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FROM THE CHAIR:

Dear Friends, Colleagues, Students, and Former Students,

Let me begin by thanking so many of you for your generous contributions to the Oliver C. Phillips Fund, which will support the teach - ing of Latin in high schools across the country. I am pleased to report that we now have 25 donors and over $45,000. For those of you who have not yet given, we have included instructions on page 4. Gifts of all sizes are welcome.

This year the Classics Department is hon - ored to host—for the third year in a row—a Keeler Family Intra-University Professor. The Keeler is a faculty development program that relieves KU faculty members of teaching obli - gations in their home departments, allowing them to study elsewhere at KU for a semester. This year our visitor is Chuck Marsh from Journalism, who is studying Greek with Stan Lombardo. Chuck’s current research specialty is the application of Greek rhetoric to modern public relations and advertising. Last year’s recipient was Bruce Hayes (French and Italian) who studied Latin in support of his research on satire of the French Renaissance. The year before, we hosted Christopher Forth (Humani - ties & Western Civilization and History), who Matt Steinle wrote chapters for his book on the cultural history of body fat in the West, in particular in and Rome. Gournia Project

Please send us your news, particularly if we ver the summer, 2011, John Younger was invited to participate in the new excavations have not yet heard from you. Please write to of Gournia, the Late Minoan village site in east ; the excavations are directed by any faculty you ordinarily stay in touch with, or L. Vance Watrous of the University of Buffalo. Watrous also invited John to bring four KU to Stan Lombardo ([email protected]). (continued page 2) With best wishes, O Pamela Gordon Gournia Project (continued from page one)

John Younger

students and alums; those chosen were undergraduate Matthew Steinle, graduate student Chris King, and two recent graduates, Tamara Browning and Wendy Huggins.

Gournia was originally dug by Harriet Boyd in 1901-1903, using her graduate fellowship money at the University of Pennsylvania. True to her pioneering spirit, she excavated what turned out to be the only Late Minoan village site on Crete, the only one to be“fully” excavated, and the only one to be fully published. We found evidence of her work everywhere: dumps of excavated material here and there that we had to excavate through, a glass bottle at the bottom of a trench we thought she hadn’t gotten to, and ideas of hers that turned out to be totally correct though at the time she didn’t have the evidence for them yet. She was so pervasive, we just talked about “Harriet” as if she were standing right there.

The digging season was long, June 20 to August 1. We all stayed in the nearby village of Pacheia Ammos, housed in various hotels and the“villas” of private citizens. The village itself was small with a“select” assortment of“tavernas” (= 6) and internet cafes all looking on a broad beach Left to right: Wendy Huggins, Chris King, Tami Browning (good swimming at the western end). Here we spent our evenings, socializing, staring out to sea, taking long hours deciding which taverna we were going to eat at, and walking up and down the bureaucratic document impressed by a fine sealstone; Tami labored intensely in an area we nick - beach. named“Thunderdome” because of the multiplicity of its walls, pavements, floors, and finds (in - cluding the only piece of gold EVER found at the site!). High on the hill above us is the modern East Cretan Study Center, an archaeological institute for the many American excavations in east Crete. It houses a library, a conservation laboratory, and John supervised a trench at the north edge of the site that produced an impressive rectangular various processing areas — here we washed and sorted pottery in the afternoons, went to a building dating 3700 years ago (Middle Minoan II, Protopalatial), with a cobbled court and a couple of lectures by distinguished visitors, and had good access to the internet, a kitchen, and “yard” to the west with a vat and several basins as installations for an industry, perhaps pottery (!) laundry machines. making. The buildings were not used for long: two floors each with cups and various vessels strewn across them testified to two earthquake destructions, after which the area was aban - Our days were long. Monday through Friday, we were out at the site of Gournia by 7 am, had a doned, never to be built on again. late breakfast at 11 (with a short rest at 9), packed up our tools at 1:30, and left at 2. There was then pottery washing and other chores in the late afternoon (preceded by lunch and a nap). Since finding a building of this date was precisely the goal of Watrous’s excavation permit, the Saturdays we got off work at noon. excavation will continue for at least one further season, possibly more—and Younger has already been invited back, along with more KU students. Stay tuned! t We could then spend the rest of Saturday and all Sunday exploring the eastern half of Crete in a car we were able to rent, thanks to the generosity of a KU donor. So, we visited other major —John Younger: Minoan palace sites like one weekend, and Ayia Triada another, and and Palaikastro a third, and explored other interesting areas like various monasteries in the hills, the plateau, and the nearby towns of Hierapetra and Ayios Nikolaos.

At the site, the KU students were dispersed to various areas under the supervision of other trench masters. Chris worked in many areas, exploring old tombs and places in the palace atop the hill that had been only partially excavated; Wendy worked in a highly interesting area the produced lots of pottery and dumps from various industries; Matt excavated in the Mycenaean megaron at the south edge of the settlement and found some painted wall plaster and a fired,

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n April 30, 2011, fifteen Jayhawk classicists dressed in ancient style (as Roman senators, centurions, Bacchants, or korai) attended the annual convention of the Kansas Junior OClassical League at Blue Valley High School in Olathe. What a treat! After the opening ceremonies featuring spirit skits performed by each school’s Latin club, we visited various com - petitions and helped judge budding Classicists in Latin oratory, Latin sight reading, Certamen (a quiz bowl for Latin grammar and ancient culture), Costume, Artwork, and Club of the Year. We finished the evening with a buffet dinner. In addition to the delights on the program, we saw many friends at the festivities, including alumni Brett Martin and Jason Lichte. Some of our cur - rent students were also able to reconnect with their high school teachers. The KJCL has invited us back for next year, and we couldn’t be more grateful. If any alumni would like to join us, we’ll provide the togas. t Phil Stinson's Afghanistan Project

n September Phil spoke about his new research on the traditional, and endangered, water systems of Afghanistan at the Combatant Command Historical/Cultural Advisory Group I(CCHCAG) Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. Phil represented findings produced by a Latin Advance Placement Exam Dinner new KU research group designated as WALC (Water, Archaeology, Landscapes, and Culture), Oliver Phillips which is externally funded by grants awarded to KU by the U.S. Army Research Office, and is n a beautiful evening in early June the Classics faculty hosted forty Latinists from Scholarship composed of faculty in Classics, Anthropology, Geography and Geology. Classics graduate around the country to a dinner in the Vinland countryside. These Latinists were finish - students Anne Leon, Holly Murphy, Kirk Bray and Matt Naglak are also participating in the Oing up a difficult week’s work grading all the Latin AP exams. Prof. Scioli coordinated Fund project. WALC integrates research in water-related science, landscape interpretation and the event, arranging for a chartered bus to bring them out to Vinland. The evening was other - archaeology to understand traditional water-supply systems. Phil’s presentation introduced worldly, from the sight of the bus cresting the hill of the gravel driveway, to the humble charm WALC research activities to a rapidly growing audience—academics, representatives from the of grilled burgers/veggie burgers. A scholarship fund has State Department and other governmental branches, the military, as well as potential future Best of all was the feeling of camaraderie among people who love teaching about the ancient been developed in world. Among the friends old and new in attendance were Jane Crawford (University of Vir - funding agencies—interested in the subject of water, cultural heritage and environmental remembrance of Professor security. Phil considers this work“a good cause” and a professional duty to the archaeological ginia), who had been a teacher and friend of Profs. Scioli and Welch; Chris Francese (Dickinson community. t College), former professor of our current graduate student Kristin Fanciullacci; Madeleine Henry Phillips, with awards going (Iowa State), wearing a KU Classics T-shirt she got when she came to give a talk here on Aspasia; to prospective Latin teachers. Patrick Gomez (The Buckley School), grad school friend of Profs. Scioli and Welch; Bob Cape, a In Memoriam: Ciceronian and friend of Prof. Corbeill; Doug Domingo-Foraste (Cal State Long Beach), a col - league of Prof. Scioli at the Centro in Rome; and Eric Casey (Sweetbriar College), whom Prof. For more information, James Seaver Scioli had met at a CAMWS conference years ago. t please view:

long-time friend of the Classics Depart - http://www. ment. James Seaver died last spring. kuendowment.org/ AProfessor Emeritus of History, Jim was a Roman historian with a deep knowledge of depts/classics/phillips ancient numismatics. He always had an inter - esting coin in his pocket to show you, and a story to go with it. He provided classics majors with courses on Greek history, and in this as - pect has never been replaced. He was closely associated with the Western Civilization pro - gram, in which a number of us taught either Western Civilization or Masterpieces of World Literature.His long association with opera made humanities visible to the general public, through his long-running and popular radio program. This was an outreach activity that greatly benefitted all the humanities. t

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the more-than-human.” That talk should be a working on an endlessly expanding essay book some time in the coming decade. Among about the contemporary playwright Mac Well - forthcoming publications are the introductory man, who once called himself“a demonic Her - essay to the Cambridge Companion to Cicero aclitan,” and in January I provided notes to Big (in which I hope that KU makes a surprise Dance Theater in New York at a rehearsal of cameo appearance) and one on Julius Caesar’s their production of Anne Carson’s translation sense of humor for the Cambridge Compan - of Alcestis, which opens in November at the ion to Caesar (which I hope to be more than Brooklyn Academy of Music. PAM GORDON: I had a great time with the one paragraph. Ideas welcome). Physical exer - In late October, Anne and I are looking for - Honors version of Greek and Roman Mythology cise was obtained by walking 130 miles along ward to hearing a paper on music in contem - that enrolled one dozen students last spring, Offa’s Dyke, an eighth-century earthwork forti - porary productions of Greek tragedy delivered and now I am again teaching the 500-student fication that constitutes (more or less) the by our daughter Jane, a sound designer, at a class. The Honors students were intrigued by modern border between England and Wales. conference at the University of Iowatitled“Re- my clips of Jules Dassin’s Phaedra (1962, with creation: Musical Reception of Classical Antiq - Melina Mercouri), in which Hippolytus has a MICHAEL SHAW: A high point of my teach - uity.” passion not for horses, but for race cars. I am ing year was reading the entire Agamemnon not sure how it will go over in the large class, of Aeschylus with the graduate students. An - EMMA SCIOLI: After a fruitful semester but I think that all undergraduates should be other highpoint was the completion in May of spent contemplating and writing at the Hall introduced to international film. As for re - 2010 of Katrina Bondari’s PhD dissertation, Center for the Humanities in Fall 2010, I re - search: This fall I am giving a paper in San The Power of Space: the Acropolis, the The - turned to teaching in Spring 2011 with two Francisco on the Sentences of Sextus a col - , atre of Dionysos, and Tragedy in the 5th Cen - new courses. I enjoyed reading Vergil’s Aeneid lection of early Christian maxims that draw on tury BCE. I was joint chair of the dissertation with a group of fourth-semester Latin students Pythagorean sayings. The collection survives in committee with Dennis Christilles of the meeting Vergil for the first time, and wander - Greek, Latin, Coptic, and several other ancient drama department. ing through the world of Greek mythology languages. My interest is in the female readers In April of 2011 I presented a paper at a with a group of Honors students, like a crew of this text, and in the tensions between Chris - classics convention titled“Psyche in Sopho - of Argonauts discovering new wonders at tianity and the“pagan” classical tradition dur - cles” which is part of a larger project about each turn. A high point of the myth course ing the Roman empire. While working on this Sophocles’ characters and contemporary work was our focused study of the character of project I learned that Jerome (5th century CE) in Greek ethics. I also keep up my interest in once had a waking nightmare in which he contemporary versions of Greek drama: I am (continued page 6) tried to get into heaven but the gatekeeper said“You are not a Christian but a Ciceronian.” Fresco Fragments in the Wilcox Museum My article on Epicurus and Epicureanism is JOHN YOUNGER’S soon to appear in the Encyclopedia of An - or Material Culture class this Spring, Wendy Huggins (CLSX BA 08? ) cient History (Wiley-Blackwell), and my book made a new study of most of the fresco fragments in the Wilcox. The Invention and Gendering of Epicurus is F http://www2.ku.edu/~wilcox/exhibits/frescoes/ in production at University of Michigan Press.

STAN LOMBARDO: After many years of not For this study she“painted” the fragments with acetone which allowed for a clearer apprecia - doing it I returned last fall to teaching elemen - tion of their motifs for a few seconds during which they could be photographed. Then the ace - tary Greek and was rewarded with a wonder - tone evaporated and the fragments became dull again. ful group of students. Memorable also was a For most of the fragments, this procedure allowed us to see (though briefly) their recogniza - graduate seminar on Penelope in the spring. I ble patterns more vividly. But the large fragment on display, bearing Cupid, came out stun - continue working to complete a translation of ningly.This is N.257 -- which appears in a small photo at the top of the websitewith a link to a Dante’s Commedia struggling to the top of larger photo farther down the page, s.n. N.257. Painting the fragments with acetone revealed , A real kicker was revealed by previously ignored and uncatalogued fragments N.608, N.610, that N.608 joins N.611 to depict a winged, Mount Purgatory at the end of the summer horned beast (child?) hovering to left, en face. and launching myself up into Paradiso, these and N.611, which caught my attention when I was making a complete inventory of the Wilcox N.610 has part of the wing of another crea - efforts considerably enhanced by Thursday collection during the summers of 2009 and 2010. I could see then that there were dragonfly-like ture. morning“Dante Club” sessions with Dee John - wings and thought they might belong to Psyches (Nancy de Grummond identified the winged son and Anne Shaw. child in the penultimate panel of the Villa of the Mysteries as a Psyche because of those elon - gated wings). I was then imagining a procession or larger composition with Cupids and Psyches. TONY CORBEILL: A particular highlight of Imagine our complete surprise, though, when the wings turned out to belong to some child- the past year was being invited to participate like horned beast! We think the non-joining fragment N.610 may contain the wing of another in the Cambridge University Triennial (“Festi - beast. val of Classics”), where I gave a presentation Phil shown here on a very hot day in July talking about his ongoing research on the Civil Basil - with the foreboding title“Grammatical gender ica at Aphrodisias—on site—to a group of attentive visitors from the German Archaeological In - (more photos on page 6) and Roman conceptions of poets, gods, and stitute in Berlin.

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Vanessa Copple, BA 2010, is starting her more the cycle of life, death, birth, and decay). ried me and, thus, my wife-to-be became my third and final semester of graduate school at In the midst of that a summer at the American wife. My goldfish is no longer trained and is Indiana University in Bloomington this fall. School in Athens was a thing to remember, as the size of a whale. My cat never was trained She is a candidate for the M.A. program in well as an opportunity to see Betty outside of and is approaching whale-like proportions. To - Arts Administration from the IU School of Pub - Lawrence. A couple years teaching at Ohio gether we lived an idyllic life among the red - lic and Environmental Affairs. This program in - University in Athens preceded an MEd in For - woods this summer, picking berries, avoiding cludes a summer internship, so Vanessa spent eign Language Instruction, also at OSU. It was bears, and making jars and jars of jam. In Sep - the season in Atlanta, GA and traveled from then that at last I fled the lands east of the tember we moved to Eugene, Oregon, where I there with the company Shimon Presents. Mississippi and returned west with my wife, currently have a job as Visiting Assistant Pro - Through their organization called the Work Lisa, and son, Brian. For three years I taught fessor. We live in a wonderful little pink house. PLEASE SEND US Exchange Team, she and a group of 15 interns Latin and Mythology in North Platte, Nebraska, Julie quilts. Our cat sleeps. Our fish swims. I coordinated approximately 3500 volunteers (don’t knock it until you’ve tried it). We added translate Lucan when I have the chance. I YOUR NEWS over the course of six outdoor music festivals a daughter to the mix, Abigail Kalliope, and work on articles and poems and a book when across the country. It was a very good experi - soon moved to Colorado, where we’ve been not translating Lucan. I’m teaching. I’m read - ence, and she is job hunting for more work for 10 years. Lisa is a teacher-librarian, and I ing. I’m in love. I’m having the time of my Whether your name appears in this issue or not, please with volunteer and/or festival coordination. teach Latin and sometimes Mythology to high life.” send us your greetings, your comments, and your news for As fun as Administration is, Vanessa dearly schoolers. It’s here that some of the gems next year’s issue. We will be happy to hear from you. misses the faculty and courses at the KU Clas - from my time at KU come into play: Throwing WE ARE ALSO PROUD TO ANNOUNCE E-mail your news to [email protected]. Or write to: sics department. things at distracted students (Stanley), chant - THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE FOLLOW 8 Newsletter Editor, Classics Department, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd, ing seemingly meaningless syllables (“o s t ING STUDENTS: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7590. Susan Curry (MA, 200x ) is teaching in the mus tis nt”) that turn out to be meaningful Or use the link on the web version of this newsletter: Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cul - after all (Betty), daring to toss students into Stuart Roberts, Classics major and Latin stu - http://www2.ku.edu/~classics/newsletter.html. Tiffany Huggard-Lee and Kain tures at the University of New Hampshire. In things ‘way over their heads to make them dent, was named the first Sanders Library Please also let us know if you would like us to list an spring 2011 she gave two talks:“Tiberius the things I read in the department at KU (al - swim (Mike), and starting classes with snip - Scholar at KU, a scholarship established by address or URL along with your entry. Goat: The Beastliness of Power in Suetonius’ though thankfully, none have been in Greek). pets of real Latin, which brings in valid materi - long-time friend of the department Bill Crowe De Vita Caesarum” at CAMWS; and“Suetonius’ My wife and I are off to Rome and Florence als, gets the brain working, and puts language and his late wife Nancy Sanders. He now Menagerie: Animals and Emperors in the De next week for a history tour (or more than to real use (Oliver). A few years back the dis - works with a mentor at the libraries to ex - Vita Caesarum,” at CANE. Sarah is working as a history). We are very excited to do so, and I trict approved my ancient Greek class, which plore the facets of librarianship. librarian at Daniel Webster College, and they look forward to sitting on the Capitoline Hill, allows me to stay up-to-date on passive aorist are both enjoying the White Mountains, the wondering how it all happened.” optatives on work time. Duties as chairman of Loren Cressler, BA 2011, won a prestigious ocean, and their vegetable plots in a commu - the Foreign Language Department keep me Fulbright Award to study literature in Ger - nity garden in Durham. Caitlin Rose, BA Classical Languages 2009, busy, as has service to the Teachers’ Associa - many. Maybe we should have a note somewhere I graduated in May from UMass-Amherst tion, whose contract I helped negotiate this that decodes CANE and CAMWS, etc. with an MAT in Latin and Classical Humani - spring (a minor investment of 180+ hours!). Holly Murphy, MA candidate, Spring 2012, ties. Then came the panic of trying to put Vintage-auto restoration, cycling, cyclo-tour - was selected to present a paper at the Mid - that degree to use. Lucky for me there was a Tiffany Huggard-Lee, MA 2011, Since gradu - ing, and now building bicycles provide plenty west Classics Graduate Colloquium in Colum - ation, I have spent much of my time in Joplin full time Latin position open in the Blue Valley of distraction (sometimes a guy needs that), bia, MO. Her paper on friendship in Horace working with the ASPCA at the emergency an - School District, so I got to come back home! and this summer as celebrant I performed my and Juvenal was well received. imal shelter established after the devastating This semester I will be travelling between first wedding; it was for my brother. You’ll tornado. I spent 18 days working as the safety BVW and BVNW teaching Latin 1 and 2. I'm have to check the internet for reviews. The Rachel Cunning, candidate for the BEd and officer, supervising the health and welfare of excited for my first semester and hopefully near future threatens to look a lot like the re - BA in Latin, Spring 2012, gave a presentation 150 responders, and living out of the back of will be sending lots of bright Latin enthusiasts cent past, but with cycling in the Netherlands on Valerius Maximus in the Spencer Research my truck. At the end of my time there I to the KU Classics department. Latin teaching this time, rather than from Colorado to, then Library that explored early texts, spurious bi - helped oversee the ASPCA’s adoption event at has pretty much occupied my life for the past across, Iowa, which I did last year. Beyond ographies of the Roman author, and early ideas the end of June where we found new homes couple years and I have a feeling that will only that? Perhaps another return to Hawaii, about intellectual property. t for 739 displaced animals. In August I will be intensify! maybe Australia, or some place not yet on the starting law school at Washington and Lee Uni - radar, but we’ll be traveling somewhere.” versity in Virginia. I will miss KU Classics but Joe Schott, BA Classics 1985, writes“After I’m looking forward to starting a new educa - leaving KU and its cadre of motivational teach - Brian Walters, M.A. in 2003, writes“Since tional endeavor. ers—Stanley Lombardo, Mike Shaw, Betty receiving my M.A. in 2003, I’ve lived in Kansas, Banks, and the esteemed Oliver Phillips—a England and Kansas again, worked in Sicily, trail of schools and degrees followed: First Brian Krob, BA 1994, is an attorney in Chicago. taught in Southern Italy, lost myself and found In May he wrote:“I am finishing my second there was an MA in Classics at the University myself in Rome on multiple occasions, and year in the Basic Program of Liberal Arts for of Wisconsin-Madison, followed by a PhD in studied Classics for years at UCLA. At the end Adults (a version of the Great Books program) Classics at the Ohio State University (it turns of the spring I finished my Ph.D. and at the at the University of Chicago. It has been won - out that labor in Vergil’s Georgics isn’t all that end of June left LA with my cat, trained gold - derful to re-introduce myself to so many of the “good” after all—pace readers of old—but fish, and wife-to-be in tow. In July, Julie mar - 8 www2.ku.edu/~classics www2.ku.edu/~classics 9 Faculty News (continued from page six) Thank You to Our Donors Medea in Euripides, Apollonius, and Ovid, as well as in Roman painting and sarcophagi, and Roshan J. Abraham Anastasios A. Daskalopoulos Sheri Childs Horn Erik C. Mortensen Father Matthew J. Shapiro in Pasolini’s provocative film. My major re - Patricia L. Acher Sally Davis Mark F. Huber Mary Lewis Mosher Stephen J. Shartran search achievement of the year was finishing Louise Willing Allen Walter B. Davis Annette W. Huggins David G. Mougakos Benjamin T. Shockey Dr. Susan J. Allen Jason M. Dawdy Stein Kathleen R. Hughes Steven A. Mroz Virginia Flakus Shults the manuscript for my book Dream, Image, James E. Alloway Catherine C. Dewey Carl E. Humphrey Meredith Hitchcock Nelson Father James R. Silver and Fantasy in Latin Elegy , which examines Mary Stanford Anderson Lisa Mari Deyo Christopher C. Iliff Beth E. Nettels Cote N. Smith dreams and visual experience in Latin elegiac Phyllis D. Anderson Geneva M. Diamond, PhD Nick C. Jackson, PhD Meaghan McDermott Randall M. Smith Trey K. Anderson Ryan M. Donegan Paul G. Jarvis Newton Tricia Patterson Smith poetry. An article related to this work entitled Janet S. Anderson-Story Rieta A. Drinkwine Sarah Iles Johnston, PhD Jeffrey B. O’Neill Alan B. Sneegas “The Visual Dreamscape of Propertius 3.3” will Donna Baier Kurt R. Duffens, MD Terry Nixon Jones John S. Olson Peter M. Spinks appear in the 2011 volume of Memoirs of the Diane L. Baker Stacey Meisinger Dundar Andrea D. Kelly Claudia S. Orton Kathleen C. Stiles, MD Father Rick W. Bales Radd K. Ehrman Janet Masterson Kern Brian James Patrick Julie Moffitt Strainer American Academy in Rome . Thomas W. Barker Lori J. Ellefson Alex M. Keyworth Ann E. Pattin, MD Andrea M. Strode Joshua M. Baruth Lucy Wilder Elliott Jason H. Klein Anna C. Peace Maria Ast Sullivan James P. Bascom Stephen A. Elliott Amber N. Koch Kayleigh A. Peterson Abbigail Ascher Swanton David J. Bauer Bradley G. Engelbert Karen L. Koehler Mark A. Peterson Aaron D. Swenson Mark F. Baumler, PhD Matthew R. Erb Michael E. Kollhoff Katharine E. Piller Patricia Mohatt Szott Sally Jenkins Beal Patrick R. Fenn Susan Diehl Kollhoff Cynthia C. Polsley Ann B. Talleur Kenneth L. Beck Zachary L. Fischer Brian E. Krob Deborah K. Porter Gary L. Taylor Corbett C. Bennett Sara A. Fiscus Marc L. Kuemmerlein Sharon S. Potts Sara A. Tesler Hannah N. Boles Kevin W. Fithian Thomas C. Kuffler Shilpa Prasad John T. Trausch Brian L. Boyce Elizabeth A. Florea John I. Lahti Zachary A. Puckett Bruce A. Uecker Milissa A. Boyer Terry L. Floyd Edward D. Lane Daniel J. Pullen Amelia D. VanderHorck Aerial view of xxxxxxx Kirk M. Bray James L. Foley Andrew R. Leland Karen Purre Vanessa S. Veitch Amy Webb Brewer David C. Fredrick Stanley Lombardo Andrea L. Purvis Jean E. Vieux David E. Bricker Laura M. Gadbery Alena E. Loyd Mark D. Rendina Valerie E. Voigt PHIL STINSON: This past year was a very Kasey Ward Briggs LTC Ronald E. Garner, James J. Ludwig Wendy Wolff Rice Ryan M. Wachter Jack V. Brooks Retired Andrew T. Luxem Arthur C. Richards, IV Amy Ottinger Walters busy one for Phil. He went to Turkey in the Charles R. Brown Dale V. Gear John K. Mackey L. Alan Riggins Jessica L. Weaver summer and conducted fieldwork for his book Christopher S. Brown Bill D. Geis, PhD John P. Magee Linda Fletcher Rodriguez Robert H. Weinstein project on the Roman Civil Basilica of Aphro - Tamara N. Browning Melissa J. Goldman Dr. Donald L. Malone Brittany D. Ronsse Bradley G. Weiss Eric W. Brust Hernan Gomez, MD Jason D. Maltsbarger Caitlin N. Rose David B. Wescoe disias in Turkey, published an article on per - Gregory J. Buehne Pamela Gordon Wendy A. March Jeff Roth Bradford J. West spective in Roman Second Style wall-painting Gary C. Burrows Tracy L. Gray Andrea Wilcoxen Martin Robert A. Rothman Laura Koch Wienke in the American Journal of Archaeology and Catherine M. Carithers Robin J. Greene Brett J. Martin David A. Routh Christina L. Williams , Wade T. Cartwright Amy D. Greufe The Hon. Paula B. Martin Curtis Runnels Dianne M. Williams he was awarded two externally funded grants Anne M. Carty Frederick J. Hack Robin K. Mathews Allison L. Sackin Roger O. Williams III this past year: 1) to support his new research David J. Casson James C. Haney Janet Matto Matthews Steven P. Savage, PhD Stephanie A. Williams on the endangered cultural heritage of David W. Childers Eleanor M. Hardin Lynne A. McAdoo Leslie A. Sayet David R. Wilson James M. Cole, MD Paige J. Harmon Martha Prosser McCarter Tobias J.H. Schlingensiepen Katy Thomas Wilson Afghanistan, from the US Army Office of Re - Bradley L. Combest Matthew M. Hastings, MD Anne I. McEnroe Edward C. Schoenfeldt Laura M. Wilson search (see page 4 for further information), Ardis J. Comfort Paul M. Haverstock Eileen D. McFarren C. Joseph Schott Debra L. Winslow and 2) to fund his continuing work on the Amy B. Coplan Lindley A. Henson Timothy L. McGuire Robert K. Schubert Julia Ahrens Wolf, PhD Vanessa A. Copple Robert B. Hickam-Smith Jennifer Kerns Mengel Michelle L. Schwartzman Shannon C. Woods Civil Basilica of Aphrodisias in Turkey, from Melinda Rodgers Couzens Dorothy A. Hirsch Denise Heffley Menzies Glenn E. Schwerdtfeger Brandon J. Worrell ARIT, the American Research Institute in Stanley M. Cox Mary Greaves Hodge Nicolas S. Miller Heather J. Schwertfeger Pamela R. Wyssenbach Turkey. Loren M. Cressler Kathryn C. Hogan Thomas W. Moody Emma J. Scioli James B. Young Ford T. Culbertson Jessica McNickle Hogancamp Molly A. Morris Rebecca Martin Seaman Matthew Zimmermann Amy Welch Cunningham Matthew J. Holgerson Jimmy D. Morrison Andrew J.A. Senior TARA WELCH: I am working on the final Camden C. Danielson Angela E. Holzmeister John A. Morrison Jr. Paul A. Seymour III chapters of a book on Tarpeia. This past year I wrote about her appearance on Roman coins and in Livy’s history. Next up: the frieze of the Basilica Aemilia and Tarpeia’s appearance in Propertius’ poetry. My co-edited book Oxford Readings in Propertius is in press and should SUPPORT CLASSICS hit the shelves before our next newsletter. I am also developing an interest in Valerius Max - or inquiries about contributions, please contact: Nancy Jackson, imus, that collector of memorable deeds and Development Officer, Kansas University Endowment Association, P.O. Box 928, words. I gave a paper on his moralistic senten - FLawrence, KS 66044. Phone: 785-832-7465. 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