Volume Sixteen Summer 2009 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/classics/Newsletter

had 45 students in the MA and PhD pro- Ex Ca t h e d r a grams combined, a number that will grow No r w o o d a n d to over 50 next year) in accordance with A s my first year in three objectives: to continue to recruit the Vo r r e s Re p o r t s administrative office most talented students despite the ongo- in Classics draws to Thanks to the generous support of the ing retreat of language training around Norwood and Vorres foundations the a close, it is an hon- the world; to enhance breadth of training our and a privilege Department was able to fund the travel through varied coursework; and to offer abroad of three graduate students last sum- to speak from the intensive training in professional-level chair. Having suc- mer. David Cuff and Marie-Pierre Krück practice in a variety of styles of classical used the Norwood to travel to Germany cessfully completed research. the move into the and the Vorres Scholarship allowed Chris Wallace to journey to . Lillian Massey Building in 2007-08, the The Department will be working closely Department has settled comfortably into with the Faculty of Arts and Science and this glorious new space. Our website will Marie-Pierre spent six weeks studying at the School of Graduate Studies next year the Goethe Institut in both Bonn and Wei- soon reflect our changed circumstances, to implement the new program in 2010- as Professor Dimitri Nakassis (new this mar. David spent time primarily in Köln, 2011. I am particularly grateful to the where, at the generous invitation of Pro- year – see profile on page 2) is redesigning members of the committee, Professors our homepage to feature the new building, fessor Werner Eck, he conducted research Bruun, Lytle, Magee, and Wohl, as well as at the Institut für Altertumskunde. with the help of our graduate computer as- the graduate student members, Jackie Neel sistant, Kevin Lawson. I invite friends of (Classics ColPAH) and Jessica Westerhold David also visited museums and archaeo- the department to drop by the Department (Classics & CWGS), for their energy, hard in person or check out the new website. logical sites at Köln, Bonn, Mainz, Nijme- work and creative thinking. gen, and Trier, documenting the rich his- The main focus of the Department’s atten- tory of Roman military occupation along Next year’s task will be a thorough review the Rhine frontier. That history includes tion this year has been on strengthening of our undergraduate classical civilization our programs, both graduate and under- the oldest Latin inscription from Germany, and language programs, in conjunction the epitaph of Marcus Caelius, a native of graduate. We conducted a thorough review with the implementation of a new Arts and of the ‘new’ graduate program, now ten Bononia killed at the battle of the Teuto- Science undergraduate curriculum, and in burg forest (CIL 13.8648, see below). years old, in the light of the University’s preparation for that exercise we reviewed recent commitment to guaranteed gradu- course content and delivery at entry and ate funding and current encouragement of exit levels this past year. graduate expansion. Faculty and graduate students worked together to revise our Our undergraduate programs continue to growing graduate program (this year we thrive. This year the Department gradu- ated 77 majors and minors and taught In this issue over 1,200 FCEs. For the first time ever, Ex Cathedra...... 1 in 2008-2009 we were able to offer bi- Norwood & Vorres Reports...... 1 weekly tutorials in our introductory course New Faculty & PhD...... 2 (CLA160H), and on the basis of this successful pilot project we have received All Roads Lead to Rome...... 2 financial support from the Faculty of Arts Peter Derow in Toronto...... 3 and Science to implement weekly tutorials Tombstone of M. Caelius (Photo credit: D. Cuff) Contact & Credits...... 4 continued on page four continued on page three Ne w Fa c u l t y Ne w Ph d Dimitri Nakassis' research primarily focuses on ear- Congratulations to Jonathan Tracy, who ly Greek history and archaeology. His dissertation defended his doctoral dissertation on (University of Texas at Austin, 2006) was a pros- “Science, Egypt, and Escapism in Lucan” opographical study of named individuals from the (supervised by Professor Michael Dewar) Linear B texts from Pylos and an analysis of their on 12 December 2008 and received his role in the Mycenaean state. That project is being doctorate at the SGS Convocation cer- revised and supplemented for publication. Dimitri’s emony on 17 June 2009. fieldwork has ranged over much of Greece, includ- ing projects on Crete, Lesbos and Corfu and in l l o a d s Messenia, Nemea and the Korinthia. He is currently A R involved in the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project, which is in its 6th year of fieldwork and its Le a d To Ro m e 2nd year of excavation of three sites near Larnaca, In May 2008, thanks in large part to a Cyprus. He has published on Aegean scripts, very generous subvention from the Uni- Homer, and archaeological survey, and is currently versity of Toronto’s “International Course working on articles on Greek religion, Mycenaean Module” funds, Professor Christer Brruun political economy, and Mycenaean feasting. led a group of Classics undergraduates to Rome for an 11-day course on the “Mon- Katherine Blouin has a Ph.D. in Roman uments and History of .” History (Laval and Nice, 2006). Her work centers on Roman Egypt, more specifi- For Professor Bruun it was a chance to cally on issues dealing with multicul- introduce 10 interested students (see turalism, cultural identities and ancient photo at lower left) to a city he knows environments. Her current research seeks well, having lived there for eight years, to establish how the fluvial and alimen- including from 1997-2000 as Director tary risk management strategies and poli- of the Finnish Institute. Professor Bruun cies adopted during the Hellenistic and reports that the students were not only Roman periods in the Nile Delta and in well-prepared by his “Classical Sites: The areas upstream played a role in the major City of Rome” course the previous Fall, hydrographic reconfiguration of the Nile but that they brought an enthusiasm to Delta that occurred between the Roman match his own: conquest and the Arab period. In seeking to better understand the history of this too little known yet extremely significant region, Katherine combines traditional training in papy- “On the first full day we set out at 9 a.m., rology with a host of innovative and interdisciplinary approaches. and at 4 p.m., outside the Ara Pacis muse- um, I remarked that we ought also to have visited the Mausoleum of Hadrian, but it was late and the students surely wanted to call it a day. Really? they said, and so we went on for another 2 hours and that set the pace for the rest of the course.”

Professor Bruun also reports that the most gratifying part of the trip was witnessing how the first-hand experience of explor- ing the monuments of ancient Rome in their vibrant, living contexts changed the way his students viewed Roman history and the Classics. Emilia Barbiero, now a graduate student in the department, describes her experience:

“Last May, I had the pleasure of going to Rome with Professor Bruun for a course UofT Classics undergraduates posing amid the ruins at Ostia (Photo credit: Professor Bruun) continued on page three 2 Al l Ro a d s Le a d t o Ro m e Vo r r e s Re p o r t continued from page two De r o w Th i n g continued from page one on Roman topography. It was not my first Thanks to the generosity of the Vorres time to Italy or to Rome: I spent a semes- Foundation, fourth year graduate student ter as an exchange student at Rome’s La Chris Wallace was able to pay for air- Sapienza and have been to Rome many fare to Greece and tuition for six weeks times otherwise. It was therefore quite a of study in the summer program of the surprise for me to learn on this trip that I American School of Classical Studies at in fact did not know Rome nearly as well . Chris offers some impressions: as I thought I did. “The American School program comprises Our group spent ten days walking the an intensive introduction to the history of entire city. No museum or monument was Greek art and the major monuments of neglected and our course went far beyond Greek civilisation. It includes visits to all the usual Colosseum, Roman Forum of the major sites and museums in main- and Pantheon. We walked the Via Appia land Greece and Crete under the guidance and spent a day wandering through the of respected academics, and research In December the new space in Lillian Massey catacombs of Saint Callistus, we climbed papers by participants in the program. co-hosted (with York University) its first Classics the Aventine Hill and admired the wooden conference, Slaves in Attic Comedy, organized by doors and Roman pillars in the Basilica of Professors Ben Akrigg and Rob Tordoff (York). The program was both fun and very use- Santa Sabina and we descended into the ful. Even those sites that initially seemed Mithraeum under the Basilica of San Cle- to have little to do with my own research mente, to name only a few of our stops. Pe t e r De r o w interests have proved useful. The numer- ous visits to Minoan palaces, for example, Nor were our itineraries limited to the In To r o n t o have left me much better equipped to sights of ancient Rome: Professor Bruun A conference was held in Wadham Col- lecture about the Bronze Age. walked us through Rome as she is today lege, Oxford on 2-4 April to honour the after more than two millenia of inhabita- memory of Peter Derow, at which Profes- But the highlight for me was Delphi. The tion. Our walks were centered on the sor Emeritus Timothy Barnes spoke on natural beauty of the site and the surviv- neighbourhoods of Rome and Professor ‘Peter Derow in Toronto.’ ing monuments are equally impressive. I Bruun’s lectures pointed out features of spent a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon every era in a particular quarter. Thus we Derow joined the Department of Classics with my new friends roaming the grounds saw how the Theatre of Pompey, though at University College in 1969 while still of the sanctuary deciphering some of the itself no longer visible, has been built a PhD candidate at Princeton. He would inscribed offerings. The monument of into the cityscape and the modern palazzo continue to teach at the University of Philopoemen sparked a lively discussion curves along with Rome’s first stone the- Toronto until 1977, when he departed for about and the place of education atre. Professor Bruun thus painted a vivid Oxford. There he had a remarkably suc- in hellenistic culture. More generally, it picture of how Rome really is an eternal cessful career as a tutor in Ancient History was a fantastic opportunity to take a closer city, quilted together seamlessly by count- at Wadham College until his unexpected look at a wealth of ancient material and less generations. death in December 2006. discuss it with both experts and young scholars.” I expected to spend May in Italy among But according to Professor Barnes, “It was the bougainvillea reviewing what I had Peter’s eight years at Toronto that not only spent the last four years of my degree laid the foundations, but also built most of studying. Instead, I spent ten days revolu- the superstructure for his astonishing suc- tionizing my idea of Rome and of Roman cess as an Oxford tutor.” Professor Barnes civilization. No longer did I see Rome as further notes that Derow produced the shoved into two bookends from the regal balance of his most important scholarly period to the fall of the Empire but I came research while in Toronto. Derow even to see Rome as she really is: A dynamic presented in a series of seminars in the city that has survived era after era, emerg- academic year 1974-1975 much of the ma- ing as a wonderful mix of the ancient, the terial later published in his classic article medieval, the baroque, the modern and ‘Polybius, Rome and the East’ (JRS 1979). everything in between. Roma capoccia, A full text of Professor Barnes’ remarks indeed!” will be published in the projected volume of papers delivered at the conference. Temple of Apollo at Delphi (Photo: E. Lytle) 3 and he has two more notes and two major Finally, three highly valued and distin- Ex Ca t h e d r a articles forthcoming in equally prestigious guished emeritus colleagues died in the continued from page one venues. His appointment complements course of the last year: Alan Samuel, in CLA160H, starting next year. I am es- existing faculty strength in Greek drama D.F.S. Thomson, and M.B. Wallace. The pecially grateful to Professor Hugh Mason and Roman literature. Department honoured these distinguished for his extraordinary efforts in developing colleagues with memorial resolutions in the tutorial assignments and working with It is with mixed emotions that I report national and international Classics fora graduate student tutors. a number of Department milestones in and hosted a Memorial Celebration in 2008-2009. Congratulations to Professor honour of M.B. Wallace on 21 November Victoria Wohl on her deserved promotion 2008, at which the endowment of the M.B. to the rank of Full Professor, effective 1 Wallace Memorial Graduate Award in July 2009. Professor Wohl has generously Classics was announced. We are grateful agreed to serve as Graduate Coordinator to the families of Professors Thomson and in the Department, 2009-2012, and I am Wallace for their generous donations of pleased to welcome her to the Department books to the Woodbury Library. Executive. I am very grateful to Professor Christer Bruun who has served in the posi- Let me close by thanking the administra- tion for the last four and a half years. His tive staff, Mrs. Ann-Marie Matti and Ms. deep knowledge and wide Coral Gavrilovic, for experience of the graduate their help and guid- program have been invalu- ance in the Department Classics undergraduates Laura Hare and Jacob able to faculty and students office. I am grateful Currie receive their prizes from CAC President in the Department over these to them, and to the Jonathan Edmondson (Photo: D. Nakassis) years, and it has been a great faculty and students of Our superb undergraduate Classics the Department for their program has been nationally recognized patience, goodwill, and this year, with awards of First Prize to collegiality during my Toronto students in all four of the Classi- first year in office. cal Association of Canada (CAC) National Sight Translation Competitions – Junior Alison Keith and Senior, Greek and Latin. Congratula- May 2009 tions to Laura Hare (Equal First Prize, Junior Greek and Equal First Prize, Junior Above: Philippa Matheson speaks at the Memorial Celebration in honor of her Latin), Jacob Currie (Equal First Prize, brother Mac Wallace. Left: Professors Junior Latin), Elias Georgakopoulos (First Ernest Weinrib and Catherine Rubincam Prize, Senior Greek), Maria Miller (First share memories of Mac (Photos: E. Lytle) Prize, Peter Lawson Smith Prize in Senior Latin), Maayan Adar (Equal Third Prize, Junior Greek and Honourable mention, Contact & Credits We welcome news of our alumni, by email to: Junior Latin), Aron Bojti (Third Prize, Se- pleasure to serve with him on the Execu- nior Greek), and Alessandro Sisti (Second tive. Professor Hugh Mason has agreed [email protected] Prize, Peter Lawson Smith Prize in Senior to serve as Undergraduate Coordinator Latin). for two years, 2008-2010, and I would or by traditional mail to: like to record my gratitude for his gener- Department of Classics ous commitment of time and energy to This year the Department conducted a successful search for a specialist in Latin the undergraduate program. It has been a 125 Queen’s Park Crescent Poetry, with expertise in republican Latin pleasure working with him this year and I Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C7 literature and/or Roman drama, hiring Jar- look forward to working closely with him rett Welsh out of the doctoral program in again next year on the undergraduate pro- Past issues are available on line at: Classics at Harvard University. Jarrett has gram review. In the spring, the Department www.chass.utoronto.ca/classics just completed an ambitious dissertation received the resignation of Professor Alex on the fragmentary corpus of republican Jones, effective 1 July 2009, and we wish The University of Toronto respects your privacy. Latin comedy “in Roman dress,” and him all the best as he continues to build We do not sell, rent or trade our mailing lists. If received his doctorate on 4 June 2009. 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