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NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS Spring 2008 Letter from the Chair Classics Flourishing at the Core Inside this issue…

t has been who are a joy to work with. They are News from the Faculty...... 2 a busy year accomplished teachers as well as research- Ifor Princeton ers: Luca Grillo won one of the Graduate Faculty Bookshelf...... 5 Classics, and I am School’s four annual teaching awards last delighted to be year. Results are still coming in from this Princeton’s Numismatic Collection...... 6 able to bring you year’s job-seeking season, but as I write up to date on our we are proud to congratulate the follow- Graduate News...... 7 activities in this, ing students for their success in having Association of Ancient Historians...... 9 our third News- teaching positions in the fall: Jessica Clark letter. We have a (California State University, Chico), Luca Denis Feeney, Chair “The Language of the Gods” in Greece.....11 new editor, Yelena Grillo (Amherst College), and Pauline Baraz, who has taken over from Marc LeVen (Yale University). We are indeed Alumni News...... 12 Domingo Gygax, and who has worked with privileged to work with the scholars of the the peerless Donna Sanclemente to produce next generation in this way and to enjoy Senior Theses...... 13 this issue: warm thanks to them both. the remarkable intellectual fertility that Dissertations...... 14 Our undergraduate program, the core animates the corridor in East Pyne. of our mission, continues to flourish. The On the faculty front, there is much to Class Day 2007...... 14 spike in concentrators of the last three years report as well. We look forward to welcom- looks as if it is no statistical fluke. We cur- ing Nino Luraghi here in the fall of 2008 Lectures...... 15 rently have 18 juniors and 19 seniors major- as a senior colleague in Greek history. ing in the department, and the total of 40 or Nino’s wide range of outstanding schol- Photo: D. Sanclemente thereabouts looks like a new norm, com- arship will add yet more strength to the pared to the 20 to 25 we had been used to. remarkable group of ancient historians al- Our majors are among the finest students ready in place. We welcome Marc Domingo the University has. In the Class of 2007, Gygax to the tenured ranks of the faculty, 9 of our 23 seniors were elected to Phi Beta and we look forward to the arrival in the Kappa. We congratulate Harvey Lederman fall of Janet Downie, a new appointment ’08 on winning a Keasbey Scholarship for as assistant professor in Greek literature. two years of postgraduate study in clas- A glance at the “News from the Faculty” sics at Cambridge University. Many other (p. 2) and the “Faculty Bookshelf” (p. 5) undergraduates are taking classics courses, will show you how active our faculty are as responding to the rich array of offerings scholars and members of the profession. we mount every year. By the end of this Although I use this letter to bring you academic year, we will have taught 925 un- up to date on what is happening inside our dergraduates in all of our courses, thereby department, I am always keenly aware of establishing a new record over our previ- how much we owe to the numerous other ous highest total of 920 in 2005–06. Our units at Princeton with whom we share discipline is flourishing in schools, colleges, joint interests in the ancient Mediterranean. and universities across the country, and we The vibrant Program in Hellenic Stud- are very proud to be playing our part. ies is a focus for all those interested in the The department’s graduate students are a group of dedicated and energetic people See Letter from the Chair on page 5 . Princeton Classics News from the Faculty

Since joining the department in September, Yelena Baraz has completed an article on Euripidean allusion in Vergil’s Aeneid (forthcoming in Classical Philology) and has been revising her book manuscript on the cultural and political dimensions of Cicero’s philosophical project. Her paper on transformation of superbia will appear in the Brill volume Kakos: Badness in Classi- Yelena Baraz Ted Champlin Marc Domingo Gygax Denis Feeney cal Antiquity in summer 2008. At the APA meeting in January, she delivered a paper precepted for Brent Shaw’s lecture course After finishing a long project on sanctions on Cicero’s defense of philosophical transla- on the Roman Empire and taught a fresh- against memory, published as The Art of tion. Several lexicographical articles she man seminar on “Truth and Objectivity in Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman wrote for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Ancient and Modern Historiography,” a Political Culture (University of North Caro- including pomerium and pol, were pub- lecture course on “The Greek World in the lina Press, Chapel Hill) at the very end of lished in the latest fascicle. Her short paper Hellenistic Age,” and a graduate seminar on 2006, Harriet Flower embarked on a new “Revelations of Lexicography: The Daily “Greek Democracy.” study of the city of Rome during the repub- Learning at the Thesaurus” has appeared in lican period (509–49 B.C.). Her research the Paragraphoi section of TAPA. She has ❆ will explore how the city was administered thoroughly enjoyed teaching at Princeton at the grassroots level and what life was like in her first semester, in particular a course Denis Feeney published two articles on in the local neighborhoods (vici) of Rome. on Seneca for advanced undergraduates, Roman religion and literature, one on She will be drawing on a variety of sources, and getting to know the classics community religion in historiography and epic for Jörg including literary and historical texts, ar- at Princeton, not least through her exalted Rüpke’s Blackwell Companion to Roman chaeological evidence, local monuments and position as the editor of this Newsletter. Religion, and the other on religion in Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus in Literatur inscriptions, coins minted in Rome, and evi- ❆ und Religion Vol. 2, edited by Toni Bierl et dence for religious practices at small, local al. He published two reviews in the Times shrines, which were often to be found at the Ted Champlin is on leave this academic Literary Supplement and one in the London crossroads. A particular focus will be the year, working with his NEH Fellowship on Review of Books. He took part in the honors roles of freedmen (former slaves) as civic Tiberius on Capri. The bad news is that he examining at Swarthmore in spring 2007 leaders in neighborhood communities. She has written only three out of nine chapters. and gave lectures in Cleveland, London, has particularly enjoyed the opportunity to The good news is that he has prepared two and Chicago, together with a paper at a teach courses about the city of Rome, both long and one short papers for publication. conference on Rome’s civil wars in Am- to graduate and to undergraduate students Even better, in the pursuit of Tiberius he herst in the fall (“Doing the numbers: the in seminar settings. During the 2007–08 will be a visiting scholar at the American mathematics of civil war in Shakespeare’s academic year, she is serving again as Academy in Rome for six weeks in the Antony and Cleopatra”). In April 2007 he departmental representative in charge of the spring. Lectures this year include Toronto, co-organized the fourth annual “Corridor undergraduate program. The department Columbia, and St. Andrews. In the spring Latinfest,” now a fixed part of our calendar, currently has around 40 undergraduate of ’07 he served as acting director of the in which faculty and graduate students from majors, of whom 20 are seniors. During Program in the Ancient World and was the Penn, Rutgers, Columbia, and Princeton 2007, she gave papers about her research at main organizer of the annual meeting of the meet for a day-long informal seminar; this Yale, Metz (France), Amherst, University Association of Ancient Historians, a report time participants met at Rutgers to discuss of Pennsylvania, and Brooklyn College in on which appears on p. 9 of this Newsletter. the Priapea. New York. ❆ ❆ ❆ Marc Domingo Gygax completed the Andrew Feldherr’s academic highlights Michael Flower found the fall 2007 se- manuscript of his book Benefaction and for this past year include completing his mester to be an eventful one. He co-taught Rewards in the Ancient Greek City. The manuscript on the Metamorphoses as well as the Program in the Ancient World (PAW) Origins of Euergetism and signed a contract a conference on Roman representations of graduate seminar with AnneMarie Luijen- with Cambridge University Press. His most civil war at Amherst—where Princeton was dijk (Department of Religion). This year’s recent publication is “El intercambio de represented by no fewer than four speakers. topic was “The Language of the Gods: dones en el mundo griego: reciprocidad, He has also been at work on papers on Livy Prophecy, Oracles, and Divination.” This imprecisión, equivalencia y desequilibrio,” and Horace, as well as editing two histo- course is the Oxford-Princeton Exchange Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua, 25 riography collections. As of this past fall, graduate seminar, and it was Princeton’s (2007): 111–126. He has been working he has also taken over from Bob Kaster as turn to host three collaborative workshop on new papers on gift exchange, where director of graduate studies, a task he thor- meetings. The papers by the Princeton he deals with questions that could not be oughly enjoys and in which he will try not and Oxford students prompted a lively and discussed in detail in the book. In the fall to undo all that he has accomplished. And, spirited discussion, which is the purpose he visited Yale, where he gave a lecture on a final important development: he is also of the exchange. But the real highlight of “Benefaction and Rewards in the Hellenis- the proud new owner of a golden retriever. the course was a 10-day trip to Greece over tic Polis” and a seminar on “Problems in spring break (made possible by the gener- Greek Epigraphy.” This academic year he ❆ osity of the Program in Hellenic Princeton Classics .

Andrew Feldherr Harriet Flower Michael Flower Andrew Ford Constanze Güthenke Brooke Holmes

Studies), during which the Princeton semi- inter alios, Kathryn Morgan, visiting the 2007–08 at the Institute for Advanced nar visited the major oracular centers of department this year as the Stanley Kelley Study in Princeton on a Mellon Fellowship Delphi, Dodona, and Oropus (and a good Jr. Visiting Professor for Distinguished for assistant professors. She is completing deal else besides). This was one of the best Teaching, and Nino Luraghi, very happily the final revisions to her manuscript on experiences in his academic career to date, our future colleague. the concept of the material body in early and he felt very fortunate to be accompa- Greek medicine, ethics, and tragedy, which nied by an outstandingly smart and affable ❆ is forthcoming from Princeton University group of 10 students (including three Constanze Güthenke taught a range Press. In the fall, she finished articles on undergraduates). The second highlight of of courses last year, among them a new Euripides’ Heracles and the medical anal- his year was the publication of his inter- lecture course on the reception of Homer, ogy in Plato, as well as contributions to the disciplinary study of Greek divination, The an intellectually very rewarding upperclass six-volume Cultural History of the Hu- Seer in Ancient Greece, by the University of seminar on Greece and Europe between man Body project and the Oxford History California Press (see p. 5). Greek religion East and West in the modern period, and of Hellenic Studies. Her work on Aelius is just one of his many research interests a new graduate seminar, “Biography and Aristides, which she presented at a confer- and he is now working on a literary study Personification,” which was very produc- ence at Columbia’s Center for the Ancient of Xenophon’s Anabasis (which is under tively cross-listed with the Department of Mediterranean in April, will appear in a contract with Oxford University Press). Comparative Literature. She has given talks volume that she is co-editing (with Wil- Next fall he once again will be team-teach- on the study and representation of Jewish liam Harris). An article on pain in the ing the PAW seminar, this time with his culture in Modern Greek literature, at the Iliad appeared last spring in TAPA, and a new colleague Nino Luraghi. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and on the review of Philip van der Eijk’s Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity is ❆ Greek nineteenth-century poet Solomos, at Oxford and at Columbia. In October, she due to come out soon in Classical Philology. Andrew Ford’s research has continued hosted a panel on the question of excep- She co-organized (with W. H. Shearin) a along the path of genre studies, and this tionalism in Modern Greek studies at the panel on the reception of Epicureanism at year saw into press an article on “The biannual conference of the Modern Greek the American Comparative Literature As- Genre of Genres: Paeans and Paian in Studies Association of America at Yale. sociation 2007 meeting and is in the midst Early Greek Poetry” in the journal Poetica She has finished a contribution on the role of bringing out an edited collection of the 38/3–4 (2006): 277–296. A review article of classical scholarship in Greece around papers. On the horizon are new projects surveying recent studies in ancient literary 1930, in a forthcoming volume on classics that do not have to do (too much) with the criticism is imminent from Hermathena, and and nationalism, edited by Susan Stephens body, including an article on Antigone in he contributed an appendix on “Herodotus and Phiroze Vasunia for Oxford Univer- Oedipus at Colonus, based on a paper given and the Poets” to The Landmark Herodotus, sity Press. In early June, she co-taught a last year at Princeton and New York Uni- edited by Robert Strassler (Random House, workshop on literary translation from Mod- versity, and a book-length, interdisciplinary 2007). This fall has been happily busy as ern Greek on the island of Paros, which study on the concept of sympatheia in the he and the two Cotsen Teaching Fellows, featured some recent Princeton graduates. Hellenistic period. She is looking forward Rosa Andujar of Classics and Kevin Kalish She has also spent an amount of time she to life on the corridor next fall. of Comparative Literature, put together a prefers not to calculate on indexing and ❆ reader of Greek texts with notes surveying proofreading, but she is delighted that her the Greek literature of early Christian- book Placing Modern Greece. The Dynamics Bob Kaster’s waiting for his translations ity. The 112-page book, passing from the of Romantic Hellenism, 1770–1840 was pub- of Seneca’s On Anger and On Clemency Gospels through the Church Fathers up to lished by Oxford University Press in Febru- to emerge from the University of Chicago Basil, will be given a trial run this spring ary 2008 (see p. 5). She is looking forward Press, in a volume that will find them as they teach a special topic in CLG 240, to a semester’s sabbatical in spring 2008 to joined with Martha Nussbaum’s transla- later Greek literature. This has been a continue a book-length project on the role tion of the Apocolocyntosis. Meanwhile, he great learning experience, and he hopes it of biographizing and on the language of has plunged into his edition of Macrobius’s may build connections to the students out intimacy in German classical scholarship in Saturnalia for the Loeb Classical Library there who know some Biblical Greek but the nineteenth century. and has been learning a great deal from the do not think to take our language classes. experience, not least that the manuscripts At the graduate level, a demand for Pindar ❆ need much more attention than he had led to a rewarding seminar, including a Brooke Holmes joined the faculty in fall thought at the project’s outset—but what one-day conference—an opportunity to hear 2007 after two years at UNC–Chapel papers about Pindar and the Tyrants from, Hill and is spending the academic year Continued on page 4 . Princeton Classics

News from the Faculty Continued from page 3

Bob Kaster Joshua Katz Janet Martin Brent Shaw Christian Wildberg Froma Zeitlin would life be without surprises? He hopes and a member of the Board of Trustees of the department’s graduate students “road to be on leave during the next academic Princeton University Press. One of his new test” their dissertation research. Not only year, and to be able both to make a sizeable responsibilities is the Program in Transla- does he assist in advising, but he gets to dent in Macrobius and to make a start on a tion and Intercultural Communication, of witness the wide range of interesting work new project, a short travel book–cum–cul- which he is an enthusiastic charter member. being done by our graduate students. Oh tural essay on the Appian Way for the Uni- But his biggest responsibility remains the yes . . . the status of the great world history versity of Chicago Press’s “Culture Trails” reasoned improvement of Firestone Library, textbook project in which he participated series. The latter will require spending a an urgent task he has helped put near the as author, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, certain amount of time in Italy (it’s a dirty top of the University’s agenda and one that and on which he has expatiated in previ- job, etc.). During the current academic year he intends to continue to pursue doggedly. ous issues of the Newsletter? It is finished. he has been having a terrific time with an The whole of it has finally been published all-undergraduate-Latin teaching sched- ❆ by Norton and has received signs of great ule: “Intensive Intermediate Latin” and Janet Martin has been appointed chair of interest from numerous history departments “Roman Letters” in the fall and “Intensive the Medieval Academy of America’s nomi- in the country. Beginning Latin” and “Roman Historians nating committee. She is preparing a vol- ❆ of the Empire” (Suetonius and Tacitus on ume of Hildebert of Lavardin’s Carmina mi- Tiberius) in the spring. The experience has nora and Epigrammata biblica for the new Christian Wildberg continues to serve been, well, intensive, and he looks forward “medieval Loebs,” the Dumbarton Oaks as master of Forbes College but currently to trying to persuade the students in the Medieval Texts series of Greek and Latin enjoys a year of academic leave of ab- last-named course that Tiberius was—Sue- authors and facing English translations, to sence—in other words, no teaching but lots tonius and Tacitus to the contrary notwith- be published by Harvard University Press of admin. He has recently given talks in San standing—a great man. with Jan M. Ziolkowski as general editor. Francisco, Toronto, Princeton, and Berlin, ❆ all the while trying to clear his desk and to ❆ descend from the mountain of commitments Joshua Katz’s publications in 2007 were One of Brent Shaw’s more interesting on which he has been sitting far too long. largely devoted to the letter H, with articles duties in recent years has been to head the Unwisely, he has agreed to accept new com- on Homer, Hittite, the Hymn to Hermes, Princeton side of the Princeton-Stanford mitments (like the re-edition of Aristotle’s and Horace: “What Linguists are Good Working Papers in the Classics (PSWPC), letters) and, still more unwisely, he has be- for,” “The Development of Proto-Indo-Eu- an exciting experiment with on-line elec- gun extensive research on a topic that pretty ropean *sm in Hittite,” “The Epic Adven- tronic prepublication of the research of the much defies understanding: human evil. tures of an Unknown Particle,” and “Dux faculty and graduate students in the classics Now, halfway through his leave, he finds reget examen (Epistle 1.19.23): Horace’s departments in these two universities. It has that he can’t wait to get back into the class- Archilochean Signature.” He also wrote on been so successful that the joint directors room . . . On a happier note: A collection of formicae for Froma (“An Acrostic Ant Road of the PSWPC were asked to publish a articles that emerged from a conference on in Aeneid 4”) and published five reviews. description of the project in the journal Hes- mysticism he organized several years ago Topics on his mind that will sooner or later peria. In his role as director of the Program has finally come out in the German journal make it into print include Achilles’ erotic in the Ancient World (PAW), some of the Archiv für Religionsgeschichte. Om! games of dice, Aratean wordplay in Vergil, more important events that he directed ❆ and a linguistic explication de phrase of “De since the last Newsletter have included lingua Latina.” He gave talks at conferences hosting the program’s long-term visitor, Froma Zeitlin gave several lectures in at Yale, Oxford, and UCLA; taught classes Professor Susan Alcock, in the spring term. 2007, in addition to her presentation at the in Greek, Latin, Egyptian, and Indo-Eu- He has also launched an initiative to take Presidential Panel at the APA in January ropean; cast the glamour of grammar over the PAW students on museum expeditions. 2007 on the topic of tragedy and Troy. She the parents of members of the Class of 2011 The first, to the new Greek and Roman gave a talk, entitled “Theban Laments,” at in McCosh 50; schmoozed with alumni galleries at the Metropolitan Museum in the CorHaLi annual colloquium, held in in Philadelphia and St. Louis; and began New York, was a grand success. Another Lausanne, in June 2007. Another lecture a stint as a professor at One Day Univer- museum tour, to the Walters Art Gallery was commissioned for a conference on the sity. He continues as one of the faculty in Baltimore, is planned in late spring. Passion of St. Perpetua (organized by Jan columnists for the Daily Princetonian, the Among his different teaching assignments Bremmer and Marco Formisano) in Berlin, faculty director of Marshall and Rhodes over the past year, he has most enjoyed the July 2007. It was entitled “Transfigurations Scholarships, an adviser at Forbes College, “Dissertation Writing Seminar,” in which Continued on page 5 Princeton Classics . Faculty Bookshelf

Placing Modern Greece. The Dynamics of Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth and The Seer in Ancient Greece Romantic Hellenism Ritual in Greek Art and Literature by Michael Flower by Constanze Güthenke edited by Chris Kraus, Simon Goldhill, University of California Press, 2008 Oxford University Press, 2008 Helene P. Foley, and Jas Elsner Oxford University Press, 2007

Placing Modern Greece is about literary Athenian tragedy of the fifth century B.C. The seer (mantis), an expert in the art of representations of Greece in the period of became an international and a canonical divination, operated in ancient Greek soci- Romanticism, encompassing the time in genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, there- ety through a combination of charismatic the 1820s when it became a territorial and fore, a remarkable test case through which inspiration and diverse skills ranging from political reality as a nation-state. Constanze to explore how a genre becomes privileged examining the livers of sacrificed animals Güthenke claims that the imagining of and and what the cultural effects of its continu- to spirit possession. Unlike the palm read- attitude towards Greece was shaped by a ing appropriation are. In this collection of ers and mediums who exist on the fringe fascination with the material, and by the essays by an international group of distin- of modern society, many seers were highly highly conceptualized tension between the guished scholars the particular point of ref- paid, well-respected, educated members of ideal on the one hand and the material on erence is the visual, that is, the myriad ways the elite who played an essential role in the the other. Her study focuses on nature and in which tragic texts are (re)interpreted, conduct of daily life, political decisions, and landscape imagery as vehicles of represen- (re)appropriated, and (re)visualized military campaigns. Armies, for example, tation, on their specific inner workings, through verbal and artistic description. Top- never went anywhere without one. This and on their dynamic, which conditions ics treated include the interaction of comedy engaging book, the only comprehensive how and whether Greece as a modern and dithyramb with tragedy; vase painting study of this fascinating figure, enters into entity in the making can be represented at and tragedy; representations of Dionysus, of the socioreligious world of ancient Greece all. Offering readings from German and Tragoedia, and of Nike; Homer, Aeschylus, to explore what seers did, why they were contemporaneous Greek authors, Güthenke Philostratus, and Longus; choral lyric and so widely employed, and how their craft supplies a commentary on the translation ritual performance, choral victories, and the served as a viable and useful social practice. and crossings of representational models staging of choruses on the modern stage. and their limits. The common focus of all the essays is an en- gagement with and response to the unique scholarly voice of Froma Zeitlin.

News from the Faculty Letter from the Chair Continued from page 4 Continued from page 1 of Martyrdom. André Schwarz-Bart’s Le devoted to Jean-Pierre Vernant; and Under study of the Greek world, from antiquity dernier des Justes (The Last of the Just) and the Sign of the Shield, 2nd edition, with new to the present. We have socii et amici with the Holocaust” and was presented in absen- preface, postscript, and updated bibliog- common interests in the departments of Art tia. She gave a longer version, however, in raphy. She would also like to recommend and Archaeology, Comparative Literature, person, as an invited lecturer at Yale Univer- the remarkable collection of essays, entitled History, Philosophy, and Religion, and sity’s Program in Judaic Studies in Decem- Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and in the Program in Judaic Studies. Every ber 2007. The following works, mentioned Ritual in Greek Art and Literature, pub- semester we are reminded of how we are previously, are now promised for publication lished by Oxford University Press in 2007 part of a web of scholars and students, all in 2008: “Religion in the Ancient Novel,” in (see above). To her astonishment, these exemplifying the concept of classics as the Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Novel, essays were commissioned in her honor by ideal interdisciplinary humanities subject. n edited by Tim Whitmarsh; “Intimate Rela- the editors, who gathered a distinguished tions: Children, Childbearing, and Parent- list of friends and colleagues for contribu- age on the Euripidean Stage,” for Festschrift tions. As they had hoped, it did remain a for Oliver Taplin; “Retour au pays du surprise, and what a surprise it was!! n Soleil,” essay for L’Europe, special issue . Princeton Classics A Rich Source: the Princeton Numismatic Collection by Alan Stahl

or more than a century and a half, the local deity Melqarth and has a date in “Hercules” of Cyzicus in Asia Minor, which coins from the Princeton University Phoenician numerals (Ill. 2); it exemplifies dates to the period just before the coinage Fnumismatic collection have served as the cultural, political, and economic cross reform of his colleague Diocletian (Ill. 4); sources for study and images for illustration currents in the Levant in the first century this coin was a gift of Moses Taylor Pyne at in works ranging from Freshman Seminar B.C., a period of increasing Roman influ- the beginning of the 20th century. papers through senior theses to Ph.D. dis- ence in the area. The coins from the Princeton-led sertations, as well as for the publications of The large collection of Roman coins has excavation in Antioch-on-the-Orontes in the scholars at the University and throughout numerous areas of interest. The Republican 1930s constitute by far the largest compo- the world. Princeton is one of only three series contains a strong representation of nent of the numismatic collection in terms American universities to have a compre- the very heavy bronze coins from before the of sheer numbers, and also in the potential hensive, curated collection of the coinage Punic Wars known as Aes Grave. After a for research discoveries. The 25,000 speci- of classical antiquity (you can guess the good run of coins minted in the second and mens from Antioch are, of course, strongest other two). Its ancient holdings run from first centuries B.C. by thetresviri mone­ in the representation of the issues of the the rough electrum coins of Lydia, believed tales, the Republican collection finishes mint of that city—a royal capital in Seleucid to be the oldest in the Western tradition, with numerous issues that illustrate the times and a major mint under the Roman through the Greek and Roman periods, to competing sides in the period of civil wars Empire. The representation of various the end of the Byzantine Empire; the collec- and the establishment of the Principate. An issues in the finds illustrates the transition tion also contains Islamic and Asian coins, example is the silver denarius that Marcus of the local economy (and, by extension, modern coins, paper money, and medals. Junius Brutus issued in 54 B.C. when civilization) from Hellenistic to Roman, and The Greek coins comprise a representa- he held the office ofmonetalis (Ill. 3); it then successively to Arab, Byzantine, Turk, tion of mints from throughout the Mediter- proclaims his antidictatorial sentiments and Crusader, and Mamluk. All coins are ac- ranean and Near Eastern worlds, with areas foreshadows his future actions through the companied by information on their find con- of special strength reflecting the interests representation of his ancestors L. Junius text, which can be correlated with the site of past donors, scholars, and curators. In Brutus and C. Servilius Ahala, both legend- reports, photographs, and other artifacts the west, the best-represented mint is that ary tyrannicides. from Antioch on the Princeton campus. of Taranto in Magna Graecia, thanks to the The collection of coins of the Roman Only a tiny fraction of the collection is donation of an alumnus who collected only Empire has an outstanding representation on public display at any one time, but in this series. Among the numerous illustra- of the issues of Augustus, who refashioned 2008 an unusually large number of ancient tions of the town’s emblematic boy on a the coinage, and Hadrian, who brought a coins figure in the exhibit “Numismatics dolphin is an example from the early third wide variety of imperial imagery to it. The in the Renaissance,” on view in the Fire- century B.C. that bears the name of its rich holdings in coinage of the tetrarchy stone Library exhibit hall through July. die engraver, Philistion (Ill. 1). A Tyrian and the early fourth century illustrate The entire collection is being catalogued shekel, one of many in the collection, bears the changing nature of divided rule of into an online digital database by Princeton Greek style and inscriptions but displays the empire, as in the aureus of Maximian Continued on page 9

Ill. 1: Magna Graecia, Taranto, silver didrachm, 325–281 B.C. Ill. 2: Tyre, silver shekel, local era 53 = 74–73 B.C.

Ill. 3: Roman Republic, Marcus Junius Brutus, silver denarius, Ill. 4: Roman Empire, Maximian, gold aureus, Cyzicus, 54 B.C. A.D. 286 Princeton Classics . Graduate News

Rosa M. Andújar is a third-year graduate especially enjoyed the opportunity to work In the past year, Gil Gambash concentrated student. Last summer she delivered a paper more closely with our classics and classical on research for his dissertation, which will on the two threnodic kommoi of Sophocles’ studies majors. In January, she presented a investigate the relationship between Roman Antigone at the CorHaLi conference on paper examining “The Paradox of Ransom officials and indigenous movements of resis- thre¯noi in tragedy at the University of Lau- in the Roman Middle Republic” at the APA tance in the provinces. The project is super- sanne, Switzerland. She also presented a Annual Meeting in Chicago. vised by Brent Shaw (advisor) and Harriet paper entitled “Lucian the Oracle-Monger: Flower. He spent the summer in Rome, ‘Autophonic’ Oracles in Alexander and De f learning the archaeology of the center, and Dea Syria” at the Program in the An- hopes to do the same with his case studies cient World’s Oxford-Princeton Graduate Kellam Conover, a fifth-year gradu- of Judea and Britain next summer. He will Workshop this past January. Now that she ate student, has been enjoying a year of spend his next and final year in Oxford in is finished with the general examinations, unfettered dissertation writing under the order to benefit also from the readership of she is in the process of formulating her dis- generous grant of a Porter Ogden Jacobus Martin Goodman and Fergus Millar. sertation topic. She is particularly looking Fellowship; he has also enjoyed being one forward to co-teaching “The Greek Litera- of the inaugural resident graduate students f ture of Early Christianity” this spring, a in Butler College. He looks forward to new intermediate Ancient Greek course she having completed a draft of his dissertation Adam Gitner has just completed his last designed with Professor Andrew Ford and on bribery in Classical Athens by the end general examination and looks forward to Kevin Kalish of Comparative Literature. of the summer. In April, he will give a talk precepting for his first time, in the spring, This summer, she will present a paper on on the legal history of Athenian dorodokia a course on the origins and development Heliodorus and Early Christian narrative at (bribery) as part of an ongoing seminar of the English vocabulary. He has recently ICAN IV in Lisbon. Rosa is also a resident series in the Princeton Law and Public helped to form a Graduate Student Govern- graduate student at Mathey College, where Affairs Program. Last summer he had so ment task force on Firestone Library. she is involved in various events such as many classics-related epiphanies while a weekly Spanish conversation table, a climbing in the Andes that he hopes to find f bimonthly poetry event, and the Mathey more inspiration on an alpine hike through Corsica this summer. This is Luca Grillo’s fifth and last year in Book Club. the program, and he looks forward to leav- f ing Princeton and getting a job with a mix f of excitement, gratitude, and maybe already Pavlos Avlamis has just finished precept- Anya Dolganov is in her second year in a bit of nostalgia. Last spring, he taught ing for Professor Brent Shaw’s “Roman the Program in the Ancient World. She intermediate Latin and was awarded the Empire” and is preparing for more Roman- spent part of her summer improving her Princeton Alumni Teaching Award; in May ization with Latin 102 in the spring. For German proficiency in Vienna and the rest he departed for Munich, where he held a good measure, he continues his dissertation of it getting rid of her Austrian slang while scholarship from the Commission für alte work on Greek literature: “The Life of doing research at the library of the Uni- Geschichte. It was a great chance to con- Aesop and constructions of the ‘popular’ in versity of Konstanz, Germany. In the fall, tinue his research on Caesar’s Bellum Civile. Greek Imperial literature” (Froma Zeitlin, Anya probed the limits of her knowledge in Since September, he has been working as a advisor). A part of his first chapter on the a survey of early modern European history resident graduate student at Forbes College Isis epiphany in the Life of Aesop was pre- and made a foray into antiquarian stud- and has finished the five chapters of his dis- sented in last spring’s conference “Revela- ies, which entailed engaging examples of sertation; he is currently working on the in- tion, Literature and Community in Antiq- antiquarian practices from antiquity to the troduction. In his project, he considers the uity” in the Department of Religion. Under early modern period, and considering what literary qualities of the Bellum Civile and the supervision of Professor Robert Kaster, characterizes the species of historian and argues that the intertextual, semantic, and he also conducted research in his special antiquarian and the relationship between narratological analysis can be productively field examination on Greek biography. them in each case. The course on the City applied to Caesar. He is also working on the of Rome in the Roman Republic unexpect- publication of two papers: one about Creusa f edly resulted in Anya’s initiation into a in Aeneid 2 and the other about Ennius and debate on Roman augural law that stems the temple of Hercules Musarum. Jessica Clark, a sixth-year graduate back well into the 19th century (which student in classics and the Program in the demonstrated to her, once again, that his- f Ancient World, is currently completing her tory of scholarship really is everywhere), dissertation, “Vestigia cladis: The Afterlife while the Latin literature survey provided David Kaufman is in his first year, hav- of Defeat in the Roman Historical Imagina- a useful launching pad into Anya’s first ing come to Princeton after completing a tion” (Harriet Flower, director). She taught general exam in Latin literature. Anya plans postbaccalaureate program in classics at a section of Latin 101 in the fall, with to spend the spring with feet firmly planted Columbia. His interests focus on ancient Professor Yelena Baraz, and will precept for in Greek and Roman history and is looking ethical philosophy, Plato, and the history “The Other Side of Rome” with Professor forward to reading through Cicero’s letters of Platonism. He spent the preponderance Andrew Feldherr in the spring. With Dana and possibly studying the Etruscans in situ of his first semester reading Plotinus with Fields, she has run a senior thesis writ- this upcoming summer. his left eye and reading for Latin survey ing group in the department, and she has Continued on page 8 f . Princeton Classics

Graduate News Continued from page 7 with his right. He looks forward to a sum- Rose MacLean is now in the third year of and precepted for the mythology class. In mer in Rome in Reginaldus Foster’s spoken her graduate studies and continues to pur- November, his book Teoría de la Definición Latin course. sue interests in Roman social and cultural en el Hipias Mayor de Platón was published history and Latin literature. In October, she by the Universidad de los Andes in Mérida, f joined a panel of Princeton graduate stu- Venezuela. dents who delivered papers at the centen- This year, Pauline LeVen was the Sibley nial meeting of the Classical Association of f Fellow in Greek Studies. The annual Mary the Atlantic States in Washington, DC; her Isabel Sibley Fellowship is awarded alter- talk was entitled “Imperial exempla from After graduating from Roger Williams nately in the fields of Greek and French. Augustus to Caligula” and looked at the University in 2004, Jason Pedicone spent Pauline is currently completing her disser- ways in which Suetonius and others rep- 2004–05 on a Fulbright scholarship to Mu- tation, entitled “The Many-Headed Muse: resent emperors with respect to traditional nich, focusing on Greek epic. In 2005–06 Tradition and Innovation in Fourth-Century conceptions of exemplarity. In the midst of he moved to Rome, where he spent a year Greek Lyric Poetry” (directed by Andrew preparing for her general exams, Rose took as a guest student of Latin (at the Grego- Ford and M. Trédé [Ecole Normale Supéri- a course this fall on the city of Rome during rian Pontifical University) and of Greek eure]). The overarching question this study the Republic that led to a project on which (at L’Universita degli Studi di Roma “La addresses is that of the alleged death of lyric she is currently working: an examination Sapienza”). At Princeton, he is interested in the last quarter of the fifth century B.C. of the theme of altera Roma, particularly in the Hellenization of Roman poetry. He By combining close reading of poems with in Latin oratory. She is also helping to orga- spent last summer studying archeology at attention to their intellectual and cultural nize a graduate conference on historicism the American School of Classical Studies context, the thesis argues that our evidence and formalism in classical studies that will at Athens and this summer hopes to travel suggests a continuous tradition of lyric po- take place in April. to Rome to participate in the American etry adapting to the new performance con- Academy’s Classical Summer School. texts and modes of transmission of the Late f Classical period. In 2007–08, Pauline also f presented four conference papers, on “les Danielle Meinrath joined the classics Sirènes du Port d’Alexandrie” (Euripides’ department as a first-year graduate student Emily Pillinger is now in her fourth year Helen), “Choses légères, ailées et sacrées” last fall, having completed a B.A. at Cam- in the classics department. Last year saw (Euripides’ Ion), “Nouvelle Cuisine” bridge University in 2005 and an M.St. at her progress from the coursework stage of (Philoxenus’ Dinner), and “New Songs for Oxford in 2007. For last semester’s “City her Ph.D. in the spring through to teaching Old Gods” (fourth-century paeans). of Rome” course, she gave her first Power- intermediate Latin in the fall. With the help Point presentation on the Vestal Virgins, of her advisors, Professors Denis Feeney, f combining ancient sources with dancing, Andrew Feldherr, and Michael Wood sacrificial clip-art pigs. This summer, at the (English/Comparative Literature), she Brigitte Libby spent the summer in in- International Conference on the Ancient also wrote and defended her dissertation tensive preparation for her Greek literature Novel (ICAN) in Lisbon, she will deliver proposal, with the provisional title “Great and history general exams, which she has a (pigless) paper on the use of religious Expectations: the poetics of prophecy.” In now successfully passed. Pleased to put this experience as a closural narrative device in September, she gave a paper on the poetry strenuous section of her graduate studies the final books of Apuleius’Metamorphoses of witches from Theocritus to Lucan at the behind her, she is now concentrating her and Heliodorus’ Aethiopica. second session of the Advanced Seminar efforts on her research, including “Moons, in the Humanities at Venice International (Smoke) and Mirrors in Apuleius’ Portrayal f University. of Isis,” which she will deliver at ICAN (The International Conference on the An- Since joining the Princeton classics depart- f cient Novel) in Lisbon in July 2008. ment this fall, Mallory Monaco has enjoyed the active intellectual and social atmosphere. Nadya Popov is a sixth-year student in f Organizing and baking for weekly coffee classics and the Program in the Ancient hours with fellow first-year Donna Zucker- World. This fall, she returned to Prince­ Jacob Mackey is working on a dissertation berg has been a good balance to the reading ton after spending two and a half years in in which he takes a cognitive approach to for her Latin survey, Pindar, and Greek absentia. In the fall semester, she had the Roman religion in the Late Republic. He biography courses. She is currently complet- privilege of teaching a section of Latin 205 presented a paper entitled “A Nicer Knowl- ing a paper on Greek autobiography and the (“Roman Letters”) and precepting a section edge of Belief: Cognition and Cult in Epi- legal setting, which has allowed her to fur- of “Greek Mythology.” In the spring semes- curean Religious Thought” at a conference ther explore her interests in ancient forensic ter, she will be back in upstate New York, on Herculaneum studies held June 2–6, rhetoric. She plans on studying in Greece where Josh Reynolds GS’04 is currently 2007 on Mackinac Island, Michigan. The during the coming summer months. visiting at Colgate University. Her goals for paper is under consideration by Cambridge this academic year are to finish her disser- University Press for inclusion in a volume f tation, potty-train Leo, and get a job (not of conference proceedings. necessarily in that order). During the past year Simon Noriega- f Olmos has taught Greek 108 (Homer) Continued on page 10 Princeton Classics . The Association of Ancient Historians by Ted Champlin

ast May (May 3–6, 2007), Princeton hosted the annual bacchanal of the LAssociation of Ancient Historians (AAH), a professional organization that caters mainly to the interests of classi- cal historians in the United States and Canada. This gathering is an exceptional opportunity for hearing two or three days of papers presenting current research in several fields of interest, and for meeting colleagues old and new, senior eminences and fresh faces—a pleasant spring alterna- tive to the wintry meeting of the APA, with its attendant stresses of crowds and the job market. Several years ago, the president of the organization hinted to me that it really was Princeton’s turn to host the organiza-

tion, and Josh Ober and I agreed that it AAH. Howarth, Randall by Photo would be a good signal to the world of what we perceived as our growing strength in a conference and who actually enjoys bud- the Press building on a warm May evening. ancient history. Josh departed for warmer geting and Excel spreadsheets. She brought A loyal contingent of grad students—Craig climes and I promptly put the matter out on board Susan Satterfield, also in her fifth Caldwell, Meghan DiLuzio, Gil Gambash, of mind. I began to panic a couple of years year, and our team was complete—Jessica Pauline LeVen, Jon Master, Rob Sobak, ago, after repeated queries from the cur- and Susan took care of the myriad logisti- and Dave Teegarden—circulated through- rent president, so I asked the organizers of cal and liaison details along with Tara, the out the three days, bravely wearing orange a previous meeting in Ann Arbor, Bruce steering committee arranged the program, nametags to field questions and support Frier GS’70 and Sara Forsdyke GS’97, how I smiled benignly and waved to the crowds: the organizers. And Jill Arbeiter, Esther to proceed. Both offered sage advice. Bruce it’s all in the delegation. Glat, and Ronnie Hanley provided support summed his up in one word: Delegate. So Flash forward to May ’07. To put it beyond the call of duty back in East Pyne. I did. with utter immodesty, and to judge from This is not a list of names to be thanked First step was to get together a steer- the e-mails received, remarks made, and pro forma. This is a lot of people who very ing committee, which consisted of Marc comments passed on by others, the confer- kindly donated their time, energy, and Domingo, Harriet and Michael Flower, and ence was a triumph for the home team, money to hosting a successful international Brent Shaw—talk about growing strength marred only by the black looks and mut- conference, showcasing our strengths, and in history!—along with Corey Brennan, tered comments when we ran out of wine at making me look good. In those three days, chair of classics at Rutgers and a good the grand banquet at the Woodrow Wilson I learned the second rule of delegation: it friend of the department. We hammered School (too much had been consumed at only works if you have delegates you can out a program composed of panels centered the reception). So who were the home count on. Much as I grumble about Prince­ on current hot topics and our own indi- team? Since the meeting would never have ton, I can’t imagine doing it, with such ease vidual interests; you can see the final result happened without the munificent support and such pleasure, anywhere else. n at http://www.princeton.edu/~classics/ of several departments and programs in the conferences/2007/aah/program.html. The University (the AAH has no budget for it), committee deserves a collective pat on the let me first name our benefactors with deep- back not only for the uniformly high quality est gratitude: the Program in the Ancient and interest of the papers it selected (qq. Numismatic Collection World, the Department of Classics, the v.) but for the nice balance of age, gender, Continued from page 6 Council of the Humanities, the Program in geography, and institution represented by Hellenic Studies, the Group for the Study the speakers. students working on areas of the collection of Late Antiquity, and the departments of For logistics, I also began to work with that relate to their academic interests; new Art and Archaeology, History, and Reli- the amazing Tara Zarillo, associate director recruits are always sought for these paying gion. Chairman Denis opened proceedings of the University’s Conference and Event positions. A graduate-level course on nu- with a warm welcome to our 130 registered Services. Organized, impossibly efficient, mismatic methodology is offered periodi- guests. Marc, Harriet, Michael, Brent, unflappable, endlessly patient, she did a cally by the classics department; it is open and Corey, along with our colleague Willy large part of the heavy lifting, dealing with to undergraduates with permission. Most Childs ’64, GS’71, moderated their ses- the Nassau Inn, dining services, building students, however, come into contact with sions with insight and dispatch. Jessica and services, outside vendors, etc.—Tara even the collection through lecture demonstra- Susan delivered excellent papers brilliantly started serving drinks when the bartender tions given to classes, seminars, and pre- (as did Bruce Frier, Josh Ober, and Craige didn’t show up for the opening reception. cepts, and by making an appointment with Champion GS’92). Rob Tempio of Princ- In a fit of inspiration, I turned to Jessica the curator (Alan Stahl, astahl@princeton. eton University Press most generously Clark, then a fifth-year graduate student, edu) to explore how information from coins provided and genially hosted a reception for who had invaluable experience in organizing might relate to their research. n all attendees in the foyer and courtyard of 10. Princeton Classics

Graduate News Continued from page 8

Meredith Safran is currently in her sev- In December, Carey Seal defended his pro- Yelena Baraz and submitting the proposal enth year of the Literature and Philology posal for a dissertation to be entitled “Phi- for her dissertation, a literary analysis of Program and is working toward comple- losophy and Community in Seneca’s Prose.” Pindar and Aeschylus. tion of her dissertation, “Civis Romana: He enjoyed precepting for CLA 218, “The Female civic identity in Livy’s AUC I.” This Roman Republic,” in the spring semester f fall, she presented a paper at a panel on last year and teaching a section of CLG 105, autocracy in AUC I, which she also chaired, “Socrates,” this past fall. This spring he John-Paul Young spent his summer at the Centennial Meeting of the Classical will be precepting for CLA 208, “Origins immersing himself in all things German, Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS). and Nature of the English Vocabulary.” picking up the rudiments of the language at Meredith has been teaching classical myth­ Over the summer he presented a paper on a summer course in Princeton and spend- ology at Montclair State University. She is Alasdair MacIntyre’s account of the Greek ing the month of August in Berlin. On his giving invited talks at McGill University in polis at a conference on MacIntyre’s work return, he gave up wurst and set his sights Montreal, Butler University in Indianapo- held in London. on Rome, where he hopes to spend part of lis, and Stanford University. his summer at the American Academy’s f Summer School. f During the past year, Michelle Soufl has f Susan Satterfieldis a sixth-year graduate been busy completing her program studies. student who studies Roman republican his- She spent half of last summer engaged Tom Zanker is now in his fourth year of tory and Roman religion. Her dissertation, in the study of German and in the latter study. He has apparently started work on entitled “Gifted Knowledge: The Sibylline half spent a wonderful month discovering his dissertation, entitled “Narratives of Books in the Roman Republic and Early Rome and the archaeological ruins in the Cultural Pessimism in Horace’s ‘Odes’ and Empire,” examines the role of the Sibyl- Bay of Naples. She is currently working on ‘Epodes’,” and presented on the topic at line Books in Roman society and politics. a project on Ovid’s topographical tour of this year’s APA. Tom was a preceptor for It explores thereby key issues in Roman Augustan Rome in the Ars Amatoria, book Professor Brent Shaw’s “Roman Empire” republican history, such as the complex 1. She looks forward to completing her course in the fall and will be working with interdependence of religion and politics, the Latin general in the spring and spending a Professor Andrew Feldherr on “The Other relationship between Roman and non- part of her upcoming summer on a research Side of Rome” in the spring. He spent the Roman, and the nature of Roman republi- trip to Greece. summer in Italy at the American Academy can religion itself. In addition to her work in Rome as a participant in the Classical on the Sibylline Books, Susan has presented f Summer School, where he was introduced a number of papers this year: “A Question of to Roman topography and material culture. Timing: Expiation and the Roman Calen- Geir Thorarinsson is a third-year in the After the program ended, he traveled north dar,” delivered at the annual meeting of the Program in Classical Philosophy. He is to Milan, via Florence, Bologna, and Como, Association of Ancient Historians in May developing a crush on Alexander of Aphro­ and spent a week in Oxford on the return 2007; “In Need of No Introduction: Livy disias, but he still doesn’t know whether leg to New Jersey. He is currently hatching and the Origins of the Sibylline Books,” it will result in a dissertation topic or turn plans for a second sojourn in Italy this com- delivered at the annual meeting of the out to be a more casual encounter. In 2007, ing summer, with a view to improving his Classical Association of the Atlantic States Geir’s translation of Edmund Gettier’s knowledge of the country’s language and its in October 2007; and “Alien Insiders: The famous paper “Is Justified True Belief more southern centers. Etruscan Haruspices in Rome,” presented at Knowledge?” was published in Hugur, the APA conference in January 2008. an Icelandic journal for philosophy. He f continues to respond to questions from the f general public via a website maintained by Donna Zuckerberg is a first-year gradu- the University of Iceland. So far he has re- ate student in classical philology. She Second-year in the program Harry sponded to over 70 questions ranging from recently gave a paper entitled “Augustus Schmidt has completed his collaborative the Presocratics to the nature of friendship and Romulus the Augur” at the Program project with Helma Dik at the University and the value of moral virtue to logical falla- in the Ancient World seminar conference of Chicago, called GRADE, which will cies and metaphysics. with Oxford on the language of the gods, allow her (and any other interested parties) and traveled earlier in the semester with to write online reference grammars to be f the seminar to Greece during fall break to automatically tailored by the computer to look at the oracular sites at Delphi, Dodona, the needs of the reader rather than the exi- In the past year Anna Uhlig, while delight- Epidaurus, and Oropos. Over the summer, gencies of the publisher. He hopes to spend ing in the use of her new last name, has she studied German at the Goethe Institut this summer in Rome studying material delivered papers on Aeschylus (Lausanne) in Munich. Much of her free time this past culture and steeling himself for his upcom- and Theocritus (Bryn Mawr, Chicago). semester has been spent baking for the ing general exams. He also plans to attend She has also very much enjoyed her first departmental coffee hours. n the Digital Humanities 2008 conference in experience of teaching at Princeton: “Clas- Oulu, Finland, to bring back new computa- sical Mythology” under Visiting Professor tional techniques to his classics colleagues. Kathryn Morgan. This spring she looks forward to teaching Latin with Professor f Princeton Classics 11.

“The Language of the Gods” in Greece by Rosa M. Andújar and Donna Zuckerberg

he CLA 547/PAW 501 Graduate Seminar, led by Professors Michael TFlower and Anne Marie Luijen- dijk (REL), traveled to Greece during Princeton’s fall break, from October 25 to November 4, 2007. The topic of this year’s seminar, “The Language of the Gods: Prophecy, Oracles, and Divination,” allowed us to explore many of the major oracular sites in mainland Greece, such as Delphi, Dodona, and the Oropos Amphiareion. We also visited other key Greek archaeologi- cal treasures, including the Acropolis and Agora, and Byzantine churches as well. Here is a brief overview of our exciting 10-day whirlwind tour of the country’s many sites, museums, and cities, made possible thanks to the generosity of Stanley Seeger.

Day 1 (Friday, October 26): Arrival in Athens, Acropolis, Kerameikos. Despite the fact that we were all jet-lagged and exhausted, our enthusiasm was boosted by The group in front of the Parthenon a VIP visit to the Acropolis. Our tour guide arranged for us to go inside the Parthenon, was ancient Epidaurus, a port town that Day 7 (Thursday, November 1): Nikopo- where tourists are rarely allowed to tread. would have received most of the pilgrims lis, Actium, Acheron Nekromanteion, Io- After this treat, we explored the Keramei- traveling to the sanctuary of Asclepius. annina. Most of day seven was spent on the kos cemetery and museum. That evening, Professor Vassilis Lambrinoudakis from the bus, traveling northwest. Along the way, Dimitri Gondicas of the Hellenic Studies University of Athens kindly served as our we stopped at Nikopolis, founded after the Department joined us for dinner. personal guide to both the old town and the battle of Actium. We also saw the remains main site of Epidaurus; he explained the of the monument to Apollo by Octavian. Day 2 (Saturday, October 27): Cycladic history of the archeological project as well We visited the mysterious Acheron Nekro- Museum, Agora, Benaki Museum. We as the various restoration works currently manteion, where many think the entrance of spent our second day wandering around under way at the site. We were able to see the underworld was located. Athens. Our first stop in the morning was the abaton, where pilgrims would have slept the Cycladic Museum, where we were awaiting prophetic dreams, and the impres- Day 8 (Friday, November 2): Dodona delighted to see tourists taking pictures sive and beautifully preserved theatre. and Ioannina. Dodona! As none of us of gift shop merchandise. We then visited had previously visited, we were especially the Areopagus and the Agora, where we Day 5 (Tuesday, October 30): Mycenae, excited to see the remains of the site, which not only saw ostraka and other evidence of Corinth, Dinner with Princeton Alums. included an impressive theatre as well as a democratic Athens, but we also were intro- After a lovely evening at Nafplio, we set “descendant” of the original oracular tree of duced to the intricacies of restoration laws out for Corinth with a pit-stop in Mycenae. Zeus. We also explored Ioannina’s Byzan- in modern Greece. Our day ended with a Having marveled at the Cyclopean walls tine Museum. lovely trip to the Benaki Museum and a cof- and the renowned Lion Gate, we arrived fee break in Kolonaki. in Corinth, where Dr. Guy Sanders, the Day 9 (Saturday, November 3): Oro- director of the American School of Classical pos Amphiareion, Byzantine Museum, Day 3 (Sunday, October 28): National Studies at Athens’ (ASCSA) excavations, Lecture on Montanism. We visited the Archaeological Museum, Mt. Lykavet- shared his thoughts with us on everything Oropos Amphiareion, north of Athens, tos. We devoted our entire Sunday to the from Ancient Corinth’s wide-ranging influ- where Professor Alexandros Mazarakis- treasures of the National Archaeological ence to his recent theory that Helen of Troy Ainian acquainted us with a site completely Museum, from archaic kouroi and korai constituted an important Spartan vegeta- unfamiliar to most of us. We also visited statues to the frescoes of ancient Thira. One tion goddess. That evening we dined with Athens’ Byzantine Museum and attended a of the biggest highlights was the current Princeton alumni now based in Greece. lecture on Montanism entitled “Jerusalem exhibit on Praxiteles, based on the famous descending from heaven and Christ in the copies made of his statues. Some of us then Day 6 (Wednesday, October 31): Delphi. form of a woman: the visions of an early went for an evening hike up Lykavettos, the We set out early Wednesday morning for Christian prophetess,” by Dimitris Kyrtatas highest peak in modern Athens. the oracular navel of Greece, Delphi. We from the University of Athens. Our last eve- explored the lower site, the main site, and ning, some of us joined the members of the Day 4 (Monday, October 29): Epidaurus the museum. By the temple of Athena ASCSA at their annual Halloween party. n and Nafplio. Our fourth day began with a Pronaia, we bumped into a group from the bus ride to the Peloponnese. Our first stop ASCSA, who were also based in Delphi. 12. Princeton Classics Alumni News

After graduation Jim Abbot ’83 got de- at Princeton. Working with dense texts, she Jonathan Horner ’96 is a proprietary grees from Harvard (Ed.M. in the teach- works to solve practical problems and an- trader at Goldman Sachs in Manhattan. He ing of Latin and the classics, 1987) and ticipate miscommunications across multiple and his wife recently moved to Princeton. UNC–Chapel Hill (Ph.D. in classics, 1997). cultures and languages. He taught at the secondary level for several f years immediately after graduation. He f teaches classics now, on an adjunct basis, Uli Koester ’89 is executive director of at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. His wife Sarah Ferrario GS’06 is in her second the Midwest Food Connection, a nonprofit Jeanne LaSala ’83 and he have two sons, year as assistant professor in the Depart- that provides school children with educa- Thomas (17) and Andrew (12). When he ment of Greek and Latin at The Catholic tion on locally produced, sustainable, and is not teaching, he does volunteer work for University of America in Washington, D.C. healthful food choices. Teachers from his environmental groups in Georgia. She has presented papers so far this fall organization visit about 60 schools a year at “Greek Historiography in the Fourth with interactive, high-energy lessons on f Century BC: Problems and Perspectives,” topics such as “Potatoes, more than Fries,” a conference held at the Università degli “Feeding the Soil,” and “Amazing Grains.” Ronald Cluett GS’94 is currently a sec- Studi di Bologna (on memory-making and At home just outside of Minneapolis, MN, ond-year at Georgetown University Law legacy behavior in fourth-century Greece), Uli is raising two strong boys (10 and 7) Center, specializing in international tax. and at the APA in Chicago (on Thucydides’ with his wife Beth Kautz, gardens when he He spent the summer of 2007 in London, and Xenophon’s depictions of Alcibiades). can, and holds down leadership positions in studying European Union tax at the Uni- In addition to her monograph project (now his community and church. versity of London. This coming summer tentatively titled Athens ‘the Great’? The (2008), he will be working as an associate Ascendancy of the Individual in Classical f at Caplin & Drysdale in Washington, D.C. Greek Historical Thought), she is at work on He finds that his background in higher two other book chapters and is teaching her Jacqueline Long ’80 is the chairman of the education is proving directly relevant to department’s year-long graduate survey of Department of Classical Studies at Loyola this new career, since Caplin has a large Greek and Roman literature. During spring University of Chicago. She is an author of practice in exempt organizations, including break in early 2008, she will be taking a two books, with Alan Cameron, Barbarians colleges and universities. He is one of two group of students and faculty to Greece. and Politics at the Court of Arcadius (1993) Ph.D.’s and former academics in his class and Claudian’s in Eutropium, or, How, of 450, and is one of only two people in his f When and Why to Slander a Eunuch (1996). class who need no help translating Latin legal terms into English! Sara Forsdyke GS’97 is associate profes- f sor at the University of Michigan. She is f currently enjoying a sabbatical in a small Miguel Pizarro ’96 is teaching Latin at the village in France near the border of Swit- Hopkins School in New Haven, where he Chris Crenner ’84 finds that Nathaniel, zerland, where the whole family is enjoying also coaches the boys’ cross-country team. his seventh-grader, now reads Latin more learning (or relearning) to ski. She is also fluently than he. Chris is a historian of busy at work on a new book entitled Politics f American medicine and the Hudson-Major and Popular Culture in Ancient Greece. Andrew Saland ’93 lives in Manhattan and Chair of the Department of History and works on Wall Street doing institutional Philosophy of Medicine at the University f sales for a boutique bank. He is the father of Kansas School of Medicine, where he is Mark Geller ’70 is Jewish Chronicle Pro- of two sets of twos, boys age five and girls also an associate professor of medicine. He age one. is at work on a second book on the history fessor of Jewish Studies at the University of the race in American medicine. His book College London. f Private Practice (Johns Hopkins Univer- sity Press) explores the changing influence f David Segal ’03 is in his third year of rab- of new medical technology on medical For 33 years, Jeff Holman ’74 has been binical studies at Hebrew Union College in practice. working in the school system of Had- New York City. He expects to be ordained donfield, NJ, as an English teacher and a in May 2010. His essay on Jewish mascu- f counselor, first at the middle school and linity, “Standing Together at Sinai,” was published in December in the book The Paul Downs ’74 is a partner in the law firm now at the high school. His many responsi- bilities include coaching the school’s tennis Still Small Voice: Reflections on Being a Jew- of Heller Ehrman in New York City, where ish Man. He is engaged to Rollin Simmons one of his clients is the state of North Korea. teams and writing a bimonthly departmen- tal newsletter. He is grateful to Princeton’s (Vassar ’01), who is studying in the canto- f classics department for contributing to the rial program at HUC. development of his work ethic and a phi- Lydia Belknap Duff ’81 lives in Baltimore losophy of life that has guided him through- f with her husband and son. As an environ- out his years after Princeton. Amanda Seligman ’91 received a Ph.D. mental regulatory lawyer working for a in U.S. history from Northwestern Uni- multinational chemical company, she uses f versity in 1999. She teaches at University the skills in close reading that she acquired Princeton Classics 13.

of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and specializes rooms on the third floor of Firestone to Douglas Worthington ’89 writes that he in 20th-century urban history. She is the which all the majors were given keys. looks back fondly on his years in the classics author of Block by Block: Neighborhoods and department and is grateful for the faculty’s Public Policy on Chicago’s West Side, 2004. f patience and the lessons regarding humil- She has two children. ity and personal limitations that they taught Katharina Volk GS’99 last year received him. Doug graduated from George Wash- f tenure at Columbia University and is cur- ington University Law School in 1993 and, rently her department’s director of gradu- after spending six years in private practice in After years of faithful service to the depart- ate studies. She is about to finish her book Princeton, has since 1999 been senior coun- ment, Paul Shultz ’62 retired last year as manuscript on Manilius (finally!) and is sel in the law department at Bristol-Myers the chair of the Advisory Council. Since organizing—together with Steven Green Squibb. He and his partner Jim Hall live in retiring from the IRS in March 2005, he (Leeds)—a conference on Manilius to take Montgomery Township with their dog. has been traveling the world and spending place at Columbia on October 24–25, 2008. time with family. f f f Caroline E. Yeager ’06 is in her second Jim Ward ’77 is actively using his classical year of medical school at Duke, where Eric Simonoff ’89 is a literary agent and background in his research in Italian Re- she enjoys spending her days involved in co-director of Janklow and Nesbit Associ- naissance art and literature. He received a patient care. ates, a premier literary agency in New York Ph.D. in Italian from UC Berkeley in 1993 City, where his clients include Pulitzer and is currently an independent scholar f Prize winners Edward P. Jones, Jhumpa living in Berkeley, CA. He is working on Lahiri, and Stacy Schiff. He lives in Brook- a manuscript entitled Covert Criticism of Jeff Ziegler ’91 is a Latin and Greek lyn with his wife and two children. When Authority in the Italian Renaissance. He teacher and an academic dean at Thomas asked what he misses most about Princeton, invites former friends from the department Jefferson Classical Academy, a western he replies: the three locked Classics study to contact him at [email protected]. North Carolina public charter school. n

Senior Theses 2007 the Support of the SPQR in the Agrarian and Jonathan A. Pomeranz Catilinarian Orations Do You Wish to Know the One who Eric T. Besson Spoke and the World Came into Being? Agency and the Middle Voice in Homer Marya F. Grupsmith Looking for the Author in Philonic and Heinrich Schliemann, Homer and the Search Rabbinic Exegesis Alicia K. Bonilla for Troy Permissu Augusti: Selected Cities in Nathan J. Ristuccia Iberia and the Impact of the Empire Katharine C. Hession Raising the Ebenezer: Memory and The “Olympic Village” without Frills: Dirt, Miracle in the Hagiography of Gregory Alice J. Byowitz Glory, and Entertainment at the Panhellenic of Tours Cult and Belief in the Roman Imperial Games Army: A Comparative Study of the Cults Emma F. Shoucair of Mithras and Jupiter Dolichenus in the Andrew S. Heyman Studies in Greek and Indo-European Roman Empire Teucer: The Tale of a Lesser Hero Perfects

Jacobine K. Dru Patrick L. Hough Clarke M. Smith Between Interpretation and Translation: Potestas Regiae and Monastic Monarchy: A The Foreign Policy of Antiochus the Plato’s Ion according to Schleiermacher, Study in Cluniac Political Theology Great and the Origins of his War with Sydenham, Jowett, and Woodruff Rome Kassandra A. Jackson Bridget R. Durkin The Magic of Homer: Homer in the Greek Russell M. Squire Finding the City of Cannibals: A New Magical Papyri The Art of the Canvass: The Commen- Search for the Origin of the Acts of tariolum Petitionis and Getting Elected Andrew and Matthias in the City of Kevin M. Keegan in Rome Cannibals Augustine on Evil Tara E. Sullivan Alexandra Gerardi Matthew W. Leffel Matrons and Virgins: Three Case Studies Politics and Society in the World of The Storyteller’s Honor: Nestor’s klea andros of Republican Women and Religion in the Thucydides: A study of the causes and in the Iliad Roman Republic consequences of stasis in the Pelopon- nesian War Maya Maskarinec William S. Sweney Reusing Saturn in Late 4th Century Rome Ostia + Suburbia: A Manifesto on Sus- Emmitte H. Griggs, Jr. tainable Urbanism Cicero’s Consular Personae: Manipulat- Eleanor V. Mulhern ing Ideological Catch Phrases to Win The Hector Theme 14. Princeton Classics

of the entire Empire and a relationship that antityranny law. Therein it is demonstrated Dissertations enables the domination of Rome over its that promulgation and enforcement of that provinces—is dissolving. decree solved the coordination problem that The next two chapters are also a pair the Athenian democrats had in respond- Jonathan Master and they take the problem of identity in the ing to internal defections from the political Histories head on. Chapter 3 examines the status quo (i.e., a coup) and thus deterred The Empire Strikes Back: Roman and de-Romanization of the Vitellians and the individuals from making such a move in Other in the Histories of Tacitus Flavians and ultimately argues that Vitellius the future. Each of the five subsequent in particular has gone German. The fourth chapters examines an antityranny prom- his dissertation explores the construc- chapter then explores the issue of identity ulgation through the methodological lens tion of Roman and Other in Tacitus’ from the opposite perspective: that is, the developed in the first chapter. Chapters two THistories. More specifically, I argue inescapability of the Roman in the context and three—examinations of the Eretrian an- that Tacitus presents a picture of Roman of the Other. The doomed German/Gallic tityranny law (340 B.C.) and the Athenian and Other identities that have steadily revolt of Histories 4 only reveals that the law of Eukrates (337/6 B.C.) respectively— evolved over time and are beginning to great challenge the rebels face is to break demonstrate that the Athenians success- converge. away from Roman ideologies more than fully used antityranny legislation to counter I first approach the issue of identity actual Roman rule. The final chapter of my Philip II’s attempt to subvert the Euboean confusion with an investigation of the dissertation looks for signs of resolution, of and Athenian democracies. Chapters four, annalistic form of the work. I begin by a way forward for the Roman state and Ro- five, and six—examinations of the “tyranny focusing on the annalistic structure of the man identity after the successful establish- dossier” from Eresos (332–ca. 300 B.C.), text to see how the form frames the problem ment of the Flavian principate. the “Philites stele” from Erythrai (ca. 280 of identity in A.D. 69. My second chapter is B.C.), and the Ilian antityranny law (ca. a close reading of the excursus that comes 280 B.C.) respectively—demonstrate, col- toward the very beginning of book 1. The David Teegarden lectively, that the promulgation of antityran- excursus establishes that the instability of ny legislation helped make viable the early the civil war is an Empire-wide phenome- Defending Democracy: A Study of An- Hellenistic democratic revolution in Asia non and its causes are rooted in the expanse cient Greek Anti-Tyranny Legislation Minor ushered in by Alexander the Great. of the Empire and diversity of interests The dissertation’s concluding remarks contained within it. Together, my first two his dissertation presents a historical briefly assess the significance of antityr- chapters establish the depths of the instabil- and sociopolitical analysis of an- anny legislation in the history of ancient ity in the year of the four emperors. The Tcient Greek antityranny legislation. Greek democracy. Therein it is argued that problems in A.D. 69 are not just political Chapter one examines the Athenian decree such legislation played an important and and military. The distinction between the of Demophantus (410 B.C.), the Urtext for concrete role in the survival of democratic Romans and their subjects—the foundation subsequent democratically promulgated governance in the ancient Greek world. n

Class Day 2007: (Clockwise from above.) Some CLG103-ers surprised Joshua Katz with a custom T-shirt!; Graduating from Classics with High Hon- ors, Emmitte Griggs shown with his proud parents; Two members of Phi Beta Kappa Society, Kassandra Jackson and Marya Grupsmith, with Denis Feeney; Emma Shoucaire, Highest Honors recipient Zachary Squire, and Emma’s grandmother; Highest Honors recipient Clarke Smith along with fellow classics ma- jor Patrick Hough; Bridget Durkin, Phi Betta Kappa member, next to her father Joseph S. Durkin ’81; and Maya Maskarinec, who delivered the Latin salutorian speech, with her mother. Princeton Classics 15.

Lectures 2007–08

October 2 Prentice Lecture “The Mind of an Ass and the Impudence of a Dog”: A Scholar Gone Bad Cynthia Damon University of Pennsylvania

October 12 Kress Lecture “Beloved Beasts: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies” Salima Ikram American University in Cairo

October 16 Lecture “Alois Riegl and Classical Archaeology” Jas Elsner Stewart Fellow in the Humanities Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and University of Chicago December 12 April 1 October 18 Lunch Talk Lecture Lecture “The Lament of the Muse: Rhesus “What is God? Defining the Divine in “Philostratus Visualises the Tragic: Some 906–949” Rome” Ekphrastic and Pictorial Receptions of Marco Fantuzzi David Levene Greek Tragedy in the Roman Era” Visiting Professor, Columbia University; New York University Jas Elsner University of Macerata and University of Stewart Fellow in the Humanities Florence April 8 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Lecture Lecture University of Chicago “Nocturnal Epic Warriors from Homer to “History in Translation: Reading Statius” Thucydides through Eleftherios Venizelos’ October 23 Marco Fantuzzi Translation” Magie Lecture Emily Greenwood Lecture “Religion in the Mirror of the Other: University of St. Andrews “Heaven’s Exarchs: Early Byzantine Arch- The Use of Anti-Religion” angels and Delegation of Imperial Power” David Frankfurter April 12–13 John Kenfield University of New Hampshire Princeton-Rutgers Ancient Philosophy Rutgers University Graduate Conference November 7 February 20 Lecture April 25 Thompson Lecture “The Master of Animals in Cyprus and Graduate Conference “The Athenian Akropolis: the Eastern Mediterranean: Divine Sym- “Historicisms and Formalisms” A Vase-Painter’s Perspective” bols and Local Traditions” H. Alan Shapiro Derek Counts The Johns Hopkins University April 30 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lecture “Looking at Ararat: Archaeologies of a March 4 November 9 Mountain” “A Conversation with Maurice Bloch, Symposium Susan Alcock Anthropologist” “The Rebirth of Antiquity: Numismatics, Brown University Maurice Bloch Archaeology, and Classical Studies in the London School of Economics Lecture Culture of the Renaissance” “Tyes: The Politics of Allotment in March 10 Classical Athens” November 15 Faber Lecture Josine Blok Lecture “Skin Changes: Disease, Animality, and University of Utrecht “The Philosopher and His Debt: Apuleius’ the Borders of the Human in the Second ‘Florida’ 18” Century C.E.” Richard Fletcher Maud Gleason Ohio State University Stanford University 16. Princeton Classics

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