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Letter from the Chairclassics Rate, and Very Successful Job Placement, Philological Association, and Winning Fame Given the State of the Market Online Version Princeton NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS Spring 2013 Letter from the ChairClassics rate, and very successful job placement, Philological Association, and winning fame given the state of the market. for his blogs. Michael Flower has been pro- The overall assessment of the under- moted to Lecturer with the rank of Profes- graduate program is extremely positive, sor, an exalted title shared with Nobel lau- leaving the impression that undergradu- reates, ambassadors, foundation heads and ate majors are very well cared for: they that crowd. Joshua Katz’s extraordinary are well advised, they work hard, are well teaching has been honored with a Cotsen taught, and they are generally quite happy Faculty Fellowship, to develop new courses and free to explore other curricular and and train graduate students over the next extra-curricular interests. They also go on three years. Brent Shaw has just published to land good jobs and to be accepted in fine another long, weighty and magisterial graduate programs in an impressive array book, the second in two years. But pride of fields. of place is reserved for the equally prolific Consider the above condensation to be Bob Kaster and his book on the Appian passed to you sub rosa, with the immortal Way, which has won 4.3 stars on Ama- caveat of my mentor, Francis Urquhart, zon.com and a reader’s recommendation “You might very well think that; I couldn’t that it is (hint) “a great gift for the Latin possibly comment.” teacher or budding classicist.” Ted Champlin, Chair Were there any criticisms? I couldn’t Many more details about the faculty’s o resume. When I wrote last year’s possibly comment, except perhaps to say achievements appear on their webpages, installment of this Letter, the Report that all were offered in the most construc- accessible through the departmental web- Tof our distinguished Academic tive manner imaginable; that many took up site. No question in my mind: all of the 16 Review Committee—the first in 16 years— and helped to clarify problems raised in our children here in Lake Wobegon are above had been received by the Dean but not by Self-Study; that all were taken seriously average, and collectively they are the prime us. In due course it was passed on to the and acted upon where possible; and that reason for the situation so well described in Department, and in due course I submit- the committee’s weightiest advice involved the second paragraph above. ted the required Chair’s Response to the not criticisms but questions and sugges- ■ Review. My problem here is to distill the tions about the future nature, purpose, and contents of the Report for you while main- shape of the whole enterprise, questions taining deniability. Thus: shared by all Classics departments in this Inside this issue… The department emerges as high millennium. functioning and without factions, where More on these matters in next year’s News from the Faculty ............................2 business is conducted with civility and a Newsletter. As usual, you will find a range Senior Theses 2012 .................................6 large degree of consensus. The level of of delights, undergraduate, graduate, and citizenship is excellent in terms of teaching professorial in the following pages. I focus Graduate Student News .........................6 and administration, all the more notable here on the faculty. What strikes me is how Dissertations ...........................................7 given the strong scholarly productivity of modest their reports are, or rather how the faculty. out-of-date since they were submitted a Ovid Onsite .............................................8 The graduate program is very healthy, month ago. Thus, Yelena Baraz also holds Faculty Bookshelf ....................................9 with a high number of applications, an a prestigious Bicentennial Preceptorship, impressive yield of almost 100% on offers which includes a year’s leave to pursue Q&A: Classics Alumni Spotlight ...........10 of admission, high stipends and abundant her scholarship. Denis Feeney is now Lectures & Events .................................11 additional support, excellent completion enthroned as President of the American 2. Princeton Classics News from the Faculty Yelena Baraz Emmanuel Bourbouhakis Michael Brumbaugh Marc Domingo Gygax Janet Downie Denis Feeney Yelena Baraz writing, a topic of abiding interest for me. a Genre.” And throughout the year I have The highlights of 2012 included the pub- I spent the hiatus between the two semes- been at work on my book project on king- lication, in April, of my book, A Written ters in Rome, mostly reading, revising, ship ideology in Kallimachos’ Hymns. Republic: Cicero’s Philosophical Politics, by (and a little sailing in Sardinia) with the Princeton University Press, accompanying exception of a paper I gave on authorial in- Marc Domingo Gygax Princeton Alumni on a cruise in the Medi- dependence in medieval Byzantium at the In the spring, I again taught the lecture- terranean at the end of June, and giving European-wide conference on Byzantine course “The Greek World in the Hellenis- papers on both Senecas: the Younger at a literature hosted by Durham University, in tic Age”, and precepted for the first time conference on Latin philosophy at Colum- the U.K., in late July. I resumed teaching, for Andrew Feldherr’s “The Other Side of bia in March, and the Elder at a declama- and writing, in the fall, escaping only once Rome.” In May, I hosted Vicente Ramon, tion conference held in Montpellier, France, to participate in a three-day workshop (University of Zaragoza), with whom in November. It was also an exciting year on “Dreams in Byzantine Literature” I am collaborating in the international in teaching. In the spring, I taught Latin hosted by the Dumbarton Oaks Center for research project “Irreligiosidad, agnosti- prose composition to a great group of Byzantine Studies, in Washington, D.C. cismo y ateísmo en la Grecia antigua”, a graduate students, (we all learned a lot Finally, I joined Forbes College as a faculty project financed by the Spanish Ministry of about style), at the same time as teaching advisor in the fall of 2012, which I am Economy and Finance, and in July I visited intensive beginning Latin. In the fall I was enjoying a great deal. Needless to say, my Arjan Zuiderhoek in Ghent to prepare one of six faculty members that together table remains strewn with diverse proj- our common project “Benefactors and the teach in a great course known as the HUM ects underway—look for these in the next Polis: Origins and Development of the sequence (I learned a lot about early Chris- newsletter! Public Gift in the Greek Cities from the tianity and medieval literature, and also Homeric World to Great Antiquity.” This quite a bit about lecturing by watching my Michael Brumbaugh project, which brings together colleagues colleagues three times a week). Another Leaving behind an idyllic commune from UC London, Hannover, Cambridge, first in 2012 involved editing. The panel dedicated to intellectual discovery in the Freiburg, Groningen, Utrecht, Berkeley that I had organized, together with Chris wilds of the Pacific Northwest, I ventured and Connecticut, aims at examining for the van den Berg of Amherst College, at the through the American interior to reach the first time, public gift-giving in the Greek APA meeting in January 2012 on the sub- legendary East Pyne. Luckily I suffered polis from a truly longue durée perspective. ject of “Intertextuality and its Discontents” no epic misfortunes en route and my new In the fall semester 2012-13, I was on leave attracted so much interest that the two of colleagues threw open the gates to wel- and could focus on research, working on us set about putting together a special issue come me. Before leaving Reed College I papers on Elias Bickerman, 19th century of the American Journal of Philology devot- was able to see my thesis student defend historiography, financial challenges in 4th ed to the topic. Thanks to the timely work her work on a topic of great interest to me, century Athens and Plutarch. Articles on of all the authors and readers involved, it is “Songs of Cyrene: Genre in Pindar and “Lycia” and “Gift-Giving and Power-Rela- due to appear in the spring of 2013. Callimachus.” Switching gears from Greek tionships in Greek Social Praxis and Public praise to Latin abuse, I had the pleasure Discourse” appeared. In January and Feb- Emmanuel Bourbouhakis of teaching an undergraduate seminar in ruary I gave talks on the origins of Greek The novelty and excitement of being at the fall on Horace’s Satires and Epodes. tyranny at The College of New Jersey and Princeton sustained itself through 2012, so On the research front, I began the year on an inscription from Cos at the Institute that much of what was news for me would with a paper at the APA on the much for Advanced Study. have seemed somewhat ordinary to those discussed epilogue to Kallimachos’ Hymn long familiar with life and work here. Still, to Apollo, “Kallimachos and the Euphrates: Janet Downie in the spring and fall of 2012 I was able to Trashing the Seleukid Nile.” The annual In spring 2012, I taught across the spec- teach courses which bear the distinct Late meeting of the Classical Association of the trum of undergraduate Greek, leading one Antique and Byzantine stamp I brought Pacific Northwest (CAPN) afforded me talented and committed group of students with me to the classics department: the the opportunity to present some thoughts through the second half of Hansen and first was an undergraduate seminar on the on epiphany and mimesis in Hellenistic Quinn to their first foray into “real Greek” language and literature of the post-classical poetry.
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