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Vo l u m e 85, Nu m b e r 2 Fa l l 2011

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1 Jon Stewart evokes Ancient Greek History 2 ΗΣΦ: Statement of Purpose and Benefits of Membership 2 About NUNTIUS 2 List of 2011–2012 Officers 2 Members of the Board of Trustees 2 ΗΣΦ Committees 3 Statement from the outgoing Megas Prytanis David Giovagnoli 3 FASTI 3 Want to Place an Ad in NUNTIUS? The story below is 4 About the 2011–2012 Officers 6 Best Paper at the 2011 Convention: Learning to Speak from the sketch titled and Pray in Confessions, Book 1: Theodore Harwood 9 ΗΣΦ at APA/AIA 2013 “Graecian Burn,” 10 ΗΣΦ Officers at APA January 2011 taken from the June 11 The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students APA 2011 22, 2011 episode of the 15 Panelist Mara Kutter eloquently expresses the profound value of participating in ΗΣΦ panels Daily Show with Jon 15 ΗΣΦ at the APA/AIA 2012 16 Maurine Dallas Watkins Translation Contests Stewart (season 16, 17 Minutes of the 2011 National Convention 22 2011 Convention Awards episode 81, “Licensed 22 2012 ΗΣΦ National Convention Property”). 22 ΗΣΦ Medals 23 2011 Scholarship Winners 23 H. R. Butts Scholarship for Fieldwork in Classical Archaeology 24 2011 Lifetime Achievement Awards 25 On the selection of Lifetime Achievement Awardees 26 Report of the Resolutions Committee 26 ΗΣΦ owl lapel pins 27 Pearson Disce! Jon Stewart Evokes Ancient Greek 28 2011 Report of the Chair of the Board of Trustees 28 Lifetime subscriptions to NUNTIUS 29 Winners of the 2011 ΗΣΦ Maurine Dallas Watkins Sight Translation Contests History, Philosophy, and Mythology 30 2011 Certamen Procedures 30 Some Favorite Questions 31 Initiates July 1, 2010 — December 31, 2010 31 Honorary Membership in ΗΣΦ To explain the current state of the modern Greek economy, 32 2010–2011 Membership Report 32 New and Reactivated Chapters with references to Plato, Thucydides, and John Keats 32 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients 33 Chapter Res Gestae 2010–2011 48 Annual ΗΣΦ Summer Travel Scholarships Transcribed by the editor, with apologies for you’re a little too Spartan. Retiring at 53 49 University of Michigan Press 50 Original Poetry inspired by Classical Literature: any remaining errors. with almost full pay, a little too Plato’s • Penelope’s Shroud by J. Garvey Retreaty. But I know you can strike this • The Veil of Alcestis by Angela Pitts “Greece, meet me at camera 3. Hey, what’s 51 Historical Linguistics of the Latin Language: balance between austerity and hedonism. Latin Rhotacism by Christina Skelton up. It’s me, Jon. I think I know what your 51 ΗΣΦ on Facebook I’m going to tell you a little story that I 52 “Review of John Hall, Politeness and Politics in Cicero’s problem is, Greece. Your Greek spirit is Letters” by Emily Wagner think you might find a propos. caught in a battle of duality, torn between 53 Latin Composition: Emily Dickinson in Latin: Two One day, a god named Zeus looked Poems adapted in Latin Glyconics by Tara Martin the aggression and tenacity of the Spartans 53 Ubi Sunt Alumni Nostri? down upon the people of earth from 54 Review of Agora by Chelisa Elmore [The 300] versus the wisdom and sophis- 54 Review of “The Centurions” by Annalaissa Johnson Olympus and thought [Jon speaks in 55 Focus Publishing tication and hospitality of the Athenians 56 Student Recognitions on the 2011 National Latin deep “Zeus” voice] “I will turn myself Exam [Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure], an into a bull.” Then as a bull he went down 57 National Latin Exam 2011 College Analysis epic struggle between Sparta and Athens, 58 Why Administer the National Latin Exam to College amongst the humans and f***ed a spider, Students? a profound 3,000-year internal struggle 59 NLE Guidelines for College Students and that is why, today, we have cocoanuts. 59 Photos Wanted for NUNTIUS that we here in America have interpreted 60 Third Annual College Greek Exam You know who came up with that? You 61 Winners of Beta Nu Classical Essay Contest through our experience at diners and this 61 Bernice L. Fox Latin Teaching Scholarship did. 62 ΗΣΦ Budget for 2011–2012 guy [Jim Belushi in Animal House]. Boy, 62 Report on the Endowment Fund Good luck. 62 Report on the Medal Fund how is it we don’t know much about world 63 ΗΣΦ Honor Cords and Hoods history? But Greece, to solve this you must Please view the monologue online at http://www. 63 ΗΣΦ Jewelry 64 Bolchazy-Carducci overcome your duality. Right now, with the thedaily show.com/watch/wed-june-22-2011/ hitting the police with clubs and yoghurt, grecian-burn---battle-of-duality ETA SIGMA PHI: Statement of Purpose LIST OF 2011–2012 OFFICERS Megale Chrysophylax and Benefits of Membership Ashley Gilbert Zeta Beta at Temple University The purposes of Eta Sigma Phi, the national • membership card, lapel pin and certificate [email protected] Classics honorary society, are to develop and • subscription to NUNTIUS, the biannual promote interest in Classical study among newsletter of the society Megale Grammateus students of colleges and universities; to promote • an annual national convention including a Lauren Milburn closer fraternal relationship among students certamen and banquet Eta Zeta at Truman State University who are interested in Classical studies, and to • the opportunity to give academic presenta- [email protected] stimulate interest in Classical studies and in the tions before an audience of peers and scholars history, art, and literature of ancient Greece • annual sight translation exams in Latin and Megas Hyparchos and Rome. Members are elected by local chap- Greek Kyle Oskvig ters which have been chartered by the society. • honors cords and sashes for graduation Epsilon at the University of Iowa Most members are undergraduates but chapters • bronze and silver medals of achievement [email protected] can also initiate graduate students, faculty, and • eligibility for summer travel scholarships to Megas Prytanis honorees. There are more than 180 chapters of Greece, Rome or southern Italy Christopher Rios Eta Sigma Phi throughout the United States. • eligibility for a Latin teacher training Theta Upsilon, University of North Texas Benefits of membership include: scholarship [email protected] MEMBERS OF THE About NUNTIUS BOARD OF TRUSTEES NUNTIUS is the newsletter of Eta Sigma Phi, lifetime subscription is a single payment of $50. Martha A. Davis (2013), Chair the national Classics honorary society. 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Beta Kappa at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland [email protected] ETA SIGMA PHI COMMITTEES Joseph Garnjobst (2012) Eta Delta at Hillsdale College Translation Contest Committee [email protected] David Sick of Beta Psi at Rhodes College, coordinator ([email protected]) Antony Augoustakis (2014) Fox Scholarship Committee Alpha Kappa at the University of Illinois Mary L. Pendergraft of Beta Iota at Wake Forest University, Chair (2012, [email protected]) [email protected] Bridget Thomas of Eta Zeta at Truman State University (2013) Timothy Moore of Gamma Sigma at the University of Texas at Austin (2014) HONORARY TRUSTEES Summer Scholarships Committee Brent M. Froberg Molly Pasco-Pranger of Lambda at University of Mississippi, Chair (2013, [email protected]) Gamma Omega at Baylor University Katherine Panagakos of Theta Tau at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (2014) [email protected] James (Jim) Johnson of Gamma Upsilon at Austin College (2014) Program Committee W. 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2 Statement from the outgoing Fasti Megas Prytanis David Giovagnoli 2011 September 2: Battle Eta Sigma Phi Members, of Actium It was my pleasure to serve as your October 15: Vergil’s megas prytanis during the 2010–11 aca- birthday demic year. Over the past year, we have November 15: annual reports of continued to do what we do best: extol chapter officers due the virtues of Classical civilization and December 8: Horace’s birthday study the Classics ourselves. Our orga- December 17–23: Saturnalia, eugepae! nization has continued to grow in both December 31: Deadline for call of members and chapters, and our endow- papers for the 2012 convention ment has increased significantly due to the most generous donation of the late Larry ­Crowson. We have been working diligently 2012 to improve the recognition and expand the Saturday, January 7, 1:30–3:30 PM, study of the Classics for the past 97 years, room to be announced: ΗΣΦ at since our founding at the University of the APA/AIA joint meeting Chicago in 1914, as Phi Sigma. As we ap- February 1 deadlines: proach the centennial of our organization’s · ΗΣΦ Summer Travel Scholarship birth, we can look forward to the begin- Applications ning of the second century of our mis- · ΗΣΦ Summer Scholarship for sion of the promotion of the Classics. To Fieldwork in Classical Archaeol- celebrate the completion of 100 years as an Megas Prytanis David Giovagnoli delivers ogy Applications organization, we will be returning to our the welcoming address for the 83rd annual · ΗΣΦ Bernice L. Fox Teacher­ home city: Chicago, Illinois. The Board of convention Training Scholarship Trustees has formed a new committee to Applications plan the 2014 convention, to which I have · Abstracts and Cover Pages for been appointed chairperson. the ΗΣΦ panel at the American The committee’s primary goal is to plan Philological Association the 2014 convention, as well as improve About the Author February 10: deadline for Maureen the level of communication between the David Giovagnoli is a member of Eta Dallas Watkins Greek and Latin Grand Executive Council and Board of Zeta at Truman State University, was the Translation Contest requests and Trustees with local planning authorities 2010–2011 Megas Prytanis of Eta Sigma submission. (If paper copies of for upcoming conventions. Eventually, we Phi, and has also served two terms on testing materials are desired, such would like to have the ability to plan con- the national board of the National Senior a request must be received by ventions in cities without local chapters, Classical League. He is in his fifth and February 1.) to supplement our options for convention final year in his pursuit of a Bachelor of sites. I look forward to working in this Arts degree in Classics and in English. His February 18: deadline for completed role, and hope that you are excited for this English degree capstone paper was entitled Maureen Dallas Watkins Greek important milestone in our organization’s “Catullus as a Translator: The Relationship and Latin Translation Contest history. Between Catullus 51 and Sappho 31,” and tests postmarked th Yours Most Sincerely, his Classics capstone is forthcoming. After March 16–18: 84 National Con- David Giovagnoli the completion of his B.A., he intends to vention at the invitation of Alpha 2010–2011 Megas Prytanis pursue admittance to a graduate program Mu at the University of Missouri Chair of the Centennial Committee in Classics. Columbia May 15: Chapter Res Gestae due (submit by email to the editor of NUNTIUS: [email protected]) Want to place an ad in NUNTIUS?­ 2013 Cost per issue for active chapters: $25 (1/4 page); $40 (1/2 page); $75 (whole page). April 5–7: 85th National Convention For other organizations: $200 for full page on back cover, $150 for full page inside; at the Invitation of Beta Iota at $75 for half page; $50 for quarter page. Wake Forest Send payment and electronic camera-ready copy to the editor.

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Megale Chrysophylax Ashley Gilbert

I grew up in and around Mansfield, CT, where I graduated from E. O. Smith High School in 1999. My first brush with the ancient world happened when I was six Ashley Gilbert, left years old, on a school trip to the Metro- Lauren Milburn, below politan Museum of Art in New York City. The object I saw that day which I remem- ber the most vividly was a very old shirt found among grave goods. Since I was only six, I can’t tell you how old the shirt really was, but I can tell you how amazed I was. Somebody had worn that shirt thousands of years ago! From that moment forward, I was hooked on antiquity. I began to study Latin in sixth grade and continued on through high school. After a decade-long hiatus, I enrolled at Temple University in Philadelphia to pursue a degree in chemis- try. After reading Gilgamesh in a literature class I changed my major to Classics and have not regretted the decision. I love ancient languages and literature, especially guage and Roman culture that I decided to poetry, and hope to continue on to get a change my major to Classics. I have found PhD in Philology once I graduate with my that Classics is a truly wonderful discipline, B.A. in Classics. providing students with many avenues Eta Sigma Phi is a great organization of study. Whether you are interested in for meeting other people who share my Philosophy, History, or Gender Studies, passion for Classical Studies. I have a lot of all students can find their niches. What fun with my local chapter. I have also had I find to be the most rewarding aspect of the opportunity to meet other young Clas- Classics is the community it builds. Within sicists from around the country. Truman’s program our Classics Club/Eta When I am not studying Classics, I Sigma Phi has become very much like a Louis after graduate school and expand enjoy spending time with my husband, family. There is such a supportive spirit my school district’s Classics program. I Chris, my pets, and my friends. I like and a sharing of knowledge that makes hope to develop a Latin curriculum for to play board games and video games, this area of study life-giving. The students Ladue’s elementary and middle schools. I ­crochet, and read fiction. within our Classics program are so eager have always wanted to become a teacher to help one another in any way possible; and I have been blessed to have professors it makes studying even the trickiest bits who support and encourage my dreams. Megale Grammateus of Euripides or Livy enjoyable. Although Whether they are helping me gain a better Lauren Milburn I am quite partial to the Eta Zeta chapter understanding of Greek supplementary at Truman, I believe that Eta Sigma Phi participles or giving me opportunities Chairete! I hope everyone had a won- as a whole provides its members with a to acquire teaching experience, I am derful and restful summer. I am from wonderful forum to cultivate relationships truly grateful for their time and patience. Olivette, Missouri and am a graduate of with students who are passionate about When I am not doing Classics, I like to Ladue Horton Watkins High School. I Classics. This Classics community not only spend time with my family and our dog am currently studying at Truman State offers opportunities for the intellectual Lily, watch old movies with friends, catch University where I am a member of the Eta growth of its members, but it provides a up on British literature, and hang out at Zeta chapter. As a freshman English major, vehicle to share ideas and resources on a Truman’s Catholic Newman Center. I I entered into a Latin course in order to national level to keep Classics alive. After am looking forward to being your Megale become better acquainted with classical I graduate from Truman, I hope to go on Grammateus and I hope to see you at this literature. After my first year of Latin, I to earn a M.A. in Classics and then pursue year’s National Convention! became so enthralled with both the lan- a Ph. D. My dream is to come back to St.

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Cassella, I decided to focus on the Clas- sics. My interest in the Classics began as a childhood fascination with the Greek and Roman cultures, but as I grew up and be- came better able to appreciate those gems of civilization, this fascination became an Kyle Oskvig, below obsession. Studying the Classics not only gives me direct access to some of history’s Christopher Rios, right brightest minds and most beautiful of ancient cultures, it opens up my mind to different perspectives that I can apply to modern, everyday life. Since studying the Classics is my passion, I intend to con- tinue doing so for the rest of my life. After graduating from UNT, I plan on attend- ing graduate school in pursuit of a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, focusing my research especially on Bronze Age Greece; there is just something so magnificent (nay, so mysteriously captivating!) about the Mycenaeans. Oh, what I would give to be at Tiryns right now! Not only does Eta Sigma Phi give me the opportunity to meet and exchange to meet like-minded people, and help ideas with students who share the same organize events to promote Classics in the interests as I, it allows me to make wonder- community. Involvement has given me ful friends along the way. This is also one opportunities to meet and trade ideas with way Eta Sigma Phi benefits the Classical other Classics people across the country, world as a whole, for it gathers together the and even around the world — I’ll be travel- scholars of tomorrow (you and me), pav- ing in Italy this summer with the help of an ing the way for continued research in the Eta Sigma Phi scholarship. numerous sub-fields encompassed within I’m a rising junior at Iowa in 2011–12. Classical scholarship. At the same time, Eta My current Classical research interests are Sigma Phi serves a greater purpose benefit- Megas Hyparchos in ancient philosophy, particularly ancient ing the Classics community: as the Classics Kyle Oskvig views on ethics and the soul. I especially have come under increased pressure within Epsilon at the University of Iowa want to understand the evolution of west- Academia, Eta Sigma Phi has played an ern moralities from Classical Greece and integral role in ensuring that it continues to I grew up near Bemidji, MN, and moved Rome up through the rise of Christianity. touch the lives of countless students around to Iowa in middle school. After graduating Outside studying Classics, I enjoy playing the country. Though my obsession with the high school, I lived and worked on my own guitar and ice hockey, lifting weights, and Classics consumes most of my time, when for five years, spending a lot of my free time eating bacon. I am not poring over Homer or Plotinus, in study. I wanted to give myself a liberal Chadwick or Shelmerdine, or doing any- education, so I read a lot of history, phi- thing else Classics related, I like to play the losophy, and religion, with a heavy empha- Megas Prytanis pipe organ, enjoy the beauty of nature, and sis on foundations and beginnings — the Christopher Rios spend time with my friends. Classics. I learned Latin too. I found my University of North Texas studies rewarding, and eventually decided that I may as well make a career of it, so Xαίρετε! My name is Christopher Rios I moved to Iowa City and enrolled at the and I am a member of the Theta Upsilon Eta Sigma Phi Web Sites University of Iowa, majoring in Philosophy chapter at the University of North Texas The official web site of the national and Classical Languages. in Denton, Texas. Born and raised in office can be found at two URL’s: I got on board with the Epsilon chapter Plano, Texas, I initially attended UNT as a www.etasigmaphi.us and www. of Eta Sigma Phi in my first semester at Pipe Organ Performance major, but, after etasigmaphi.com. Iowa. The meetings were a good place some guidance from my mentor, Dr. Dean

5 Best Paper at the 2011 Convention: Learning to Speak and Pray in Confessions, Book 1

Theodore Harwood of Eta Delta at cause by so doing man fulfills his desire for whereas others are not epistemologically ­Hillsdale College rest in God (requiescat, 1.1.1). So also the able to enter the infant’s mind, the holy infant desires to speak to obtain the things God’s “entrance” into man’s interior5 is St. Augustine opens his Confessions with a he naturally (that is, according to God’s prevented primarily by the moral prob- very simple statement: magnus es, domine providence) delights in (delectationibus, lem of sin. Yet Augustine also questions (“You are great, Lord”; 1.1.1). Yet, as Chris- 1.6.7), and God has made him desire no the (metaphorically) spatial and, more tian Lotz notes, Augustine’s invocation, in more than he needs (nolle, 1.6.7), so that in profoundly, ontological possibility of calling bringing into speech the invisible, intan- fulfillment of these desires the infant also God into himself: “How will I call upon my gible, and divine Other who is unbounded rests (adquiescere, 1.6.7). Augustine uses God [call my God into me]…how may God by the mind, raises the very question of this parallel language to establish a founda- come into me, God who made heaven and who and what God is.1 Augustine’s attempt tion for comparing the distinct problems earth?” (quomodo invocabo deum meum?… to praise God immediately falls flat, not of infant and man. First, the infant’s quo deus veniat in me, deus qui fecit caelum only because of man’s ignorance of the interior, where his thoughts are, cannot be et terram? 1.2.2). The infant, whose desires divine Other, but also because man him- penetrated by other minds, just as man’s are inside, seeks a way to externalize them. self, though he wishes to praise God, bears interior, which is corrupt, cannot welcome Man, however, seeks not only to external- in himself the testimony of his enmity with God. And as the infant does not know ize his desires through prayer and speech, God.2 Arguably, Augustine will spend the how to speak in order to escape his interior but also to find a way for the external God rest of the Confessions considering these prison, man also does not know how to to enter him. two issues, and in this paper I shall exam- praise God so as to rest in him. The second problem for both infant ine them through his account of learning The infant’s problem touches on Au- and man is tied into the solution to the to speak as an infant. As the infant learns gustine’s notion of “inner speech” (locutio first. The infant, in order to make his to speak a natural language through imita- interior), a common concept in his work desires known to others, must external- tion of an adult model, thus escaping the which stands behind his description of ize his locutio interior through speech. But problem of his own impermeable interior- his infancy.3 Augustine’s account of his in order to do so, he must learn to speak. ity, so fallen man learns to praise God infancy assumes the presence of this locutio This obviously creates a problem, since through a type of imitation of both Christ interior in the infant’s mind, since the learning something from someone requires and the praedicator or “preacher” (1.1.1) infant can form a desire but cannot express an agreed-upon system of signs, that is, and thus is saved from his own inner cor- it. As Augustine says, “Those desires were a language. But language is precisely ruption which keeps him from commun- inside, but those people were outside, and ing with God. For both man and infant, a they were not able to enter into my soul by divinely-granted desire to speak and to find any sense of their own” (illae [voluntates] rest in their particular fulfillments moti- intus erant, foris autem illi [homines], nec ullo About the Author vates these processes. I shall argue, then, suo sensu valebant introire in animam meam, Born in Portugal and raised in Wisconsin, that Augustine uses his description of the 1.6.8). God has given the infant a mind Theodore Harwood was homeschooled for infant’s problems in acquiring speech in (mente quam dedisti mihi; 1.8.13) and in it all of his primary and secondary educa- Book One of the Confessions to investigate the capability of locutio interior which, to tion, beginning Latin in the third grade. by analogy the difficulties of fallen man’s draw a parallel to God’s inspiration of man, Though he long regarded Latin as a dread- spiritual situation as set out in the first stirs him up to speak. The infant’s desire ful subject, he acquired a sudden love for chapter of that book and that through this and ability to speak, therefore, depend on the language in sophomore year of high linguistic paradigm he leads the reader God’s grace.4 school, whereupon he decided to be a Clas- toward an understanding of how the very As the beginning of the Confessions sics major in college. He attended Hillsdale salvation of the soul is effected. makes clear, fallen man also suffers from College in Hillsdale, Michigan, graduating Augustine uses parallel language in an interior problem, an isolation from God this past spring with a major in Latin and his description of the initial situation of which results from the testimony in himself minor in Greek. His great affection for late the both the infant and fallen man in of his enmity with God (homo circumferens antique literature and philosophy has con- order to set up the broader comparison mortalitatem suam, circumferens testimonium vinced him to attend graduate school, and between them. In general, we note that as peccati sui et testimonium quia superbis resis- so he will be entering Cornell University man wishes (vult, 1.1.1) to praise God, so tis, 1.1.1). Man is also trapped in himself, this fall to begin his Ph.D program, focus- the infant wishes to express his volitions unable to communicate with God because ing on early Christian attitudes towards (voluntates and volebam, 1.6.7; vellem and of an inner contradiction between himself Classical Philosophy and Rhetoric and, in volebam, 1.8.13). God has made man to and the divine. This problem, however, particular, St. Augustine’s appropriation of delight in praising Him (delectet, 1.1.1), be- has a notable difference from the infant’s: these two traditions in his vast corpus.

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what the infant needs to learn. When, as As already noted, the lack of any neces- course, looks a lot like the infant’s “various Augustine asserts, there is no inherent link sary connection between signs (signa) and groans and sounds and various motions of between signs (signa) and things signified meanings (signifibilia) necessitates that [his] members” (gemitibus et vocibus variis (signifilibilia), how can one have any hope the infant learn a natural language (for et variis membrorum motibus, 1.8.13), but of learning a language?6 example, Latin) from other people, so that in that case the infant was trying to use Man’s second problem, like his first, he can know which sounds and mean- signs like his desires, though they were not arises in the beginning of the Confessions. ings are connected by convention. But in really like them (signa similia voluntatibus Man wishes to praise God, but in analyzing order to learn something from someone, a meis…non enim erant vere similia, 1.6.8). how to do so, Augustine must immediately conventional form of communication must But while the infant does not know the say, “Grant it to me, Lord, to know and to already exist. While in the De Magistro conventions of communication, the adult understand whether it be first to call upon this leads Augustine to the conclusion that does comprehend the infant’s attempt at you or to praise you, and whether it be first only Christ’s illumination of the mind can communicating. The adult descends to the to know you or to call upon you” (da mihi, connect the ideas of the mind (the verba level of the infant’s communication but domine, scire et intellegere utrum sit prius mentis) with the words of natural language, corrects the infant’s usage. Instead of using invocare te an laudare te, et scire te prius in the Confessions he concedes the ability gesture to imitate the desire, the adult uses sit an invocare te, 1.1.1). Through a long to connect a word to a meaning through it to point attention to the desired thing. train of such questions Augustine resolves the use of ostension.8 He describes how he Once the infant has understood this, he the problem into: praedicare→ credere→ began to learn language thus: not only learns a word, but also learns the invocare→ requirere / quaerere→ invenire→ proper use of gesture. Language develops in laudare (1.1.1).7 Before man can praise When they named something and a sort of upward spiral for the infant: as the God, therefore, or do anything which leads when, following this sound, they adult both descends to the infant’s level of to praise, someone must preach to him. moved their body to something, communication and introduces a new form The solution to the problem then is both I watched, and I understood that of communication, he raises the infant to ­human and linguistic, which encourages us by them this thing was called that the adult level more and more. to examine the man’s situation in light of [name], which they were sounding As the adult must descend to the in- the infant’s. out when they wished to point it out. fant’s level in order to teach him to speak, Speech, of course, allows a sort of the praedicator must descend to the man’s entrance into the soul, and clearly speech cum ipsi appellabant rem aliquam et level in order to teach him to praise God. plays a part in Augustine’s relationship cum secundum eam vocem corpus As O’Donnell notes, when Augustine says, with God, since, after all, he wrote the ad aliquid movebant, videbam et “My faith calls upon you, Lord, which you Confessions. Though the first few chapters tenebam hoc ab eis vocari rem illam have given me, which you have inspired of the work use etymological and epistemo- quod sonabant cum eam vellent through the humanity of your son, through logical questions to emphasize the poverty ostendere, 1.8.13.9 the ministry of your preacher” (invocat of man’s condition, the lesson of the infant te, domine, fides mea, quam dedisti mihi, shows the reader that language can also The point-and-say approach of osten- quam inspirasti mihi per humanitatem filii help man’s situation. Without language sion enables the infant Augustine (now ob- tui, per ministerium praedicatoris tui, 1.1.1), man cannot communicate with other men, viously leaving his infans stage, but we will we could think of the praedicator as Paul which would cut him off from the praedica- retain the term) to learn nouns with which (in scripture), Ambrose (in preaching), or tor who could lead him to belief and praise. to begin learning more language.10 He can Christ (whether in Scripture or in Augus- Unfortunately, Augustine leaves the role learn language because, as already noted, tine’s personal experience).12 Scripture is of the praedicator somewhat vague, at the he states: “I myself with my mind which the divine presentation in human words of most describing him as a giver of knowl- you have given me, my God…was grasp- the means of praising God and of spiritual edge or inspirer of belief (credens in te: prae- ing the words with my memory” (ego ipse models to follow.13 The contemporary dicatus enim es nobis and fides mea, quam mente quam dedisti mihi, deus meus…pren- praedicator can function in the same way, inspirasti mihi…per ministerium praedicatoris sabam [verba] memoria, ibid).11 The infant though he can present an interpretatio in tui; 1.1.1). But by analyzing the solution to recognizes the significance of the sound addition to the evangelium and can adjust man’s problem in relation to that of the made, connects it to the thing physically his speech and action to teach and model infant, we can see that the praedicator pointed out, and remembers the associated on a more individual basis.14 is more than simply a “preacher”; he is a sound as itself “pointing” to the meaning. Christ, however, does something more model for the man seeking to praise God, The infant then imitates the sound of the than either of these, as Augustine suggests just as the adult is a model for the infant adult in order to reverse the direction of through his special emphasis (per humani- trying to learn a language. communication. The ostentive method, of tatem filii tui, 1.1.1), though we see it only

7 Best Paper at the 2011 Convention (Continued) by recognizing the linguistic analogy. His how to praise God. He can thus provide with this view (in relation to God), as he faith, he says, is inspired by the humanity a solution to man’s inability to praise God demonstrates in the next two sections, of Christ, by the perfect model of a human based on the model of language acquisi- but the knowledge about God that he praising God and by the descent of God to tion, which then adds another, deeper here seeks is only an attempt to differenti- the human level in order to raise humanity dimension to his description of man’s ate God from other others, as he says, “for unknowingly he could call upon another to the divine. As Augustine writes, “When spiritual plight. Throughout his analysis, instead” (aliud enim pro alio potest invocare you are poured out above us, you do not Augustine shows that man depends on nesciens, 1.1.1). slump down but you raise us up” (cum God’s grace in order to live and function, 2 1.1.1: quis te invocat nesciens te? aliud enim effunderis super nos, non tu iaces sed erigis both physically and spiritually. Man needs pro alio potest invocare nesciens (“Who, not nos, 1.3.3). Just as the adult descends to to speak to other men in order to live, but knowing you, calls upon you? For he may, the infant’s level in order to model proper just as much so does he need to praise not knowing it, call upon another instead language and lift him out of his interior God, and for either to happen, he needs of you”). Homo…circumferens testimonium prison, so Christ descends to the human God’s help. As Augustine writes early in peccati sui et testimonium quis superbis resis- level to model proper praise and living and the Confessions and so sums up his great tis (“Man, carrying around the testimony raise him from his human interior to rest work, miserere, ut loquar: “Have mercy on of his sin and the testimony that you resist in God. me, that I may speak.”16 the proud”). Translations throughout are my own. Augustine’s faith (that is, his believ- 3 Inner speech is thought, and a single ing), inspired by Christ and the praedicator, inner word can stand behind many words BIBLIOGRAPHY calls on God, following the train of action from different languages (Bubacz, 180). already laid out (praedicare→ credere→ in- Cf. De Trinitate 15.10.19, De Catechizandis vocare). Fallen man needs the intervention Bubacz, Bruce. Saint Augustine’s Theory of Rudibus 2.3, Tractatus in Johannem Evan- of Christ to first raise him out of his interior Knowledge: a Contemporary Analysis. gelistam 3.14.7. prison, but he also requires the continued Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 4 Toom, 255. modeling of a godly life by the ordinary 1981. 5 Augustine does not talk about God enter- preacher and the examples of Scripture in Fodor, Jerry A. The Language of Thought. ing man in his initial description of man’s order to generate a faith that can call upon The Language and Thought Series, Jer- situation. But his following comments in God. Yet even his faith, just like the infant’s rold J. Katz et al. (eds.). Cambridge: 1.2.2 concerning how God can enter him lead us to reread his use of invocabo in mind, is given by God, as Augustine shows Thomas Y. Crowell Company, Inc., 1975. the first section in this sense. Augustine’s with his parallel phrasing (mente quam clear concern is, after all, to review his Lotz, Christian. “Responsive Life and dedisti mihi, 1.8.13; fides me, quam dedisti inner life before God, which requires call- mihi, 1.1.1). As the infant’s mind connects Speaking to the Other: A Phenomeno- ing God into that inner life, as we shall its locutio interior to the words taught by the logical Interpretation of Book One of see more clearly later. adult, so man’s faith connects his inner re- the Confessions.” Augustinian Studies 6 Nash, The Light of the Mind, 85–89. Cf. ality to a divine understanding of the world 35:2 (2004): 89–109. De Magistro 13. taught by the praedicator. But once we Markus, R. A. Signs and Meanings: World 7 I borrow the initial idea for this reduc- understand faith by this linguistic model, and Text in Ancient Christianity. Liver- tion from O’Donnell, ad loc., though he we see how it also outstrips that model, for pool: Liverpool University Press, 1996. restricts his schematic to organizing the the infant merely learns to externalize his Nash, Ronald H. The Light of the Mind: scriptural statements which Augustine quotes. For my argument, though, the ele- verba mentis, but man learns to confess his St. Augustine’s Theory of Knowledge. Lexington: The University of Kentucky ments which Augustine invents are also sins and change his inner self. Here again, relevant. Press, 1969. man requires a praedicator, a teacher and a 8 De Magistro 11.38, cited in Markus, Signs model, in order to understand what confes- O’Donnell, James J. Augustine: Confessions. and Meanings, 84. Cf. 79–84, his discus- sion is and what must be confessed. Confes- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. sion of the process by which Augustine sion is a form of praise,15 and the one that Toom, Tarmo. “Augustine Becoming comes to his illuminationist theory of Augustine himself engages in as a model to Articulate: Confessions 1.8.13.” Studia language. By illuminationism, I mean the his readers, but it also allows man to praise Patristica XLIX, 2010: 253–258. theory at least some knowledge requires God through the removal of his offensive the direct and immediate intervention of sin, the testimony of which — mortal- Christ in the mind. Although in the De ity (mortalitatem…testimonium peccati ENDNOTES Magistro, Augustine seems to hold that some of our cognitive operations require sui) — Christ also removes. 1 “Responsive Life and Speaking to the illumination, in the Confessions he more Through drawing a parallel between the Other,” 95–6. Lotz, according to his or less concedes to the infant the ability infant’s desire to speak to fulfill his wish phenomenological reading, holds that to learn language based only on his innate for food and man’s desire to praise God to incomprehensibility is in fact the nature abilities and human ostention. Of course, rest in him, Augustine creates a means of of otherness and so cannot be overcome. both innate ability and illumination still discoursing about the human problem of Augustine would seem to have sympathy depend on God’s grace.

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9 He continues, hoc autem eos velle ex tries to apply it to anything but nouns. 12 O’Donnell, ad loc. motu corporis aperiebatur tamquam verbis But Augustine does not say that he 13 Augustine notes that Scripture presents naturalibus omnium gentium (“And that learned all language in this way, just that models to be imitated in, e.g., De Doctrina they were wishing this was revealed by he learned his first words thusly. Toom Christiana 2.6.7. Augustine himself also the motion of their body—as it were, notes (253) that contemporary cognitive provides a model of using the language or the natural words of all peoples,” 1.8.13). science confirms this idea, believing two- Scripture in one’s own speech through his Augustine elsewhere thoroughly denies years-olds (the Romans’ age of transition frequent quotations of the Psalms in the that the meaning of an ostentive act is between infancy and childhood) to be Confessions. necessary from the act itself, but I think capable of learning mostly just nouns. 14 Augustine describes the proper use of that here he (especially since he says 11 Perhaps with this statement Augustine scriptural recitation, interpretation, and tamquam) means that this method is means to endorse an illuminationist adjustment to individual needs in, e.g., prone to work, at least by trial and error, theory rather than an innatist one, since De Catechizandis Rudibus 3.5, 5.9–6.10, since it is the simplest and perhaps best the God-given mind does not know the 8.12–9.13. reflects the referential nature of concrete objects inherently, but catalogs experi- 15 Cf. O’Donnell 1.1.1 nouns. ences (an ability which he does not 16 1.5.5. 10 Ostension seems to break down when one debate) and connects them to signs.

The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students A Panel Sponsored by Eta Sigma Phi for the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Seattle, Washington Organized by Thomas J. Sienkewicz, Monmouth College

Eta Sigma Phi, founded in 1914 at the University of Chicago, is a national classics honorary society for students of Latin and/or Greek who attend accredited liberal arts colleges and universities in the United States. The society is sponsoring this panel in order to showcase the scholarship of undergraduate classics students. Papers may deal with any aspect of the ancient Greek and Roman world (e.g., language, literature, art, history, religion, philosophy) or with the reception of classical culture in modern times. An established scholar will be invited to serve as respondent to the student papers. Eta Sigma Phi hopes that this panel will serve as a bridge between undergraduate students and the American Philological Association, not just by giving the students an opportunity to experience an APA meeting and to share their views with professional classicists, but also by introducing those professionals to some of the most talented and promising students from the next generation of classicists. Any student enrolled full-time in an undergraduate program at a college or university during the academic year 2011–2012 is eligible to submit a paper. Anyone interested in proposing a paper for the panel should e-mail the entire paper as an attachment to [email protected]. The paper must be able to be read aloud at a moderate pace in 15 minutes (or 20 minutes if audio-visual equipment is used), so it should be no longer than 10 double-spaced pages, excluding any endnotes and bibliography. Please also e-mail a one-page abstract of the paper, and a cover page listing name, school, school address, telephone, e-mail address, and audio-visual needs. To preserve anonymity in the evaluation process, the student’s name and school affiliation should appear only on the cover page, not on the abstract or the paper itself. Further instructions on the formatting of submissions can be found at the following website: http://department.monm.edu/classics/esp/APACall2013.html#FurtherIinstructions. The receipt deadline for the paper, abstract, and cover page is February 1, 2012. Each submission will be evaluated anonymously by three referees. Students who submit papers for the panel must be current members of the APA. Please direct questions to the Executive Secretary of Eta Sigma Phi, Professor Thomas J. Sienkewicz, Department of Classics, Monmouth College, Monmouth, IL 61462 (etasigmaphinational@ gmail.com; 309-457-2371).

9 ΗΣΦ Officers at APA January 2011

Above, at the Alamo, left to right: David, Maria, Rena, Theo, Tom

Right, at the ΗΣΦ booth: David Giovagnoli and Maria Petosa in front, and Rena Glavas and Theodore Harwood in rear

10 ΗΣΦ panel at APA January 2011, left to right: Mara Kutter, Hannah Rich, Lauren Gribble, David Konstan, Rhiannon Knol, Eric Struble, David Giovagnoli (Megas Prytanis) Not pictured: Caleb Scholle

The Next Generation: Papers by Undergraduate Classics Students APA 2011

Mara Kutter After Peisistratus died, his eldest son, not achieved immediately after Hippias’ University of California, Los Angeles Hippias, succeeded him, and continued to deposition. It solidified when Hippias led “The Peisistratid Tyranny: Conflicting manage the city moderately, as Peisistratus the Persians to Marathon in 490 B.C., and Sources and Revisionist History at Work” himself had done (Thuc. 6.54). Hippias the Athenians viewed the victory as an did not immediately instigate a more ideological triumph of their fledgling de- Before the Athenians had democracy, oppressive regime, and I will argue that mocracy over autocratic rule. Embarrassed they lived under tyranny. The Peisistratids his regime was not particularly harsh by at having lived under tyranny for so long, ruled Athens consecutively from 546/5 contemporary standards. In regard to the many Athenians sought to use falsehoods B.C. until 511/0 B.C. The sources concern- various reasons put forth about the motives to cover up their complicity and/or compla- ing the Peisistratids, including Herodotus, behind the murder of Hippias’ brother Hip- cency. A paradox existed in the fifth cen- Thucydides, the author of the Ath. Pol., parchus, Thucydides’ account is the most tury, however, between the receptions of Aristotle, and Plato, all composed their plausible. He reports that Harmodius and individuals as tyrants and of Athens herself works several decades or more after the end Aristogeiton murdered Hipparchus because as tyrant, in that the Athenians were not of the tyranny, and thus were all susceptible he had stirred up their ill will through both averse to the idea of wielding a collective to the corrupting influence of later anti- sexual advances and personal affronts, and metaphorical tyranny over the Delian tyranny attitudes. Not surprisingly then, but that the tyranny did not end until the League (Thuc. 2.63). Nevertheless, the the sources often contradict one another. Spartans intervened several years later. official stance toward formal tyranny re- In this paper, I will examine the various Furthermore, my paper will contend that mained firmly negative ([Ath. Pol.] 22), and accounts for each of the points in the chro- although the period between the murder the definition of tyranny in Athens slowly nology of the Peisistratids after 528/7 B.C., and Hippias’ deposition did witness actions transformed to include anything at all that and will demonstrate that the accounts of driven by the tyrant’s fear and anxiety opposed democracy. Herodotus and Thucydides, which coalesce (Hdt. 5.55), it was not indeed a reign of In sum, this paper will argue that satisfactorily, reveal the most comprehen- terror. ­Hippias’ rule was overall a moderate one, sive and credible sequence of events. I will Athenian attitudes toward tyranny and will from there illustrate that the then evaluate some of the key ramifications remained complex throughout the fifth legacy of the Peisistratid tyranny went on of the tyranny’s demise on the political and fourth centuries. The pervasive abhor- to complicate Athenian perceptions of cognizance of the Athenian dēmos. rence of tyranny that later existed was tyranny for centuries to come.

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Caleb E. Scholle attend due to a death in the family. David common — guests, food, and events — but New York University Giovagnoli read his paper for him.] power lies in the hands of different charac- “The Battle for Socrates’ Succession: ters. In the Cena Nasideni, the guests are ­Diogenes the Cynic’s Abuse of Plato” the protagonists as well as the characters Lauren Gribble in control of their situation. In the Cena In this paper, I argue that Diogenes the Hillsdale College Trimalchionis, the guests are again the Cynic’s abuse of Plato, recounted by the “Thais: A Believable Meretrix” protagonists but the host is firmly in con- biographer Diogenes Laertius, is not, as trol. The power of the guests in the Cena scholars have generally assumed, a mere Although the prostitute has long been Nasideni conveys the secure and optimistic literary invention. Rather, Diogenes’ abuse listed among stock comedic characters feeling of Romans under the new regime of provides us with a record of an historical as the mala meretrix, Donatus maintains Augustus. The feeling of helplessness felt philosophical rivalry between Plato and that Terence’s courtesan represents a by the characters in the Satyricon reflects the earliest Cynics. By examining the departure from the stereotype, termed the helpless feeling of life in Rome under substance of his abuse of Plato, Diogenes’ the bona meretrix, a line of argument also Nero, in an age where traditional figures motivations become clear, for these are adopted by later scholarship. In this paper, no longer held authority and social turmoil not random attacks on a prominent public I contend that neither of these extremes shook the empire. A comparison of these figure, but a concerted and systematic accurately describes the character of Thais, two literary dinners demonstrates the effort to denigrate a philosophical rival. a courtesan in Terence’s Eunuchus. An great change in worldview experienced by By abusing Plato, Diogenes brilliantly sets examination of Thais’ status under Roman Romans in a span of less than a century. forth the tenets of Cynic philosophy and law reveals the complexity of her charac- establishes himself as the pre-eminent ter, which Terence creates by realistically philosopher in Athens — the rightful heir blending both mala and bona qualities. For Rhiannon Gladys Ellington Knol and to Socrates’ legacy. instance, laws distinguishing gifts given Eric B. Struble In this paper, I focus on one major to courtesans (inhonestae donationes) from Randolph College theme of Diogenes’ abuse: Plato’s vanity. those given to friends and relatives (hon- “Reading Other People’s Mail: Putting Diogenes Laertius recounts that Diogenes estae) underscore the dishonorable nature Together an Intermediate-Level Latin once asked Plato for some figs; Plato sent of Thais’ occupation, a contrast which is Reader” him an entire jar full. Diogenes then further emphasized by laws prohibiting replied: “If some one asks you how many gifts between spouses. Although these laws The jump between elementary and two and two are, will you answer twenty? serve to highlight Thais’ mala qualities intermediate Latin is one of the most So, it seems, you neither give as you are of flattery and greed, laws regarding the difficult challenges of Latin instruction: asked nor answer as you are questioned” delivery of gifts point out her honesty, the students have basic linguistic tools but (DL 6.26). In another episode, Diogenes genuine affection, and honorable motiva- lack the experience to read easily. They are tramples Plato’s carpets and says, “I tion, evidence of her bona characteristics. hardy folk; they take pleasure in “break- trample upon Plato’s vainglory” (ibid.). Terence’s resolution of the conflict between ing the code” and wresting meaning from Plato is thus portrayed as the antitype to Thais’ rival lovers, a contract agreeing Latin sentences. Our new Latin reader, the Cynic, who coolly restrains himself to share her attentions, demonstrates a Other People’s Mail, is for them: our goal is from material pleasures. Plato’s philosophi- similar awareness of the reality of Thais’ to cloak the immense effort of translation cal authority is seriously undermined by his position as a meretrix, recognizing that, in the guilty pleasure of eavesdropping on disgraceful attachment to luxury. How can although permanent commitment is futile, fragments of conversation between people one who cannot even control his own ap- true affection is possible. Thus, Thais is like us. We selected letters by men and petites be considered a serious philosopher? neither wholly mala, nor wholly bona, but women of different times, social classes, Diogenes, who lives a philosophically pure an appealing combination of the two. religions, and philosophies who lived in ascetic life, as Socrates did, abuses Plato the Latin-speaking world. Each wrote as a means of establishing philosophical about their own concerns with distinctive supremacy. Hannah Rich style and purpose. We were determined to Classicists and philosophers have been University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill make their ideas accessible to intermediate content to assume that Plato was a faithful “Cena Nasideni and Cena Trimalchionis” students through introductory essays, copi- Socratic. I will show that his position as ous notes on the text, generous vocabulary, the heir of Socrates was in no way guar- This paper studies the relationship and macrons for ease of pronunciation. anteed in the fourth century. Rather, a between the Cena Nasideni from Satire 2.9 Despite the breadth of time and varied strange man named Diogenes, strangely of Horace and the Cena Trimalchionis from topics of the letters, there is remarkable neglected in modern scholarship, was the Satyricon of Petronius. A close reading common ground between them, and Socrates’ true philosophical heir. of both passages reveals many similarities. indeed between us and them. From Cicero [Editor’s note: Caleb was unable to The two dinners have many details in in the late Roman Republic to Heloise in

12 The Next Generation (Continued) the twelfth century, the same themes and harsh or benign, and whether the attack though in Plato’s case only as an intellec- threads appear: complaints and apologies on Hippias and his brother (or brothers) tual schemer. Mr. Scholle shows that there for delinquent replies, the ability of letters was motivated by the desire for freedom was a lively tradition of abusing Plato for to conjure something of the presence of the (however that notion was understood his ostensible luxury and vanity, and that it missing friend, and frequent discussions then) or a more personal resentment, continued down into the era of the Roman of the nature and value of friendship and involving an erotic triangle? The answer is: Empire. In part, the motive for these at- letters’ role in its upkeep. Very carefully. In particular, we must not tacks was to dissociate Plato from Socrates. submit uncritically to the daunting author- Plato’s authority as the mouthpiece for So- ity of Thucydides, who constructed for all crates was secured by the brilliant dialogues Comments on the Eta Sigma Phi Panel: posterity an image of himself as the model he composed, in which Socrates figured as David Konstan of an objective historian, concerned above the major spokesman and cross-examiner. all with the facts: and yet it is he who has But many other schools laid claim to Let me begin by thanking Tom Sienkewicz, bequeathed to us the love story. Can this Socrates’ influence, including not just the the Executive Secretary of Eta Sigma Phi, dour investigator have made such a thing Cynics but also the Megarians, Stoics, and for inviting me to comment on this set of up? Would he even have admitted such others (the Epicureans seem to have been excellent papers by undergraduate schol- a tale, assuming it was current, into his the major exception). Criticizing Plato for ars, and to my young colleagues on the sober narrative, were there not excellent his un-Socratic conduct was a good way panel for their contributions. These days, reasons to believe it true? We ought not to of driving a wedge between him and his initiation into the mysteries of the profes- assume that the Athenians were smart- idealized master, the more so insofar as the sion occurs at an earlier age than it used ing under the tyranny, eager to rise up simple way of life that Socrates exhibited to, with graduate students delivering talks, and affirm popular sovereignty: this is to in Plato’s own dialogues conformed to the publishing articles, and organizing confer- project a later democratic vision onto the Cynic ideal. The motive for lambasting ences, and undergraduates too are now sixth-century polis, all the easier because it Plato’s self-indulgence was thus there. But entering the lists. This form of apprentice- conforms to modern sensibilities concern- was it Diogenes’ own motive, or did it arise ship is all to the good, and I am honored to ing democracy and dictatorship that have at some later time in the evolution of the have the opportunity to comment on the an entirely different basis. But Thucydides Cynic school, then to be retrojected onto talks we have just heard. himself had no deep sympathy for the the founder? The question is a tricky one, Mara Kutter’s review of the end of the democracy of his day: his ideal constitution since Diogenes Laertius was compiling his Pisistradid tyranny comes to grips with was that of the five thousand, installed in anecdotal lives of the philosophers long af- the fundamental questions concerning the year 411, and which led directly to the terwards, when an emphasis on the rivalry our sources. The earliest information we rule of the four hundred. Was he going between philosophical schools was more have concerning the events that led to the a step too far in dismissing larger politi- fashionable; if so, then what better op- overthrow of Hippias is several genera- cal motives behind the overthrow of the ponent for Diogenes the Cynic than Plato, tions after the fact, composed at a time Pisistratid regime? Like Mara Kutter, I am the only major figure in the philosophical when Athens was firmly committed to its inclined to look at the evidence in context,­ firmament to whom Diogenes could have particular brand of democracy and already the more so when I reflect that the chief responded personally (the Stoics, the Epi- at ideological odds with Sparta — credited magistrate of our own government today cureans, and even Aristotle were too late to with helping to dislodge Hippias — and is characterized in some quarters as a be Diogenes’ predecessors). It is a ques- states such as Corinth and Thebes. What communist and a fascist, and who knows tion, then, of which way to look through is more, in the intervening period there what stories of tyranny and its overthrow the telescope: forward from Diogenes, or occurred the Persian invasion, with Hip- are taking shape right this moment, to backward from Diogenes Laertius. Bringing pias serving as guide to Marathon: this was be analyzed and weighed by historians in an event that profoundly colored Greek future generations? perceptions of their identity, not least in Caleb Scholle’s investigation of the About the Respondent Athens itself. Add to this that memories Cynic Diogenes’ view of Plato presents us David Konstan is Professor of Classics at of the tyranny were handed down among with methodological questions that in some New York University. Professor Konstan’s families, such as the Alcmeonids and the ways resemble those involved in analyzing research focuses on ancient Greek and Pisistratids themselves, who continued to later democratic perceptions of the Pisis- Latin literature, especially comedy and the flourish in Athens after the democracy was tratid tyranny. In both cases, we are dealing novel, and Classical philosophy. In recent established. Given these multiple filters with late sources, on the basis of which we years, he has investigated the emotions through which the overthrow of the tyran- must reconstruct the attitudes and postures and value concepts of Classical Greece and ny was viewed, not to mention the general of an earlier time; in both, a particular Rome, and has written books on friend- predilection of Athenians for a good story figure — Hippias, Plato — stands out as a ship, pity, the emotions, and forgiveness. and the expectations of the times, how are target, both of them vulnerable to charges He has also worked on ancient physics and we to determine whether the tyranny was of tyranny and opposition to democracy, atomic theory, and on literary theory.

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Antisthenes into the story is a good move, of later materials — in this case, legal texts far more modest affair at Nasidienus’ house. since it provides some support to the idea that may shed light on how Terence meant In both cases, the host is shown to behave that Plato was already an object of denigra- Thais’ character to be seen. Miss Gribble in a vulgar fashion, making a display of tion among the direct disciples of Socrates. focuses in particular on the role of gifts, his wealth but lacking in good taste and a If we can be sure that Antisthenes directed a good choice since gifts are the princi- sense of decorum. For parties of this sort his rhetoric against Plato’s personal lifestyle pal source of the courtesan’s income and have implicit rules of comportment, and rather than his philosophical positions, are the subject of a variety of laws. Now, one of the ways that the elite and educated we might imagine a contemporary atmo- we might be inclined to wonder why the class maintains its own sense of superior- sphere of carping into which Diogenes’ receipt of goods in exchange for services ity is by putting down and making fun of criticisms would fit neatly. One possible between a courtesan and her client should such brash behavior. Such discrimination route to recovering something of the spirit be subsumed under the category of gift- does not rest on objective or universal of the time is via early Socratics who did giving: the competition between Phaedria criteria; every society creates its own forms not necessarily address their disapproval and the soldier for Thais’ favors could as of distinction. Horace’s man plays host to to Plato’s elitist comportment but sought easily be described as bidding, and the Maecenas himself, who is much his superior rather to show that Socrates was not such goods rendered over to her as payment. If in status; he must therefore be deferential, an austere figure as Plato’s dialogues — not remuneration is treated rather as a present, and is mortified by the early departure of to mention Diogenes’ possible claim to his it is in part because the courtesan keeps his guests. There are no such powerful mantle — might suggest. Xenophon, for her lovers attached to her by masking the figures to inhibit Trimalchio’s extravaganza: example, gives us a quite different picture purely economic exchange as a love affair, indeed, differences of social degree seem of Socrates in his Symposium, where he is in which she in some degree reciprocates flattened out under his auspices, and there charming, witty, and above all a peace- the passion she arouses in her customers. is a strong insistence that the status of the maker among the rather rambunctious But this fiction exposes the meretrix to the freedman is in no way inferior to that of and potentially antagonistic celebrants. If charge of hypocrisy: it is thus important anyone else, and very specifically that of Xenophon was already constructing an im- that Terence provides us with a solilo- the down and out snobs who have crashed age of a Socrates more like himself, and less quy by Thais in order to make manifest his party. Thus, it is true that Trimalchio’s like Plato’s representation of him, perhaps her sincere affection for Phaedria, or at guests have less control over their situation Diogenes too was inclined to rescue his any rate an other than purely mercenary than do those entertained by Nasidienus, own version of Socrates, and in the process interest in him. This allows us to see her and no doubt there is a sense here that put down Plato’s — and Plato himself, into motives as decent; even if donations to her decent folk are at the mercy of upstarts the bargain. However this may be, we once are regarded by Ulpian as inhonestae, they and that society has gone to the dogs. I again see how carefully we must evaluate are nevertheless not prohibited, since they would add only that we have to consider traditional accounts of ideological struggles, are bestowed for the sake of affection. But also the position of the internal narrators whether political or philosophical. she is also deeply aware of her dependency in both texts, Fundanius and Encolpius. When we turn, with Lauren Gribble’s on such prestations, as well as her need for I am inclined to think that Horace and talk, to issues of literary interpretation, it reliable patrons; this gives her the air of a Petronius alike are to some extent mocking may seem that we are moving into a wholly manipulative woman. The two sides to her their condescending story-tellers, revealing different arena from the historical recon- personality, as bona and mala meretrix, are in them a lack of sympathy with their hosts, struction of how a tyranny was overthrown built into her role, and Roman law helps us who have gone to great trouble to provide or what the real Diogenes’ attitude toward to see how the society at large attempted to a fine entertainment, even if they fall short Socrates might have been: Thais is a figure deal with this contradictory situation. of the high-class demands of their picky in a comedy, not a real life person, and Hannah Rich too explores attitudes invitees. If anything, there is something what she may actually have been like — a toward a social institution that has analo- more democratic about the environment good woman or a bad — is beside the point. gies in the modern world — we still have over which Trimalchio presides, and the In fact, however, this paper raises questions dinner parties, after all, and they are even snootiness of Encolpius and his friends is of a very similar nature to the two preced- the subject of literary satire, just as prostitu- more off-putting. So this may be another ing ones. For the business of assessing tion continues to exist today — but which case in which we have to look to the qual- the way an audience would have viewed played a different role in Classical Greece ity of our sources, as it were: the speakers a stock figure of the comic stage poses and Rome, in the form of the symposium have their own ax to grind, or their own much the same kind of problem as that of and convivium. Correspondingly, such status to affirm, and represent as coarse evaluating contemporary attitudes toward dinners evoked reactions specific to the and pretentious what could, from another Plato and Socrates or Athenian views of times. Miss Rich compares two descrip- perspective that is in fact implicit in the tyranny in the period preceding the full tions of such an affair at Rome, and argues text, be seen as generous and egalitarian. It flourishing of the Athenian democracy. convincingly that the notorious dinner at is a delicate matter, here as in the previous Direct sources are lacking, and we must the home of Trimalchio bears a significant presentations, to sort out social attitudes. compensate for the loss by a careful sifting resemblance to Horace’s description of the The last talk this morning, by Rhian-

14 Next Gen. (Continued) Panelist Mara Kutter Eloquently Expresses the non Knol and Eric Struble, is different Profound Value of Participating in ΗΣΦ Panels from the others, in that the authors pro- pose not a new reading of Classical texts Editor’s note: we hope that Mara’s testimony encourages other students to apply for but rather a new reader, designed to help future panels. students learn Latin at the intermediate level. This is a welcome contribution, the Dear Professor Sienkewicz, more so in that it is the work of students, I wanted to write to you to thank you again for organizing the Eta Sigma Phi who are in an excellent position to know ­panel at the APA Meeting. I had never been to the annual APA meeting before, and both the kind of help with vocabulary and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to attend. Furthermore, it was an enor- grammar that is needed by their peers, and mous honor to present a paper there, and this is an experience I will look back upon the subject matter that is likely to inter- fondly for years to come; I think that this panel is a great way to help strengthen the est them most. Some years ago, I myself, relationship between undergraduates and professors in the field, and having had such in collaboration with Michael Roberts of a positive experience at the APA, I look forward to attending in the future. Wesleyan University, prepared an edition Thanks again for everything, and best wishes, of the anonymous novel, Historia Apollonii — Mara Kutter Regis Tyri, that was intended to introduce students who had just completed elementa- ry Latin to a work of literature that was ex- citing and relatively easy, and we equipped it with abundant notes. I am naturally looking forward to seeing Other People’s Mail, and trying it out in the classroom. I Eta Sigma Phi wish here to consider the decision to use letters, a genre that has recently come into its own, as the speakers point out, and at APA 2012 which permits us to “eavesdrop” on the personal conversations of ancient people, Eta Sigma Phi will sponsor its third undergraduate panel at the 143rd Meeting of both famous and obscure. Of course, since the American Philological Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January letters are typically short, they allow the 5–8, 2012 (Saturday, January 7, 1:30–3:30 PM, room to be announced). The editors to present a broad selection of following papers were elected by an anonymous committee of chapter advisors. complete prose texts, representing different styles and periods. But they are appealing “Humility, Humiliation, and Mock-epic: Horace 1.5 Juvenal 1.4,” because we want to know what people Laura Takakjy at Dickinson College ([email protected]) thought and how they felt, day to day: they are the ideal medium for the e-mail genera- “Nos Patriam Fugimus: The Loss of the Patria and Poetic Memory tion. They are the kind of source material in Eclogues 1 and 9,” Luca A. D’Anselmi at Hillsdale College that we would wish to have in order to ([email protected]) see what people thought of tyranny, of Socrates and Plato, of courtesans in real “Creative Consumption and Production in Second Sophistic life or on the stage, of the lavish dinner Oratory,” Simone Waller at Miami University ([email protected]) parties of the well to do. In other words, the choice of this genre is of a piece, after “Everybody Loves Plautus,” Lisa Tweten at Concordia University all, with the themes of the other talks we ([email protected]) heard today. Classics is not just a record of the glory and the grandeur, but a way “A True Need for Lucian’s True History,” Phillip Bennett and of entering into the minds of people who Steven Coyne at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey were like us in some ways and different in ([email protected]) others, so that we can learn to see with new eyes. Thanks to such perspectives, Respondent: Dr. James J. O’Donnell, Provost at Georgetown Univesity and a Classical Studies are flourishing today, and previous President of the American Philological Association. the papers presented here are a precious testimony to their vitality. If you plan to attend the APA meeting, please come to this session and support our panelists. For further information, contact Dr. Tom Sienkewicz, Executive Secretary ([email protected]).

15 ETA SIGMA PHI Maurine Dallas Watkins Translation Contests 2012

Sixty-Third Annual Greek Translation Contest Advanced: This contest consists of the sight translation of a passage in Greek which is considered within the comprehension of students beyond the second year of college Greek.

Intermediate: This contest consists of the sight translation of a passage in Greek which is considered within the comprehension of students in the second year of college Greek (courses commonly designated by numbers at the 200 or 2000 level). It is intended for such students only.

Koiné: This contest consists of the sight translation of a passage of Koiné Greek which is considered within the comprehension of students in the second year of college Greek or beyond.

Sixty-Second Annual Latin Translation Contest Advanced: This contest consists of the sight translation of a passage in Latin which is considered within the comprehension of students beyond the second year of college Latin.

Intermediate: This contest consists of the sight translation of a passage in Latin which is considered within the comprehension of students in the second year of college Latin (courses commonly designated by numbers at the 200 or 2000 level). It is intended for such students only.

Forty-Sixth Annual Latin Prose Composition Contest This contest consists of the translation of a passage of English into Latin. The contest is intended for advanced students of Latin who are in their third or fourth year of college Latin. Contestants may use a dictionary (without paradigms), e.g., Cassell’s.

Prizes For the advanced contests, including the Latin Prose Composition Contest, first prize will be $100.00, second prize $75.00, and third prize $50.00. For the intermediate contests, first prize will be $75.00, second prize $50.00, and third prize $40.00. All winners will also receive a certificate of recognition.

Eligibility The contests are open to undergraduates in classes in Greek and/or Latin in colleges and universities that have active chapters of Eta Sigma Phi. Up to three students may enter each contest.

Deadlines E-mailed requests for testing materials should be sent to David Sick ([email protected]) by February 10, 2012. These materials will be sent as e-mail attachments to the adviser, who will make copies as needed and administer the tests during the week of February 13–17, 2012. (If paper copies of testing materials are desired, such a request must be received by February 3.) Completed tests must be returned with a postmark no later than Saturday, February 18, 2012. Winners will be announced in conjunction with the 84th Annual Convention (March 16–18, 2012) in Columbia, Missouri.

16 Minutes of the 2011 Annual Convention

The 83rd annual Eta Sigma Phi convention took place in Austin, Texas at the invita- tion of Gamma Sigma at the University of Texas at Austin on March 25–27, 2011. After registration on Friday afternoon, the convention opened with over 85 delegates from around 26 different chapters gath- ering outside the Union for a reception of cookies. The delegates then entered into the Quadrangle Room for a formal welcome to Texas by the Gamma Sigma chapter members and advisors as well as the officers, Dr. Sienkewicz, and Dr. Davis. Certamen teams formed and the competition began. Questions this year ranged from Classical names of modern Texas towns to “What would Icarus say his father’s profession was?” While all teams gave valiant efforts to be on the top, two

teams, the Amazons and the Officers, Top, members of Gamma Sigma, battled it out to be number one in the end. our hosts at the University of Texas The Officers won in the final round after at Austin a tough string of questions. After Certa- men, everyone received information about Above, the officers celebrate their the next day’s events and returned to their first place Certamen victory! rooms to rest up for the day ahead. On Saturday morning, once the del- Right, the Beta Pi chapter enjoys egates had their fill of breakfast burritos, some post-convention fun. Clock- the first business meeting commenced, led wise from top right: Jasmine by Megas Prytanis, David Gioviagnoli. The Merced, Dr. Levine, ­Tiffany Mont- minutes from the last convention were gomery, and Tristan Johnson

17 Minutes of the 2011 Annual Convention (Continued) approved and the chapter reports began. While some delegates discussed their service projects for the past year, others talked about things such as their dagger shaped cookies for the Ides of March and various fundraisers. Chapters were urged to submit typed versions of their reports to Dr. Sienkewicz by April 15th. Dr. Sick then presented the winners of this year’s translation contests. Numerous partici- pants were up in both Latin and Greek tests this year. Next, the winners of Eta Sigma Phi’s scholarships were announced. More members were encouraged to apply for next year’s round of scholarships. The Alpha Mu delegates from the University of Missouri-Columbia then played a video about the details of the 84th Annual Eta Sigma Phi Convention. Following this, the officers gave their annual reports, bids were taken for the 2013 convention site, and nominations were accepted for 2011–2012 officers. Student paper presentations were next on the program. Three students were Convention Speakers, left to right: Stephen Margheim, Ashley Vanessa Young, Theodore selected to present. Stephen Margheim of Harwood, and honorable mention Seth Strickland from Eta Delta, Hillsdale College the Gamma Omega chapter at Baylor Uni- versity presented a paper entitled, “Non Ita Creditum: Mercantile Language in Horace’s Ode’s concerning Vergil.” Theodore Har- wood of the Eta Delta chapter at Hillsdale College delivered a paper called, “Learning to Speak and Pray in Confessions Book I.” The last presenter, Ashley Vanessa Young from the Gamma Upsilon chapter at Aus- tin College, presented “Myth and Identity: The Role of Mythology in Greek Colonial Sicily.” It was easy to tell why these papers had been chosen. For lunch, the delegates met in the Classical Studies building on campus and took their food with them to their commit- tee meetings. These committee meetings discussed several topics from new chapters, finances, scholarships and contests, to future convention sites, resolutions, and potential officer’s information. Follow- ing the meetings, convention attendees embarked on museum excursions to places such as the LBJ Library and Museum, Texas Memorial Museum, Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum and the Harry Ransom Center. That evening, the delegates gathered Theta Kappa at the University of Texas at Tyler: the best dressed chapter! in the Santa Rita Suite for the formal

18 Minutes of the 2011 Annual Convention (Continued)

Athens v. Sparta

T-shirt regalia Beta Pi (University of Arkansas) Eta Zeta (Truman State University): You Know You’re a Classicist When… Gamma Sigma (UT-Austin): Prince Caesar Zeta Beta (Temple): Hidden Temple

banquet. During the banquet, the costume received the award because of their help more activities to take place on Exelauno contest took place. There was a convention in reactivating the chapter at University Day and to try again next year. Two first when the entire Theta Kappa chapter of Delaware and their development of a lifetime achievement awards were given, from University of Texas at Tyler received mythological coloring book for a local one to Edward V. George and the other the best dressed chapter award. All children’s hospital. The University of Texas to Bobby LaBouve. After the banquet, attending chapter members were in their at Austin received recognition for their the delegates walked over to the Jessen Classical garb. After the costume contest, protests against the motion to end Latin in Auditorium for a musical presentation of the service awards were given to both the local public schools. No award was given Thucydides by Athens v. Sparta. Zeta Beta chapter at Temple University out for Exelauno Day because no chapter Following breakfast on Sunday morn- and the Gamma Sigma chapter at Univer- report had exemplified the meaning of the ing, the second business meeting of the sity of Texas at Austin. Temple University day. Chapters are encouraged to develop convention took place. The first item on

19 Minutes of the 2011 Annual Convention (Continued)

Dr. David Sick, representing the Resolutions Committee, delivers the Resolutions

The swearing in of the newly elected officers: Theo Harwood, Ashley Gilbert, Rena Glavas, Lauren Milburn, Kyle Oskvig, Maria Petosa, Christopher Rios

2011–2012 Officers: Christopher Rios, Ashley Gilbert, Lauren Milburn, Kyle Oskvig

20 Minutes of the 2011 Annual Convention (Continued)

Convention attendees during the Sunday morning Business Meeting

Singing the Anthem at the end of the meeting

the agenda was the regalia contest. Stu- detailing the events from the convention. for the Assembly to approve an additional dents from various chapters explained and During the report of the Nuntius editor, three-year term as Trustee for Dr. Daniel modeled their t-shirt designs for this year. Dr. Irby asked for submissions of pictures Levine, and an additional year as Execu- The winner was the Eta Zeta chapter from and articles to be sent to her for publica- tive Secretary for Dr. Thomas Sienkewicz. Truman State University. Next, commit- tion in the Nuntius. Dr. Sienkewicz gave (Editor’s note: This was done.) Dr. Davis tee reports were given outlining the topics the report of the executive secretary and also mentioned that Dr. Sick would be covered in each meeting held the day Dr. Davis presented the report of the Chair leaving the Board this year and that Dr. before. Dr. Sick, representing the resolu- of the Board of Trustees. Antonios Augoustakis would be taking his tions committee, gave a humorous report During Dr. Davis’s report, she called place. In addition to these announcements,

21 Minutes of the 2011 Annual Convention (Continued) an exploratory committee was approved that will plan the Eta Sigma Phi 2014 cen- tennial convention in Chicago under the 2011 Convention Awards leadership of Dr. Sick, Dr. Levine, David Best dressed femina: Kimberly Reeves, Theta Kappa at the University of Texas at Tyler Giovagnoli, and a new officer. At the end Best dressed vir: John Cushing, Theta Kappa at the University of Texas at Tyler of the reports, Dr. Froberg discussed the Best dressed chapter: Theta Kappa at the University of Texas at Tyler Eta Sigma Phi endowment. Best regalia: Zeta Eta at Truman State University Next, the proposed bylaws concerning Certamen: the team of officers distribution of the proposed amendments Best Paper: Theodore Harwood of Eta Delta at Hillsdale College and the term of the Executive Secretary Best Service Project: Zeta Beta at Temple University for were passed. The agenda then turned 1) coloring book of mythological characters for Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia to the acceptance of new chapters into 2) representing ΗΣΦ at CAAS 2010 Eta Sigma Phi. After a brief discussion 3) traveling to Newark, Delaware, to reactivate Delta Tau chapter of the University of each potential chapter’s qualifications, of Delaware by initiating 17 new members Christopher Newport University and Ohio Special Service Prize: Gamma Sigma at the University of Texas at Austin for partici- Wesleyan University were accepted as new pating in and for eloquently speaking up for the value of the study of Latin at a chapters of Eta Sigma Phi. Afterwards, public demonstration to save Latin in the Austin Public Schools. the budget for this year was discussed and approved and it was announced that Wake Forest will hold the 85th Eta Sigma Phi Convention in 2013. Finally, the officer nominees presented 2012 Eta Sigma Phi National Convention their speeches and one person spoke on behalf of each of them. After the voting The 84th Annual Convention of Eta Sigma Phi will be held March 16–18, 2012, in was tallied, the new officers were elected: Columbia, Missouri, at the invitation of Alpha Mu at the University of Missouri. Con- Ashley Gilbert as Megale Chrysophylax, vention co-Chairs are Kailyn Shartel Hall ([email protected]) and Jennifer England Lauren Milburn as Megale Grammateus, ([email protected]) who have both been working very hard to prepare for our Kyle Oskvig as Megas Hyparchos, and visit. More detailed information about the convention will appear in the next issue of Christopher Rios as Megas Prytanis. The the Nuntius, but meanwhile here is some important advance information: new officers were then installed and the 1) Delegates are encouraged to consider proposing presentations for the conven- convention ended with the traditional tion. These proposals, which can be for scholarly papers, musical performances, ΗΣΦ song. poster presentations, etc. must be submitted to [email protected] by February 1, 2012 and will be judged anonymously by the Program Committee. 2) Hotel information: A block of rooms has been reserved for delegates at the Stoney Creek Inn in Columbia (http://www.stoneycreekinn.com/locations/index.cfm/ Columbia). Cost is $85.00 (breakfast included) + Room Tax per night. All rooms have two single beds. Delegates should call the hotel directly to make reservations at 1-800-659-2220. Be sure to mention Eta Sigma Phi when you call.

Eta Sigma Phi Medals

Eta Sigma Phi medals awarded to honor students in secondary school Latin classes help promote the study of Latin in high school and give Eta Sigma Phi an excellent contact with high school students of the Classics. Chapters can use them as prizes for contests or as a way to recognize achievement. In addition, chapters can award the medals to outstanding students of the Classics at their home institutions. Two silver medals are available: the large medal (1½ inches) at $30.25 and the small (¾ inch) at $13.50. A bronze medal (¾ inch) is available at $12.75. The various medals can be awarded to students at various levels of their study. Obverse Medals may be ordered from Dr. Brent M. Froberg, 5518 Lake Jackson St., Waco, TX and reverse 76710-2748. Please add $1.00 per order to cover the costs of postage and handling. Checks of the large should be made payable to Eta Sigma Phi Medal Fund and should accompany the order. silver medal

22 2011 Scholarship Winners

Bernice L. Fox Latin Teacher Scholarship: Sarah Elizabeth Ruff. culture as possible in order to get a better taste of the Hellenistic Sarah is currently a graduate student in the Foreign Language side of antiquity — thus furthering the foundation she wishes to Education program at the University of South Florida. As a former build upon in graduate school for Classical Archaeology in fall Eta Sigma Phi national officer and University of Florida Classics 2012. graduate, Sarah has spent countless hours in the past few years working with varying degrees of Latin students, from teaching Theodore Bedrick Scholarship to the Vergilian Society at Cumae: Kyle at a Classical School in Gainesville to more recently teaching Oskvig. Kyle writes “Every student of the Classics dreams of going large groups of home-schooled students. She currently has several to experience Italy firsthand. The Bedrick scholarship will take tutoring groups and just spent three days leading a Latin Camp for me there, and provide a richer experience than I could have on Classical Conversations in Sarasota, FL, with 120 students ages my own. The Vergilian Society’s “Land of the Sibyl” tour will offer 9–14. knowledgeable professors as guides, a country villa as a home base, and fellow Classicists of all ages as companions. I’ll recount my Classical Field Archaeology Scholarship for Summer Field Work: experiences around the bay of Naples in the next NUNTIUS.” Rachel Cartwright. Rachel is an undergraduate student in Classi- cal Archaeology at UT Austin. Over the summer, she worked in Eta Sigma Phi Summer Scholarship to study at the American Portugal on an Iron Age castro site that also was influenced by the Academy in Rome: Andrew Willey. Andrew is currently working Romans during their period of inhabiting the Iberian peninsula. on his dissertation “Discovering a Higher Law: Cicero and the She has been learning how to use survey equipment, set up new Creation of a Roman Constitution” at the University of Minne- units, and excavate. sota. With the much-appreciated assistance of Eta Sigma Phi, he will be attending the Classical Summer School of the American Brent Malcom Froberg Summer Scholarship: Rebecca Sausville. Academy at Rome and is looking forward to the opportunity to Rebecca is a 2011 graduate of Fordham College at Lincoln Center, spend several intense weeks learning about material culture and where she received a BA in Classical Languages. This year also the topography of Cicero’s adopted hometown. And who knows? marked her first foray into Ancient Greek, which means her Perhaps he’ll even stumble across some tiny trace of Cicero’s (in) summer session at ASCSA was spent absorbing as much Greek famous house on the Palatine.

Eta Sigma Phi H. R. Butts Summer Scholarship for Fieldwork in Classical Archaeology

Eligibility Active membership in Eta Sigma Phi Deadline (receipt) February 1st Preference will be given to undergraduates who have had not yet had experience in archaeological fieldwork, but Announcement The recipient will be announced at experienced fieldworkers and graduate students are also the National Convention (March/April). welcome to apply. The selection committee is appointed by the Eta Sigma Phi Board of Trustees. For further information and questions, Award $2000.00 to support fieldwork experience at an please contact the Committee Chair: archaeological site in the Greco-Roman world. Professor Liane Houghtalin Application http://department.monm.edu/classics/esp/ Department of Classics, Philosophy and Religion scholarships/fieldworkapplication.html University of Mary Washington Applicants will submit a transcript of all undergraduate 1301 College Avenue work, two (2) letters of recommendation, and a statement Fredericksburg, VA 22401 not to exceed 500 words, stating briefly their background and (540) 654-1345 preparation for the program to which they are applying, and Email: [email protected] how participation in this program fits their future plans. The Committee expects applicants to have contacted the director Eta Sigma Phi, the National Classics Honorary Society of their preferred field school(s). (http://www.etasigmaphi.us)

23 Lifetime Achievement Awards Edward V. George

Edward V. George of Texas Tech Univer- sity has spent a long career working in the trenches of the Classics to support the profession, and especially, to expand the horizons of Classical pedagogy and scholar- ship to include the lesser known voices from the past, such as those from the New World. He has sought to make the study of the Classics more meaningful and attrac- tive to a wide range of populations in the United States, particularly in the Hispanic communities of West Texas. A native of upstate New York, Dr. George received a B. A. degree from Niagara University and an M. A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He spent several years teaching in the Classics Department of the University of Texas at Austin before moving in 1971 to Texas Tech, where he has taught, pursued scholarship, and been an advocate for the Classics even since his retirement in 2006. At Texas Tech Dr. George served his turn as advisor of Delta Omicron Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi, gave numerous guest lectures to area high school Latin classes, and was many times a competition judge for the Texas State Junior Classical League. He has been president of the Texas Classi- cal Association; state vice president for the Classical Association of the Middle West Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Edward V. George and Mrs. George and South; president of the American Association for Neo-Latin Studies; and vice president of the American Classical New World, led to a third significant pub- Spanish-speaking communities not only League. lication in 2005, Columbus’ First Voyage: in west Texas, but throughout the United Dr. George has published numerous Latin Selections from Peter Martyr’s De Orbe States. His manifesto for bridging this gap books and articles and given many papers Novo, edited with Constance P. Iacona and is perhaps in an article titled “Latin and at professional meetings on a variety of published by Bolchazy-Carducci. These Spanish: Roman Culture and Hispanic topics, especially in the area of his specialty readings by an early sixteenth century, America,” published in 1997 in a book all and first scholarly love, Neo-Latin Litera- Italian-born historian of Spain and its of you future Latin teachers should read: ture. We have time tonight to mention discoveries during the Age of Exploration Latin in the 21st Century, edited by Richard only a few of these publications. Several offer in a series of letters and reports valu- A. LaFleur. of them deal with the writing of Juan Luis able first accounts of European explora- Dr. George has been an enthusiastic Vives, an early sixteenth century Spanish tions in Central and South America. promoter of the exciting idea of teaching humanist and educational theorist who The members of Eta Sigma Phi would Latin and Spanish in the same classroom. was a strong proponent of humanistic certainly like to commend Dr. George for In 1999, with a grant from the Plum Foun- learning over medieval scholasticism in his scholarship in publishing these books, dation, he ran a special course for current his day. Dr. George edited and translated but we wish to recognize this work in a and prospective Latin and Spanish teach- two of Vives’s works: a Commentary on the much broader context, namely that of ers to support “Latin and Spanish Together Dream of Scipio and also the Declamationes his tireless efforts to connect the study in the Classroom.” He has worked with the Sullanae, both published by Brill in 1989. of Latin language and culture and the Lubbock Schools on a successful Spanish/ His interest in Vives and other Neo-Latin study of Spanish language and culture. Latin curriculum. In 2005 he directed a authors, not only in Spain, but also in the He has encouraged the study of Latin in six-hour ACL Summer Institute workshop

24 Lifetime Achievement Awards (Continued) titled “Latin and Spanish Together in the Joint National Committee for Languages was a Mellon Fellow at the Institute of Classroom.” With these activities, Dr. in Washington, D.C. This is a selective list Advanced Studies in the National Foreign George has shown how such collaborative of his service in administrative capacity. Language Center at Johns Hopkins Uni- efforts are mutually valuable for Spanish Bobby retired as Coordinator for Project versity in Washington, D. C. and Latin students. Latin students learn ExCELL in the Southwest Educational De- We are only the latest in a line of orga- more about the links between the lan- velopment Laboratory in Austin. Within nizations to honor Bobby. He was recog- guage of the ancient Romans and modern our field of Classics, Bobby served as Chair nized, for instance, by the Texas Foreign Spanish-speakers and how they can use of the Scholarship Committee of the Na- Language Association at its annual confer- Latin to learn Spanish. Students of Span- tional Latin Exam Committee; chaired the ence in 1996 for “Outstanding Leadership ish, especially those of Hispanic heritage, National Committee for Latin and Greek; as an Advocate for Languages Other Than learn to appreciate an important, but often and was Chair of the Priorities Committee English.” The Classical Association of the little-understood part of their heritage, for Classics in the American Council on Midwest and South gave him one of the namely their cultural and linguistic links the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Again, ovationes it reserves for the most important with their Latin language past, not only in this is a selective list only! contributors to our discipline. the Neo-Latin world of the Renaissance, Of the many speeches Bobby made I cannot resist mentioning the great but also in the ancient Roman world of about the teaching of Foreign Language, honor and pleasure it was for me to work Spaniards like Martial, Lucan and Seneca. one will show you how important his voice with Bobby when I studied and then briefly If the study of Latin is to continue to be has been for pedagogy during the twenti- taught at UT Austin. He helped me with an important part of American education eth and twenty-first centuries: he spoke on the student interns I supervised in intern- in the coming decades, students and their “Translating the National Foreign Lan- ships in Austin high schools, and I helped parents from a wide variety of cultural guage Standards into Latin and Greek,” a him revise the Teachers’ Manual for the backgrounds need to recognize the value presentation he made with Martha Abbott Teaching of Latin in the State of Texas. of the language in their own lives and and Sally Davis at the American Council What impressed me most — after his obvi- future careers. Dr. George has shown us on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. ous competence in pedagogy and adminis- one effective way to accomplish this. It is Here is one example of his many influen- trative supervisory positions — was Bobby’s up to the next generation of Latin teach- tial publications: “Classics and the Report modest opinion of his talents, talents all ers, many of them members of Eta Sigma of the President’s Commission on Foreign the rest of us in the Classics could see Phi, to take up his challenge and continue Languages and International Studies,” clearly. He was the unselfish colleague we building the bridge between Latin and which appeared in The Classical Outlook all hope for, and I am doubly privileged to Spanish. in 1992. have the opportunity to present to you the Bobby LaBouve is proud to be a mem- name of Bobby LaBouve as a 2011 recipi- ber of the Eta Sigma Phi Society since ent of the Lifetime Achievement Award Robert LaBouve 1962. In 1963 he was elected to Phi Beta bestowed by the Eta Sigma Phi Society. Kappa, and in 1974 to Phi Kappa Phi. He One of our outstanding 2011 honorees for the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Eta Sigma Phi Society is Robert LaBouve, known as “Bobby” to all of us who have had the privilege of working with him. On the Selection of Lifetime Bobby LaBouve received B. A. and M. A. degrees from the University of Texas at Achievement Awardees Austin, did graduate work at the Univer- sity of Kansas, the University of Minne- Now that we have established the presentation of Lifetime Achievement Awards as sota, and the State University of New York a part of the banquet activities at national conventions, the Board of Trustees invites at Albany, and taught Latin in Houston the membership at large, and particularly the membership at the host institution, public schools. to submit nominations for these awards. The awardee should be a person who has Soon various professional and govern- pursued a long career in Classics, and who has contributed in an outstanding fashion ment entities were clamoring for him to to Eta Sigma Phi and to the discipline, especially as regards outreach into the com- use his understanding of foreign language munity. The Board reserves the right to select the recipients (one or two each year) instruction beyond the classroom. He from the list of persons nominated. became Latin Language Consultant for the Please send a CV of your nominee and a brief letter stating why you think he or Texas State Department of Education; was she deserves our recognition. Materials should be sent to the Chair of the Board of the Director of the Languages Unit for that Trustees or the Executive Secretary by 1 October of the autumn preceding the spring agency; and served as Senior Associate convention in which the award is to be made. for Language Policy and Planning for the

25 Report of the Resolutions Committee from the 83rd Annual Convention

There are more sayings about Texas than the agora of Bentonville, Arkansas, the The award for the best bromance goes to there are counties in Delaware. The place commercial center of the empire, which Stephen Margheim of Gamma Omega for is like a letter of Seneca, it’s so full of apo- lies on the isthmus of Arkansas between his paper on Horace and Vergil. The award phthegmata. Some, such as former governor Fayetteville and Bella Vista, where the for the best Sicilian expedition after Nicias George W. Bush, say “Disciplina praesidium inhabitants are known for their sesquipe- and Athens v. Sparta goes to Ashley Young civitatis,” or “Discipline is the defense of dalian grunts and procrustean caves and of Gamma Upsilon for her study of mythol- the state.” Others say, “Noli vexare Texiam,” the genitive of τὸ γράμμα and words in ogy in colonial Sicily. And the award for or “Don’t mess with Texas.” Still others Greek and Latin that are not related by the best talking infant goes to that E-trade chant, “Astra nocte magna clara, umbilico their common Indo-European heritage. baby whose existence would have blown Texiae.” Even in the first century before Yes, it’s Dr. Daniel Levine. Even the certa- Augustine’s mind. the common era, the Roman orator Cicero men questions are bigger in Texas. The awards for the most Classic often used the phrase, “O Texia, O Mores.” The award for the best exhibition of personae in Austin go to Dr. Timothy Yet, perhaps the most famous sententia de modern art goes to the guy at the rave on Moore, sponsor of the Gamma Sigma Texia is “Omnia maiora in Texia sunt,” or the mall with the t-shirt that read “Pardon Chapter, Dr. Stephen White, Chair of the “Everything’s bigger in Texas.” In the spirit me for Partying.” The Blanton Museum Department of Classics, and the rest of the of gigantism, we on the resolutions com- of Art was a close second for its display of faculty of the department for their support mittee wish to present the following awards bones on the ceiling and coins on the floor. of the convention. We couldn’t have done for achievements at the 83rd Annual Con- The award for the weirdest but most ar- it without you. Keep Austin Classic! vention of ΗΣΦ in Austin, Texas. tistic clothing accessory goes to the fanny And finally, we on the resolutions com- The award for the largest Classics de- pack of Austin. mittee move that the award for the best partment in the state of Texas goes to the And the award for the best dagger convention ever held outside the borders of University of Texas at Au–Tyler, because cookie for the Ides of March goes to all the United States of America goes to the no one counts as a Classicist unless he or delegates from all chapters. But remember, 83rd Annual convention held in Austin, she is wearing Graeco-Roman garb! We a big dagger cookie is just a big dagger Texas, March 25–27, 2011. All those in do give an honorable mention to UT at cookie. favor, please respond by saying Yippie Austin for having its own building, or at And the award for keeping Austin Ki Yay. least two floors of a building. But careful, weird (Serva Austinem Miram) goes to the Austin, as Pink Floyd taught us last night, officers. Really. I mean, how else do you The Members of the Resolutions Commit- there are dangers in empire. win a certamen about Classical facts in a tee, representing the Epsilon, Alpha Lambda, The Psave Pflugerville Pward goes to room of Classical scholars? Beta Psi, Gamma Omicron, Delta Theta, Eta Brook Youngblood and the local commit- And everything is bigger in Texas, Delta chapters tee of the Gamma Sigma chapter. The except the officers. Four officers were sit- resolutions committee noted Ms. Young- ting around a campfire, out on a lonesome blood’s calm and clear rhetoric and the pa- Texas prairie, each with the bravado for tience of the other members of the chapter, which officers are famous. A night of tall who were able to put up with so many dang tales begins. David leaned back and hooked yankees who think they know everything his thumbs in his suspenders. “Once, I but cannot follow even the simplest direc- sight-read Catullus 85 without a dictionary.” Eta Sigma Phi tions. The Gamma Sigma chapter also won Rena guffawed. “That’s nothin’” she said, Owl LAPEL PINS the “Hands across Texas” award for the stirring the fire, “Once, I correctly identi- biggest cross-campus lineup. fied the significance of 323 B.C. before These economically-priced In the category of finest cuisine, third thousands of adoring Classicists.” “You ain’t oval lapel pins are one- place goes to Sixth Street, for proving that got nothing on me,” Maria declaimed, “I inch high and bear the a city can never have too many bars on one composed four hundred lines of Sapphic Eta Sigma Phi owl seal street. Second place goes to Guadalupe strophes, wrote it on some old papyrus I in purple and gold. All Street for proving that Veggie Haven, Rasta had hanging around and sold it as an origi- new active members of Pasta, and even the Medicis can get along! nal to the University of Texas at Austin’s Eta Sigma Phi receive And the first prize goes to Ilan Gonzalez Classics department for their whole endow- a lapel pin as benefit of Hirsh…no, no, no. The first prize goes to ment.” Theo just sat silently by the way, half membership. Additional the University of Texas food service, for hidden in shadow, stirring the fire with the lapel pins can be purchased in a batch of proving that anything can be a burrito! key to the main gate of Atlantis. ten for $10.00 plus $5.00 for postage and The recipient of this award hails from Even the papers are bigger in Texas. handling.

26 The Best of Both Worlds

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The first discussion by the Board at the who have made outstanding contributions ex officio Board member Professor Brent 2011 meeting in Austin, Texas concerned locally. Eta Sigma Phi certificates will be Froberg. persons. The names of continuing and issued only to Honorary Members whose The financial support for national of- newly appointed members of Eta Sigma contributions have national significance, as ficers and Trustees attending convention Phi committees, with designation of the approved by the Executive Secretary and and other professional meetings in official committee Chair and end date of term of the Board. capacity will be increased to reflect rising service, will appear in the next edition of The wording concerning qualification costs in the economy. the NUNTIUS in partial representation of for Associate Membership will be clarified Expenses for the Executive Secretary this discussion. in the by-laws. and NUNTIUS editor will be compensated Trustee David Sick of Rhodes College Only undergraduate initiates of Eta in reflection of these costs. stepped down from the Board. Antonios Sigma Phi shall be eligible for scholarships The outgoing Chrysophylax, Theo Augoustakis of the University of Illinois at awarded by the Society. Harwood, has developed a brochure for our Urbana-Champaign was elected to a three Local chapters are urged to maintain use in soliciting ads for the NUNTIUS. year term to serve in his place, subject to high standards for election to membership, We will campaign to increase revenues ratification by the Assembly. [Editor’s note: recognizing that courses in Greek and from ads in our publication. To raise our Professor Augoustakis’s term was approved.] Latin, rather than courses exclusively in national profile, we will also seek to place It was decided to name the new Field translation, earn merit for acceptance into ads for Eta Sigma Phi in the publications of Archaeology Scholarship after H. R. Butts, the Society. other organizations. a former Executive Secretary of Eta Sigma The Board discussed the presentation of Other matters, such as possible re- Phi and a mentor of donor Larry Crowson. papers by undergraduates at our conven- cipients of future Lifetime Achievement The advanced Greek contest prize will be tions, and at CAMWS, CAMWS South- Awards, contributions to the Amphora (a named in honor of Mr. Crowson, himself. ern Section and the American Philological publication of the APA), and possible re- The description of the position of the Association. Presenters must plan to attend spondents for the APA panel papers, were Editor of the NUNTIUS was strengthened, the entire session at which they will read discussed, and the meeting adjourned. especially in regard to participation at their papers. No waiver of registration for Board meetings. these meetings will be granted. Respectfully submitted, Outgoing Megas Prytanis David Gio- The finances of the organization were Martha A. Davis, Chair vagnoli of Truman State University was thoroughly discussed, with input from Board of Trustees, Eta Sigma Phi asked to form a committee to deal with advanced planning for annual conventions. The first incarnation of this committee is charged with beginning the planning for our 2014 Centennial Celebration in Lifetime Subscription to NUNTIUS Chicago, site of the original Eta Sigma Phi If you wish to continue receiving news about Eta Sigma Phi after graduation, you organization. Sister Thérèse Dougherty, can receive a lifetime subscription to NUNTIUS, with payment of a one-time fee Trustee, and outgoing Trustee David Sick of $50.00 made payable to Eta Sigma Phi and mailed, along with this form to: will serve in the first term of this commit- tee, and one of the national officers to be Dr. Thomas J. Sienkewicz elected at this convention will join it. Executive Secretary of Eta Sigma Phi Allie Marbry (an organizer of the 81st Department of Classics annual convention that met at Rhodes Monmouth College College) and Kenny Morrell at the Center 700 East Broadway for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D. C. Monmouth, Illinois 61462 are involved with planning a new website for Eta Sigma Phi, which may be placed on the server of the Center. Discussion of Name: ______such a new website will continue through Street Address: ______the year. Clarifications will be made in require- City: ______State: ______ZIP: ______ments for membership in this organization. Honorary Membership in the national Chapter: ______society must be approved by the Execu- tive Secretary, working with the Board Note: Please use a relatively permanent address in order to ensure continued of Trustees. Local chapters may confer receipt of the newsletter. local honorary membership on persons

28 Winners of the 2011 Eta Sigma Phi Maurine Dallas Watkins Sight Translation Contests

Sixty-Second Annual Greek Translation Contest

Advanced Greek (37 entries) 1st Mark Patrick Huggins, Beta Delta at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2nd Kathleen Kidder, Gamma Sigma at the University of Texas at Austin 3rd Jeremy Nettles, Alpha Kappa at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Honorable Mention: Kirsten Block, Eta Delta at Hillsdale College; Ilan Gonzalez-Hirshfeld, Eta Mu at the University of California, Davis; Scott Kennedy, Eta Iota at the University of Arizona

Intermediate Greek (31 entries) 1st Michael Keith Penich, Eta Mu at the University of California, Davis 2nd Tyler Denton, Beta Delta at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville 3rd Justin Barney, Epsilon Kappa at Brigham Young University Honorable Mention: Andrew Howie, Beta Psi at Rhodes College

Koine Greek (28 entries) 1st Ilan Gonzalez-Hirshfeld, Eta Mu at the University of California, Davis 2nd Rachel Monsen, Epsilon Kappa at Brigham Young University 3rd Scott Kennedy, Eta Iota at the University of Arizona Honorable Mention: Kirsten Block, Eta Delta at Hillsdale College; Mark Patrick Huggins, Beta Delta at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Michael Keith Penich, Eta Mu at the University of California, Davis

Sixty-First Annual Latin Translation Contest

Advanced Latin (53 entries) 1st Ilan Gonzalez-Hirshfeld, Eta Mu at the University of California, Davis 2nd Theodore Harwood, Eta Delta at Hillsdale College 3rd Emily Marie Sandquist, Delta Chi at St. Olaf College Honorable Mention: Jaimie Conley, Eta Delta at Hillsdale College; Michelle Currie, Beta Psi at Rhodes College; Scott Kennedy, Eta Iota at the University of Arizona

Intermediate Latin (21 entries) 1st Rachel Bier, Zeta Chi at Xavier University 2nd Michael Boal, Eta Mu at the University of California, Davis 3rd Daniel Spiotta, Eta Delta at Hillsdale College Honorable Mention: Brooke Fidrick, Epsilon Iota at the University of Florida

Forty-Fifth Annual Latin Prose Composition Contest Advanced Prose Composition (23 entries) 1st Theodore Harwood, Eta Delta at Hillsdale College 2nd Ilan Gonzalez-Hirshfeld, Eta Mu at the University of California, Davis 3rd Samuel D. Amos, Theta Omega at John Carroll University Honorable Mention: Ryan Vinson, Beta Delta at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

29 Certamen Procedures

Notes by D. B. Levine and T. Sienkewicz Questioners: allowed on a repeated tossup question. Only Questioners will be faculty from Eta Sigma the first person to buzz in will give an answer. Teams: Phi chapters attending the Convention. Four people per team. If no team answers the Tossup correctly, the Questioner will give the answer and then ask Toss Up Questions: The first person to buzz Teams can consist of delegates from a single the next Tossup question. chapter or several chapters. in answers. The student must be recognized before giving an answer (don’t just shout Bonus Questions: (3 Questions, 5 points Students must sign up with their names it out). No consultation with the team is each). These questions will go to the team clearly spelled and the name of their allowed on tossups. The questioner stops whose member has answered the tossup chapter(s) and college(s). reading when student answers. The ques- question correctly. Consultation is allowed tioner will not repeat what has just been Indicate one team captain on the sign-up for bonus questions: Only the Team Captain read. After the student answers, the Ques- sheet. answers the bonus questions. Students may tioner then will say either: ask for the questions to be repeated, but Give your team a name for identification “[Repeat Answer] is correct for 10 points. only once. Time limit is 15 seconds for each purposes. Here is your first bonus question.” bonus question. If a team does not know the Students: Please pay attention to the call for or, answer to a bonus question, the captain may your team to take its place at the tables. “I’m sorry, that is incorrect. I will repeat the guess an answer or may simply say, “We don’t question for the other team.” know” or “No answer.” Rounds: If answer is wrong, the questioner repeats The audience should not give any clues Three teams compete at a time in each round. the question for the other teams — which to answers. If they give away an answer, Winning teams in each round complete might do well to let the questioner finish the the team will not get the points for three at a time until there is a winner. question before buzzing in. No consultation is answering it.

Some Favorite Certamen Questions from the 2011 Games

Toss Up 2: Texas has its share of colorful Bonus 3: What Texas town in Denton Bonus 1: How would Paris describe his town names. Most are the kind you expect County has the same name as the famously father’s job? to find out west, like Bigfoot, Texas (Frio luxurious city on the isthmus of the same HE RULED/WAS A KING County), Geronimo, Texas (in Guadalupe name that connects the Peloponnese to county); Stage Coach, Texas (in Montgom- the rest of Greece, and where some of St. Bonus 2: How would Bdelycleon in Aris- ery County), Point Blank, Texas (in San Paul’s letters were addressed, and which the tophanes’ Wasps describe what his father Jacinto County), and Turkey, Texas (in Hall Romans destroyed in 146 BCE, and where Philokleon did for a living? County). However, not many people know there is now a canal connecting the Saronic JUDGED TRIALS/SERVED AS A JUROR/ about the Texas towns that carry Classical Gulf to the Gulf of Corinth? COLLECTED DICAST PAY names. Here’s the question: What small CORINTH, TEXAS Bonus 3: What would Cincinnatus’ sons say East Texas town in Panola County is named that their father did for a living? after the city that was Dido’s home and later Toss Up 11: Give in Latin the sum of quinque HE WAS A FARMER Rome’s nemesis in North Africa, and against et sedecim. VIGINTI UNUS which the Romans fought three wars? Toss Up 25: What familiar fairy tale is repre- CARTHAGE, TEXAS Bonus 1: How many letters are in the Roman sented by the Latin title “Bella Dormiens”? numeral for “two thousand”? SLEEPING BEAUTY Congratulations! Since you have shown such TWO (MM) an excellent knowledge of Texas geogaphy, Bonus 1: What familiar fairy tale is rep- you are ready to identify more Texas towns Bonus 2: What is the number represented by resented by the Latin title “Novae Vestes whose names have Classical origins. the Roman numeral MCM? Imperatoris”? Bonus 1: What Texas town on the Rio 1900 EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES Grande has the Latin name for the capital of the Roman Empire? Bonus 3: What is the number represented by Bonus 2: What familiar fairy tale is repre- ROMA, TEXAS the Roman numeral MDCCC? sented by the Latin title “Auricoma et Tres 1800 Ursi?” Bonus 2: What Texas town in Ellis and John- GOLDILOCKS AND THREE BEARS son Counties has the same name as Aeneas’ Toss Up 18: How would Icarus describe what mother? his father did for a living? Bonus 3: What familiar fairy tale is repre- VENUS, TEXAS BUILDER/CRAFTSMAN/ARCHITECT/SCULP- sented by the Latin title “Lacernella Rubra”? TOR/WING MAKER/ AERONAUTIC ENGINEER LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

30 Initiates July 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010

About Our New Honorary Members New Initiates

Beta Nu at University of Mary Zeta Nu at University of Maryland, Zeta (Denison University) Washington College Park Laura Babey, Erica DiMercurio, Jaclyn Friend, Karyn Greene, Melissa Henry, Prof. JeanAnn Dabb teaches ancient Dr. Ann Wylie is the new Senior Vice Becky McNeill, Erin Nass, Alex Stevens, art history at the University of Mary President for Academic Affairs and Provost Kate Westenberger (10-12-09) Washington and has been tireless over of the University of Maryland. Although the years in mentoring Classics students she has not studied Latin for many years Mu (University of Cincinnati) who wish to pursue careers in ancient art. (she is a professor of geology), she took Margaret Bissler, Brittany Steele, Elizabeth She recently joined with Classics to design advanced Latin courses in college where Thoman (10-27-10) a course, cross-listed between the two she was a classmate of our colleague, Dr. disciplines, on the art and archaeology of Judith Hallett. We consider her a friend of Omega (College of William and Mary) ancient Egypt and the Near East. Finally, the department. Amanda E. Chan, Courtney E. Greer, she is such an ardent admirer of things Dr. Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer-prize- Anthony J. Maslanka, Anne L. Morin, ancient that she herself designs and creates winning author and journalist who studied William C. Pelak (2-17-10) mosaics inspired by the Romans. Latin through the advanced level in Dr. Federico Schneider, Associate college. He has reviewed translations of Alpha Delta (Agnes Scott College) Professor of Italian at the University of Classical texts and written introductory Claire Brummeler, Kirsten Frye, Jaynie Mary Washington and a “true friend” essays for recent translations of Homer Gaskin, Christiane Jones, Kaitlyn of Classics, not only regularly mentors and Ovid. He has long been a champion McCune, Jennifer Noe, Kate Schuhlein, Classics students, but he also offers courses of the Classics in his columns and a friend Anahita Sotoohi (10-29-10) that explore the Classical tradition within of the Maryland Classics department in Italian literature, including one on Dante’s particular. Most recently (spring 2010) he Alpha Sigma (Emory University) Divine Comedy and another on the presented a paper at our colloquium on Karen Dahl, Eb Joseph Daniels, Selin E. afterlife in the Classical and Italian literary Thornton Wilder and Classical reception. Nugent, Amy Caroline Sobol, Christopher traditions. Dr. Schneider has worked on Wang, Shirley Yang (10-19-10) Dr. Linda Coleman is an Associate the Classical tradition and its pedagogy, Professor of English at the University of presented his work at a conference held Alpha Omega (Louisiana State Maryland, College Park. She studied Latin by the Classical Association of the Middle University) through the advanced level in college and West and South, and published it in the Cody Bergeron, Ian Cruise, Matthew for many years has taught rhetoric and journal College Teaching. Darce, Amy Duplessis, Lindsay Classical literature in translation. She is Elliottsmith, John Green, James Hamilton, an affiliate faculty member of the Classics Rachel Hungerford, Elizabeth Limbaugh, Department. Dexter Matrana, Allyson Presswood, Mr. Steven Dubrow is a teacher of Latin Steven Ramirez, Joshua Rutledge, and French at Walter Johnson High School Madeline Sassic, Ann Waite, Allison Honorary Membership in Montgomery County, Maryland. As a Whitney, Lori Wilson (4-22-10) special student, he has taken courses in in Eta Sigma Phi Latin at the advanced level here at the Beta Nu (University of Mary University and earned exemplary grades. Washington) The purpose of honorary mem- Chris Moore (11-19-10) bership is to recognize individu- als who have done good service Zeta Sigma at the University of Beta Psi (Rhodes College) for Eta Sigma Phi but who never Minnesota Andrew S. Howie, Courtney M. Mallin became members as students. (10-3-10) Honorary memberships should Nita Krevans is a professor in the department of Classical and Near Eastern be awarded sparingly. The Board Gamma Nu (Montclair State University) Studies. Her induction into Eta Sigma Phi of Trustees recently decided that Lauren Nicole Blekicki, Elizabeth Jean is long-overdue for her years of outstanding the society should know more Ciccarella, Helen Dabetic (11-4-10) about those individuals honored teaching, advising, and service to the profession and especially the students at in this way by local chapters. Gamma Upsilon (Austin College) UMN. Adani Sanchez (4-22-10)

31 New Initiates (Continued)

Delta Tau (University of Delaware) Theta Gamma (Roger Williams Zeta Gamma (San Diego State Elizabeth Aresti, Alexandra Armusewicz, University) University) Jessica Chopyk, Will Drewen, Kemper Kristin Accomando, Caroline Chinkel, Samantha Jo T. Alfonso, Stacia Nicole Elliott, Sarah Finkel, Tiara Goode, Lindsay Brooke Kourafas, Ashley Lago, Michaela Arnold, Brandon Braun, Kathryne Elaine Jacob, Allison Kane, Jeff Liu, Mary Lynam, Whalen (5-10-10) Fisher, Nicholas M. Stadille, Emily Upson Chelsea Schmidt, Rebecca Soja, Kendrick (11-5-10) Sullivan, Kaitlyn Thorp, Anne-Elyse Theta Iota (Illinois Wesleyan Wachur, Morgan Winsor (11-17-10) University) Claire Jolicoeur (4-7-10) Epsilon Iota (University of Florida) Membership Report Melissa Cook, Krista Dukes, Vicki Theta Lambda (Hamilton College) Kaikaka, Al Kummer, Kathryn Pyles, Evan Joel Kaplan, Kirsten Elling Swartz for 2010–2011 Stephen Pyles, Alexandra Sandgren, Claire (10-4-10) Sullivan, Samantha Zinnes (9-29-10) As this issue of NUNTIUS went Theta Pi (Kenyon College) to press, 779 new members had Epsilon Nu (Creighton University) Ian Stewart-Bates, Marta Stewart-Bates, been initiated into Eta Sigma Phi Daniel Lydiatt (4-8-08) Aislinn Toohey, Julie Weiner (10-5-10) during the current academic year. At the same time last year 925 Zeta Beta Chapter (Temple University) Theta Tau (Richard Stockton College) new members had been initiated. Eamonn Connor, Ashley Gander, Ashley Mico Heriegel (9-30-10) Gilbert, Katie Gussman, Brandon Glackin, Anthony Parenti, and Kayleigh Trumbore

Zeta Sigma (University of Minnesota) Claudia Hochstein, Kellye Kosanda, New and Reactivated Chapters Amelia Mickman, Annamarie Nelson, Jacob Paulsen, Joshua Semrow, William Curtis Szabo, Jessica Tam, Cha Xiong, New Chapters Reactivated Chapters James Vieregge, Nicholas Zuiker; Iota Epsilon at Villanova University Chapters are considered deactivated if Honorary: Nita Krevans (4-28-10) Iota Zeta at Christopher Newport they have not initiated any new mem- University bers in the past four years. Reactivation Zeta Tau (University of Pittsburgh) is a simple process. All a deactivated A petition for a new chapter at Ohio Lorraine Keeler, Kelvin Yang chapter has to do is submit a report on Wesleyan University was also approved new initiates to the executive secretary. at the 2011 Annual Convention. Eta Mu (University of California, Davis) No chapters were reactivated since Eta Sigma Phi looks forward to Amy Balmain, Ashley Bargenquast, Alex the last issue of the NUNTIUS. Easter, Sarah Escorcia, Natalie Ho, Quincy welcoming members from this school Kayton, Alyssa Knobeloch, Ashley Leslie, before the 2012 convention. According Deepti Menon, Jack Mills, Jennifer Moore, to the by-laws if an initiation is not held Diana Muñoz, Michelle Osuga, Angelica by the next convention, a school must Perez, Julie Quatrocchi, Alyssa van Erp, resubmit its petition for a new chapter. Celsiana Warwick, Erin Wilson (6-2-10)

Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

Jane Hall (2006) Adam D. Blistein (2009) Sally R. Davis (2010) Rudolph Masciantonio (2007) Alice M. Sanford (2009) Edward V. George (2011) Kenneth Kitchell (2008) Christine F. Sleeper (2010) Robert LaBouve (2011)

Exegerunt monumenta aere perenniora

32 Chapter Res Gestae 2010–2011

Beta at Northwestern University at semester’s end, and we anticipate contin- The Beta chapter holds weekly study ses- ued growth for Epsilon chapter throughout sions for Classics majors and minors, where the coming year. students can chat, do homework, and get free tutoring from upper level students in Epsilon Nu at Creighton University Greek or Latin. During the 2010–2011 academic year, During the Fall Quarter, we held a members of the Epsilon Nu chapter at Classics mixer for students to meet and Creighton were involved in a number of speak with the faculty of the Classics de- activities. As a group, we watched two partment. This included free snacks and a mini-series: I, Claudius and Rome. After- game of Classical Pictionary, and was very wards, discussions were held among those well-attended. in attendance. During the Winter Quarter, we pro- Eta Sigma Phi, along with the Depart- duced the annual Eta Sigma Phi calendar, ment of Classical & Near East Studies, with students and faculty from the Clas- sponsored a series of lectures and class- sics department featured in scenes from room activities by Drs. Peter and Karen antiquity. Green from the University of Iowa. This In the Spring Quarter, we held a Clas- was a special treat both for students of sics movie night, watching Medea with free ­classics and for the campus at large. pizza and pop. In many ways, the highlight of the year Our chapter co-sponsors an annual was the organization’s certamen activities. lamb roast with the Classics department, In order to help high school students pre- where awards are given out by the faculty pare for “official” competition, Eta Sigma to students who have done exceptionally Phi sponsors an annual “mock” certamen. well during the year, and where the senior Divided into three divisions (beginning, gift is presented to the faculty by outgoing intermediate, and advanced), high school students. This event is catered and always students are quizzed on topics relating well-attended. to grammar, vocabulary, and language. Approximately 100 Omaha-area students Epsilon at University of Iowa participated in this year’s program, which Epsilon chapter began the year by orga- was held at the end of January 2011. Megas Hyparchos Kyle Oskvig of Epsilon nizing a booth at the UI Student Orga- Having enrolled almost twenty new takes advantage of an irresistable photo op! nization Fair, where chapter VP Larry members and elected a new slate of offi- Houston’s papyrus fliers were a big hit. We cers, the Epsilon Nu chapter looks forward got the word out for our semester-opening holdings. We undertook a massive art with great anticipation to the beginning of meeting, which was enhanced with pizza project, too — a 4'x4' mosaic of the city a new academic year in August. by a Caristia grant from CPL. In Novem- of Rome — with the artistic leadership of ber, we organized our semesterly poetry chapter secretary Christine Miles, who Iota at the University of Vermont reading, where students and faculty with simultaneously led the charge to design a The 2009–2010 academic year has been a Classical interests get together and recite chapter t-shirt. dynamic and productive one for the Iota selections of their favorite Classics-related In early April, a six-member delegation chapter of Eta Sigma Phi at the University poetry. went to CAMWS in Grand Rapids, MI. of Vermont. The Iota chapter is part and Spring was the busiest part of the year We detoured to Ann Arbor on the way for parcel of the campus Goodrich Classical for us. We sent a six-member delegation to another Special Collections visit, this time Club, and with weekly meetings through- Austin, TX for the Eta Sigma Phi conven- at the University of Michigan. We held out the academic year, we have increased tion in March, where chapter president another poetry reading later in April, and both our membership and on-campus Kyle Oskvig was elected Megas Hyparchos. then geared up for our annual Homerathon interest in the Classics. The 17-hour drive was long, but featured in early May. Instead of Homer, though, In particular, we frequently screened one perfect stop for a bathroom break this year it was a Virgil Vigil — we set Classics-themed films and held informal (see picture). Don’t worry, it was only a up outside in downtown Iowa City and discussions afterwards on Classics in pretend bathroom break — the photo-op read Virgil’s entire corpus (in translation) entertainment and pop culture; offerings was irresistible. Soon after we returned, nonstop, which took about 15 hours. It was included Spartacus, Disney’s Hercules, chapter treasurer Ryan Holley organized a a cold, rainy day, but everyone had a great Black Orpheus, HBO’s Rome, and the viewing of the UI Libraries’ Special Col- time. original Clash of the Titans. These became lections, where we perused the Classical Finally, we initiated three new members great opportunities to raise our profile

33 Chapter Res Gestae 2010–2011 (Continued)

on campus as well as to provide a chance for recruitment, and our membership has indeed grown as we become better known. As a club we also arranged various social events, such as seeing the new theatrical release of Clash of the Titans with pizza afterwards. We also joined forces with the campus science fiction club to host a public lecture on the myth of Perseus in Classical Tradition and popular culture. The spring semester was particularly ac- tive. On April 9, the Classics Department hosted the 35th Annual Ludi Vermontenses (Vermont Latin Day, a celebration of the Classics for some 1000 of Vermont’s high school teachers and students of Latin). Members of Iota chapter participated

35th Annual Vermont Latin Day hosted by the Iota chapter

Top, Alyssa Capri Peteani, James Aglio, Prima, Alex Fowler

Above left, Dani Torres, Alex Fowler Notice how Jason is reading the paper as if seeing mythological figures like Clytie and Bacchus cavorting all around him is an every- day occurrence.

Above, Delgates process complete with signa!

Left, let the games begin! The 35th Annual Ludi Vermontenses are officially under way.

34 Chapter Res Gestae 2010–2011 (Continued) by helping to set up and run the event, including acting as marshals for the dif- ferent high school contingents. Members Right, members of the all dressed for the occasion in some rather Omega Chapter dress for spectacular ways. We even made it into the Parents’ Weekend local paper and news broadcasts (!), and we got the day officially proclaimed “Vermont Latin Day” by the governor. Soon afterwards, on April 16, Clas- sics Honors Day, we invited more than twenty students for membership into Eta Sigma Phi, eight of whom we inducted in the Classics department’s end-of-term celebration of student achievements. The reception also honored a large number of Eta Sigma Phi members with departmental prizes for Greek and Latin. On April 17,

Omega Spring 2011 Initiation

Iota chapter/Goodrich co-sponsored a field ing, we organized a few larger events. For bers and two associate members in February trip to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Parents’ Weekend in September, our bake 2011 at a candlelight ceremony in the Concluding the spring semester with sale raised a lot of attention (and funds) for Rotunda of Dallas Hall. Following the ritual a successful bake sale, Iota chapter looks Classical Studies with our Roman clothes and ceremony, new initiates and members forward to doing even more for Classics and our table which was beautifully deco- along with several alumni gathered to eat, on campus in the next academic year, rated with characters from Greek mythol- meet, and greet new and old friends. including plans to stage a mock phalanx ogy. We also hosted our annual Roman In the fall, Eta Sigma Phi members battle on the green, host more bake sales, banquet for students and faculty in April. joined with the Classical Studies Club and sponsor a museum field trip to Boston, The highlight of the year was the annual to participate in the Ludi Romani on the New York, or Montreal. induction in March, when we welcomed 21 Commons of SMU campus. Mock gladi- new members at a solemn induction in the ator fights were the main event with the Omega at the College of historic Wren Chapel with a reception in standout contestant being the retiarius. William and Mary the Wren kitchen. We also hosted our annual celebration Omega remains active under the auspices of the founding of Rome on April 21 with of the Classics Club at the College of Wil- Alpha Gamma at Southern Methodist a Latin lunch and readings from Livy. liam and Mary. In addition to weekly meet- University Members of Eta Sigma Phi also took ad- ings, occasional movie nights, road trips to Alpha Gamma Chapter at Southern Meth- vantage of the Meadows Museum exhibit: museums in Richmond and DC, and tutor- odist University inducted nine new mem- Lost Manuals of the Sistine Chapel.

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Left, Alpha Gamma Initiates outside the Rotunda Below, Alpha Gamma Officers Bottom, Alpha Gamma Ludi Romani

ics such as divinities; modern Classics; grammar and syntax; medicine; Latin to English significance; Greek to English sig- nificance; heroes and villains; philosophy, food, and drink; geography; wars, etc.) • University of Michigan’s 9th Annual Ar- thur & Mary Platsis Symposium on the Greek Legacy: Why Teach Thucydides? • Movie Night: Gladiator with commen- tary by Professor David Potter. December • Horace reading with Sarah Kunjummen, whose thesis was relevant to Horace’s Odes • Attended (some members acted in) Plautus’ Mostellaria Alpha Delta at Agnes Scott College tion efforts. Our calendar included an • Spoken Latin session It was a quiet year for Alpha Delta, with event or general purpose meeting each • Roman Banquet — all recipes were from our chapter president abroad during the week school was in session. Classical cookbooks fall term. We welcomed a special guest Highlights include: January for our fall initiation ceremony, Professor • Latin scrabble tournament Katherine Geffcken. Professor Geffcken September • Ovid: Fasti reading is an emerita professor of Classics from • Kick-off event • Medieval Latin presentation (“Teacher- Wellesley who graduated from Agnes Scott October student relations in the Middle Ages”) as a member of ΗΣΦ in 1949. It was fun to • Herodotus reading: Battle of Marathon by Professor Donka Markus have her there to participate! (Μάχη τοῦ Μαραθῶνος) February • Initiation ceremony held on the “Diag” Alpha Eta at the University of Michigan • Catullus reading (the university’s central quadrangle) The Alpha Eta chapter experienced • Singing Latin session: Beatles’ songs, • Coffee chat with Professor Ruth Caston a tremendous renaissance during the “Hail to the Victors,” folk songs on a variety of topics 2010–2011 academic year. We excited the • Reading Seneca’s version of Oedipus undergraduates, graduate students, and November • Attending the performance of Oedipus even faculty and staff with our revitaliza- • Classical World “Jeopardy” (i.e., top- at Williamston Theatre

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initiation ceremony, was given by Professor a discriminatory organization. Right now Katherine Welch, of the Institute of Fine we are co-sponsoring events with the Clas- Arts at NYU, and was entitled “Judicial sics Club, which has open membership, but Process and Public Visibility in the Greek in Fall 2011 we are hoping to talk to other Agora, Roman Forum, and in Pagan and honors fraternities to see how they are Early Christian Basilicas.” handling Tulane’s stringent policies about We initiated eleven new members in funding. Until then, the co-sponsoring April, with a dinner and dessert reception arrangement has allowed the Alpha Chi following. Our new officers are eager to chapter to remain active at Tulane. return in the fall to brainstorm ideas for increased chapter activities. We are in a Beta Gamma at University of Richmond strange position in terms of student gov- The Beta Gamma chapter welcomed ernment; Tulane does not give any student eleven new members this spring and cel- organization funding to “discriminatory” ebrated with a trip to the Virginia Museum organizations, defined as any organiza- of Fine Arts, to see its newly renovated tion with membership requirements that galleries of ancient art. In the fall, mem- exclude any student, faculty, or staff mem- bers participated in a campus-wide event ber at Tulane. With its Latin and Greek called Trick or Treat Street, a Halloween requirements, Eta Sigma Phi is classified as festival for families in the community. Our Alpha Eta Ides of March

• Classical linguistics presentation with Professor Ben Fortson March • Ides of March reenactment of Caesar’s assassination • Latin reading on gladiatorial games • Chapter succession-planning meeting with officers and staff April • Article in U-M Department of Classical Studies’ Convivium, page 12: https:// editweb.lsa.umich.edu/UMICH/ classics/Home/News%20and%20 events/Newsletter%20downloads/ ClassicsSpring11web.pdf • Various presentations with graduate students about graduate school, their individual research projects, life in ­Classics, etc. Above, Alpha • End-of-year picnic; presentation of Eta Chi Initiation Sigma Phi Honor Cords to seniors Right, new Alpha Chi at Tulane University members sign This Spring 2011, our chapter co-spon- the registration sored two lectures with the Classics Club. book The first, scheduled for February (to coin- cide with Carnival season), was entitled “The Greek Way of Mardi Gras” and was a lecture on Greek festivals, by yours truly. The second lecture, given in April, immediately following the Eta Sigma Phi

37 Chapter Res Gestae 2010–2011 (Continued) activity was “mosaics”: children created few students to the national convention in Denver. His enjoyable and illuminating talk works of art using graham crackers, icing, Austin, Texas. Shortly after, Eta Sigma Phi was entitled “Homer and Herodotus: Mod- and m&m’s. We also sent a delegation hosted a speaker, Joe Goodkin. Mr. Good- ern Science and the Classics.” Dr. Sullivan to the annual VJCL convention, here in kin sang a version of Homer’s Odyssey that gave another well-attended public talk, Richmond, to help with tests, colloquia, he set to music. He accompanied himself sponsored jointly by Eta Sigma Phi and Phi and logistics and to represent UR at an on the guitar and sang for thirty minutes. Beta Kappa, entitled “Science Explores the admissions fair. Our tradition of weekly The event took place in the University of Past: How Modern Technology Reveals “Classical Teas” continues, where students Arkansas’ Greek Theatre. Following the Past Cultures, Climates, and Crimes.” We socialize with each other and with faculty event, Eta Sigma Phi hosted a banquet in initiated eight student members and two and even play Latin Scrabble. Carnall Hall. The entire event was open to honorary members (our guest speaker and the public and yielded a great turnout. It Professor Julia Palmer, who taught two Beta Mu at Butler University was a year of fun and classical learning for Latin courses for us last year). At a separate This year, Beta Mu Chapter of Eta Sigma the Beta Pi chapter! event in late April, we inducted three more Phi was reestablished on Butler University’s students into our chapter. campus, thanks to the efforts of Professor Beta Theta at Hollins University Bungard, a second year professor who has This spring we attended the 4th annual Beta Kappa at College of Notre Dame begun revitalizing the Classical Studies joint initiation ceremony, hosted by Hollins of Maryland Program at Butler, and a group of dedicated University’s chapter, with Randolph and This was a quiet year for Beta Kappa chap- Latin and Greek students. We initiated six Sweet Briar Colleges also participating. We ter at College of Notre Dame of Maryland, new members, three each semester, and initiated two student members at this event following a very busy year in which we we organized end of the semester Classical and at a separate event on our campus celebrated our 60th anniversary. In the fall, banquets. Eta Sigma Phi has also branched (April 14) we inducted two more students some of our members traveled to Philadel- out in two ways. The officers have made who were unable to attend the March phia to enjoy the Cleopatra exhibit at the contacts with non-language Classics stu- event. Also, on April 14th, we held the Franklin Institute. dents to begin a Classics Club on campus. first ever Classical Heritage Certamen at We observed the Ides of March with Also, our sponsor organized a Latin reading Hampden-Sydney College! Four teams of our annual Sister Mary Gratia Memo- group that met outside of class on a weekly four participated, and great fun was had by rial Lecture, which dealt with events in basis. This year, members worked on all. We will definitely be doing this again. Rome following that fateful day. Dr. Henry Prudentius’ Psychomachia. We are currently Bender, on the faculty of St. Joseph’s Uni- looking for more ways to become more Beta Sigma at Marquette University versity in Philadelphia, gave an excellent involved on Butler’s campus and are excited Our chapter activites include our 29th illustrated lecture entitled “Monuments to expand even more next year! annual Classical Valentine Sale with and Message in the Rome of Augustus.” handmade cards containing Greek and In April, we inducted three new mem- Beta Pi at the University of Arkansas Latin verses and Classical designs. We held bers. In conjunction with the induction The Beta Pi Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi had translation contests for Latin and Ancient ceremony we attended a program at the a successful and fun year. The first activity Greek students. We also hosted informal Johns Hopkins University entitled “From was a Cena Deorum on October 30, 2010. student gatherings to view and evaluate Ashes to Monuments: Herculaneum and Members dressed as gods, goddesses, or any the accuracy of modern cinematic treat- Pompeii in the 18th Century.” other mythological character and gathered ments of Classical stories and events. We This was a great preparation for our sum- for food and group readings of plays. At this ended the year by initiating eleven new mer experience in Italy, when some of us event and throughout the year, the chapter members on May 6, 2011. will be visiting Pompeii and Herculaneum. sold Clytemnestra T-shirts as a fundraiser. Sara Priebe, our chapter prytanis, is After this event, Eta Sigma Phi spon- Beta Theta at Hampden-Sydney College currently doing student teaching and plan- sored a joint talk by the faculty of Classi- In the fall we had a delightful gathering ning to complete her Master’s degree in cal Studies at the University of Arkansas. of members at Professor Arieti’s home, teaching at the end of this year. Drs. Alexandra Pappas, Dave Fredrick, where we discussed plans for the year and and Daniel Levine each spoke about their distributed pictures and certificates from Beta Nu at University of respective current research projects. The last year’s initiation. Mary Washington event had a great turnout and was followed This spring we hosted the 3rd annual Our chapter was pleased to make a by pizza at Tim’s. joint initiation ceremony with Randolph donation to the centennial celebration On December 11, Eta Sigma Phi had a College. After a delicious dinner, we en- of the Classical Association of Virginia Saturnalia, where we inducted new mem- joyed a lecture by our guest speaker, Profes- in memory of its chapter founder, Laura bers. At the Saturnalia, we had translation sor Donald Sullivan, a professor of palynol- V. Sumner, and to have its donation and games, gifts, and a potluck. ogy, quaternary studies, biogeography, and tribute noted in the association’s fall 2010 Over spring break, Dr. Levine took a environmental change at the University of anniversary program.

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Above, an impromptu verbal assault on the We held three initiation ceremonies initiates by Catullus (Amelia Campbell), this year. The first and third ones, held in who claims he wouldn’t want to join such a November 2010 and April 2011 respective- society anyway. ly, were to initiate three members who were unable to attend the usual annual spring Left, the initiation cake for the joint initiation ceremony. The second, in March 2011, was of Sweet Briar College, Randolph College, our customary spring initiation ceremony, Hampden-Sydney College, and Hollins in which we inducted 16 regular members University hosted by Hollins. Memorable … and presented Dr. Federico Schneider as a maybe even epic. candidate for honorary membership. This year Beta Nu held its 11th annual Classical Essay Contest for local middle tificates to first and second place winners ranging from celebrating Classical holidays and high school students of Latin. In the in two levels of competition, junior (sixth such as the Saturnalia and the Lupercalia fall we sent flyers to Latin teachers in Fred- through ninth graders) and senior (tenth to holding a banquet on Rome’s birthday. ericksburg, Virginia, where Mary Washing- through twelfth graders). We also awarded Once a week during the spring semester ton is located; to teachers in neighboring two certificates for honorable mention at we watched an episode of I, Claudius, and counties; and to members of the Freder- the senior level and two at the junior level. in April we held an all-night reading of the icksburg Area Latin Teachers’ Associa- In March, Beta Nu hosted its 14th Iliad and other Classical works. tion (FALTA), the membership of which annual Eta Sigma Phi public lecture at the extends across northern Virginia. We University of Mary Washington. Dr. Eric Beta Psi at Rhodes College invited essays, 2–3 pages or approximately Casey, Associate Professor of Classical First, the Beta Psi chapter apologizes for 750 words in length, on the following topic, Studies at Sweet Briar College, spoke on being a bunch of losers and not sending Ovid (Met. II.137) once wrote “Medio tutis- “Carrying Across: Metaphors of Cultural any students to the national convention simus ibis.” Do you agree or disagree with the Translation in the Letter of Aristeas.” this year. Otherwise we had an excellent advice in general that “You will go safest by Finally, all members of Eta Sigma Phi at year and inducted six new members. In the the middle course?” We judged the entries Mary Washington are automatically also fall, we hosted an all-night reading of the in January at a combined essay-reading ses- members of the Classics Club. Throughout Odyssey in conjunction with the fresh- sion and pizza party, and we awarded Eta the year, through the Classics Club, we men humanities program. The chapter Sigma Phi medals, book prizes, and cer- participated in numerous social events, also hosted several events with our sister

39 Chapter Res Gestae 2010–2011 (Continued) club, CA‘ESAR, the Classical and Hellenic Menaechmi and Aristophanes’ Lysistrata; sics t-shirts. Please see: http://www.stolaf. Society At Rhodes, including a viewing of attended the Greek Food Festival in edu/depts/classics/classics_honor_society/ the recent version of Clash of the Titans, Dallas, Texas; sponsored a Baklava Fund- delta_chi_current_events.html. afternoons of “Roman” games, and a raising Event; and attended a performance chapter outing to visit the Egyptian exhibit of Aeschylus’ Oresteia in Arlington, Texas Delta Lambda at The College of the at the University of Memphis. In addition, by a touring troupe of Greek actors and Holy Cross we hosted weekly Mensae Latinae, an actresses. This is the most active that we have seen hour-long meal, with conversation entirely In Spring 2011, we co-sponsored a Latin our chapter in four years! Delta Lambda in Latin. In November, we also organized Day/Area C, JCL Competition at Austin held weekly meetings (with the exception and hosted “Festivus,” a celebration of College; gave out Valentine’s cards with of two for weather- and academic-related the classics for middle- and high-school messages in Latin and Greek; showed the issues), with our senior members giving students in the Memphis area. We had Movie 300; sponsored mock-gladiator presentations on their Classical inter- several classically-themed contests, both fights as part of College Carnival; did ests. We held a variety of talks, covering academic and more entertaining. These another Baklava fundraiser; and presented everything from alumni’s advice regard- included certamen, as well as art, costume, a Megalensia festival in the AC Pub, featur- ing graduate school to celebrated Profes- video, and “classical food” contests. As ing a satirical skit written and performed sors’ work within the field. We hosted part of the entertainment we showed the by Classics students and classic rock music our annual Classics Day on April 14th, Festivus episode from Seinfeld with Latin performed by Caesar’s Section led by our attended by close to 600 Massachusetts subtitles. The subtitles were written by faculty sponsor, Jim Johnson. Also, our high school students who celebrated the two of our members Michelle Currie and sponsor and one member attended the Eta study of the Classics. We have inducted David Adams with the help of our adviser, Sigma Phi Convention in Austin, Texas. almost 20 new members of whom we are David Sick. We ended the festivities with extremely proud. the world’s only Latin carol for Festivus, Delta Chi at St. Olaf College “O Festive, O Festive, feriae pro ceteris, We began the year with the annual Delta Sigma at the University of grege...” The event was a rousing success, Ancient Olympics against the Society of ­California, Irvine with over 100 students from several local Ancient History, including events such as The Delta Sigma Chapter of Eta Sigma schools attending. We hope to make it an the discus/frisbee throw and poetry recita- Phi has been active in encouraging fellow annual event. tion. Another fall event was the softball students’ appreciation of and participa- game between the beginning Greek and tion in the study of Classics here at UC Gamma Omicron at Monmouth College Latin classes. Before taking finals, we Irvine. The chapter held regular weekly The Gamma Omicron chapter held its Fall braved the cold to sing Latin, Greek, homework review sessions in order to help initiation on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Six and German Christmas carols around beginning language students more fully new student members and one honor- Northfield. This spring, members tested understand and appreciate the nuances of ary professorial member were inducted. their translation skills in the Eta Sigma Greek and Latin. We also sponsored study After the initiation ceremony, Gamma Phi contests. We held an initiation of new breaks before ever-stressful final exams. In Omicron hosted a reception for its initi- members in March with sufficient pomp. addition, we hosted screenings of movies ates and ΗΣΦ members from the nearby Every Monday we held a Classics ranging from BBC’s I, Claudius to a PBS Epsilon Phi chapter of Knox College. The conversation table. We invited the new special on Herculaneum. In April, we held visitors toured the James Christie Shields Classics professors from Carleton and St. our fourth annual Undergraduate Col- archaeology collection and the collection Olaf to talk about their experiences in grad loquium, inviting Professor Daniel Richter of local Indian artifacts recently donated school and their dissertation topics. We from the University of Southern California to Monmouth College. In the Spring, three also branched out and had two St. Olaf to give a lecture entitled “Well, What Are Gamma Omicron members attended the philosophy professors talk about their use These Things to Me, the Ones Concern- national convention in Austin, TX, and in of Classics in their study of philosophy. ing Oak and Stone? Coming to Terms with April Knox’s Epsilon Phi chapter invited Alumni spoke about how their majors were an Ancient Genealogical Proverb.” The Gamma Omicron members to a presen- useful in such diverse fields as law and lecture was followed by a festive reception, tation on Knox’s medieval manuscript computer programming. Student speakers and we are grateful to the UCI School of collection. spoke about archaeological digs, sum- Humanities for the funding that enabled mer research projects, and independent us to hold this event. We held our annual Gamma Upsilon at Austin College research classes. initiation event at the end of spring quarter From April 15, 2010 to April 15, 2011, Eta This year we held our first-ever lamb and were thrilled to initiate a number of Sigma Phi, in conjunction with the Austin roast, which we hope to establish as an Eta new members. Through daily immersion College Classics Club, participated in the Sigma Phi tradition. Other events include in Classics both inside and outside of the following activities: the end of the year Bacchanalia picnic, the classroom, the Delta Sigma chapter tries to In 2010, we held readings of Plautus’ Groomis translation contests, and Clas- live up to the ideals of Eta Sigma Phi!

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Delta Upsilon at Valparaiso University Movie Socials, and organized an end of the lecture given by Brown doctoral candidate The 2009–2010 academic year has been year trip to Tarpon Springs, Florida. Ms. Cecilia Feldman Weiss. She spoke quite eventful for the Delta Upsilon to a crowd of about 150 on her disserta- Chapter at Valparaiso University. Our Epsilon Mu at Fordham University tion research: “To Worship Fluidly: Water chapter organized a trip to see two plays Epsilon Mu is happy to announce seven and Politics in the Sacred Landscape of with classical stories, Fedra and Icarus, at new members this year. In addition to the Pergamon.” We also attended the UMass the Looking Glass Theater in Chicago. induction ceremonies, we have undertaken Theater Department’s modern rendition of We also had two meetings of our Janus the following activities: Sophocles’ “Antigone” entitled “The Burial book club, which discusses contemporary 1. Iter Botanicum: Classicists’ tour of at Thebes” written by Seamus Heaney. works with classical themes. Our president, NY Botanical Garden that included an Our members participated in (and won) Adelle Haneline, led a discussion on the overview of the history of botany from both the Classics Department’s Greek and book Ad Infinitum by Nicholas Ostler and Theophrastus to Linnaeus, readings from Latin translation contests. A few of our in the second semester Emerald Davis Cicero, Vergil, and Pliny, a discussion with members volunteered at the Massachusetts facilitated conversation about the poetry of contemporary botanists, and a visit to the Junior Classical League Convention in A. E. Stallings. We also had the privilege NYBG’s rare book room. May. And, of course, we ordered t-shirts of hosting A.E. Stallings for a lecture 2. Iter Zoologicum: Free tour of Bronx (with a Latin play on words). called “Honey for the Physic: Englishing Zoo: leones, tigres, et ursi, papae! Animal This spring we initiated 45 new Lucretius” on her translation of Lucretius’ names and readings in Latin, bring the kids. members!!!! De Rerum Natura from Penguin Classics. 3. Theater outing: local production of She also performed a poetry reading from Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis. Epsilon Sigma at Augustana College her books Hapax and Archaic Smile. We are summarily impressed, by the This year our chapter participated in vari- Along with these unique opportuni- way, with the great efforts that have been ous events at Augustana. In the fall our ties, the chapter has maintained its many put into making Nuntius as informative and group joined the homecoming festivities traditions. Our annual Christmas party interesting a read as possible. Keep it up! by selling baklava and participating in a was held as a Saturnalia where Mediter- rope pull and cardboard regatta. Although ranean food and gifts were shared. We Epsilon Nu at Creighton University we were not victorious in the rope pull, also held a Homerathon where we had a Our chapter held several social events for our boat secured first place in the mixed full day of reading aloud Homer’s Iliad. the Department of Classical and Near bracket and second place overall. Through- The final event was our annual transla- Eastern Studies, including movie nights, out the year we also hosted classically tion symposium where students of Greek, social gatherings at a local Greek restau- themed movies to help spread the apprecia- Latin, and Hebrew presented some of rant, and a communal trip to see the film tion of Classics. This spring, we welcomed their translations done over the course of Clash of the Titans. Dr. Margaret Mook to campus for an the year. American Institute of Archaeology lecture Epsilon Omicron at University of entitled “The Archaeology of Archaic Epsilon Iota at University of Florida Massachusetts-Amherst Cretan Houses,” and the Classics group This past year was very successful for the This year our chapter led a group of participated in Augustana’s Relay For Life. Epsilon Iota chapter of the University of students (both undergraduate and gradu- In April, we held our annual Classics Florida. We inducted 21 national members ate), accompanied by some of our Classics Colloquium and initiated numerous new over the spring and fall semesters and Department professors to the Museum of members. At the Colloquium we enjoyed a engaged our new and old members in a Fine Arts in Boston, MA (during the fall Mediterranean buffet and also heard a lec- number of socials and fundraisers. During semester) and to the Smith College Art ture presented by one of the faculty mem- the fall semester our members participated Museum and private Classics collection bers at Augustana, Dr. Mischa Hooker. in “Gator Green Team” where they helped (during the spring semester). Our chapter also participated in recycle after football games. We also held This has been an active year for us. off-campus events. In the fall, we sent a our annual Thanksgiving canned food Throughout the year, several Epsilon group of students to the Illinois Classical drive to benefit a local homeless shel- Omicron members served as tutors, both Conference at Knox College in Galesburg, ter and a Bake-a-Thon for the Ronald in Greek and Latin, for students in the Illinois, where all three of our faculty McDonald House. In the spring we held Five College community, and we held a members — Dr. Emil Kramer, Dr. Kirsten a number of fundraisers including selling number of pizza parties. Both semesters, Day, and Dr. Mischa Hooker — gave Latin Valentines and organizing book sales. upholding the tradition of our chapter, presentations. In the spring, our prytanis, Throughout the year we offered tutoring we held our famous Book and Bake Sale, Lindsey Haines, traveled to Grand Rapids, to the intro Greek and Latin students. Our our main fundraising event. We sold used Michigan, to present a paper at the annual socials this year were particularly success- books donated by professors and students. meeting of CAMWS. ful in increasing member participation. Our members were also able to express Our seniors graduating in the spring We hosted a Classics Board Game Night, our inner pistor (or baker). We hosted a include Alexandra Benson, Steven Cichon,

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Ashley Flattery, Molly Fletcher, Lindsey Clash of the Titans. Though we all agreed firms that adapts the Odyssey into simpler Haines, Jeremy Hoffman, Robert Morley, that Sam Worthington’s hair was decidedly format to assist teachers who wish to pres- Kelsey O’Connell, Brittany Price, Rebecca less silly than Harry Hamlin’s, we lamented ent Homer’s epic to younger students and Ritchie, Danielle Rousakis, and Elizabeth the absence of Bubo the owl. business leaders who can use the metaphor Ryan. Although many members are gradu- In March, we met for pizza and inducted in the context of Human Resources. We ating, our department continues to grow 13 new members into the chapter! are working with Tell Me O Muse to find a each year. In April, we visited the Minneapolis way to promote the Classics in the Philadel- Institute of Arts to view the museum’s col- phia area through study of the Odyssey. Epsilon Xi at Gustavus Adolphus College lection of Classical Greek and Roman art. Zeta Beta traveled to the University Greetings to you all from the Epsilon Xi Afterwards, we went out for Greek food. of Delaware at Newark to help revive the chapter at Gustavus Adolphus College in Finally, tradition dictates that we round dormant Delta Tau chapter of Eta Sigma Saint Peter, Minnesota! Another year of out the academic year with an Eta Sigma Phi. The officers of Zeta Beta initiated 17 working and playing to promote the study Phi-organized kickball match between the new members. We hope to continue our of Classical Culture and Language has Classics and Philosophy departments on relationship with Delta Tau and together come and gone. Here is what we have been the last day of classes in May. It has been become more involved in local and na- up to: many years since the Classicists were last tional Classics-related events. We enjoyed The 1992 Nobel laureate in poetry victorious. Although we watched the birds visiting their campus and socializing at an Derek Walcott visited the college as an closely for a sign from the gods, and the informal reception. artist-in-residence for two weeks in Sep- portents were favorable — Eheu! — we were Zeta Beta represented the national tember. To familiarize people with some of defeated 15–14. Our closest defeat yet, but organization by manning the table at this his work before his arrival, several of our still a defeat. Wait till next year! year’s meeting of the Classical Association members performed a public reading of se- of the Atlantic States. Members also sat at lections from Walcott’s epic poem Omeros. Zeta Beta Chapter at Temple University the Focus Publishing table and received A loose retelling of Homer’s Iliad and Zeta Beta Chapter has had a productive a monetary donation and all the leftover Odyssey, the poem is set on the island of St. and entertaining year celebrating Classics books from the display to reward us for our Lucia, and deals with issues of colonialism and spreading the word about Eta Sigma help. We have used the books as a fund- and nostalgia for the past in the wake of Phi. We started off the year with a hot raiser for the chapter. British rule. dog fundraiser during welcome week for Our annual Winter Solstice Celebration In October, members gathered for our freshmen, and had officers and professors linked the ancient festival of Saturnalia annual showing of the greatest of classically- advise incoming freshmen about start- with contemporary winter festivals. We themed films, the 1981 Clash of the Titans. ing a college career in general and about heard presentations on holidays includ- November found us making the studying Classics at Temple in particular. ing Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas and 15-minute trek to Minnesota State Univer- We later took advantage of an offer from Diwali, all of which share the Roman sity in Mankato to view their production the Qdoba restaurant chain and distrib- emphasis on the celebration of light and of Mary Zimmerman’s dramatic adapta- uted fliers. Persons taking the fliers to the life in the middle of dreary, bleak midwin- tion of the Odyssey. The production left restaurant won for us a percentage of the ter. A potluck lunch draws any students all of us very impressed. It went on to price of their meal. taking classes in our department into our win several awards at the regional Ken- One of our biggest events was the revelries, as well as guests from other divi- nedy Center American College Theatre visit of Dr. Daniel Levine from Arkansas, sions of the university and even outside the Festival in Ames, Iowa, and was chosen organized and hosted by the students. Dr. university community. to be performed at the Kennedy Center in Levine gave a lecture on “Tuna in the An- At the first of many anticipated “Movie Washington, D.C. this April. cient World,” which had us all “hooked.” Nights,” we viewed a classically inspired Many members earned kleos and fama We left the lecture not only more informed movie, The Warriors. The sponsor of this in our annual December game of broom- about dietary habits in the ancient world, film, Matt Watton, explained its allusions ball, though the match ultimately ended in but also about the environmental impact of to Xenophon’s Anabasis. We hope to have a tie between the Greeks and Romans. tuna on our world as well as on theirs. Our more Classics screenings in the future. Dr. At the end of January term, we used our chapter was inspired to invite Dr. Levine Roy, one of our sponsors, and her husband, budget to fund a banquet prepared by the to Temple after meeting him at conven- Dr. Tortorelli, also a Classicist, have led members of the “Ancient Roman Foods tion at Virginia Tech. The talk itself drew reading groups in Greek and Latin texts. and Cooking” course taught by Professor a large crowd from the Classics Depart- We plan to continue these activities, too. Mary McHugh. ment and also from modern languages and For fundraising for this convention, Icy Boreas is especially brutal to Gusta- environmental studies. Zeta Beta organized several bake sales, vus in February. His chilling gusts clouded We had a visit from the creators of Tell including one on the Roman festival of our judgment, and before we knew it, we Me O Muse, an organization that has devel- Lupercalia. Dr. Hersch’s cupcakes with were meeting to watch the 2010 remake of oped a curriculum for schools and business miniature reenactments of the whipping of

42 Chapter Res Gestae 2010–2011 (Continued) women of Rome by the Fabii and Quinctilii rituals and skits performed by Classic programs at the University. We handed won our great admiration for her ability in majors, as well as non-Classic majors who out brochures describing the depart- art, her culinary skills, and her knowledge just happen to love ancient history. The ment’s major tracks and answered lots of of ancient Roman custom. We also held a biggest treat of the festival came when our questions, ranging from “What exactly is design competition and had t-shirts made very own, newly elected chapter president, Classics, anyway?” to “What did you think up with the winning decor: Legends of the catered the event using the ancient recipes of the Troy movie?” Hidden TEMPLE. A field of purple sports of Apicius. In April, we held a Classics and On March 10, we inducted seven a golden parrot wearing a helmet. We sold Archaeology Symposium for the fifth year new undergrad members, three associate these to students in our department and in a row! Our final event before summer members, and four honorary members, in- beyond. We sponsored a presentation on was our End-of-Year BBQ which doubled as cluding the new Provost of the University, 25 April for the reading of a paper by a an award ceremony for our Latin students Dr. Ann Wylie, and Dr. Michael Dirda, student requesting distinction in major who then received the medals and certifi- a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and at graduation. Students who had written cates they earned from taking the National author. Both Dr. Wylie and Dr. Dirda took “capstone course in major” papers presented Latin Exam. As for the newly elected Latin through the advanced level in col- their ideas in abstracts. Refreshments were officers and new initiates, we are looking lege. Our ceremony was preceded by a talk served. We ended the school year with a forward to meeting again in the summer for on magic in Greco-Roman Egypt by one of marathon reading of the Odyssey. a Getty Museum rendezvous. We hope next our own M.A. alumni, Dr. Drew Wilburn An ongoing project is our coloring year will be as great as this one. of Oberlin. book featuring Roman heroes, gods, and On May 30, Zeta Nu members partici- goddesses. When complete, our pictures Zeta Kappa Chapter at Trinity College pated in a special activity for Maryland will be bound into books to be distributed, This semester, we re-established our chap- Day, a campus-wide outreach day for the with crayons, to the Children’s Hospital ter, had an initiation dinner, reenacted University. Together with other Classics of Philadelphia. They very much appreci- the death of Cesar on the Ides of March, majors, we made name badges in Greek and ated our artwork from last year, which was held an event in which students partook in Latin for campus visitors. This will be the made into coloring books of Greek deities. telling myths as well as answering trivia, fourth year we have enjoyed this activity. We are happy that six students of Clas- and we also screened Gladiator for the sics, Zeta Beta Chapter members, have student body. It has been a very successful Zeta Xi at Iowa State University received honors with financial reward to first semester for Eta Sigma Phi. We look This year the Zeta Xi chapter of Eta Sigma be presented at baccalaureate ceremonies. forward to holding more events for the stu- Phi organized an assortment of new events Three students have received scholarships dent body as well as participating in more that emphasized the gathering of Clas- for study abroad. classically themed activities. sical Studies enthusiasts. The chapter Seven new members were initiated established a new Classics Club, for both in time for convention this year. One of Zeta Lambda at University of Louisville ΗΣΦ members and non-members alike, so them, Ashley Gilbert, has been elected to In the fall of 2010, we initiated nine new that anyone with interests in Greek, Latin, national office as Megale Chrysophylax. members into our chapter. In an outreach ancient history, and culture can share in Zeta Beta will support Ashley and the project, our chapter encouraged high the social benefits of a club geared towards other national officers at APA this coming school Latin students by awarding offi- Classics. A new activity that we are proud January in Philadelphia. cial Eta Sigma Phi medallions, ribbons, to participate in is Iowa State University’s We take this opportunity to thank our and certificates to the outstanding Latin annual VEISHEA Parade. On April 16th, continuing Trifeminate of sponsors, Doctors students in our local high schools. Also ten Eta Sigma Phi members dressed in Davis, Roy and Hersch, and look forward to under our auspices, at our annual spring togas and stolas and paraded through working with them again next year. symposium, our very own University of ISU along with the History Club. ΗΣΦ Our contact with the Urbs Aeterna Louisville outstanding Greek student, conducted a costume-making seminar to continues through Alex Turock, former Abigail Hardy, and our very own outstand- prepare for the parade, and members also Consul of Zeta Beta, who is studying at ing Latin student, Nate Moore (both Eta donned their classical costumes for AUC Temple’s Rome Campus this year. We look Sigma Phi members), were recognized and Day. AUC Day, celebrated on April 21st, is forward to his return and the stories of given prizes to honor their achievements. also a new addition to yearly ΗΣΦ events, adventures that will inspire other chapter which included an initiation ceremony, members to make their pilgrimages to Zeta Nu at University of Maryland, games, and awards. Lavinian shores. College Park We also sponsored a variety of events. In In September, the chapter provided staff- the fall groups of members traveled to Des Zeta Eta at Loyola Marymount University ing for the Department of Classics table Moines to attend mass conducted in Greek This year has proven to be a very successful at the “First Look Fair,” a two-day event and Latin. Students agreed that hearing year for our chapter. In March, we hosted at which new and returning students can the languages spoken aloud was an interest- a Dionysian Festival that included ancient get information about clubs and academic ing experience. We continued the tradi-

43 Chapter Res Gestae 2010–2011 (Continued) tion of classically-themed movie nights by took a weekend road trip to Nashville, TN the local Kiwanis Club, we helped distrib- watching such “Classics” as A Funny Thing to visit the city’s Parthenon. We took an ute dictionaries to over 500 third-graders Happened on the Way to the Forum. A group official tour of the Parthenon, hung out in throughout Hillsdale County. In our pre- of members performed sketches outside the Centennial Park, visited Vanderbilt Uni- sentation, we tell the students about what library one afternoon. That event included versity, and saw other parts of the city. The we as Classics majors study, we teach them some scenes from ancient drama, jokes, and family of one of our new members hosted about the Greek and Latin roots in many favorite songs translated into Latin. us with a cookout at their home. of the words we use today, and we teach In April, we welcomed 12 new members Our final activity for the year was a them the Greek alphabet, so that they can into the Iowa State chapter of Eta Sigma large induction ceremony held at the end of write their names in their dictionaries. Phi. These new additions show promise April. We also designed and sold t-shirts. Ten Latin students serve as the teachers in helping the club grow in the wake of of the Latin program for all 75 students at graduating members. We look forward to Eta Delta at Hillsdale College Hillsdale Preparatory School, from Kinder- the opportunities that next year will bring We began the year by staffing a booth at garten up to the 8th grade. Once again, we to welcome new members into our society, “The Source,” an information fair during sold Latin Valentine’s Day cards made by and hope to continue to foster brotherhood freshman orientation. There we got a list of the students of the school to pay for books among our members through continued incoming and returning students interested and other teaching materials. Students efforts at gathering to enjoy movies, plays, in the Classics. A week later, we hosted also continued to make monthly research and fun. an Eta Sigma Phi mixer during which we trips to the Hatcher Graduate Library to introduced the interested students to our do work on their papers for upper-level lan- Zeta Chi at Xavier University officers and let them know of our upcom- guage classes and the Greek and Roman This year our chapter began holding regu- ing activities this semester. The next week Civilization classes. lar monthly activities for all its members. we had our Homerathon, 24 books, 24 The year concluded with several old We held multiple movie nights where we hours, 24 miles. We decided to host the traditions, and one new one. For this year’s showed movies such as the original Clash event earlier in the hopes of experiencing Geek Week, in which honoraries through- of the Titans, A Funny Thing Happened some warmer weather. Unfortunately, we out the campus hosted various games and on the Way to the Forum, and parts of the experienced both some rain from above challenges for honor, for glory, and for Rome miniseries. We found that this was and water from below from the campus charity, which culminate once again in a good way to keep in touch with one sprinkler system. We followed up the next Honorama, the honorary bowling chal- another and get together during months weekend with our Classics picnic, which lenge. Later that week, we held our first when we did not plan large activities. included several rounds of feasting and disc annual Philippic-Off in which students In October, we held a birthday party in golf. In October we sent two current and declaimed translations of the orations honor of Virgil on our campus green space. two recent graduates to Richmond, VA for of both Demosthenes and Cicero to the Over twenty members attended. We had the CAMWS Southern Section conven- cheering masses. Finally, in April, we es- cake, made cards, and sang “Happy Birth- tion where they read their papers at the Eta tablished a new office for the chapter, that day” to Virgil. The event was well-received Sigma Phi panel. In November, Professor of poet laureate of Eta Sigma Phi. Duties both by members of the club and by curi- Robert Chenault from Willamette Uni- of our new generation of Homeridae will be ous students walking past the event. versity gave a talk on the Senate in Rome to commemorate in poetry the res gestae In December, around forty people at- after Constantine moved the capital of the of our chapter, to be performed at various tended our Saturnalia party. We spent the Empire to the East, entitled “Old Rome in meetings and gatherings. After our second night raising funds by raffling off books, the New Roman Empire.” During Parents’ annual poetry recitation contest, our year enjoying a catered Italian meal, exchanging Weekend in both semesters, we staffed an concluded with our final feast of the year, gifts, and getting acquainted with various information booth and sold t-shirts and the Floralia. members in light conversation. This event truffles to raise money for the conven- was our most successful of the year, and tion. In February, we had our annual Date Eta Zeta at Truman State University we hope to have this sort of success at our Infliction Auction, in which people bid Eta Zeta chapter sponsored a number induction ceremony at the end of April. for the privilege of NOT dating classicists, of academic and social events this year. In February, three professors and five but rather the honor of inflicting them This Fall’s Classics “Alive and Kicking” members participated in an annual intra- upon some, poor, unsuspecting soul at our series included our delicious annual Greek collegiate world trivia contest called World annual Cheese Ball. This year’s theme was Dinner, a Classically-themed quiz bowl Quest. An international dinner accompa- “Latin Fiesta” and attendees saw several showcasing our cleverness, capstone pre- nied the competition. This event was new togas and sombreros, sometimes on the sentations by our grand graduating seniors, for our chapter, but one which we enjoyed. same people. a wholly Homeric oral reading of Book 9 of We hope to include two teams in the event Among our ongoing projects, we staff The Odyssey in Greek, and it was our plea- next year. a room for Greek and Latin peer tutoring sure to host Dr. Daniel B. Levine, Professor In the beginning of April, 15 members 12 hours per week. In conjunction with of Classics at the University of Arkansas,

44 Chapter Res Gestae 2010–2011 (Continued) who treated us to a piscine lecture entitled “Tuna in Ancient Greece.” The spring edi- tion of the series featured a second encore of the ever-popular Love at First Sight Sight Translation Practice, an outstanding oral reading of Sallust’s Bellum Catilinae, and a lecture entitled “Literary Legacy Hunting: An examination of captatio in Roman Satire,” by alumna Heather Woods. In addition to these more formal events, the members of Eta Zeta chapter also met weekly for activities such as trilingual hangman, vocabulary victory, and informal certamina, following our business meetings. In the fall and in the spring we held two- day Homerathons on the university quad, during which we read as much as possible of either The Iliad or The Odyssey. These two events served several purposes: recruit- ment, fundraising, and publicity, both for our field of study and for the act of reading Zeta Xi participates in the VEISHEA Parade: The two Eta Sigma Phi students pictured (center, these two poems aloud, as they were both in blue) are V­ictoria Farwell (left) and Lisa Nielsen. The others in are members of the intended, albeit in English. We also had ­History and Classics Clubs. You can tell that it was a cold morning for the parade back in April. various and sundry other fundraisers. In the interest of fostering intercollegiate rela- tionships, members of the chapter will also West and South-Southern Section meeting went to Briana Jackson who has also been attend the 61st Annual Missouri Junior this year in Richmond, Virginia. For the selected for induction into Phi Beta Kappa. Classical League Convention, to assist Virginia Junior Classical League conven- On Friday April 22nd we inducted eight with judging contests, and running other tion, we sent several students to assist in new members and there was a reception events; some of us also participated in the events. At our yearly Hummel Lecture, following the ceremony. Missouri Senior Classical League planning we invited Dr. Gonda Van Steen to speak meetings. We designed and sold a t-shirt, with us about Aristophanes. Before winter Eta Tau at UNC Asheville with top reasons for self-identification as a break, we all gathered for our Saturnalia The Eta Tau Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi Classicist. We initiated several members at celebration. This past spring semester, we has had a good year considering we are our annual initiation ceremony and Italian held a thirteen-hour reading marathon of without our academic advisor, Dr. Lora dinner on April 2nd. Vergil’s Aeneid and participated in volun- Holland. Dr. Brian Hook, interim advi- teer events such as the Big Event and Relay sor, has done a wonderful job in her place. Eta Eta at Virginia Tech for Life. We initiated thirteen new Eta During the fall 2009 semester, we put The Eta Eta chapter has been busy this Sigma Phi members at our spring initiation on an OctHomerFest. We read the first year. We met weekly at a local restaurant and celebrated our graduating seniors in a 10 lines of the Odyssey in Latin, Greek, for Classics Table where we talked about year end gathering. French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Classics Club news and just relaxed after a Italian. Then the chapter put on a drama long week. We watched The Agora during Eta Rho at University of Illinois, from Iliad 24. The script was written by our our fall semester movie night and we even Chicago own Danny Resner with McKayne Hill as got together to watch some Hokie football. On April 1st 2011 our department hosted Priam, Jeremy Duncan as Achilles, and Bill We held a late night bake sale outside a the twenty-eighth annual Tracy Lec- Fisher as Hermes. We had Dies Ludorum popular bar and restaurant in downtown ture, given this year by Professor Sander to celebrate the end of the Fall Semester. Blacksburg. The chapter held its first Goldberg of UCLA. Many of our members A variety of games were brought in such annual Classics Undergraduate Research attended. Before the lecture began, the as Latin Scrabble, Battleship, croquet, Day where students in all levels of under- annual prizes were announced, and of the Pokémon, and Sorry. graduate research gathered in a more four prizes being awarded, three went to As usual in the spring we held our an- formal setting to present their progress our members. Anesstasia Riem took the nual induction of new members into the and even formal papers. We were proud to prize for Ancient Greek and Najee Olya, society, whom we congratulate. New offi- have three students present their papers our prytanis, took the Latin prize. The cers were elected. Homecoming was a suc- at the Classical Association of the Middle Outstanding Graduating Senior prize cess with Prytanis Eleanor DeTreville being

45 Chapter Res Gestae 2010–2011 (Continued) carried on a litter by her entourage. While In February, we observed the Lupercalia the first three books — Harry Potter and we did not win the homecoming contest, with a presentation about the festival, why the Sorcerer’s Stone, Chamber of Secrets, and it was a blast to get out and show UNCA it was significant, and what traces of it Prisoner of Azkaban). We have been met that the Classics Department is alive and remain in modern society. We performed with great enthusiasm by the attendees. In well. Our 2nd annual Diversity Conference some of the traditions in an attempt addition to the mythology and wordplay, was a success with Bill Fisher and Zar- to recreate this festival accurately (but we have also discussed the themes of death ian Bowers speaking on the diversity in not too accurately!). Later, we explored and the afterlife within the entire series our Classics Department and Classics in ancient sculpture at our “Play-doh with and author J.K. Rowling’s development of a general. Classics Week (March 1–5) was a Plato” event; in addition to learning about new mythology. Due to its great reception, rough week for us this year. Snowy weather famous sculptors and ideas on art from the we look forward to continuing this series in tried to hinder many of our events. Our ancient world, we had the chance to try to the fall semester. 2nd annual Latinists vs. Hellenists Bake make our own — sometimes with hilari- In April, Eta Sigma Phi and the Clas- Sale was an overwhelming success despite ous results. We ended the year with a toga sical Studies department hosted the 5th having to be postponed a few days due to workshop, where we learned about the sig- Annual Father Cotter Lecture. John F. UNCA closures for snow and late starts. nificance of togas in ancient Rome both as Finamore, Professor of Classics at the We raised plenty of money to buy hoods a way of life and as a marker of social status University of Iowa, gave a lecture on “The for our graduating seniors for this semester through a demonstration of how to make a Ascent to the Good and the Beautiful: and more to come. Unfortunately we were real toga. Students made their own togas, Plato and Plotinus.” unable to host a High School Certamen, and those who wished to exhibit their work In May we held the “Trojan War Color- but the Collegiate Certamen was exciting. had a chance to model their togas at our ing Hour.” Perhaps the Trojan War is a Also we are continuing to organize and “Judgement of Paris” fashion show. questionable subject for a coloring book, inventory our Classics Library so students but it suits us very well. The timing is im- may use the resources available to them Theta Delta at Seton Hall University peccable for blowing off steam just before for papers. Plus our own Jeremy Duncan The 2010–2011 academic year has been a finals week. presented his paper “You in Greek Days: good one for our chapter. Our first event, Also in early May, we held the induc- Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, and held in November, presented the study tion for the new Eta Sigma Phi initiates the Hellenic Ideal” at CAMWS (March abroad opportunities available to those for the Theta Delta chapter. We are 25–27, 2010) in Oklahoma City. interested in the fields of archaeology and excited to welcome new members into our Classical Studies. The presentation focused organization. Eta Phi at Union College on the experiences of current Seton Hall This year has been a good one for our students, who related their experiences Theta Lambda at Hamilton College chapter, and one filled with exciting studying abroad at programs such as the Together with Hamilton’s Classics Club we activities, including the initiation of 21 Kent Archaeological Field School and the have proposed a wide variety of activities new members. Members of our chapter American School of Classical Studies. for the Classics lovers in our community. presented their Classics scholarship at two In early November, we made a trip to In the fall we enjoyed our annual Hal- undergraduate research symposia; some to the Alexander S. Onassis Center in New loween party, complete with carving Eta a group of four local colleges at our yearly York City for the final stop of the travel- Sigma Phi pumpkins (see the picture in Parilia festival, others at Union College’s ing exhibit “Heroes: Mortals and Myths in NUNTIUS 84-2). Recently we hosted a own Steinmetz. Topics show our members’ Ancient Greece.” The focus of the exhibit delicious Greek and Roman potluck dinner wide range of interests: the influence of was on the characters of Heracles and that included a few recipes from Apicius. athletics on inter-polis relations, pudor in Odysseus, and the differing representa- We also had our first in a series of Friday the Metamorphoses, and vomit as discussed tions of them in ancient art and literature. afternoon discussions and coffee — we dis- in the medical authors. Because we were an academic group, we cussed articles on Classical topics that are In the fall, we coordinated “Myth received a free tour of the exhibition. We accessible to everyone (for example, articles Trivia” and “Myth Taboo” nights which always enjoy our trips to the Onassis Cen- in Amphora). Our future plans include: were not only fun in their own right, but ter! Afterwards, we participated in a little Classics movie/TV nights, a Homerathon helped those of us in Professor Gazzarri’s more modern culture by visiting the newly (12 hour reading of one of Homer’s epics), mythology course. Professors also were our adorned Rockefeller Center, which was all and live sword fighting — Roman style! guests at two movie nights, as we watched decked out for the Christmas season. Our metaphorical plate may seem full, and discussed the films 300 and Troy. In early March, we began our “My- but we have plenty of young, enthusiastic We celebrated a Bacchanalia — tame, by thology in Harry Potter” series. This members eager to get involved. We also ancient standards, though it did feature a series details the classical mythology and hope to design new t-shirts for the chapter. re-enactment of the finale of Euripides’s etymological wordplay found in the Harry This year we were excited to host the Bacchae, complete with sparagmos of an Potter world, book by book. So far we have undergraduate research conference “Parilia” innocent piñata (standing in for Pentheus). held three events in this series (detailing conference, held annually with Colgate,

46 Chapter Res Gestae 2010–2011 (Continued)

Union and Skidmore. Each spring, on or ing in order for our chapter to continue its officers in February, 2011. These new near Rome’s birthday, three students from status as an official student organization officers are: Rhiannon Pare, President; each school present a paper and many other here at Wright State. He has also orga- Jerry Davis, Vice President; Ryan Alcorn, students attend. This daylong event also nized informal study sessions for his fellow Treasurer; Jonathan Lang, Secretary. includes a banquet and some sort of Classi- classmates and has actively encouraged his cal activity. For this year’s participants, we peers to take Latin and Greek. • Following elections, the first priority organized a scavenger hunt of all the Latin Eta Sigma Phi, in collaboration with the was the recruitment and initiation of and Greek inscriptions on campus. Wright State Classics Club, hosted a read- new members. On March 9, 2011, Iota We would like to thank our officers ing of Arisotphanes’ Birds in the fall. Fol- Delta initiated 10 new members into the from the 2010–2011 academic year: lowing our most recent initiation ceremony Society. Pyrtanis: Meg Clary; Hyparchos: Sarah we joined together with the Classics Club • On February 22, representatives of Iota Reynolds; Grammateus: Amanda Barnes; for a reading of Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis. Delta participated in the ASU School Chrysophylax: Andres Matlock; Pyloros: This reading was particularly appropriate of International Letters and Cultures LJ Scurfield; and our advisor: Professor as we are reading this work in the upper (SILC) Language Fair. The SILC Lan- Barbara Gold. division Latin class. All of the students in guage Fair affords High School students that class are members of Eta Sigma Phi. the opportunity to meet with instructors Theta Pi at Kenyon College The Theta Sigma chapter continues and students of languages taught at ASU. We have been working hard to increase to thrive and grow at Wright State. We our activity. This year, we have established look forward to another year of scholarship • The Iota Delta Chapter has entered weekly “Classics Table” lunches, where blended with fellowship. into an informal relationship with the Classics students can get to know one Arizona State University Classics club, another and discuss Classical interests. We Iota Alpha Chapter at The College of “Solis Diaboli.” This relationship allows have also hosted a few readings, including New Jersey two organizations with similar interests Ovid, Vergil, and Martial. We had two This year we hosted several classically to share resources. Specifically, “Solis initiations (one in the spring and one in themed movie nights where we watched Diaboli” provides a pool of potential the fall) by which we welcomed seven new Clash of the Titans, 300, Life of Brian, members to Iota Delta. In turn, Iota members. In addition, we planned end-of- Agora, and A Funny Thing Happened on Delta can offer manpower for “Solis the-semester Classics department dinners, the Way to the Forum. To raise funds, we Diaboli” events and tutoring to mem- and we designed and ordered departmental sold Owl Cupcakes and Baklava at our bers. With Eta Sigma Phi as an Honor t-shirts. Toward the end of spring semes- Classics Bake Sale. Among our other Society, and “Solis Diaboli” as a social ter, we started showing Classics-related activities were: a trip to the Metropolitan organization, both groups will be better movies, open to the whole campus. We Museum of Art to see the Greek and situated to promote the exploration of also planned a “Marathon Extravaganza” Roman exhibits; two symposia, one each Classics on the Arizona State Univer- which was open to the entire campus and semester, on the topics of “What is the sity Campus, and the community at community to commemorate the 2500th Self?” and “What is Justice?”; participation large. The first joint activity for the two anniversary of the Battle of Marathon. in a meeting of all campus honor societ- organizations is scheduled for April 25, The event, coordinated with the Kenyon ies to promote better communication and an end of year celebration. An end of College Earth Day Marathon, featured lec- event planning between honor societies year study session, also a joint event, is tures by professors of Classics and Biology, and to discuss funding options, since we scheduled for April 30. several Greek Olympics events, a battle- are ineligible to get funding from the Stu- • The Iota Delta Chapter has begun offer- field simulation (tug-of-war and weights dent Finance Board; two chapter-hosted ing “Study Halls” on a weekly basis. The that allowed attendees to understand the lectures, one on Democracy and Tyranny Study Halls are open to students of all experience of a soldier), and skateboard in the Late Republic by adjunct Professor levels of Latin and Greek, allowing them chariots. Looking toward next year, we DiLuzio and another on Ancient Numis- to come together and learn from each have started making plans for monthly matics by adjunct Professor Pilney; and the other. The chapter ensures that there is readings and bimonthly movies, both of induction of four new members into Eta at least one member of Eta Sigma Phi, which will be open to the entire campus. Sigma Phi. who is in advanced Latin, present at the Study Halls. There have been six such Theta Sigma at Wright State University Iota Delta at Arizona State Study Halls at the time of this report, This was the third year of Eta Sigma Phi at The officers of Eta Sigma Phi, Iota Delta and they have been thus far successful. Wright State. We initiated 11 members last Chapter, respectfully submit this chapter spring (2009). This current year we have report. • The current priorities for the officers initiated six new members. include the planning of events for the Our chapter president, B.J. Reynolds, • The Iota Delta Chapter, under the guid- Fall, 2011 semester, and making students has attended university mandated train- ance of Professor Paul Arena, elected new aware of Eta Sigma Phi.

47 ETA SIGMA PHI ANNUAL SUMMER TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS

The Trustees of Eta Sigma Phi are pleased to announce the following scholarships. Nota bene: Separate application for admission to the desired program must be made to AAR, ASCSA, or VS.

The Scholarship to the Classical Summer School at the American Academy in Rome has a value of $3,425. Programs Department, American Academy in Rome, 7 East 60 St., New York NY 10022-1001. http://www.aarome.org/ summer/css/. E-mail: [email protected]. Please contact AAR about their application forms and deadlines.

The Brent Malcolm Froberg Scholarship to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens has a a value of $2,900, which includes the remission of one-half of all fees by the American School. (Eta Sigma Phi pays half of all fees and ASCSA the other half.) American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 6-8 Charlton St., Princeton, NJ 08540-5232. http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/. E-mail: [email protected]. Please contact ACSA about their application forms and deadlines.

At either of the above summer sessions, six semester hours of credit may be earned and applied toward an advanced degree in Classics at most graduate schools, provided that arrangements have been made in advance with the graduate school.

Eligibility: Eligible to apply for the above scholarships are Eta Sigma Phi members and alumni who have received a Bachelor’s degree within the last eight years, or shall have received it before the end of the current academic year, and who have not received a doctoral degree.

The Theodore Bedrick Scholarship to the Vergilian Society at Cumae has a value of $2,800, which includes the remission of one-half the tuition fee by the Vergilian Society. Note: Only tours in Italy are covered by this scholarship. Please contact the Vergilian Society about their application forms and deadlines. Antonio Leonardis, Landon School, 6101 Wilson Lane, Bethesda MD 20817. E-mail: [email protected].

Eligibility for the Bedrick Scholarship: In addition to those eligible for the first two scholarships are Eta Sigma Phi members who have sophomore or junior status during the current academic year. Preference for the scholarship will be given to such undergraduate members.

Selection of recipients is made by the Eta Sigma Phi Scholarship Committee. In selecting the recipient of each scholarship, the committee gives weight to the quality of the applicant’s work in Greek and Latin, intention to teach at the pre-collegiate or college level, and contribution to the activities of Eta Sigma Phi at the local and national level.

Annual Deadline for completed scholarship applications: February 1st. The recipients will be announced about March 15th.

Scholarship application information and forms are available on-line at http://department.monm.edu/classics/esp/Scholarships.html:

For futher information, questions related to these scholarships should be directed to Dr. Molly Pasco-Pranger, Chair of the Eta Sigma Phi Summer Scholarship Committee, Department of Classics, 101 Bryant Hall, University of Mississippi, University, MS 28677, (662) 915-7097 (work), (662) 915-5654 (fax), [email protected].

Eta Sigma Phi, the National Classics Honorary Society (http://www.etasigmaphi.us)

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discount the university of michigan press 40% when using promotion code nuntius for orders placed via our website: www.press.umich.edu The Iliad, Homer by Rodney Merrill Translated Thucydides Book I: A Students’ Grammatical Commentary H. D. Cameron Dirk Panhuis s s s s Latin Grammar s s s s s s s s s s Original Poetry Inspired by Classical Literature Editor’s note: Students of the Classics are undeniably talented, and our literary The Veil of Alcestis by Angela Pitts efforts are so rich because of the Great Works that are our daily bread and butter. (for L) I hope you enjoy these modern poetic adaptations of two timeless stories penned by a professor and her student. There you stand, a surfeit of language confounded into silence, Penelope’s Shroud by J. Garvey like a chasm of sound in the abyss of night, So for three years she was secret in her design, convincing once a chorus of whippoorwills, the Achaians, but when the fourth year came with the seasons returning, enchanting itself, one of her women, who knew the whole of the story, told us. until suddenly overawed Wise Penelope was weaving her intricate shroud with intent, by unknown footsteps. unknown to the suitors, to unravel it to the moon’s face. You do not recognize her Grey-eyed Athene, disguised as a woman of Penelope’s standing before you, told her lady of the restless suitors and of their plan. against all odds, “Lady,” spoke Grey-eyed Athene, “The suitors want your hand in the light of day again. and impatiently they wait for you as you do for your husband.” I am sheer as gossamer, Wily Penelope smiled and said only this: but, to your blind eyes, “Until I have finished my dear father’s shroud, they shall wait.” I might as well be a mesh The wife of Odysseus went back to her weaving, and Grey- woven as compactly eyed Athene took up Penelope’s hands: as the interlocking stones “Of your husband’s fate I cannot say, but you must think for of a fortress. yourself and for your son. He lays at the hands of the suitors, I only seem an impediment the hands of the violent Antinoös. What is the best for young to reconciliation, Telemachus, for you? Antinoös becomes more and more which you alone have power impatient with your refusals.” Penelope did not once turn to sweep away. from her work as the disguised goddess spoke. Wise Penelope, But there you stand, without turning from the shroud, simply answered: a century under too much weaponry, “My patience has lasted twenty years for godlike Odysseus’s a too-vigilant guard return. What is keeping Antinoös’s from lasting a little against unhoped-for things. longer?” Goddess Gray-eyed Athene knew not what to do next. Do you not see her She knew, if she couldn’t sway Penelope, it was returned to sunlight Telemachus who must find out about his father. Wise from caliginous recesses Penelope would stall the suitors until godlike Odysseus in the mouldering Earth? returned home, or until she heard definitive word of She has perceived the specter his death. of bloody-robed Tisiphone As night fell, another maid was curious about her Queen. conducting a lamentation While even the sun slept, Penelope was just beginning. beside the groaning Acheron. The queen admired her beautifully made funeral shroud by She has swum rivers of grief, crowded round a single candlelight, the fresh rows staring bright. With a breath, by the burnt out eyes she began her fourth year by delicately removing the of souls who will not return. unsullied rows stitch by stitch. Under the cover of night, Take her hands, you fool. Penelope thought she worked in peace, but a curious Speak. woman lurked in the shadows. She watched the thread fall longer Do not let your silence and the shroud grow shorter. The woman knew what had to be done. be her second death. On the coming of the fourth year, the suitors snuck into Wise Penelope’s chamber at nightfall. The captured Queen said About the Authors nothing in apology. Antinoös, the leader of the J. Garvey is a rising Sophomore at the Uni- suitors told her: versity of Mary Washington. Her poem was “You have fooled us long enough. You must finish this shroud without written as part of a final project in Professor trickery, and when you are done you must choose a new husband. Pitts’ Freshman seminar entitled, “The Jour- Our patience is thin and your ruses must end.” Penelope ney to the Underworld in Myth and Film.” said nothing in reply but bowed her head in understanding. Angela Pitts is Associate Professor of Classics She would finish the shroud but she was in no means ready to at the University of Mary Washington where give up on her husband. she works closely with her students, including So, against her will and by force, she had to finish it. members of the Beta Nu chapter.

50 Historical Linguistics of the Latin Language: Latin Rhotacism

Christina Skelton form of an irregular stem. Then we need to be” in Greek is es-, as we can see from the propose a sound change which, when ap- third singular present form esti. The same Everyone who has studied Latin has won- plied to the earlier forms, will produce the is true in Sanskrit, where the correspond- dered about the verb “to be.” Why is there irregular forms that we see. ing form is asti. We even have historical all the irregularity? Why do we see es- and Let’s look again at the paradigm of the evidence that indicates approximately s- in the present tense as in sum, es, est, but Latin verb “to be”: when rhotacism took place: Cicero tells us er- in the imperfect, as in eram, eras, erat? that Papīrius Crassus, dictator in 339 BCE, Present Imperfect It seems to defy explanation! However, was the first of his family to stop spelling from such seemingly irregular paradigms, sum sumus eram eramus his name “Papīsius.” historical linguists can detect fascinating es estis eras eratis I would like to leave you with some food clues to the past history of a language. for thought, dear reader. First, what other All languages evolve over time. Pro- est sunt erat erant verb and noun paradigms can you think of nunciation is just one of the many ways in that show the effects of rhotacism? Second, which languages can change, as one notes The stem of the verb “to be” appears to what other examples of sound changes in just by listening to different dialects of alternate between s-, es-, and er-. Which Latin and Greek grammar can you find? American English. One method of sound one is original? We can decide between To begin with, I can tell you that a differ- change is unconditioned sound change. them if we remember the fact that sound ent sound change affected intervocalic s in For example, the words cot and caught are changes do not happen at random. Instead, Greek. What was this sound change? As pronounced with different vowel sounds they only occur in a specific environment, with Latin, you might start by looking at by some speakers, but identically by others. one consisting of the sounds which must the verb “to be.” Good luck! These two different vowel sounds were appear before or after the sound in ques- originally present in the English language. tion in order for the sound change to take About the Author However, they have come to be pro- place. We can look at each possibility in nounced as the same vowel sound in every turn, and then see which one would let Christina Skelton is a second-year gradu- word in which they occur, at least for speak- us propose a sound change with a specific ate student in the Indo-European Studies ers whose dialect has that sound change. conditioning environment. So the question program at the University of California, Likewise, for some speakers of American is whether the verb “to be” originally had a Los Angeles. She works on the historical English, the words pen and pin are pro- stem in s or r. linguistics of Latin and Greek. nounced with two different vowel sounds, What happens if we assume that the while in others they are pronounced identi- stem of the verb “to be” originally ended cally. In this case, however, the merger of i in r? In that case, we are left with a wildly and e has only occurred before nasal con- varying set of conditioning environments Eta Sigma Phi Now sonants. This is an example of a so-called in which the sound could have changed conditioned sound change, because the to s. An e may or may not occur before on Facebook change has only occurred within a specific the s, and the s may occur before the end environment. Sound changes take place in of the word, or before t or u. On the other Eta Sigma Phi now hosts a Fan Page every word in the language in which the hand, if we assume that the stem originally on Facebook. To “Like” the Fan sound and its conditioning environment ended in s, we see a consistent condition- Page, simply head to www.facebook. occur. Sound changes which involve the ing environment: we find r after e, and com/EtaSigmaPhi. This page helps merging of two sounds are also irreversible. before a. The stem of the verb “to be” must everyone know where members are Once the sound change has taken place, have originally ended in s, then. According active, makes it easy to find friends speakers do not know which of the sounds to the general rule describing the sound (especially after conventions), and in question a given word originally had. change, earlier Latin s became r inter- provides a quick way to disseminate Linguists, however, can search a lan- vocalically. This particular Latin sound information. We would also love it guage for clues that a sound change has change is called rhotacism. if people would put up pictures from occurred in its earlier history. We can look Other evidence for Latin rhotacism, their chapters and from conventions, for irregularities in the language which aside from irregular paradigms, can be along with posting news about their could be explained if we assume that the found by comparing Latin words which chapters and providing ideas for language was regular at an earlier stage, show rhotacism to their cognates in other activities. Be sure to friend national but a sound change has introduced the Indo-European languages, which do not. officers; you can even friend Profes- irregularity we see. In order to do this, we These cognates show an s where Latin has sor Sienkewicz! first need to hypothesize an earlier, regular r. For example, the stem of the verb “to

51 Book Review

Review of John Hall, Politeness and reducing distance between speaker and personal interests. One statement that Hall Politics in Cicero’s Letters. Oxford: addressee through assertions of goodwill makes in this chapter seems misplaced. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN and friendship; and redressive polite- He observes in his discussion of distrust 9780195329063. $72.86. Reviewed by ness, compensation, particularly through and politeness strategies that “a concern Emily Wagner, Eta Delta, Hillsdale College apologies, for making impositions on the with face exerted a powerful influence on ([email protected] or ejwagne2@ addressee. Hall’s terms more accurately aristocratic behavior. We risk overlooking illinois.edu). reflect the realities of politeness in Cicero’s a profound feature of human psychology if day than do Brown and Levinson’s. we assume that cool academic logic always Jon Hall’s study of Cicero’s letters is Hall makes his book user-friendly for governed their actions and reactions” another indication that politeness theory is the undergraduate student, since he next (84–85). However, the entire aim of polite- rapidly becoming a popular way to reinter- provides the reader with a background in ness theory is to show that people employ pret Classical works. Hall studies real cor- letter-writing in Cicero’s day and a section seemingly illogical words and phrases in respondence, the closest thing we have to on the type of training in letter writing a logical way to achieve a desired goal or the actual speech of the Romans, making that many upper-class Romans received. effect. If someone uses politeness hypocriti- his particular choice especially important He explains the semi-public nature of cally, and you react with anger, this anger for increasing our understanding of the Roman letter writing and compares or offense is not illogical — maintaining daily life and language of the Roman elite. Cicero’s style of politeness with other your “face” is necessary to maintain a Hall has published numerous articles on secure place in social interactions. One Roman rhetoric, oratory and Cicero, and logically needs to defend against offenses brings over a decade of experience to his Romans had to select which threaten one’s appearance in the study. In his book, Politeness and Politics in eyes of others. Hence it seems incorrect for Cicero’s Letters, Hall analyzes the letters carefully the particular Hall to call concern for “face” illogical or according to politeness strategies used in irrational. social interactions in order to shed light mixture of politeness and Hall uses chapter 3, “Redressive Polite- on the political and social negotiations ness: Requests, Refusals, and Advice,” to that the Roman elite carried on in Cicero’s insult they should use… . explore how an aristocrat such as Cicero time. Hall argues that these strategies tell framed his requests to his superiors and us what values they had, how they viewed his responses to his own clients’ requests, themselves, and how they viewed their letter-writers, particularly Pliny. Hall also as well as how he attempted to minimize own places in society. explains the information in his book with offence in advising powerful men. This Although Hall uses the groundbreak- regard to how life really was in ancient chapter tends to get bogged down in rather ing politeness theory of Brown and Rome; for example, he notes that general- mundane examples of redressive polite- Levinson (Politeness: Some Universals in izations about Cicero’s correspondents will ness, rather than drawing conclusions from Language Usage. Cambridge, 1987) as a be referred to as “he,” not “he or she,” since evidence and organizing that evidence into starting point, he adapts the theory to all correspondents in the political sphere a coherent order. Chapter 4, “Politeness in suit his subject. Brown and Levinson were male, and it would misrepresent the Epistolary Conflict,” treats the language developed a useful theory in that they Roman culture to the reader to write “he Cicero and others, such as Marc Antony, recognized causes of social tension and or she” just to avoid offense to moderns chose during political conflict. Romans had added concepts and terminology to the (24). He then summarizes the following to select carefully the particular mixture of study of the purpose of courtesy, doing so chapters, a useful method to augment the politeness and insult they would use in com- in a way that is in keeping with our own already well-organized style of his book. municating with a political rival. Since this observations in everyday life. However, Chapter 1, “Doing Aristocratic chapter concerns political conflict it proves Hall wisely avoids applying their theory to Business: Affiliative Politeness and the to be of more interest than chapters 1 and 3, his work wholesale. Brown and Levinson Politeness of Respect,” focuses on the which deal with day-to-day business matters only studied politeness theory in the conventionalized strategies Cicero and and politeness. Hall’s final chapter, “Polite- conversation of modern languages, not in his contemporaries used both to convey letters, other forms of communication, or respect to their addressees and to minimize ancient sources, and they viewed polite- distance by the assertion of friendship and About the Author ness as a binary combination of nega- goodwill, as well as how these seemingly Emily Wagner is a recent graduate of tive and positive politeness, displaying a opposite strategies interacted. In this Hillsdale College, graduating Magna cum marked bias in favor of negative politeness. chapter Hall lays the groundwork for the Laude, with honors in Classics, with a Hall instead sees three different types of following chapters thoroughly. In chapter minor in English, and in the Honors Pro- politeness strategies in the body of Cicero’s 2, “From Polite Fictions to Hypocrisy,” Hall gram. In the fall she will be attending the letters: verecundia, respect through showing focuses on the ways that writers manipu- University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana restraint and distance; affiliative politeness, lated the conventions of politeness to serve for an MA in Classics.

52 Review (Continued) Latin Composition ness and Political Negotiation,” focuses on correspondence in the aftermath of Caesar’s Editor’s note: composing in the ancient languages is like dissecting the frog to see assassination, especially on how many how it works. Composing in meter is putting the frog back together. I hope that you norms of epistolary politeness were used to will forgive my bias — Ms. Martin is one of my students — and I also hope that you almost sinister effect in that dangerous time. will delight in these two pieces. Hall shows how politeness in that tense period could quickly turn to deadly effect, Emily Dickinson in Latin: which he makes especially visible with his Two Poems adapted in Latin Glyconics analysis of the correspondence of Brutus and Cassius with Marc Antony. The viru- (XX – UU – U X) lence of Marc Antony and the conservatism of Brutus and Cassius are manifested in the by Tara Martin relative levels of familiarity or politeness that Haec epistula // est mea This is my letter to the World they display, and in analyzing this contrast mi composuit idem haud That never wrote to Me — Hall convincingly asserts the power of orbi. Dicere fama quae The simple News that Nature told — politeness and its importance in the Roman natura atque animo pio. With tender Majesty political sphere. Hall concludes that Roman aristocrats Palmis nuntius eius et Her Message is committed displayed an intense awareness of the need creditur tuitis neque. To Hands I cannot see — to show and receive due respect. The rules Mei — Pectus — ob eam viri For love of Her — Sweet — countrymen — of politeness generally became apparent iudicateve leniter. Judge tenderly — of me only when violated, which event usually earned an offended criticism from Cicero. The particular political nature of Rome deus invidus est enim. God is indeed a jealous God — at that time was conducive to widespread observare ita non cum eo He cannot bear to see use of polite fictions and phrases. The vult ut ludere nolimus That we had rather not with Him appendix consists of an index of words and alter malimus altero. But with each other play. phrases frequently used in the correspon- dence as part of politeness strategies, orga- nized by type. This appendix is especially About the Author useful for research, as each usage is cited by letter and section number. Tara Martin is a senior at the College of William & Mary and a member of the Despite the aforementioned minor criti- Omega Chapter. While she originally took Latin to fill her language requirement, cisms, Hall’s study supports the relevance it quickly became her favorite class. Tara began transcribing Emily Dickinson into of correspondence to politeness theory, Latin to get a better grip on grammar, but adding meter turned the poems into a and although not likely to be purchased by puzzle more difficult than a newspaper crossword at the end of the week. Writing in undergraduate or graduate students, this meter required several vocabulary changes and an in-depth review of the metrical book would be a useful addition to any rules of Latin. Virgil working at about a line a day was an impressive feat. undergraduate or graduate library.

Ubi Sunt Alumni Nostri?

Beta Kappa at College of Notre Dame of Eta Tau at UNC Asheville Theta Lambda at Hamilton College Maryland Our former Prytanis (2008–2009) Ben We would like to congratulate our own Geri Thommen is completing her Master’s Alexander has finished his student teach- Casey Green (’09), who presented a paper degree in Art History with an emphasis ing at TC Roberson High School this at the Eta Sigma Phi panel at the APA in ancient art and will be moving into a semester. Before finishing, he landed a job meeting in January 2010. We hope to have doctoral program in the fall. Megan Good as the Latin Teacher at White Knoll High more of our members involved in giving completed her MA in December and is School in Lexington, SC. papers at the joint APA/Eta Sigma Phi now Director of Archives and Library at panels. the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia.

53 Movie Reviews

Agora (directed by Alejandro your interest. These representations, simi- able for some Classics enthusiasts, the Amenábar, Mod Producciones, etc, larly to Agora, present Hypatia in a positive director put a lot of effort into ensuring 2009; distributed by Newmarket and sympathetic light. From the 19th that the setting, armor, and battle scenes Films). A review by Chelisa Elmore century, these include two poems, Hypatia were accurately portrayed, especially those of Eta Eta at Virginia Tech and Hypatia et Cyrille, by Charles-Marie- that involved gory images. René Leconte de Lisle, and a photograph The main character, Quintus Dias, Agora is a fictional historical drama based on by Julia Margaret Cameron. In the 20th takes the few surviving Romans (including the historical character of Hypatia (played century, Hypatia has appeared in books as a cook) on a rescue mission behind enemy by Rachel Weisz), a fourth century C.E. both a fictional character who only shares lines to save their General after suffering philosopher, astronomer, and teacher from some characteristics with the historical from a Pict massacre. The film is filled with Alexandria. Although primarily a drama, Hypatia, such as the character Hypatia in adrenaline-packed action, mystery, and, the film also includes several scenes of vio- the play The Five Historical Girls Theorem most importantly, some pretty gruesome lent fighting to appeal to people who prefer by Rinne Goff, and as a fictional version of battle scenes. action movies, though only occasionally her historical character, as in the Heirs of Although the premise of the story does the director take this violence to the Alexandria series by Mercedes Lackey, Eric captivated my interest, I found the plot point of discomfort for people, like me, Flint and Dave Freer. In the 21st century, to lag toward the middle of the movie as who avert their eyes from blood and gore. these presentations continues, not only the filmmakers became too focused on The plot of Agora centers on the tension with the film Agora, but in alternative producing quality battle scenes rather than between pagans and Christians during the histories, such as Hypatia y la eternidad, by maintaining a moving story. As someone later life of Hypatia. The majority of the Ramon Galí, and biographies like Michael who can appreciate Classical references movie takes place in Hypatia’s classroom, Deakin’s Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathemati- but gets overwhelmed by excessive gore, I where the larger issues of religion play out cian and Martyr. found myself weary toward the middle, as on a smaller scale. However, these issues are even the most gruesome beheading and not contained to her classroom, and there dismemberment veered toward the less are many scenes where the city becomes About the Author emotional and more routine. a battlefield for the two opposing religious Chelisa Elmore is a rising senior in the Eta The mysterious historical disappearance beliefs, both literally and figuratively. Eta chapter at Virginia Tech, majoring in of an entire legion makes for a fascinating If you are quick to judge movies about Classical Studies and Spanish. Her interest and intriguing story, and provides a plot antiquity by their historical accuracy, in the Classics did not materialize until that writer-director Neil Marshall took be forewarned that the storyline greatly college, but since then she has embraced advantage of in The Centurion; however, expands upon our very limited information it completely. In addition to watching the battle scenes were so true to actual about Hypatia in order to develop a better- movies, she spends her free time reading a Roman bloodiness that those who are rounded, more watchable story and to pro- wide variety of books. queasy or sensitive to violence may want vide context not preserved in the original to opt for a more family friendly selection. sources. The most obvious liberties are the Overall, I give the film a B+ for carry- elaboration of Hypatia’s presumed theories The Centurion (directed by Neil Mar- ing an interesting plot, an A for staying and ideas, and the romantic themes in shall, Pathé Pictures International, etc, genuine to Classical history, and an A- for the movie. Agora also uses anachronistic 2010; distributed by Magnet Releasing). filmography and battle scene depiction… background images. For example, I noticed A Review by Annalaissa Johnson at least for the parts I watched while peek- the Capitoline wolf, which was enhanced ing through my fingers! during the Renaissance, appearing in the The producers of The Centurion took its movie not in its ancient but rather in its tagline to heart when they said, “History Renaissance form. However, the director is written in blood.” The plotline tells the About the Author does attempt to present cultural aspects of story of what happened to the evasive Annalaissa Johnson is a rising senior and antiquity in accurate ways as well, often in ninth legion that mysteriously disappeared Latin Major at Wake Forest University and such small details as women performing in Britannia around 117 A.D — certainly Beta Iota’s Chrysophylax. Her interest in in the role of mourners at the funeral of a story worth imagining, and with back- the Classics was sparked in high school, Theos, Hypatia’s father. ground details accurate enough to draw the where she studied with Mr. Ian Hochberg Overall, Agora is a good movie for any genuine interest of the Classics community. and Ms. Melanie Streed and was an active Eta Sigma Phi chapter to watch and dis- Historically, the Pict Massacre occurred in participant in local certamina. When she’s cuss while keeping in mind that its primary 60 A.D., well before the legion’s disappear- not watching Classics-related movies, she value is entertainment. Indeed, if this ance, and the legion is thought to have spends her free time composing music and movie spikes your interest about Hypatia, vanished in 117 A.D. in Judea or Cappa- preparing for the LSAT. Because of her there have been many representations of docia (not Britain). Although the glaring energetic campaign, Beta Iota will host the Hypatia since the 19th century to satisfy historical inaccuracy may be uncomfort- 2013 annual convention.

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Here is the list of Colleges and Universities Bolatito Anjorin-Agbaje, Silver Maxima Macalester College who administered the 2011 National Latin Cum Laude Instructor: Beth Severy-Hoven Exam. Those marked in bold have active Juliana Caicedo, Cum Laude Latin II chapters of Eta Sigma Phi. Michelle Chan, Magna Cum Laude anonymous, Cum Laude Noah Davies-Mason, Gold Summa Cum Rebecca Boylan, Gold Summa Cum Laude Baylor University (TX) Laude Chloe Delisle, Magna Cum Laude College of Notre Dame (MD) Laurn Dela-Cruz, Gold Summa Cum Adyna Gavin, Magna Cum Laude Hunter College (NY) Laude Xavier Keeto, Cum Laude Kalamazoo College (MI) David Faynberg, Magna Cum Laude Christian Ortega-Trimble, Cum Laude Laramie Co. Community College (WY) Lydia Harris, Gold Summa Cum Laude Loyola Marymount University (CA) Leigh Oldershaw, Silver Maxima Cum Monmouth College Macalester College (MN) Laude Instructor: Nick Dobson Monmouth College (IL) Marcella Roncancio, Gold Summa Cum Latin II Shahid Beheshthi University (Iran) Laude Matthew Anderson, Gold Summa Cum St. Norbert College (WI) Erica Rosalez, Cum Laude Laude Truman State University (MO) Kat Saldarriaga, Cum Laude Anne Cave, Gold Summa Cum Laude University of Illinois at Urbana- Nicole Savic, Magna Cum Laude Jacqueline Deskovich, Magna Cum Laude Champaign (IL) Josephine Scognamiglio, Gold Summa Kimberly Short, Magna Cum Laude University of Mary Washington (VA) Cum Laude University of North Carolina at Evelyn J. Smith, Silver Maxima Cum Shahid Beheshthi University Greensboro (NC) Laude Instructor:Ali Abbassi University of Oklahoma (OK) Harrison Troyano, Silver Maxima Cum Latin II University of Richmond (VA) Laude Nojan Komyli, Magna Cum Laude University of South Florida CPR (FL) Sedighe Rahimi, Magna Cum Laude Wake Forest University (NC) Kalamazoo College Hamed Tavakoli, Magna Cum Laude Washington State University (WA) Instructor: Elizabeth Manwell Siyavash Torabi, Magna Cum Laude Latin II Mehdi Vafaei, Magna Cum Laude Christine Bartles, Magna Cum Laude COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY Peter Decker, Magna Cum Laude St. Norbert College AWARD WINNERS Angiola Gabriel, Silver Maxima Cum Instructor: William Hyland Laude Latin II Baylor University James Kirschner, Magna Cum Laude Sean Barton, Magna Cum Laude Instructors: Julia Hejduk, David White Brittany Potts, Magna Cum Laude Zaccary Haney, Cum Laude Latin VI Hailey Stutz, Magna Cum Laude Mia Moore, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Evan Bassler, Magna Cum Laude Spencer Thompson, Silver Maxima Cum Semra Sen, Magna Cum Laude Ian Campbell, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Laude Brian Shannon, Magna Cum Laude Jamie Jackson, Gold Summa Cum Laude Gregory Toprak, Magna Cum Laude Den Swiecichowski, Cum Laude Stephen Margheim, Magna Cum Laude Emily Wright, Magna Cum Laude Jennifer Wiegele, Magna Cum Laude John Murchison, Magna Cum Laude Prose IV Dale Price, Gold Summa Cum Laude Nicholas Bolig, Magna Cum Laude Truman State University Rachel Theis, Gold Summa Cum Laude Constance Fernholz, Magna Cum Laude Instructor: Rebecca Harrison Bond West, Magna Cum Laude James Kellner, Gold Summa Cum Laude Latin VI Jordan Wiegand, Silver Maxima Cum Qian Liu, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Alyson Collins, Cum Laude Laude Jackson Vaughn, Magna Cum Laude Emily Richens, Magna Cum Laude Elizabeth Vincensi, Magna Cum Laude David White, Silver Maxima Cum Laude College of Notre Dame Instructor: Sr. Therese Dougherty Loyola Marymount University University of Illinois Latin III Instructor: Ethan Adams Instructor: Maryline Parca Samantha Chapman, Cum Laude Prose III Latin VI Rachel Jones, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Cristopher Gipson, Gold Summa Cum Sarah Butt, Magna Cum Laude Laude Katherin Cantwell, Magna Cum Laude Hunter College William Hinkamp, Magna Cum Laude Hayley Hughs, Cum Laude Instructors: Ronnie Ancona and T Jeremy Lins, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Hanford Katherine Pagan, Gold Summa Cum Latin II Laude

56 Student Recognitions (Continued)

University of Mary Washington Alexandra Wright, Silver Maxima Cum Elissa Frommer, Magna Cum Laude Instructors: Liane Houghtalin and Olga Laude Joanna Kauer, Cum Laude Arans Mary Kounelas, Silver Maxima Cum Poetry IV University of Richmond Laude Thomas Emory, Magna Cum Laude Instructors: Erika Zimmermann Damer Emmet Negrete, Gold Summa Cum Laude Max Huemer, Cum Laude and Walter Stevenson Vinc Rivas-Flores, Gold Summa Cum Katelyn King, Cum Laude Latin VI Laude Vi Le, Magna Cum Laude Walter Beers, Gold Summa Cum Laude Meagan Strassler, Magna Cum Laude Candice Roland, Magna Cum Laude Colby Ferguson, Magna Cum Laude Kelly Ward, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Mia Santina, Cum Laude Joseph Gribb, Gold Summa Cum Laude Matthew Waskey, Gold Summa Cum Heidi Sheehan, Cum Laude Abigail Johnson, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Stephanie Stinson, Magna Cum Laude Laude Alyssa Williams, Magna Cum Laude Chiara Tornabene, Silver Maxima Cum Bradford Mattison, Cum Laude Prose III Laude Katherine Mitchell, Gold Summa Cum Christina Goldsby, Gold Summa Cum Margaret Walker, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Laude Laude Nils Niemeier, Magna Cum Laude Samantha Warring, Magna Cum Laude Ryan Smout, Gold Summa Cum Laude Wake Forest University Jon Williams, Cum Laude Rachel Starry, Magna Cum Laude Instructor: Mary Pendergraft Schuyler Swartout, Cum Laude Latin V University of North Carolina at Lauren Lukacsko, Magna Cum Laude Greensboro University of South Florida Instructor: Maura Heyn Instructor: John Noonan and Eleni Washington State University Latin VI Manolaraki Instructor: Robin Bond Emily Calder, Gold Summa Cum Laude Latin III Latin II Kirby Cook, Cum Laude Kell Brandenstein, Silver Maxima Cum Sonja Larson, Gold Summa Cum Laude Emily Gering, Silver Maxima Cum Laude Laude Kalyn Nilsson, Cum Laude Luke Legrand, Cum Laude Kristen Welck, Cum Laude Poetry IV Alexandra Creola, Silver Maxima Cum Laude National Latin Exam 2011 College Analysis

University of Oklahoma Instructor: John Hansen Level Overall Average Non-College Average Colleges Average Latin VI Took Took Took Jerry M Berry, Gold Summa Cum Laude Christopher Hains, Silver Maxima Cum Intro 18178 30 18163 30 15 36 Laude Latin I 51949 28 51931 28 18 31 Gerard Keiser, Gold Summa Cum Laude Paula Shaibani, Silver Maxima Cum Latin II 33752 24 33661 24 91 25 Laude Latin III Latin III 15632 26 15597 26 35 30 K. Buettner-Scully, Magna Cum Laude Hunter Ellard, Cum Laude Prose III 4300 26 4284 26 16 23 Christine Hickson, Magna Cum Laude Edward Isaacs, Gold Summa Cum Laude Prose IV 3215 26 3206 26 9 28 Kimberly Lochaby, Silver Maxima Cum Poetry III 1678 23 1677 23 1 10 Laude Neill Plemons, Magna Cum Laude Poetry IV 6447 27 6384 27 63 23 Mollie Rischard, Cum Laude Andrew Tankersley, Cum Laude Latin V 2416 27 2409 27 7 24 Michael Vanderslice, Gold Summa Cum Laude Latin VI 337 29 297 29 40 33 Patricia Winterrowd, Gold Summa Cum Laude Totals 137904 27 137609 27 295 26

57 WHY ADMINISTER THE NATIONAL LATIN EXAM TO COLLEGE STUDENTS?

• TO GIVEn TO STUDENTS GIVE STUDENTS A SENSE A SENSE OF OF GROWTHGROWTH AND AND ACHIEVEMENT ACHIEVEMENT

- Certificates -Certificates and andmedals medals are aregiven given by by the the NLENLE toto high-performing high-performing college college students, students, just as just they as are they are to high schoolto high schoolstudents. students. - The names -The namesand institutions and institutions of all of allcollege college students students whowho perform perform well well on theon NLEthe areNLE published are published each year each year in the in the summer summer issue issue of of Nuntius, Nuntius the, the Eta SigmaEta Sigma Phi newsletter, Phi newsletter, which is accessible which is online. accessible online.

• TO ACTn TO AS ACT AN AS OUTCOMES AN OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT TOOL TOOL

- The NLE -The provides NLE provides an objective, an objective, external external check check on howhow well well an an institution’s institution’s students students are performing are performing both within both the within institution the institution and compared and compared to other to other students students at at the the samesame level level across across the thecountry. country. - The NLE is not based on any one textbook. Instead, a syllabus for each exam level is posted online. -The NLE is not based on any one textbook. Instead, a syllabus for each exam level is posted online.

• TO JOINn TO THE JOIN OVER THE OVERTWENTY TWENTY COLLEGES COLLEGES AND AND UNIVERSITIES UNIVERSITIES THAT THAT ADMINISTERED ADMINISTERED THE NATIONAL THE NATIONAL LATIN LATIN EXAM EXAM TO TOTHEIR THEIR STUDENTS STUDENTS LAST LAST YEAR

4 Austin Peay State University (TN) ► Ave4 Maria Ave Maria University University (FL) (FL) ► 4St. Truman Norbert State University College (MO) (WI) 4 University of Houston (TX) ► Baylor4 Baylor University University (TX)(TX) ► Truman State University (MO) 4 4 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL) ► College College of Notreof Notre DameDame (MD) (MD) ► University of Illinois at Urbana- 4 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (CHINA) 4 University of Mary Washington ► (VA)* (Liane Houghtalin) Hong4 HunterKong College University (NY) of Science & Champaign (IL) 4 University of North Carolina at Greensboro (NC) Technology4 Laramie County (CHINA) Community College (WY) ► University of Mary Washington (VA)* 4 University of Oklahoma (OK) ► 4 Loyola Marymount University (CA) Hunter College (NY) 4(Liane University Houghtalin) of Richmond (VA) 4 Monmouth College (IL)* (Tom Sienkewicz) ► ► 4 University of South Florida (FL) Kalamazoo4 Mt. San Antonio College College (MI) (CA) University of North Carolina at 4 Wake Forest University (NC) ► Laramie4 St. Norbert County College Community (WI) Greensboro (NC) 4 Washington State University (WA) College (WY) ► University of Oklahoma (OK) ► Loyola Marymount VISITUniversity THE NLE WEBSITE(CA) TO VIEW ► University PAST EXAMS of AND Richmond (VA) ► Macalester CollegeINSTRUCTIONS (MN) ON ADMINISTERING THE► University NLE TO COLLEGE of STUDENTSSouth Florida (FL) Application deadline: January 18, 2011 ► Monmouth College (IL)* ► Wake Forest University (NC) http://www.nle.org (Tom Sienkewicz) ► Washington State University (WA) Contact Liane Houghtalin [email protected] ► Shahid Beheshti University (IRAN) or Tom Sienkewicz [email protected], the NLE’s college consultants, with questions. VISIT THE NLE WEBSITE TO VIEW PAST EXAMS AND INSTRUCTIONS ON ADMINISTERING THE NLE TO COLLEGE STUDENTS Application deadline: January 18, 2012 www.nle.org Contact Liane Houghtalin [email protected] or Tom Sienkewicz [email protected], the NLE’s college consultants, with questions.

58 NLE Guidelines for College Students

The use of the NLE is encouraged at the If it is not possible for all students at all college level. Various colleges and universi- levels at your institution to be examined ties have been offering the NLE to their at the same time, then consult with the students for many years now and have Office of the NLE (1-888-378-7721/ nle@ found that, not only does it boost the con- umw.edu) for permission to have the differ- fidence of the students taking Latin, but it ent classes take the NLE at different times. Photos Wanted for can also serve as an outcomes assessment The name of the Chair of the depart- NUNTIUS exam for those students. College instruc- ment or of a dean, etc., may be used for the tors should follow the standard application block on the application form that asks for Do you want to see photos of and administrative procedures, with slight the name of the principal. Since it is rec- members of your chapter in variations. (See below.) ommended that the exam’s administrator open the test packet when it arrives and the next issue of ­NUNTIUS? LEVELS: count the exams, a departmental secretary • Do NOT administer the Introduction may be a good choice for the administrator If so, please e-mail electronic to Latin Exam to college/university of the exam. In a case where an institution copies to the editor of NUN- students. has received permission to have different TIUS at [email protected]. • Administer the NLE level I ONLY classes take the NLE at different times, the to students who are taking their administrator would oversee the overall Press deadline for the next first college/university semester of distribution of the exams to, and collec- issue is October 30, 2011. elementary Latin in the spring of the tion from, those designated to administer year. Please note that this is a rare the NLE to the various classes. In any Please be sure your photos circumstance and may be questioned by event, the administrator must be someone the Office of the NLE. who is NOT teaching a class that is going are high resolution! • Administer the NLE level II to those to take the NLE. Remember, no teacher To ensure high quality re- who are taking their second semester of whose class is taking the NLE at any level elementary Latin in the spring. is allowed access to the exams until the production, please set your • Administer the NLE level III to those Tuesday after the last date the test can be camera to a high resolution who are taking their first semester of administered. or high quality setting. Use intermediate Latin in the spring. Awards, including certificates and a three megapixel camera or • Administer the NLE level IV (either medals, as well as individual scores, the better if possible. poetry or prose) to those who are taking national norms, and an answer key will be If you use a photo from their second semester of intermediate sent to college instructors in the same way Latin in the spring. that they are sent to high school instruc- the web, be aware it must be • Those students who are taking a first tors. Students taking the exam in college, two to three times as large and only semester of intensive elemen- however, are not eligible for the NLE on screen as you expect it to tary Latin in the spring should take scholarships. appear in print. Web photos level II if they started the semester in College students who earn certificates are typically 72 dpi, but print January and level I if they started it after and/or medals for their performance on reproduction requires at least January (likewise for intensive intermedi- the NLE are eligible to have their names ate Latin). listed in the Eta Sigma Phi Newsletter, the 200 dpi, so photos must be • Colleges and universities offering multi- NUNTIUS. To make sure that the editor much larger to begin with. ple terms, rather than two semesters over of the NUNTIUS receives the names of On some websites you the usual autumn-spring academic year, your institution’s winners, please check can click on a photo for a should calculate what their terms mean that the name of your institution includes larger version. Otherwise in comparison to semesters and consult one of the following words or abbreviations consider asking the subject with the Office of the NLE (1-888-378- on the score sheets sent to you, “col- 7721/ [email protected]) concerning the lege,” “coll.,” “col.,” “clg.,” “c.,” university,” or webmaster if an original is correct examination to administer. “univ.,” or “u.” If it does not, or if there is available. • Administer the NLE Level V to those any doubt, then consult directly with the If you scan a picture, set the who are taking their first semester of newsletter editor, Georgia Irby (glirby@ scanner at 300 dpi if available advanced Latin in the spring. wm.edu). and scan at about the size you • Administer the NLE Level VI to those expect the picture to appear in who are beyond their first semester of advanced Latin. print.

59 Third Annual College Greek Exam (2011) Medal and Ribbon Winners

Baylor University Gustavus Adolphus College Temple University University of Louisville Ribbon winners: Ribbon winner: Medal winner: Ribbon winners: Rachel Butcher Sarah Graver Sean Daly Everett Rush Travis Engel Ribbon winners: Meghan Waters Rebecca Phillips Kenyon College Eamonn Connor Dale Price Medal winners: Samantha Davidson University of South Dakota Kiera Buschnig Ashley Gilbert Ribbon winner: Brigham Young University Ann Colomer Hans Rauch Andrew Leitheiser Medal winners: David Williams Joshua Claunch Ribbon winners: The Florida State University University of Texas at Austin Ryan Grow Stephane Goldkopf Ribbon winners: Medal winners: Gertrude Sumsion Charlotte Graham Aaron Brown Patrick Grayson Thomas Wasden Bethany Chasteen Alfred Vickers A Hunter Wright Louisiana State University Alexandra Juras Ribbon winners: Ribbon winners: Medal winner: Elizabeth Margedant Lindsey Cook Jordan Mulder Arit Oyekan Grace Anne Jamail Philip Abbott Ribbon winners: The University of Arizona Sarah Luckey James Arceneaux Ribbon winners: Krystan Pomeroy Brown University Charles Lambdin Allison Atkins Medal winners: Hayden Schulingkamp Matthew Hufford Virginia Tech Kelly Lougheed Monica Lent Ribbon winners: John Rosenberg Macalester College Alex Livak Austin Brodin Ribbon winners: Medal winner: Evelyn Rick Jarrid Dulaney Nathan Mastropaolo Alexander Zozulin Robin Vickery Paul Williams Emily Perry Ribbon winner: Taylor Schwartz Lindsay Morehouse Tufts University Wake Forest University Talia Wong Medal winner: Medal winners: Shirou Wu Montclair State University Olivia Hayden Rebecca Bruehlman Ribbon winner: Rachel Cumbest The College of William Lauren Blekicki University of California Michael Hunter and Mary Davis David Mulder Medal winners: Ohio University Medal winner: Ribbon winners: Eric Gasperoni Medal winner: Taylor L. Burt Samuel Murray Elizabeth Gohn Amrit Saini Ribbon winners: Taylor Parsons Rachel Greenfield Ribbon winner: Nathan Hill Charles Hinkley Jenna Kausner Thomas MacMillan Xavier University Rachel McGuire Medal winner: John Mulhall Randolph College University of Georgia John Appeldorn Marc Richardson Medal winner: Medal winners: Ribbon winner: Ribbon winners: Leah Campbell Ashley Aycox Corey Sadosky Amanda Chan Ribbon winner: Aaron Ivey Wilson Fong Ashley Marshall Ribbon winners: Other participating schools: Courtney Greer Anna Conti University of Arkansas James Joseph Roger Williams University Harrison Haddon Carroll College Jessica Stayton Ribbon winner: Callie Kreutzer University of Illinois Nicholas Tomeo Jase Maddox Iowa State University Columbia University Lee Markey University of Mary Washington Medal winners: Samford University Andrew McClintock Monmouth College Connor Adams Ribbon winners: Samuel Perren David Smith Mary Jorgensen Dylan Rush Ribbon winner: Steven Thomas Jess Wamsley Kazim Panjwani

60 ETA SIGMA PHI BETA NU CHAPTER, UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON is proud to announce The Winners of the 2010–2011 Classical Essay Contest TOPIC: Ovid (Met. II.137) once wrote “Medio tutissimus ibis.” Do you agree or disagree with the advice in general that “You will go safest by the middle course?” Why?

First Place, Senior Division First Place, Junior Division Benjamin Broman, Courtland High School Molly Mansfield, Spotsylvania Middle School (Kevin M. Perry, Teacher) (Kevin M. Perry, Teacher)

Second Place, Senior Division Second Place, Junior Division Olivia Till, Courtland High School Jacob Harris, Courtland High School (Kevin M. Perry, Teacher) (Kevin M. Perry, Teacher)

Honorable Mention, Senior Division Honorable Mention, Junior Division Liz Davis, Riverbend High School Samantha Bowman, Courtland High School (Mark Keith, Teacher) (Kevin M. Perry, Teacher) Benjamin G. Quann, Courtland High School Jennifer Knerr, Spotsylvania Middle School (Kevin M. Perry, Teacher) (Kevin M. Perry, Teacher)

THE ETA SIGMA PHI BERNICE L. FOX TEACHER TRAINING SCHOLARSHIP

Eligibility: Eta Sigma Phi members This scholarship honors Bernice L. Fox, who taught English, Latin and Greek at Monmouth College in • who are now teaching, or preparing to teach, at the Monmouth, Illinois, from 1947 to 1981, and who served pre-collegiate level, as chair of the Department of Classics from 1970 until her • who have received a Bachelor’s within the last ten years; retirement in 1981. Throughout her long and dynamic or who expect to receive it before the summer of current career she worked tirelessly to promote the Classics in academic year; Illinois high schools and colleges. In 1956 she founded • and who have not received a doctoral degree. Monmouth College’s Gamma Omicron Chapter of Eta Sigma Phi. She was the author of Tela Charlottae, the The Award of $500 Latin translation of E. B. White’s Charlotte’s Web. In 1991 will support a summer activity contributing to the recipient’s Monmouth College conferred on her the honorary degree preparation for teaching (e.g., American Classical League Insti- of Doctor of Humane Letters. She died in 2003. tute, the Kentucky Language Institute, or the Illinois Pedagogy Workshop) or university courses leading to certification. For further information and questions about this scholarship, contact Dr. Mary Pendergraft, Chair of the To apply: go to Fox Scholarship Committee, Department of Classical Languages, Wake Forest University, PO Box 7343, http://department.monm.edu/classics/esp/scholarships/ Winston Salem, NC 27109, (336) 758-5331, e-mail: foxapplication.htm [email protected].

Annual Application Deadline: February 1st Eta Sigma Phi, the National Classics Honorary Society The recipient will be announced at the National Convention. (http://www.etasigmaphi.us)

61 Eta Sigma Phi Budget Report on the Endowment Fund for 2011–2012 Value as of December 31, 2010 I. Cash The following budget was approved by the 1. E* Trade Bank...... $1,096.49 delegates at the 2011 convention. (Interest earned in 2010: $0.59)

Income II. RBC Wealth Management Advertising (NUNTIUS). . . . .$1,000 1. Cash...... $162.09 Certificates...... 150 2. Investor Class, Prime MM Fund...... 3,597.34 Charter Fees ...... 150 3. Con. Ed. Inc. 146 shares...... 7,273.22 Convention Registration Fees . . . 5,525 4. Enterprise Prod. Partners...... 18,910.26 Endowment Transfer ...... 11,000 5. Five Star Quality Care 14 shares...... 98.98 6. RBS Capital Funding Trust...... 3,338.43 Express Mail Fees ...... 100 7. Wells Fargo Capital Trust ...... 10,117.60 Gifts Received ...... 1,500 8. Morgan Stanley Callable Equity...... 10,780.00 Honor Cords ...... 7,000 9. Sr. Housing Property Tr. 70 shares ...... 1,535.80 Honor Hoods ...... 1,000 Initiation Dues ...... 48,000 Total: ...... $55,813.72 Interest Inc ...... 25 III. Ameriprise Financial Funds Jewelry Sold ...... 750 1. Columbia Diversified Equity Income Fund Class A. . . . . $21,252.66 Other ...... 500 2. Columbia Multi-Advisor Intl. Value Class A...... 9,151.16 TOTAL ...... $76,700 3. Columbia Diversified Bond Fund Class A ...... 42,137.49 4. Columbia Large Core Quantitative Fund Class A...... 13,305.25 Expenses Accountant Fee ...... $159 Total: ...... $85,846.56 Archive Maintenance...... 500 Value of Endowment on 12/31/2010: $142,756.77 Bank Charges...... 35 (Value, 2009: $125,228.21) Certificates...... 6,500 Charters ...... 30 Computer ...... 1000 Convention Expenses ...... 8,000 Report on the Medal Fund Donations ...... 500 Cash on hand, January 1, 2010 ...... $140.41 Endowment Management ...... 25 Receipts: Government Fees ...... 55 Sale of large silver (9) @$30.00...... 270.00 Honor Hoods Purchase ...... 3,000 Sale of small silver (33) @ $13.00 ...... 429.00 Honor Cord Purchase ...... 1,500 Sale of small bronze (8) @ $11.50...... 92.00 Insurance ...... 1,666 Interest, passbook #2984...... 1.17 Jewelry Purchased ...... 1000 Postage paid for shipping ...... 8.00 Misc ...... 1,500 CD #505000811, cashed...... 367.18 NUNTIUS ...... 11,000 Total:...... $1,307.76 Office Assistance...... 1,500 Office Supplies and Postage . . . .4,000 Disbursement: Owl Lapel Pins ...... 1,000 To CD #1270104599 @2.25%...... $1,210.44 Paypal Fees ...... 100 (matures, 7/20/13) Promotional Expenses ...... 2,400 Assets: Promotional Expenses — APA . . . 5,000 Cash on hand, 12/31/10 ...... $97.32 Promotional Expenses — CAMWS SS. . 800 CD #1270104599...... $1,210.44 Scholarships ...... 11,000 Inventory: Table Cover...... 500 59 large silver @ $30.00...... $1,770.00 Transfer to Endowment ...... 5,530 100 small silver @ $13.00...... 1,300.00 Translation Contest Prizes . . . . .1,000 231 small bronze @ $11.50...... 2,656.50 Travel Reimbursememts . . . . . 7,000 Total ...... $5,726.50 Web Page Maintenance ...... 400 TOTAL ...... $76,700 Total value (money and medals) ...... $7,034.26

62 Eta Sigma Phi Honor Cords and Hoods

Cords are $16 each by mail and $12 each if purchased at the national convention. Hoods are $21 each by mail and $17 each if purchased at the national convention.

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Send this form with payment (by personal check or money order made out to Eta Sigma Phi, no cash or credit card, sorry) at least three weeks before the commencement ceremony. Add an optional $25 per order for express delivery.

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