ISSUE 3 MAY 2013 Greetings from the Classics Department ! at Holy Cross SALVETEParnassus debuts on Mt. St. James Hello from Fenwick 4

!"##$%&'()*"+,)-#&.%/0)12)*"+,) .3+(#)/"#405)/+""%6+"()#%'3$##&) 784((%/(),49+"()'"46:4$#)$3%() ,+&$3;)<#)3%'38%'3$)(+,#)+*)$3#) 4//+,=8%(3,#&$()+*)$3#)784(()+*) >?@A2)4().#88)4()(+,#)+*)$3#%")=+($B '"46:4$#)=84&(2)+&)C4'#)D)+*)$3%() %((:#; E&)$3%()%((:#)5+:).%88)48(+)"#462) F#'%&&%&')3#"#)+&)C4'#)@2)4F+:$) $3#)4""%G48)+*)$3#)&#.) :&6#"'"46:4$#)784((%/()9+:"&48) !"#$"%%&%H)4F+:$)$3#)#G#&$()*+") Members of the Parnassus editorial board hold up the debut issue. Pictured 3%'3)(/3++8)784((%/%($()4$)$3%() are (om le to right) Tom Arralde ’13, Vannak Khin ’15, Angela Yu ’14, I="%8J()784((%/()K45)LC4'#)>MH)4&6)4) Melissa Luttmann ’15, Anne Saoom ’14, Michael Roberts ’13, Steven "#=+"$)*"+,)+&#)+*)+:"),49+"() Merola ’16, and Kathleen O’Connor ’13. 4F+:$)3#")(#,#($#")%&)N+,#)LC4'#) This month saw the Anne Salloom ʼ14. “As a student, OM;)P&)C4'#)A)%()4)($+"5)+&)4)"#/#&$) publication of the inaugural issue it is gratifying to be able to share $480)4$)Q+85)7"+(()F5)R4"4) of Parnassus, the journal edited the work of our department with -8+:&6#"()J?@2)4)$#4/3#")4$)S+5(J) by students in the Classics others.” T4$%&)734"$#")R/3++8)%&) Department. The journalʼs aim is The contents of this C3%846#8=3%4;)<#)%&/8:6#)4&) to share with a wider audience debut issue are as follows: #U/#"=$)*"+,)R4"4J()$480)+&)C4'#() the work that Holy Cross students “S.O.V.,” a poem by Michael AV1;)<#)34G#):=64$#()*"+,)(#G#"48) are doing on ancient Greece and Dunbar ʼ15; “A View of Law in +$3#")48:,&4#)4&6)48:,&%)+&)C4'#) Rome. Ancient Babylon: A Description of 12)4&6),+"#)&#.()4F+:$)$3#),4&5) The production of the the Stele of Hammurabi” by 4//+,=8%(3,#&$()+*)+:")($:6#&$() debut issue, which features nine Michael Tinney ʼ14; “Platoʼs +&)C4'#)W;) articles, a poem, and several Legacy: Whether the Republic or photographs of Greece and Italy the Timaeus Reigns Supreme” by C8#4(#)#&9+52)4&6)=8#4(#)(#&6)4&5) by Christine Roughan ʼ14, began Thomas Arralde ʼ13; “Euripidesʼ +*)5+:")+.&)&#.()$+)X%,)Y+(#=3) in the fall and kept its editors Bacchae in Aeneid Book VII” by JZ[)4$)$9+(#=3\3+85/"+((;#6:; busy for much of the spring Christine Roughan ʼ14; semester. “Transference of Rage from Juno “Working with the student to Aeneas” by Debbie Chu ʼ12; staff members and authors to put “Folklore and Superstition in together this year's copy of Petroniusʼ Satyricon” by Deborah Parnassus has been a great Sokolowski ʼ14; “The experience,” said editor-in-chief Complexities of Surviving Under Continues on Page 6

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650 H.S. Students Compete at the 41st Classics Day By Andrew Boudon ʼ15 MID (the Holy Cross Manuscripts, ʼ82 and Sean Albertson ʼ87 from St. On April 4 Holy Cross Inscriptions, and Documents club). Sebastianʼs; Steliane (Siozopoulos) celebrated its 41st annual Classics This yearʼs Manuscript Challenge Thompson ʼ83 from Doherty High Day, an event where high school winners were Boston College High School in Worcester; Jon Moro ʼ89 Latin students come to campus for School seniors Matt Luongo and from Holyoke (MA) High School; a day of competition and fun. This Liam Walsh for their submission on Maureen Toner ʼ97 from Boston year approximately 650 students a manuscript of Ovidʼs College High School; Meredith from two dozen schools attended to Metamorphoses. Hultgren ʼ97 from Acton- compete in a costume contest, Littleton High School took Boxborough High School; Sara chariot races, and Certamen, a first place for the most creative Flounders ʼ01 from Boysʼ Latin of Latin trivia game similar to chariot, while St. Sebastianʼs Philadelphia; Gabe Bakale ʼ02 from Jeopardy. School had the swiftest chariot. Walpole High School; Maureen Holy Cross also pioneered Doherty Memorial High School in (Gassert) Lamb ʼ07 from the a new contest this year, called the Worcester won the Costume Westminster School in Simsbury, Manuscript Challenge. High contest, and AMSA Charter School CT; Gregory Kakas ʼ08 from the schools were sent a set of links to took first in both the Upper and the Rectory School in Pomfret, CT; and digital photographs of manuscripts; Lower divisions of Certamen. Connor Hayden ʼ10 from AMSA the challenge involved transcribing Members of the HC Charter School. and translating the text, as well as chapter of Eta Sigma Phi oversaw Overall, the gods clearly commenting on unique features of and judged the competitions; and smiled with favor upon Classics the manuscript and forming the Classics Department Day, bringing good weather and conclusions about the nature of the administrator Ms. Toni Methe was good fortune to all the competing document. Although the instrumental in coordinating the schools. Holy Crossʼ 2013 Classics competition was new to students, event -- as she has been for the Day truly embodied the spirit of the Holy Cross received many past twenty-three years. Classics and was a spectacular submissions, and schools seemed A remarkable twelve alums success. very enthusiastic about it. of the HC Classics Department The goal of the Manuscript who are now teaching Latin and Challenge was to introduce high Greek led their students to campus school students to the sort of for Classics Day this year: Sara research the Classics Department (True) Pacelle ʼ82 from Concord- has been conducting through HC Carlisle High; Michael Nerbonne

Members of Eta Sigma Phi at Classics Day: (ont row) Ms. Toni Methe, Harry Crimi ’15, Stephanie Lindeborg ’13, Alex Milone ’14, Andrew Boudon A togaed Andrew Boudon ’15, the ’15, Rebecca Finnigan ’15, Nicholas Jalbert ‘16; (back row) Alex Krasowski 2013 Classics Day chair, presides ’13, Angela Yu ’14, Marcus Barrett ’13, Tom Arralde ’13, Steven Merola ’16. over the Certamen finals.

PAGE 2 ISSUE 3 MAY 2013 Flounders ’01 returns to speak of teaching experiences By Kathleen OʼConnor ʻ13 While the head was at first Some of Floundersʼ On Friday, April 5, Sara unsure about Floundersʼ ability to students came with her from Flounders, an alumna from the class face the challenges of working with Philadelphia to attend Classics Day, of 2001, visited Holy Cross to inner-city children, he also held the day before, and her discuss her experiences with Latin recognized the significance of presentation. After Flounders and Classics through the years and learning a language like Latin. As concluded, the students spoke how those experiences led her to Flounders pointed out, “Latin is a highly of their teacher, and the teach Latin at the Boysʼ Latin showstopper”; it helps broaden benefits of Latin in their life. After Charter School in Philadelphia. vocabulary and improve logic, hearing the studentsʼ perspective, Floundersʼ talk was one in a series analysis, and precision. By teaching one understood the impact of events on campus to celebrate 40 Latin, Flounders felt she years of coeducation at Holy Cross. could broaden horizons Opening her speech, for her students. Flounders admitted that she initially Through the past chose to study Latin from a fear of few years, it seems speaking a language. However, Flounders has achieved after learning the intricacies of Latin, just that. Her students she developed a great attachment are making connections to the language. While Flounders with the ancient world was first a science / pre-med major, and seeing ways in she soon switched to Classics. Over which our modern world the years, her love for the major uses Latin. Even more only increased. significantly, Latin gives Upon graduation, Flounders these students another participated in the Jesuit Volunteer chance to excel; indeed, Corps (JVC), and later attended some students are doing Sara and Prof. John Hamilton chat aer her talk. Harvard Divinity School. However, better in Latin than their she eventually found that she other classes. Students Flounders had made in the wanted to teach Latin. Flounders wear their success in Latin as a community. saw an article about the badge of honor, and often come construction of Boysʼ Latin in back to visit Flounders and tell her Below is an excerpt from Philadelphia soon after and how Latin has benefited them in the talk that Sara delivered. contacted the head of the school. their life after high school. Starting a Latin program in West Philly (an excerpt from Flounders’ talk)

Teaching Latin in the heart of West what people tell them is a “dead language” (although Philadelphia has given me the ability to help my members of the Latin club a few years back more students take those steps I took—to create order out fittingly called it a zombie language)… where they do of disorder, to delight in the memorization of rules and not always see the benefit of hard work and study the synthesis of all things learned into something and effort, but would rather just get a good grade and authentic. I can readily see the impact of Latin on my pass… and what I am asking seems ridiculous quite students' lives. Here we are, in the middle of West often to the vast majority of students. Philly, where the reality for some number of students I hear the question “Why do we have to study is stark and full of brokenness and violence, where this?” I have my standby answers and smartass guns and drugs are a reality if not customary, and responses, of course, but what I really want to tell my where flash mobs and this violent youth culture are students is how proud I am of them for embracing the so strong. I teach students who delight in immediate challenge and living up to the standards we are gratification and are not as forward thinking as we holding them to. And every day I see students who teachers would like… and I am asking them to study are overflowing with enthusiasm and energy, who Continues on Page 4

PAGE 3 ISSUE 3 MAY 2013 Excerpt from Flounders’ talk (from p. 3) canʼt wait to see what they got on school far behind their peers, the last vocab quiz or who canʼt wait already having given up and to translate a sentence and show pushed into the school most likely me that they know how things fit by their parents who wanted them together. I see students who text to be safe and focused in the all me in Latin or text me when they boys environment. see something Latin related. I see When I get them, they students who rush to Latin class are full of potential, and I can do bursting with their latest “Latin what I want and what I need to moment,” a time they saw Roman with them. No one has ever told numerals or heard a Latin word in a them that they have been bad at TV show or who just want so Latin before, so we get to start all desperately to connect what they over and build it all up and make are learning to what they are learning exciting and real for living… itʼs beautiful. them. I have been teaching at One of the most compelling Boysʼ Latin for six years, and I ways I see the success of Latin in canʼt even begin to tally up the my school is in the students who number of students who have struggle to read and write. For years gone through my class doing of their lives, they have been told really, really well when otherwise that they are not good students, that they struggled. This is through Flounders speaks in Hogan. they canʼt do school. They get into no feat of mine, it is really this funk and settle and donʼt see because of our school and setting themselves as full of the potential students up for success, but itʼs also that they have… and they start high super cool to see. Alumnae / -i News •Nicole LaBletta ʼ98 is practicing estates law in • Lisa Litterio ʼ06 has completed a Ph.D. in Philadelphia. Nicole writes to us, “The Classics are Communication and Rhetoric at Rensselaer relevant in my work in that I can write and argue Polytechnic Institute. In the fall she begins as a tenure- logically and clearly and dissect any sentence, whether track Assistant Professor of English (specializing in written by myself or an opponent. My study of the Rhetoric & Composition and Technical Classics taught me that.” Communication) at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, MA. •Evan MacCarthy ʼ03, who earned a Ph.D. in Music History at Harvard in 2010, is a Committee to Rescue • Rosemary Lee '07 has completed a Ph.D. in History Italian Art (CRIA) Fellow at the Villa I Tatti in Florence, at the University of Virginia, with a dissertation titled “A Italy, this year. Next year (2013-14) Evan will return to Printing Press for Shah 'Abbas: Science, Learning, and HC as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Music Evangelization in the Near East, 1600-1650.” Department. Rosemary will be a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at Holy Cross next year. •Christopher Hannan ʼ04 is an associate at the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & • Jennifer Adams ʼ10 just earned an MA in Library Berkowitz in New Orleans. Chris was the winner of the Science from the Catholic University of America. In the 2012 Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary fall she will return to Holy Cross as a Research, Festival Poetry Contest, with poems Instruction, and Outreach Librarian. titled “Deucalionids,” “Diagenesis,” “Katabasis,” “Nekuia,” and “Nostos.” Read more about Chrisʼ poetry Please keep the updates coming to Tim Joseph ʼ98 at at: http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/susan-larsons- [email protected]. blog-qa-with-chris-hannan-2012-poetry-contest-winner

PAGE 4 ISSUE 3 MAY 2013 Once-in-a-lifetime experiences in the Eternal City By Gloria McMahon ʼ14 accurately capture the inherent century CE stadium of the Emperor Our semester abroad has grace of the Ara Pacis (Altar of Domitian; and the rounded walls of been an amazing journey in which Peace). In order to truly gain an the modern Hotel Albergo Sole al my classmates and I have grown as understanding of what Rome must Biscione perfectly trace the curve of both Classics scholars and Holy have been like two thousand years the first century BCE Theatre of Cross students. From class in the ago, one must see it in the flesh: the Pompey the Great. Roman Forum to Mass at the modern, living body of Rome that In addition to these ancient Vatican, our four-month journey resides amidst the skeleton of the sites, we were also able to see included so many remarkable ancient city. other Roman treasures like Vatican experiences. And in this case, the The two aspects of Rome, City. And in regards to Vatican chorus "location, location, location" past and present, blend together events, our sojourn in Rome could rings true. seamlessly in a delicious cocktail not have been more perfectly timed! Rome, Italy, is certainly a more intoxicating than the finest We had the opportunity to be perfect locale for any student limoncello. In fact, the continuity present not only at the last papal interested in the audience of dynamic history and Pope Benedict culture of the XVI but also at ancient Roman the conclave Empire. Including election in St. myself, seven such Peter's Square, students at the induction represented the ceremony of Holy Cross Classics Pope Francis I, Department this and at Vatican spring at Loyola Mass on both University of Palm Sunday Chicagoʼs John and Easter. How Felice Rome appropriate that Center. we Holy Cross Our students were in classroom-based Rome to see the education of election of the Classics was first Jesuit Pope! complemented and Unforgettable enhanced by our events such as frequent encounters Gloria McMahon and Caroline Furey (both Class of ’14) before Easter these were with the physical Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. characteristic of remains of Ancient our time abroad, Rome. In previous and for that I study we had viewed photos and between the ancient and modern know we are extremely grateful to read descriptions of archaeological topography is readily apparent if all of the professors, parents, and sites and historical artifacts; but in one knows where to look. For friends who helped us to reach Rome we experienced them instance, the current shopping strip Rome. In this unique and inspiring firsthand. along Via del Corso follows the city, we were gifted with once-in-a- No textbook blueprint can same path of the ancient Via Lata. lifetime experiences . . . many more fully convey the sheer size of the Today's Piazza Navona preserves times than just once. Imperial Fora, nor can any photo the open space outlined in the first

PAGE 5 ISSUE 3 MAY 2013 Plura nova !Thirteen members of the Manuscripts, Inscriptions, and Documents (MID) Club presented their work at HCʼs Academic Conference in April. Stephanie Lindeborg ʼ13, Nik Churik ʼ15, Rebecca Musgrave ʼ14, Brian Clark ʼ15, Tom Arralde ʼ13, Chris Ryan ʼ16, Adam Sykura ʼ15, Melissa Luttmann ʼ15, and Alex Simrell ʼ16 discussed their work on manuscripts of the Iliad. Christine Bannan ʼ14 and Michael Roberts ʼ13 presented their research on Athenian tribute lists, and Andrew Boudon ʼ15 and Rebecca Finnigan ʼ15 discussed a codex preserving the works of Archimedes. At right are pictured MID members Luttmann (at podium), Ryan, and Sykura (seated).

!Tom Santa Maria '14 won the Classical Association of New England's Phyllis B. Katz Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for his paper titled "The Speeches of Boudicca and Calgacus: Tacitus' Unified Text of Imperial Critique." He presented the paper on March 16 at the association's annual meeting at the University of Connecticut. For more on Tomʼs award see: http://news.holycross.edu/blog/2013/04/05/classics- major-earns-award-from-classical-association-of-new- england/. At right Tom is pictured with Jake Smith ʼ12, who is now teaching at Marianapolis Preparatory School in Thompson, CT. At the conference Jake presented the paper “The Influence of Classical Piety in the Time of Erasmus.”

!The winner of the Ernest A. Golia ʼ34, M.D., Book Award, which is given to a first-year student who is not a Classics major for excellence in any course in the Department, was Christina Pretto '16 for her work in Prof. Aaron Seiderʼs course “Ancient Manhood Contested.”

Parnassus debuts (from p. 1) a Bad Emperor: The Many Meanings of Virtus in Tacitusʼs Agricola” by Anne Salloom ʼ14; “Disordering Freedom: The Relation between Disorder and Libertas in Tacitus” by Nikolas Churik ʼ15; “A Note on a Virgilian Allusion in Silius Italicus” by Matthew Angiolillo ʼ13; “Greece and Rome on the French Stage: Classical Adaptation in the Theatre of Jean Racine” by Michael Roberts ʼ13. The online version of Parnassus will be posted on the HC Above: Tom Arralde ’13, Steven Merola ’16, Prof. Aaron Seider, Prof. Blaise Nagy, Classics home page soon. Alex Simre ’16, Prof. Mary Ebbott, Angela Yu ’14, and Kathleen O’Connor ’13 at the Parnassus release party in Fenwick 420.

PAGE 6 ISSUE 3 MAY 2013 !"#$%&#$'()*+,*$,-#&*$*!"#!"$%!&'())!#*!+,-. Matt Angiolillo just finished his Higher Education and Student Kathleen OʼConnor will be teaching thesis in the College Honors Affairs. His assistantship will be as with the Urban Teacher Center, a Program titled "An Epic Tradition Coordinator for RA Recruitment, program based out of Baltimore and Expanded and Condensed: The Selection, and Training. Washington DC, while working on Structure and Purpose of Silius getting her Masters in Elementary Italicus' Italian Catalogue." He Brian Gorzkowski will be working and Special Education. presented on this work at the HC at UnitedHealth Group as a Academic Conference in April. In the Financial Analyst. Brigit Quirk completed a thesis for fall Matt will be entering the Ph.D. the College Honors Program titled program in Classics at the University Miranda Hernandez will be “Warring with Images: The of Virginia. interning for the Illinois Cook County Relationship between the Flavian State's Attorney's office this summer Building Program and War.” She Tom Arralde, a 2012 inductee into and will be working as a staff presented on this research at the Phi Beta Kappa, won first prize in member for the Illinois House of HC Academic Conference in April. this year's national Eta Sigma Phi Representatives starting in the Fall. After graduation Brigit will be advanced Latin translation contest. She plans to attend law school the working for the Hanover Insurance After graduation Tom will be joining following year in the Chicagoland Group in Portland, ME. She will be the Dominican Friars of the Province area. employed with Hanover as a of St. Joseph. member of their Future Leaders Alexandra Krasowski has just training program, and will be in the Marcus Barrett will be working at finished up a spring semester Underwriting track. the Cohasset Maritime Museum this internship at the Worcester Art summer. He is also planning to Museum and is planning to pursue Michael Roberts, an inductee into volunteer at a hospital (with interests an MA in Museum Studies. Phi Beta Kappa, recently completed in pursuing medicine) while also senior research on classical looking into archaeological field Jenna Legros, a four-year member Athenian epigraphy and was the work. of the Women's Varsity Softball recipient of the Departmentʼs Philip team, will be applying to Physician's A. Conniff, S.J., Prize for excellence Alexis Beyerlein will be starting law Assistant programs this summer and in Latin. Michael will be attending school in the fall at the University of in the upcoming year. Villanova University in the fall as Connecticut. part of an MA program in Classics, Stephanie Lindeborg, a 2012 after which he intends to pursue Jeffrey Godowski won the inductee into Phi Beta Kappa, just Ph.D. study in preparation for his Monsignor Kavanagh Medal and completed a thesis titled "Creating longterm goal of becoming a Award for his capstone project Digital Editions of Manuscripts: An professor of Classical history. “Stone and Light, Life and Death: Exploration of Iliad 8 in the Venetus Roman Sarcophagi -- An Exhibition A and the Escorial Y.1.1 Thomas Willis has been accepted for the 21st Century,” as the Manuscripts." Stephanie was also as a seminarian for the Roman Collegeʼs best original essay on awarded the Departmentʼs Rev. Catholic Diocese of Worcester and some phase of Christian art or Robert F. Healey, S.J., Greek Prize. will be studying at St. John's archaeology. He also received a She will be pursuing an MA at Seminary in the fall. Presidential Service Award and the UMass Boston in Latin and Classical Joseph J. Reilly SGA Leadership Humanities with an Initial Licensure Award. Jeff will be heading to the track. University of Vermont for an M.Ed. in XAIPETE

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