Volume VIII , Fall 2011 Ex Cathedra (“From the Chair”) t T Dr. Alden Smith, Interim Chair Contents p. 1 From the Chair alvete omnes! Nunc est scribendum, nunc stylo libero pulsanda tabu- Mummies in Morrison S la. Nos professores Baylorenses vobis omnibus lectoribus, aut disci- pulis prioribus vel hoc tempore vel futuris, aut amicis Universitatis, gratias p. 2 From the Chair, conclusion magnas ob curam vestram omnium rerum classicarum agere volumus. Mummies, conclusion Faculty Scholarship Multae res gestae sunt in anno MMXI non solum apud nos discipulos et professores litterarum classicarum, quod nos legimus et scribimus et de tantis rebus litterariis (e.g. p. 3 Henry Trantham de historia quarundam sententiarum ut “secum orsi”) saepe inter nos dicimus, sed etiam apud to- Faculty Scholarship, conclusion tam universitatem. Nostri gladiatores lusorum (id est grex athletarum cum pilo semi-rotundo no- p. 4 Baylor in Italy 2011 minato ex pede sed vere pro manu) habuerunt plures victorias quam in annis prioribus. Gaude- Recent Lectures mus, igitur, ut dicitur, et certe gaudebimus, quodpropter nunc gaudeamus. Sed tristissime non vici- mus agricolas in statione collegii. Forte numquam erit opportunitas ad agricolas vincendos in die- p. 5 New Faculty Viva Voce bus malis cum pecunia omnia vicit. Tot administratores ex alpha et millibus videntur velle captare Alumna Update tantas opes, cum melius esset vos petere veritatem. Nos ursi, autem, petamus regnum iustitiae pacisque. Qui sunt nos ut agricolas iudicemus? Pastoresne nos sumus? Militesne nos sumus? Ipsi p. 6 Baylor Hosts Texas Classical nos ursi soli sumus, et ursi sunt animalia nobilia. Ergo nobilitas nobis est petenda et odium agrico- Association 2011

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Mummies in Morrison t Upcoming Events T n September 9 visitors to the Classics 9th Annual Latin Day, March 2, O Lounge of Destiny were witness to the 2012, 8:30-3:30 pm dismantling of an ancient Egyptian mummy mask. Led by Dr. Scott Carroll, Director of the t Non Sequitur T Green Collection, students and faculty busily In 2009, Classics majors nationwide separated the mask‟s many layers of papyrus, who enrolled in law school had a the ancient world‟s most common writing me- mean LSAT score of 160.3, up 159.5 dium. The experience was new, to say the least, in 2008 and 2007 and 158.9 in 2006 for Stephen Margheim: “The eyes of the mask and 2005.1 (For comparison, Eco- were intimidating, if the fact that this man had nomics and Philosophy weighed in at been dead for thousands of years wasn‟t into its constituent layers of papyrus. Dr. Car- 157.4 for 2009; Engineering, 156.2; History, 155.9; English, 154.7.)2 enough for me to feel odd about dissolving his roll himself saw to soaking the mask in soapy face.” water. Students for their part were employed to 1 LSAC Data Services Group and 2 M. Nieswiadomy, “LSAT Scores of Economics The mere notion of taking apart something unroll and untwist these papyrus pieces, then to Majors: The 2008-9 Class Update” Journal of Econom- so ancient was in itself surprising; even more lay them flat onto blotting paper where they ic Education 41.3 (2010) 331-3 surprising to many was the straightforward might dry under pressure. In between unrolling method by which it was done. Says Susannah and blotting, gasps were heard as the ancient Brister, “Both the concept and practice of tak- writing — some Greek, some Coptic — came ing apart the mask seemed quite bizarre to me. to light for the first time in over two millennia. After all, years of museum visits had convinced Also on hand were examples of previously me that ancient artifacts like mummy masks “harvested” papyri, one of which proved to be ought to be touched by as few (and as highly part of one of the very earliest New Testament copies known. “I never knew dish soap could trained) people as possible. And yet, here was t Editors T this man in the classics lounge, plunging an- lead to new discoveries in literature!” says Ra- cient bits of papyrus into a bucket of soapy chel Smith. Dr. Simon P. Burris water (no special chemicals; just water and How did these strange events transpire? It [email protected] good old Dawn) and passing them out to un- began with a phone call. Dr. Timothy S. Heckenlively dergrads to straighten and pick apart!” “One day,” explains Dr. Fish, “I received a [email protected]

After being soaked, the mummy mask — call on the phone from Dr. Scott Carroll, who News, article contributions, and probably dating from the Third Century B.C., told me about a vast new collection of unedited corrections welcomed. according to Dr. Jeff Fish — was separated continued on p. 2 t Faculty Scholarship T Mummies in Morrison, continued from p. 1 papyri. He wanted to know if I could be in- Simon Burris “Who was Polyphemus expecting at Odyssey volved. I thought it was some kind of trick at 9.513-14?”. CAMWS Annual Meeting, 2011. first. In general the supply of new papyrological “Athletic success treated as objective erotic texts tends to dwindle. You don‟t expect some- qualification in Pindar”. CAMWS Southern one out of nowhere to announce a new collec- Section, October 2010. tion and invite you to be involved in exploring the texts. I have since found that Byron John- Jeff Fish son, director of Baylor‟s Institute for the Study Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition of Religion, was instrumental in getting Baylor (Cambridge, 2011), co-edited with Kirk R. involved with the Green Scholars Initiative.” Sanders “L‟Enea di Virgilio: fama, sicurezza e felicità The Green Scholars Initiative is a project of epicurea,” invited lecture for the University of the Green Collection, established by the Green Naples, March 3, 2010. family, owners of Hobby Lobby. While primarily guages, it gives them an unparalleled means for “Il Sisifo di Lucrezio: Epicureismo e vita described on its website as a “compilation of doing so.” politica,” invited lecture for the University of more than 30,000 biblical antiquities... [that] will Such research goes far beyond the mere disas- Naples, March 4, 2010. eventually form the core of a permanent, inter- sembling of mummy masks. At present there are “Il giudizio di Filodemo sull‟utilità della national, non-sectarian museum of the Bible,” several ongoing papyrology projects in the Bay- reputazione e della gloria (P. Herc. 1507 col. the Collection has acquired a great many ancient lor Classics Department, involving about a doz- 41),” invited lecture for the University of non-Biblical texts, including many very early en undergraduate students working on what Salerno, March 5, 2010. 1 Greek literary and documentary texts. Through appear to be ancient census records, an early Dan Hanchey the Green Scholars Initiative, “the Green Collec- copy of Homer, and an extremely rare fragment “Terence and the Scipionic Grex,” in J. tion will provide ten Senior Scholars and their of Theognis. All of these projects are likely to Thorburn and A. Augoustakis (eds.), The research clusters rare hands-on original research lead to publications that will acknowledge the Blackwell Companion to Terence(forthcoming). opportunities.”2 One of the main goals of the work of undergraduate researchers. Review: Giusto Traina, 428 AD: An Ordinary Initiative is to involve undergraduate students in Through its association with the Green Schol- Year at the End of the Roman Empire. In CB 85.2. an area previously almost completely confined to ars Initiative, Baylor is in the enviable position of “Transtemporal otium in Cicero‟s Dialogues,” graduate students and faculty: original research being one of relatively few schools who can of- CAMWS Annual Meeting, March 2010. on as-yet unpublished ancient papyri and manu- fer their students this exceptional opportunity.

Timothy Heckenlively scripts. Says Margheim, “I am working on a fourth cen- Forthcoming. “Clipeus Hesiodicus: Aeneid 8 and “Usually collections as grand as the Green tury codex of the Iliad. To see real written the Shield of Heracles.” Mnemosyne. Collection are found in museums or large uni- Greek, lack of word breaks and punctuation and “Death, Daimones, and Achilles‟ proleptikon versities,” says Dr. Fish. “They are usually only all, is truly a blast from the past. To begin to sakos” CAMWS Annual Meeting, April 2011. reserved for a handful of scholars and, perhaps, study the process of early book-making and “The Katabasis Motif in the Odyssey”. doctoral students. The Green Scholars Initiative scribal tendencies across different eras has been CAMWS Southern Section, October 2010. turns this around in a beautiful way. Several pro- an education I simply could not have gotten in a “Damning Hesiod in Homer‟s Underworld”. fessors in different institutions mentor students, classroom.”  CAMWS Annual Meeting, March 2010. primarily undergraduates, in editing the docu- 1 http://explorepassages.com/collection

2 http://www.greenscholarsinitiative.org Julia Dyson Hejduk ments. I think it is one of the most important Forthcoming 2011. “Death by Elegy: Ovid‟s things to have happened lately in Classics and Cephalus and Procris.” Transactions of the Biblical Studies. Not only does it give students American Philological Association. an added incentive for learning ancient lan- Forthcoming 2011. “Arachne‟s Attitude: Metamorphoses 6.25.” Mnemosyne. “Facing the Minotaur: Inception (2010) and Aeneid 6,” Arion 19 (2011): 111-22. LATIN DAY “Epic Rapes in the Fasti.” Classical Philology 106 (2011): 20-31. MMXII “Phthisical Intimacy: Martial 2.26.” Classical Journal 106 (2010-11): 223-27. A.D. XII KAL. MART. “Facing the Minotaur: Inception (2010) and Aeneid 6” (Texas JCL Convention, March 2011; Friday, CAMWS Annual Meeting, April 2011) March 2, 2012 “Callisto and Ovid in Exile” (APA Annual

Meeting, January 2011) “Jupiter Amans” invited lecture, Harvard Activities include certamen, University, April 2010. declamatio, poster contest, “Jupiter in Love” invited lecture, Bowdoin panem et circenses, and a caval- From the Chair, continued from p. 1 College, April 2010. cade o' fun.

“„To R. B.‟: Hopkins‟ Ovidian Letter from larum delendumst. Otium, non odium, nobis est the Black Sea.” International Journal of the Classical For more information email res. Melius pro nobis legere linguam Graecam, Tradition 17 (2010): 53-59. [email protected] linguam pulcherrimam, aut legere linguam “Stealing Jupiter‟s Thunder in the Fasti,”

CAMWS Southern Section, October 2010. Latinam, linguam altissimam utroque sensu, et Mark your calendars! profundam et siblimem. Jeff Hunt Nunc est finiendum. Gratias vobis maximas “Simaetha in a Landscape: The Influence of Pastoral on Theocritus‟ Second Idyll.” CAMWS www.baylor.edu/classics/index.php?id=44216 qui legistis. Valete amici Baylorenses! Annual Meeting, April 2011. Secum Ursi! Alden.  Henry Trantham of a pencil or roll book and by recording absenc- Faculty Scholarship, continued from p. 2 A Biographical Sketch es later in the day after walking to his home sev- en blocks from the Baylor campus. “Theocritus‟ Name Game.” CAMWS An institution of learning is Trantham the self-disciplinarian expected his Annual Meeting, March 2010. students also to submit to the discipline of learn- Appointed Secretary/Treasurer, Phi Beta often the lengthened shadow Kappa, Director of Baylor in Italy 2011, and of dedicated and diligent ing. He seemed to be infinitely patient with the Interim Faculty Advisor for The Pulse. persons who devote their life student of limited background or ability who was energies to its purposes and conscientiously striving to learn Greek. Yet at Kenneth Jones ideals. Universities to be the same time he was acutely sensitive to the Forthcoming. “Alcaeus of Messene, Philip great must have among other things great teach- slightest indication of laziness or ingratitude for V, and the Colossus of Rhodes: A Re- ers. Some will come, some will go, but every the instruction which he was patiently offering. examination of Anth. Pal. 6.171,” Classical institution needs its career teachers for whom Editorializing after his death on February 19, Quarterly. Jewish Reactions to the Destruction of Jerusalem in teaching in that institution is their life‟s work. 1962, the Waco News-Tribune declared: “In his A.D. 70: Apocalypses and Related Pseudepigrapha, Henry Trantham was one of Baylor University‟s prime, Henry Trantham personified the qualities Supplements to the Journal for the Study of most significant career professors with nearly of great teaching… He brought back to life the Judaism (Leiden: Brill, 2011). half a century of professional service. glory that was Greece, the grandeur that was “The Conflict of East and West as Henry Trantham was born in the South Caro- Rome and instilled… a feeling for the trials and Propaganda during the Antiochene War.” lina town of Camden on March 10, 1882. The tribulations of the human race of whatever time CAMWS Annual Meeting, April 2011. son of William Dunlap and Nancy Elizabeth in history… If there were more teachers with the Simmons Trantham, young Henry was graduated insight and hardheaded integrity of Henry Tran- Amanda Mathis with the B.A. degree from Wake Forest College, tham, it would be a blessing to our nation.” “From a Clod to Callimachus: The Wake Forest, North Carolina, at the age of eight- Trantham represented Baylor on the board of Metapoetic Role of Euphemus in Apollonius‟ Argonautica.” CAMWS Annual Meeting, April een in 1900 and remained another year to com- faculty representatives of the Southwest Athletic 2011. plete his M.A. degree. After a brief period of Conference for twenty-three years, was president teaching in the Oak Ridge (N.C.) Institute, the of that board in 1918-19 and during 1938-41, Alden Smith young Baptist won a Rhodes Scholarship from and was active in the establishment of the Cot- Forthcoming. Entries “Sinon” and “Fas and North Carolina to Oxford University and stud- ton Bowl Association under Southwest Confer- Nefas” in The Virgil Encyclopedia, edd. Richard ied from 1905 to 1908 at Christ Church, Oxford. ence control. The Phi Beta Kappa member had a Thomas and J.M. Ziolkowski (Blackwell, After returning to the United States, Trantham tennis court in his own yard and played tennis 2012). was principal of the Newnan, Georgia, high until he was sixty years of age. Virgil (Blackwell., 2011). school for two years. Professor Trantham edited the volume of “Understudied Understudies: Aeneas and proceedings of Baylor‟s seventy-fifth anniversary „Minor‟ Characters in Aeneid 1,” invited lecture Then came the invitation that was to chart the at San Francisco State University, December, course of the Rhodes scholar‟s professional life, observance, The Diamond Jubilee, 1845-1920 2011. to become the Jacob Beverly Stiteler Professor (1921), and contributed numerous articles to “True Lies: Nostos of Truth in the Odyssey.” of Greek at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. In professional journals. Yet his primary contribu- CAMWS Annual Meeting, April 2011. accepting the invitation to the leading Baptist tion was not through writing. Rather it was “The Company He Keeps: Friends, Foils institution of higher education in the Southwest, through his classroom lectures and instruction and the Decentralization of Aeneas in Aen. 1,” Henry Trantham was destined to teach the by which he sought to mould the young lives invited lecture at Washington University in St. Greek language to virtually all of Baylor‟s minis- committed to his charge. Special lectures were Louis, February, 2011. terial students from 1910, the year of the remov- given in Baylor gatherings and to Waco audienc- The Great Archimedes (Baylor University es, especially when ample time was allowed the Press, 2010), editor and translator. al of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary “Deipnosophistae Reformed: Classical from Waco to Fort Worth, until the end of Baylor professor to prepare as he believed he Intertexts in Luther's Tischreden” paper at World War II, as well as many ministerial stu- should. “Lutheranism and the Classics” conference in dents from that time until his retirement in 1958. Meaningless palaver was never characteristic Ft. Wayne, Fall 2010. He also became the mentor of Baylor students of Trantham. He spoke incisively and frankly, who came from various departments of the Uni- and those who knew him respected his judg- David White versity to his courses in classical Greek, in Greek ment, whether in the Rhodes Scholarship Selec- “Numeroso horto: A programmatic pun at and Roman history, and in twentieth century tion Committee for Texas, the Philosopher's Columella, Res Rustica 10.6” CAMWS Annual history for more than forty years (1917-1958). In Club of Waco, the Texas Classical Association, Meeting, April 2010. “Who Mourns For Adonais?: Greeks, 1950 Trantham was named chairman of a newly the Board of Commissioners of the City of Wa- Romans, and the Legacy of Romanticism”. structured Classics Department. His lengthy co, on which he served in 1931-33, or the Baylor CAMWS Southern Section, October 2010. teaching career at Baylor, which included no Faculty. … “Obscenae canes: Hecate‟s ominous bitches at leave of absence nor sabbatical year, spanned Professor Par Excellence Henry Trantham Georgics I. 470”. CAMWS Annual Meeting, three-fourths of the presidency of Samuel Palm- was one of the sturdiest oaks in Baptist educa- March 2010. er Brooks, all the presidential years of Pat Morris tion in the South. His nearly half century of Neff, and all but one year of the presidency of teaching at Baylor endures in the lives of his William Richardson White. many students-pastors, missionaries, chaplains, To twelve generations of Baylor students diplomats and government leaders, professors Henry Trantham was the epitome of the gentle- and journalists, lawyers and businessmen, house- man and the scholar. When he stood before his wives, and more. The writings of his former classes, there was no scintilla of doubt that he students already fill considerable space on library was prepared. He lectured with a consistency shelves. Henry Trantham, having joined the that left a vivid impression upon his students. company of those who are to speak the language Such thoroughness was also characteristic of of the new Jerusalem, “yet speaks.”  Trantham‟s relationships with his students. He was known to check his class attendance by Excerpted from The Teacher’s Yoke: studies in memory of glancing around the classroom without the use Henry Trantham (Baylor University Press 1964) t Recent Lectures T Report from Italy, 2011 mation so quickly; it was tough, but I learned so much in just a month, and all that I learned I use November 9, 2011, Dr. James O’Donnell The Baylor Classics Department once again in so many of my classes, and even my daily life Provost, Georgetown University, Phi Beta flung its Green and Gold afar with the latest at Baylor. Now for the physical part. Baylor in Kappa Lecture: “The Death of the Gods: What We Can Learn from the Pagans” iteration of its Baylor in Italy program. This year Italy makes you walk, hike, run, swim, climb, and the faculty leaders were Alden Smith (Topo- occasionally trot about 7-15 miles daily. Granted, October 10, 2011, Dr. Loren J. Samons II graphy of Rome and Pompeii), Jeff Hunt there are stops along the way, but I don‟t think Professor of Classics, Department Chair, (Roman Comedy) and Simon Burris (Archaeol- I‟ve ever walked so much in one month. But it Boston University (and Baylor alum): “Pericles ogy of Sicily and Southern Italy). This marked does allow you to eat as much gelato as you want and the Dangers of Democracy” Dr. Hunt‟s first time as faculty on the trip, al- without fear of gaining wait! Perhaps my favorite though he had participated in BII while still a part of the program were the professors, they September 23, 2011, Dr. Terry L. Papillon Baylor undergraduate. not only worked hard at letting us see and expe- Director, University Honors Program, As always, the itinerary was extensive, with rience as much as possible, they also made the Virginia Tech University: “Why You Haven‟t Heard of Isocrates and Why You Should: The stops in Rome, Ostia, Tivoli, Pompeii, Hercula- trip fun. They did everything from buy us fancy Isocratean Tradition and New Research ” neum, Paestum, Syracuse, Selinunte, Marsala, Pa- truffel desserts in Piazza Navona to race stu- lermo, and many, many other wonderful loca- dents around a “track” at Hadrian‟s Villa. They April 29, 2011, Dr. Lee Fratantuono tions. Our loyal and resourceful autista (that‟s were patient, fun, entertaining, but most im- Associate Professor of Classics and William “bus driver” to you stay-at-homes) was Carlo, portantly they let us learn about the culture, his- Francis Whitlock Chair in Latin, Ohio Wesleyan who, along with his brother, Fabio, has driven tory, and beauty of the country of Italy!  University, “Latent Lycanthropy in Virgil and many a BII group in, out, around, and through Valerius” Magna Graecia over the years. Besides the usual spectacular sights seen every April 19, 2011, Dr. James Sickinger Associate Professor of Classics, The Florida time the trip is made, this year featured a special State University, “TOPIC NOT SAVED” treat at Reggio di Calabria. It was there that the group watched with amazement as Mount Etna April 13, 2011, Dr. Craig Kallendorf (mythological home of the Cyclopes and en- Professor of English and Classics, Texas trance to the Underworld) erupted one evening A&M University, “Virgil and the Case for after dinner. The glowing red of lava being flung Reception Studies” up into the air was clearly visible over forty miles away. Thankfully there was no sign of lava dam- February 24, 2011, Dr. Geoffrey Bakewell age next morning when the group arrived at Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Creighton University, “Ballots Taormina, which sits at the foot of the moun- tain.  Over Broadway: Voting and Theatricality in BII 2011 on Capri and Sicily Aeschylus‟ Eumenides”

“The trip was amazing; I don't know if I can describe it April 30, 2010, Dr. Erwin Cook any other way. Really, the only thing wrong with the T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor program is that the food is too good. I came back a pasta of Classical Studies, Trinity University, snob.” -- Kody Jackson “Epiphany Scenes in the Hymn to Demeter and the Odyssey” “Baylor in Italy gave me the opportunity to go ancient

cave diving like Indiana Jones, to stand in the ultimate April 12, 2010, Dr. Tara S. Welch spot of betrayal-where Caesar was assassinated-, to go Associate Professor of Classics, University of underground to where the Vatican began, to learn how to Kansas, “Tarpeia: a Rocky Start to the Roman order gelato in Italian, to enter the jail where Peter was Empire” held, and to learn more about Italy and history be walk-

ing through pieces of it. It is an experience I will never April 8, 2010, Dr. Peter Aicher forget and am so glad I decided to take even though I was Professor of Classics, University of Southern hesitant at first. “ -- Morgan Little Maine, “Water in a Cultural Context: The Case of Ancient Rome “

April 8, 2010, Sandra Postel Journeys Founding Director, Global Water Policy Rachel Smith (class of 2014) Project, “Water in Modern Times: Adapting to a Baylor in Italy 2012 New Normal” Baylor in Italy is an invigorating program that not only takes you abroad but uplifts you spiritu- July 5 to August 8, 2012 April 7, 2010, The Honorable Kip Averitt ally, intellectually, and physically. Let me explain. Texas State Senator, “Water and Waco: Can The program uplifted me spiritually by providing the West be Won?” me with the opportunity to worship in Roman Rome and its environs, churches that have been there for centuries. I the Bay of Naples, and Sicily was able to stand in cathedrals built hundreds of $4,995* years ago, their effect has had a profound impact on me. I was also able to see the places Paul and Visit http://www.baylor.edu/italy Peter traveled while they passed through Rome, also an experience I will never forget. The pro- to learn more and apply gram uplifted me intellectually in the two rigor- ous, fast-paced courses I took. You travel and *tuition and airfare not included learn and the sites are exciting, but I don't be- lieve I've ever had to process so much infor- Tunberg is known for translating, together with t Eta Sigma Phi T his wife Jennifer, several Dr. Seuss books into Latin, and Dr. Minkova has written books on As usual, last year was a busy one for the Latin prose composition. Together they gave a Gamma Omega chapter. Fall 2010 saw the workshop on spoken Latin for a group of inter- initiation of 20 new members, along with a ested Baylor students. The students were en- successful OctHOMERfest and the annual breaking out of the toga ursina to participate in couraged to take dictation in Latin, answer ques- the homecoming parade. In January of 2011, tions in Latin about various pictures and stories, several ΗΣΦ members performed, in the and write short original plays in Latin, which original Greek, Sophocles‟ Oedipus Tyrannus they performed in front of the group. Drs. Tun- under the direction of Dr. Alden Smith. A Welcome New Faculty berg and Minkova also gave a workshop on the running translation was projected on screen for the benefit of the audience. Many of the use of spoken Latin in the classroom for the same players returned to the stage for Latin The Baylor Department of Classics welcomes students and teachers attending Latin Day, who seemed to enjoy the Latin phrases and songs Day, performing selections from Plautus two new faculty members, Meghan and Joe Aulularia under the direction of Mr. David presented to them.  DiLuzio, who share both a last name (they are, White. The highlight of the spring came in in fact, married) and a well-appointed office Alumna Update April. The 83rd Annual Eta Sigma Phi (Morrison 326, on the fashionable side of the Convention took place at the University of Anna Sitz (University of Pennsylvania) Texas at Austin. Owing to the proximity, we third floor). Both Diluzii currently teach sections were able to send a sizable delegation. Own of Elementary Latin and Mythology; Meghan When I enrolled in Dr. Alden Smith‟s begin- also teaches Greek Civilization this semester. own Stephen Margheim gave one of the three ning Latin course as a freshman at Baylor, I student lectures. Meghan DiLuzio‟s primary research interests could not have envisioned where this new path Fall 2011 has continued apace. Gamma are Roman history, Roman religion, and women would take me. Four years later, after numerous Alpha marched in the homecoming parade, in antiquity, as can be guessed from the title of Latin and Greek courses, I found myself hiking thoroughly betoga'd. This year our troupe her recently-defended Princeton dissertation, through the Greek woods to view a still-standing consisted of nearly a dozen denizens of those “Female Religious Officials in Republican Hellenistic bridge, clambering over the stone delighted to don the dress of Romans past. Rome.” Joe DiLuzio is finishing up at Boston walls of a Bronze Age settlement on Crete, and Looking forward to 2012, a propitious year University with his dissertation, “Cicero's Rheto- touring the Acropolis in Athens with friends for Baylor, we are excited about a Virgil Vigil and our annual Take-a-Dative party. We hope ric of Democracy,” which, as he explains, “deals through the Summer Program of the American with Cicero's treatment of the Roman People in once again to “fling our green and gold afar.” School of Classical Studies at Athens. Fortu- 2011-12 Officers: his early speeches and what it tells us about the nately, I had previously participated in Baylor in Stephen Margheim, President role of the People in Roman politics.” Italy, so I was prepared for the Mediterranean Jaime Jackson, Vice-President Although they come to us from different grad- heat and the mind-boggling number of ancient Ben Smith, Treasurer uate schools, our two new Lecturers have a com- ruins and museums. Hannah Boughton, Secretary mon Garden State heritage, Joe being from But my summer in Greece with the American Emily Goeke, Sargent-at-Arms Flemington and Meghan from Cherry Hill. Both School was just the beginning. This fall I en- were undergraduates at The College of New rolled in a PhD program in the Art and Archae- Jersey, but it took the power of Classics to bring ology of the Mediterranean World at the Univer- the two together, according to Joe‟s account: sity of Pennsylvania. My specific area of study is “After my first year at Boston University, I Late Antique and Byzantine art and architecture. was about to leave to spend the summer in Ath- This semester I am able to continue developing ens as a volunteer at the Agora excavations. I my Latin and Greek in a Classics course, learn went and visited Dave Pollio who told me to about Byzantine architecture from a specialist, keep an eye out for one of his students -- Me- analyze the excavation report of a Byzantine-era ghan Gandy -- who was also going to be at the Syrian house, and microscopically examine pre- Agora Excavations in Athens. I didn't think historic pottery. Who knew that a single Latin much of it. Meghan did not arrive until a few course could set me on such an exciting path? days after the season was already under way. We [Editorial note: Since writing this article, Anna met on a Thursday night at a party at John was awarded a grant to study Byzantine Greek in Camp's house and the rest is history.” the 2011 ASCSA summer program.]  [Editorial note: Dave Pollio was student of our Chair, Alden Smith, while the latter was still teaching at Rutgers. Coincidence? We think oth- erwise.] οἱ τὰ ἄρκτεια χρώματα ῥίψαντες Nifty facts: Meghan is a fanatico of the Phila- delphia Eagles, while Joe is a former volunteer Michael Sloan (2002) is now Assistant Profes- fireman (captain, no less!). sor of Classics at Wake Forest University. So let‟s offer a hearty welcome to our new Andrew Alwine (2004) is completing a Post- faculty!  Doctoral Fellowship in Classics at Wake Forest University. David Morphew (2008) has been accepted to Viva Voce the Ph.D. program in Classics at the University of Michigan. Dr. Terence Tunberg and Dr. Milena Minkova from the University of Kentucky visited Baylor Do you have news you would like to share? Email for Latin Day 2010. They are experts in conver- your editors or contact the department office. sational Latin and are leaders in the movement to introduce spoken Latin to the classroom. Dr. Baylor Hosts 2011 TCA talks for the conference, including his keynote ed conference with an interesting array of address, given Saturday in Cashion, entitled, speakers... John Camp was also impressed The Baylor University Classics Department “Athens in the Roman Period.” with Baylor's facilities and the collegiality he was proud to host the 2011 Annual Meeting Professor Camp‟s first paper was an infor- observed at T.C.A., not to mention our warm for the Texas Classical Association on Novem- mal yet intriguing update on the progress of Texas hospitality.” ber 11-12, with most of the sessions meeting in the excavations, given Friday evening in the Such favorable impressions are all the more the 5th Floor conference rooms of the Cash- Treasure Room of Baylor‟s Armstrong Brown- impressive in view of the fact that this was ion Building. The event involved seventy to ing Library. Professor Camp expressed his the very first time Baylor had hosted the eighty teachers of Latin—most of them at the appreciation—as did all in attendance—of the T.C.A. Annual Meeting. Crucial in the plan- secondary level—as well as a dozen speakers. magnificent venue, but his strongest praise was ning of the event was, of course, the Classics The topics presented were diverse, with titles reserved for Baylor students he has worked Department‟s own indomitable Thelma of papers ranging from “Caesar the Anthropol- with in recent years on the Agora excavations: Mathews!  ogist” by Grace Starry-West of Hillsdale Col- Katy Chenoweth and Ashley Simone, née lege to “The Texas Two Step in the Ancient Crooks. World” by Tim Moore of U.T. Austin. As usual, the schedule offered not only The featured speaker of the conference was many talks of general interest to all friends of John Camp, Niarchus Professor of Classics at Classics, but also several items of immediate Randolph-Macon College. Professor Camp is practical use to teachers. Bob Cape, of Austin best known for his role since 1994 as Director College, discussed the latest statistics and of the Agora excavations, which have been run changes concerning the College Board A. P. by the American School of Classical Studies at Latin Exams. Will Griffiths, Director of the Athens since 1931. Professor Camp gave two University of Cambridge School Classics Pro- t T ject, gave his American audience a peek into Date et Dabitur Vobis the pedagogical situation across-the-water with his talk, “Latin in the UK.” There was also a ὃς μὲν γάρ κεν ἀνὴρ ἐθέλων, panel presentation on study abroad programs ὅ γε καὶ μέγα, δώῃ, that included a brief overview of our own Bay- χαίρει τῷ δώρῳ καὶ τέρπεται lor In Italy. ὃν κατὰ θυμόν Patti Rawlins, current President of T.C.A., Hesiod, Works and Days 357-58 reported that the response to the conference was highly favorable: “I have already received a Donate to the Classics Department Online: few emails congratulating us on a well present- http://www.baylor.edu/development/

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