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studied the results of this structure and epic tradition. compared it with various other options, and Meanwhile, another major change in have found that our students respond best our Classics climate is the departure of Dear Friends, to a more interactive approach to language Prof. Tony Corbeill for the noble halls of learning. We will work on the Latin the to become the Greetings from sequence in the next few years (see below); Gildersleeve Chair of Latin. Tony leaves a Kansas, where a chilly stay tuned to this space to see how it turns great legacy to our department in the form January has out. of its excellent, respected, and thriving MA followed on • Ethics in Greek Tragedy (CLSX 384): program, which he built and sustained for the heels of an This new course meets the KU Core’s more than 20 years as graduate director. intemperately requirement for ethical thinking and thus The MA program is now in the care of warm December. As attracts students from a variety of majors. DGS Prof. Emma Scioli, who brings her we have rounded the corner into 2018, Who knew that Greek tragedy was full of own considerable talents to the role. We’re the theme of the year seems to be “climate ethical content, introducing and exploring searching for a new Latinist faculty colleague change” and accordingly, “adaptation.” ideas of motive vs. effect, individual vs. to start in the fall. The biggest changes we face are those in group responsibility, autonomy and moral This year, we are lucky to have Anne Rabe student needs. Our students are burdened luck? We knew (particularly Michael Shaw back in our halls. Anne, who graduated increasingly with the need to work a job and Craig Jendza), and now the rest of KU as Anne Stephens with a BA in Classics - or two - to pay for school. Their time does as well. and Anthropology in 2002 and the MA in is both limited and less flexible. We have • Medical Terminology: Greek and Latin Classics in 2007, went on to earn a PhD in worked hard to adjust our curriculum to Roots (CLSX 332): Formerly known as Classics at Brown University. Her research accommodate their need for flexibility while “Scientific Word Power,” this course blends focus is on metaphors of violence in political maintaining the integrity and rigor of our a rigorous march through (and through rhetoric. At KU this year, she has taken courses. Here are five examples from our and through, for mastery) Greek and Latin the helm of the Intro Latin course and is undergraduate curriculum: morphemes and the rules for combining teaching two graduate language seminars • First-year Greek language: Pam Gordon them with opportunities to delve into this year: one in Plautus’ comedies, the other developed a hybrid intro Greek sequence, questions of culture and science such as, a survey of . The students in which students come to class three days what are the benefits and costs of having a admire and respect her as we knew they a week and work online two days a week. universal language for scientific research, would, even though her courses are rigorous. Each semester, the online work improves as and does it matter what that language is? Finally, we have adapted to the age Pam tinkers with it to respond so students’ What cultural biases affected health care in of social media. We have revived and needs and feedback. This hybrid course has ancient Greece and Rome, and what biases reinvigorated our Facebook page. If you enabled a steady stream of students to take affect healthcare now? And, what incentives haven’t already liked or followed it, please Greek – and stick with it – who might not promote public health measures? This course do so – you’ll find photos, news, events, and otherwise have been able to take it. is entirely online and has attracted KU articles. • First-year Latin language: We students near and far. Amid all this change, what remains experimented with a different form of • Ancient Epic Tales (CLSX 168): constant is our commitment to sharing hybrid language learning for intro Latin This popular course takes students from our passion for ancient Greece and Rome – a “flipped” model in which students are Gilgamesh through , Vergil, and with students, and our gratitude for the introduced to the material through online Ovid all the way to the Mayan Popol Vu. opportunity to do so. resources, and then come to class to practice It’s a great introduction to Classical We wish you the very best in 2018. and apply it. Latin classes function more literature, and an enlightening look at how like workshops in this flipped model. We’ve Classics fits into the grand and worldwide Tara Welch, Chair

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ay 2017 brought both joy and sadness to the KU Classics Department. As we celebrated the achievements of our graduating seniors, we also Mbid farewell to our dear colleague and friend, Tony Corbeill. After 26 years in Lawrence, Tony retired from KU to become the Gildersleeve Chair of Latin at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. During 2017-18, he bridges the gap between the two institutions in England, where he holds Wilcox Classical several research fellowships. Among Tony’s legacies at KU Museum Updates stand the three books he published during his time here, the most recent of which, Sexing the World: Grammatical Gender and Biological Sex in Ancient Rome (2015), was awarded the The Future of the Wilcox Museum Charles Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies in 2016. By Phil Stinson, Curator Several KU students, faculty, local teachers, and friends of Latin over the years spent At thirty years old, the Wilcox Museum their Friday afternoons reading Latin in the convivial environment of Tony’s living is in many ways at a crossroads. There room, and remember those sessions with great fondness. Tony did great work during is rich potential in imagining future his 20 years at the helm of our thriving Master’s program, and its enduring success as directions for the Museum and its well as the program’s record of placement in PhD programs and teaching positions is wonderful collection. To begin, we a testament not only to the excellent students that have attended the program, but also must resume regular teaching in the to Tony’s stewardship and advocacy for the program. gallery spaces. Towards this end, we plan on soon offering an undergraduate seminar, to be cross-listed with Museum Studies, which would introduce collecting practices of American universities during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and provide hands-on experience with ancient Greek and Roman artifacts in the collection. A long-term goal aims to fully renovate the Museum and its mission, using the “reading museum” model, which has been so successful at sites such as the Wellcome Museum in London, and the “BioLounge” at the University of Colorado. A transformed Wilcox Museum might serve as much as a Tony Corbeill is toasted by friends and colleagues at the department’s end-of-year “commons” (continued on page 4) celebration, as Emma Scioli reads aloud a testimonial from one of Tony’s former students.

Many of you have cherished memories of your experiences with Tony as professor, advisor, mentor, and friend. It was fitting that our guest speaker at the May honors ceremony was Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, associate professor of Classics at St. Joseph’s University, who worked closely with Tony when he was an exchange graduate student at KU from 2000-02. One of the high points of the celebration was hearing the many tributes written by Tony’s former students read aloud as a surprise during the toast

Wellcome Museum, London (photo to Tony. Excerpts from some of these testimonials convey the high regard in which by Peter Welsh). Tony’s students held him. Read on!

2 www.classics.ku.edu Jim Gioia, (BA 2003) wrote, “I think of Professor Corbeill much more often when I consider who I want to BE as a teacher. While Professor Corbeill’s talent and depth of knowledge always amazed me, his humility and sincere enthusiasm still inspire me today. Both in and out of class he frequently offered brilliant insights as if it were just part of a conversation among equals. He delighted in a student discovering something that he and others might not have seen.”

Mariah Smith, (MA 2009), reflected as follows, “One of my most treasured grad school experiences is the summer study abroad trip to Italy, where I had the massive good fortune to be the graduate assistant. The location itself, of course, has manifest charms - but I also appreciated Tony’s approach to the trip. He allowed me to be both teacher and student; tourist and assistant. He was excellent at making all the students feel included, making sure to rotate dinner with everyone. Amongst all the great moments, there was a funny one. We stopped at a museum but were not allowed in, although there was staff present. Tony asked, pleaded, and complained to the staff to let us in. They wouldn’t budge. As a somewhat bizarre consolation, they offered him Jordan Almonds (the candy!), or maybe it was just to get him to go away - in any case, Tony obstinately insisted that they give him one for each of the students!”

Wes Hanson, (MA 2015), shared this anecdote: “One of my favorite memories of Tony during my time at KU came when different PhD programs had requested Skype interviews with me. To help me prep, Tony offered to conduct a mock interview over Skype. We set up a time, and I called him, ready to answer mock questions. After we both turned on our webcams, Tony explained that there were five of him there, and that I shouldn’t be alarmed that each one of them looked and dressed the exact same. He then proceeded to introduce himself first as Theodore Mommsen then as Ulrich von Wilamowitz and so on until, finally, he reached Anthony Corbeill, complete with the required accents. Again, I imagine none of this is surprising to anybody who has had the good fortune of crossing paths with Tony at KU: he is generous with his time and always makes whatever he is working on fun and interesting. I remember working very hard on my MA thesis, not only because Tony held me to high standards, but because he created an atmosphere in which I wanted to work hard. I have no doubt in my mind that any degree of success I achieved with my MA thesis is because of Tony. And, to this day, I’m grateful that my teaching career started at KU because I watched Tony teach Latin twice a week and met with him every Monday morning to prepare for the coming week’s classes. I still try to emulate that year of intro Latin when I teach now because it remains the gold standard of how to teach an intro Latin course.”

Gena Goodman, (MA 2016), expressed her thoughts in a poem, reproduced below.

A KU Classics Essential Geography - for Tony Corbeill In March, the unofficial Kansas campus tour Very. We self-assigned seats in the conference Since in your office that August, interrupting took us to the campanile, room where you explained tricola, your thoughts and the jazz soloist where you mythologized for us the periodic sentence, and the prose rhythms syncopating from your computer, we mapped the danger of crossing thresholds early. that leave crowds shouting, gasping, wild. a pilgrimage, Tacitus to Judaea.

You watched a bit aghast, a bit bemused, At three a.m., a ritual pacing in Wescoe Your table gathered ideas and the students while we all tentatively skirted the perimeter, basement, while I and the night staff ideas carried. A Lawrence sanctuary: you perhaps wondering how superstitious try not to scare each other rounding corners, your home, populated with a dozen Latin this new crop waved. both of us cleaning: they, the building; I, the of yes, we can. thesis,

The department has established the Anthony P. Corbeill Award to be given annually to a graduate student who has demonstrated excellence in coursework, teaching, and research during their time in the MA program at KU. Please consider a donation to this fund. We will name the first Corbeill Award recipient in 2018.

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Wilcox Museum continued... 5th Annual Oliver Phillips Colloquium for the university as a museum for he 5th Annual classical art, and be inviting to a broad Oliver Phillips cross-section of KU’s public sphere. Colloquium Regarding what such a renovation Ttook place on a sunny might look like, a high priority would September Saturday at be to partially expose the gallery’s a new location – the windows (using of course UV blocking KU Edwards Campus film on the glass), for the purpose of in Overland Park. The bringing in some ambient natural light. theme for this year’s This innovation would make the space meeting was “Online feel larger and more inviting. Ideally, Pedagogy in the Latin we would also redesign new, modern Classroom,” and our displays for the artifacts, inscriptions, invited guest speaker Mark Damen speaks to the group about his flipped Latin course. and coins, and, for a special feature, was Mark Damen, make polychromy and ancient sculpture Professor of Classics and History at Utah State University. Several of us knew the central theme of the main gallery Mark from his online, “flipped” Latin course, which has served as the model for the space. The Museum’s aging HVAC nascent KU hybrid Latin course. It was a pleasure to hear Mark speak about the and security systems must be entirely evolution of his course and his experience in making the transition from traditional replaced. to online pedagogy. Mark was generous with his time in Kansas, as he visited several sections of the course and met with current professors and GTAs to share his wisdom. Participants were also treated to a presentation on online resources for Latin teachers, from blogs to Facebook groups to Latin quiz programs, by Lee Dixon, Latin teacher at Shawnee Mission South High School. Jeff Rydberg-Cox, Curators Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and Director of the Classical and Ancient Studies Program at UMKC, shared with us his work on several Ptolemaic bronze coin, Zeus online projects, including the Perseus Project at Tufts University and his own very head / standing eagle, 2nd c. BCE successful online course in ancient Greek. (WC3082, Toomey collection). Will Sharp, Latin teacher at Raintree Montessori School, offered this reflection on A number of new initiatives are the day’s events: “I’m a newcomer to the Phillips Colloquium, but it has already already underway, which will pave become one of my favorite conferences of the year. I particularly enjoyed last the way for a successful renovation. September’s talk from Mark Damen. His informal yet engaging style was refreshing, With the assistance from students, and the subsequent discussion about incorporating technology into the Latin Chad Uhl and Joy Mosier-Dubinsky, classroom has influenced my own day-to-day work.” we have begun for the very first time to systematically document all of the In attendance were several area high school Latin teachers, KU faculty members, Museum’s 800+ ancient coins. Each graduate and undergraduate students, including Alexa Davis, the 2017-18 recipient and every coin is being weighed, of the Oliver Phillips Scholarship and the first joint BA/MA student in the Classics measured, and photographed, a project department. Alexa Davis hopes to begin a career as a Latin teacher upon graduation. likely to take a few years to complete. Please consider a donation to the Oliver Phillips Scholarship fund, which supports a We are also experimenting with 3D KU student interested in pursuing a career teaching Latin. digital documentation of a few artifacts. Visitors to the website may now view high-resolution 3D models of one of The 2017 Rehak Symposium on Ancient Art our Attic black figure lekythoi, the terracotta child’s drinking cup in the he theme for the Twelfth Annual Paul Rehak Symposium on Ancient Art, held on shape of a duck, and the little marble March 28 at the Hall Center for the Humanities, was “The Intersections of Ancient sculpted marble head of a Dacian Greek Religion, Ritual, and the Visual Arts.” The speakers were:Thomas Carpenter T(Charles J. Ping Professor of Humanities and Distinguished Professor of Classics, Ohio chieftain, dubbed “the Barbarian”; http://wilcox.ku.edu/3d-imaging. University), “Whose Dionysos? Pursuit of the God in 4th Century BC Apulia”; Rachel Kousser (Professor and Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Art History, The Graduate Center, City 4 www.classics.ku.edu University of New York), “Sculptures and Ritual in Ancient Greece”; and Bronwen Wickkiser (Theodore Bedrick Associate Professor of Classics, Wabash College), “The Music of Architecture and the Therapy of Sound in a Greek Healing Sanctuary: theThymele at Epidauros.” The Symposium’s three exciting interdisciplinary talks lived up to the theme for the day and more, and were enjoyed by an audience of over sixty students, faculty, and guests. Gournia 2017 ohn Younger worked in Crete again in the summer of 2017 at the East Cretan Study JCenter, studying the pottery and objects that he excavated from at Gournia. Readers will remember that, in 2011-2015, he excavated a complete pottery workshop that was in operation for over 600 years. Prior to study the remaining material, he, Cody, and Kyla Strid, assistant director at the Lawrence Arts Center and pottery instructor extraordinaire, interned themselves at the traditional pottery village of Margarites, where they studied with Georgos and Mariniki Delamvelas how to quarry clay and clean it. When they were ready to go to Gournia, they stopped by the Herakleion airport and picked up newly arrived KU Classics major, Danielle Houltberg, and settled in at Pacheia Ammos the village east of Gournia. They then went to the vast clay quarry at Vasiliki, the quarry only 5 km to the south that very probably supplied the clay for the Gournia Pottery Workshop, and from this clay they made pots like New pots, old methods. those from the Gournia workshop, and fired them (see image). Danielle assisted in the inventorying, measuring, and photographing the Gournia study pieces. John has no plans to return to Gournia next summer; instead, he will be concentrating on preparing the final manuscript for publishing the Pottery Workshop.

Current Student Profiles Eilish Gibson, Senior double major in Physics and Classical Antiquity, named Goldwater Scholar for 2017-2018

ilish believes her deep knowledge of a field in the humanities and a physical science each help her understand the other more fully. Her classical literature training helps her write and communicate ideas in her science field, while her science training helps her logically think through arguments of Eilish Gibson. Eancient philosophers.

Chad Uhl, Senior double major in Classics and Classical Antiquity

Last spring, I had the distinct privilege of attending the University of Glasgow in Scotland to continue my study in Classics abroad. While Glasgow is not among the typical locations for Classics majors to study, the faculty there offered fascinating courses with titles including Roman Satire, Ancient LTechnology, and Athenian Democracy: Model or Mob Rule, just to name a few. Their university museum was a highlight as well, displaying a magnificently curated collection of artifacts from the Antonine Wall which was built c. 142 BCE and ran through Glasgow. Chad Uhl in Glasgow. Owen Toepfer, Junior majoring in English and Classics

n Fall 2017, I spent a semester in Rome at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies. The heart of the program is the “Ancient City” course, for which our lectures took place at ancient sites in Rome, Sicily, and Campania. The breadth of the “Ancient City” course provided me with frequent opportunity Ito connect classical texts to the geography and topography mentioned in them: dry descriptions of places in footnotes are supplanted by lived sensory experiences. Of these, the most memorable was walking down the Cave of the Sibyl in Cumae—especially potent as I took Professor Valk’s Aeneid class just last spring. Owen Toepfer in Sicily. www.classics.ku.edu 5 Faculty News BETTY BANKS: This year Lerna has interactions in Euripides’ Alcestis (CAMWS (Amphitruo). In addition, I am supervising been on the back-burner, as I await 2018). I’m also excited about delving into the Intro Latin sequence, as well as teaching chronological data on the Middle Helladic a new research topic on Greek humor; I the honors sections. This year marks the settlement from Lindsay Spencer who has presented on “Aristophanic Incongruities” second for KU in experimenting with a hybrid taken over Carol Zerner’s responsibility at King’s College, London this past July, format for introductory Latin – and a first for that publication. Since I do not expect analyzing Aristophanes through incongruity for me personally – and I must say that the Lindsay to finish for several years I have theory from philosophy of humor. This was experience has been illuminating, forcing arranged to leave my work on the EH and a fun conference, and I’ve decided that, as a me to reassess any past notions on teaching MH objects to Daniel Pullen, once a KU rule, Classics conferences should have more practices and to embrace the benefits of a undergraduate and now chair of Classics at jokes. flipped classroom. Next spring will bring Florida State. Here I have moved to a new Greek back onto the horizon, as I’ll again retirement community (1000 Wakarusa, Apt STANLEY LOMBARDO: My long- have the chance to work with our illustrious 119) where I have many new friends, a few awaited (by me anyway) of graduate students in teaching the Greek KU and community but more from North Dante’s Paradiso came out early this year. Readings seminar. Such a plethora of new Carolina to Honolulu,and and a lot of time Belated thanks to Anne Shaw and Dee and challenging teaching opportunities have to read, currently the new biography of Johnson for reading the Italian with me kept me fully occupied these past two years, Leonardo daVinci. (as they did for Purgatorio) and critiquing but I plan to turn my attentions in the future my efforts. I haven’t myself been exactly to a growing interest in Latin historiographical PAMELA GORDON: In April 2017 I in Paradise most of this year, but all the narratives as well as to a growing family at gave a paper on Epicurean vocabulary in the support I’ve received from friends and home. correspondence between Cicero and Cassius doctors has been most welcome and I am (the future tyrannicide) at a colloquium doing quite well now. Finished a translation EMMA SCIOLI: I began 2017 on sabbatical. held by the Department of Classics at of Horace’s Odes with Tony Corbeill’s I didn’t travel much beyond my carrel in the University of Texas at Austin. It was more than considerable help and that of Watson Library, but the time spent at my great to see KU Classicists Lizzy Adams, the Friday afternoon Latin reading group. desk and among the stacks was productive and Lauren (Callahan) Bock, and David Welch. It will be out, with a very sleek and witty peaceful. Coming on the heels of a seminar on Meanwhile, my article “Epicureanism cover, in a few months. Still have to shepherd Flavian Rome in Fall 2016, I immersed myself Writ Large” (on my old friend Diogenes my Gilgamesh and Bhagavad Gita gigs through in Statius, rereading the Thebaid and trying to of Oenoanda) has finally appeared in the publication. Thankful for the work. catch up on the voluminous recent scholarship Oxford Handbook to the Second Sophistic on post-Vergilian epic poetry. I did a lot (Oxford University Press, 2017). Currently, ANNE RABE: The past two years have of writing that will form chapters of my I am working on a paper that I will present brought a variety of new teaching experiences. planned book on Statius’ “poetics of sleep” this coming May in Rome at the annual After an action-packed ten months teaching in the Thebaid. I presented a paper on the conference of the FSA (Foro di Studi as a rookie at Blue Valley High School last intertextual relationship between Statius’ and Avanzati, Gaetano Massa, Roma). As for year – who know high schoolers could have Ovid’s descriptions of the house of Somnus family news: Li is a star on the debate team of so much energy? – it has been a great joy and at a conference on “Domitian’s Rome and the Lawrence Free State High School, where she privilege to return ‘home’, so to speak, to Augustan Legacy” at Mizzou in September. continues to study Latin with KU Classicist KU this year, though as faculty instead of a It was such a pleasure to be able to drive to Zach Puckett; and Mei plays cello for the student. In the fall I taught my first graduate- a conference! I will also share some work on Lawrence Youth Symphony. level seminar, and really, what could be more Oedipus and Theseus as uneasy counterparts fun than to read Plautus with a group of very in the Thebaid at CAMWS. As an interlude CRAIG JENDZA: My teaching time has talented and engaging grad students? We between Statius-related engagements, I been spent developing some new courses at immersed ourselves in the world of Plautus travelled to Montreal in July for the Celtic KU: a graduate Greek seminar on Euripides’ – Plautine language and features; questions Classics Conference to present work on the Helen and Orestes, and two undergraduate of dramatic presentation and stage action; filmThe Hunger Games as a response to both courses “Ancient Epic Tales” and “Ethics in Roman comedy’s trickiest slave and baddest Gladiator and to previous depictions of female Greek Tragedy” that fulfill various KU Core pimp (Pseudolus); seemingly impossible yet gladiators on screen. The research for this requirements. I’m still working on my book ever recurrent instances of twinning and inspired me to retool the final integrative project, Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy doubles (Menaechmi); and the conundrum assignment for my first-year seminar on in Greek Tragedy, which explores the influence of how to respond to such strokes of artistic spectacle (fall 2017) to focus on the four films of Greek comedy on tragedy, and I’ll soon genius as a highly noble, highly farcical, and adapted from The Hunger Games novels as be presenting one section about generic highly pregnant Alcmena paraded on stage responses to ancient Roman spectacle.

6 www.classics.ku.edu MICHAEL SHAW: In the Fall of 2016 the Sebasteion’s well-preserved Propylon prairie above (literally) Lone Star township. I taught my tragedy course with a slightly originally fit together. During the Spring The land has 3 springs, a pond, a canonical changed title, “ethics in Greek tragedy.” As I will be a visiting professor in Roman red barn and several outbuildings. Cody will one final exam question, I asked the students architecture studies in the Department of Art be planting grape vines this upcoming spring to talk Ajax out of committing suicide, for History at the University of Pennsylvania. and John will imbibe the results. Oh, there instance. The social highpoint for our family Next fall I will resume teaching at KU! are also the chickens, the ducks, and the dogs was celebrating the marriage of our daughter already -- goats will come. John is set to retire Helen and Bobby Webster. Between TARA WELCH: This year I participated at the end of July 2019. semesters, I joined Anne and Helen in a trip in the University of Tennessee’s Marco to Venice. Manuscript Workshop, presenting my ideas In my second year as chair of the Senate about decoration and other paratexts in some Library Committee, we learned about the codices of Valerius Maximus. The workshop Undergraduate Awards interesting developments in “Open Education so inspired me that I sought a Keeler Chloe Clouse, a junior majoring Resources,” low cost or free resources for Fellowship, which funds leave time and classes to use. I imagine most students have work in another discipline. I am a student in classical antiquity received an had some experience with them, such things in Art History this Spring. Meanwhile, Undergraduate Research Award as films on “Kanopy” and online texts. I’ve outlined a book on Reading Valerius (UGRA) for her project “Typology I used open resources in my class in the spring Maximus that will include the medieval and of Oil Presses at 9th Century B.C.E. on “Thucydides and Realism,” including Renaissance material – but never fear, the Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel,” mentored things like the film “Trojan Women” (on bulk of the book will be traditional Latin by Eric Welch, Jewish studies. Kanopy) and Shepard’s “Lie of the Mind” literary criticism. I’ve continued to teach (you tube), Machiavelli’s “Prince” (online), the myth course, and have added “Medical Kayla Lawson, an undergraduate Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” both Marlon Terminology: Greek and Latin Roots” to my Classics minor, won an Brando’s version (three dollars on Amazon), teaching repertoire. Undergraduate Research Award and a live performance at the Lied Center. In (UGRA) for the Fall 2017 semester April I gave a paper at CAMWS, titled “Why JOHN YOUNGER : John continues to to work with Professor Craig Jendza. not the Nurse,” in which I argued that the direct the Jewish Studies Program. Our Lawson’s project “Aphrodite: Where Nurse in Hippolytus is justified, on realistic big event this year (so far) was a one- Did the War Go?” investigates grounds, for proposing to Hippolytus that he day symposium, “Jews in the Midwest,” how the Near-Eastern divinities of should have an affair with Phaedra. celebrating David Katzman’s encyclopedia sexuality and war Ishtar and Inanna In June, I spent three wonderful weeks project of the same name and bringing in developed into Aphrodite, exploring in a “summer seminar” on Greek statues, four other international scholars to speak the process through which Aphrodite sponsored by the American School in Athens on the midwest and west migrations of Jews lost the dominion over war. Drawing and led by Prof. Mark Fullerton of Ohio in the 19th and early 20th century. Some upon her background in psychology, State University. My report in the course 185 people attended this event. In April Lawson seeks to better understand was on the Nike of Paeonius, a copy of which 2018, John will go to Venice for the next how religious divinities can cross is in the case across from the departmental Aegenum conference where he’ll deliver cultures and adapt to the social office. a second talk on the “Origins of Classical structures of their new culture. Myth”. In Vienna in 2015, he gave the first PHIL STINSON: This past year I enjoyed installment, identifying Minoan images of Korbin Painter, a senior majoring teaching some of my favorite courses on the Hyperborean maidens (two sets of pairs) Pompeii & Herculaneum, the city of Rome, coming to Delos to attend Leto at the births in history and Germanic studies and and Roman wall-painting. Last summer of Artemis and Apollo. In Venice, he will minoring in classical antiquity, was I traveled to Turkey as I normally do and present another image that demonstrates named a Hall Center Scholar for continued work on a major new research this myth as Minoan and then will use the 2017-2018. Hall Center Scholars project, the Sebasteion of Aphrodisias, a large genealogy of heroes to show how stories are selected for their strong academic and extremely interesting Roman imperial of their families and doings begin in the credentials and significant activity cult sanctuary-complex. I continue to use Neopalatial period (ca. 1650 BCE). When he within KU. The Scholars interact new and emerging digital methods in my is not using archaeology to demonstrate the with the well-known authors, fieldwork. Currently I am experimenting antiquity of literature, he and his husband scholars, and public intellectuals with 3D printing as a means to explore Cody are farming: before setting off to Crete who speak in the Hall Center’s how marble architectural elements from in June 2017 they bought some 67 acres of Humanities Lecture Series.

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Tess Cavagnero (MA 2016): Tess year, Clementine was born to round out the in Chillicothe, MO. In 2018, I will take an Cavagnero is currently pursuing a PhD at Lichte quiver at 5 kids and a dog. early retirement to concentrate on writing Northwestern University, where she studies and being a grandpa. Our eighth grandchild Classics and Comparative Literature with an Louise Willing Allen, (BA 1975): is expected in time for Christmas this year. emphasis on film. In addition to teaching and I married Mark Allen, grandson of Sonja and I will live at our home in Kansas studying for qualifying exams, she has been Coach Phog Allen. We raised 3 sons, City, Kansas, and will make frequent visits to research assisting on an exciting forthcoming now grown, in Kansas City, where Mark Lawrence to see our grandchildren there. I monograph on Catullus. She spent summer is a Gastroenterologist at St. Lukes will also be working some with our daughter 2017 hiking around Greece with the Hospital. Before kids, I worked for the Big in Lawrence in farming and running a American School in Athens, and plans to Eight Conference and Kansas City Royals, in local restaurant business. I may also drop return to Crete as soon as possible. their ticket departments. I was also an event in at the KU library. I hope to finish my coordinator at the Kemper Arena complex book “Amos Ruined My Politics,” about Stephen Froedge, and Bartle Hall. the prophet whose words inspired the civil (MA 2013): Stephen In 2010, Mark and I stumbled on the rights movement. I also plan to keep up has been making steady quest to bring the original rules of basketball with a couple translation projects for my progress towards his back to KU, doing what we could to help own amusement: Euripides’ Bacchae and the PhD at the University that happen. If you haven’t seen it, the Gilgamesh Epic. I also plan to keep riding of Illinois at Urbana- amazing story is on an ESPN “30 for 30” my bike and working in some other exercise, Champaign and called “There’s No Place Like Home”. Since and maybe do a little traveling. should be defending then, we founded “The Cradle of Basketball” his prospectus in the as a trade mark to promote KU basketball Caroline Nemechek, (MA 2017): next few months on and Lawrence as the place “Where the Game Shortly after graduating from KU last monstrous figures in Flavian-ish epic with Grew Up” (also our trade mark). May, I headed off to Italy to participate Antony Augoustakis advising. He is still As for our 3 sons, we have a financial in a field school, which was hosted by the unsure where the project is headed but planner, a singer/songwriter and a Naval Centro di Conservazione Archeologica di really enjoying the other side of coursework Officer. Roma and Randolph College. The program and exams. He has been teaching different balanced excavation with instruction about combinations of Latin, medical terminology Eura Ryan culture heritage and conservation. It also and mythology at Illinois. He has been Szuwalski, included visits to several archaeological sites doing a little work on modern reception (MA 2006): and museums in and around Rome. The lately (mostly television). He and his partner, In addition to main focus of our field work involved the Nadia Hoppe (a PhD candidate in Slavic welcoming a conservation of floor mosaics from several languages at Illinois), have a one year old new baby girl, ancient Roman villas. We also excavated a daughter, Livia Inna Froedge-Hoppe, who I started a new complete new room in one of the villas. Sadly keeps them relatively busy. position as a we did not find more mosaics. However, Business Systems we found interesting fresco fragments and Jason Lichte, (MA 2009): Two school Project Manager for the College of Letters several tubuli, which suggested to us that the years ago, Jason Lichte took over the Cair and Science Information Technology at room belonged to a Roman bath. This was a Paravel Latin School’s Latin program. He UCSB this fall. We are loving Santa Barbara, really great experience! I am grateful for the inherited a robust program established but Cody and I will always miss Lawrence financial support from the Department. I am by Brett Martin (BA, 1998) in the early and KU. now at the . 2000s. Jason has been transitioning the school to using the Cambridge Latin Course Mark Alterman, Michael Woo, (MA beginning in the 6th grade. Once students (BA 1994): After 2017): As a preventive have finished 10th grade Latin, they will teaching for fifteen measure against have read all of the Advanced Placement years at Manhattan accidently leaving syllabus. In the lower grades, students are Christian College, anyone in the heart of memorizing Latin (Pater Noster, Symbolum I decided to see a Lazio on one of our Apostolorum, Adeste Fideles, etc.) and Latin bit of the world. I many field trips outside paradigms. Jason also leads the lower classes taught Latin to Rome, each member in weekly stories, plays, chants, and songs. Middle School kids of the 2017 American Jason’s entire family made the switch with in Houston, TX in 2015, and taught Latin Academy in Rome Classical Summer School him. His wife, Jenny, teaches kindergarten and Greek to Middle School and High was assigned a Roman emperor, whose name at CPLS and his three school-aged children School students in Colorado in 2016. Since upon getting back to the bus we would shout attend CPLS. Jason and Jenny also recently January, 2017, I have been the minister at out, one-by-one, in the chronological order welcomed the latest Lichte. In June of this First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of their reigns (“Augustus!” “Tiberius!” and

8 www.classics.ku.edu so on). Being alphabetically last of twenty- Giroux in 2016. The story follows two focuses on a different legend, and the tales something members I was assigned 3rd c. young brothers who become involved with a themselves are interwoven with historical facts C.E. emperor Macrinus. That’s me pictured mysterious stranger one hot Kansas summer. and testimony from experts and witnesses with his bust above. It’s a gorgeous coming-of-age tale and a alike. Paul lives with his wife Trina in I’m embarrassed to admit that I had riveting and disturbing thriller, all wrapped in Overland Park. never heard of Macrinus before this summer. period and local detail. Tara Welch says, “I His life and reign is now just one of many, couldn’t put it down as I read it last summer, Joy Mosier-Dubinsky (BA Classics and many reminders from this summer that and I find my mind returning to it again and History 2017): is the brand-new Assistant Romanitas extends far beyond, both before again. You might think I am biased, since Managing Editor at Allen Press in Lawrence. and after, the rather slender part of Roman Cote was an excellent student in many of Congratulations, Joy, on your new job! In history in which my scholarly interests my classes when he was here – but Marilyn her KU degrees, Joy pursued a particular rest. My conceptions about Roman culture Stasio at the New York Times Book is surely interest in cultural history; she wrote an and identity were challenged every day not biased, and she calls it, ‘[A] very special honors thesis in History on Woody Guthrie, when, either in expertly led tours of sites first novel . . . Writing with extraordinary folk songwriter of Dust Bowl era and beyond. and museums or in classroom lectures grace and tenderness, Smith injects unnerving In Classics, Joy did concentrated work on and seminars, we studied the various and tension into a delicate coming-of-age story set Greek and Roman Sexuality and wrote her complicated forces that have shaped not only squarely in the path of a tornado.’” McNair Scholars research paper on Plutarch’s ancient Rome but also our understanding of women. Joy has experience as a writing tutor it today. A recurrent theme of the summer and editor. We are proud that Joy brings that I found particularly interesting was the these interests and talents to Allen Press. influence of the Italian Fascist era on the preservation efforts of the monuments and spaces we cherish today. This was one among many areas of expertise of our wonderful magistra, Genevieve Gessert. This experience would not have been possible without the generosity of CAMWS. The Mary A. Grant Award every year provides a fortunate student with the Paul Thomas (BA Classics and financial means to have the same vivid Anthropology 2015): Since earning encounter with the Ancient World as I did bachelor’s degrees from KU Classics and this summer. Mary Grant was a longtime Anthropology and a master’s degree in social Associate Professor of Latin and Greek science from the , Paul (1921-1960) at the University of Kansas. recently took a job as a library specialist at PLEASE SEND US I am, therefore, in especially great debt to KU. This past year he published his first YOUR NEWS Professor Grant’s lifetime service to the study book, Haunted Lawrence (The History Press of Classics. 2017), a popular history that focuses on Whether your name appears in supernatural legends that have cropped up this issue or not, please send us your LaShawnda Glover, in and around the Lawrence area. Striking former Classics Office a balance between healthy skepticism and greetings, your comments, and your Manager: Happy a desire to believe in the truly mysterious, news for next year’s issue. We will be holidays, to all my Paul’s book explores the stories of Stull happy to hear from you. Classics friends. I left Cemetery, the Eldridge Hotel’s mysterious Classics and Lawrence room 506, Haskell Indian Nations E-mail your Classics news to to pursue a career the University, Sigma Nu’s resident spirit Emma Scioli ([email protected]). medical field. I have “Virginia”, and many more. Each chapter spent the last nine years Or write to: Newsletter Editor, working as an Interventional Radiology Classics Department, 1445 Jayhawk Technologist at St. Luke’s Hospital in Blvd, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas City. My son, Ethan, is now fourteen KS 66045-7590. years old. He has played the contrabass for ten years, and loves a good story. Please also let us know if you would Cote Smith (BA Classics and English/ like us to list an address or URL along Creative Writing 2005) published his first with your entry. novel, Hurt People, with Farrar, Straus &

www.classics.ku.edu 9 42nd Annual Honors Recognition Celebration 2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKER Minor in Classics Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, St. Joseph’s University Jack Foster, Lanie McMullin, Matthew Jones, Paige Werner “Elite vs. Popular Antiquity: Helen of Troy and Metacinema in Carnaval Atlântida” B.A. Honors Thesis Lydia Baas, The Place of Royal Women in the Hellenistic Era MASTERS OF CEREMONIES Alexa Davis, Orion in the Fasti Anthony Corbeill Brendan Jester, Gendered Behaviors in the Roman Republic and Early Empire Vt ver dat florem, studium sic reddit honorem. AWARD RECIPIENTS Albert O. Greef Translation Award DEGREES Awarded to any student currently enrolled in a Greek or M.A. in Classics Latin course for the best translation of a passage from Casey Hughes Greek or Latin literature. “Optima Carme: A Reexamination of the Nurse in the Ciris” Latin: Owen Toepfer Scott McMickle “Innovation in Latin Teaching: A Case Study of the ‘Flipped Tenney Frank Award for Study Abroad Classroom’ at the University of Kansas” Awarded to a student who is studying abroad.

Caroline Nemechek Danielle Houltberg, Owen Toepfer, Caroline Nemechek, “Sophisticating a Cyclops: Polyphemus in Roman Wall-Painting” Michael Woo

Michael Woo Mildred Lord Greef Award “DECUS POSTERITAS REPENDIT: Reevaluating Cremutius Cordus Awarded to a student for an outstanding paper in Tacitus’ Annals” written on a classical topic.

Bachelor of Arts and B.G.S. Graduate Student Category Classical Antiquity Major Rachel Morrison Lydia Baas, Alexander Felts, Libby Sanders, Phillip Undergraduate Student Category Becker, Brendan Jester, Dallas Sims, Killian Brown, Elizabeth Godinez Sarah Pestock Oliver C. Phillips Scholarship Classical Languages Major Awarded to a student pursuing a career teaching Latin. Alexa Davis, Juan Torres-Gavosto, Brendan Jester, Aaron Waldeck Alexa Davis

Hannah Oliver Latin Prize Awarded to a Classics student; determined by a competitive, handicapped exam.

Owen Toepfer

Austin Lashbrook Award For outstanding overall contribution to the Classics program.

Joy Mosier-Dubinsky, Caroline Nemechek

2017 MA graduates, L to R: Professor Phil Stinson, Caroline Thanks to our Departmental Representatives: Nemechek, Casey Hughes, Scott McMickle, Professor Anthony Michael Woo, Chad Uhl, and Owen Toepfer Corbeill

10 www.classics.ku.edu Donor News Support Classics! Two new awards honor the past, support the future For inquiries about contributions, The department is delighted to mention two new awards, the Anthony P. Corbeill Award and please contact: Nancy Jackson, the Fannie Hughes Durham Award. Development Officer, Kansas University Endowment Association, The Anthony P. Corbeill Award pays tribute to our long-time colleague Tony Corbeill, P.O. Box 928, Lawrence, KS 66044. who retired from KU this year to accept a signal honor: the Gildersleeve Chair of Latin at the Phone: 785-832-7465. University of Virginia. Tony’s years at KU molded our Classics MA program into something truly special – an outstanding program, rich in curriculum and teaching opportunities, Tara Welch, the Chair of the Classics that fulfills a crucial role in the broader profession. This Spring 2018, the Department will Department would also be happy award the first ever Corbeill Award to a graduate student in our program, for their overall to talk with you at 785-864-2396, contribution to our program through their coursework, research, and teaching. or mail: [email protected]. To donate online to Classics, please visit the The Fannie Hughes Durham Award honors an educator who website of the KUEA, and mention fostered a love of learning among younger students. Hughes “Classics Department”: was a pioneer woman born in 1886 near the Chisholm Trail in http://www.kuendowment. Oklahoma; she later became the teacher in a one-room schoolhouse org/givenow. in northern Texas, where she taught all things to all ages – including, it seems, Latin and Greek. What dedication! Hughes A box on the form allows you to even married one of her students, Arch Durham, when he refused specify your particular interest. to come back to school otherwise. Fannie Hughes Durham’s Unless otherwise directed, we will grandson Douglas Hamilton (BA Classics 2015, BA English 1998) use your gift exclusively for student established this award to help an undergraduate student pursue an scholarships. interest in ancient Greek language and/or culture. A portrait of Fannie Hughes Durham Gifts of any size In addition to these awards, the gifts of our are greatly appreciated. donors – some of them anonymous – help us fund student travel to study abroad programs, conferences, and other educational opportunities; provide student scholarships and competitive awards; support faculty and student research; and enrich the intellectual climate of the department by funding lectures, symposia, and other programs. We are grateful to our donors, whose generosity enables KU students to do so much. If you Fannie Hughes Durham stands with her are interested in contributing to one of these classroom (center, front) award funds or to any other of our endeavors, please contact the Department or KU Endowment at www.kuendowment.org Oliver Phillips THANK YOU TO OUR MOST RECENT DONORS. Scholarship Fund Kathleen Coleman David G. Mougakos This fund honors the memory of Leonardo D. Cuevas Kristine Mougakos Professor Phillips with awards Ian C. Dahl & Haley Smith Dahl Thomas V. Murray & going to prospective Latin William C. Feliciano Emilie Howse Murray teachers. Paul S. Fotopoulos Beth E. Nettels Pamela Gordon Lucy J. Price, PhD Mary L. Ibarra Daniel J. Pullen For information on direct giving, Brian E. Krob & Kelly K. Krob Zachary L. Quint please see: Michelle Muller Mehta, MD & Anne Rabe & Kyle S. Rabe http://www.kuendowment. Sunil Mehta, MD, PhD Sister Barbara Sellers org/ depts/classics/phillips John Williamson www.classics.ku.edu 11 Non-Profit Postage PAID Permit #229 Classics Department Lawrence, KS ­1021 Wescoe Hall 1445 Jayhawk Boulevard Lawrence, KS 66045-7590

The mysterious armed pig from the Wilcox Collection.