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SARAH BOLMARCICH School of International Letters and Cultures, The State – Tempe Campus, PO Box 870202, Tempe, AZ, 85287-0202 Office Phone: 480-727-9138; FAX: 480-965-0135 Email: [email protected]

EDUCATION Fall 2016 Certificate, Master Class in Teaching Online, Summer 2005 Graduate Summer Seminar, American Numismatic Society, New York City May 2003 Ph. D. in Classics, Dissertation: Thucydidean Explanations: Diplomacy and Historiography in Archaic and (directors: John Dillery, Elizabeth A. Meyer) 2002-3 Regular Member, American School of Classical Studies at (Fulbright Fellow) 2000 Summer Session II, American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1998 MA in Classics, University of Virginia MA Thesis: In the Shadow of the Epic Future: The Uses of Homer in Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica (readers: Jenny Strauss Clay, John F. Miller) 1995 BA in Classics and Comparative Literature, Smith

EMPLOYMENT 2010-on Multi-Year Lecturer, School of International Languages and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ • Appointed Honors Faculty in the Barrett Honors College, fall 2014 2009-10 Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 2008-09 Temporary Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, , Minneapolis, MN 2006-08 Visiting Lecturer in Classics, University of Texas, Austin, TX 2005-06 Visiting Lecturer in Classical Studies, , Ann Arbor, MI 2003-04 Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Loyola College-Maryland, Baltimore, MD

RESEARCH INTERESTS Greek and Latin historiography, Greek history, ancient international relations, Greek inscriptions

AWARDS AND HONORS Summer 2014 Undergraduate Student Enrichment (USE) award for a summer research assistant for : A Sourcebook, Arizona State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Summer 2008 Macatee Fellowship for research in Britain, University of Texas at Austin Summer 2006 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant, 2004-2005 Jacob Hirsch Fellowship (Senior Associate Member), American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2002-2003 Fulbright Fellowship to Greece, Institute of International Education Honorary Martin Ostwald Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

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2001-2002 Dissertation Fellowship, University of Virginia of Arts and Sciences 1998-2001 DuPont Fellowship, University of Virginia 1997-1998 Dean of the Faculty Fellowship, University of Virginia 1997 Basil L. Gildersleeve Fellowship, University of Virginia Department of Classics. 1995 Smith College, prize for the translation of Latin at sight

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Introductory Lecture Courses • Civilization (fall 2016, 2017, Arizona State University – part of a freshman class block with Physics) • Gods and Monsters: Comparative Mythology (fall 2017, Arizona State University – entirely new course developed with a colleague with a departmental grant) • Introduction to Greek and Roman Mythology (fall 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, Arizona State University) • The World of Greece (fall 2008, University of Minnesota) • Introduction to Greece (fall 2007, spring 2008, University of Texas at Austin) • Greek History to 146 BC (spring 2007, spring 2008, University of Texas at Austin) • Introduction to the Ancient Mediterranean World (fall 2006, University of Texas at Austin) • Greek Civilization (fall 2000, University of Virginia, teaching assistant) • Classical Mythology (spring 2000, University of Virginia, teaching assistant; summer 2001, University of Virginia, instructor) Classical Civilization and Ancient History Courses • Saving the Roman Empire (spring 2018, Arizona State University) • The Spartan Experience (fall 2017, Arizona State University, freshman seminar) • Survey of Greek Literature (fall 2015, Arizona State University) • Survey of Roman Literature (spring 2014, Arizona State University) • This Was Sparta (fall 2013, Arizona State University) • The Ancient World on Film (spring 2011, Arizona State University) • The Mediterranean World in the Hellenistic Age (spring 2010, Trinity University) • Literary Classics of the Ancient Greek World (fall 2009, Trinity University) • The Golden Age of Greece (spring 2009, University of Minnesota) • Athens: History and Culture (spring 2008, University of Texas at Austin) • Greeks Ahoy! from Archaic Colonization to Hellenistic Conquest (fall 2007, University of Texas at Austin) • Senior Seminar: Strange People, Strange Places (spring 2006, University of Michigan) • First-Year Seminar: The Ancient Spartans (spring 2006, University of Michigan) • Women in Greece (fall 2005, University of Michigan) • The Individual in Greek Society (fall 2005, University of Michigan) • Diplomacy in (fall 2005, University of Michigan) • Classical Mythology (summer 2002, University of Virginia) Greek Language Courses • (spring 2015, Arizona State University) • Xenophon (fall 2014, 2017, Arizona State University) • Greek Comedy (spring 2013, Arizona State University) • Greek Symposia (fall 2012, Arizona State University) • Intermediate Greek (spring 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, Arizona State University) • Elementary Greek (fall 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, Arizona State University) BOLMARCICH 3

• Greek Lyric Poetry (spring 2011, Arizona State University) • Greek Historians (spring 2010, Trinity University) • Readings in Classical Greek Literature (fall 2009, Trinity University) • Greek Historiography (spring 2009, University of Minnesota) • (fall 2010, 2015, Arizona State University; spring 2007, University of Texas at Austin) • Third-Semester Greek: Lysias, Xenophon (fall 2006, 2007, University of Texas at Austin) • Homer (spring 2004, Loyola College in Maryland) • Second-Semester Greek (spring 2004, Loyola College in Maryland) Latin Courses • Intermediate Latin I-II (2011-12, Arizona State University) • Intermediate Latin, Caesar and Cicero (University of Minnesota, fall 2008) • First-Year Latin (University of Virginia, 1997-98; Loyola College in Maryland, 2003-04; Arizona State University, 2010-11, spring 2013) • Intermediate Latin (Loyola College in Maryland, fall 2003, spring 2004) • Second-Year Latin, various authors (University of Virginia, multiple semesters; Loyola College in Maryland, 2003-04) Online Courses • Elementary Latin II (spring 2016, Arizona State University) • Introduction to Greek and Roman Mythology (summer 2014, summer 2015, spring 2016, summer 2016, Arizona State University) • Roman Civilization (fall 2012, Arizona State University) • Greek Civilization (spring 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, Arizona State University) • Greek and Latin Roots in Bioscientific Terminology (fall 2010, spring 2011, summer 2011, fall 2011, spring 2012, summer 2012, fall 2012, spring 2013, summer 2013, fall 2013, spring 2014, summer 2014, fall 2014, spring 2015, summer 2015, fall 2015, spring 2016, summer 2016, fall 2016, spring 2017, summer 2017, Arizona State University) Graduate Courses • Greek Historiography (spring 2009, University of Minnesota) • Sight Reading in Greek (fall 2008, University of Minnesota) • Graduate Greek History Survey (fall 2006, University of Texas at Austin) • Thucydides (spring 2006, University of Michigan) Theses and Independent Studies • Senior honors thesis, “Three Tales in Homer’s Odyssey,” adviser (2014, Arizona State University) • Senior honors thesis, “The Perils of Friendship: Xenia in Herodotus,” adviser (2007-08, University of Texas at Austin; thesis awarded UT’s highly prestigious and selective Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship) • Senior honors thesis, “Sophocles’ Ajax: Motives and Transformation,” second reader (2007- 08, University of Texas at Austin) • Independent studies on Greek epigraphy (spring 2017, Arizona State University), Lysias (spring 2016, Arizona State University), Elementary Greek (spring 2012, Arizona State University), Demosthenes, the Athenian Empire (spring 2008, University of Texas at Austin), Thucydides (spring 2006, University of Michigan), Homer (spring 2003, Loyola College in Maryland) Other • planned ASU Summer Classics in Naples program, summer 2013 and 2014 BOLMARCICH 4

PUBLICATIONS (*=REFEREED PUBLICATION; §=INVITED PUBLICATION) *§Review of S. Scharff, Eid und Außenpolitik: Studien zur religiösen Fundierung der Akzeptanz zwischenstaatlicher Vereinbarungen im vorrömischen Griechenland (Franz Steiner Verlag 2016) for sehepunkte: Review Journal for History (forthcoming, 2017) *§With G. M. Muskett (), “Artists’ Signatures on Archaic Greek Vases,” for The Artistic Personality in Ancient Greece, eds. K. E. Seaman and P. Schultz (Cambridge 2017): 154-176 *§“Global contexts: the military, federal states, empire, colonization, and international relations: The Greek democratic context,” in: D. Hammer, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Democracies and Republics: A Comparative Approach (Blackwell 2015): 313-328 “Beyond the Three-Barred Sigma: IG i3 11,” in: J. Bodel and N. Dimitrova, First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy: Proceedings (Brill 2014): 54-66 §Review of J. Fletcher, Performing Oaths in Classical Greek Drama (Cambridge 2012), Mnemosyne 66.3 (2013): 489-492 §Review of J. Ma, N. Papazardakas, and R. Parker, eds., Interpreting the Athenian Empire (Duckworth 2009), Hermathena 189 (Winter 2013): 103-107 §“The Art of Negotiation in the Peloponnesian War Period,” Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in Archaic and Classical Greece, ed. J. Wilker (Verlag Antike, 2012): 78-91 *§Entries on “Adeimantus,” “Diplomacy, Greek,” “Oaths, Greek and Roman,” “Spondai,” “Stelae, Greek,” “Symmachia,” and “Themistocles” for the Encyclopedia of Ancient History, eds. R. Bagnall et al., Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 §Review of L. Tritle, A New History of the Peloponnesian War (Wiley-Blackwell 2010), Classical Review 61.1 (April 2011): 190-191 *“Communal Values in Ancient Diplomacy, in: Penn-Leiden V: Valuing Others in Antiquity, eds. R. Rosen and I. Sluiter, Brill 2010, 113-136 *“The Athenian Regulations for Samos (IG i3 48) Again,” Chiron (2009): 45-64 *§Entries on “Assembly (Ekklesia),” “Civil War (stasis),” “Council/Boule,” “Demes,” “Friendship,” “Metic,” and “Phratry,” for The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. M. Gagarin (Oxford 2009) *“The Date of the ‘Oath of the Peloponnesian League’,” Historia 57.1 (2008): 65-79 §Review of P. Low, Interstate Relations in Classical Greece: Morality and Power (Cambridge 2007), International History Review (2008): 344-346 §Review of D. Shanske, Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History (Cambridge 2007), Classical Review 58.1 (2008): 45-47 *“The Afterlife of a Treaty,” Classical Quarterly 57.2 (2007): 13-25 *“Oaths in Greek International Relations,” in A. H. Sommerstein and J. Fletcher, eds., Horkos (Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007): 26-38 *“Introduction” to J. B. Bury, The Ancient Greek Historians, Barnes & Noble 2006 *“Thucydides 1.19.1 and the Peloponnesian League,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 45.1 (February 2005): 5-34 “Hellenistic Sepulchral Epigrams on Homer.” in M. A. Harder et al., eds., Hellenistic Epigrams: Fifth Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry (Peeters, 2002): 67-83 *“Homophrosyne in the Odyssey,” Classical Philology 96.3 (July 2001): 205-213

WORK IN PROGRESS/UNDER REVIEW/UNDER REVISION (*=REFEREED PUBLICATION; §=INVITED PUBLICATION) *§”Definitions of Peace in Antiquity,” for A Cultural History of Peace, general ed. R. Edsforth, editor of the volume on antiquity S. Ager (expected publication, Bloomsbury 2018) BOLMARCICH 5

§Entries on “ (Spartan king), “Peloponnesian League,” “allies,” “Ariston king of Sparta,” “Anaxandrides son of Leon,” “Archidamus son of Zeuxidamus,” “Astrabacus,” “,” “Hegesicles,” “Lampito,” “Leobatas,” “Leon king of Sparta,” “Percalus,” and “ son of ,” for the International Encyclopedia of Herodotus, ed. C. S. Baron (expected publication, Wiley-Blackwell, 2017) “What Did the Oath of the Delian League Mean?” (article, in progress) Sparta: A Sourcebook (in progress) Thucydides and the Diplomacy of Empire (monograph, in progress)

PAPERS DELIVERED 2013 “Teaching Classical Civilization Online,” moderator, Round Table Session, American Philological Association Annual Meeting 2011 “Introduction to Greek Epigraphy,” Professor Lecture, Solis Diaboli, Arizona State University “Beyond the Three-Barred Sigma: IG i3 11,” American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy conference, San Antonio, TX 2010 “Justice in Greek International Relations,” conference on Justice in the Greco- Roman World, University of Western Ontario 2009 “The Art of Negotiation in the Peloponnesian War Period,” Harvard University, symposium on Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in the Ancient World 2008 “Communal Values in Ancient Diplomacy,” Penn-Leiden Colloquium V: Valuing Others in Antiquity “Is imperialism infectious? The case of Athens and Sparta,” - SUNY 2007 “The tyrant-metaphor in Thucydides: negative or positive?”, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Reed College “The Philaïd Coinage of the Thracian Chersonesus,” panel on “The Function of Numismatic Iconography: Authority or Message?”, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting 2005 “The Philaïd Coinage of the Thracian Chersonesus: Miltiades the Younger and Early Athenian Imperialism?,” American Numismatic Society “Thucydides and the Constraints of Hegemony,” panel on “Beyond the Cold War: Thucydides and the Discourse of International Relations,” American Philological Association Annual Meeting 2004 “Samos and Lesbos in the Athenian Empire,” American School of Classical Studies at Athens “Oaths in Greek International Relations,” at “The Oath in Greek Society” conference, University of Nottingham, England “Thucydidean Diplomacy and the Athenian Empire,” Bryn Mawr College 2003 “Herodotus vs. Thucydides,” University of Maryland, College Park 2002 “Thucydides 1.44.1 and the Terminology of Athenian Diplomacy,” American Philological Association Annual Meeting 2000 “Dead Poet’s Society: Hellenistic Sepulchral Epigrams on Homer,” Fifth Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry, Groningen, the Netherlands 1999 “The Songless Sirens of Apollonius Rhodius,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting 1998 “How Does Telemachus Know? The Reunion of Father and Son in Odyssey 16,” American Philological Association Annual Meeting BOLMARCICH 6

“Fate and Fury: Pompey’s Wives in Lucan’s de Bello Civili,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting - Southern Section “Homophrosyne in the Odyssey,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting 1997 “Subject to Debate: Questions of Leadership in Apollonius’s Argonautica,” Classical Association of the Middle West and South Annual Meeting

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE/OUTREACH 2017-2018 Guest speaker, “Women in the Ancient World,” Venture Out, Mesa, AZ Taught mini-course on Ancient Greek Civilization for ASU-OLLI (Tempe Public Library) Ran a practicum on hoplite tactics at Fall Forum, Arizona State University Guest lecturer at ASU-OLLI (Maravilla), “Women in the Ancient World” ACETS evaluator for Latin transfer credits, Arizona State University Speaker for the of the Senses salon group, Scottsdale, AZ • Topic(s): Women in the Ancient World 2016-2019 Member, Student Affairs and Grievances Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University • Served as chair, 2017-2018 2016-2017 Pedagogical reviewer for instructors and single-year lecturers in the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University Ran a practicum on hoplite tactics at Fall Forum, Arizona State University, and on the Ancient Olympics at ASU’s Night of the Open Door Speaker for the Spirit of the Senses salon group, Scottsdale, AZ Topic(s): Hesiod Guest lecture at ASU-OLLI (Maravilla) “The Golden Age of Athens” Guest speaker, Arizona Junior Classical League, “Superheroes in the Ancient World” 2015-2016 Pedagogical reviewer for instructors and single-year lecturers in the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University Ran a practicum on hoplite tactics at Fall Forum, Arizona State University Speaker for the Spirit of the Senses salon group, Scottsdale, AZ Topic(s): Who Was Achilles?, “The Aeneid and Homer” 2014-2015 Pedagogical reviewer for instructors and single-year lecturers in the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University Outside reviewer for tenure, Hobart and William Smith , Geneva, NY Ran a practicum on hoplite tactics at Fall Forum, Arizona State University Speaker for the Spirit of the Senses salon group, Scottsdale, AZ Topic(s): Ovid’s Metamorphoses 2013-2016 Elected member of the Student Affairs and Grievances Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, 2013-2016 • Served as chair, 2013-2014 2013-2014 Member, ad hoc Student Affairs and Grievances Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, summer 2013 Latin Certamen speaker (on ancient monsters), Seton Catholic Preparatory School, Chandler, AZ Ran a practicum on hoplite tactics at Fall Forum, Arizona State University Speaker for the Spirit of the Senses salon group, Scottsdale, AZ Topics: The Fall of the Roman Empire, 1000 BC BOLMARCICH 7

2012-13 Latin Certamen speaker (on gladiators), Seton Catholic Preparatory School, Chandler, AZ Presented a practicum on Roman Elections at Fall Forum and Night of the Open Door, Arizona State University 2011-12 Speaker for the Spirit of the Senses salon group, Scottsdale, AZ Topics: The Golden Age of Athens, Roman Religion Saturnalia speaker at Brophy Preparatory School, Phoenix, AZ Ran a practicum on hoplite tactics at Fall Forum, Arizona State University Presented panels on Gladiators, Ancient Marriage, Ancient Coins, Roman Elections, and Digitizing Ancient Rome at The Night of the Open Door, Arizona State University Developed temporary website for Arizona State University Classics program (http://www.public.asu.edu/~sbolmarc/). Now replaced by Classics page on the School of International Letters and Cultures website. 2006-08 Available through the University of Texas at Austin for outreach talks on Ancient Sparta and the Battle of Actium (the latter tied to the AP Latin Horace/Vergil syllabus). Talks given on Sparta to Warren High School, San Antonio, TX, and Austin Community College-Northridge, History Symposium, Austin, TX. 2006 Set and graded Ph.D. qualifying examinaton in Greek History, University of Texas at Austin 2003 “The Battle of Actium,” Loyola Seminar for High School Teachers of Latin 1998 Co-organizer, University of Virginia Second Annual Classics Graduate Student Conference, “Heroine and Whore: The Role of the Female on the Ancient Stage.”

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