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NOTES FROM THE CHAIR By Kathleen Coleman

ommencement represents the culmination of quick-thinking, exactly the qualities that will be at a pre- years of hard work on the part of our graduating mium as our battered world is rebuilt. In the meantime, Cseniors and doctoral candidates, and of their spring is in full bloom and we look forward to respite teachers and mentors. In accordance with the dictates from Zooming and to the recuperation afforded by a of COVID-19, we celebrate all this dedication remotely, bountiful summer. To everyone who has worked so hard but we do so in the confident expectation that we shall to keep the Department going this year, most especial- celebrate properly in the months to come. Thanks to the ly Teresa, Alyson, and our two departing Lecturers, Greg combined efforts of Alyson Lynch and Lisa Clark, this Mellen and Michael Konieczny, thank you, take time to Commencement issue of Nota Bene will still reach you, recover, and step out with resolve as society hesitantly albeit via e-mail rather than in hard copy at the annual opens up again in the months to come. m Shrimpfest in the Faculty Club. I hope that seeing the smiling faces and considerable achievements of our graduates in the following pages will lift your spirits and v CONTENTS v swell your hearts. By now, at the beginning of the tenth week of the pan- Notes from the Chair 1 demic-induced lockdown, “Zoom” with a capital Z has Senior Concentrators 2 become a verb; we are all expert at putting up a blue Senior Honors Theses 3 hand to insert a comment or a query; our capacity for multi-tasking has been tested by the necessity to follow Thesis Prizes 4 a discussion and simultaneously type a message on the Senior Prizes 4 “chat” function; and we are still here, taking refuge more Seniors’ Future Plans 5 gratefully than ever in the study of the Greco-Roman Senior Reflections 6 past. Scholars are by definition somewhat introverted, re- treating from human company to the life of the mind, Student News 8 but since the middle of March we have all discovered Faculty News 11 how gregarious is the human animal—and how fragile Sargent Prize 12 the social contract that enables us to enjoy our common humanity. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 14 We do not yet know what long-term opportunities Graduate Students’ Conferences Papers & Publications 15 will be available for some of our graduating seniors and Valete from PhD Recipients 17 PhDs, although we are confident that their training in Classics has made them versatile, analytical, articulate, and designed by lisa kyle clark

• 1 • SENIOR CONCENTRATORS SENIOR HONORS THESES

Sasha Barish Micah Johnson-Levy

“Insulting Slaves in ” “Theseus and the Amazons: Images of the Ideal and Advisors: Kathleen Coleman and Jay Jasanoff the Other in the Context of the Greco-Persian Asst. Advisor: Nadav Asraf (G5) Wars” Advisor: David Elmer Cawley Asst. Advisor: Paul Johnston (G4)

Sasha Barish Lydia Cawley Christopher Gregory Julie Effron “The Peace of Women: An Arabic Adaptation of Sheridan Marsh Colby Aristophanes” Advisors: Richard Thomas and Annette Lienau “‘Antinous, Superstar’ – The Cult of Antinous in Asst. Advisor: Justin Miller (G4) Greece and Minor” Advisor: Emma Dench Christopher Colby Asst. Advisor: Supratik Baralay (G4)

“Voicing Tragedy: A Realization of Ancient Greek Samuel Puopolo Music” Advisors: Alexander Rehding and Naomi Weiss “In the Wake of Theseus: Intertextuality and Recep- Asst. Advisor: Hannelore Segers tion in the Lament of Catullus’ Ariadne” Caroline Engelmayer Samantha Hand Alexander Hively Micah Marie Johnson- Advisor: Richard Thomas Levy Julie Effron Asst. Advisor: Hannelore Segers (G4)

“Nubem Eripiam: Exploring the Narrative Manipula- Alejandro Quintana tion of Virgil, Aeneas, and Augustus” “Local Migration in the Arsinoite Nome of Egypt Advisors: Richard Thomas and Gregory Mellen during the Early Principate” Asst. Advisor: Miriam Kamil (G5) Advisors: Giovanni Bazzana and Paul Kosmin Asst. Advisor: James Zainaldin (G6) Caroline Engelmayer Ben Roy Sheridan Marsh Samuel Ezra Puopolo Ben Roy Alejandro Quintana “aliquis est ex me pius?: Seneca’s Phoenissae and Its Early Modern Reception” “The Cretan Hero: Intertextuality, Identity, and Advisors: Richard Tarrant and Leah Whittington Resistance in Prevelakis’ Το Δέντρο” Asst. Advisor: Paul Johnston (G4) Advisor: Richard Thomas Asst. Advisor: Sergios Paschalis Samantha Hand Ellis Yeo “Making Meaning in the Cults of Vesta and Flora Under Augustus: A Literary, Historical, and “Love’s Grief Work: Reading Ancient Greece in the Anthropological Analysis” AIDS Elegies of Paul Monette and James Merrill” Advisor: Kathleen Coleman Advisors: Leah Whittington and Richard Tarrant Liam Warner Ellis Jaewon Yeo Asst. Advisor: Christopher Cochran (G5) Asst. Advisor: Jorge Wong (G3)

• 2 • • 3 • THESIS PRIZES SENIORS’ FUTURE PLANS

Ancient History Prize for a thesis on Ancient History Alejandro Quintana Sasha Barish does not have immediate plans yet. type of corporation, recognized by the SEC and Stay tuned! IRS. He plans to be the first federally regulated inclusive-sustainable corporation. Smyth Thesis Prize for a thesis on Greek Lydia Cawley will pursue an MPhil in Classics at Lydia Cawley Jesus College, Cambridge with the generous sup- Micah Johnson-Levy has no concrete plans at the port of the Lionel Pearson Fellowship awarded by moment, but she is planning on pursuing a career in the Society for Classical Studies. At Cambridge she arts administration with a specific focus on commu- Pease Thesis Prize for a thesis on Latin will continue researching the reception of classical nity outreach and education. Sasha Barish sources by 20th- and 21st- century Arabic writ- ers. She also plans to travel to Paris to research this Sheridan Marsh plans to attend the University of milieu of Arab expatriate artists with the support of Oxford for an MSt in Classical Archaeology. Hoopes Prize for an outstanding undergraduate thesis the Booth Fellowship. Samuel Ezra Puopolo will start as a strategy Christopher Colby, Caroline Engelmayer, Alejandro Quintana Christopher (Topher) Colby plans to travel analyst with Accenture this September; however, he abroad to the United Kingdom to continue studies in plans to use the summer to relax, watch movies, and Classics at Jesus College, Oxford through the support read by the beach. Captain Jonathan Fay Prize for an outstanding and imaginative undergraduate thesis of the Corey Fellowship and a Hoopes Prize. Alejandro Quintana will pursue a Ph.D. in Clas- Alejandro Quintana Julie Effron will be working at Blackstone in New sics and History at Yale University this coming fall. York City as an analyst in the Real Estate Acquisi- Ben Roy will be moving to Washington, D.C., tions group. beginning this summer, where he will be interning Caroline Engelmayer will pursue an MPhil at the with the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library as an SENIOR PRIZES University of Cambridge as a Harvard-Cambridge editor for translation submissions of Greek and Lat- Scholar. in texts. He is also one of the 2020–2021 Dumbar- Arthur Deloraine Corey Fellowship for graduate study ton Oaks Humanities Fellows, and looks forward to Christopher Colby, Sheridan Marsh, Liam Warner Samantha Hand has been awarded a position to working on projects with them and the Smithsonian teach social studies at a Catholic middle school Folkways Record Label for the next academic year. in Phoenix, AZ through the University of No- Louis Curtis Prize for excellence in Latin tre Dame’s ACE Teaching Fellowship. She will be Liam Warner is hoping to be allowed by the academic and civil powers to pursue a master’s in Caroline Engelmayer granted a Master of Education degree from Notre Dame upon completion of her fellowship in 2022. Classics abroad.

Alex Hively has started a music software company Ellis Jaewon Yeo will serve as a fellow for the William King Richardson Scholarship for distinction in both Greek and Latin based on the principles of inclusive capitalism and Washington AIDS Partnership in D.C. As part of the Alejandro Quintana sustainable business. His bigger mission is to devise Health Corps team, she will continue working with a methodology for corporate structure, goals, and people living with HIV at health care and commu- governance that can lay the framework for a new nity-based service providers. Department Prizes for academic achievement and contributions to the Classics community Julie Effron, Samantha Hand, Micah Johnson-Levy, Sheridan Marsh, Sam Puopolo, Ben Roy

• 4 • • 5 • But this department gave me so much more than especially like to thank Alyson Lynch, Teresa Wu, Prof. SENIOR REFLECTIONS amazing trips and a great place to study (shout out to Adrian Stähli, and Dean Emma Dench for being men- Smyth). It proved to me that I belonged at Harvard tors to me from the very beginning. I would also like to and that I can do anything I set my mind to, no matter thank all the graduate students who taught me or were Lydia Cawley second floor, and of all the time spent opening up inter- how unfamiliar or challenging it might seem at first. I in classes with me for being such great role models and ests and inspirations that I always wanted to find. learned so much in these four years, both academically kind friends. I am very sad that my time in the depart- I am so glad we got to share a few sentimental reminiscences, I was so scared to start Greek at Harvard that I never and personally, and I will hold these lessons in my mind ment was cut short, but I cannot wait to come back one good-hearted giggles, and (premature) tearful goodbyes in even committed to buying the textbook! Carlo Vessella and heart forever. day and truly express my gratitude in person, since these the Boylston 2nd floor lounge on that fateful day in March, can fondly remember me hunching over a phone-screen I have so many people to thank. First and foremost, words will not nearly suffice to show just how import- Friday the 13th, before the Ides set in. I regret being torn PDF for two introductory semesters, and skipping the thank you to Professor Coleman, who welcomed me ant this department was to me. from my Classics family a couple of months earlier than third just to become Alex Schultz’s Greek 10 class expert into this department with open arms when I was a ner- expected, but I want to offer my deepest thanks to the in “counting lines” to prepare which passage would be vous freshman and has guided me ever since. Thanks people who made me feel at home these past four years: mine to translate at sight (preparation did improve even- also to Professor Thomas, who was the best freshman Samuel Puopolo To Alyson and Teresa, who always ensured I’d have glu- tually, I promise!). ten-free pizza and goodies at our events, and offered their advisor I could have asked for; to all of my professors I will always be thankful for the time I spent here with Time is an ocean, but it ends at the shore, and it seems support at every undergraduate juncture. and TFs, especially those who taught me Latin, who the Classics Department, and my heartfelt thanks go out that I have very nearly washed up. It’s hard to believe To Alex, Eliza, Julia, Sarah, Nate, Paul, Justin, Philip, and showed me that it is never too late to learn something to my advisors, from Kathleen Coleman, who first helped that I won’t be returning to Boylston as an undergrad- Chris, the wonderful graduate students who held my new; to Teresa and Alyson, for keeping us all above wa- me enroll as a Classics concentrator after transferring uate ever again. For the first time in ten years, I won’t hand through Greek, guided me through my first proper ter; and to my fellow concentrators, who kept me sane from Dartmouth, to my treasured thesis advisors, Naomi be taking any Classics courses, and for the first time in research papers, and advised me on navigating the mine- and kept me laughing, no matter the circumstances. You Weiss and Alexander Rehding; David Elmer, who taught twenty years, I won’t even be in school. Twenty years of field that is “postgrad.” are all incomparable. me my favorite seminar courses and gave me the courage schooling and they put you on the day shift. The world To Professor Elmer, Professor Dench, Professor Nagy, to apply for grad studies; and all of the wonderful peers, outside Classics is scary: people out there don’t think fun Professor Weiss, and Professor Love, who made me feel invaluable Classics Department staff, and lounge puppies facts about PIE roots or Virgilian window references or welcome in lectures, discussions, and office hours, taught Sheridan Marsh that made four years at Harvard an incredible experience. epigraphy found in Tunisia two thousand years later are as me so very much, and modeled the sort of classicist I I will miss it all so much! The Department of the Classics has been my home at nifty as we do. Achilles never had to worry about self-ac- hope to become. Harvard since I was a freshman. I still remember my first tualization or whether he was doing what made him hap- To Professor Thomas, who advised my thesis, talked day in the department lounge—I was so nervous that py. But me, I may be temporary like Achilles, but I can’t Bob Dylan and politics, never crossed a picket line, always Samantha Hand I was shaking and I sat tensely on one of the couches. just fight physical enemies to get meaning, I have to live cheered me on, and shepherded us budding Dylanolo- When I first arrived at Harvard, bright-eyed and bushy- One of the seniors that year was also there, having an within myself too. gists through several campus upheavals, from fall 2016 up tailed, I was nearly positive that I was going to study gov- animated conversation with Ivy Livingston, someone As I fight the Dardanians within and without in the through the finish line this spring. ernment. I never imagined that I would end up studying who would come to be one of the many familiar fac- new world I am entering, a memory calls after me like To my fellow seniors, for commiserating over tough a field I had never heard of and writing a thesis about es I knew in the department. Alyson’s dog, Beth, came a rolling train. A place which welcomed me with open translations, gossiping at fancy faculty lunches, coordinat- poetry in a language I did not know before college, but I out to say hello, and she was a very welcome and com- arms when I was a scared first year student, a place where ing an impromptu thesis photoshoot, celebrating every am so glad that I did. forting sight. As I went into my first class, The Roman I met friends for life, a place where I read texts for all time. success, and for being the best support system. There were many highlights to my undergraduate ex- Villa with Prof. Stähli, I remember the senior noticing Though my undergraduate years have disappeared in the You all have enriched and truly made my undergraduate perience. I remember my sophomore spring, which I I was a freshman and giving me all kinds of advice and mist like Brigadoon, my heart will always find warmth experience, and for that I am immensely grateful. spent at the Trinity College Campus, very fondly. calming words for my first day of class. The welcome in the wonderful people and the amazing world I’ve en- There is nothing quite like reading Ovid’s Ars Amatoria I received in the department that day is characteristic joyed here in the Classics Department. Ten thousand dol- of this department, where everyone (faculty, grad stu- lars at the drop of a hat, I’d give it all gladly if everyone’s Christopher Colby only a block away from the Circus Maximus in between shifts at the Roman Houses on the Caelian Hill, where dents, our wonderful administrators, and fellow concen- lives could be like that. Still on campus until the bitter end, my international I was an intern. I will never forget the days I spent—and trators) knew my name and greeted me with a smile. I roommates and I have spent some special and fortunate the many response papers I wrote—during the summer cannot imagine how lost I would have been at such a evenings in the Yard aimlessly walking around and talking of 2018 at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Nafplio, huge school without having a place in the Classics De- about the memories we hold for each of the buildings with a cappuccino freddo always in my hand. And who partment. I would really like to extend my most heart- around us. I always look at Boylston Hall and reminisce could forget the 2019 spring break trip to with felt thanks to everyone in the department who made on the six consecutive semesters I had of courses on the Classical Studies 112? this experience memorable and educational. I would

• 6 • • 7 • STUDENT NEWS Fellowships: Greta Galeotti (G1), Studies at Athens. He will according- Schultz (G6) won the graduate Vivian Jin (G1), Paul Johnston ly spend the 2021–22 academic year Winkler Prize for her essay “A Sister’s (G4), Davide Napoli (G2), Han- in Greece! Song? Female Agency and Com- nelore Segers (G4), Jorge Wong munity in Sappho’s Brothers Poem.” Miriam Kamil (G5) was nominated (G3), James Zainaldin (G6), and Paul Johnston (G4) was awarded Graduate Student News completed his prospectus on “The for the Derek C. Bok Award for Ex- Louis Zweig (G2). an Honorable Mention for his essay Antigonid Imperial System: Sover- cellence in Graduate Student Teaching eignty and Politics of Empire in the “Charmides and the (homo)erotic-aes- In December 2019 Supratik Bara- Sarah Eisen (G3) and Rebecca of Undergraduates. Pre-Modern Mediterranean.” thetic life: Plato, Wilde and Cavafy.” lay (G4) completed his prospectus Deitsch (G3) have each been award- entitled “Imperialism and Autonomy Keating McKeon (G7) had pho- For a third winner from Harvard, see In May 2020 Alexander Vega (G3) ed a GSAS Summer Predissertation in Arsacid Asia.” tographs featured in the Harvard the undergraduate prize section! completed his Special Exams on Fellowship. This year, the fellowship Student Art Collective’s December Aristotle, Augustine, and Ancient CornellClass of 2021 University Ariel Noh, consists of a tuition waiver for lan- Hannelore Segers (G4) has been In May 2020 Rebecca Deitsch exhibition (“History of Psychedelics Greek and Roman Philosophy of law. guage study at the Harvard Summer awarded a two-year Tyler Fellowship (G3) completed her Special Exams art: Cover at Harvard”). He also had a photo on Euripides, Statius, and Myth in School and $1,000 for dissertation-re- from Dumbarton Oaks. came out in Spring 2020, thanks to from his series Fabrications on display Material Culture. lated research. the hard work of the Editor-in-Chief at the Smith Campus Center for the Rebecca Deitsch (G3) won a Undergraduate Awards In May 2020 Sarah Eisen (G3) Serena Shah (’21) and the members 2019–20 academic year. (See below) Gold Medal in the American Coun- completed her Special Exams on of the Editorial Board, Hayden The Bowdoin Prize for Greek cil of Teachers of Russian National Two graduate students have earned Greek Painted Pottery, Gender and Davis (’21), Zelin Liu (’22), Fiona translation has been awarded to both Post-Secondary Russian Essay Contest recognition in the competition for Sexuality in the Ancient World, and McFerrin-Clancy (’23), Abigail Molly Goldberg (’22) and Liam (Category A, Level 4). this year’s John J. Winkler Memorial Ancient Greek Sacrifice and Ritual Miller (’22), and Esther Um (’21). Prize. The prize is offered annually by Warner (’20). in the Wider Mediterranean Con- Read the latest issue and find infor- Paul Johnston (G4) received the the John J. Winkler Memorial Trust in The Bowdoin Prize for Latin trans- text. mation about submitting content for Michael Jameson Fellowship to study memory of the great classical scholar lation has been awarded to Caroline the next issue on the Persephone at the American School of Classical John J. (“Jack”) Winkler. Alexandra Engelmayer (’20). In February 2020 Stephen Hughes website. (G7) completed his prospectus entitled “Legal Fictions: Tragedy and Jurisprudence in Classical Athens.” In April 2020 the edition and commentary, Gargilius Martialis: Fellowships and Other In February 2020 Miriam Kamil The Agricultural Fragments, by James (G5) completed her prospectus en- Awards Zainaldin (G6) was published by titled “Inspirantque graves animas: The Cambridge University Press in the Graduate Student Awards Furies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” series Cambridge Classical Texts and The Bowdoin Prize for In April 2020 Suzanne Paszkow- Commentaries. Graduate Composition in ski (G5) completed her prospectus Greek has been awarded to entitled “Addiction in the Ancient Stephen Hughes (G7). Greco-Roman World.” Undergraduate Student The Bowdoin Prize for In February 2020 Allison Resnick News Graduate Composition in (G4) completed her Special Exams Serena Shah (’21) presented a Latin has been awarded to on Homer, Sallust, and Social History Alexander Schwennicke (G4). in the Late Republic/Early Empire. paper entitled “Names and Classical Reception in the African Ameri- The following students have received In October 2019 Hannelore can Experience” at “Our Voices: A GSAS Dissertation Completion Fel- Segers (G4) completed her pro- Conference for Inclusive Classics lowships for 2020–21: Christopher spectus on “Paraphrasis and Cento: Pedagogy” at Columbia University in Cochran (G5), Stephen Hughes (G7), A Comparative Analysis of Late An- February 2020. and Alexandra Schultz (G6). tique Greek and Latin Versification.” The new issue of the Persephone: The The following students have been In March 2020 Felipe Soza (G4) Harvard Undergraduate Classics Journal awarded Summer School Tuition Fabrications by Keating McKeon

• 8 • • 9 • The John Osborne Sargent Prize One undergraduate student has Stephen Hughes (G5): Greek K. FACULTY NEWS for English translation of an ode of earned recognition in the competition Advanced Greek Prose Composition Horace has been awarded to both for this year’s John J. Winkler Me- Julia Judge (G5): Classical Studies Archie Hall (’21, Social Studies) and morial Prize (for details, see graduate 112. Regional Study: Sicily Benjamin LaFond (’22). (See the awards section): Ellis Yeo (’20) has In July 2019 Dr. Carmen Arnold-Biucchi retired as renovation and expansion of what is now called the winning submissions on page 12!) won the undergraduate Winkler Prize Miriam Kamil (G5): Classics 98. Tu- Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins in the Harvard Art Fellowship Building, the introduction of new residen- for her essay, “Love’s Grief Work: torial–Junior Year; General Education Museums. The Harvard Gazette honored her with an in- cies and internships for undergraduate and graduate The David Taggart Clark Prize for the Reading Ancient Greece in the AIDS 1074. The Ancient Greek Hero depth profile describing her influential work. students, the establishment of educational programs Undergraduate Latin Commence- Elegies of James Merrill.” for students from the D.C. public schools, the expan- ment Oration has been awarded to Justin Miller (G4): Greek 3. Intro- Professor Kathleen Coleman has been awarded the sion of on-line access to collections, and the initia- Caroline Engelmayer (’20). Ben Roy (’20), is one of two se- ductory Ancient Greek 3 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award by tion of a program of art installations in the garden. niors in the College to be awarded the Graduate Student Council. GSAS students nominate While director, Professor Ziolkowski also founded the Charles P. Segal Student Travel and Sergios Paschalis (TA): Latin Ax. the Aloian Memorial Scholarship celebrated faculty for this distinguished award. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, a bilingual series Research Fellowships have been Latin Review and Reading for demonstrating thoughtful lead- that makes medieval and Byzantine texts available awarded to Joseph Barisas (’21) and Professor David Elmer has been appointed the eleventh ership and improving the quality of Suzanne Paszkowski (G5): Culture to the English-speaking world. Under his direction, Zelin Liu (’22). Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, in succession to Pro- life in their Houses (in Ben’s case, & Belief 35. Classical Mythology; Dumbarton Oaks has both strengthened its ties to the fessor Albert Henrichs. The John H. Finley Jr. Fellowship for Kirkland). Greek 115. Homer: The Odyssey greater Harvard community and become more wel- coming to the world at large. He will leave behind a the Greek Classics has been awarded The following Classics Con- In June 2021 Professor Gregory Nagy will step down to Muhua Yang (’21). Allison Resnick (G4): Latin 10. In- stronger institution and a powerful legacy.” centrators were nominated troduction to Latin Literature as the Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, to Lydia Cawley (’20) has been award- to Phi Beta Kappa this be succeeded by Professor Mark Schiefsky, who is The Department of the Classics is proud of what Profes- ed the Pearson Fellowship by the academic year: Alexandra Schultz (G6): Latin 112a. currently the Associate Director. We are very proud of sor Ziolkowski achieved at Dumbarton Oaks and is eager Society for Classical Studies to pur- Lydia Cawley (’20) and History of Latin Literature I what Professor Nagy has achieved at the Center. Watch to welcome him back to the department after his forth- sue an MPhil in Classics next year at Alejandro Quintana (’20). this space for our eulogy upon his transformation into coming sabbatical, which he will devote to his study of Alexander Schwennicke (G4): Jesus College, Cambridge, where she a regular member of the faculty in a year’s time! the reception of the medieval epic, Waltharius (see spring Greek 2. Introductory Ancient Greek 2 will continue the interest that she has issue 2020). Professor Jeremy Rau has been awarded an ACLS Fel- developed in 20th- and 21st-century Hannelore Segers (G4): General lowship to support his forthcoming sabbatical, which he Arabic receptions of classical texts, Education 1131. Loss; Latin 1x. Accel- will spend completing his project, “Linguistic Descent, under the guidance of faculty in both TF and TA Teaching Awards erated Introductory Latin 1; Latin 3. Diversification, and Convergence. The History of the Classics and Middle Eastern Studies. The Harvard Certificate of Distinc- Introductory Latin 3 Ancient Greek Dialects, ca. 2000-600 BCE.” Bok Center Faculty Teaching Awards She has also been awarded the Alex tion in Teaching is awarded by the Anthony Shannon (G4): Culture & The Harvard Certificate of Teaching Excellence goes to G. Booth Fellowship for research in Bok Center to outstanding Teaching Professor Naomi Weiss has received the honor of being Belief 35. Classical Mythology; US in outstanding Lecturers, College Fellows, and Preceptors. Paris and the Newbold Rhineland- Fellows and Teaching Assistants. Recip- named the Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the the World 34. The Civil War from Nat Recipients from Classics for the Spring and Fall Semes- er Landon Memorial Scholarship, ients from Classics for the Spring and Humanities by Claudine Gay, Dean of the Faculty of Arts Turner to Birth of a Nation ters of 2019 follow. which is awarded without application Fall Semesters of 2019 follow (G-year and Sciences. to a student interested in classical listed is for the academic year 2019–20). Stephen Shennan (G5): Classical Carmen Arnold-Biucchi: Classical Archaeology 183. thought and provides generous sup- As announced by Professor Robin Kelsey, Dean of the Studies 97a. Introduction to the Money and Coins in Ancient World port for future pursuits. Nadav Asraf (G5): Latin 10. Intro- Division of Arts & Humanities, on May 18, Professor Jan Ancient Greek World Culture & duction to Latin Literature Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Me- Belief 35. Classical Mythology; Calliope Dourou: Modern Greek Aa. Elementary Mod- Caroline Engelmayer (’20) has dieval Latin, will leave the directorship of Dumbarton Supratik Baralay (G4): Culture & General Education 1131. Loss ern Greek; Modern Greek Ab. Elementary Modern Greek been awarded a Harvard-Cambridge Oaks, effective July 1, 2020. Dean Kelsey’s assessment of Scholarship to pursue an MPhil at Belief 35. Classical Mythology Felipe Soza (G4): Classical Stud- Professor Ziolkowski’s achievements at Dumbarton Oaks Susanne Ebbinghaus: Classical Studies 168. The Per- Emmanuel College next year. She is Christopher Cochran (G5): Greek ies 97b. Introduction to the Ancient follows (lightly edited): sian Empire also a recipient of the Sophia Freund 10. Introduction to Ancient Greek Roman World; Culture & Belief 35. Prize, which is awarded annually to “Since being appointed to the directorship of Dumbar- Brigitte Libby: Culture and Belief 35. Classical Mythology Literature Classical Mythology the students in the senior class of ton Oaks in 2007, Professor Ziolkowski has worked Ivy Livingston: Latin 1. Introductory Latin 1; Latin 2. Harvard College who are graduating Sarah Eisen (G3): Classical Studies Alexander Vega (G3): Latin 1. Intro- tirelessly to renew and enrich the programs, collec- Introductory Latin 2 summa cum laude with the highest 152. Gender and Sexuality in Ancient ductory Latin tions, and facilities of this hallowed research institu- grade point average. Greece tion. His transformative achievements include the Gregory Mellen: Latin 122. Horace, Odes

• 10 • • 11 • JOHN OSBORNE SARGENT PRIZE for a Metrical Translation of an Ode of Horace Horace Archie Hall (’21) Benjamin LaFond (’22) Odes 2.16 Meter: ottava rima Meter: iambic pentameter, tercets

In vast Aegean snared, man turns to pray They pray to God for rest, becalmed off , Otium diuos rogat in patenti For calm, as the cloud-covered moon stands black when massing thunderheads have blocked the moon prensus Aegaeo, simul atra nubes Amid unglimmering stars, unguided way. and stars become too dim to travel by. condidit lunam neque certa fulgent For ease, hostile hosts in fierce attack sidera nautis, Still plead. Thracian and Mede, they yearn one day The raging Balkans pray for rest from war. otium bello furiosa Thrace, 5 For the quiet comforts that now they lack. The Ayatollah’s armies pray for rest otium Medi pharetra decori, My friend, not gems, no dye, nor even gold, that diamond rings and dollar bills can’t buy. Grosphe, non gemmis neque purpura ue- You’ll find no price where idle life is sold. nale neque auro. His Secret Service and his salary Riches or guardsmen can never dispel don’t exorcise the president’s malaise; non enim gazae neque consularis The wretched worries that flock in the mind, it haunts his frescoed ceilings undeterred. submouet miseros tumultus 10 Or crowded bothers that play, roost and dwell mentis et curas laqueata circum In ceilings too rich, gold-paneled and fine. A lesser man lives well. His dinner plates, tecta uolantis. A better life will wear the modest well, which were his mother’s once, make hunger fine. A table dressed by heirlooms unrefined. His sleep is undisturbed by needless fear. uiuitur paruo bene, cui paternum No nights of fear, nor sordid lust dare keep splendet in mensa tenui salinum The contented man from his soft sleep. Since life is short, my friend, what use is there nec leuis somnos timor aut cupido 15 in sweating things or seeking warmer suns? sordidus aufert. What foolish valiance would have us waste We run, but how can we escape ourselves? quid breui fortes iaculamur aeuo Scarce time alive on scattered scheme, empty feat? multa? quid terras alio calentis Why exchange our homes for foreign embrace, Anxiety is everywhere at once. sole mutamus? patriae quis exsul An alien sun, unfamiliar heat? It boards our ships and infiltrates our camps se quoque fugit? 20 Which exiled man, who flees his native place, more suddenly than frightened deer or wind, Can ever yet escape himself, complete? [scandit aeratas uitiosa nauis Cruel, swift worry boards brazen ships a-sail, so let your thoughts be happy while you can, cura nec turmas equitum relinquit, Outpaces horsemen, stag, East Wind and gale. forget what lies beyond, and laugh away ocior ceruis et agente nimbos the bitter truth: that no good thing is pure. ocior Euro.] Happy in the moment are minds that hate laetus in praesens animus quod ultra est 25 Uneasy fears of woes to come, that soothe Achilles’ life was glorious but short. oderit curare et amara lento Those bitter pangs that gentle laughs abate, Tithonus shrivels still in deathless age. temperet risu: nihil est ab omni And dare not forget that most humble truth: The day that takes from you might give to me. parte beatum. Naught is perfect through and through. We know great The bulls that Wall Street breeds have roared for you, abstulit clarum cita mors Achillem, Achilles, of fierce renown, death in youth longa Tithonum minuit senectus, 30 Swift struck down. Yet ‘twas age brought Tithon low. your Lamborghini’s engine purrs for you, et mihi forsan, tibi quod negarit, Who knows? Your hours may run fast, mine run slow. and fur from Arctic foxes lines your clothes, porriget hora. but still I thank my lucky stars I have To you, a hundred herds bellow and bleat, this modest farm, the breath of poetry, te greges centum Siculaeque circum- And mares neigh in chariots, four-abreast. and courage to disdain the bleating hordes. mugiunt uaccae, tibi tollit hinnitum Rich crimson dyes, Afric’s finest, twice-treat apta quadrigis equa, te bis Afro 35 Your woolen garb in hue from sea-snails pressed. murice tinctae Fate bestows a little farm as my seat uestiunt lanae: mihi parua rura et And grants me too the Muse’s tender breath spiritum Graiae tenuem Camenae Of Grecian poetry, and then in turn Parca non mendax dedit et malignum Sense good enough ill-meaning men to spurn. spernere uolgus. 40

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Editor: Richard Thomas Brian D. McPhee, “Erulus and the Moliones: An Iliadic Nadav Asraf (G5) Paul Johnston (G4) Intertext in Aeneid 8.560–567” Production Editor: Ivy Livingston “Noun Incorporation in Ancient Greek?” Presented at “Rome between City and Empire: Spatial Politics in Julia Scarborough, “Eridanus in Elysium: The Under- the panel entitled “Greek and Latin Linguistics” at the Aelius Aristides’ To Rome.” Presented at the conference Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, “Half-Slave, Half-Free: ground Poetics of Virgil’s Violent River” Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, “The Spatial Turn in Roman Studies,” jointly hosted by Partial Manumission in the Ancient Near East and D.C., January 2020. Durham University and the University of Auckland in Beyond” Geert Roskam, “Providential Gods and Social Justice: Auckland, New Zealand, January 2020. An Ancient Controversy on Theonomous Ethics” Massimo Cè (G7) Chris Eckerman, “I Weave a Variegated Headband: Met- “The Women of Thebes as Aeschylean Erinyes: The First “The Ilias Latina in the Context of Ancient Epitome aphors for Song and Communication in Pindar’s Odes” Rafael J. Gallé Cejudo, “Progymnasmatic Alteration in Messenger Speech of Euripides’ Bacchae.” In Greek Drama Translation.” In Ilias Latina: Text, Interpretation, Reception, the Love Letters of Philostratus” V: Studies in the Theatre of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries, ed- Alexander Nikolaev, “Through the Thicket: The Text of edited by M. J. Falcone and C. Schubert, forthcoming. ited by C. W. Marshall and Hallie Marshall, 129–35. Lon- Moysés Marcos, “Callidior ceteris persecutor: The Emperor don: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pindar Olympian 6.54 (βατιᾶι τ’ ἐν ἀπειράτωι)” “The Secondary Incipit of the Odyssey (Od. 9.39): Quo- Julian and his Place in Christian Historiography” tation, Translation, and Adaptation in the Ancient Recep- Miriam Kamil (G5) Tobias Joho, “Alcibiadean Mysteries and Longing for tion of Homer.” Classical Philology, forthcoming. ‘Absent’ and ‘Invisible Things’ in Thucydides’ Account of Valéry Berlincourt, “Dea Roma and Mars: Intertext “Censoring the Classics, Learning from the Classics: the Sicilian Expedition” and Structure in Claudian’s Panegyric for the Consuls Christopher Cochran (G5) Ovid’s Invidia in the Florilegium Gallicum.” Presented at Olybrius and Probinus” the Harvard-Yale Conference in Book History, Harvard Peter Barrios-Lech, “Menander and Catullus 8—Revis- “A Land Without Slavery: Daphnis’ Civil Status in the Fabio Stok, “What Is the Spangenberg Fragment?” University, May 2019. ited: Menander Misoumenos and Catullus Carmen 8” Pastoral Landscape of Longus.” Presented at the panel George M. Hollenback, “Do Not Steal Seed: An Over- entitled “Greek and Roman Novel” at the Society for and Christopher Cochran (G5). “The Ethics of Ex- Katharina Volk, “Varro and the Disorder of Things” looked Double Entendre in Oracula Sibyllina 2.71” Classical Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Jan- cerpting in the Classroom.” Presented at “Our Voices: A uary 2020. Conference for Inclusive Classics Pedagogy,” Columbia John T. Ramsey, “The Date of the Consular Elections in Paolo Pellegrini, “R. A. B. Mynors and Harvard: An Un- University, February 2020. 63 and the Inception of Catiline’s Conspiracy” published Letter to E. K. Rand (10.10.1944)” “Manumission and Translation in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.” University of Massachusetts Boston, February 2020. “Whose Sappho?: How Subversive Receptions of Sappho Transformed the Academy.” Presented at the Boston Uni- and Miriam Kamil (G5). “The Ethics of Excerpting in versity Classical Studies Graduate Student Conference the Classroom.” Presented at “Our Voices: A Conference “Agency through the Ancients: Reception as Empower- for Inclusive Classics Pedagogy,” Columbia University, ment,” Boston University, November 2019. February 2020. Astrid Khoo (G1) Eliza Gettel (G7) “Anathema Sit: Curse-Response Formulae and Editing En- “Koina as Nesting Public Spheres within the Roman glish Monastic Manuscripts.” Presented at the panel enti- Empire.” Presented at the conference “Spaces of tled “Material Philology: Manuscripts as Physical Objects Roman Constitutionalism,” Helsinki, Finland, September in the Ecdotic Practice, II - Glosses in Context, Marginalia 2019. and How to Deal with Them” at the 2019 Leeds Interna- tional Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2019. “Koina of the Peloponnese within the Roman Empire.” Presented at the conference “The Koina of Southern “De Adulescentia Divitis Donaldi.” Vox Latina, 2019. Greece: Coinages and History,” Université de Tours, June 2019. “De Boethio.” Vox Latina, 2019.

“The Koina of the Greek Mainland, 1st to 3rd Century “Dream Scenes in Ancient Epic.” In Structures of Epic Poet- CE.” Presented at the Kommission für Alte Geschichte ry II.2: Configuration, edited by C. Reitz and S. Finkmann, und Epigraphik, Munich, Germany, October 2019. 563–95. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.

• 14 • • 15 • “Praise and Insult: Initiating and Resolving Interpersonal Keating McKeon (G8) Conflict in Martial’s Epigrams.” Presented at the confer- Valete FROM PHD RECIPIENTS ence “Conflict Resolution in Ancient and Modern Con- “Barbarians at the Gate: Herodotus, Bisotun, and a Per- sian Punishment in Egypt.” American Journal of Philology, texts II: Theory and Genre,” King’s College London, July Massimo Cè Eliza Gettel 2019. Forthcoming. After seven unforgettable My years at Harvard have “Perseid Wars and Notional Nostos in Herodotus’ Histo- “The Abbot and the Learned Woman: Desiderius Eras- years spent living in varying been the most intellectually ries.” Presented at the conference “Time, Tense and Genre mus (1466–1536), Colloquia (Abbatis et Eruditae).” In An proximity to the Charles rewarding and most enjoy- in Ancient Greek Literature,” King’s College London, Anthology of European Neo-Latin Literature, edited by G. River, I am thrilled to be able time of my life. I owe September 2019. Manuwald, D. Hadas, and L. Nicholas, 57–75. Blooms- moving to the banks of the my wonderful experiences bury Neo-Latin Series: Early Modern Texts and Anthol- Isar next month. In Munich at Harvard to the people ogies. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. “Perverted Return: Odious Epinician and Deadly Ath- letics in the Oedipus Tyrannus.” Presented at the Society I will be joining an interna- who mentored and accom- tional team of researchers panied me through gradu- “Thetis and the Thames: ‘Unorthodox’ Receptions of for Classical Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., at the Thesaurus Linguae ate school: in the Depart- Thetis in Neo-Latin Poetry.” Presented at the panel enti- January 2020. Latinae, the world’s most ment of the Classics, next tled “Sovereign of the Sea: The Staying Power of Thetis in comprehensive dictionary of ancient Latin, as a postdoctoral door at Dudley House, at the Greco-Roman World and Beyond” at the 12th Celtic Justin Miller (G4) fellow. In addition to the close-knit community of friends Harvard Art Museums, and on Lowell Street. We had some Conference in Classics, Coimbra, Portugal, June 2019. and Evan Levine. “I, a Body, Am Buried in This Earth: I am leaving behind in Cambridge, I will be missing the fabulous adventures along the way! I leave with very fond and M. Dinter. Review of Annaei Lucani Belli Civilis Identity and Community in the Shem/Antipatros Ste- many loca amoena that have become part of my near-daily memories of chasing students between Sicilian temples, Liber VII. Biblioteca Nazionale, Serie dei Classici Greci e Lati- le of the Kerameikos.” Presented at the North Ameri- routines, including Smyth Library’s iconic round table, the learning Turkish idioms in an olive grove at Sardis, navi- ni. Testi con Commento Filologico 22, by M. Lanzarone. can Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (NACGLE), light-flooded courtyard of the Harvard Art Museums, and gating Bulgarian bus systems between archaeological sites, Gnomon 92 (2020): 174–76. Washington, D.C., January 2020. the Harvard Film Archive with its eclectic but always in- squinting at Greek coins in the HAM basement, turning spired programming. Thank you to everyone who made my a living room into a circus tent for Halloween, welcoming and M. Dinter. Review of Intratextuality and Latin Liter- Davide Napoli (G2) time at Harvard as pleasant as it was: I hope to visit often. incoming graduate students at orientation in Sanders The- ature (Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes 69), by “A Sophistic Utopia: Herodotus’ Ethiopia.” Presented at- Conversely, should you ever find yourselves in Germany’s ater, winning intramural rowing trophies on the Charles S Harrison, S Frangoulidis, and T. D. Papanghelis. Journal the Columbia Graduate Student Conference, “The World “largest village,” do not hesitate to give me a holler. River, and filming a surprise Chinese reality show about of Roman Studies 109 (2019): 396–98. Upside Down: Absurdities, Inversions, and Alternate Re- dragon boating. alities,” Columbia University, November 2019. Meanwhile, the next set of adventures has already begun. and M. Dinter. Review of Lucan’s Egyptian Civil War, by I spent the fall semester on a research fellowship in Munich Jonathan Tracy. Gnomon 91 (2019): 655–57. Christopher Cochran Jorge Wong (G3) and graduated in November. In January, I moved to Penn- What a year! While I write sylvania to join the Department of History at Villanova and M. Dinter. Review of Word of Mouth: Fama and its “A Fare Share: Prometheus’ Trick in Theogony 535–557.” this in my apartment three University as an assistant professor. COVID-19 unexpect- Personifications in Art and Literature from to the Presented at the Rutgers Classics Department Graduate blocks from Harvard Yard, it edly disrupted my first semester, as we moved to remote Middle Ages, by G. Guastella. Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Student Conference, “Food and Drink in the Ancient feels strange to think that it learning in March along with universities across the world. Classica 146 (2019): 260–62. World,” Rutgers University, June 2019. has been two months since I I will miss seeing you all in person at spring Commence- and M. Dinter. “‘If Skin Were Parchment’: Tattoos in last set foot in Boylston, and ment, and I hope our paths cross again very soon. Please Review of Tierra, territorio y población en la Grecia Anti- Antiquity.” In Tattoo Histories: Transcultural Perspectives on even stranger to think I may reach out if you find yourself in the Philly area! gua: Aspectos institucionales y míticos, edited by M. Oller, J. the Narratives, Practices, and Representations of Tattooing, edit- not go there again as a stu- A note to my cohort: I am still the ancient historian of the group. Pàmias, and C. Varias. Classical Review 69, no. 2 (2019): ed by S. T. Kloß, 85–102. London: Routledge, 2019. dent. I will miss—in fact, I 496–99. already miss—all of the teachers, colleagues, and students and M. Dinter. “Messenger Scenes in Greek Epic.” In who made the last five years both productive and fun. But I David Hansen “The Grammar of Divine Epiphany.” Presented at the Structures of Epic Poetry II.2: Configuration, edited by C. won’t miss you all too much, since I’ll be moving just a few CorHaLi Colloquium, “Voice and language of the gods My time as a graduate stu- Reitz and S. Finkmann, 481–500. Berlin and Boston: De stops down the Red Line to take up a position as an Assis- in the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Homeric Hymns,” Univer- dent in the Classics De- Gruyter, 2019. tant Professor of Classics at Umass Boston! You had better sity of Lausanne, June 2019. partment was one of the bet I’ll be back for all the talks and workshops when the most inspiring and enrich- and M. Dinter. “Nyktomachies in Graeco-Roman Epic.” pandemic is over and having fun is allowed again! I cannot In Structures of Epic Poetry II.2: Configuration, edited by C. ing in my life. I remember thank you all enough for the support and encouragement the courses on Byzantine Reitz and S. Finkmann, 245–81. Berlin and Boston: De you have given me. Gruyter, 2019. language and literature,

• 16 • • 17 • Modern Greek language and literature, and Philosophy, our countless friendships, conversations, and ideas that have Classics Colloquium, and the Teaching Methods Course as made the last seven years so rewarding. During that time the most brilliant and inspiring that I took at Boylston Hall. Boylston Hall has truly felt like home, and living outside I’m incredibly grateful to all the faculty and colleagues who of Cambridge for the past year has impressed upon me have helped me direct my enthusiasm for many subfields how much I am going to miss the supportive and intellec- of Classics towards productive ends, especially my primary tually stimulating community of Harvard Classics. More advisor and mentor, Professor Roilos, and my DGS and than sadness, though, I feel gratitude for having had this mentor, Professor Emma Dench. Many thanks also to my time to develop as a scholar and a person in such excellent current DGS, Professor Rau, for his invaluable advice, and company. In the midst of the present uncertainty that is to Alyson and Teresa for their unparalleled support. Thanks afflicting so many of us, I feel incredibly lucky to be join- to everyone who has made this period of my life one that I ing Hamilton College in Clinton, New York this fall as a will always look back on with feelings of gratitude and joy. Visiting Assistant Professor. I hope to raise a glass to and with all of you in the not too distant future.

Keating McKeon

Arriving at the end of the PhD, I am more convinced than ever that the Grateful Dead must have had doc- toral studies in mind when James Zainaldin they sang appreciatively— what a long, strange trip it’s My time as a graduate stu- been! I am immensely grateful to the teachers, colleagues, dent at Harvard has been and friends who have guided me on this voyage, in its twists, immeasurably rich with turns, and many joyful moments. The Department of the experiences and learning. Classics has offered me an incomparable setting for im- If, as I crossed Boylston’s mersing myself in the worlds of Greece and Rome, as well threshold for the first time, you had asked me to predict as countless opportunities to pursue and develop a diverse whom I would meet, where I would go, and what I would range of additional interests, from the ancient Near East to do during my six years in the Department of the Classics, film and photography. Even more significantly, the commu- I would have failed the task utterly. Perhaps the great- nity of classicists at Harvard has fostered an environment in est among the many gifts that the Department has given which I have embarked on rich intellectual exchanges and me since that moment was to enlarge and embolden my formed lifelong friendships. Since no undertaking can be imagination. When I arrived, I had already fallen head- assessed fully before its telos, I am thankful now for the occa- first into ‘Plato’s honey head’ (to borrow a phrase from sion to take stock of this experience and its lasting rewards; if Melville), and I expected to learn a lot more Greek and the next stage of my journey holds as much happiness as this Latin and to deepen my appreciation for Greco-Roman period has provided, you might even call me olbios. philosophy and literature. What I didn’t expect was that I would also become enamored of Roman agriculture, Chinese language and civilization, and the multifarious James Taylor forms of the ancient ‘arts and sciences.’ The Department is a place where many paths cross, and I’ve been extraor- Even if I had a hundred dinarily fortunate to walk some of them with teachers, tongues and as many mentors, friends, and colleagues here. As I contemplate mouths, leaving aside any life after graduate school, I know that I will always trea- physiological problems that sure my time here and carry with me an abiding sense of I might have, I doubt that gratitude for everything the Department has given me. I’d be able do justice to the Thank you!

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