you know, Professor David Sick of The Centennial Planning Committee is pleased to announce that work is progress- Rhodes College left the Board in order to ing to design the Centennial Convention, set to take place in Chicago, IL in 2014, become the new Executive Secretary of in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Phi Sigma at the Univer- ΗΣΦ. We look forward to many years of sity of Chicago. We hope to visit sites on the campuses of both Northwestern Uni- cooperation with him as ΗΣΦ continues versity and the University of Chicago, including the standard academic and business to develop. His ideas for our growth in old events of a standard convention, with additional celebratory events. and new directions are exciting, as you The committee would also like to announce a contest to design a logo for the have already had a chance to notice in his centennial, which will be featured on the masthead of the Nuntius and membership presentation in Saturday’s session. pins issued during the 2013–14 academic year. Modifications of the current emblem Professor Thomas J. Sienkewicz of Mon- and new creations are welcome in this contest. Interested parties should submit mouth College, who has guided us — and designs to David Giovagnoli at dgiovagnoli@­truman.edu by January 1st, 2013. The in wondrous ways — up to this conven- designer of the winning logo will receive a cash prize of $250. tion will leave the position of Executive

27 Ovatio for Susan Marquis

Lifetime Achievement to Textbook Adoption, to Award Winner Curriculum. She has sponsored ΗΣΦ, 17 March 2012 students in the Junior Classi- cal League of both Missouri Do you remember fondly that and Kansas, for which she also wonderful woman who intro- planned and hosted conven- duced you to the Latin language tions. She served on so many in middle school or high school? committees for the National Do you perhaps instead think Junior Classical League, some back to an experience of learn- of which she chaired, that they ing beginning Latin that was honored her with the Summa not so pleasant, and wish you Cum Laude Sponsor Award in had had the ideal instructor? 2007 and the Mildred Sterling One of this year’s honorees, Award in 2008. Susan Marquis, is either your One of the things of which wonderful memory or the she is most proud, and by teacher of your wishful thinking. which the Board of Trustees of ΗΣΦ values such persons who ΗΣΦ has been very impressed work in pre-collegiate Classics is the fact that Susan Marquis education, and we are pleased has attended and sponsored when we can honor an instruc- students to National Latin tor who has been outstanding Convention for thirty-seven in that group for a significant consecutive years! Her students number of years. have found their way not only Ms. Marquis currently teaches at St. Ms. Marquis has been a consultant for to JCL and NJCL, but into ΗΣΦ. One who Teresa’s Academy in Kansas City, Mis- the Ancient Greece and Rome Encyclope- has worked with her began this nomina- souri, where she has classes in four levels dia, but it is not certain when she has had tion. Former Prytanis David Giovagnoli, of Latin, sponsors the Junior Classical time to do that, as she has served both the come forward! We invite you to make your League, and takes students abroad to teaching profession and the Junior Classi- way forward, too, Susan, as we applaud Greece and Italy to further their learning cal League in too many capacities to list to- you heartily for your contribution to the experiences. Previously, she taught at the night! I’d like to mention her membership Classics, and present you with the ΗΣΦ Sumner Academy of Arts and Sciences on committees in her education district Lifetime Achievement Award! and at Washington High School in Kansas which cover territory from Accreditation, City, Kansas. Her own education was as a major in Education, first concentrating on Latin and German in her Bachelor of Science degree at Emporia State University, then On the selection of Lifetime on Classics in her Master of Arts program Achievement Awardees at the University of Kansas. As an undergraduate she received the Now that we have established the presentation of Lifetime Achievement Awards as Lillian B. Dudley Latin Scholarship, and a part of the banquet activities at national conventions, the Board of Trustees invites was elected to membership in Kappa Delta the membership at large, and particularly the membership at the host institution, Pi, the honor society in Education. Since to submit nominations for these awards. The awardee should be a person who has she became a teacher, she has received the pursued a long career in Classics, and who has contributed in an outstanding fashion Employee award from the Kansas City, to ΗΣΦ and to the discipline, especially as regards outreach into the community. Kansas Board of Education — that was in The Board reserves the right to select the recipients (one or two each year) from the 1987 — and the Award of Excellence of list of persons nominated. KSPA from 1993 to 1997 for the Excali- Please send a CV of your nominee and a brief letter stating why you think he or bur yearbook. We are glad to list among she deserves our recognition. Materials should be sent to the Chair of the Board of her honors recent initiation into Eta Zeta Trustees or the Executive Secretary by 1 January preceding the convention in which Chapter of ΗΣΦ at Truman State! the award is to be made.

28 Ovatio for Theodore A. Tarkow

Lifetime Achievement Sappho 94 and Archilochus 6 Award Winner to date. ΗΣΦ, 17 March 2012 Since his list of profes- sional service and accomplish- Our second honoree of this eve- ments is lengthy, I would like ning is Theodore Tarkow, who to mention now just some joined the faculty of the Uni- highlights. Among other versity of Missouri in 1970 as an academic funding awards, he Assistant Professor of Classical has been a Woodrow Wilson Studies, and who has risen to Fellow. He has won the most the rank of full professor. Since prestigious of teaching awards 1982 he has also been Associate in Classics, and one presented Dean of Arts and Sciences, with by his peers: the Excellence duties ranging from curriculum in Teaching Award from the and student matters through American Philological As- budget and space allotments sociation. He has also won to Undergraduate Research awards from Mizzou’s Division and Freshman and Transfer of Student Affairs and from Interest Group programs. The the Student Government in University of Missouri stresses Arts & Sciences. Theodore the interconnections between Tarkow has served as president secondary school experience of the Classical Association of and undergraduate college expe- the Middle-West and South rience, and Professor Tarkow (CAMWS), and received a also serves as Co-Director of the Missouri Classics, our honoree has written chapters, coveted “Ovatio” from that organization. Scholars Academy, for which he adminis- with Frankie D. Minor and Charles C. While deciding upon the recipients for ters a summer residential program for aca- Schroeder, on academic programs for un- this evening’s awards, we considered Ted demically gifted high school students that dergraduate students across the disciplines. Tarkow’s relationship to ΗΣΦ very careful- is sponsored by the Missouri Department One of these is on “Learning Communi- ly. We found that his support of ΗΣΦ here of Elementary and Secondary Education as ties: Partnerships Between Academic and at the University of Missouri is a close one. well as by the university. Student Affairs,” in Learning Communi- As one of his colleagues wrote, “One as- Professor Tarkow received his own edu- ties: New Structures, New Partnerships for pect of [Professor Tarkow’s contribution to cation from Oberlin College, where he did Learning, edited by J.H. Levine. Another is ΗΣΦ] is his loyal support or ΗΣΦ at MU, undergraduate work, and from the Univer- “Freshman Interest Groups: Partnerships as evidenced by his work with students in sity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he for Promoting Student Success,” which our chapter through the years and his help received both an M.A. in Classical Studies was part of Creating Successful Partnerships with the organization and execution of the and a Ph.D. His doctoral dissertation was Between Academic and Student Affairs, 2012 national conference.” Three Aeschylean Exodoi: A Study of the edited by J.H. Schuh and E.J. Whitt. Both Professor Tarkow’s assistance has been Concluding Scenes of the Persians, the Seven, of these appeared in 1999. much observed this weekend, but some of and the Suppliants. Professor Tarkow is at work now on us are aware of another close tie he has to As his dissertation would indicate, three projects. One is an annotated edition ΗΣΦ. He is the son-in-law of the late Ex- Professor Tarkow has been especially of John Neihardt’s partial translation of the ecutive Secretary of our Society, Theodore interested in Greek drama, and has an Agamemnon, and it is based on a manu- Bedrick, for whom our Vergilian Society impressive list of publications in that area, script here in the University of Missouri Travel Scholarship is named! Ted would be including, with Sally MacEwen, a Bryn Western Historical Manuscript Collection. proud of Ted! Mawr Commentary on Euripides’ Iphi- A second concerns Homeric motifs in It is a distinct pleasure to present to you geneia at Aulis. He has also published on Aristophanes’s so-called “Old Comedies.” now not only this partial list of achieve- other Greek poetry, and one title especially He has given presentations recently in ments for which we honor him tonight, caught my eye: “Tyrtaeus 9D: The Role of conjunction with this project. The talks but the man himself, Professor Theodore Poetry in the New Sparta,” which appeared featured the Birds, Knights, Peace, Clouds, A. Tarkow. Let’s welcome him to the front in L’Antiquite Classique 52 in 1983. and Lysistrata. He is also preparing essays with a hearty applause! In addition to his many publications in on Greek lyric poets, and has focused on

29 Report of the Resolutions Committee

Eta Sigma Phi Resolutions Committee. permission to be photographed and allow Pendergraft has come to this convention to Columbia, MO. March 18, 2012. the propagation of our images? Several of representat these DAIMONIOI DIA- [D. Levine, Chair] our committee members noticed that our KONES, and we eagerly await a visit to megas prytanis tried to violate that agree- their campus. Thank you for that introduction. I’ll try to ment when a photographer attempted to Zeus favored us with a good thunder- use my teacher’s voice to give voice to the snap a picture of him banging the gavel. storm during our student paper presenta- resolutions of our Committee. Bravo, Chris! We resolve to applaud you tions and our walk to the Picard Hall What a great weekend! We resolve to for being such a rebel. [I wish I had shown Museum of Art and Archaeology, where thank everyone who contributed to make the same courage when the photographers we delighted in the beautiful classical casts this the best Eta Sigma Phi convention entered my hotel room at 2:00 am for a and authentic antiquities. It really are ever…. Or at least since we met in Arkan- candid shot of me sleeping.] true: The classics be all around us. sas in 1995. On Saturday morning, we almost Several of us wanted to Bear Beauty’s missed an on-time arrival at the Memo- Flame — literally — while singing the Song RESOLVED, to thank our National rial Union because of a seemingly endless for Eta Sigma Phi, but the tea lights from Officers Chris Rios, Kyle Oskvig, Lauren stream of green-clad runners in what we the banquet tables were already too close Milburn and Ashley Gilbert, who are the dubbed “The St. Patrick’s Day 5K Delay,” to extinction to stay alight during the most efficient and conscientious and kind- causing many of us in the shuttles — as our song — for all but the steadiest of hands. est officers we could wish to have. totem animal might have put it — to let out We are so grateful to Ashley Gilbert for a frustrated OWL of protest. bringing a very critical apparatus to this RESOLVED, to thank Ted Tarkow, Bar- Many of our members were thrilled to year’s convention: it wouldn’t have been bara Wallach, Christopher Trinacty and hear Dr. Sick announce the results of the the same without it. And members of the Michelle Currie for presenting wonderful tarnslation contest. [Student (Anne Cave) resolutions committee have a suggestion colloquia, and to thank with hearty gratias interrupts “Dr. Levine, don’t you mean to make in that regard. Since Dr. Sick’s Mizzou’s Ally Anderson for her incessant ‘translation contest’?”] Levine responds: I Eta Sigma Phi certificate from the Col- photography, and editor Georgia Irby for know what you mean, but I must respond lege of Wooster contains a scribal error her pictures and careful recording of all with the Latin: LECTIO DIFFICILIOR in regard to his middle initial, perhaps proceedings so that the NUNTIUS can POTIOR. we should in the future issue membership continue to put out issues that are better Likewise, it was thrilling to hear Anne certificates with space at the bottoms for and better. And Alpha Mu — we love you! Cave’s paper on the water supply of Rome, alternate readings and conjectures: our Thanks for your zealous shepherding and whose title, as Dr. Sienkewicz said last own version of an apparatus criticus. And your sign-bearing presence. To your offi- night, was “The Dirtiest Work Ever Writ- maybe such a thing should not only be on cers, Jennifer England, Matthew England, ten.” Another LECTIO DIFFICILIOR? our certificates. Since Dr. Sick as Executive Caleb Jones, Katharine Finley, Casey Peetz Microphone adventures. On our Secretary Elect plans to southernize our and your faculty sponsor Professor David Saturday morning sessions, we lacked a name to Phi Eta Sigma, perhaps all official Schenker, we resolve eternal gratitude. microphone, so we had to use our “teacher stationery and banners should have spaces voices.” And at the Banquet there seemed at the bottom for corrections and emenda- Columbia, Missouri… Where else could to be a demon in the microphone that tions, too. we find a hotel for our classicists that fea- appeared to delight in frustrating Dr. There were some special guests that tures a full-size bull moose statue standing Siencewicz and forcing him into holding it only made brief appearances at this con- over a pond of koi? And a stuffed bear in to keep it in check. It seemed to make Dr. vention that our committee thought worth the lobby, posed for petting and watching Davis levitate her body miraculously — out thanking for their appearance: Kevin television? Where else would we find such of fear of lowering the boom to which the Bacon, the Shakespearean Sasquatch, rustic décor and a rearing horse statue in microphone was attached. Kevin Spacey and the no longer nameless the back yard? Or poems that aim to sell And speaking of demons, we note that Owl, which is all of a sudden ubiquitous. teddy bears? We could modify Michigan’s our next convention will be at Wake Forest We think perhaps we saw it in Euripides’ peninsular motto to: If you seek a pleasant University in North Carolina. We will go Iphigeneia at Owlis, in the famous ancient teddy bear, look around! SI URSULUM from Tiger Turf to to to the land of the Greek flute the Double Owlos, the second- AMOENUM REQUIRIS, CIRCUM- “Demon Deacons.” That’s right, Wake century Latin grammarian Owlus Gellius, SPICE! It is true, as we (almost) heard Forest’s mascot is an old Baptist gentleman the author — appropriately enough — of from our megas prytanis, that the Clas- dressed in a top hat, tails, and carrying an The Attic Nights — a most excellent title for sics is everywhere. umbrella. We can’t wait to see how they’ll a nocturnal writer. And some people who And who would have suspected that we make a T-shirt to match in cleverness the don’t know their Scots from their Irish on should have brought our lawyers with us to incorporation of a hoplite helmet into the St. Patricks Day were mistakenly singing read those releases were asked to sign upon Mizzou Tiger. “Owld Lang Syne.” I wonder if our totem check-in, when we were asked to grant We’re very glad that Professor Mary animal might lie at the root of Plautus’s

30 The Resolutions Committee meets Right, Dr. Levine coordinates the resolutions

play, the OWLLULARIA. It really is true Not to mention the use of proper plural that the Classics are everywhere. “ekphraseis.”­ Afer the excellent performance by And Hillsdale’s Kirsten Block spoke Comedy Wars, we think that perhaps persuasively and passionately about the future convention Certamina might be a orge in Thucydides. One of our commit- little less scripted, and begin by the audi- tee members had mistakenly thought ence suggesting to the teams things like: that she was going to discuss the ogre in “Name some Myths!” “Name some Foods!” Thucydides, and listened with trepida- “Name some Emotions!” “Name some tion, especially when the thunder began Genres!” “Name some important battles!” during the talk. Another member of our And then let the Certamen teams act out tragic change from March Madness to Committee (who is even more dyslexic) some myths with some foods in certain March Sadness at the hands of Norfolk had thought that her presentation was to performance modes with changing emo- State. The underdog Arkies squeezed by discuss the orgy in Thucydides, and left tions, preferably in full armor with swords in the last minutes of the competition. As disappointed. But I name no names. and spears. Points would be earned by all educated people know: it ain’t over till Finally, our Committee was very authenticity and the applause-o-meter. it’s over. impressed with the Chapter reports, and Speaking of the Certamen, everyone is Thinking of applying for a scholarship congratulates all of you for the excellent grateful to Dr. Levine for making up such for study abroad? Apply for one from Eta work you do for your own chapters, and for great questions, but we ask, “How could Sigma Phi. How many years after gradu- others in your communities. We will not such a brilliant questioner make such a ation can you apply? [Audience: EIGHT be at all surprised if we hear next year that silly mistake as to fail to repeat one of his YEARS] How many? [Audience: EIGHT one of our chapters has opened an orphan- clever toss-up questions for the second YEARS] How many? [Audience: EIGHT age in Central America where they teach team after the first team failed to answer YEARS]. Latin and mythology to young children it correctly? As our totem animal might We welcome wonderfult Whitman in every day, lead them in nonstop readings of ask, “OWL he live that one down?” And Walla Walla, Washington. Homer, Vergil and Ovid, and show them the dream officer team — consiting of the We thank Emily Goodling for bring- classicly themed movies each night, thus supreme cream — having fought its way to ing us so close to Apuleius’ Venus’ “oth- raising another generation that realizes the finals, narrowly suffered an unexpected erworldly beauty, ” the extra diminutive that the Classics are everywhere. upset, paralleling the MIZZOU sudden parvulus, and the “luxurious plural.” Carry the torch. PAX VOBISCUM.

31 Libellis Picturarum: De Scipione, Hannibale, Bello by Jessica Stayton (Omega) Polybius, a quick translation from the Greek into Latin was neces- This specific project was inspired sary, so that the language might be first by the Aeneid, where I consistent throughout the cartoon. noticed Vergil stealthily hinting Both of these sources were edited for at the cause behind the struggles brevity and context, and left in Latin of Rome and Carthage. The to keep the spirit of the story. first and last pages are re-worded Latin excerpts from the Aeneid, edited for brevity. The cartoon starts with a curse and ends with About the Author a prophecy. Most of the informa- Twenty-one-year-old Latin major tion and narrative on the Punic and member of the Omega Chapter, War (the second one) and on Jessica Stayton will be continuing Hannibal and Scipio was taken her studies at CU Boulder. She loves verbatim from Livy’s History of cats, Catullus, mulled wine, and Rome, and the battle of Zama Middle Earth. from Polybius’ Histories. For

32 33 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students APA 2011

Everybody Loves Plautus by Lisa Tweten This paper examines the 1994 UNC Chapel Hill performance of Plautus’ Poenulus. It is necessary when evaluat- ing the work of a playwright to consider the performance and reception of their work. Though the original performances and responses to Plautus’ work are lost, his comedies are easily modernized and restaging the plays of ancient authors offers invaluable insights that cannot be gleaned from the text alone. The UNC produc- tion’s success lay in updating Plautus’ stock characters and fully exploiting the comic possibilities of Atellan farce that are found throughout the Poenulus. The similarities of the modern and ancient audiences are discussed, along with the inevitable dif- ficulties in fully translating the play for a modern audience. The greatest insight that this modern restaging provides is an under- standing of the importance of the audi- ence’s reaction to the performance. While it is necessary to consider the accurate translation of surviving texts, what would have mattered the most to the playwright ESPh Officers at APA. Front row: Lauren Milburn, Kyle Oskvig, Ashley Gilbert, Christopher Rios. would have been getting the audience to Back row: tireless local volunteer Eamonn Connor of Zeta Beta and the Chair of the Board, laugh. Put in its correct context, the text Martha Davis becomes merely a framework. Within that framework the stock characters and the student edition we were using to read a collaboration between Professor Stephen physical comedy of Atellan farce are free the True Histor y. At that time, the only Nimis and his student, Evan Hayes, both to improvise and court the good humor textbook available geared toward under- from the Classics Department of Miami of their audience, whether they are the graduates was C.S. Jerram’s 1879 edition University. We did not and could not Romans of Plautus’ day or the average high currently offered by Bolchazy-Carducci, have known of this other project when we school student. The success of Plautus is the leading publishers for undergraduate began work on our own. Since this new that he is able to entertain both audiences texts in Greek and Latin. Jerram’s edition text rendered our own work redundant and equally. lacks a vocabulary list, has limited notes alleviated our concerns about a lack of a on grammatical and syntactical construc- student edition for Lucian, we have begun tions, does not include discussion ques- work on a new text, a student edition for From the Belly of a Whale to the Wolf tions, fails to provide a bibliography, and Aesop’s Fables, an endeavor to which we and His Shadow: A Tale of Two Texts the text is highly censored. Moreover, it intend to apply everything we have learned by Phillip Bennett and Steven Coyne does not benefit from modern scholarship from our work on a text for Lucian. We recently received a grant from The on Lucian due to the fact that it is over one Aesop’s Fables are highly entertaining, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey hundred years old. We resolved to create extremely accessible, and are very appro- to work with our professor to create a a textbook for Lucian’s True Histor y that priate for undergraduate students to read textbook for Lucian’s True Histor y (Vera would address each of these issues with in language courses. There is, however, an Historia), written c. 160–190 CE. We were the goal of creating a suitable edition for unfortunate lack of available textbooks on originally motivated to write this book the intermediate and/or advanced levels of the Fables appropriate for students at the after our own class on Lucian and Longus. Ancient Greek. intermediate and advanced levels. An ideal While the text we used for Longus’ Daph- Unfortunately, during our work on the textbook, for example, would include the nis and Chloe had ample notes and vocabu- project another independent group released Greek text in clear and easy-to-read type, lary, we were occasionally frustrated by a student edition for Lucian’s True Histor y, grammatical explanations, a commentary,

34 vocabulary, discussion questions, and a likewise suffer. Historians have pointed out 1.4 and Horace’s Satire 1.5 reveals they bibliography of the most relevant and ac- that the land confiscations mark a critical each use strikingly comparable language cessible modern critiques of the text. conflict in the triumval period in which and narrative techniques to create irony. This presentation will outline our rea- Rome emerges victorious over Italy. Vergil Horace and Juvenal also appear to mock sons for composing a textbook, the intend- characterizes this struggle as a struggle other authors and writers of epic as they ed format and audience of the book, our for the preservation of the Italian poetic engage in literary criticism. Most surpris- experiences with the process of composing memory and culture, fundamentally bound ingly, although each dismiss their own a text, the issues and difficulties we faced to the survival of the local Italian patria. subject matter as insignificant, they each along the way, and what we have learned use mock-epic to call attention to serious from our efforts. A presentation such as issues: in Horace’s satire, the reconciliation Creative Consumption and Production this would be particularly useful for and of Antony and Octavian, and in Juvenal’s in Second Sophistic Oratory by Simone of interest to undergraduate students and satire, the culture of fear and failure of the Waller faculty interested in such a collaboration. Roman elite under the reign of Domi- Students have unparalleled insight into Utilizing Homeric and historic narratives, tian. These underlying themes ultimately what notes and vocabulary should appear Dio Chrysostom exemplifies the creative suggest that their poem’s subject matter is in a text geared toward undergraduates, relationship between Classical Greek deserving of epic’s lofty diction. and faculty can provide the experience and culture and Second Sophistic oratory in supervision needed for such a project. This his “Second Discourse on Kingship.” Such Response by Professor James J. collaborative effort has been an amazing concern for Greek history and culture has O’Donnell, Georgetown University and unique experience for us, and we have been identified as the product of the first learned so much in the process. three hundred years of the Common Era, The challenges of doing original research in which the ascendancy of the Roman in classical disciplines are many and well Empire united diverse ethnic groups while known. But many teachers of the Classics Nos Patriam Fugimus: The Loss of the simultaneously eclipsing former Greek are relearning the ways to engage even Patria and Poetic Memory in Eclogues imperial power. Far from mere conserva- undergraduate students in original and 1 and 9 by Luca A. D’Anselmi tive expressions of nostalgia for lost Greek productive work. The Eta Sigma Phi ses- In this paper I analyze the implications glory, however, oratorical projects like that sions at the APA meetings provide a wel- of the loss of the local Italian patria of Dio demonstrate active attempts to come opportunity to showcase some of the represented in Vergil’s Eclogues 1 and 9. manipulate popularly revered cultural nar- very best of what our rising students can Recently, in his article “Virgil’s Eclogues ratives in the service of individual, contem- do. The students selected here in this ses- and Social Memory,” David Meban posited porary aims, in this case Dio’s pedagogical sion showed both in their written work and that the fluid depiction of memory in the agenda in describing the just king. Dio in their oral presentation and discussion Eclogues is illustrative of the turmoil of thus utilizes widely known Homeric and how far they have come in understanding the triumval period. This is best shown historical narratives in order to substan- not only the languages and the outlines in Eclogue 9, for instance, where none tiate his own ideas in relation to these of history and literary history, but also of the shepherds can clearly remember narratives. His work thereby demonstrates in learning to frame good questions and their songs. I, however, tie this loss of the how Classical literature remains relevant in pursue them with discipline and resolve. shepherds’ memory in Eclogue 9 directly to the Second Sophistic not only as a source Three of the papers here are philologi- the loss of the Italian patria mentioned in of nostalgia for a lost past, but also as a cal and literary in their core, offering new Eclogue 1. The triumval period saw the rise practical means to advance one’s own ideas ways of reading familiar texts — Horace, of Rome as the communis patria, a trans- within a widely accepted framework. Juvenal, the Eclogues, and the authors of formation that was observed and much the Second Sophistic. One paper goes a discussed by Cicero and others. Vergil step further into the world of Plautus in Humility, Humiliation, and Mock-Epic: opens Eclogue 1 with a noticeable break performance, supplementing the tradition- Horace 1.5 and Juvenal 1.4 by Laura from the bucolic genre simply in his use of al “paper” with video as a way of sharpen- Takakjy the word patria, and sets himself at odds ing the issues the comic playwright raises. with Cicero and others’ new-found concep- Scholars of Roman Satire tend to divide Finally, one of the papers “goes meta”, so tion of Rome as the communis patria of all Horace and Juvenal along a “post-Lucil- to speak, in looking at the ways we look at Italy. The autonomy of the Italian cities, ian,” and “Lucilian-update” line, as John ancient texts, as two students collaborate Vergil argues, is essential for the survival Henderson has observed. However, there on designing the form and content of the of poetic culture. Should Rome encroach are clear similarities between Juvenal’s and commentary for students in our time. (The upon Italy and the local patria be lost, Horace’s use of mock-epic in sustained nar- irony here was that unbeknownst to the poetic understanding and memory would ratives. A comparison of Juvenal’s Satire students selected for our panel, a nearly

35 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Students (Continued) exactly similar exercise was being con- secondary in genre (no epic, no tragedy), paying close attention to the dynamics of ducted with the same text, Lucian’s True and all present themselves as explorations consumption and production of texts in History, under the direction of Prof. Steven layered with irony into ways of thinking that time. Nimis at Miami of Ohio, and a published about the public space. Laura Takakiy The ironic presence in Lisa Tweten’s textbook has just emerged). We all took found the anxiety of epic in Horace and Plautine rendition came from the video of this mild awkwardness to be at the same Juvenal, exploring parody and admiration a recorded performance, but came from us time a confirmation of the validity of the and ultimately recusatio, and coming at in the audience as well. She succeeded in underlying inquiry and exploration. Phillip the end to the realization that such irony making the play-on-the-page a provoca- Bennett and Steven Coyne, from Stockton has the effect of reinforcing the norms it tion and a presence by evoking from us College, showed tenacity and resilience in exposes. (I had the venturesomeness in the responses we did not know we would have the way they brought questions of what it room in Philadelphia to instance the works to an author who can be read many ways. is to know Latin and Greek in our times of the troubadour novelist Kinky Friedman What emerges from this collection forward into the discussion of a very tradi- in parallel. I will leave it to the sage readers apart from the display of individual tal- tional genre. of NUNTIUS to work out the parallels.) ent and promise is the way in which we I had one other “meta” reaction to Luca D’Anselmi’s work on Vergil took continue to make “Classics”. For all the the papers here. Of course the selection traditional themes and relocated them in traditions of our tribe, it is refreshing to see process for this session is full of variables unfamiliar places, finding the Aeneid in a that by the questions we ask and the way of application, review, and selection, but I nutshell in the Eclogues and refreshing our we ask them, we make our texts live again was still struck that the authors who appeal sense of what the epic could imaging itself and with them make ourselves different today, now, to these students, are authors to be about. Simone Waller’s treatment of from all those who have gone before in the from antiquity who work at the margins of the Second Sophistic was close in theme, long line of their readers. the Classical Tradition. All the texts are finding the way back from presentation to James J. O’Donnell literary (no historians, no philosophers), myth still surprisingly without irony, while Georgetown University

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36 Learn to Read Greek by Andrew Keller and Stephanie Russell

A Review by Kirsten Block (Eta Delta) different running selections at one time, and the devices of emphasis, hyperbaton, and because the other readings are so ex- balance, and antithesis. This early atten- With their new text, Learn to Read Greek, tensive, the intervening time between the tion to word order discourages the puzzle- Keller and Russell have certainly made Continuous Readings may be prevent any like approach reading Greek, and encour- good on their claim to thoroughness. feeling of real continuity between sequen- ages an early appreciation for style. In the style of their Learn to Read Latin tial passages. Though thorough, sometimes the (2004), this ambitious two-volume text- Unlike Chase and Phillips, whose book’s vast quantity of information is book with accompanying workbook aims readings aim to prepare students for prose overwhelming, and frequently makes it to equip students, in sixteen chapters, with authors like Plato, Xenophon, and Herodo- unclear which is essential, and which is a thorough mastery of Greek grammar and tus, Keller and Russell do not aim for a more or less bonus material. The Observa- the ability read and appreciate the great specific style, nor prose alone. The readings tions section, for example, which often works of Greek literature. On the count of cover a range of authors and genres, with merely summarizes or clarifies, sometimes thoroughness, the text measures up to its no particular preference shown for drama, does contain important material that claim. poetry, or prose. Even very difficult authors would better fit in the numbered gram- Each chapter begins with a vocabulary like Pindar and Thucydides are included. mar paragraphs. The main explanation for list, followed by extensive notes that pro- The accompanying workbook provides the predicate position appears only in an vide additional explanations of the range extensive drills and practice sentences for Observations section of Chapter 5, for in- of different meanings, various connota- each chapter, both from Greek to English stance. And while proclitics appear among tions, and typical contexts of nearly every and from English to Greek. Over 100 pages the Observations in Chapter 1, enclitics word. These vocabulary notes include of morphology charts, verb synopses, and come four chapters later, in a numbered common idioms that may be memorized grammar summaries in the back of each grammar paragraph. as separate vocabulary items. A grammar volume, if put to good use, should be help- Additionally, the chapter divisions section follows, laid out in paragraphs ful to distill the most essential grammar are not always sensible. Chapter 12 is that resemble the format of a reference material from the textbook. the prime example: besides tackling the grammar, with continuous numbering Keller and Russell consistently give a already enormous topics of the imperative throughout the entire textbook. After each thorough and immediate treatment of each and the subjunctive, the chapter treats numbered paragraph follows a short list of topic as they introduce it. Unlike Chase –ύς, -εῖα, –ύ adjectives, the epexigeti- “Observations,” which include additional and Phillips, whose vocabulary lists include cal infinitive, and the “root aorist” forms. grammar points, clarifications, summaries, only the first three principle parts of the The subjunctive alone is extensive enough and other extraneous information. verb until Lesson 33 out of 40, Keller and for its own chapter, without adding the Beginning in Chapter 3, the grammar Russell include all six principle parts for imperative. And the seemingly random is followed by a set of readings. In keeping every verb given. Balme and Lawall, as well insertion of the epexigetical infinitive and with the authors’ aim to give a thorough as Chase and Phillips, delay introducing the root aorist, isolated from the rest of the and immediate introduction to real ancient the perfect until over three-quarters of the infinitive and aorist information, risks be- Greek, all of the readings are unabridged way through their texts, but Keller and ing overshadowed. The size of this chapter passages from real texts. The first several Russell work through the entire indicative is especially perplexing in view of the sets contain “Short Readings,” of 1–2 lines verb system before touching other moods. comparatively short chapters like 14, which each. In Chapter 6, a set of “Longer Read- Consequently, although the subjunc- include little more than paradigms of a few ings” is added, each about a paragraph in tive and optative appear late in the book irregular verbs. length. These Longer Readings are gener- (Chapters 13 and 14), all their tenses and Though sometimes overwhelming in its ally taken from more prominent authors voices appear at one time, along with their detail, the thoroughness of the book makes and works, while the Short Readings may most important independent constructions it a valuable addition to the spread of intro- come from fragments or inscriptions as and uses in conditional sentences. ductory texts available. The authors claim well as from standard texts. The Longer The authors’ attention to detail equips that the two-volume set can be covered in Readings include a short biography of the students early with knowledge that they as little time as two college semesters, but author or summary of the work excerpted. probably would not otherwise acquire until the vast quantity of material in readings Chapter 12 introduces a set of “Continuous after several semesters of reading real texts. and drills makes this doubtful. There are Readings.” In length, these resemble the The inclusion of idiomatic expressions, the enough exercises to supply a meticulous Longer Readings, but differ in that they introduction to metrics, and the occasional three-year high school course. The instruc- run continuously through several succes- use of lunate sigmas are a few examples. tor may use a more limited selection of the sive chapters. These readings promise the Chapter 4 contrasts the various uses and readings and exercises for three college advantage of a real text: comprehension contexts for οὗτος, ὅδε, and ἐκείνος—an semesters, however, without disadvantage. and interest are both aided by having a explanation that would benefit even a greater context. Unfortunately, because second or third year student. Chapter 3 the authors attempt to sustain three or four explains conventional sentence structures

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38 Romanitas by Jason Fulbrook (Omega) shined for all to see. The 7th line has a more modern flare in using John Keats “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”, and I follow it up Analysis of Dactylic Hexameter Poem with a reference to Catullus and the sound the “vera” carries with it. The next line follows straight out of Virgil’s Aeneid Book 1 lines In my Latin studies, the majority of the time was spent on translat- 278-279, in which I complete the verse with my own explanation of ing and comprehending what the author was trying to convey, be why I have given the empire without end. It continues with a multi- it through word choice or location in the sentence. So the objec- part purpose clause injected with a piece of Livy’s Ab urbe condita. tive of my poem was to try to channel classic authors, use literary The last 3 lines flow together to leave the reader with their “prex,” constructs to better convey a message, and create my own “opus” to or entreaty, from Anchises in Aeneid 6 851-853 and the duty of demonstrate my knowledge of Latin and of Roman culture. Romans “posthac.” In looking at the text itself, I commence with “Romani” to address my audience vocatively and to provide the tone for the following verse. To follow up, a phrase from Catullus and Tibullus Romanitas is referenced to tell the reader how I approached the work and that “I will give myself now in life” to demonstrate the passion for the Romani, cordis vera cano et dabo ipsum nunc viva. work. The next line is more symbolic: my idea was to have 2 ideas Mos maiorum cusotdiamus pietas forte. Gaude flanking the same verb, as to give the impression and the location Munera et artes aeternorum loco passim deum, of the words as a “on one hand, and on the other hand” construc- Haec vita mei ducebat donique efflare animos mox. tion. The third line was a reference to the gods and to religion. I Nos regat nam tempus ab Hispana Antiocheam purposefully created some ambiguity as to which noun the geni- Libertas colere honos tam Cinncinatus araret. tives refer to. If the translator wishes, they can use “aeternorum… Res venustatis est gaudium, dices, vera poetae deum” to refer to either the munera, the artes, or the loco, which in Quae sonitu numeroque suapteque tintinant aures. this case refers to Rome. His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono; The 4th line is a nod to the Fates, in that life can come to a Imperium sine fine dedi ut scapulis simul te stes, sudden end. Elisions were used to convey the fact of how short life Bonas fruges libertatis feras simul lectas, can be and how short it often was in those times. Continuing into Has deorum gustes, et agas gratis tibi deis. lines 5 and 6, my intention was to convey the width of the empire, Prex Anchisae pro verbo agetur sedulous posthac: and how the empire and Cincinnatus, a humble citizen-soldier, Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento ruled the land. Although this is not a completely true history, my Hae tibi erunt artes, pacique imponere morem, purpose was to create Rome as the ideal “city upon the hill,” which Parcere subiectis et debellare superbos.

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39 Chapter Reports

Eta at Florida State University Theta at the University of Indiana hosts the annual Vermont Latin Day, The Eta Chapter at Florida State Univer- This last year in ΗΣΦ, our Theta chapter and the Iota chapter once again played a sity held a fall and spring induction with has expanded and had a lot of fun. We central supporting role as some 1000 high over ten inductees between them. Com- have had movie nights, group dinners, school Latin students came to campus for a munity involvement was also a priority. We and have established a great relationship day of competition and celebration. Mem- fundraised for and volunteered at the Holy with the chapter on ISU’s campus in Terre bers of Iota chapter participated by helping Mother of God Greek Orthodox Church Haute, which we hope will be continued in to set up and run the event, including in Tallahassee in preparation for its annual the future. We have just had our initia- acting as marshals for the different high Greek Food Festival. tion and have elected new officers for the school contingents. The chapter also held We also started a new Latin tutoring coming year. The society is full of poten- its annual spring bake sale and screened program for our lower level Latin classes. tial, and I am so, so very proud of my fellow for discussion the classically relevant films It has been a great success. We hope to members from this past year for all of their “Shakespeare’s Coriolanus” and “The Hun- increase our attendance and also begin contributions. We have such an impres- ger Games.” It also had the good fortune of tutoring for Greek in the near future. It is sive group of bright, creative, passionate hearing conference papers by two MA clas- a great way to help fellow Latin and Greek individuals, and I hope I get to check in sics students before the papers (one on the students while also getting one-on-one from time to time just to hear what sort of reception of Aesop in medieval France and teaching experience. exciting things will be happening next. the other on sympotic elements in Eurip- We hope to increase membership and ides’ Cyclops) were delivered at the annual become more involved on campus in the Iota at the University of Vermont meeting of the Classical Association of 2012–2013 school year. We will be holding The 2011–12 academic year has been a New England. Club members also hosted our Fall inductions during the third week dynamic and productive one for the Iota in their dorms a reading of ancient poetry. of September and hope to surpass the re- chapter of ΗΣΦ at the University of Ver- On Classics Honors Day, we inducted cord number of new members. We will be mont. The Iota chapter is part and parcel 21 new members of ΗΣΦ in the classics hosting a High School Latin competition of the campus Goodrich Classical Club, department’s end-of-term celebration of and look forward to spreading interest in and with weekly meetings throughout the student achievement. The reception also Classics to our local high schools. academic year, we have increased both our honored a large number of ΗΣΦ members membership and on-campus interest in the with various departmental prizes for Greek Epsilon at the University of Iowa classics. and Latin. The semester concluded with In the fall, Epsilon chapter helped Iowa’s The fall semester’s highlights included a dinner party that included not only Iota Department of Classics host an interna- the now-traditional welcome-back dinner chapter but the entire department as well, tional academic conference in ancient party with a special emphasis on out- as ΗΣΦ seeks to foster greater community music. We helped visiting professors find reach to freshmen, our “Homerathon” in among campus classicists. their way around Iowa City, listened in on October, and a field trip to the Museum papers, and got some nifty t-shirts in the of Fine Arts in Boston in November. Omega at the College of bargain. In the spring, we held our annual “Homerathon” was the first time Iota chap- William and Mary public marathon reading of classical epic. ter has attempted to stage a public oral The Omega Chapter of ΗΣΦ had quite a Past years have seen Homerathons and reading performance of key scenes from year last year. But in order to get around Virgil Vigils, but we this year we devised the Odyssey, and we did this in the open to our activities of the past year, I need the OVID OVERLOAD, anchored by air of the campus green. The feedback was to tell you the three things of which I am Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The weather was quite positive and raised interest in classics, absolutely sure; first, that Edward Cullen clear and warm for once, and our read- and we are now planning to stage another, is a vampire. No, wait. That’s not quite ing was a great success. Epsilon chapter larger-scale “Homerathon” in the next aca- the right. When I was little, I had an also teamed up with Iowa’s Department demic year. The MFA field trip was orga- imaginary friend; he’s called The Doctor. of Classics to host two smaller poetry nized in conjunction with the Department Perhaps that’s a bit too far back for what readings, where faculty, graduate students of Art and Art History, and in total we I want to say. The Omega Chapter was and undergraduates all got together and took 60 students to see the “Aphrodite and founded at the College of William and took turns reciting some favorite selec- the Gods of Love” visiting exhibition that Mary many years back. It thrived for a tions of Greek and Latin verse. Finally, we was being hosted at the time at the MFA. while, but then slowly faded. In 2006, a sent a delegation of four chapter officers My co-sponsor, Professor William Mierse group of students tried to revive it, but the to the national convention in Columbia, of Art History, an expert in ancient Greek effort did not last. This past year, we tried Missouri, where we were delighted by the and Roman art, also led the students on a again, and we came back strong. My fellow hotel’s various moose, and bonded with the lecture tour through the permanent Greek officers and I wrote out a new Constitu- wonderful people of host chapter Alpha and Roman galleries. tion to be filed with the school, securing Mu. The spring semester was especially our place as an organization of note. We active, since the Department of Classics could now get funding, hold events, and

40 · Coffee Chat with Professor Sarah Fors- dyke: “Greek and Roman historiography · Coffee Chat with Professor Benjamin Fortson: “Classical Linguistics” · Coffee Chat with Professor Celia Schultz: “Roman Religion and Human Sacrifice” · Latin Scrabble tournament · 2nd Annual Roman Banquet — all reci- pes were from classical cookbooks · Movie Night: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum · Coffee Chat with Professor Christopher Ratté: “Field Work and Survey Tech- niques” · Field Archaeology Series on Thursday (FAST) lecture by the University of Michigan’s Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology (IPCAA) graduate student, Henry Col- burn: “The Pharaoh’s Owls: Coin Usage Omega initiation in the beautiful, historic Wren Chapel in Egypt before the Ptolemies” · Coffee Chat with field librarian Beau received other benefits as well. We began or general purpose meeting each week Case: “Methodology in Classical to offer tutoring sessions each week for school was in session. We also held officers Research and Scholarship” Greek and Latin students at the college, meetings on a bi-weekly basis for planning · Presentation by Classical Studies gradu- and offered to provide tutors to local high and managing logistics. ate student, Nicholas Geller: “Classical school students as well. Working together These events are reported here by Philology” with the President of the school’s Classical Stephanie Hutchings and Brianna Blox- · Presentation by Interdepartmental Civilizations club, we held Homerathons som, the Prytanis and Hyparchos of the Program in Greek and Roman History (events during high traffic weekends such Alpha Eta chapter. (IPGHR) student, Timothy Hart as Homecoming and Parents’ Weekend Other officers were Sophia Reini · Coffee Chat with Professor Verhoogt: where participants could read out their (Grammatea), Dylan Rustenholtz (Chrys- “Classics and Crocodiles” favorite ancient work in either Greek, tophylax), and Val Morgan (Pyloros). · Classics Photographic Scavenger Hunt, Latin or English), brought Dr. Paul Allen tantum latine to the school to give a talk on Horatian Events of 2011–2012 · Multiple re-enactments throughout Satire, and rallied the Classics Department · “Classical World Jeopardy” — Categories campus of Julius Caesar’s assassination for an end of the year banquet. In April included divinities; modern classics; on the Ides of March we added quite a few new members to our grammar and syntax; medicine; Latin to · Oral performance of Cicero’s In Catili- ranks during our annual Initiation, one English significance; Greek to English nam, chapters 1–10, on the Diag of whom — Mr. Kevin Furlong — will be significance; heroes and villains; phi- · Movie night: Cleopatra replacing me as the leader of the Chapter, losophy; food, drink and wine; geogra- · Presentation by Classical Studies gradu- to work alongside our wonderful advisor phy; and wars. ate student, Zacharias Andreadakis (and editor of the NUNTIUS) Dr. Georgia · Latin “Clue” Night · Latin Scrabble tournament Irby. In summation, we are back and stron- · Coffee Chat Professor Nicola Terrenato: · End-of-year picnic; presentation of ΗΣΦ ger than ever, and I look forward to seeing “The Link between Archaeology and Honor Cords to seniors you all at the next National Conference. Literature“ · Initiation ceremony scheduled to be held Alpha Gamma at Southern Methodist Alpha Eta at the University of Michigan on the campus “Diag” (the university’s University We have continued strong during the central quadrangle) but moved indoors Alpha Gamma Chapter at Southern Meth- 2011–2012 school year, with the net- due to rain odist University inducted 8 new members work between undergraduates, graduate · Coffee Chat with Professor David Potter: in February 2012 at a candlelight ceremony students, faculty and staff increasing. This “Constantine” in the Rotunda of Dallas Hall. Follow- report lists the highlights of our program- · Coffee Chat with Professor Lisa Nevett: ing the ritual and ceremony, new initiates matic year. Our calendar included an event “Domestic Space in Ancient Greece” and members along with several alumni

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Alpha Gamma: veritas vos liberabit

gathered to eat, meet and greet new and since (we believe) the 1960s! Classics study initiation. We look forward to gaining of- former friends first at a brief reception in has been alive and well all these years at ficial club status at Hunter in fall of 2012, the Hall and then more informally at Buca Hunter, but somehow the society here which will provide us with some funding di Beppo. became dormant. We had an information for future events. In the fall ΗΣΦ members attempted session to explain what the organization is Alpha Theta Chapter now has its own the Roman art of mosaic making at all about for potential members and then Facebook page for its members. Since Smashing Times. In celebration of Satur- looked to see who was interested in joining Hunter is a commuter campus, this will be nalia and Winter Break, members gathered and who was eligible. In spring 2012 we a particularly nice way for students to stay at the home of Professor Rawlins for feast- initiated 23 new members (22 students and connected and to plan events. There was ing and fun. one honorary faculty member)! This far an informal get-together for lunch in Cen- February gave ΗΣΦ members several exceeded our expectations for the first year. tral Park (only a few blocks away from our opportunities to gather. In addition to Instrumental in helping Hunter to campus) towards the end of spring term. the induction festivities, they attended a revive its chapter were Professor Martha The officers have been looking ahead to special large screen showing of the classic Davis or Temple University and Professor next year as the time for things to really get filmBen Hur and observed Leap Year Tom Sienkewicz or Monmouth College, going again. Possible plans include making along with the early Roman “New Year’s who tirelessly answered our many ques- t-shirts, volunteering at the registration Eve” with an evening of ludi at Professor tions about ΗΣΦ and who gently, but desk at the Annual Meeting of CAAS in Rawlins’ home. Members also enjoyed an persistently, encouraged us to start up the New York City, and inviting some of the AIA lecture on Etruscan finds near Flor- chapter again. Temple students Ashley CUNY Graduate Center PhD students to ence later in March with dinner after- Gilbert and Eamonn Connor journeyed up talk about their work. wards. They decided to commemorate the to New York City from Philadelphia to help traditional founding date of Rome, April with our initiation. They were wonderful Alpha Iota at the University of 21st, with a visit to the “Ludi Equorum” at representatives of ΗΣΦ and provided some South Carolina, Columbia the nearby track. great energy for helping our chapter in its The past semester has been busy for the first efforts. U.S.C.’s branch of ΗΣΦ. In early March, Alpha Theta at Hunter College We had a Resource Grant from the we reactivated Alpha Iota, which was The biggest news to report from Hunter Classical Association of the Atlantic States originally initiated in 1928 but has been College’s Alpha Theta chapter of ΗΣΦ that provided money for refreshments for dormant since the early 2000s. Only five is that it is active again for the first time both our informational session and our of our members actively participated, but

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were nonetheless able to promote Classical and their availability was made known to celebrated National Archaeology Day Studies in several regional high schools, every teacher of lower level Latin at U.S.C. with a family-friendly open house event: organize bi-weekly Latin tutoring sessions, We also held several Latin pronuncia- an informal report given on student and and hold numerous Latin pronuncia- tion workshops. In addition to covering a faculty fieldwork at Hacımusalar Höyük tion workshops intended to evolve into slight gap in the typical Latin curriculum in Turkey, followed by a fun excavation a broader Living Latin initiative. We which tends to step over early work with of layer cakes, in which “finds” had been have also launched a website and laid the pronunciation, we hope this workshop will planted. We also continue our traditional groundwork for an undergraduate journal blossom into a larger student-led project weekly Classical Teas, where students and to be launched in the Fall semester. to reinvigorate Latin at our university by faculty enjoy tea, snacks, and when the Promotion of college-level Classics treating it more like a modern, spoken weather is nice, a fun game of hurling! began when several members of Alpha Iota language. This said, our efforts have not attended the spring meeting of the South been all talk. Alpha Iota also launched a Beta Iota at Wake Forest University Carolina Junior Classics League. Here they website, created nearly a dozen brochures The 2011–2012 academic year was very spoke to high school students, networked flyers, and paradigm sheets, and started a successful for the Beta Iota chapter. During with teachers and collected email addresses bi-monthly newsletter. We also published the fall semester, we hosted multiple events to organize speaking appointments with the trial edition of an undergraduate Clas- including our annual Troy Night, which classes. Afterwards, we visited two high sical Studies journal we intend to officially involves the viewing (and possible ridi- schools and were warmly received. Several begin in the Fall semester. culing) of the motion picture Troy. Also, of these students were considering Classics We hope to maintain this momentum several members attended a rendition of for college and were further encouraged by next year and continue to help the Classics Plautus’ Menaechmi put on by Wake For- our presentation. Department at U.S.C. grow and develop. est’s theater department. During the spring In addition to this outreach, Alpha Iota semester, members of the Beta Iota chapter also worked with students within U.S.C. Beta Gamma at the University enjoyed campus events such as the ΗΣΦ Because, in part, of the encouragement of of Richmond Trivia night. The Department of Classical members of Alpha Iota, two new Classics This spring, the Beta Gamma chapter Languages hosted a symposium in April, majors were declared during the Spring was proud to induct seven new members. which consisted of three notable speak- semester. Perhaps our most directly helpful Throughout the spring, new and old ers, where discussions include shipwrecks project consisted of bi-weekly Latin tutor- members alike attended the exhibition, Ti- in the Mediterranean and Cicero’s villa. ing sessions for which our faculty advisor Ameny-Net: An Ancient Mummy, An Egyp- The highlight of the day was our initiation generously donated her office. Members tian Woman, and Modern Science, curated banquet. We welcomed over twenty new made themselves available for several by none other than our own chapter presi- members to the chapter and also inducted hours on Tuesday and Thursday evenings dent, Caroline Cobert. In the fall, members two honorary members: Dr. Andrew

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Alwine and Dr. Jane Crawford. We are looking forward to what next year holds and excitedly preparing to host the 2013 national convention.

Beta Delta at the University of Tennessee In the Spring of 2012 our chapter inducted fifteen new student members and one honorary professional member in a very well-attended and joyous initiation cer- emony. Our guest speaker was one of our faculty, Dr. Theodora Kopestonsky, whose banquet speech was both informative and lively. The highlight of the academic year for Beta Delta was the first annual undergraduate Classics conference held at the University of Tennessee, where several members delivered papers before an appreciative audience. We are looking for- Beta Kappa: Sabrina Cummings, Madeleine Grewell, Keira Gruber, Stephanie Kirchhoff, ward to working closely with a revitalized Amal Malik Classics Club in 2012–13, which will hold monthly classically themed social events for ΗΣΦ members and non-members alike. McLucas, Professor of Latin and Italian at and will be used for the first time next year Towson University, traced the evolution of for a student of classical studies. Our an- Beta Kappa at Notre Dame of Rome from antiquity through the Renais- nual fundraisers have helped to make both Maryland University sance, examining the image of the city as these gifts available. This big event on our campus this year it changed from Caput Orbis to Babylon, was our name change from College of Widow, and finally Wonderland. This was Beta Nu at the University of Notre Dame of Maryland to Notre Dame attended by members of Beta Kappa chap- Mary Washington of Maryland University. Campus-wide ter from its beginnings in the early fifties as Continuing its efforts to promote the study events celebrating this new public identity well as current students, alums and friends of the ancient world, Beta Nu held its 12th caused Beta Kappa chapter to get off to a of our chapter. annual Classical Essay Contest this year slow start, but once we started we were on On May 3 we held what might be the for local middle and high school students the move. In the fall semester some of our first annual Bronze and Brains competi- of Latin. In the fall we sent flyers to Latin members attended the exhibit, Lost and tion. This combination of athletic events teachers in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where Found: The Secrets of Archimedes, at the and Certamen was open to the whole Mary Washington is located; to teachers in Walters Art Museum, which celebrated the campus, but the Certamen included on the neighboring counties; and to members restoration of the Archimedes palimpsest trivia questions related to classical studies. of the Fredericksburg Area Latin Teachers’ that had been entrusted to the Walters All the contestants had a good time in Association (FALTA). We invited essays, conservators for restoration. We also the competitions and the pizza party that 2–3 pages or approximately 750 words in attended several lectures there by Reviel followed. length, on the following topic, “When Netz, co-author of the The Archimedes We closed the year on May 12 with speaking about his love, Catullus (8.10-12) Codex, and other scholars induction of five new members and a states nec quae fugit sectare, nec miser vive, On November 2 Patricia Short, retired presentation by our prytanis, Amanda sed obstinata mente perfer, obdura (do not Latin teacher, member of ΗΣΦ and daugh- D’Onofrio, on the influence of the Medea chase one who flees, nor live unhappily, ter of classical scholar, Graves Thompson, myth in literature, art and music. but endure with a strong mind, be obsti- who was the beloved chair of Latin at We went on line for our fall fundraiser nate). When a relationship with a friend Hampden-Sydney College for many years, and sold holiday candy. Our spring fund- or sweetheart is coming to an end, do you gave an illustrated presentation on the raiser was our traditional Maryland Clas- think that Catullus’ words are the best way Latin of the Bayeux Tapestry. This lecture sics Raffle. An endowed gift in memory of to handle the situation?” We received over was attended by Latin and history students an alumna who graduated in 1927 made it 100 essays, which we judged in February at as well as teachers, students and Latin lov- possible for us to attend the national con- a combined essay reading session and pizza ers from the broader Baltimore community. vention at the University of Missouri. An party. We awarded ΗΣΦ medals, book On March 7 we hosted our annual endowed tuition scholarship in memory of prizes, and certificates to first and second Sister Mary Gratia Memorial Lecture. John Gladys Callahan Justice has just matured place winners in two levels of competition,

44 junior (sixth through ninth graders) and Beta Sigma at Marquette University and the Argonauts this semester. In the senior (tenth through twelfth graders). We Major activities for the chapter included a spring we caught Caesar off guard the week also awarded three certificates for honor- visit to the Milwaukee Public Museum to before the Ides and once again freed the able mention, one at the senior level and see the travelling exhibit on Alexandria world from tyranny. We also teamed up two at the junior. and the world of Cleopatra. Thirtieth anni- with the French Club to offer a showing of Beta Nu initiated 22 new members in versary of the annual Classical Valentine Asterix (with English subtitles to clarify the March, and a week later hosted its 15th sale with hand-made cards and appropriate incessant bar-bar-baring). Several members annual ΗΣΦ public lecture at the Univer- quotations in Latin and Ancient Greek. attended the Rhodes Theater Depart- sity of Mary Washington to announce and Proceeds from the annual sale funded ment’s performance of Antigone, and we honor its new members and, of course, to three translation contests — two in Latin plan to round out the semester with our promote Classics to the community. Our on the intermediate and advanced levels annual Greek festival full of food, Clas- speaker, Dr. Shawn O’Bryhim, came to us and one at the elementary level of Classi- sics charades, and peplos-decorating, the from Franklin and Marshall College and cal Greek. Seven new members initiated Panathenaia. gave a very lively and informative talk on on April 27 — five undergraduate students “All for the Love of a Statue: Agalmato- Rachel Cantos, Cara D’Amico, Dustin Gamma Omicron at Monmouth College philia in Ancient Greece.” Hacker, Kyle Nicholas, and Kyle Whelton This year, Gamma Omicron chapter of and two philosophy graduate students ΗΣΦ has held a number of Classically- Beta Pi at University of Arkansas Brandon Henrigillis and Stephen Plecnik. themed movie nights, including showings The 2011–2012 year was a great one for Currently 22 members of the Beta Sigma of Troy, 300, and Masada. We welcomed the Beta Pi chapter of ΗΣΦ. We kicked off Chapter. Officers for the 2011–2012 aca- a 6 new members to our flock in our our year with a lecture by one of our own demic year were Nelson Glasford (Presi- November induction ceremony. Our Clas- professors, Dr. David Fredrick, entitled dent), Angeleica Schutz (Vice-President), sics Department held a classically-themed “Toward a Spatial Grammar of Pompeii” and Louise Reinmuller (Secretary/Trea- dinner in March where we feasted on on November 10. The lecture was so surer). traditional Roman food, and guest speaker popular, students and faculty were sitting Dr. Levine gave the annual Bernice Fox on the floor and even pouring out into the Beta Psi at Rhodes College Lecture on tuna. Gamma Omicron was hallway! On November 17, we invited Dr. The Beta Psi chapter of Rhodes College represented at the national convention in Cynthia Shelmerdine of the University inducted fourteen new members this year Columbia, Missouri, where member Anne of Texas at Austin lecture on «Before the and offered a variety of Classics-themed Cave presented her research on aqueducts. Odyssey: Life in Mycenaean Greece.” We events with our partner CA‘ESAR, the also had a weekend camping trip at Devil’s Classical and ‘Ellenic Society at Rhodes. Gamma Sigma at the University Den during the fall semester, as well as Our major fall event was our second of Texas, Austin hosted Rome Night, where we watched annual hosting of our Latin Day, called This year the Gamma Sigma chapter at the the television series “Rome” together while Festivus, for 125 local middle and high University of Texas at Austin has worked enriching ourselves with a traditional school students. When approached by on building up membership and getting to Roman meal (i.e. pizza!). At the end of the local teachers about the lack of any JCL know each other better. We had fourteen semester, we held our annual Saturnalia, events for west Tennessee, north Missis- new members join this year. We had about where we played translation games and sippi, east Arkansas, and the Missouri one meeting every other month. At our inducted 20 new members. During the bootheel, Rhodes students and faculty first meeting we went to a pizza restaurant spring of 2012, the University’s chapter of stepped up to create an event for students to celebrate the beginning of the new Pi Beta Kappa invited Dr. Gloria Pinney in our region. Participants competed in year. About twenty-five people attended of Harvard University to give two lectures, a variety of events, including cooking the meeting. For Halloween we had a one on the Frescoes in the “West House” Roman food, designing mosaics, creating PuttPutt social attended by fifteen people: of the town Akotiri on Santorini, the other English and Latin films, and contending forty-degree whether prevented us from on the family in Ancient Greece, as well in various certamina; they also enjoyed a dressing up in ancient costume as we had as an open forum on “What can I do with lecture on mummies and watched parts of planned. We also had several game nights a degree in Classics?” Dr. Pinney’s lec- Ben Hur, Rome, and of course Seinfeld with throughout the year, and our last meeting tures, while not hosted by ΗΣΦ, were very Latin subtitles. Both we Rhodians and our was a movie night, at which we watched popular among the member of Beta Pi. Dr. visitors enjoyed the event, and we hope to The Eagle and dined on pizza. During the Steven Ellis also visited the University of host it again next year. fall semester some of our members traveled Arkansas in April, giving a lecture entitled To relax, our chapter watched (and to a local high school to help the Latin stu- “Pompeii: From the Bottom-Up.” This year, mocked) several Classics films, includ- dents preparing to take the AP test. Also the Beta Pi chapter of ΗΣΦ has grown ing A Funny Thing Happened on the Way some of our members tutored first-year substantially in terms of members and to the Forum, Imperium: Augustus, and I, Latin students. During the fall semester activities. Our future is looking bright! Claudius; we intend to continue with Jason our university held an event called “Mingle

45 Chapter Reports (Continued) with a Major,” which allowed prospective The Dark Knight into Latin. In addition, talking about their special interests, and and current students to meet the different the club played a vital role on campus in three alumni reflecting on how useful their departments and organizations that our respect to community outreach and public undergraduate majors had been for their university has to offer. ΗΣΦ had a table relations. We welcomed Latin students careers in law, museum studies, and art, next to the Classics Department’s table. from a local high school into our classes respectively. We spoke with over a hundred students so that they could gain an understanding Large audiences showed up for two and told them about what our department of expectations for undergraduate classics public lectures co-sponsored by the chap- and organization have to offer. Overall we students, and we also hosted newly admit- ter, the first (October 27) by Prof. Ellen had a successful year in both growing our ted transfer students when they visited Millender (Reed College) on “Spartan membership and outreach to our university UCI while making their college-accep- Gynecocracy? The Myths and Reality and community. tance decisions. We are happy to note Behind Spartan Female Political Power,” that several students decided to continue the second (April 17) by Caroline Sauvage Gamma Upsilon at Austin College their study at UCI! We are also pleased (Visiting Scholar at Macalester College) From April 18, 2011 to April 18, 2012, to include in this report that we initiated on “Bronze Age Underwater Archaeology.” ΗΣΦ in conjunction with the Austin twelve new members into our chapter at During January members of Delta Chi College Classics Club participated in the the end of spring quarter. The highlight of participated in Prof. Christopher Brunelle’s following activities: our year, of course, was the always success- crazy Metamorphomarathon, a non-stop In Fall 2011, we held a play reading ful Undergraduate Colloquium, for which 15-hour reading aloud of Ovid’s entire of Aristophanes, The Clouds; sponsored Dr. Jesse Weiner gave a presentation about Metamorphoses, using a different English mock-gladiator fights as part of College the early American epic poem, The Colum- translation for each of the fifteen books. Carnival; sponsored mock-battles with biad. Dr. Weiner discussed the classical This year’s purple Classics t-shirt, with German club, who represented Gal- influences upon Joel Barlow, the author artistically drawn lions on the front and a lic tribes; showed movies: Jason & the of the poem, and observed that Barlow translation of the school fight song (“Um Argonauts, old/new Clash of the Titans, & failed to uphold the very high standards Ya Ya”) into Latin and Greek on the back, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the set for the poem — failing so spectacularly was a big hit. It was also finished in time Forum; constructed and painted a bean that very few people have even heard of it for people to wear it while it was actually bag toss booth with Medusa’s image for today! still 2011–12! an indoor Halloween Carnival; organized a Mythology-themed mask decorating Delta Chi at St. Olaf College Epsilon Kappa at Brigham Young contest; and presented a Saturnalia festival The fall semester began with the 6th University in AC pub, featuring costumed Classics Annual Softball Game between Greek and This year we had a dodge ball competition club members presenting fun-facts about Latin students and then the 6th Annual with the students of the Ancient Near ancient, medieval, and modern Christ- St. Olaf Olympics, pitting Classics students East. Also, we organized a classics sympo- mas and classic rock music performed by against their arch rivals, the ancient his- sium on “Life and Death in the Ancient Caesar’s Section led by our faculty sponsor, tory students. Although the latter prevailed World,” which included presentations on Jim Johnson. in the tug-of-war, the Classics students linguistics, philosophy, military history, In Spring 2012, we held a play reading distinguished themselves in the friscus Roman history, etc. It was a very good and of Plautus, Swaggering Soldier; sponsored throw, the Spartan relay, and the recitation academically enriching event. Baklava Fundraising event; sponsored contest, and the two warring parties even mock-battles with German club; showed helped each other design fear-instilling Epsilon Sigma at Augustana College movies: Life of Brian, The Eagle, & Gladi- cardboard armor for their Red Rover This year our chapter continued to provide ator; sponsored Roman game night which hoplite battle. opportunities for students to learn more involves all other clubs and organizations Other traditional Delta Chi events about Classics. We participated in the to send representatives to play dice games. during the year included scary stories for cardboard regatta during Augustana’s Halloween, Christmas caroling in Latin homecoming festivities, raising awareness Delta Sigma at the University and Greek, the ΗΣΦ translation contests for our group although we did not get into of California, Irvine in February, initiation of 20 new members any of the final rounds. We hosted Classi- The Delta Sigma Chapter at the University in March, the 2nd Annual Lamb Roast in cally themed movies throughout the year, of California, Irvine was quite active in the April, and in May the Bacchanalia, aka including showings of Lysistrata and Zorba 2011–2012 year. We continued our weekly spring picnic, featuring the “cording” of the Greek in conjunction with Classics meetings and the homework help sessions, graduating seniors. Every Monday we held classes. which we had offered last year. We added a Classics Conversation Table. Among Our chapter was also active off-campus. new, entertaining English-to-Latin prose our guest speakers were students discuss- In October, we sent a group to attend the composition segments to our meetings, ing their independent research projects, Illinois Classical Conference at the Uni- most notably translating segments of faculty (both Classics and non-Classics) versity of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

46 In March, two of our professors and four Zeta Beta members joined the Classics pret the original text to mean what they members of our chapter attended Dr. Club in organizing, under the supervision wish it to mean. Also in April Zeta Beta Daniel Levine’s lecture, “Tuna in Ancient of faculty sponsor Eric Kondratieff, a Percy and Classics Club had a booth at Spring Greece and Modern Tuna Population Jackson-themed activity night for local Fling at which paying students could “paint Decline,” at Monmouth College. children at the Upper Merion Library. a Roman” with dye-filled sponges. (Messy, This April, we held our annual Col- Over the winter break, Zeta Beta helped but fun.) The Department hosted a talk loquium where we inducted new members national officers to work theΗΣΦ booth by Prof. Julia Wilker of the University of and heard a presentation by Dr. Emil at the annual joint meeting of APA and Pennsylvania on “The Attraction of Juda- Kramer. Our new inductees are Megan AIA. Some members assisted these orga- ism in Early Imperial Rome.” Alano, Elle Janss, Kylie Koger, Jakob nizations in the registration area, and our The year ended with parties for Profes- Leathers, Heather Ohde, Kathryn Rea, chapter planned and hosted the reception sor Martha A. Davis and Professor Eric and Caitlin Walker. given by ΗΣΦ. Kondratieff. Dr. D. retired, leaving the This year we have six graduating ma- We kept up the pace in February, start- sponsorship of Zeta Beta to the other two jors: Keith Harris, Crystina Mayfield, Na- ing with a Lupercalentine’s Day baking members of the Trifeminate. Dr. K. left than McDowell, Andrew Mueller, Michael contest and bake sale. Next, we attended a Temple to take up a tenure-track position O’Reilly, and Kathleen Yep. We also have department lecture featuring guest Profes- at Western Kentucky University. A new three seniors who are minors in Classics or sor Jeremy McInerney of the University of sponsor must be found for the Classics Classical Studies: Amanda Beveroth, Kelly Pennsylvania, who came to talk on local Club. The final party honored this year’s Dorman, and Steven Scott. We wish them Greek deities and their relationships to graduates with majors and minors in Clas- the best of luck as they start a new stage in Pan-Hellenic gods. Also in February we sics and was well attended by grads and their lives. hosted a “Poetry and Pizza Night, “for their families. which participants brought in their favorite Until next year, valete! Zeta Beta at Temple University piece of ancient poetry to recite for all in In March 2011, Zeta Beta and Temple both the original language and English Zeta Iota at the University of Georgia Classics celebrated the Parilia in style with translation. Zeta Beta members helped fel- The Zeta Iota chapter of ΗΣΦ at the a reading from Ovid and a pot-luck lunch. low Classics students learn the recitations University of Georgia was especially busy In April, we wrapped up the school year as part of our ongoing tutoring program. this year. Among its activities were a per- with a marathon reading of Homer’s Odys- Our Classics Club continued to host formance from Pseudolus by Roman comic sey. After the summer break — relaxing for weekly Classics-related movie nights, and Plautus, Classics movie nights with pop- some, a time of work for others, especially along with Dr. Caroline Stark, took part in corn open to anyone interested, two Clas- those at archaeological digs — we got the a weekly “Harrius Potter Reading Group.” sics book sales, and even reorganization new year started with a Classics Mixer Dr. Hersch again supervised the making of and online categorization of the entirety hosted by Dr. Sydnor Roy and Dr. Bill a mythology coloring book for donation to of the Classics Department’s teaching Tortorelli. Children’s Hospital, with Roman instead of resource books for Latin teachers and/or In September we had an exciting visit Greek characters this year. students studying to become teachers. from Professor Frederick Ahl of Cornell, We rented a van in order to drive ten The Classics Department hosted who came to deliver the second annual Zeta Beta members from Philadelphia to two end of the semester banquets for Zeta Beta Chapter lecture. He spoke on Columbia, Missouri for convention. We its Elementary and Intermediate Latin “Virgil the Wordplayer.” had raised over $1000 with bake sales, tee students this past year. The members of In October three of our officers, includ- shirt sales and coffee fundraisers to pay for ΗΣΦ, and a few theatre friends as well, ing Eamonn Connor, Drew Rosado and the trip, and were pleased to receive a large prepared scenes from Pseudolus by Plautus Megale Chrysophylax Ashley Gilbert, donation from a former chapter member to to perform for the younger students, who represented ΗΣΦ at the annual CAAS help subsidize the transportation costs. use Wheelock’s book and encountered the meeting, in Maryland. We also celebrated Since convention, at which we all had a Auricula Meretricula text that follows the our favorite Roman festival, the Equus Oc- great time and our own Brandon Glackin same lessons in the Elementary curriculum. tober, that month, by sponsoring a baking was elected Megas Grammateus, we have The Latin students thoroughly enjoyed the contest and fundraiser. The experience of continued to hold bake sales and coffee funny performance. manning a table at CAAS came in handy mornings to raise funds. Professor Ahl The Department also hosted four large in November when two of our members returned to campus in April, this time movie nights to enhance the material from performed the same service at the an- to visit the intermediate and advanced the Classical Culture courses. The movies nual meeting of the Philadelphia Classical level Latin classes, both of which used his included Ulysses, Electra, A Funny Thing Society. translation of the Aeneid. In the afternoon Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Winter Solstice Celebration, com- he gave a talk open to all on “Edited Con- and O Brother Where Art Thou for the plete with the singing of carols in Latin, tent.” In it he discussed how the intentions mythology students who read the Odyssey. marked December. Shortly after that some and biases of translators sometimes inter- ΗΣΦ prepared many, many bags of fresh

47 Chapter Reports (Continued) popcorn, which helped to make the movie nights a huge success. ΗΣΦ annually sets up Classics book sales. ΗΣΦ acquires the books as dona- tions from various faculty members who either retire or clean their offices. This year, the group managed to have two book sales, one in the fall and another in the spring. The generated funds will hopefully go toward travel expenses for Convention. Especially helpful was a long-delayed task for the Classics Department. The students managed to go through the Department’s entire collection of the Teacher Resource Center and catalog the books to an online library account open to the public for searching. This tool is very helpful for teachers with access to UGA’s Classics Department or students aiming to become teachers. In addition, ΗΣΦ stu- dents helped out our administrative staff by volunteering to man the phones while one of our administrators was out of the office, which was a tremendous help in a pinch. Zeta Nu: classical in style. Photo by our alumnus Mr. Bopolo Ndosi. Zeta Lambda at University of Louisville In the Fall of 2011, we initiated five new members into our Zeta Lambda chapter gift certificates to local Greek and Italian ton was a Professor and Chair of Classics of ΗΣΦ: Leigh Hadley, Rebecca Gowan, restaurants. On Maryland Day, an annual at Trinity University; we are very lucky Sandra McCaffrey, Emily Moran, William outreach event for the whole university on to have her as an affiliate of the Classics Richardson, and in the Spring of 2012 two April 28, members of ΗΣΦ helped write Department at the University of Maryland, new members: Lana Lee and Everett Rush. visitors’ names in Greek and Latin on where she is now Director of the Federal Our chapter also continued its outreach name tags. Semester Program and Individual Studies efforts to encourage the study of Latin by The chapter’s main activity for the in the Office of Undergraduate Studies. awarding officialΗΣΦ medallions, rib- year, though, was our annual initiation Dr. Polyvia Parara, our other new honor- bons, and certificates to the outstanding ceremony for new members on March 8. ary member, is Visiting Assistant Professor Latin students in our local high schools. The ceremony was followed by a reception of Modern Greek here at the University. Also under our auspices, at our annual and a talk by Dr. Daniel Kapust, one of our She holds a Ph.D. in Classics from the spring symposium, our own University chapter’s own alumni who has gone on to University of Paris X-Nanterre and earned of Louisville outstanding Greek student, earn a Ph.D. and now teaches at the Uni- her bachelor’s degree at the National and Everett Rush, and our outstanding Latin versity of Wisconsin. We initiated fifteen Kapodistrian University of Athens, where student, Rachel Tevis-Orona, were rec- new regular members, five new associate she was also a basketball star! ognized and given prizes to honor their members, and two new honorary members. achievements. The regular members are Zachary Atkin- Zeta Pi at the University of Utah son, Cadance Butler, Alexander Clay- The 2011–2012 academic year was a busy Zeta Nu at the University of Maryland, borne, Matthew Curley, Karin DeOrnellas, one for us. In September we held two College Park Michael Doane, Ryan Elza, Stephen Gilles, events. On the 24th we attended The The members of chapter Zeta Nu partici- Bobby Lanar, Amrita Motgi, Norma Qui- Classical Greek Theater Festival’s produc- pated in a number of activities on campus jano, Christopher Reavis, Benjamin Shyo- tion of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris. The this year. Some helped out with the First vitz, Alun Walpole, and Angelina Wong. play is staged first thing in the morning in Look Fair in September, a chance to The associate (grad student) members good ancient Greek fashion and afterward introduce new students to the Classics are Megan Brodie, Justin Devris, Jarrett we gathered for brunch to discuss the play Department, the Classics Club, and ΗΣΦ. Farmer, Phillip Gallagher, and Katharine and kick off our plans for the year. Our We challenged the attendees to a mythol- Pilkington. Last but not least, we initiated second event was a guest lecture by Alison ogy quiz and those who scored highest won two new honorary members. Dr. Joan Bur- Futrell (University of Arizona, Department

48 of History) featuring her current research and Roman worlds. One of the activities raise money, introduced some of the fresh- on Cleopatra. Her talked was entitled that members of the two groups enjoy the men who were interested in joining ΗΣΦ, Cleopatra: Performing Divinity. Following most is the monthly Classically-themed and enjoyed the company of fellow ΗΣΦ her lecture, Professor Futrell went to lunch movie night. The chapter invited Profes- members and other Classics students. with a number of our members and shared sor of Classical Studies Madeleine Henry During the second semester, we began more about her research and her experi- to give a short introduction to the Greek recruiting new members from the fresh- ences as an undergraduate at the Univer- language workshop. Students who hadn’t man classes by visiting beginning Latin sity of Utah. had the opportunity to take Greek in the and Greek classes, and we invited the We kicked of the spring 2012 semester classroom really enjoyed the opportunity recruits to our events. In March, we held a with some fun Chapter activities. We gath- to learn about word formation and some Classics-themed scavenger hunt on cam- ered for a film and game night on January of the numerous English derivatives from pus, in which groups of two and three were 26th. We watched Pastrone’s 1914 silent ancient Greek. In October ΗΣΦ spon- given clues leading them to different spots filmCabiria . To celebrate the Lupercalia, sored ISU AfterDark, which included late around Xavier’s campus, all of which had we held a poetry reading on February 16th. night events such as Classics Jeopardy and connection to Classical motifs or themes. Everyone brought their favorite Greek a toga-making tutorial for other students This allowed members from different or Latin poet, Catullus and Archilochus on campus. The group also helped spon- classes to mingle, and for newer students to seemed especially popular. To celebrate the sor Dr. Ralph Covino’s visit to campus in become more familiar with their campus. holiday, we read Ovid’s passage from the March. He came to give a lecture called On April 21, ΗΣΦ held inductions for Fasti on the origins of the Lupercalia. “Laser Swords & Sandals: Star Wars our new members. At this event, Xavier Our biggest event of the year was our and Rome,” and gathered an audience students who were eligible and wished symposium: The Ancient World: Then & of more than 300 students, faculty, and to be a part of ΗΣΦ, nine in all, were Now. The Chapter put in a lot of hard others from the community. Thirteen inducted with the help of Xavier professors work organizing an undergraduate and new members were initiated into ΗΣΦ on and current ΗΣΦ officers, with the rest of graduate student symposium for students April 12. To cap off the year, once again the ΗΣΦ members as witnesses. The event at the University of Utah, Utah State members of ΗΣΦ donned god and god- featured a catered dinner, fellowship, and University and Brigham Young Univer- dess attire and marched in a parade with another book raffle to raise money for our sity. The symposium was designed to give nearly 100 other groups to celebrate the chapter. students an opportunity to present their annual spring VEISHA celebration at Iowa research to their peers and faculty. We had State — which just happened to fall on Eta Delta at Hillsdale College 14 excellent papers ranging from tradition Rome’s birthday this year. We began our year with a variation on one classics topics such as Homer and Vergil of our events: the Homerathon. Instead of to reception of classical themes in modern Zeta Chi at Xavier University reading either of the Homeric epics in their film, literature, opera and video games. This year the Zeta Chi Chapter at Xavier entirety, we decided to read the Certamen All of the papers were very well presented University held many different events: between Homer and Hesiod, with the audi- and received much positive feedback. The some were open to the Xavier community ence rooting for their favorite poet. event was such a success that next year the and others were specifically forΗΣΦ Our first fundraiser of the semester was ΕΚ Chapter at Brigham Young University members. In an effort to get more publicity our third annual Paint a Classicist, where has volunteered to host the event. We have and recognition throughout the student patrons get the opportunity to throw paint- high hopes that this will become an annual body and the administration, the ΗΣΦ soaked sponges at Classicists in statuesque event shared by the classics programs at officers designated one officer to facili- poses while in togas. The event was sur- the various universities in Utah. tate communication with Xavier’s Senior prisingly successful and people on campus We had also planned to hold a mara- Classical League, the Classics organization knew who the classicist were on campus, if thon reading of Homer’s Odyssey this with open membership. We had a movie for no other reason that they were the ones spring, but it was decided to push that night every month, sometimes in conjunc- walking around in Technicolor. back to early in the fall 2012 semester. First tion with the Senior Classical League, In conjunction with the local Kiwanis time symposium planning proved to be a which allowed non-members and members Club we continued our yearly dictionary herculean task! But the basic work for the to gather for food, good company, and a distribution project to over 500 3rd graders Homerathon is in place and we are antici- Classics-themed movie. In October, we cel- in the county. Students explained what pating the event with great enthusiasm. ebrated Vergil’s birthday by making cards studying the Classics meant, showed them for Vergil, playing birthday games, and some basic etymologies, and taught them Zeta Xi at Iowa State University reading passages of Vergil’s Aeneid. At the the Greek alphabet, so that they could This year the ISU chapter of ΗΣΦ end of the first semester,ΗΣΦ , together write their names in Greek characters. continued to promote a Classics Club, with the Senior Classical League, held We also began their sixth year of which is open to all students on campus our annual Saturnalia party for all of our tutoring Latin at Hillsdale Preparatory with an interest in the ancient Greek members. There, we held a book raffle to School. Sixteen students teach Latin to all

49 Chapter Reports (Continued) of 70 children grades K-8 two days a week we co-sponsored a showing of “O Brother world of oral Latin. We also fulfilled the throughout the school year. As in past Where Art Thou,” and alumna Lisa Feld- university’s goal for each club to participate years, we again sold Latin Valentine’s Day kamp returned to campus to discuss the in over 50 hours of community service cards made by the children to support their life of a graduate student in classics and to throughout the year, in honor of the uni- program, raising money to replace Latin share her research on a puzzling Hellenistic versity’s 125th anniversary. books the children use as well as to supply poem (Theocritus’ Idyll 22). the tutors with new teaching materials. For service, we assisted with the annual Eta Mu at the University of California, At each Parents’ Weekend, members Missouri Junior Classical League conven- Davis of the honorary staffed an information tion, led sessions on Homeric epic and This year, our chapter balanced work booth which displayed pictures from the historical linguistics at Truman’s Classical with play at meetings and events. We year’s events, had copies of the NUNTIUS and Modern Languages Festival for area kick-started the year with the traditional for people to look at, and where we sold high school students, and taught Latin screening of Monty Python’s Life of Brian, t-shirts, pocket protectors, and truffles to in year-long programs at the local public and continued with regular meetings help raise funds for our activities. schools. Social events included weekly din- from then on out. During club meetings, Around Valentine’s Day, we had our ners at our favorite (and only) local Greek we played various games, such as Clas- 8th annual Date Infliction Auction, where restaurant, movie nights, study sessions, sics themed picture-telephone, and kept people bid for the opportunity NOT to and informal games of tri-lingual hang- members up to date on related events. date a Classicist, but rather to inflict them man after meetings. Fundraising efforts Additionally, a weekly HBO Rome viewing upon some unsuspecting soul and attend were made through our Homerathons on was held for students interested in seeing the Cheese Ball. This year was Olympic- the quad, bake sales, our “Non-Authentic modern portrayals of ancient history. themed, and in a decision worthy of the Roman Spaghetti” night, and the sale of The Eta Mu chapter also focused on Judgment of Paris, the winning prize for Greek and Roman Valentine’s Day cards. community outreach, tabling at Davis the couple with the best costume went to We initiated eight new members in Feb- High School’s language fair and UC Davis’ the bobsled team. ruary, most of whom were in attendance at Decision Day for prospective students. We As the year wound up, we hosted the recent national convention at the Uni- also held a career workshop for Classics Geek Week, a week-long series of contests versity of Missouri. We were proud to have majors, in which a panel of Classics profes- and demonstrations by various honorary one of the largest delegations (thirteen!) at sors and career professionals discussed societies on campus. The speech honorary this meeting. graduate school, teaching, and other career had students perform speeches of famous options. persons at their statues along the campus’ Eta Kappa at The Catholic University Over the year, a dedicated group of Liberty Walk (e.g. Washington, Jeffer- of America members worked feverishly and tirelessly son, and Lincoln). The math and science The Eta Kappa chapter at the Catholic to plan and create an ΗΣΦ float for UC honorary held a paper airplane contest (for University of America was pleased to wel- Davis’ annual Picnic Day. This year’s accuracy, time of flight, and aerial acrobat- come its first new initiates this past spring theme? Caesar and his legionnaires march- ics). ΗΣΦ hosted our 13th annual charity after five years of inactivity. We inducted ing Cleopatra into the Roman forum. The bowlathon, Honorama, which once again 22 new members, and presented Dr. Sarah planning committee created a life-sized was won by the Accounting Club. The Ferrario as a candidate for honorary mem- replica of Cleopatra with paper mache, a Geek Week festivities case to a close with bership to our chapter. lectica to carry her through the parade, and the honorary putting on a play, Auricula In April, Eta Kappa held its first annual customized outfits, helmets, shields and Meretricula, which played to full houses on used book sale. We collected book dona- spears for every Roman soldier. The results both nights. tions from students, faculty, and the com- were simply regal. munity, and raised over $300 in one day. Our last major event of the year was Eta Zeta at Truman State The money will be used to fund a scholar- Classics Day, an intimate gathering of Eta Zeta chapter has had a very successful ship for future inductees in financial need. Classics majors and professors, to celebrate year, holding academic, service, and social We then donated the remaining books to a the year in Classics. We stoked some events as well as several fundraisers. local library. friendly competition with an Olympics of This Fall’s Classics “Alive and Kicking” Finally, all members of ΗΣΦ at the athleticism and wit with competitions such Series included a homecoming lecture on Catholic University of America are au- as javelin-toss, and Jeopardy game. We the benefits of a classical education for a tomatically also members of the Classics also took some time to initiate this year’s career in law by alumnus Jason Kempf, Club. This club was inactive over the same newest members into ΗΣΦ with an elegant presentations by our senior Classics majors period as the society. Throughout the year, wreath ceremony. To go out with a bang, at the Classics Capstone Symposium, and through the Classics Club, we participated we brought back Cleopatra, redubbed two epic, semi-metrical, oral readings: in numerous social events ranging from Cleo-piñata. Lacking access to asps, we Book A of the Iliad (in Greek) and Book celebrating classical holidays such as the instead opted to see her out with a friendly 4 of the Aeneid (in Latin). In the Spring, Saturnalia to introducing members to the piñata circle.

50 Eta Mu

Eta Omicron at Assumption College munity to attract students for Greek 101 in was “Angry Women.” We presented scenes The Eta Omicron Chapter had an active the fall. On March 21 Dr. Nancy deGrum- from various ancient Greek plays featur- year on campus. We met jointly with the mond gave an A.I.A. lecture on “Etruscan ing “angry women” and an adaptation of Classics Club during most of our events Human Sacrifice and Ritual”, which was Thesmophoriazusae. (of course excluding the initiation!) The indeed graphic. We concluded the semes- We also participated in the annual fall began with an organizational meet- ter’s activities with an early celebration Vergil Week activities including a Vergilian ing (with refreshments) on Sept. 28. On of Rome’s birthday on April 20. Students Footrace 5k, a Latin recitation contest, a Oct. 26 we held our popular annual “Paint met in the basement of Founders Halls, staged reading of Aeneid VI, a continuous, your own Pot or Pumpkin” event, which is which is really a giant storeroom and early all-day reading of the Aeneid in transla- open to the entire campus. Some interest- bomb shelter. There is housed a beautiful tion, and a symposium featuring lectures ing artwork resulted and also lots of fun. model of Rome in the fourth century a.d. on Vergil. The next day students were treated to an made many years ago by Father Richard We initiated four new members into American Institute of Archaeology Lec- Richards. While ducking plumbing ducts Theta Zeta Chapter. ture at Assumption by Dr. Jodi Magness we toasted Rome and celebrated with cake. speaking on excavations at Masada. On We adjourned upstairs for a brief discussion Theta Iota at Illinois Wesleyan Nov. 4 a small group went with Prof. Catto of the upcoming Olympics and next year’s This year, the Theta Iota chapter focused to the Worcester Art Museum to tour the activities. on community involvement, integration excellent classical collection as well as the with other departments, and recruitment. many classically themed paintings in the Theta Zeta at Case Western Reserve We began our year with a splash in Sep- European collection. We concluded the fall University tember, at our University’s annual student semester with a joint carol-singing with the This year we continued our very close organization fair. We provided baklava, Modern and Classical Languages and Cul- partnership with Atlantis, Case’s Classics mock battles, costumes, and information to tures Department on Dec. 7. Many carols Interest Club in holding a number of meet- students who stopped by. were sung in Latin as well as French! ings and Classics-themed movie nights. In order to increase interdepartmental During the second semester we some- In November, we helped host and cooperation, we cosponsored some talks how concentrated a flurry of activities participated in the Classics Department’s with other departments, especially in the in March. On the 12th we inducted 10 annual City Dionysia at which area high Humanities Division, to bring in a variety students (including two from Clark Uni- schools compete with each other in their of different speakers. Our monthly Ides versity who took Greek courses here) into adaptations of a Greek play and we con- Lecture Series featured a wide variety of our campus chapter and celebrated with tributed our own adaptation. This year’s events: Jim Westerman, an archaeologist the now customary baklava and pomegran- play was Sophocles’ Philoctetes. who excavated the Osireion in Egypt; a ate soda. March 15 saw our annual Ides After winter break, we held general monk, Hugh Feiss, who presented on love of March authentic Roman dinner with meetings and in April elected new officers. in St. Augustine; Dr. Antony Augoustakis, Chicken Apicius, Peas Vinaigrette, Caesar We participated in the Classics Depart- who discussed women in Flavian epic, and salad (of course), hummus and pita, and ment’s annual “Classics Outing” which Dr. Emanuel Mayer, who presented on the Roman cheesecake. On March 19th Prof. features presentations and skits by profes- Roman middle class. We had impressive Catto gave her presentation “Learn Greek sors of the department and from Atlantis turnouts for these events, including many in 50 minutes” to the Assumption com- and ΗΣΦ members. This year’s theme members of the local community.

51 Chapter Reports (Continued)

For our March Ides, we orchestrated a present a paper and many other students the program. Some of our activities are as 13-hour Homer-a-thon in honor of World attend. This is a daylong event that ends follows: Snacks with a Professor (students Poetry Day. We had students, faculty, with a banquet and some sort of classical in Classics classes meet with a professor in staff, alumni, and community members activity. Three of our students gave excel- order to network, gain insight into Classics stop in to read The Odyssey in six different lent papers this year: Evan Kaplan, “Heroic beyond the undergraduate level, and get to languages. In April, we initiated six new Honor: The Justice of Rage and Revenge”; know the professor level in a more casual members to ΗΣΦ. Andre Matlock, “’Nothing is Possible setting); an all-campus Aeneid reading; Anymore’: Myth and Violence in Pasolini’s Classics Study Abroad Panel; established Theta Lambda at Hamilton College Medea”; and LJ Scurfield, Omnes“ Legant: a (very successful) Relay for Life team that In the spring of 2011, the Theta Lambda Teaching Latin to Students with Learning raised over $2,200 for the Kenyon Relay chapter of ΗΣΦ inducted four new Disabilities.” for Life event; organized an Aeneid event members and in the fall of 2012 we Other plans that we implemented or with Mount Vernon High School (used inducted two new members and installed will soon implement include a series of passages of the Aeneid to divine students’ four officers. Together with Hamilton’s Friday afternoon discussions and coffee, in futures as done in the Middle Ages [aka Classics Club we have proposed a wide which we will talk about articles on clas- sortes Virgilianae], organized scansion races. variety of activities for the classics lovers sical topics that are accessible to everyone We are planning to make this an annual in our community. In the fall we enjoyed (for example, articles in Amphora); Classics event and to organize weekly drop-in tutor- our annual Halloween party, complete movie/TV nights, a Homerathon (12 hour ing sessions for all levels of Mount Vernon with carving ΗΣΦ pumpkins in Greek reading of one of Homer’s epics), and live Latin classes); established a blog (so that (for example, ΗΣΦ and ΕΙΜΙ)! We also sword fighting — Roman style! We also the department and all other interested hosted a delicious Mediterranean dinner hope to take a trip down to New York City parties can stay up-to-date with our doings. that was enjoyed by both members of to see a classical play and visit the Metro- Also, we posted profiles of the Kenyon ΗΣΦ and Classics Club and others who politan Museum. We also hope to design Classics majors and minors on the blog so are interested in our Classics community. new t-shirts for the chapter. Our metaphor- that underclassmen interested in Classics In the spring, a large group of us attended ical plate may seem full, but we have plenty can ask questions to current majors and a performance of Charles Mee’s Orestes of young, enthusiastic members eager to get minors with whom they can relate due to 2.0, an interesting adaptation of Euripides’ involved. participation in similar extracurriculars, Orestes, and afterwards held a discussion We would like to thank our officers etc), and designing a Classics department about the play (along with refreshments, of from the 2010–2011 academic year: t-shirt. We also reached out to nearby course). We had intended to make a trip Pyrtaneis: Kelsey Craw and Evan Kaplan chapters of ΗΣΦ in Ohio and are laying down to our neighbor SUNY-Binghamton Hyparchos: Kiernan Acquisto the groundwork for annual collaborative to see The Ghoul Next Door, a musical ver- Grammateus: Kirsten Swartz activities. sion of Plautus’ Mostellaria produced by our Chrysophylax: Marta Johnson colleague there John Starks. Unfortunately Pyloros: Andres Matlock Alpha Mu at the University of Missouri the play was right at the end of our exams, And our advisor: Professor Barbara Gold In the 2011–2012 academic year, three new and everyone was either studying or had members were initiated to the Alpha Mu left campus. Theta Pi at Kenyon College chapter: Jaclyn Herr, Michael Sipes, and Many of our members and students During the 2011–2012 school year, we con- Casey Peets. After initiation, the returning attended the annual Parilia conference tinued our initiative to make our chapter and new members quickly focused most (which Hamilton hosted last year); this more active. In accordance with this goal, of their energy on organizing the ΗΣΦ year it was at Skidmore College. This is our we organized events with other groups on National Convention, which they hosted annual undergraduate research conference campus and with groups in the community in March of 2012. After the convention, held together with Colgate, Union and around Kenyon. We also sought to increase Alpha Mu planned their annual Cena Skidmore. Each spring, on or near Rome’s interest in Classics on campus by hosting Deorum, a costume party where professors birthday, three students from each school events that would educate people about and students mingle over trivia and snacks.

52 Learn About the Fifth Annual COLLEGE GREEK EXAM Αἡ δοκιμασία τοῦ λόγου τε καὶ τοῦ νοῦ. Ω WHAT: The College Greek Exam (CGE) is a standardized national exam for students in their first year of college-level Greek.

Geared for students in their first year of instruction, the exam is available for students studying either Attic or Koine Greek. The grammar and vocabulary on the syllabus for the exam is based on frequency and thus not tied to any particular textbook or approach.

WHY: The National Greek Exam (NGE) has enjoyed increasing success every year among high school students, but college students at the beginning level have no opportunity to compete on an analogous exam. CGE follows the same format as that of the NGE: forty multiple-choice questions, thirty on the language in gen- eral and ten on a brief reading passage. This is a chance for your students to compete with other students across the country and for you and your administrators to show off your program on a national scale!

WHEN: We ask that you administer the exam during the week of March 11–15, 2013. If this is not possible, please contact us about alternative possibilities.

HOW: E-mail any of the committee members below by January 31, 2013 and provide (1) an address to ship the exams and (2) how many exams you will require. Visit www.dramata.com to download the syllabus and more information about the exam. If you have questions, just ask!

The College Greek Exam Committee: Antonios Augoustakis ([email protected]) Carolin Hahnemann ([email protected]) Wilfred E. Major, Chair ([email protected]) Mary Pendergraft ([email protected]) Tom Sienkewicz ([email protected]) Albert Watanabe ([email protected])

IT’S FREE! Because of support from the American Classical League, the Committee for the Promotion of Greek (part of the National Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek), Eta Sigma Phi, and Louisiana State University, there will be NO CHARGE for exams this year!

53 Membership Report for 2011–2012

As this issue of NUNTIUS went to press, been initiated in the 2012–13. That is a 472 new members had been initiated total of 631 new members. At the same into Eta Sigma Phi during the 2011–12 time last year 779 new members had been academic year and 159 new members had initiated.

New and Reactivated Chapters

New Chapters Reactivated Chapters

Iota Eta (Ohio Wesleyan University) Alpha Theta (Hunter College) Iota Theta (Whitman College) Chapters are considered deactivated if they Iota Iota (University of Texas at San have not initiated any new members in the Antonio) past four years. Reactivation is a simple Iota Kappa (Loyola University Chicago) process. All a deactivated chapter has to do is submit a report on new initiates to Petitions for new chapters at Luther Col- the executive secretary. lege, Rice University, and Wesleyan College, Virginia were also approved at the 2012 Annual Convention. A note from our reactivated chapter:

Eta Sigma Phi looks forward to welcom- Dear Ashley and Eamonn, ing members from these schools before the Thanks SO much for your wonderful help 2013 convention. According to the by-laws today with Alpha Theta’s rejuvenation if an initiation is not held by the next con- and initiation. It meant a tremendous vention, a school must resubmit its petition amount to me, my colleagues, and the Want to place an for a new chapter. Hunter students. Your enthusiasm, smarts, and self-possession made special our first ad in NUNTIUS?­ Hunter initiation in living memory! You gave a great sense of the kinds of activities Cost per issue for active a chapter can engage in and the many chapters: benefits and pleasures of being active at the national level. In another email I will write $25 (1/4 page); you and our prytanis so our chapters can keep in touch student-to-student. I really $40 (1/2 page); appreciate your having taken a whole day $75 (whole page). from your busy schedules to visit Hunter, to meet with us, and to perform the initiation. For other organizations: Ronnie Ancona $200 for full page on back cover, $150 for full page inside; Honorary Membership in Eta Sigma Phi $75 for half page; The purpose of honorary membership is to recognize individuals who have done $50 for quarter page. good service for Eta Sigma Phi but who never became members as students. Honor- ary memberships should be awarded sparingly. The Board of Trustees recently Send payment and electronic decided that the society should know more about those individuals honored in this way by local chapters. camera-ready copy to the editor.

54 Initiates July 1, 2011– December 31, 2011

Gamma (Ohio University) a meeting of Monmouth College classics Humphreys, Erin Pratt, Jacob Rex, Raghela Ellen Adams, Natalie Clager, Heather majors entitled “Why Classics?” Scavuzzo, Douglas Webster, Mariah Esterkamp, Joseph Laughman, Casey Zahnter (4-21-11) Neill, Ryan Swartz, Rachel Thomas, Katie Alpha Eta (University of Michigan) Tinsley (9-23-11) Virginia Chiao, Chelsea Cole, Ana Guay, Beta Pi (University of Arkansas) Amanda Hawley, Samantha Lash, John Clarissa Barlow, Annie Blankenship, Epsilon (University of Iowa) Lippert, Valneisha Morgan, Curtis Tate, Thomas Browder, Megan Dare, Cynthia Sarah Beal, Alec Johnson, Rebecca Schaff Derek Van De Walle (10-20-11) Fincher, Sharon Fox, Zach Harrod, Audra (5-3-11) Jackson, Josh Koerner, Justin K. Lindsey, Alpha Kappa (University of Illinois) Padma Mana, Katy Martin-Beal, Lydia Eta (Florida State University) Katherine Cantwell, Wesley Heap, Mallory Osborn, Matthew Owens, Sharon Possehl, Hunter J. Stephens (3-25-11) Niemiec, Elaine Orendorff (4-26-11) Jacob Purcell, Andrew Rexroat, Mariel Royan, Kyle Todd, Joshua Windsor Eta (Florida State University) Alpha Lambda (University of (12-10-11) Aaron Brown, Cory Granholm, Megan Oklahoma)­ Murphy, Aaron Richards, Mitchell Shelby Adams, Calley Barrett, Kaitlynn Beta Rho (Duke University) Whitehead (3-26-10); Heather Athas, Buettner-Scully, Lauren Davis, Matthew Darco Brown, Adrienne Cohen, Jennifer Chris Baker, Bethany Chasteen, Rob Elson, Christine Hickson, Diondra Goodrick, Rhyne King, Laura Puleo Flynn, Christina Graves, Tyler Hanes, Lindquist, Haley Mowdy, Mary Rischard, (11-27-11) Gracie Holden, Morgan Katsarelas, Kaylie Anthony Vogt (4-13-11) Kisiel, Chelsea Leach, Harrison Miller, Beta Upsilon (Marshall University) Andrea Schwab, Stephen Young (10-21-11) Alpha Sigma (Emory University) Lindsey Brown, Angelina Browning, Dohyun Ahn, Sarah Clayton, Carolyn Katherine L. Cavis, Justin Erwin, Julia Theta (Indiana University) Cohen, Raymond Nelson Colison, Eduardo Galloway, Kimberly E. Hughes, Natalie Marie Yvonne Crow, Elizabeth Oakley, Hazera, Andra Langoussis, Rebecca Tupta (4-27-11) Elizabeth Szymanski (4-9-11) McManus, Brittany Mayo, Daniel Moody, Edward F. Parker, Joseph Scott Turner Beta Psi (Rhodes College) Iota (University of Vermont) (10-18-11) J. Connor Cain, Jared Gab, Kilby Hodges, James Aglio, Alex Fowler, Janice Guion, Steven Johanson, Leah Joyner, Christopher Charles Hackett, Erin McElwain, Grace Alpha Omega (Louisiana State Perkins, Rebecca Vandewalle, Emily Nooney, Rachel Park, Tyler Rodgers, Dani ­University) Wehby (10-25-11) Torres, Lindsay Whittaker James Arceneaux, Laura Clesi, Angela Associate: Ally Carkin (4-15-11) Collins, Christiana Compton, Laura Beta Chi (Loyola University Maryland) Culpepper, William Dickinson, Charles Garrett Cardillo, Sidney Christman, Mu (University of Cincinnati) Lambdin, Angelica Nguyen, Hung V. Tran Sarah Haley, Grace Marconi, Mark Muth, Emily P. Blatz, David L. Eichert, Michelle (10-21-11) Samantha Prefontaine, Stephen Rosenthal, M. Martinez, Alexa E. Wainscott Jessica Schenck, Brittany Shalloo, (11-16-11) Beta Delta (University of Tennessee) Margaret Tighe, Anthony Vitti (4-29-11) Brandon Tyler Hall, Kerrie Hotz, Tau (University of Kentucky) Chauntele V. Scarlett, Anna M. Schmidt, Beta Omega (Ball State University) Lura Cash, Katie Gruber, Lisa Jagoda, Seth Allen Griffith Wilson (4-12-11) Brittany Byrum, William Cleland, Ashley Wilder (4-23-11) Honorary: John Lennard Friend Cummins, Tamara Edwards, Joel Erickson, Dr. Friend has been a visiting faculty Tyler Fields, Jeffrey Myers, Dane Rowles, Alpha Delta (Agnes Scott College) member in our department this year. He Nathan Trapuzzano, Shelly Turner, Tyler Morgan Bender, Jess LaJoie, Nhut Nguyen, has done an outstanding job of teaching Wolford (4-30-11) Kaela Singleton (10-30-11) both beginning and advanced Greek Honorary: Christine Maisto classes, while carrying a very heavy overall Gamma Omicron (Monmouth College) Chris Maisto has taught a wide variety of load. Abigail Davis, Mary Kate Guinea, Alexis courses on classical language and culture at Hendrix, Timothy Morris, Kimberly Ohio State University, UC Santa Barbara, Beta Beta (Furman University) Newlan (11-17-11) and Monmouth College. In addition, she Thomas Hydrick, Alex Patafio, Jacob is completing her dissertation on classical Waldrip (4-14-11) Gamma Pi (Saint Peter’s College) Greek rhetoric and has presented her John Holoduek, Taofik Oladipupo findings at national conferences around Beta Eta (Westminster College) (10-15-11) the country. She recently helped organize Jeff Chacko, Sarah Eshleman, Sarah

55 Initiates (Continued)

Gamma Sigma (University of Texas at Epsilon Psi (Santa Clara University) Pease, Corey Sadosky, Kelly Schmidt Austin) Anton Achondoa, Patrick Coutermarsh, (4-29-11) Fatima Amin, Lindsay Carter, Rachel Brenna Donnellan, John Hansen, Cartwright, Laura Bouldin Clark, Lindsey Cameran Haskins, Dana Knudsen, Eta Delta (Hillsdale College) E. Cook, Paige Fincher, Caitlin Gulihur, Mitchell Metling, Brendan Montgomery, Christene Diehr, Elizabeth Essley, Trevor Nicole M. Herzog, Sarah Luckey, Courtney Alexandra Palmer, Alexandra Reimer, A. Freudenburg, Emily S. Goodling, Jason Luster, Katelin McCullough, Joanie Murta, Victor Republicano, Rachel Saunders, Kelly, Mary Proffit Kimmel, Michael Patricia Ann Neuhoff (4-8-11) Tanya Schmidt, David Silver, Claire Smith Stephen Kreuz, Amanda Lack, Russell (5-31-11) Morey, Lauren Moroder, Catherine Delta Alpha (Randolph College) Orban, Alisha Margaret Pehlert, Haley Conrad Bailey, Tierney Dickinson, Lindsay Epsilon Chi (University of South Nicole Pelissier, Hannah Strickland, Carl K. Wood (3-28-11) Florida) Vennerstrom (2-4-11) Honorary: Jay Kardan Kellie Brandenstein, Danielle Goldsby, Jay has served our chapter members as a Christen Graves, Manasa Kanithi, Joseph Eta Mu (University of California, Davis) professor and as the translator of the most D. Paquette, Danielle Sommers, Meagan Jia Y. Chong, Tess Fischer, Danielle recent Randolph College Greek Play. He Strasser, Alyssa Williams, Kristina Wright, Ashton, Rebecca Bloom, Michael Boal, attends every event and supports chapter Gina T. Young Taylor Burt, Carolyn Carey, Daniel members enthusiastically. Associate: Orie Byars (4/30/11) Contreras, Esther Dicarlo, Sarah El-Jurf, Andrew Harrison, Aaron Heuckroth, Delta Zeta (Colgate University) Zeta Epsilon (Rutgers University) Robert Hoile, Emily Huang, Samuel Lee, Gwynne Gallagher Benjamin Bhamdeo, John Eibelheuser, Michael Keith Penich, Cassaundra Potter, James Enny, Margaret Green, Danielle Veerpal Sanga, Kristal Serna, David Delta Sigma (University of California, Jessen, Meghan Kiernan, Nicholas Welch, Anne Wormhoudt (5-28-11) Irvine) McMahon, Marisa Michaelsen, Jungmin Dorin Dorin, Melani Fung, Kenneth W. Park, Leann Rosannia, Amelia Scruggs, Eta Phi (Union College) Lai, Ashton Sanderson (5-27-11) Nicholas Tanzi, Gabriel Toth, Zoe Watnik, Daniele Beauman, Emily Cassello, Marica Jordan Zavatsky Dacey, Anna Gagnon, Laura Gribbell, Delta Tau (University of Delaware) Associate: Aaron Hershkowitz (4-25-11) Lillian Hamill, Holly Havel, Jefri Mesa, Katrina Bleeker, Joel Cooper, Morgan Thao Nguyen, Brianna Ogas, Samantha Danko, Rebecca Holloway, Jessica Palmer, Zeta Lambda (University of Louisville) Peper, Melinda Rothman, Kenia Valdez, Dana Putzakulish, Susan Van Dyke, Rebecca Gowan, Leigh Hadley, Sandra Omer Zaidi (5-11-11) Dennis West (9-28-11) McCaffrey, Emily Moran, William Richardson (11-18-11) Eta Xi (California State University) Epsilon Nu (Creighton University) Christina Batshoun, Sofie Batshoun, Taylor Benson, Colleen Blosser, Brent Zeta Pi (University of Utah) Sarah McGinnis, Elliott Quesada, Melissa Bruck, Damian Daszynski, Rance Victoria Gray, Robert Kraft, Ryan Sanchez, Austin Secrest, Steven Urmanski, Fujiwara, Casey Keel, Murielle Lemon, Nakamura, David Newman, Justin Parnell, Zachary Vaccaro, Mary Paula Votendahl Ximing Lu, Joseph Maschman, Anne Ashley Reader (4-2-11) Associate: Anthony Stevenson (4-29-11) Mirich, Rachel Morse, Miriam Murray, Andi Ngo, Matthew Ravizza, Justin Zeta Sigma (University of Minnesota) Theta Delta (Seton Hall University) Schramm, Irene Sun, Stella Tom, Erin Natalie Birch, Stephanie Carlson, Jared Luca Battaglia, Christopher Di Pietro, Triplet, Zachary Woolfolk (4-15-11) Desjardins, Tim Magnuson, Kathryn Dana Kappel, Jessica Kohler, Ashley McCormack, Eva Meierhoff, Matt Niehoff, Lorenzo, Eva Morozko, Angela Peate, Epsilon Tau (Beloit College) Kelsey Pixler, Elise Poppen, Emma Milana Shakhnazaryan, Jana Soska, Amber Dormain, Carrie Hatcher, Graham Quarnstrom, Daniel Shoemake, Stephen Angelica Szani (5-1-11) Lowden, Evan Michaels, Li Shen, Rachel Wagner, Ann Zitzmann Simon (11-13-11) Associate: M. Christine Marquis (4-20-11) Theta Lambda (Hamilton College) Kathleen Anne Jossi Conners, Marta Epsilon Upsilon (University of New Zeta Upsilon (Sweet Briar College) Hourigan Johnson (9-28-11) Hampshire) Carol Ferguson, Melaina Macone, Mary Henry Barnes, Michael D’Angelo, Adrienne O’Donnell, Stephanie Prato (3-28-11) Theta Pi (Kenyon College) Drummy, Alexandra Gennaro, David Irvin, Trevor Ezell, Charlotte Graham, Tess Jac-leen Nash, Alexander Newman, Julia Zeta Chi (Xavier University) Hilliard, Jake Jordan, Joe Murphree Ong, Victoria Ritchie, Karilyn Sheldon, John Appeldorn, James Vondenberg, John (9-28-11) Jocelyn Thibault (12-10-11) Farkas, Craig Krcal, Nick Palella, Nick

56 Ubi Sunt Alumni Nostri?

Theta Sigma (Wright State University) Beta Kappa at College of Notre Dame of and Eta Gamma chapter Hyparchos Corey Bodine, Angelique Branim, Jason Maryland: (2003–2004) Katherine Morrow Jones Buchanan, Samantha Doggett, Christine Geri Thommen is completing her Ph.D. in DePalma has recently been promoted Haney, Allison Hart, Karen Hartfelder, Art History at the University of Florida, to Group Managing Editor of Barefoot Dawn Luker (5-22-11) with an emphasis on ancient Rome. Books, an independent children’s publish- Sara Priebe is teaching high school ing company based out of Cambridge, MA Theta Tau (Richard Stockton College Latin and music in Baltimore. and Oxford, UK. DePalma has recently of NJ) Megan Good completed her MA in served as the editor of a gorgeous illus- Kristin Davisson, Dana England, Theresa December and is now Director of Archives trated children’s version of the Iliad called Giordano, Laith Hamdan, Frederick Heyer, and Library at the Independence Seaport The Adventures of Achilles, which debuted Kim Koering, Chelsea Quitter, Christine Museum in Philadelphia. in August 2012 to rave reviews. She is Velott, Amber Wertz (10-3-11) currently creating a line of Greek mythol- Theta Lambda at Hamilton College: ogy chapter books for early readers to be Theta Upsilon (University of North We would like to congratulate our own released in 2013. Texas) Casey Green (’09), who presented a paper Alissa Felhbaum, Elliot Kidd, Caitlin at the ΗΣΦ panel at the APA meeting in Eta Tau at UNC Asheville: McNutt, Jessica Miller, Amanda Pullen, January 2010. We hope to have more of Our former Prytanis (2008–2009) Ben Travis Qualls, Clarissa Redwine, Lily our members involved in giving papers at Alexander has finished his student teach- Rotering, Kaitlyn Schroeder, James Smith the joint APA/ΗΣΦ panels. ing at TC Roberson High School this (5-1-08) semester. Before finishing, he landed a job Eta Gamma at Loyola University New as the Latin Teacher at White Knoll High Iota Gamma (Samford University) Orleans: School in Lexington, SC. Conner Davis, Mary Kathryn Jorgensen, Former Megalē Hyparchos (2004–2005) Alex McLure, Nathan Smolin, Rebecca Wiggins (10-3-11) Honorary: Dr. Andy Montgomery Dr. Montgomery is a favorite professor and valued mentor to many of our members, and inspires a love for the classics in Lifetime Subscription to NUNTIUS many students, whether they be majors or minors, Latinists or Hellenists. He is a If you wish to continue receiving news about Eta Sigma Phi after graduation, you success with both beginning and advanced can receive a lifetime subscription to NUNTIUS, with payment of a one-time fee students, and combines academic rigor, of $50.00 made payable to Eta Sigma Phi and mailed, along with this form to: humor, love for the classics and concern for his students in the best possible way. His David H. Sick Rome abroad class and his Augustine class Greek and Roman Studies are particular highlights for one member, Rhodes College who is also grateful for his patient and 2000 N. Parkway candid advice about graduate school. He Memphis, TN 38112 dedicates time outside of class and office Phone: 901-843-3907 hours to helping students, despite his Fax: 901-843-3633 very busy schedule. We are lucky to have e-mail: [email protected] him here at Samford and hope that the national organization will approve him for Name: ______membership. Street Address: ______

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57 Student Recognitions on the 2012 National Latin Exam

Here is the list of Colleges and Universities Blake Ham, Cum Laude Maria Dimitrououlos, Magna Cum Laude who administered the 2011 National Latin Marcie Persyn, Gold Summa Cum Laude Robert Ferraro, Cum Laude Exam. Those marked in bold have active Erika Smith, Gold Summa Cum Laude Joseph Mcphee, Silver Maxima Cum Laude chapters of ΗΣΦ. Caris Scantlebury, Cum Laude Christendom College Sabina Slade, Gold Summa Cum Laude Ave Marie University Instructor: Edward Strickland Akeyla Todd, Gold Summa Cum Laude Baylor University (TX) Latin II Clarissa Tse, Cum Laude Christendom College Robert Crnkovich, Cum Laude Marist Verastegui, Gold Summa Cum Laude Gainesville State College Kimberly Day, Magna Cum Laude Hunter College (NY) Noah Delacruz, Cum Laude Loyola Marymount University (CA) Loyola Marymount University (CA) John Federline, Cum Laude Instructor: Matthew Dillon Macalester College (MN) Melanie Hofbauer, Silver Maxima Cum Prose III Monmouth College (IL) Laude Payton Lyon, Magna Cum Laude Notre Dame of Maryland University Daniel Mcdowell, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Katherine Pagan, Gold Summa Cum Laude St. Norbert College (WI) Marius Mello, Magna Cum Laude Jordan Christopher, Gold Summa Cum Laude Stanford University Gabrielle Muskett, Cum Laude Christopher Gipson , Gold Summa Cum Thomas Moore College of Liberal Arts Sarah Nutter, Magna Cum Laude Laude Truman State University (MO) Brian Rankin, Magna Cum Laude Matthew Rice , Magna Cum Laude University of Mary Washington (VA) Jessica Schmitz, Cum Laude Prose IV University of North Carolina at Stephen-Treacy, Cum Laude Matthew Sasaki , Gold Summa Cum Laude Greensboro (NC) Mark Turner, Magna Cum Laude University of Oklahoma (OK) Melody Wood, Magna Cum Laude Macalester College (MN) University of Richmond (VA) Latin III Instructor: Nanette Goldman University of South Florida CPR (FL) Colleen Anderson, Magna Cum Laude Poetry IV Wake Forest University (NC) Klarissa Blank, Magna Cum Laude Rachel Biesse, Cum Laude Washington State University (WA) Gloria Connolly, Cum Laude Caitlin Snodgrass, Magna Cum Laude Mica Davis, Magna Cum Laude Rebecca Boylan, Gold Summa Cum Laude Brandon Edge, Gold Summa Cum Laude Tosca Saltz, Magna Cum Laude COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY John Foeckler, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Lindsay Morehouse, Gold Summa Cum AWARD WINNERS Nicholas Gossin, Cum Laude Laude Sophia Jackson, Cum Laude Matthew Lesicko, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Ave Marie University Darren Johnson, Gold Summa Cum Laude Hannah Trostle, Gold Summa Cum Laude Instructor: Andrew Dinan Timothy Johnston, Silver Maxima Cum John Grasso, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Latin III Laude Claire Prewitt, Cum Laude Monica David, Gold Summa Cum Laude Maribeth Kelly, Cum Laude Alexander Zozulin, Magna Cum Laude Kathryn Dionne, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Michael Kopp, Gold Summa Cum Laude Paul Dittus, Gold Summa Cum Laude Jordan Mann, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Monmouth College (IL) Mary Hardy, Gold Summa Cum Laude Kathryn Mccoy, Magna Cum Laude Instructor: Thomas Sienkewicz Ian Johanni, Cum Laude Erin Moore, Gold Summa Cum Laude Latin II Perko Roxanne, Gold Summa Cum Laude Peter Romanchuk, Silver Maxima Cum Lauren Becker, Cum Laude Caitlin Tweedie, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Laude Lester Mackey, Magna Cum Laude Megan Vilardi, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Margaret Santschi, Magna Cum Laude Latin VI Brendan Weston, Gold Summa Cum Laude Roseanne Spieringi, Magna Cum Laude Timothy Morris, Magna Cum Laude Daniel Whitehead, Silver Maxima Cum Dominic Vieira, Gold Summa Cum Laude Laude Rebecca Willen, Gold Summa Cum Laude Notre Dame of Maryland University Instructor: Sr Theresa Dougherty Baylor University (TX) Gainesville State College Latin II Instructors: J Hejduk/A Smith/D Hanchey Instructor: Jaime Claymore Sabrina Cummings, Silver Maxima Cum Latin V Latin II Laude Wilson Rohrman, Magna Cum Laude Paul Glaze, Magna Cum Laude Madeleine Grewell, Silver Maxima Cum Latin VI Gordon Purcell, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Laude Ian Conn, Gold Summa Cum Laude Amal Malik, Gold Summa Cum Laude Jamie Jackson, Gold Summa Cum Laude Hunter College (NY) Poetry III Instructors: Ronnie Ancona/Paul Mcbreen St. Norbert College (WI) Jeff Cross, Gold Summa Cum Laude Latin II Instructor: William Hyland

58 Latin II Kristen Callahan, Cum Laude Latin VI Mark Wisniewski, Cum Laude Ryan Donaldson, Magna Cum Laude Abigail Johnson, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Joel Van Fossen, Magna Cum Laude Erica Mathews, Cum Laude Aimee Plaisance, Gold Summa Cum Laude Matthew Mahon, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Cody Reibsome, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Poetry III Catherine Schlupp, Magna Cum Laude Gerald Giordano, Cum Laude Stanford University Joseph Gribb, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Instructor: John Klopacz University of North Carolina at Milos Jovanovic, Cum Laude Latin II Greensboro (NC) Fionna Poon, Cum Laude James Brannon, Magna Cum Laude Instructor: David Wharton Louisa Raymond, Magna Cum Laude Victoria Chang, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Poetry IV Brandon Ruetsch, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Derek Deroche, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Joseph Lee Harris, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Veronica Shreve, Gold Summa Cum Laude Hannah Farley, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Latin VI Gregory Wilhelm, Magna Cum Laude Vidal George, Gold Summa Cum Laude Emily Gering, Gold Summa Cum Laude Chris Herries, Gold Summa Cum Laude University of South Florida CPR (FL) Victoria Kennedy, Cum Laude University of Oklahoma (Ok) Instructors: John Noonan and Eleni Charlotte Martin, Gold Summa Cum Laude Instructor: John Hansen Manolaraki Nora Martin, Gold Summa Cum Laude Latin III Latin III Jack Martinez, Gold Summa Cum Laude Ian Black, Magna Cum Laude Alan Gerlach, Gold Summa Cum Laude Zachary Smith, Gold Summa Cum Laude Michael Bordwine, Cum Laude Daniel Mesa, Gold Summa Cum Laude Pablo Wudka-Robles, Silver Maxima Cum Elizabeth Braden, Gold Summa Cum Laude Aaron Malles, Cum Laude Laude Elisabeth Branam, Magna Cum Laude Helen Phillips, Gold Summa Cum Laude Logan Branscum, Cum Laude John Seary, Gold Summa Cum Laude Thomas Moore College of Liberal Arts Will Bryant, Cum Laude Suzannah Turnage, Gold Summa Cum Laude Instructor: Fred Fraser Kenneth Catlett, Cum Laude Jason Bornstein, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Latin II J-Ted Curtis, Magna Cum Laude Jennifer Royce, Gold Summa Cum Laude Cecilia Black, Gold Summa Cum Laude Tim Curtis, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Prose IV Rachel Bertotti, Cum Laude Robert Flippo, Magna Cum Laude Paul Vinhage, Gold Summa Cum Laude Amy Green, Cum Laude Sara Hawkins, Magna Cum Laude Jade Sutfin, Magna Cum Laude Stephen Herreid, Cum Laude Sam Holbert, Cum Laude Vincent Rivas-Flores, Gold Summa Cum Christian Jewell, Gold Summa Cum Laude Greg Kaplan, Gold Summa Cum Laude Laude Ian Kosko, Gold Summa Cum Laude Jacob Mitchell, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Eric Spunde, Gold Summa Cum Laude Shane Rogers, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Kendra Norman, Cum Laude Isaac Lyles-Smith, Gold Summa Cum Laude David Oakley, Cum Laude Wake Forest University (NC) Teresa Webster, Cum Laude Drew Powell, Cum Laude Instructor: Mary Pendergraft Dylan Worthy, Gold Summa Cum Laude Bradley Snider, Cum Laude Latin V Prose III John Sutton, Cum Laude Brandon Turner, Cum Laude Brennan Kroger, Cum Laude Kathleen Taylor, Magna Cum Laude Jim Le, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Aleth Sergent, Magna Cum Laude Katherine Torrico, Cum Laude John Crosthwaite, Magna Cum Laude Prose IV Alexandra Wright, Silver Maxima Cum Erin Pope, Magna Cum Laude Ine An, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Laude Travis Jones, Cum Laude Latin VI Amy Templin, Magna Cum Laude Truman State University (MO) Amy Brackenbury, Magna Cum Laude Instructor: Rebecca Harrison Lauren Davis, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Washington State University (WA) Latin VI Hannah Decker, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Instructor: Dr Robin Bond Curtis Westbay, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Gerard Keiser, Gold Summa Cum Laude Latin II Sarah Spradling, Gold Summa Cum Laude Kelly Taylor, Gold Summa Cum Laude Thomas Pankau, Gold Summa Cum Laude Lauren Milburn, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Poetry IV David Giovagnoli, Gold Summa Cum Laude Scully Buettner, Cum Laude Claire Albrecht, Gold Summa Cum Laude Sara Nealey, Magna Cum Laude Prose IV University of Mary Washington (VA) Bradley Heldmann, Cum Laude Instructors: Olga Arans/Elizabeth Heimbach Anthony Vogt, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Poetry IV Christina Bendo, Gold Summa Cum Laude University of Richmond (VA) Lori Brown, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Instructors: Walt Stevenson/Erika Damer

59 WHY ADMINISTER THE NATIONAL LATIN EXAM TO COLLEGE STUDENTS?

• TO GIVEn TO STUDENTS GIVE STUDENTS A SENSE A SENSE OF OF GROWTHGROWTH AND AND ACHIEVEMENT ACHIEVEMENT

- Certificates -Certificates and andmedals medals are aregiven given by by the the NLENLE toto high-performing high-performing college college students, students, just as just they as are they are to high schoolto high schoolstudents. students. - The names -The namesand institutions and institutions of all of allcollege college students students whowho perform perform well well on theon NLEthe areNLE published are published each year each year in the in the summer summer issue issue of of Nuntius, Nuntius the, the Eta SigmaEta Sigma Phi newsletter, Phi newsletter, which is accessible which is online. accessible online.

• TO ACTn TO AS ACT AN AS OUTCOMES AN OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT TOOL TOOL

- The NLE -The provides NLE provides an objective, an objective, external external check check on howhow well well an an institution’s institution’s students students are performing are performing both within both the within institution the institution and compared and compared to other to other students students at at the the samesame level level across across the thecountry. country. - The NLE is not based on any one textbook. Instead, a syllabus for each exam level is posted online. -The NLE is not based on any one textbook. Instead, a syllabus for each exam level is posted online.

• TO JOINn TO THE JOIN OVER THE OVERTWENTY TWENTY COLLEGES COLLEGES AND AND UNIVERSITIES UNIVERSITIES THAT THAT ADMINISTERED ADMINISTERED THE NATIONAL THE NATIONAL LATIN LATIN EXAM EXAM TO TOTHEIR THEIR STUDENTS STUDENTS LAST LAST YEAR

4 Austin Peay State University (TN) ► Ave4 Maria Ave Maria University University (FL) (FL) ► 4St. Truman Norbert State University College (MO) (WI) 4 University of Houston (TX) ► Baylor4 Baylor University University (TX)(TX) ► Truman State University (MO) 4 4 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL) ► College College of Notreof Notre DameDame (MD) (MD) ► University of Illinois at Urbana- 4 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (CHINA) 4 University of Mary Washington ► (VA)* (Liane Houghtalin) Hong4 HunterKong College University (NY) of Science & Champaign (IL) 4 University of North Carolina at Greensboro (NC) Technology4 Laramie County (CHINA) Community College (WY) ► University of Mary Washington (VA)* 4 University of Oklahoma (OK) ► 4 Loyola Marymount University (CA) Hunter College (NY) 4(Liane University Houghtalin) of Richmond (VA) 4 Monmouth College (IL)* (Tom Sienkewicz) ► ► 4 University of South Florida (FL) Kalamazoo4 Mt. San Antonio College College (MI) (CA) University of North Carolina at 4 Wake Forest University (NC) ► Laramie4 St. Norbert County College Community (WI) Greensboro (NC) 4 Washington State University (WA) College (WY) ► University of Oklahoma (OK) ► Loyola Marymount VISITUniversity THE NLE WEBSITE(CA) TO VIEW ► University PAST EXAMS of AND Richmond (VA) ► Macalester CollegeINSTRUCTIONS (MN) ON ADMINISTERING THE► University NLE TO COLLEGE of STUDENTSSouth Florida (FL) Application deadline: January 18, 2011 ► Monmouth College (IL)* ► Wake Forest University (NC) http://www.nle.org (Tom Sienkewicz) ► Washington State University (WA) Contact Liane Houghtalin [email protected] ► Shahid Beheshti University (IRAN) or Tom Sienkewicz [email protected], the NLE’s college consultants, with questions. VISITVISIT THE THE NLE NLE WEBSITE WEBSITE TO VIEW VIEW PAST PAST EXAMS EXAMS AND AND INSTRUCTIONSINSTRUCTIONS ON ON ADMINISTERING ADMINISTERING THE THE NLE NLE TO TO COLLEGECOLLEGE STUDENTSSTUDENTS ApplicationApplication deadline: deadline: JanuaryJanuary 18,18, 2013 2012 www.nle.orgwww.nle.org ContactContact Liane HoughtalinHoughtalin ([email protected]) [email protected] oror Tom Mary Sienkewicz Pendergraft [email protected], ([email protected]), thethe NLE’s NLE’s collegecollege consultants,consultants, with with questions. questions.

60 NLE Guidelines for College Students

The use of the NLE is encouraged at the If it is not possible for all students at all college level. Various colleges and universi- levels at your institution to be examined ties have been offering the NLE to their at the same time, then consult with the students for many years now and have Office of the NLE (1-888-378-7721/ nle@ found that, not only does it boost the con- umw.edu) for permission to have the differ- fidence of the students taking Latin, but it ent classes take the NLE at different times. Photos Wanted for can also serve as an outcomes assessment The name of the Chair of the depart- NUNTIUS exam for those students. College instruc- ment or of a dean, etc., may be used for the tors should follow the standard application block on the application form that asks for Do you want to see photos of and administrative procedures, with slight the name of the principal. Since it is rec- variations. (See below.) ommended that the exam’s administrator members of your chapter in open the test packet when it arrives and the next issue of ­NUNTIUS? LEVELS: count the exams, a departmental secretary • Do NOT administer the Introduction may be a good choice for the administrator If so, please e-mail electronic to Latin Exam to college/university of the exam. In a case where an institution copies to the editor of NUN- students. has received permission to have different TIUS at [email protected]. • Administer the NLE level I ONLY classes take the NLE at different times, the to students who are taking their administrator would oversee the overall Press deadline for the next first college/university semester of distribution of the exams to, and collec- issue is December 15. elementary Latin in the spring of the tion from, those designated to administer year. Please note that this is a rare the NLE to the various classes. In any circumstance and may be questioned by event, the administrator must be someone Please be sure your photos the Office of the NLE. who is NOT teaching a class that is going are high resolution! • Administer the NLE level II to those to take the NLE. Remember, no teacher who are taking their second semester of whose class is taking the NLE at any level To ensure high quality re- elementary Latin in the spring. is allowed access to the exams until the production, please set your • Administer the NLE level III to those Tuesday after the last date the test can be camera to a high resolution who are taking their first semester of administered. or high quality setting. Use intermediate Latin in the spring. Awards, including certificates and a three megapixel camera or • Administer the NLE level IV (either medals, as well as individual scores, the better if possible. poetry or prose) to those who are taking national norms, and an answer key will be their second semester of intermediate sent to college instructors in the same way If you use a photo from Latin in the spring. that they are sent to high school instruc- the web, be aware it must be • Those students who are taking a first tors. Students taking the exam in college, two to three times as large and only semester of intensive elemen- however, are not eligible for the NLE on screen as you expect it to tary Latin in the spring should take scholarships. appear in print. Web photos level II if they started the semester in College students who earn certificates are typically 72 dpi, but print January and level I if they started it after and/or medals for their performance on January (likewise for intensive intermedi- the NLE are eligible to have their names reproduction requires at least ate Latin). listed in the Eta Sigma Phi Newsletter, the 200 dpi, so photos must be • Colleges and universities offering multi- NUNTIUS. To make sure that the editor much larger to begin with. ple terms, rather than two semesters over of the NUNTIUS receives the names of On some websites you the usual autumn-spring academic year, your institution’s winners, please check can click on a photo for a should calculate what their terms mean that the name of your institution includes larger version. Otherwise in comparison to semesters and consult one of the following words or abbreviations with the Office of the NLE (1-888-378- on the score sheets sent to you, “col- consider asking the subject 7721/ [email protected]) concerning the lege,” “coll.,” “col.,” “clg.,” “c.,” university,” or webmaster if an original is correct examination to administer. “univ.,” or “u.” If it does not, or if there is available. • Administer the NLE Level V to those any doubt, then consult directly with the If you scan a picture, set the who are taking their first semester of newsletter editor, Georgia Irby (glirby@ scanner at 300 dpi if available advanced Latin in the spring. wm.edu). and scan at about the size you • Administer the NLE Level VI to those who are beyond their first semester of expect the picture to appear advanced Latin. in print.

61 ETA SIGMA PHI ANNUAL SUMMER TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS

The Trustees of Eta Sigma Phi are pleased to announce the following scholarships. Nota bene: Separate application for admission to the desired program must be made to AAR, ASCSA, or VS.

The Scholarship to the Classical Summer School at the American Academy in Rome has a value of $3,425. Programs Department, American Academy in Rome, 7 East 60 St., New York NY 10022-1001. http://www.aarome.org/ summer/css/. E-mail: [email protected]. Please contact AAR about their application forms and deadlines.

The Brent Malcolm Froberg Scholarship to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens has a a value of $2,900, which includes the remission of one-half of all fees by the American School. (Eta Sigma Phi pays half of all fees and ASCSA the other half.) American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 6-8 Charlton St., Princeton, NJ 08540-5232. http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/. E-mail: [email protected]. Please contact ACSA about their application forms and deadlines.

At either of the above summer sessions, six semester hours of credit may be earned and applied toward an advanced degree in Classics at most graduate schools, provided that arrangements have been made in advance with the graduate school.

Eligibility: Eligible to apply for the above scholarships are Eta Sigma Phi members and alumni who have received a Bachelor’s degree within the last eight years, or shall have received it before the end of the current academic year, and who have not received a doctoral degree.

The Theodore Bedrick Scholarship to the Vergilian Society at Cumae has a value of $2,800, which includes the remission of one-half the tuition fee by the Vergilian Society. Note: Only tours in Italy are covered by this scholarship. Please contact the Vergilian Society about their application forms and deadlines. Antonio Leonardis, Landon School, 6101 Wilson Lane, Bethesda MD 20817. E-mail: [email protected].

Eligibility for the Bedrick Scholarship: In addition to those eligible for the first two scholarships are Eta Sigma Phi members who have sophomore or junior status during the current academic year. Preference for the scholarship will be given to such undergraduate members.

Selection of recipients is made by the Eta Sigma Phi Scholarship Committee. In selecting the recipient of each scholarship, the committee gives weight to the quality of the applicant’s work in Greek and Latin, intention to teach at the pre-collegiate or college level, and contribution to the activities of Eta Sigma Phi at the local and national level.

Annual Deadline for completed scholarship applications: February 1st. The recipients will be announced about March 15th.

Scholarship application information and forms are available on-line at http://www.etasigmaphi.org/scholarships

For futher information, questions related to these scholarships should be directed to Dr. Molly Pasco-Pranger, Chair of the Eta Sigma Phi Summer Scholarship Committee, Department of Classics, P. O. Box 1848, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, (662) 915-7097 (work), (662) 915-5654 (fax), [email protected].

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62 Eta Sigma Phi H. R. Butts Summer Scholarship for Fieldwork in Classical Archaeology

Eligibility Active membership in Eta Sigma Phi Preference will be given to undergraduates who have had not yet had experience in archaeological fieldwork, but experienced fieldworkers and graduate students are also welcome to apply.

Award $2000.00 to support fieldwork experience at an archaeological site in the Greco-Roman world.

Application http://department.monm.edu/classics/esp/scholarships/fieldworkapplication.html Applicants will submit a transcript of all undergraduate work, two (2) letters of recommendation, and a statement not to exceed 500 words, stating briefly their background and preparation for the program to which they are applying, and how participation in this program fits their future plans. The Committee expects applicants to have contacted the director of their preferred field school(s).

Deadline (receipt) February 1st

Announcement The recipient will be announced at the National Convention (March/April). The selection committee is appointed by the Eta Sigma Phi Board of Trustees. For further information and questions, please contact the Committee Chair:

Professor Liane Houghtalin Department of Classics, Philosophy and Religion University of Mary Washington 1301 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 (540) 654-1345 Email: [email protected]

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63 ETA SIGMA PHI Maurine Dallas Watkins Translation Contests 2013

Sixty-Third Annual Greek Translation Contest Advanced: This contest consists of the sight translation of a passage in Greek which is considered within the comprehension of students beyond the second year of college Greek.

Intermediate: This contest consists of the sight translation of a passage in Greek which is considered within the comprehension of students in the second year of college Greek (courses commonly designated by numbers at the 200 or 2000 level). It is intended for such students only.

Koiné: This contest consists of the sight translation of a passage of Koiné Greek which is considered within the comprehension of students in the second year of college Greek or beyond.

Sixty-Second Annual Latin Translation Contest Advanced: This contest consists of the sight translation of a passage in Latin which is considered within the comprehension of students beyond the second year of college Latin.

Intermediate: This contest consists of the sight translation of a passage in Latin which is considered within the comprehension of students in the second year of college Latin (courses commonly designated by numbers at the 200 or 2000 level). It is intended for such students only.

Forty-Sixth Annual Latin Prose Composition Contest This contest consists of the translation of a passage of English into Latin. The contest is intended for advanced students of Latin who are in their third or fourth year of college Latin. Contestants may use a dictionary (without paradigms), e.g., Cassell’s.

Prizes For the advanced contests, including the Latin Prose Composition Contest, first prize will be $100.00, second prize $75.00, and third prize $50.00. For the intermediate contests, first prize will be $75.00, second prize $50.00, and third prize $40.00. All winners will also receive a certificate of recognition.

Eligibility The contests are open to undergraduates in classes in Greek and/or Latin in colleges and universities that have active chapters of Eta Sigma Phi. Up to three students may enter each contest.

Deadlines E-mailed requests for testing materials should be sent to Joseph Garnjobst ([email protected]) by February 22, 2013. These materials will be sent as e-mail attachments to the adviser, who will make copies as needed and administer the tests during the week of February 25–March 1, 2013. (If paper copies of testing materials are desired, such a request must be received by February 1.) Completed tests must be returned with a postmark no later than Saturday, March 4, 2013. Winners will be announced in conjunction with the 85th Annual Convention (April 5–7) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

64 APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED for THE ETA SIGMA PHI BERNICE L. FOX TEACHER TRAINING SCHOLARSHIP

Eligibility: Eta Sigma Phi members • who are now teaching, or preparing to teach, at the pre-collegiate level, • who have received a Bachelor’s degree within the last ten years; or who expect to receive it before the summer of current academic year; • and who have not received a doctoral degree.

The Award of $500 will support a summer activity contributing to the recipient’s preparation for teaching (e.g., American Classical League Institute, the Kentucky Language Institute, or the Illinois Pedagogy Workshop) or university courses leading to certification.

To apply: go to http://www.etasigmaphi.org/scholarships/teacher-training The committee who will select the scholarship recipient was appointed by the Eta Sigma Phi Board of Trustees. Its members are Bridget Thomas of Truman State University (chair), Mary Pendergraft of Wake Forest University, and Timothy Moore of Washington University in St. Louis. In selecting the recipient of each scholarship, the committee gives attention to the quality of the applicant’s work in Greek and Latin, intention to teach at the secondary-school or college level, and contribution to the activities of Eta Sigma Phi at the local and national level.

Annual Application Deadline: February 1st The recipient will be announced at the National Convention.

This scholarship honors Bernice L. Fox, who taught English, Latin and Greek at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, from 1947 to 1981, and who served as chair of the Department of Classics from 1970 until her retirement in 1981. Throughout her long and dynamic career she worked tirelessly to promote the Classics in Illinois high schools and colleges. In 1956 she founded Monmouth College’s Gamma Omicron Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi. She was the author of Tela Charlottae, the Latin translation of E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web. In 1991 Monmouth College conferred on her the honorary degree of Doctor­ of Humane Letters. She died in 2003.

The committee who will select the scholarship recipient was appointed by the Eta Sigma Phi Board of Trustees. Its members are Sister Thérèse Marie Dougherty of Loyola College of Maryland, Bridget Thomas ofTruman State University (chair), Timothy Moore of Washington University in St. Louis.

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65 Eta Sigma Phi Convention Hosts 1925–2013

1st 1925 Alpha at the University of Chicago 43rd 1971 Beta Zeta at Saint Louis University 2nd 1926 Beta at Northwestern University 44th 1972 Gamma Kappa at Heidelberg College 3rd 1927 Gamma at Ohio University 45th 1973 Alpha Phi at Millsaps College 4th 1928 Epsilon at State University of Iowa 46th 1974 Gamma Theta at Georgetown College 5th 1929 Upsilon at Mississippi State College for Women 47th 1975 Eta at Florida State University 6th 1930 Omicron at the University of Pennsylvania 48th 1976 Psi at Vanderbilt University 7th 1931 Mu at the University of Cincinnati 49th 1977 Delta Zeta at Colgate University 8th 1932 Psi at Vanderbilt University 50th 1978 Gamma Alpha at Indiana State University 9th 1933 Alpha Xi at Washington University 51st 1979 Beta Zeta at Saint Louis University 10th 1934 Epsilon at State University of Iowa 52nd 1980 Eta at Florida State University 11th 1935 Alpha Epsilon at Lehigh University 53rd 1981 Beta Kappa at the College of Notre Dame of 12th 1936 Alpha at the University of Chicago Maryland 13th 1937 Pi at Birmingham-Southern College 54th 1982 Alpha Pi at Gettysburg College 14th 1938 Alpha Tau at The Ohio State University 55th 1983 Gamma Omicron at Monmouth College 15th 1939 Alpha Pi at Gettysburg College 56th 1984 Gamma Sigma at the University of Texas 16th 1940 Alpha Chi at Tulane University 57th 1985 Delta Chi at St. Olaf College 17th 1941 Alpha Xi at Washington University 58th 1986 Beta Gamma at the University of Richmond 18th 1942 Omega at the College of William and Mary 59th 1987 Gamma Alpha, at Indiana State University 60th 1988 Beta Kappa at the College of Notre Dame of [no conventions in 1943–1946] Maryland 19th 1947 Omega at the College of William and Mary 61st 1989 Epsilon Omicron at the University of 20th 1948 Alpha Xi at Washington University Massachusetts Amherst 21st 1949 Gamma at Ohio University 62nd 1990 Epsilon Rho at the College of Charleston 22nd 1950 Psi at Vanderbilt University 63rd 1991 Eta at Florida State University 23rd 1951 Tau at the University of Kentucky 64th 1992 Gamma Omicron at Monmouth College 24th 1952 Theta at Indiana University 65th 1993 Gamma Sigma at the University of Texas-Austin 25th 1953 Alpha Delta at Agnes Scott College 66th 1994 Zeta Lambda at the University of Louisville 26th 1954 Alpha Xi at Washington University 67th 1995 Beta Pi at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville 27th 1955 Beta Nu at Mary Washington College 68th 1996 Gamma Omega at Baylor University 28th 1956 Pi at Birmingham-Southern College 69th 1997 Zeta Sigma at the University of Minnesota 29th 1957 Beta at Northwestern University 70th 1998 Beta Gamma at the University of Richmond 30th 1958 Alpha Psi at Washington and Jefferson College 71st 1999 Zeta Iota at the University of Georgia 31st 1959 Beta Zeta at Saint Louis University 72nd 2000 Delta Theta at Dickinson College 32nd 1960 Beta Upsilon at Marshall University 73rd 2001 Gamma Omicron at Monmouth College 33rd 1961 Beta Sigma at Marquette University 74th 2002 Zeta Gamma at the University of San Diego 34th 1962 Theta at Indiana University 75th 2003 Alpha Lambda at the University of Oklahoma 35th 1963 Beta Kappa at the College of Notre Dame of 76th 2004 Eta Gamma at Loyola University (New Orleans) Maryland 77th 2005 Delta Chi at St. Olaf College 36th 1964 Alpha Mu at the University of Missouri 78th 2006 Eta Eta at Virginia Tech 37th 1965 Omega at the College of William and Mary, 79th 2007 Zeta Beta at Temple University Beta Theta at Hampden-Sydney College, 80th 2008 Epsilon Omicron at the University of Beta Nu at Mary Washington College, Massachusetts Amherst and Delta Alpha at Randolph-Macon 81st 2009 Beta Psi at Rhodes College Woman’s College in Richmond, Virginia 82nd 2010 Eta Eta at Virginia Tech 38th 1966 Delta Beta at Canisius College 83rd 2011 Gamma Sigma at the University of Texas-Austin 39th 1967 Alpha Chi at Tulane University 84th 2012 Alpha Mu at the University of Missouri, Columbia 40th 1968 Beta Xi at Rosary College 85th 2013 Beta Iota at Wake Forest University 41st 1969 Delta Eta at Seton Hall College 42nd 1970 Beta Gamma at the University of Richmond

66 Eta Sigma Phi Honor Cords and Hoods

Cords are $16 each by mail and $12 each if purchased at the national convention. Hoods are $21 each by mail and $17 each if purchased at the national convention.

______Number of Cords at $16 each = ______

______Number of Hoods at $21 each = ______

Name: ______

CHAPTER:______

Street Address:______

City:______State:______ZIP:______

DATE OF GRADUATION CEREMONY:______

Send this form with payment (by personal check or money order made out to Eta Sigma Phi, no cash or credit card, sorry) at least three weeks before the commencement ceremony. Add an optional $25 per order for express delivery.

David H. Sick Greek and Roman Studies, Rhodes College 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112 Phone: 901-843-3907 • Fax: 901-843-3633 Members of the 2007 class of Gamma Omicron Chapter at e-mail: [email protected] ­Monmouth College wearing their Eta Sigma Phi cords and hoods. Discounts for orders of five or more are available. Contact [email protected] for more information.

Eta Sigma Phi Jewelry

Photo No. Description Style No. Price

1 Official Plain Badge, 10k #1001 $160.00 1 3 2 Official Crown Pearl Badge, 10k #3002 $195.00 3 Pledge Pin, Goldgloss* #7001 $15.00 ea.

4 Owl Keypin, Goldgloss* #5000 $35.00

Owl Keypin with Pearl Eyes, not shown #5001 $42.00 2 5 Goldgloss* 5 Owl Key, Goldgloss* #4001 $33.00 4 6 6 Owl Key with Pearl, Goldgloss* #4002 $38.00 *Goldgloss is a finely polished, durable gold electroplate finish. Name:______Number Style No. Price Total CHAPTER:______

Street Address:______City:______State:______ZIP:______

Send this form with payment by personal check or money order made out to Eta Sigma Phi (no cash or credit card, sorry) to: David H. Sick, Eta Sigma Phi Executive Secretary Shipping and handling (per order) $5.00 Greek and Roman Studies, Rhodes College TOTAL ENCLOSED 2000 N. Parkway, Memphis, TN 38112 e-mail: [email protected] Price includes shipping. Discounts for orders of five or more are available. Contact [email protected] for more information.

67 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students APA 2013 Sponsored by Eta Sigma Phi

Eta Sigma Phi, founded in 1914 at the University of Chicago, is a national classics honorary society for students of Latin and/or Greek who attend accredited liberal arts colleges and universities in the United States. Since 2004 the society has sponsored undergraduate panels at meetings of the Southern Section of CAMWS, as well as information tables at meetings of CAMWS, CAAS, and the APA. The society recently changed its group affiliation with the APA from Category I to Category II so that it could offer a panel showcasing the scholarship of undergraduate classics students. Papers may deal with any aspect of the ancient Greek and Roman world (e.g., language, literature, art, history, religion, philosophy) or with the reception of classical culture in modern times. An established scholar is invited to serve as respondent to the student papers. Eta Sigma Phi hopes that this panel will serve as a bridge between undergraduate students and the American Philological Association, not just by giving the students an opportunity to experience an APA meeting and to share their views with professional classicists, but also by introducing those professionals to some of the most talented and promising students from the next generation of classicists.

Echoes of Sapphic Voices: Masculine Constructions in the Catullan Corpus David Giovagnoli, Truman State University ([email protected])

Timaeus and the Evolution of Plato’s Bioethics Kyle Oskvig, The University of Iowa ([email protected])

A Critical Eye for Livy: Using an Apparatus Criticus Ashley Gilbert, Temple University ([email protected])

The Driest Work Ever Written — Just Add Water: A Look at Water Systems in Ancient Rome and Modern India Anne Cave, Monmouth College ([email protected])

Corbulo and Agricola: Dying and Surviving under the Principate Daniel Poochigian, University of California, Irvine ([email protected])

Respondent: Ruth Scodel, University of Michigan January 6, 8:00–10:30 am.

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