Newsletter 2017

NEWSLETTER 2017

From the Chair of the graduate students, here is a partial list for 2016/17: Elena Giusti (Latin), Astrid van Faculty Oyen (Archaeology) and Lacey Wallace Prof. Richard Hunter (Archaeology) have been appointed to Assistant Professorships at Warwick, Heraclitus is popularly believed to have Cornell and Lincoln respectively, and said that you cannot step into the same 3 of our graduate students have been river twice. It turns out, however, that See Inside... elected to Junior Research Fellowships you can become Chair of the Faculty of in Cambridge Colleges: Anna Judson Impact of the Ancient City Classics twice, though whether it is the 2 same Faculty now as it was in 2003 and (Linear B and the history of Greek, 2004 when I was last Chair is at least Gonville and Caius), Maya Feile Tomes doubtful. It is not true that ‘everything (Latin American poetry, Christ’s – cf. is in flux’ but some things are. For one, p. 10 inside); Livia Tagliapietra (the it seems a busier, fuller place than I Greek language in Italy, Jesus College). remember, in part because of the number It is the presence of such remarkable of externally-funded research projects younger scholars (and, of course, at times which employ post-doctoral researchers everyone seems to me to be a younger and/or train PhD students. The Fac- scholar…) that makes the Faculty a very Greek Epic of the Roman Empire ulty currently houses the Impact of exciting place to work. No less remark- 5 the Ancient City (described at greater able are the careers that Classics gradu- length inside) and Context and Relation- ships between Early Writing Systems, ates follow outside academia, and we are both funded by the European Research currently expanding our website archive Council, three AHRC-funded projects of ‘Life after Classics’: there is a small on the Greek Epic of the Roman Empire, taster inside recording the very different Greek in Italy, and Roman Republican paths followed by two of our alumni. Cities, and another archaeological project on the site of Lerna, funded by the The diversity of the current Faculty is, American School of Classical Studies and however, also a reminder that uncer- tainty hangs over us, as over the Univer- The Bible and Antiquity the Newton Trust. This hive of activity 6 means that one of the rhythms which sity more generally. Whatever one’s view structures the Chair’s life is a round of of Brexit, and whatever arrangements formal and informal meetings with pro- finally emerge, it would be an enormous ject-members to see how they are getting loss to the vibrancy of the Faculty if we on. The Faculty is a much richer place were no longer attractive, and able to for all of this, and the Chair much better extend the warmest welcome, to students informed about the breadth of the field and researchers from all over the world: of research in Classics – if also about HR the cosmopolitanism of Cambridge is regulations! one of its great strengths. ‘We even let One thing which never changes is the Australians in’ was how I used to be Life after Classics pleasure that we derive from the aca- teased: fortunately, we still do! 9 demic success of members of the Faculty. In the 2016 Senior Inaugural Lecture Academic Promotions round, Emily Gowers Prof. James Clackson (Latin) and Christo- Professor of Comparative Philology pher Kelly (Roman ‘Dangerous Lunatics’: history) were promoted to Personal Profes- Cambridge and Comparative sorships and Lucia Philology Classics in China Prauscello (Greek) to a Watch again at... 10 Readership. As for our www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/alumni

2017 newsletter.indd 1 24/05/2017 11:43:14 teries in Egypt, will look at the cities of the early Islamic Eastern Mediterranean, ANCIENT CITIES while Suna Cagaptay, an architectural historian of the late Byzantine and early Prof. Andrew Elizabeth Key Fowden's on late antique/ Ottoman period, will explore the cities of early Islamic Syria and Ottoman Ath- Western Asia Minor and Thrace. Edward Wallace-Hadrill ens. A team of postdocs extends this Coghill, currently completing a doctorate on medieval Arabic literature on Egypt, The Greek and Roman world was fa- range. Javier Martínez Jiménez works on will explore the rich Arabic tradition mously a world of cities: life in cities was Visigothic and Umayyad Spain, including of thought on cities. A PhD position is synonymous with civilization. Modern Mérida, one of the best examples of these urbanism is in many ways so remote from transformations. His latest book is the soon to be filled on the cities of Italy. The that of antiquity that we may ask whether most recent and up-to-date archaeologial project also benefits greatly from the ex- the ancient city had an impact at all on catalogue of the Roman aqueducts in pertise of many colleagues in Cambridge and beyond, including Martin Millett, Robin Osborne and Alessandro Launaro in Classics, Amira Bennison, an expert on Islamic Spain and North Africa in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and Rosamond McKitterick in History; and from a full-time administra- tor and researcher, Alex Rocca.

Over the last three months, with the team gradually coming together, the project is beginning to take shape, with a series of seminars that have given a taste of the excitement of bringing together many disciplines. How did the cities of Spain fare under their new Visigothic rulers in the fifth to eighth centuries, followed by their Umayyad Arab conquerors in the eighth? On the one hand there is Peutinger map of the Roman world, showing the network of roads and cities around Rome a contraction of the number of active centres, and a loss of technology, seen most clearly in the inability to sustain the contemporary city. A century ago, Spain and Portugal. Sam Ottewill-Souls- the water supply through aqueducts. But archaeologists felt the answer lay in urban by, with a doctorate on the relations of to read Isidore's Etymologies of the early planning, and above all the orthogonal the Franks with Islamic Spain, is well seventh century, the city could still be grid. Yet there was surely more to ancient positioned to trace thinking about the described in its classical elements, and cities than the grid plan, especially as city in the early medieval west. Louise the Visigothic kings not only enforced some of the greatest cities, Athens, Rome Blanke, with experience of excavation at Roman legislation on city administration, and Constantinople, made little or no use Jerash and a current project on monas- but founded new cities, starting with of it. From one perspective, late antiquity saw the end of the ancient city; from another, it proved remarkably resilient, adapting differently to changing condi- tions in the Christianized West and the Islamized East. The physical traces and the recollected image of antiquity exercised a powerful influence, not with one outcome, but with kaleidoscopic varia- tions through space and time. The project is a tale of many cities, and so wide-rang- ing in scope that it requires a team of specialists with expertise that ranges from archaeology to cultural history, from late antiquity to the present, and from western Europe to the Middle East and North Africa.

It is only thanks to the exceptional potential of a European Research Council grant that it has been possible to dream of such a project. My own longstanding Map of the world by Al-Idrisi, twelfth century Arab geographer, showing Spain and North Africa work on Italian cities is balanced by 2

2017 newsletter.indd 2 24/05/2017 11:43:15 Focus on Research

Yung In Chae

I research the intersection of the Classics and critical theory—that is, how we can draw upon the ancient world in order to think about society—with particular interests in feminism and environmen- Athens: Olympieion and mihrab of open-air mosque in 1819, from Louis Dupré, ‘Le Temple de Jupiter Olympien talism. et l’Acropolis d’Athènes.’ Photo credit: Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation (www.travelogues.gr) In the course of my MPhil, this has taken the form of essays about genealogy in Reccopolis, the name of which combines transporting the inhabitants of the old Plato’s Republic, philology in nineteenth- a Gothic name (Reccared) with a highly city to houses identical to their old ones. and twentieth-century Germany, and classical termination. In coming weeks Mythical it may be, but it illustrates the ecofeminism in Sappho. I am currently our attention will turn to Antioch, which potency of the image of the Roman city in writing a thesis on the classical references enjoys a boom in late antiquity. Sacked in the Islamic East as much as the Visigothic in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, a 540 by the Persian Chosroes (Khosrow), West. continuation of the project that I started Procopius describes how he carried off last year as a Master’s student at the École precious marbles to Persia. By the tenth The story we wish to explore is neither des hautes études en sciences sociales century, this story has grown in the Arab one of decline and fall, nor indeed of in Paris, France. There I focused on De historian Al-Tabari into a tale of how the implausible continuity, but of the varied Beauvoir’s classical education: I dove into Sasanian shah founded a new city called and surprising ways in which the ancient the archives of the Biblothèque nation- Al-Rummiyah ('Roman') with the materi- city has exercised a hold over the imagi- ale and recovered her notebooks from als from Antioch and on its precise plan, nations of diverse times and cultures. Greek vocabulary class at the Sorbonne and annotations on a manuscript of The Second Sex.

Now I am turning to The Second Sex itself. I have chosen to focus on the idea that the mythical structure of patriarchy is a classical inheritance and how it lived on in our imaginations. I also wish to look beyond ancient Greece and Rome, and am in the process of contributing an article to a monograph spearheaded by Glenn Most and Michael Puett on wisdom literature in ‘East and West.’

I am deeply committed to making Classics a more inclusive discipline. To that end, I work as the Associate Editor of Eidolon, an online journal for public Classics scholarship, where we publish scholars at all levels and articles that are unabashedly political and personal, feminist and fun. At Cambridge, I am co-organizing (with Tim Whitmarsh) The remains of the Visigothic city of Reccopolis a conference on Classics and political extremism on 20 May. 3

2017 newsletter.indd 3 24/05/2017 11:43:18 Focus on Research THE LIBRARY Stephen Howe From time to time, we read reports that Statistics are always popular, so here are a few for a typical day in Term, libraries are dying, or that the book is ‘on Thursday 26 January 2017. its last legs’… Here at Classics, rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated! • Number of books on loan: 1,666 (out of a total of 60,000) Has the electronic age changed the way • Number of books not on loan, but the Library is used? Yes. We cleared 99 reserved on desks: 172 books from desks on Thursday morning…but only 5 journal volumes. ‘Online’ • Number of books borrowed: 98 has become the predominant method • Number of books returned: 116 Mark Darling for accessing articles in journals. On the I’m a second-year PhD student in the other hand, some journals remain print ‘E’ caucus of the faculty, working under only, and some readers prefer to check the supervision of Dr Torsten Meißner. references on the shelf, rather than on a study, is losing its appeal. There were 68 I completed my BA (2010-13) at Selwyn laptop. people working in the Library at 11:50 College and my MPhil (2014-15) at St Ed- on Thursday 26th January, and a credit- As regards books, at least half the titles mund’s, before moving back to Selwyn for able 53 at 16:20. Students come into the appearing on undergraduate reading my PhD. My interests are broadly in the Faculty to attend morning lectures and lists are available in print only. Set texts history of the Indo-European languages, afternoon supervisions – if they have a and commentaries (important for a with a particular focus on the historical spare hour, the Library is the obvious language-based degree such as Classics), phonology and morphology of the Italic, place to work. are usually print only. So, although the Greek, Celtic and Anatolian branches of advent of the eBook has reduced the The Faculty’s graduates are granted the the language family. number of loans, students continue to privilege of using the Library 24 hours My PhD looks at the development of the borrow large numbers of books. a day, and not surprisingly many of subjunctive and optative moods from them choose to make the Library their It is also a distinctive feature of the Hu- Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed main workplace, moving upstairs to the manities that undergraduates ‘disperse’ ancestor of the Indo-European languages, Museum when they supervise undergrad- across a wide range of titles. In the social into the daughter languages that we have uates. Librarians will be familiar with the sciences, by contrast, students use a small attested. I am particularly investigating phenomenon of ‘nesting’ in the Library. number of textbook titles intensively. how these forms are used in early Italic Clearing books from desks is complicat- If these are all available electronically, and Celtic legal texts, since legal texts are ed…unlike a conventional library, some then a sharp fall in library loans becomes generally linguistically conservative, and probable. readers are already in the Library when am currently creating a database of the Library staff arrive. On the other hand, contexts in which modal verb forms are There is certainly no sign that the Library, no-one can accuse the Classics Library of found in these texts. The ultimate aim of as a physical space dedicated to quiet being under-used! this is to examine the development over time of the usages of these forms, and to compare these developments with find- ings from typological surveys of languages more generally in order to establish how it is most likely that these forms were used in the parent language itself. This represents a departure from the tradition- al comparative method used in historical linguistics, as it takes into account the fact that the semantics connected with verbal forms change over time, and attempts to incorporate the fact that there are regular patterns to these changes into the reconstruction of the parent language.

Alongside my PhD studies, I supervise undergraduates in linguistics and philology. I also help fund my doctoral studies by singing as a tenor in the choir of Ely Cathedral, which provides a welcome Old and new come together in the Classics Faculty Library break from the faculty library! 4

2017 newsletter.indd 4 24/05/2017 11:43:19 The Faculty houses a project called ‘Greek Epic of the Roman Empire: A Cultural History’, funded by the Arts and Hu- IMPERIAL EPIC manities Research Council, which aims to reclaim and popularise this late epic. Prof. Tim Whitmarsh have become very used to thinking of More than that, as the subtitle suggests, Greek literature of the Roman Empire it seeks to use this neglected body of text When we think about Greek Epic, we as a window onto the preoccupations and usually think of the Homer’s Iliad and as dominated by prose literature. After motivations of Greeks in the Roman era: Odyssey. If we’re feeling contrary, we all, we tell ourselves, isn’t this the era of might offer Hesiod’sTheogony and Works the rhetoric-obsessed Second Sophistic? whether these were to do with gender and and Days. The learned might even suggest Wasn’t everyone going around declaiming sexuality (there is, predictably, a lot of the Shield of Heracles, or Apollonius’ Ar- in the manner of Demosthenes, in flaw- that), new questions about animal ethics and relationships to the environment, the gonautica. But the image in most people’s lessly imitated Attic Greek? It is very easy cultural identity of Greeks in a thorough- head remains, still, Homer. to get seduced by that image, which was ly Romanised world, or the tension be- By far the largest body of Greek epic po- in fact overstated by Victorian Romantics tween Greek polytheism and Christianity. etry that survives, however, survives from who wanted to decry all late literature as In addition to our academic publications, the time of the Roman Empire. Nonnus’ decadent and artificial. Poetry remained we are completing a 3-volume set of Dionysiaca alone has as many books at the heart of Greek literary culture from translations of the poems themselves – so (48) as the Iliad and the Odyssey put the beginning to … well, to the present there will shortly be no excuse at all for together – which is surely no accident. day. your not having read them! Undaunted, Nonnus proceeded to write 21 books of epic paraphrase of the Gospel of John – which means that we have 69 surviving books of his poetry alone (over 150,000 words). Although Nonnus is the best-preserved poet from the era (and from classical antiquity as a whole), he is far from alone in the field of imperial Greek epic: we know of over 800 poems and poets, and other surviving works include Musaeus’ Hero and Leander (an early Romeo and Juliet – and, I think, the model for David Bowie’s song ‘Heroes’ (get it?)), Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomer- ica, Oppian’s Halieutica, Triphiodorus’ Sack of Troy and much more.

That there is so much epic from this era The Triumph of Dionysus, from a third-century CE Roman sarcophagus, may surprise for a different reason. We now in the New York Metropolitan Museum

important, because we have no literature written in anything but Latin. They WELCOME TO . . . are known only from inscriptions on non-perishable materials - being able to Dr Nick Zair At school I was lucky enough to study understand what they say gives us an in- Latin at A-level and Greek, French sight into the history, law and religion of and Italian at GCSE. I knew I enjoyed ancient Italy from a completely different languages - the older and weirder the perspective. better! After considering ASNC at Cambridge, I chose to study Classics at My recent research has included try- Oxford, where I did all the linguistics/ ing to work out how Oscan speakers philology options I could, and then in the south of Italy decided to spell switched to linguistics for my Master’s their language when they borrowed the and Doctorate, with a particular focus alphabet from neighbouring Greeks, and on the Celtic languages (including Old what this tells us about contact between Irish, Middle Welsh and Gaulish). Oscans and Greeks; what Latin r really sounded like (think of English r - even I came to Cambridge in 2010 and since though we write it at the end of a syllable then I’ve been primarily working on the in words like car or better we often don’t Italic languages (Latin and its relatives pronounce it at all; and a Scottish r will in ancient Italy, primarily Oscan and sound different from a west-countryr ); Umbrian). The history and development and where the Romans got ursus, their of these latter languages is particularly word for ‘bear’, from.

2017 newsletter.indd 5 24/05/2017 11:43:20 BIBLE & ANTIQUITY Prof. Simon Goldhill Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

In the nineteenth century there were of Christianity was a complex business. two dominant ways of understanding On the one hand, Christianity prided the past: through the bible or through itself on rejecting the world of Greece classical antiquity. Both routes dominat- and Rome: no games, no sex, no slaves, ed the cultural imagination – and the no polytheism. On the other, Christianity education system, where Theology and was unthinkable without its Neo-Plato- Classics made up the two most popular nism or its Roman institutions. When the degrees. We might still be familiar with nineteenth century looked back, how did Matthew Arnold using ‘Hellenism and they shift the lens of these two visions to Hebraism’ as the matrix through which produce an image of the past? to understand the culture of the West, but we no longer live in a world where a For the last five years, I have headed a sermon could cause a riot, where classi- project, funded by the European Research cists and churchmen were celebrities, and Council, with eight post-doctoral fellows where a discovery such as Schliemann’s and five professors exploring exactly this excavation of Troy could lead to packed huge and fascinating question. It requires lectures across the country chaired by the a fully interdisciplinary team. We have In the British Museum: sages investigate the Ro- Prime Minister, or where the publication looked at how novels and poems explored setta Stone, the key to unlocking the hieroglyphs of the facsimile of the Codex Sinaiticus of ancient Egypt – the earliest text of the Bible – could be this sense of the past – more than 200 a best seller. But how did these two ways novels about the early Roman Empire of understanding the past – and through and its Christians were published after The theology of the German universities the past the cultural identity of the here Bulwer Lytton’s celebrated Last Days of and its reception in England is a particu- and now – interrelate? How did the Bible Pompeii; how the historiography of Jews, larly heady area – and we have investi- and the Classics fit together? The history Christians, Greeks and Romans pro- gated such surprising topics as the role of vided ways to think photography in the development of the about democracy, the sciences of antiquity, or the collectors of modern British Em- antiquities and their dynamic interaction pire, and the place of with new ideas of archaeology, or the multiple ways St Paul is thought to fit into religion in society. We Roman society. More than sixty publica- have had to look for tions have emerged – but perhaps more long happy hours at importantly, a whole group of younger stained glass windows, scholars have been equipped to explain where Christian saints to a modern society brought up on BBC emerge with classi- costume drama just how complex and cal bodies, or at the layered Victorian cultural life was, and, Pre-Raphaelite love of above all, how important classical antiq- classical beauty. uity and the Bible were for that era.

To find out more about the Bible and Antiquity in 19th-Century Culture Project visit: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/bible-antiquity

For the latest alumni news, online copies of previous Newsletters and Faculty podcasts, visit our alumni page: www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/alumni Classical figures used the public world of political comedy in Punch: Disraelius and Gladstonius in 1876

2017 newsletter.indd 6 24/05/2017 11:43:20 £14.99 This book provides a twenty-first century This book provides Britain, combining on Roman perspective current with the wealth of approaches from the province. archaeological material introduces the history ofThis volume and the cultural research into the province the beginning at and end ofchanges the period. The majority ofRoman the chapters to dealing with issues relating are thematic, the people of their identities the province, ofand ways life. Further chapters consider the characteristics of lived they the province and settlement in, such as the economy, patterns. This handbook reflects the new in Roman being developed approaches the study why and demonstrates archaeology, of Britain has become one of Roman the areas of The book most dynamic archaeology. academics and students will be useful for Britain. interested in Roman Martin Millet is a graduate of the University of Institute of London Archaeology with of from the University doctorate Has Oxford. of the Universities at worked Durham and in to Cambridge moving Southampton before in northern in fieldwork 2001. He is active and has previously and central Italy, England run His projects in Spain and Portugal. principal interests lie in the social and economic archaeology of world. the Roman Alison Moore is a graduate of the Universities of and Southampton with doctorate Kent offrom University Southampton. She has Southampton & Canterbury lectured at and her principal Christ Church University interest is social archaeology of the Roman and the lifecourse. Empire, age, is a Lecturer in History at Dr Louise Revell ofthe University Southampton. Her primary interest is in the impact of on the Rome of communities provincial the western empire. She currently hold a Getty as part ofFellowship the Arts of Rome’s workshop. Provinces t last, a clear manual for managing slaves the managing slaves t last, a clear manual for A Roman way. In How to Manage Your Slaves, Slaves, Your to Manage How In Roman way. advice, practical offers Falx Sidonius Marcus and how and how to buy slaves showing where how to explains them. He to get the best out of on guidance bad, offers from tell good slaves the and reveals miscreants, of the punishment covers He and authority. command of secrets should let when you the delicate subjects of and whether to engage in sex have slaves your when to – and considers them yourself with sex will this guide you Armed with set them free. household own home: your be master in your running the its family, to your will be a comfort neighbours. your of envy in the Roman institution was a core Slavery As they existence. long all its world for millions the Romans enslaved conquered, their this stock to maintain from and then bred almost never It peace. numbers in times of be might that slavery to anyone occurred was and to no one at all that it dispensed with to now ancient Up reprehensible. morally fathom: this to been difficult have may slavery the us to the heart of view takes Roman’s-eye original of matter and, based on a wealth slaves lets us understand just why sources, so much to the Romans. meant BY 24/05/2017 11:43:23 EDITED MARTIN MILLETT LOUISE REVELL ALISON MOORE

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Byzantine recognition Charalambos international of Bouras a scholar (1933-2016) was Professor 35 for Athens and Thessaloniki of in the Universities Architecture of History who taught Post- and a specialist as in Byzantine research breaking ground his to addition In years. ancient of to understanding the contributions also he made significant architecture, Byzantine the Acropolis of the Restoration for the Committee of the President was He architecture. the Benaki of Museum, Trustees the Board of of vice-president and a member and Monuments, of of edition English this preparation the final 2016 during in July passed away He Athens. . Athens Byzantine AFTER CLASSICS John Kittmer I seem, three decades later, to have been combining all three things with I left Cambridge in 1988, after completing reasonable success. At first, I did my BA in Classics. The requirements doctoral work in Classics at Oxford of the two parts of the Classics Tripos and then, on and off, spent a decade were stretching, exhausting even. But I or so working on domestic policy in had had the most wonderful time (the various Government departments. In Faculty was mind-awakeningly vibrant December 2016, I completed a four- and creative) and did well academically, year term as British Ambassador to broadening my intellectual horizons and acquiring curiosity for knowledge across Greece, and am now back in London the disciplines. I was also able – thanks to on my fifth diplomatic posting. university and college grants – to travel Since habits learned at Cambridge die extensively in Greece and Italy. I had, hard, I am also, in the early and late somewhat lazily, started to formalise and hours of the day, writing a PhD on the improve my knowledge of modern Greek. Greek poet, Yannis Ritsos. Cambridge All of this would turn out to be of great Classics not only grounded me in the importance to me. achievements of the Greeks across In my last term or so, I was trying to time, but also encouraged multifar- decide whether to pursue a PhD or a iousness, pluralism and respect for career in the diplomatic or broader civil knowledge in all its fields. To the service. My hesitations then may, from Faculty itself, and my teachers and one point of view, have simply become friends there, I extend my abiding John Kittmer on top of Mt Taygetos a lifetime’s pattern of indecisiveness, but gratitude.

ing working locally and nationally on prostitution, mental health and counter-terrorism because others believed my training was transferable. Yet it took until I hit 30 for me to realise I didn’t know I had an offer for Natural anyone’s world better than them and Sciences, but our brains, that simply asking questions can help us background, teachers and improve our lives and the lives of others. temperament decide 95% Taking this to the extreme I started a of our lives and I realised charity in a prison, Coaching Inside and I couldn’t give up Latin Out, to coach women, men and children after translating Catullus’s as I would you – as equals – without lament for his dead brother giving any advice whatsoever. Turns out in my A-level exam. Fortu- Socrates was onto something after all. nately, Mary Beard thought me ‘interesting’ and is I now use comedy and tragedy to prompt always up for a challenge. people to think about justice; giving talks and writing (including the book I tried to I never mastered Greek and call Shit at Shoplifting that became Coach- my first essay came back ing Behind Bars). We encourage others to with as much red ink on it coach wherever hope is lost too. as black - but I loved argu- ing, and discussing power Pandora may have slammed her box shut and fate near rough-sleep- but there’s more potential in every prison ers on King’s Parade nur- than any Cambridge college and coaching tured a sense of injustice can help unlock it for the benefit of us all. that led to nightshifts in Wintercomfort’s shelter, where I saw luck’s part in Potential students are more and more who was in lectures and concerned about the career prospects who was on the streets. of a Classics degree. If you can help us encourage them by sharing your story c Hence my spending 25 please email: Clare M Gregor years improving services for people in crisis, includ- [email protected]

2017 newsletter.indd 8 24/05/2017 11:43:25 THE MUSEUM Focus on Research

George Medvedev My PhD project focuses on Aristotle’s thesis that Being (to on) does not con- stitute a single genus. This situates my research at the intersection of Aristotle’s Meet the Romans event, Summer at the Museums 2016 dialectic (we would call it ‘logic’) and ontology (talk about what really ‘is’). I Sophie Hawkins on offer; from the ever popular ‘Drink am currently working out a new reading & Draw’ to a pop-up apothecary for of the proof given at Met. B 3, 998b22- The Museum of Classical Archaeology is children learning about ancient medicine. 28, which I hope to publish as a separate a small museum that punches well above Many of these events feed into Cam- article. On my reading, the proof rests its weight. Having been in the post of bridge-wide programmes, such as Festival maternity cover Curator for just over two of Ideas, ensuring we fully participate on two pillars of Aristotle’s logic from months, this has been my resounding in the impressive cultural and academ- the Organon. The first is that if Socrates impression of the incredible Cast Gallery ic calendar of Cambridge. All of this is is an animal, he is therefore some species that sits at the heart of the Faculty of achieved with just three members of staff of animal, and the second is that it is Classics. and a growing team of volunteers. wrong to say ‘all animals are men’ (i.e. it is wrong to predicate a thing with a nar- During 2016, the Museum welcomed Of course, everything we do is under- rower extension of a thing with a greater over 15,000 visitors. This included over pinned by a love of the collection and 3,600 school children and nearly 2,800 an ambition to make it as accessible extension). In this connection I am visits by Faculty members, all making use and engaging as possible. Luckily, the currently preparing a separate paper on of this bright and busy space. The Muse- collection rather lends itself to that. The the ‘belonging further’ requirement at An. um averages three temporary exhibitions first question that visitors often ask as Post. II 13 (which is that for any essential a year, supporting the work of local artists they walk through the door and are met predicate Y to belong to a thing X, Y must and Faculty members alike. If you’re by the Sounion Kouros towering above belong to some other thing within the around Cambridge, or follow us online, them is…“are they real?”. There is never same genus). you’ll be familiar with the eye-catching a sense of disappointment when you ex- publicity designed by Hannah. Our Edu- plain that they’re looking at plaster casts, I also side with those who think that cation and Outreach Coordinator Jennie rather excitement to be able to see over the thesis that Being is not a genus is an is equally creative in the range of events 450 examples of some of the most famous important starting-point of Aristotle’s Classical sculpture under one glass roof. ontology. On my reading, the proposition Students are able to chart the progression ‘Being is not a genus’ entails ‘being is of sculptural styles from the knowing said in many ways’. It therefore motivates smiles of the archaic kouroi to the con- the doctrine of the irreducibly different torted musculature of the Laocoön. categories of being (and answers some of The Museum’s tag line is that every cast our questions about it). It is, moreover, has two stories, one ancient and one an important but overlooked chapter in modern. Over the next seven months I Aristotle’s polemic with Plato and his will aim to delve into as many of these theory of the ‘greatest genera’ that we find stories as possible. I am particularly lucky in the Sophist. Since Aristotle’s proof is to be here at this time, as there are plenty premised on the logic of the genus-spe- of exciting things in the pipeline. Our next exhibition Lost, by Issam Kourbaj, cies relations, one wonders whether his opens on the 21st of April and in June our departure from Plato in this instance own Dr Hannah Price will be exploring should not be attributed to his different Classical connections with ancient India, view on the theory of definition through Lemnian Athenas in the Cast Gallery for Imagining India. Watch this space! division (as stated at P. A. I 2-4). 9

2017 newsletter.indd 9 24/05/2017 11:43:25 Focus on Research CLASSICS IN CHINA Prof. Geoffrey Lloyd What are classicists doing studying ancient China? How could that conceiv- ably be relevant to our work trying to get to grips with what was happening in the ancient Mediterranean world?

One type of answer some might offer is to point out that there were eventually certain contacts between the ancient Chi- Maya Feile Tomes nese and the Roman empires involving the movement of goods and people and After 8 years in Cambridge, 7.5 of some mutual curiosity. But my answer them working from home, I was finally proceeds rather differently. Sir Geoffrey Lloyd converted to life in the library when a de- parting friend vacated and ‘bequeathed’ What I am interested in, as a historian of find that their key concepts and methods to me her lovely spot on the peerless Desk philosophy and science, is how differ- differ quite markedly from Greek ones. 13. It is a window seat, facing in what I ently those pursuits were practised in They have a very different set of ideas about showing, that is demonstrating, very much hope is the direction of travel, the Greco-Roman world and in China. their results. They set about explaining on the side still fondly known as the Some might immediately start worrying the world around them in terms of inter- non-laptop side. (Computing regulations whether what the Chinese were doing can acting processes, but had no exact equiva- have changed, but the split between the be counted as ‘philosophy’ and ‘science’ lent to the Greek notion of ‘nature’. historically laptop and non-laptop sides in the first place. Some have argued that lives on.) It has been an unexpected the Chinese did not have philosophy, they The great benefit of comparing differ- pleasure to join the daily library-using just had wisdom. But that is to discount ent ancient civilisations is to teach us community, making new friends, invest- the very extensive discussions of the good that what we might take for granted as ing in serious beverage-making technol- life in Chinese texts that surely consti- inevitable features of ancient Greek and ogies for break times–and actually being tute contributions to what we call moral Roman societies and of their intellectual able to look up all my references instead philosophy. Similarly ‘science’, whether pursuits turn out to be anything but - of accumulating endless post-it notes ancient or modern, should not be defined which leads us into a whole series of im- reminding me one day to do so. Perhaps in terms of results, so much as in terms of portant questions about why that should most importantly, it has enabled me to aims and methods. be so. What, for example, might be the feel rooted in the final stages of a PhD impact of the very different political insti- that spans a number of different areas. We can study how the Chinese set about tutions in different ancient societies? observing, explaining, predicting the My research concerns the reception of physical world around them and compare For some of the answers you may consult the Classical tradition in Latin America and contrast that with how the Greeks Ancient Greece and China Compared, during the sixteenth to eighteenth centu- and Romans did that. But if we do, we forthcoming from CUP. ries and how the ‘discovery’ of the New World was represented in early modern Ibero-American Latin-language poetry (because yes, there was early Ibero-Amer- ican Latin-language poetry, and lots of it). Specifically, I am interested in how Clas- sical concepts and frameworks came to be expanded and revised in colonial-era literary culture in order to ‘accommodate’ a continent of which the ancient Med- iterranean peoples who first developed that culture had, needless to say, no idea. In other words: how do you say ‘America’ in Latin? More broadly, I am interested in the interaction between all the literary languages of the Iberian imperial world— Spanish, Latin, Portuguese—and how these combine to form a single tradition of Iberian epic poetry. It is this which I hope to continue to research in the ‘Waves’ by Song dynasty painter Ma Yuan. Image courtesy of the Palace Museum in Beijing future—at Desk 13 or otherwise. 10

2017 newsletter.indd 10 24/05/2017 11:43:26 highlights, from Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Thucydides and Plato to some gems from Pastures New the Greek Anthology. I also tested them on principal parts (everyone’s favourite!) and vocabulary each week; the courses generated credit for each student within the SYSU system.

I was able to conduct every session in English, naturally, though I did pick up a little bit of the language myself: after our Ancient Greek sessions together I would frequently ask a couple of the students to teach me some Mandarin; they all refused payment but allowed me to purchase snacks! The students were all diligent and attentive; the teaching was delightful. Max Kramer The university generously housed my partner and me in a nearby block of flats According to Zenobius, Archilochus once said, ‘the fox knows many things, on the very large and beautiful campus; but the hedgehog knows one great thing,’ we frequently cooked for ourselves there and if Isaiah Berlin is right that these but one of the greatest thrills of visiting different approaches to life can be applied Guangzhou was of course exploring the figuratively to human beings, then I am street food, the markets, the restaurants, certainly one of nature’s foxes. Canton Tower the culture and the city itself. The last three years working in the The main campus of SYSU is positioned Classics Faculty have given me plenty of right on the Pearl River (not dissimilar Dr Charlie Weiss opportunities to indulge my foxy nature. to the Thames running through the heart In the summers of 2014 and 2015 I had Here my work has included editing this of London), not very far from Guang- the privilege and pleasure of being a Newsletter, the day to day organisation of zhou’s famous Canton Tower. We covered Senior Residential Scholar at Sun Yat-sen the Tripos, making a short documentary many miles on foot exploring the city but film about the Greek Lexicon Project, University in Guangzhou, China (old Guangzhou is twice the size of London, ‘Canton’). The invitation came through looking after our Visiting Scholars and housing some 15 million people (depend- Students, launching our social media the graces of a visiting student, Weimo ing on how you count), third in China activities, building relationships with Liu (Newnham), who studied Ancient only to Beijing and Shanghai. Classics charities and schools, and—the Greek with me in the Faculty and eventu- highlight of my time here—revamping Needless to say, the experience was ally took an MPhil in Classics. our Access & Outreach programme. life-changing and hugely stimulating: it Alongside this, I’ve also thoroughly In both summers I taught Ancient Greek has been a thrill to see how Classics can enjoyed teaching Classicists and Theolo- in medium-sized classes to mainly inter- fascinate across the world, and no less a gians Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, being an mediate undergraduates, with a few grad- thrill to think about what we teach and Affiliated Lecturer in Divinity, running a uate students sprinkled in here and there. love from a completely different set of Seminar on Hellenistic Jewish Literature, In the space of five weeks we analysed perspectives. I was invited back to con- and serving as Assistant Priest in Little and translated together a variety of An- duct some reading classes in Greek Lyric St Mary’s Church. As you can probably cient Greek texts, some of my favourite this April. imagine, some weeks the singly-focussed life of the hedgehog has seemed rather appealing, but in my heart of hearts I know that foxes have more fun.

After a very happy time in Cambridge, though, it is time to move on, and I am delighted to have been appointed Precentor of Canterbury Cathedral. This involves singing the daily services and being responsible for organising the Cathedral’s liturgical life. I’m very much looking forward to reconnecting with my musical interests, and there are two schools on site, two Universities nearby—one of which has a Classics Depart- ment—and a Lottery-funded Cathedral outreach programme just beginning. So Shamian Island in Guangzhou I am sure that my polypragmosyne will soon re-assert itself there! 11

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in Greco-Roman RINNE Roman Republic LIBA TAUB is Director Greco-Roman Antiquity ment and planning by projecting its own past onto the city of the moment. 4. Big Men on the Campus and Curator of the Whipple Greece and Rome were5. Res quintessentially Publica Restituta urban Museum and Head of the This is a study of the urban processes by which Rome’s people and leaders, both as 6. Memorials in Motion: Spectacle in the City Roman RepublicDepartment of History and societies. Ancient culture, politics and society The Ancient City The politics of the Roman Republic has in Antiquity custodians of its illustrious past and as agents of its expansive power, have shaped 7. The Concrete Style Philosophy of Science at the We access Greek and Roman scientific ideas and conditioned its urban fabric by manipulating geography and organizing space; arose and developed8. inRemaking the context Rome’s of Public the polis Core: I recent decades been the subject of intense University of Cambridge; she | 9. Remaking Rome’s Public Core: II

mainly through those texts which happen to KOSTOF is also a Fellow of Newnham planning infrastructure; designing and presiding over mythmaking, ritual, and and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the Politics the in Roman Republic HENRIK MOURITSEN City Ancient The ARJAN ZUIDERHOEK debate, covering issues such as the degree of 10. Crisis and Continuity

Science Writing in Greco-Roman LIBA TAUB College. She was awarded survive. By concentrating only on the ideas stagecraft; controlling resident and transient populations; and exploiting Rome’s ancient city has been the subject of intense democracy and popular influence, ‘parties’ an Einstein Foundation standing as a seat of global power and a religious capital. 11. Rus In Urbe: A Garden City conveyed, we may limit our understanding of debates due to the strong12. Administration, association Infrastructure, in Western and Disposal and ideology, politics as public ritual, and Visiting Fellowship to work with the Topoi Excellence the meaning of those ideas in their historical thought between urbanism,of the Dead capitalism and the character of Rome’s political culture. This Cluster (Berlin), and was the 13. Mapping, Zoning, and Sequestration context. Through considering the diverse ways Rabun Taylor is Associate Professor of classics at the University of Texas at Austin. modernity. In this book Arjan Zuiderhoek

recipient of the Joseph H. K HENRIK MOURITSEN is engaging book examines all these issues afresh, He has published articles in the American Journal of Archaeology, the Journal 14. Tetrarchic and Constantinian Rome Y Hazen Education Prize of the in which scientific ideas were communicated, in provides a survey of15. the Trophies main andissues Tituli at: Christianstake in Infrastructure Professor of Roman History at of the Society of Architectural Historians, the Journal of Roman Archaeology, ARJAN ZUIDERHOEK is and presents an original synthesis of Rome’s M History of Science Society and King’s College London. He has different types of texts, we can uncover otherwise Before Constantine a University of Cambridge C and Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. His books include Public Associate Professor of Ancient these debates, as well as a sketch of the chief published widely on aspects of political institutions and practices. It begins History at the Department of 16. Walls Make Christians: from Fourth to Fifth

Pilkington Prize for excellence hidden meanings and more fully comprehend Needs and Private Pleasures: Water Distribution, the Tiber River, and the Urban ROME ROME Roman history from local and characteristics of Greek and Roman cities. He JKT History of Ghent University. Century by explaining the development of the Roman in teaching. She is the author Development of Ancient Rome (2000) and Roman Builders: A Study in Architec- republican politics to slavery, the historical contexts in which those ideas He is author of The Politics argues that the ancient Greco-Roman city was of Ptolemy’s Universe: The tural Process (2003). 17. A Tale of Two Romes HISTORY manumission, and epigraphy. constitution over time before turning to the HISTORY An Urban Historyof Munificence in the Roman 18. The Rome of Goths and Byzantines

Natural Philosophical and were produced and shared, the aims of the HISTORY

indeed a highly specific form of urbanism, His books include Elections, ROME

Empire: Citizens, Elites and practical functioning of the Republic, focusing Ethical Foundations of 19. Christian Foundations –

Magistrates and Municipal Elite authors and the expectations of ancient readers. Katherine W. Rinne is an independent scholar and lecturer at the University of Ptolemy’s Astronomy (1993), Benefactors in Asia Minor but that this does not20. Fromimply that the ancient to (1988), Italian Unification particularly on the role of the populus Romanus California at Berkeley and Adjunct Professor of architecture at California College of Domus Laterani Romanum Palatium Ancient Meteorology (2003), Professor Taub explores the rich variety of (Cambridge, 2009) and (1998), Plebs and Politics city was somehow ‘superior’21. The Leonine or ‘inferior’ City: St. Peter’s to and the Borgo and the way its powers were expressed in the and Aetna and the Moon: the Arts. Her book The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the from Antiquityeditor, with Paul toErdkamp in the Late Roman Republic formats used to discuss scientific, mathematical 22. Via Papalis, the Christian Decumanus Explaining Nature in Ancient Baroque City won the 2011 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Prize for Landscape History and Koenraad Verboven, of forms of urbanism in other societies, just (Cambridge, 2001), and The popular assemblies. Henrik Mouritsen concludes 23. The Urban Theaters of Imperium and SPQR Greece and Rome (2008). and technical subjects, from c. 700 BCE to the from the Foundation for Landscape Studies and the 2012 Spiro Kostof Award for Ownership and Exploitation of Freedman in the Roman World (interestingly) different.24. Housing The book Daily Lifeis aimed by exploring continuity and change in Roman Urban History from the Society of Architectural Historians. She is Project Director Land and Natural Resources in (Cambridge, 2011). sixth century CE. Each chapter concentrates on the Roman World (2015). primarily at students25. of Chaos ancient in the history Fortified and City politics as well as the process by which the for Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome. the Present Cover image: Cover image: a particular genre – poetry, letter, encyclopaedia, general readers, but26. also The at Tiber scholars River working republican system was eventually replaced by Alexander of Aphrodisias and 27. Humanist Rome, Absolutist Rome (1420–1527) Cover image: Roman coin. commentary and biography – offering an Spiro Kostof (1936–1991) was Professor of architecture at the University of Cover image: t on urbanism in other periods and places. ANCIENT Aristotle by Andrea Briosco, ANCIENT Denarius of Cassius Longinus, 28. Planning Counter Reformation Rome monarchy. This original and readable book ANCIENT 9781107013995 TAYLOR

16th century plaquette © bpk introduction to Greek and Roman scientific ideas, California at Berkeley and one of the foremost architectural and urban historians Extension of the written ballot, 29. Processions and Populations will be important for all students and scholars / Skulpturensammlung und of the twentieth century. His books include A History of Architecture: Settings and 137 B.C. Photo by: Photo12/ while using a selection of ancient writings to 30. Magnificent Palaces and Rhetorical Churches Museum für Byzantinische Rituals (1985), The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings through History IN UIG via Getty Images. of Roman history and of politics in general. IN 31. Neoclassical Rome

Kunst, SMB / Antje Voigt. focus on the ways in which we encounter them. (1991), and The City Assembled: ElementsIN of Urban Form through History (1992).

32. Picturing Rome His previously unpublished Mathews Lectures at Columbia University, delivered in 33. Revolution and Risorgimento 1976, form the foundation of the middle section of this book. 34. Italian Nationalism and Romanità 35. A City Turned Inside Out THEMES THEMES THEMES

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Henrik Mouritsen, Liba Taub, Rabun Taylor, Arjan Zuiderhoek, King’s College London University of Cambridge University of Texas, Austin Universiteit Gent, Belgium £18.99 £15 £18.99 £15 Katherine Wentworth Rinne, £18.99 £15 University of California, Berkeley Spiro Kostof, University of California, Berkeley £24.99 £19 Lorenz THE COMPANION CAMBRIDGE TO This Companion, the first dedicated to the philosopher and historian Xenophon of Athens, When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a gives readers a sense of why he has held such a prominent place in literary and political particular method – and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical culture from antiquity to the present and has been a favourite author of individuals as diverse THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO experimentation on three types of mythological imagery – a classical Greek pot, a Ancient Mythological as Machiavelli, Thomas Jefferson, and Leo Tolstoy. It also sets out the major problems and HARRIS frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century-CE Roman sarcophagus issues that are at stake in the study of his writings, while simultaneously pointing the way eInterpretation Their and Images pupil Mythological Ancient of extraordinary Oxford teachers, W. V. Harris e Roman Empire was one of the largest and most e long-term evolution of Roman power – enables Katharina Lorenz to demonstrate how theoretical approaches to images Images and forward to newer methodologies, issues, and questions. Although Xenophon’s historical, counts himself fortunate to have escaped at the age of enduring in world history. In his new book, distinguished philosophical, and technical works are usually studied in isolation because they belong to (specifically, iconology, semiotics, and image studies) impact the meanings we twenty-six to the hyper-stimulating environments of e Romans against outsiders, different modern genres, the emphasis here is on themes that cut across his large and varied historian William Harris sets out to explain, within an to elicit from Greek and Roman art. A guide to classical images of myth and also a New York City and the ColumbiaTheir University History Interpretation body of writings. This volume is accessible to students and general readers, including those critical history of classical archaeology’s attempts to give meaning to pictures, this previously unfamiliar with Xenophon, and will also be of interest to scholars in various fields. Department. e author of War and Imperialism in eclectic theoretical framework, the waxing and eventual e Romans against each other, from

book establishes a dialogue with the wider field of art history and proposes a new Republican Rome, Ancient Literacy, Restraining Rage: POWER ROMAN contents An Introduction to Iconology,waning of Roman imperial power, together with the republic to monarchy framework for the study of ancient visual culture. It will be essential reading not the Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity Introduction michael a. flower Roman community’s internal power structures (political part i contexts just for students of classical art history and archaeology, but for anyone interested (which won the Breasted PrizeSemiotics, of the American and Image Studies e Romans against outsiders, to 1 Xenophon and his times john w. i. lee in the possibilities – and the history – of studying visual culture. Historical Association), Dreams and Experience in power, social power, gender power, economic power). 2 Xenophon and Greek philosophy louis-andré dorion in Classical Art History e Romans against each other: from 3 Xenophon and Greek political thought sarah brown ferrario Classical Antiquity, and Rome’s Imperial Economy, he E ectively integrating analysis with a compelling empire to nation? 4 Xenophon’s place in fourth-century Greek historiography nino luraghi Katharina Lorenz is Associate Professor in Classical Studies in the Department has also edited books about ancient money, the ancient part ii individual works xenophon narrative, he traces this linkage between the external and of Classics and Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the University of Mediterranean, and the spread of Christianity, among e Romans against outsiders, 5 Xenophon’s Anabasis and Hellenica john marincola Katharina Lorenz the internal through three very long periods, and part 6 Xenophon’s Apology and Memorabilia david m. johnson Nottingham. Her main research interest is in the methodologies for the study of other subjects. Among other honours, he is a Fellow to 7 Xenophon’s Symposium gabriel danzig Classical art and their implications for historical understanding. She is the author of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a of the originality of the book is that it almost uniquely 8 Xenophon’s Oeconomicus fiona hobden of Bilder machen Räume. Mythenbilder in pompeianischen Häusern (Berlin, 2008) e Romans against each other in two 9 Xenophon’s Cyropaedia: tentative answers to an enigma melina tamiolaki Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. considers both the gradual rise of the Roman Empire and 10 Xenophon: the small works john dillery and has published widely on Greek and Roman visual narrative, Roman painting long crises part iii techniques and the domestic context, art historiography and intellectual history, and digital its demise as an empire in the h and seventh centuries 11 Xenophon’s language and expression vivienne gray ROMAN Retrospect and some re ections 12 Xenophon’s authorial voice christopher pelling heritage engagement. . Professor Harris contends that comparing the Romans 13 Xenophon’s narrative style tim rood of these diverse periods sharply illuminates both the 14 The character and function of speeches in Xenophon emily baragwanath part iv major subjects xenophon growth and the shrinkage of Roman power as well as the 15 Xenophon as a historian michael a. flower 16 Xenophon on leadership richard fernando buxton empire’s extraordinary durability. POWER 17 Xenophon and Athens christopher tuplin A THOUSAND YEARS OF EMPIRE 18 Xenophon on Persia kostas vlassopoulos Edited by Michael A. Flower 19 Xenophon’s views on Sparta paul christesen part v reception and influence 20 Xenophon’s influence in Imperial Greece ewen bowie : Harris : Jacket : C M Y K 21 Xenophon and the instruction of princes noreen humble W. V. HARRIS 22 Xenophon’s changing fortunes in the modern world tim rood epilogue 23 Xenophon: magician and friend edith hall Important dates in the life of Xenophon

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