CLASSICS

A PUBLICATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS THE UNIVERSITY OF VOLUME XXV WINTER 2016 Visitors to the Department 2014–2015 Classics Advisory Board Guides Events, Outreach

CHRISTOPHER CRAIG

ETS/AIA Lecturers Haines-Morris Lecturer Our Classics Advisory Board con- Coordinated by Coordinated by tinued to give essential support and ALEYDIS VAN DE MOORTEL THEODORA KOPESTONKY sage advice this last year. Their pres- Sinclair Bell, Northern Illinois Witches, monsters, and serial killers ence at the Fourth Annual Tennessee University, “Chariot Racing in may not be topics you would expect Undergraduate Research Conference Roman Society” to hear about in classics, but that is (see separate story) was a key to the Jean-Pierre Brun, Collège de exactly what Debbie Felton, associ- tremendous success of that event. The , “Pompeii Beyond the ate professor of classics at the Uni- board has also helped us think about Clichés: Historic Development and versity of Massachusetts, Amherst, the different target audiences among Economic Activities.” Eighth Harry discussed during her visit in April. our majors and potential majors, and to identify students whom we should g INSIDE THIS ISSUE C. Rutledge Memorial Lecture in Felton intrigued the audience with Archaeology. Extra class seminar her lecture, “Serial Killers in the An- be welcoming to our events. As a result Classics Advisory Board ...... III Clas/Anth 444, “Gold, Granite and cient World,” in which she presented of their strategizing, invitations for our Rapp Memorial Scholarship . . . III Luxury Trade: Excavations of Gold references to murderers in Greek and fall kickoff reception for our majors also Faculty Notes ...... IV went to seventy-five other students Mines, Imperial Quarries, Roman Roman mythology, such as Pro- Stephen Collins- who had taken at least two classics Eta Sigma Phi ...... VI Forts and Ports in the Eastern crustes, who were horrifying repeat Elliott has a genial Latin Day ...... VI Desert of Egypt.” Haines-Morris offenders. She discussed what may debate with students courses in the last four semesters and Rutledge Memorial Lecture . . . . VI Distinguished Lecturer, Depart- have been the impetus for such at the fall majors had excelled in their work. These kinds reception. ment of Classics. myths and whether we could con- of ideas are pure gold for us as we JP Dessel, UT Department of sider these characters as serial killers spread the word about the value of the History, “The Changing Face of as defined by modern profilers. Her ancient world in modern lives. Tell Tayinat, Turkey: The Assyrian lecture was well attended, and she Remaking of a Luwian Landmark” received many excellent questions Kenneth Harl, Tulane University, from the engaged audience. “Make Haste Slowly: Constantine, the Students from Theodora Coinage, and the Conversion” Kopestonsky’s Greek and Latin Jan Simek, UT Department of An- Literature in Translation class were thropology, “The Early Mississippian privileged to get an extra lecture Cave Art of Picture Cave, Missouri” where Felton talked about the way Vergil characterizes Dido as a Other Visitors witch in the Aeneid. Drawing upon Donald Haggis, University of Vergil’s language as Dido commits North Carolina-Chapel Hill, “Re- suicide, Felton noted that many of cent Excavations of an Early Greek her actions and words found paral- City in Eastern Crete.” Extra class lels in descriptions of witchcraft. seminar: Clas/Anth 443, “Recent The circumstances heralding Excavations at Azoria and Some Felton’s visit were as unusual as Problems Regarding Urbanization her topic. Kopestonsky met her in the Archaic Aegean.” Haines- after their plane to Waco, Texas, Morris Distinguished Lecturer, for the CAMWS conference was Rapp Memorial Scholarship Connects Past and Future Department of Classics. canceled. Riding from Dallas to Aleydis Van de Moortel, UT De- Waco in a rental car along with a partment of Classics, “The Middle nurse and a grandmother, the two Professor Albert Rapp and Professor Arthur Moser were difference in thousands of lives. With his wife, Beth, herself Bronze Age Boat from Mitrou: found common ground in their for decades the classics faculty at the University of Tennes- a nurse, Smeltzer in 1998 established the Rapp Memorial What We Have Learned from the love of classics, and the basis for see. Rapp retired in 1968, but his memory and energy are Scholarship. After her husband passed away in 2012, Beth Oldest Seagoing Boat in the Medi- this visit was established. You nev- still present; the scholarship that honors him goes to one Smeltzer settled in Maryville, near her daughter Amanda. terranean” er know who you will meet when of our most promising students. One of Rapp’s own stu- Chris Craig was able to connect with her this summer. It is Tom Des Jean and Martha Evans you are stranded at an airport! dents was Clark Smeltzer, a young man who never forgot a special pleasure to be back in touch with a founder of the A Publication of the Wiley, Nwational Park Service, The department was truly hon- how Rapp’s Latin course in the early 1960s made him push Rapp Memorial Scholarship, and to be reminded again of “Archaeology at Cumberland Gap ored to be able to invite Felton as himself to succeed. He rose to the challenge, followed in his the enduring good that can result when a gifted UT student Department of Classics National Historical Park” a Haines-Morris Lecturer. father’s footsteps as a medical doctor, and made a positive rises to the challenge of a classical education.

II THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS NEWSLETTER VOLUME XXVII WINTER 2016 Faculty Notes

JUSTIN ARFT, the newest member of our KATHRYN DEBUSK is the MERLE LANGDON had the pleasure of over- DAVID TANDY, professor emeritus and visit- department, joins us after completing his PhD Classics Department’s seeing the completion of Jared Johnson’s MA ing professor at the University of Leeds, has at the University of Missouri, where he was man- ever-efficient administra- thesis on homosexual scenes on Attic vases, published “Traders in the Archaic and Clas- aging editor of Oral Tradition. Justin’s primary tive assistant. which has brought new insights to a much- sical Greek Koine,” in Traders in the Ancient research area is archaic Greek poetry with an discussed subject. He is now taking his own Mediterranean, ed. T. Howe (Chicago, 2015). eye toward comparative oral tradition. His cur- JOHN FRIEND spent an enjoyable year teach- dip into erotica by preparing a study of the On the Greek island of Paros in June, he gave rent work focuses on the oral poetics of Homer’s ing Greek and classical civilization. On the re- erotic inscriptions among his graffiti finds in Attica. He hopes to the opening plenary paper at the conference Odyssey, and he is working on a monograph focusing on Arete search front, he continued to make progress have it published in the electronic journal Grammateion. on Paros and its colonies, and was able to and her compositional role in the epic. Justin’s most recent pub- on his book manuscript, The Athenian Ephe- hear reports about the unpublished excavations at Pharos and lications include a chapter, “The Epic Cycle and Oral Tradition,” beia in the Fourth Century B.C., and spent a SUSAN MARTIN continues to serve as pro- Parion, and hear too about the latest work on Thasos in the co-authored with the late John Miles Foley in The Greek Epic month in Greece examining numerous ephe- vost and senior vice chancellor at UT. She is northern Aegean and on Paros itself. Current projects? Two on Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion (Cambridge) and bic inscriptions. He published a book chapter, “The Nemesia happy to report that the university is making aspects of Hesiod’s world, one on agricultural production and “Immanent Thebes: Traditional Resonance and Narrative Trajectory in Lycurgan Athens,” in a volume of Brill Studies in Greek and significant progress on its goals for student one on land alienation and exile in Boeotia and Aeolis; the ongo- in the Odyssey” in Trends in Classics, 6.2. Justin is delighted to be Roman Epigraphy, and delivered a paper, “The Spartan Defeat retention and success. Her office is oversee- ing big project on Greek economic development and one on the teaching early Greek mythology along with his smaller language at Lechaeum,” at the 2015 CAMWS meeting. He continues to ing a five-year refresh process of the univer- history (and prehistory!) of private and public debt, which most courses this year, and joins John Friend as faculty co-sponsor of serve as the co-departmental representative for the Beta Delta sity’s strategic plan this year. She is also en- of the time makes him feel like he’s at the dentist’s. He gets back the Classics Club and our department’s chapter of Eta Sigma Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, as faculty liaison for the Classics Club, gaged in fostering relationships internationally, and has traveled to Knoxville a couple of times each year and is always pleased Phi. Justin joins us with his wife Elaine and two sons, Henry and and as the Undergraduate Research Conference coordinator. to China and Brazil to further collaborations on research and to see former colleagues and other old friends, and to work in Benjamin, along with a forthcoming Arft #3, available in March. teaching. She continues to enjoy travel with family, as well, in- Hodges Library, where you will find one of the world’s finest col- Professor Emerita GERALDINE GESELL, con- cluding a trip to Argentina. lections for the study of early Greece. STEPHEN COLLINS-ELLIOTT returns for his sec- tinued to work on the publication of the Ka- ond year as assistant professor with a fellowship vousi excavations at the INSTAP Study Cen- DANIEL WALKER MOORE is a second-year ALEYDIS VAN DE MOORTEL taught upper- at the University of Tennessee Humanities Center. ter for East Crete spring and fall, and at the lecturer teaching courses this year in Latin, division courses on Aegean prehistory and There he is hard at work on his book, The Table of UT Library summer and winter. The volume, Greek, and ancient epics in translation. Last Greek archaeology as well as ancient and the Transient World, which examines the rise of Kavousi IIC: The LM IIIC Settlement at Vronda. summer, he developed a segment of his medieval seafaring and a graduate semi- Roman imperialism over the longue durée from Specialist Reports and Analysis, is now at the University of Virginia dissertation study into nar focused on Mitrou. She supervised the 600 BCE to 100 CE in the context of the com- printer awaiting editing and publication. Work continues on an article titled “Learning from Experience: Lee Anderson’s MA thesis on the geological merce and consumption of grain, wine, and olive oil in the cen- Kavousi III: The Shrine at Vronda and Kavousi IV: The Geomet- Polybius and the Progress of Rome,” while provenance of Mitrou’s ground stone tools and building materi- tral Mediterranean. He is delighted to have taught the Lady ric Cemetery. The volumes on the Kastro site will follow these. also teaching a course on epic literature. Branching out into als. Aleydis resubmitted an article for publication, gave three Vols basketball team during their summer tour of , pre- ancient science and technology, he is currently completing a lectures and conference presentations about Mitrou’s architec- sented at the American Academy in Rome on the small finds THEODORA KOPESTONSKY is starting her project on representations of fire-signaling in the Greek his- ture and the Mitrou boat, and organized a colloquium about from the Roman Peasant Project, and proposed a new course fifth year as a lecturer in the department. This torians. He and his wife, Jocelyn, were pleased to welcome to Mitrou at the AIA annual meeting. In the spring she presented on Pompeii and the cities of Vesuvius. He is exploring possi- past year she presented a paper, “Smells at the the world their daughter Evangeline last March. the keynote lecture at the annual meeting of Belgian and Dutch bility of an archaeological project in North Africa, and looks Sanctuary: Scents as Offerings to the Gods,” archaeologists at Antwerp, B welgium. This summer she co- forward to presenting at this year’s AIA/SCS meeting. at the CAMWS annual meeting. Her article ROBERT SKLENÁŘ is directed the seventh study season of the Mitrou Archaeological concerning the cult of the nymphs at Corinth shopping his monograph Project and took three UT students with her. More researchers CHRIS CRAIG has now finished thirty-five years was accepted for publication in Hesperia. She Plant of a Strange Vine: of the Mitrou team are ready to write their chapters (see separ on the UT faculty, and has decided to go for for- was invited to be part of an international research group, HY- Oratio Corrupta and the ate article). Aleydis continues to be secretary-treasurer of the ty. He feels blessed beyond words that so many DROMED, which is studying the use of water in Greece in the Poetics of Senecan Trag- AIA’s East Tennessee Society. This year she is organizing eight students continue to enrich his life as they have first millennium BC. In the summer she continued her research edy to publishers. During public lectures on archaeology (see separate article). through the years—even the ones who drove on dedications and presented a paper on the offerings at the Sa- the past year, he pub- him to distraction. (You know who you are!) cred Spring in Corinth at the conference in Athens in July. She is lished in Classical Philol- This is JESSICA WESTERHOLD’s third year Now he is doubly grateful to have a Classics Advisory Board teaching a wide array of courses this year, including Gender and ogy a review article on as lecturer in the department. This summer with great ideas about recruiting majors and serving all our Sexuality in Greece and Rome, Greek and Roman Archaeology, Henry J. M. Day, Lucan she attended an international conference in students better. Chris had a dream come true this last year Latin, and a survey of Graeco-Roman epic. and the Sublime: Pow- São Paulo, Brazil, where she shared ideas when we recruited our newest assistant professor, compara- er, Representation and Aesthetic Experience (Cambridge with scholars of Augustan poetry from six tive oral tradition (and mythology!) expert Justin Arft. Along MAURA LAFFERTY is working on a book, 2013), and an article titled “Sopor y ebriedad: Puntos de countries. She reprised the topic of her con- with Stephen Collins-Elliott, the Roman archaeologist who The Rhetoric of the Latin Page, on the ways in contacto entre Eneida IX y Eneida II,” translated from the ference paper—crying in Ovid’s Metamorpho- joined us last year, and “the eponymous Dr. Friend,” our Greek which medieval scribes presented Latin texts English by Martín Vizzotti and Pablo Martínez Astorino in ses—at Latin Day 2015 in her talk “Romans historian and Kiwi super-colleague, Justin is part of the cadre to their readers. She presented this spring on Auster: Revista del Centro de Estudios Latinos, a journal in Tears.” This fall finds her back in the Latin classroom while of assistant professors who ensure that the department’s fu- the impact of late antique Vergil manuscripts based at the University of La Plata in Argentina. He con- polishing up the remaining chapters of her book project. At ture will remain very bright. Equally important, after five years on Carolingian manuscripts at the Monastery tinues to serve the university on the Office of National the end of October, she gave a talk at Transylvania University our tenure-line faculty of seven is back at full strength. Chris’s of Saint Gall at the 50th International Con- Scholarships and Fellowships screening committee and the (Kentucky) on Medea in Ovid. Next spring Jessica is looking research has continued to focus on Cicero and his audience. gress on Medieval Studies. She is currently Steering Committee of the Humanities and the Linguistics forward to teaching a course in beginning Greek and one on He also published an article in Rhetorica and gave a CAMWS working on a chapter on the mise-en-page of Livy and later Committees, and the department in various capacities, in- Roman drama in translation. Not surprisingly, all her students paper, both on (surprise!) Cicero. historical material in medieval manuscripts. cluding newsletter editor. should expect to hear a lot about tragedy this year.

IV THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS NEWSLETTER VOLUME XXVII WINTER 2016 ETA SIGMA Phi Fourth Annual Undergraduate Conference

BY STEPHEN COLLINS-ELLIOTT BY JOHN FRIEND

Scholars Honored At Eta Sigma Phi Banquet Latin student. Abby Elder received the Senior Greek Prize. The spring 2015 Eta Sigma Phi banquet saw the initiation Sarah Parsly received several honors this past spring semes- of the the following students on account of their excellent per- ter. In addition to being elected president by the members formance in Greek or Latin: Kathlyn Collins, Sarah Cooper, present at the banquet, she received the Rapp Scholarship Hannah Fuller, Bethany Howard, Shivangi Patel, And and a bronze medal in recognition of her ranking in the Col- Weston Vawter. Daniel Moore gave a moving speech on the lege Greek Exam. Ryan McDonald likewise received a bronze value and importance of classics, and received honorary mem- medal, and Bethany Howard received a ribbon. Coral Thayer bership in the organization. and Jacob Brakebill both received Haines-Morris Awards for Several students were recognized for their outstanding the academic year. Emma Pugmire was recognized as the academic work during the 2014–2015 academic year. David department’s CAMWS scholar. Housewright received the Moser Scholarship as well as the The Department of Classics congratulates the students Senior Latin Prize, which is awarded to the best graduating who were recognized for their devotion to the study of clas- sics and their hard work, and is very proud of their success.

Latin Day XXXIII

BY CHRISTOPHER CRAIG

LATIN DAY XXXIII Draws More than HERE IS THE ROSTER OF THE TALKS CDLX Participants Latin Day has for decades been bring- Stephen Collins-Elliott, Assistant Professor of Classics, Fourth Annual Undergraduate Conference Covers Diverse Range of Scholarship ing together high school and middle “The Technology of the Alphabet and the Earliest Writing in Italy” school Latin students on campus for Christopher Craig, Professor of Classics, “ The Fourth Annual Undergraduate Classics Conference of the Department of Classics, made the closing remarks a day of learning and fellowship at the Criminal Justice—Roman Style” at the University of Tennessee was held at the Howard H. and ended the conference on a high note. Carolyn P. Brown Memorial University Baker Center on Saturday, February 20. It was sponsored Overall thirty-one students from twenty-one colleges John L. Friend, Assistant Professor of Classics, Center. This was the last Latin Day by the Classics Enrichment Fund of the Department of and universities presented papers: Megan Bandel and “Thrills and Spills: Chariot Racing in Rome” before they tore the building down. Classics, with generous co-sponsorship by the College of Samantha Koyler, Austin Peay State University; Casey We will begin a new chapter next year Thomas Heffernan, Curry Professor of English and Religious Studies Arts and Sciences; the Chancellor’s Honors Program; the Hughes, Baylor University; Vanessa Felsö, Bryn Mawr in the new Student Union building. Emeritus and Director of the Tennessee Humanities Center, Office of Undergraduate Research; the Departments of College; Robert Bassett, College of Charleston; Amanda For our time in the University Center, “‘Damnatio ad Bestias’: Roman Games and the Christian Problem” English, History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies; and Gaggioli, Cornell University; Austin Lee Ard, Florida we saved the best for last. UT Latin Day Theodora Kop westonsky, Lecturer in Classics, “Lightening, Livers, and the School of Art. State University; Ken Duarte, Hofstra University; Brit- had 467 registrants, the largest group Gobbling Geese: Divination in the Roman World” The conference was a great success by any yardstick, tany Hardy, Millsaps College; Lien Van Geel, Mississippi in recent memory. As usual, they came Jacob Latham, Assistant Professor of History, with Theresa Lee, dean of the College of Arts and Scienc- State University; Jacob Kirchner, Ohio Wesleyan Univer- from near and far, including the Tri-Cities “Why Was Caesar Killed? Why Wasn’t Augustus?” es, delivering the opening remarks. Our keynote speaker, sity; Mason Johnson, Elizabeth Ross, and Amelia Stout, and the Nashville area. These young Lati- Jackie Murray of the University of Kentucky, presented a Rhodes College; Alex Moskowitz, Swarthmore College; Daniel W. Moore, Lecturer in Classics, nists’ infectious enthusiasm and energy thought-provoking lecture, “The greater stars were hiding: Elizabeth Hunter, University of Buffalo; Simone Bates- “Politics and Power in the Roman Republic” made the event a joy for speakers and Time Dilation in Lucan’s Bellum Civile.” Thirty-one student Smith, University of Cincinnati; Daniel Hamaker, University participants alike. Lynn Rogers, Master Collector of Roman Realia, presenters from twenty-one colleges then gave their pa- of North Carolina Asheville; Megan Cope, University of “Roman Military Equipment” pers, divided into nine panels over three concurrent paper North Carolina Greensboro; Lydia Schriemer, University of Christina Shepardson, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, sessions. They covered an unusually diverse range of top- Ottawa; Carly Sokach, University of Pennsylvania; Rich- “Jesus’ Birth and the Latin Bible” ics, such as gender studies, ancient religion, archaeology, ard McDaniel Culbertson, University of the South; Abbey Robert J. Sklenář, Associate Professor of Classics, “Lucan: Or, the Epic and Greek and Latin literature. The quality of the research Elder, Kristen Beard, Abby Durick, David Housewright, Tradition Meets Frankenstein”ww was excellent, and each paper received generous ap- and David Royce, University of Tennessee; Nathan Carmi- plause from an appreciative and knowledgeable audience chael, University of Texas at Austin; and Zoe Elise Thomas, Aleydis Van de Moortel, Associate Professor of Classics and Lindsay consisting of students, faculty, and interested attendees. . Young Professor of Humanities, Overall seventy people were present. As faculty sponsor for the conference, I am extremely “Did Atlantis Really Exist?” At all times the atmosphere was informal and friendly, grateful to the following people, whose enthusiasm and Jessica Westerhold, Lecturer in Classics, resulting in often vigorous discussions on the ideas pre- hard work had contributed so much to this event. I would “Crus frange! (Break a leg!): Rome’s sented during the day. The panel presiders were Christo- like to extend my thanks to my colleagues; the panel ‘Broadway,’ Audiences, Actors, and Playwrights” pher Craig, John Friend, Theodora Kopestonsky, Stephanie presenters; the four student organizers, Abby Durick, McCarter, Daniel Moore, Robert Sklenář, Aleydis Van de Chloe Lovelace, Sarah Parsly, and Emma Pugmire; and the Moortel, and Jessica Westerhold. Christopher Craig, chair administrative assistant of the Department of Classics,

VI THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS NEWSLETTER VOLUME XXVII WINTER 2016 Antigone Kourakou

MITROU 2015

Mitrou 2015 Study Session Barb Dinkins collects land snails on Mitrou. BY ALEYDIS VAN DE MOORTEL

From June 15 through August 15, 2015, of excavation finds below the surface. and Angeliki Karathanou (University of our team conducted its seventh study This means that we can use survey data to Thessaloniki) returned to continue their season under the direction of Eleni make predictions about areas at Mitrou study of our plant remains. With a grant Zahou (Greek Archaeological Service) that are still unexcavated. For instance, from UT’s SARIF Equipment Fund, we and myself (mitrou.org). We continued the surprising scarcity of Late Bronze Age were able to purchase an ultrasound and to prepare the finds of our 2004–2008 surface finds in the northeast area of the centrifuge for Calla so she could conduct excavations for publication. We had a site, together with other evidence, has her starch grain and phytolith extractions small team this year, as most researchers allowed me to hypothesize that this part of in our lab instead of having to travel back have finished their studies. Among our the settlement had been abandoned and and forth to facilities at the Wiener Lab in international group of seventeen scholars turned into a cemetery in the Late Bronze Athens. Angeliki Karathanou focused on and supporting staff were three UT Age. Surface finds also have allowed us preparing a collection of nineteen short- undergraduate and graduate students to identify the presence of an important lived carbonized seeds from good contexts and two UT researchers. David Royce building of the Mycenaean palatial period for 14C dating, to which Barb Dinkins (classical archaeology ’15), who last south of our excavation area at Mitrou, added several short-lived marine shells year received training in archaeological which had baked roof tiles and used from the same contexts. With this series drawing at Mitrou, returned this year as palatial-style cooking implements. of well-stratified samples, we hope to help one of our archaeological illustrators. As Thanks to the great work of our survey resolve problems of absolute dating that we found ourselves short-staffed in the team as well as archaeological illustrators exist in various periods of the Aegean management of the lab because of several Marcella Rossin, David Royce, and Bronze Age. last-minute cancellations, we had to ask Tina Ross, and photographers Antigone Salvatore Vitale returned to Mitrou to him to spend a large chunk of his time Kourakou and Thomas Mafredas, conduct follow-up research on Mitrou’s helping out with managerial tasks as nearly all of the surface finds that need Late Bronze Age pottery. This summer well—something he did with considerable to be published have been drawn and he focused on the organization of pottery grace. Kristen Mattison, a first-year MA photographed in this single season. production. He discovered previously student in Mediterranean archaeology, Thomas set a personal record, taking unnoticed pervasive changes in labor likewise was very helpful in carrying out high-quality photos of an astonishing input and the quality of manufacture of various tasks in the lab and assisting 1,670 objects in four weeks. We are very Mitrou’s pottery at the transition from the our surface survey team with the study grateful to all of our team members for Prepalatial to the Palatial period—changes of their finds. Abby Durick (Haslam their dedication. which he attributes to Mitrou becoming Scholars Program—classical archaeology This year we welcomed new UT part of a Mycenaean palatial economy. ’17) came for a week to continue her researcher Barbara Dinkins, a marine Nick Herrmann (UT anthropology study of Aeginetan potter’s marks from biologist and owner of Dinkins Biological and Mississippi State University) stopped Mitrou for her honors thesis. Consulting, who does consulting work by for one day with a topographic team to Our main focus this year was on for the McClung Museum of Natural measure the locations of data points on documenting and studying the finds of History and Culture. Barb has taken on the islet of Mitrou. These measurements

Mitrou’s surface survey for publication. In the study of Mitrou’s shell remains for were needed in order to accurately ANTIGONE KOURAKOU the course of the 2004–2008 excavation publication. With her background in convert our site grid, which had been laid seasons, our teams managed to conduct the natural sciences, she is bringing a out in the Greek Grid 1950, into Universal we have carried out on the islet of Mitrou. season was financed by the University of the American School of Classical full vacuum surveys of 25 percent of deep understanding of marine shellfish Transverse Mercator coordinates. We had hoped to continue the underwater of Tennessee ( Department of Classics, Studies at Athens, for their invaluable Mitrou’s surface, and this in 2.5 x 2.5– to the analysis of Mitrou’s finds. A Thanks to a super-duper GPS system geophysical survey this summer with College of Arts and Sciences, Office support of our work. Our guard, Vlasis meter grids, which gave us a high- history buff, she is excited to work with brought by Sarah Murray (University of Georgos Papatheodorou’s team of the of Research and Engagement), the Carachliannis, as always kept a watchful resolution image of the spatial distribution archaeologists. During her first season Nebraska), we now know exactly where University of Patras, but the severe Greek Institute of Aegean Prehistory, the Greek eye over our storeroom during the year, of archaeological finds on the surface. The she focused primarily on shells from our Mitrou is located in the UTM grid. The banking crisis made this impossible. We Archaeological Service, and private and was as helpful as could be throughout first studies by Caroline Belz (UCLA) and Early and Middle Bronze Age contexts. new coordinates are indispensable for are now planning to do this work in 2016. donors. We are extremely thankful for the summer. The people of Tragana Amanda Iacobelli (Pennsylvania State Calla McNamee (formerly at UT’s connecting the results of our underwater Kristen Mattison’s travel and part of their help. We also would like to express continue to surround us with their love University) have shown that the spatial Archaeological Research Lab, now a geophysical surveys in the bay of Mitrou David Royce’s was funded by Haines- our gratitude to Maria Papakonstantinou, and friendship in spite of their economic distribution of surface finds is not random postdoc fellow at Wiener Lab, American with the terrestrial surface survey, Morris travel scholarships of our director of the Archaeological Service at difficulties. We are most grateful to all for but correlates well with the distribution School of Classical Studies at Athens) geophysical surveys, and excavations that Department of Classics. Our 2015 study Lamia, and James C. Wright, director making the Mitrou project possible.

VIII THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS NEWSLETTER VOLUME XXVII WINTER 2016 STUDIES AFIELD

STUDENT PERSPECTIVES STUDENT PERSPECTIVES Dirty Hands and Digging Greece BY R. DAVID ROYCE Mediterranean Sunsets BY ABBY DURICK

With the generous sponsorship of the UT bones, and bronze items, and I got to be Aeginetan maritime trade network in the This was the second year that I was Department of Classics and the Haines- part of a thrilling, but as yet unannounced, Middle and Late Bronze Ages. awarded the Haines-Morris Scholarship Morris Travel Scholarship, I was given discovery—stay tuned! I was given the I spent the remainder of my summer for travel in Greece. Last year I worked another opportunity to explore new opportunity to work with ceramics in Edinburgh, Scotland, studying with a all summer at Mitrou for UT’s Mitrou areas of the Mediterranean world. In specialists Dr. Salvatore Vitale and Dr. Chris landscape archaeologist who specialized in Archaeological Project, discovering that January, I received an e-mail inviting me Hale (Mitrou) to expand my knowledge of Late Bronze Age Near Eastern sites. Under I have a knack for illustrating. This year to be a part of the 2015 Palace of Nestor ceramics in the region of Messenia. his supervision I conducted a research I felt I needed at least one more year of Excavations in Pylos, Greece. Thanks to We lived in the town of Pylos, in project on Near Eastern potmarks, which excavation experience, so I applied as a recommendations by Dr. Salvatore Vitale Navarino Bay, with a team of enthusiastic will help me with my work on the Aeginetan volunteer at the site of Eleon, working for and Dr. A. Van de Moortel, I was going to graduate and PhD students from marks. Before returning to Knoxville I the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project. finally get my hands dirty. The six-week Cincinnati, Poland, , Brazil, was able to visit Sicily, where I climbed Dr. Van de Moortel expressed interest in dig was operated by the University of Greece, and Canada. During our off hours Mount Etna, watched the Opera Carmen my hidden talents, but she understood that Cincinnati Classics Department and run we hiked the dunes to the Cave of Nestor, in the ancient Greek theater of Taormina, I should get more digging under my belt. by Dr. Shari Stocker and Dr. Jack Davis. competed in soccer matches, swam in and visited the Valley of the Temples in We both decided that I would spend the With moleskins, dig pants, tall socks, and the bay, and explored Olympia as well Agrigento. I could not believe the size of the first half of the summer at Eleon and the David Royce is hard a hat, I was ready to be back on Greek soil. as the island of Sphacteria. Overall, I Atlantes in the Temple of Olympian Zeus. second half of the summer at Mitrou. This at work at Eleon I. Last summer, I was able to visit was completely immersed and got lost a I hope to visit the ruins in Selinus on my was a perfect setup. sites like Mycenae, Pavlopetri, Tiryns, few times while nine feet below surface next trip. Between Pylos and Taormina, I Eleon is an acropolis site in Eastern Volos, and Orchomenos; this year I level. After six weeks of excavating, I witnessed some of the best Mediterranean Boeotia—hence the project name—with rest were students of Dr. Burke’s or Dr. My work in Israel from my freshman traveled from Athens to the west coast of boarded the bus to Tragana to resume sunsets. There will be much more to see occupation lasting almost two thousand Burns’s, or they were supervisors. I only year seems to pale in comparison to my the Peloponnese to “Sandy Pylos.” The work at Mitrou. There I spent a week next year as I look forward to summer 2016. years, from the Middle Bronze Age say this because I wanted to show how work this year. Palace of Nestor is best known from Carl studying and photographing pottery to the classical period. We worked to important it can be to get to know other This summer was very strange, Blegen’s excavations in the mid-twentieth with Aeginetan potmarks for my honors Abby Durick is a Haslam Scholar open up an area we called “the blue sites. Last year Dr. Van de Moortel took though, with the weather and the politics century. The site is depicted in Homer’s thesis at UT. Through this study I hope and a junior majoring in classical stone structure” as well as other various a number of us to Eleon during their being both heated and stormy. As Odyssey when Telemachus visits Nestor to contribute to our understanding of the archaeology (honors). areas including the classical wall. The open house. This is what opened my everyone has undoubtedly heard, Greece in search of his father. The festive scene most prominent feature of the site is a eyes to branching out. It shows that has been having a bit of an economic from the palace and the hospitable nature large enclosure wall, built of polygonal archaeology is not a single-minded field. crisis. I do not want to spend too much of King Nestor make the site all the more blocks, that is preserved in one area of It thrives on having open doors, debate, time talking about it, because I do not interesting. Based upon the number of the site and arguably continued around and publication. want to get something wrong. A lot of the drinking vessels found, it is hard to dispute in antiquity. The focus of the excavation Back on site, we would work from Greeks are not even sure what exactly was Homer’s description of the palace as a was to uncover more information of the dawn until dusk. We excavated in the going on, let alone some twenty-three- festive place in the third millennium BCE. Middle and Late Helladic occupation morning and early afternoon, then we year-old American archaeologist. That The goal of the current project is to of the site. This time period has been a went back to our housing in Dilesi, being said, Western media made it look expose the lower town of Pylos below major focus of mine in my years at the where we processed the majority of like all of Greece was on fire and chaos the acropolis. A series of trenches were University of Tennessee, so the site was the finds. I had an enormous amount was in the streets. I spent three months laid out. Predominantly, I worked in the perfect for me. of fun, but do not get me wrong; it was in Greece, including time in Athens, and B-Trench, located below one of Blegen’s While working at Eleon, the directors, incredibly difficult work. No amount of I can say that I never felt unsafe at any original trenches. We jumped right in. Dr. R. Brendan Burke and Dr. Bryan studying in a book can prepare you for time. People lined up at the ATMs to get My daily routine consisted of digging, Burns, wanted all the volunteers and excavation. It is as much backbreaking their cash out, and sometimes I had to scraping, sweeping, counting, lifting, students to get the most experience they as it is mind-numbing. So much thought join the line. Everyone just wanted to live, sifting, measuring, and drawing each could, so we all shuffled around the site and elbow grease go into running a and they wanted what was theirs. stratigraphic layer as strategically as Abby Durick digs from week to week. I said volunteers proper excavation. It really puts things The environment was volatile as well. possible. Throughout the excavation, I the lower town at in the plural, but I should clarify that into perspective and makes the idea of This year we had so much rain for a

uncovered full goblets, cooking pots, animal ANTIGONE KOURAKOU Pylos, Greece. I was the only actual volunteer. The being a site director very intimidating. while that I felt like I was back home in

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X THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS NEWSLETTER VOLUME XXVII WINTER 2016 Digging Greece cont’d Tennessee during the spring. On the one Royce and his spouse, Amani Al-Nossif, hand, this made excavating incredibly sport the Mitrou 2015 T-shirts Launching a Fulbright Year difficult, but on the other hand, it made getting data work and apotheke (Greek for “storehouse”) work much easier and quicker. Most of my time during the in Athens BY KAITLYN STILES wet weather was spent drawing in the apotheke, which I loved. Most of the pottery I drew was—at least from my There are times in a person’s life that stand experience—highly decorated, and that out as especially significant. This year feels was exciting. like one of those moments for me. With At the midway point of the summer, the help and support of the Departments I hitched a ride with Dr. Herrmann to of Classics and Anthropology at the Mitrou, as he was passing through Eleon University of Tennessee, I was fortunate to do some topographical work. When I to have been awarded a Fulbright US arrived at Mitrou, I was warmly welcomed, student academic grant as well as a and I began my work as an illustrator. I Harriet and Leon Pomerance Fellowship spent the summer drawing survey pottery, from the Archaeological Institute of worked bone, and large ground stone tools. America and a Newton W. and Wilma C. By the end of the summer, I had drawn a Thomas Graduate Fellowship from UT good variety of artifacts, and I could not to conduct research for my dissertation have been happier. in Greece during the academic year of While at Mitrou, I also took on 2015–2016 at the Wiener Laboratory for various duties as a registrar. As Archaeological Sciences at the American such, I had to manage the database; School of Classical Studies in Athens. My enter any data needed; scan and edit dissertation, titled Biosocial Identities drawings; manage, edit, and enter ELIZABETH ROYCE in Late Bronze Age Greece, explores the photos; and breathe. I was not sure if The Department of Classics has given me many opportunities to prove myself, and I spread and manifestation of “Mycenaean I could mentally pull it off, but I did. hope that now, as a recent graduate of the University of Tennessee, I have shown that identity” on the local level through the Our registrar last year was Dr. Andrea all my years of training have paid off at least a little bit. I hope to continue working examination of the human skeletal Guzzetti, so this year I dubbed myself with the school in the future and playing a part in future and current archaeological remains at the Mycenaean chamber tomb Andrea 2.0. In short, I had a lot of fun projects. I could not be more grateful for all the help provided by everyone in the cemetery at Golemi Agios Georgios in working at Mitrou again this year, but it department, but most importantly Dr. Craig and Dr. Van de Moortel. central Greece. My main goal this year is sure was not easy. David Royce is a recent graduate in classical archaeology and plans to apply to to obtain a better understanding of the Kaitlyn Stiles studies Bronze Age human Every year, we design a project T-shirt graduate schools this fall. occupants of the cemetery by conducting bones at the Wiener Lab in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

for all the members who work on the a basic osteological analysis of all the DIMITRIS MICHAILIDI project. Doing this certainly raises morale skeletal material. This includes cleaning and gives a sense of solidarity. This year and inventorying all the bones as well interesting features in the demography of the US Embassy in Athens. At the embassy, I decided to put my drawing skills to as determining the minimum number the tombs and the morphology of the bones we were introduced to some of the staff and the test and create the shirt for the 2015 2015 Rutledge Memorial Lecture In of individuals for each tomb, estimating in just this preliminary analysis. attended a lecture on modern Greece. Mitrou Study Season. I mocked up a Classics sex and age when possible, taking Mid-September marked the beginning Opportunities such as this remind drawing, and everyone was hooked. We COORDINATED BY ROBERT SKLENÁŘ measurements, and observing pathology. of the academic year at the American School me of why I became interested in wanted to have a shirt that encompassed I arrived in Greece at the end of July of Classical Studies in Athens. I am getting anthropology and archaeology in the as many aspects of the project as For our 2015 Rutledge Memorial Lecturer, we were exceptionally fortunate this to begin this latest adventure. Since then to know the members of the school and am first place. The adventure of meeting possible, and this was the result. The idea year to have Katharina Volk, professor of classics at Columbia University and I have been working toward obtaining excited to see what the year holds for us all. new people and seeing new places while came to me one day while drawing late in one of the most charismatic speakers in our discipline. It almost didn’t happen: all of the skeletal material from Golemi I am going to do my best to take advantage pursuing my passions is an indescribable the evening on my laptop. I’m a hopeless Volk was scheduled to arrive in Knoxville on Thursday, March 5, but a snowstorm Agios Georgios. In the last two months of the many travel opportunities offered pleasure. I am eager to see what this year romantic, and it seems that other closed down both La Guardia Airport and the UT campus. Fortunately, she was I have been double-checking the work I by the school as well as attend the multiple holds for me, and I hope I can bring this archaeologists are as well. It features a able to reschedule for the following day, and was conveyed to campus with did last summer to clarify my notes and and varied lectures occurring throughout experience back with me to encourage romantic scene of a skeleton standing barely two hours to spare before her lecture. One would never have guessed fine tune my methodology. This has been Athens over the course of the year. After others to continue to embark on new atop a mudbrick structure handing over a from her characteristically poised performance that such a hectic series of events an important step as I must use the same a week of American School orientation adventures of their own. “jugless handle” to a survey archaeologist had preceded it: she gave a learned, elegant, and spellbinding talk, “The Phenom- methods throughout the data collection I attended a week of orientation for the on the back and a Kalapodi (albeit hardly enon of the Phaenomena: Aratus and his Latin Translators.” This lecture series is stage. I have also begun working on Fulbright Foundation in Athens, where I Kaitlyn Stiles is a PhD candidate recognizably so) krater on its side with named in the memory of Harry C. Rutledge, the beloved longtime head of the new material that I managed to obtain met my fellow Fulbright grantees. As part of in biological anthropology and grain falling out on the front. Department of Classics. last summer. I am excited to see some our orientation, we were privileged to visit Mediterranean archaeology.

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