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days with us. We enjoyed their company European vernaculars. Ex Cathedra very much and hope that they will return to visit again soon! Another highlight of the autumn semester A s another was the ninth series of Robson Classical academic year draws Indeed, we were fortunate to be able to Lectures, delivered by Professor Clifford to a close it is a host Professor Braund (Canada Research Ando (Professor of , History and pleasure to review Chair in Latin Poetry and its Reception, Law and in the College, and Co-Director, the Department’s Department of Classical, Near Eastern Center for the Study of Ancient Religions, successes and signal and Religious Studies at the University of University of Chicago). One of the most achievements over British Columbia), after the departure of accomplished and eminent scholars of the past year. Our fo- her colleague, for the inaugural lecture in classical history today, with interests and cus in 2012-2013 has her central CAC lecture tour of Ontario expertise in a wide range of areas in- been on the preparation of a departmental and Québec. Her paper on “The Meaning cluding Roman imperial administration, self-study in the context of an external of Metre in European Translations of the Roman law and political theory, Roman review. The external reviewers visited the Aeneid” was a highlight of the autumn religion and early Christianity, Professor Department in mid-October 2012 to con- semester, and brought out not only faculty Ando is the author of five books and over duct the on-site review of the department, members and graduate students, but also fifty articles, and editor or co-editor of and they submitted their report to the some intrepid undergraduates interested another two volumes (with many more Faculty in January 2013. The Department in the reception history of the Aeneid and in progress). Professor Ando’s interest in was pleased that the reviewers highlighted its metrical impact on poetry across the the many strengths of our undergraduate continued on page eight and graduate programs, the high calibre of our students and faculty members, and the many links with cognate units both within the University of Toronto and externally, at York University, as well as further afield provincially, nationally and internation- ally. Our thanks to Professors Susanna Braund (UBC), Michael Gagarin (UTexas at Austin), and Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University) for accepting our invitation to visit Toronto and spend two very long In this issue Ex Cathedra ...... 1&8 From the Faculty Bookself ...... 2 New Faculty ...... 2 Conferences...... 3 Student Life...... 4-6 In Memoriam...... 7&8 Classics PhD graduates at the Spring 2013 Convocation. From left: Mariapia Pietropaolo, Melanie Contact & Credits ...... 8 Racette-Campbell, and Rob McCutcheon. Photo credit: Gary Hoskins. responses to her own history and political litical commentary in From the Faculty culture, and to the art, history, and litera- the opening decades ture of . Professor Keith’s of the fourth century Bookself reader features an introduction to the CE, some 50-100 genre of Latin epic, its authors, Latin style years earlier than This has been a very productive year for and grammar. It also includes selections previous estimates. research in the department. In particular, of unadapted Latin text from Ennius, Lu- This research arc three books written or edited by our fac- cretius, Catullus, Vergil, Ovid, Manilius, will conclude with ulty members have recently been pub- Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius a book on Palladas lished. Italicus, followed by notes, vocabulary, that doubles as an and maps. idiosyncratic his- Professor Ben tory of the period Akrigg co-edited Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics has been from Diocletian to Constantine. He has with Rob Tordoff unjustly neglected in comparison with its also published on imperial itineraries, (York Univer- more famous counterpart the Nicomache- the Theodosian Code, the fourth-century sity) Slaves and an Ethics. This is in large part due to the senatorial widow Melania, and late an- Slavery in Ancient fact that until recently no complete transla- tique oracular literature. His articles have Greek Comic tion of the work has been available. But appeared in the Journal of Roman Stud- Drama from the Eudemian Ethics ies, Greek, Roman & Byzantine Studies, Cambridge Uni- is a masterpiece in the Journal of Late Antiquity, the Journal versity Press. This its own right, offer- of Early Christian Studies, the Bulletin volume presents ten essays by leading spe- ing valuable insights of the American Society of Papyrolo- cialists in ancient Greek literature, culture into Aristotle’s ideas gists, and Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und and history, exploring the changing roles on virtue, happiness Epigraphik. After more than a decade in and representations of slaves in comic dra- and the good life. exile (albeit mostly voluntary and mostly ma from Aristophanes at the height of the This volume offers a rather pleasant), he is looking forward to Athenian Empire to the New Comedy of translation by Profes- regaining citizen rights in Canada. Menander and the Hellenistic World. The sor Brad Inwood contributors focus variously on individual and Raphael Woolf Boris Chrubasik is an ancient historian comic dramas or on particular historical (King’s College ) that is both with a particular interest in the history of periods, analysing a wide range of textual, fluent and exact, and an introduction in the eastern Mediterranean from the material-culture and comparative data for which they help the reader to gain a deeper Achaemenid to the late Hellenistic the practices of slavery and their represen- understanding both of the Eudemian Eth- periods. His doctoral dissertation (Oxford tation on the ancient Greek comic stage. ics and of its relation to the Nicomachean 2012) investigated usurpers in the Seleu- The volume includes a chapter written by Ethics and to Aristotle’s ethical thought kid empire, the largest of the successor Professor Akrigg, entitled “Aristophanes, as a whole. The explanatory notes ad- states of Alexander the Great, and is slaves and history,” in which he argues dress Aristotle’s many references to other currently being revised for publication. that “Aristophanic comedy can provide a works, people and events. The project investigates how other small piece of support for a reconstruction individuals within the empire could make of economic and social conditions in clas- themselves king, and how they could sical Athens” (111). ew aculty N F persuade groups within the state that they Kevin Wilkinson comes to the department were a better alternative to the ruling This year also saw the from Fordham University in the Bronx, monarch, thus revealing the structure and publication of Profes- where, for the last two years, he has been nature of this particular empire. He has sor Alison Keith’s A teaching courses in the Coptic language published on the relationship between Latin Epic Reader: and ancient Christianity. Prior to that, he Hellenistic cities and kings, the Attalid Selections from 10 attended the University of British Colum- state and is in the Epics from Bolchazy- bia (BA, MA) and Yale University (MA, early steps of a Carducci. This edition PhD), earning degrees in both Classics and new project on the offers twenty-seven Religious Studies. His primary research relationship selections from a rich obsession for the last several years has between ancient corpus of ten Latin been the Greek epigrammatist Palladas of empires and local epic poets. Though the Alexandria. In several articles, and now in sanctuaries in focus is on republican the book-length editio princeps of a frag- Ancient Turkey and Augustan epic, mentary papyrus codex (American Studies and the Levantine a sample of later imperial epic allows in Papyrology, vol. 52), Kevin has situated coast. exploration of the full expanse of Rome’s Palladas’ frequently bitter social and po- 2 of his recent book). Sara Forsdyke (Classi- United States, and Canada) and multidis- Conferences cal Studies, ) gave ciplinary (including papers on literature, us a preview of her forthcoming book in This past academic year the department philosophy, archaeology, history, ecology, a paper on popular justice and the rule of was host to two very successful confer- and medieval studies). law, followed by James McGlew (Clas- ences: the “Seventh Annual Meeting of sics, Rutgers) speaking on the tyrannicide the Midwestern Ancient Greek History Sixteen graduate student papers were myth in classical Athens. One panel was and Political Theory Consortium” and a delivered in total, spanning six panels. dedicated to the politics of Attic comedy, Graduate Student Conference on Space The ‘Boundaries and Buildings’ panel was featuring papers by Rob Tordoff (Humani- and Place in Antiquity. nicely unified, with four papers exploring ties, York) on communism in Aristo- aspects of boundaries and thresholds in an- ncient reek phanes’ Ekklesiazusai and Judith Fletcher tiquity, particularly in the domestic sphere. A G (History, Wilfrid Laurier) on sacrifice and The following panel featured two papers History and Political political authority in Aristophanes’ Birds. on ‘Far-Off Places’ and the mystery of dis- The colloquium concluded with a panel tant lands in ancient thought. In the final Theory Consortium that featured Eric Robinson (History, panel of the first day, ‘Landscape and Em- Indiana University) speaking on Sparta’s pire’, three papers discussed conceptions On November 9-11, 2012, Victoria Wohl, military defeats, Bernd Steinbock (Clas- of topography and environment under Ben Akrigg, and Ryan Balot in Politi- sics, University of Western Ontario) exam- the Roman Empire. The Sunday-morning cal Science co-hosted the seventh annual ining the Sicilian Expedition, and Robert ‘Metaphysics’ panel featured papers on meeting of the Ancient Greek History Wallace (Classics, Northwestern Univer- concepts of space in Epicurean, Aristo- and Political Theory Consortium, a group sity) discussing Greek oligarchic govern- telian, and Platonic philosophy, while of North American scholars pursuing ment and democracies. As in past years, the ‘Literary Panel’ offered theoretical innovative approaches to the study of the discussion was animated but collegial approaches to the representation of space ancient Greek history and political culture. and we are looking forward to our next in Homer and Greek tragedy. Finally, the The goal of the consortium is to foster meeting, to be hosted by Jim McGlew at panel ‘Reading the Topography of Rome’ an interdisciplinary conversation among Northwestern in November 2013. presented two fascinating approaches classicists, ancient historians, and politi- to different aspects of space in Tacitus’ cal theorists working on the history of omesticating Annales. Three University of Toronto ancient Greece. Papers typically tackle a D students - Janet Mowat, Jody Cundy, and broad range of topics in Greek history and Reality Juan Pablo Bermúdez Rey (Philosophy) - political thought and approach these topics presented papers, and many more students from diverse perspectives, literary and On April 20-21, and faculty contributed to the proceedings historical, theoretical and empirical. The 2013, the Depart- from the audience. group has met annually since its inaugural ment played host meeting, organized by Robert Wallace at to a graduate stu- Thanks to generous funding from the Northwestern University in 2006, and was dent conference Department of Classics, the Collaborative last hosted by University of Toronto in entitled Domes- Program in Ancient and Medieval Philoso- 2007. Aside from the core members who ticating Reality: phy, the Graduate Students’ Union, and have been participating regularly since Representations the Graduate Classics Course Union, we the beginning, each year’s program also of Space and were able to bring in two highly respected features “local talent,” many of whom Place in Antiq- scholars as keynote speakers. Lisa Nevett continue to attend in subsequent years. uity. Organised (University of Michigan) delivered her The colloquium has thus become an on- by a committee of keynote address on Saturday, speaking on going conversation among scholars with Classics graduate ‘Housing as Cultural Symbol in Fourth- diverse approaches but shared interests. students (John MacCormick, Century BCE Greece’, and Gábor Betegh (Central European University) spoke on This year’s meeting, sponsored by the Jody Cundy, Marion Durand, and Janet Sunday about ‘Aristotle on the Three- Department of Classics with additional Mowat), this event challenged participants Dimensionality of Physical Bodies’. Both support from the Department of Political to explore the various means by which ar- of these papers generated lively discus- Science, offered a particularly exciting tistic and literary features were envisioned sion, and it was a joy to have Professors slate of papers. Greg Anderson (History, and understood in spatial terms, and by Nevett and Betegh present for the week- Ohio State University) kicked off the pro- which physical spaces were imagined and end’s events. We must also thank our gram with a paper entitled “Greek History investigated through cultural expression. undergraduate volunteer, Katrina, and the and the Ontological Turn,” followed by An enthusiastic response to the call for panel chairs, all of whom helped to keep Matthew Christ (Classics, Indiana Univer- papers and an overwhelming number of everything running smoothly throughout sity) speaking on Andocides and the bad submissions allowed this conference to the weekend. behavior of Athenian aristocrats (the topic be truly international (with participants from Italy, France, Hungary, England, the 3 Student Life Given the remarkable productivity and diverse interests of our students, it would be impossible to offer a detailed portrait of our undergratuate program and gradu- ate cohort here. Nevertheless, we feature here some of the activities of our current students along with profiles of some of our students’ recent PhD dissertations. Undergraduate Coordinator Report As always our undergraduate stu- dents made important contributions to the life of the department. Oral Performance club, Winter 2012. From left: Toby Keymer, Greg Darwin, Willem Crispen-Frei, This was a busy year Anna Beausoleil, Maya Chakravorty, Rachel Katz, SungKae Cho. Photo credit: Pru Robey. outside the classroom, as besides the ACS’ Kuznetsova for the Eric Trevor Owen included: Ovid’s Metamorphoses 2.178- own program and the Scholarship in Greek; Nicholas Arrigo 192 performed by Willem Crispin-Frei; usual round of recruitment events, students for the Graham Campbell Fellowship in Euripides’ Helen 483-499 performed by were able to meet with candidates for the Memory of Maurice Hutton in Classics; Anna Beausoleil; Marcus Aurelius’ Medi- faculty position in Roman history, and Alexander Petras (undergraduate) and Jen tations 2.1.1 performed by Toby Keymer; with the external review assessors. Oliver (graduate) for the James William Cicero’s In Catilinam 1.1-11; 1.20-33 Conner Greek Composition Prize; and performed by Rachel Katz; Euripides’ The strength of the department’s language Alain Zaramian for the All Souls Histori- Bacchae 461-480 performed by Maya programs was showcased at a national cal Essay Scholarship in Ancient History. Chakravorty and Greg Darwin; Ovid’s level with our students’ customary success Our warmest congratulations go to the Met. 1.125-143 performed by SungKae in the Classical Association of Canada’s recipients of all these prizes and awards. Cho; Silius Italicus’ Punica 1.81-103 annual sight translation competitions performed by Maya Chakravorty; and in Greek and Latin. Winners from the Ben Akrigg Petronius’ Satyricon 59 performed by University of Toronto include Mufei Jiang, June 2013 Greg Darwin. who won first prize in both Senior Latin and Senior Greek, Sonya Tors with second The theme of their Spring performance prize in Senior Latin and an honourable Oral Performance was Homer’s “ἧς γαίης δύναμαι mention in Senoir Greek, Jessica Zung The department’s undergraduate Oral γλυκερώτερον ἄλλο ἰδέσθαι” (I Can who won second prize in Junior Greek, Reading Club decided to hold two perfor- See Nothing Else Sweeter Than One’s and an Honourable Mention went to Neal mances this year due to the success of the Own Land), which included readings of: Porter in Senior Latin. Tristia initial recitation in April 2012. The club Ovid’s 4.9 performed by Patrick Libation Bearers met for two hours every Friday to discuss Harris; Aeschylus’ 1-21 We have many excellent students in our themes, choose passages, practice reading performed by Greg Darwin; Xenophon’s programs, and exceptional academic Anabasis and critique each other’s recital. Kevin 4.7.21 - 25 performed by Toby achievement is recognized by a number Helen Lawson, Maggie Rogow and Michael Keymer; Euripides’ 437-468 per- of annually awarded prizes and scholar- Bales were often present at these practices formed by Maya Chakravorty and Greg ships. In 2012 the recipients were: Cristina Met to help with pronunciation, scansion, and Darwin; Ovid’s . 8.183-202 per- Ichim and Joel Benedicto for the Chau/ Homeric translation questions, as well as provide formed by Willem Crispin-Frei; Chan Scholarship in Classics; Natalie Hymn to Dionysus tips on performance and delivery. performed by Anna MacDougall for the Dorothy Ellison Beausoleil Shapiro; Homer’s Odyssey Scholarship in Latin; Heather Odell for the The theme of this year’s Winter perfor- 9.12-28 performed by Maya Chakravorty. Dorothy Ellison Graduating Scholarship mance was Euripides’ “στόμα τ’εὔφημον Both Winter and Spring performances in Latin; Alexander Petras for the W. B. ἅπας ἐξοσιούσθω” (Let Every Man were filmed and are now available on Wiegand Prize in Ancient Greek; Nataliya Keep His Mouth Pure). The performances YouTube. 4 Graduate Coordinator Report

The past year has seen a significant amount of profes- sional activity on the part of our graduate students. This Spring the students organized a very successful graduate confer- ence on the topic of “Domesticating Real- ity: Representations of Space and Place in Antiquity”, with Lisa Nevett (University of Michigan) and Gábor Betegh (Central European University) as key note speak- ers. The department was, moreover, very pleased to see a large contingent of its Graduate students celebrate Thanksgiving 2012. From left: Maria Anna Oberlinner (vistiting senior students present papers at the recent scholar from Germany), Alessandro Sisti, Adam Barker, Marion Durand, Alex Milodowski (friend meeting of the CAC in Winnipeg (Emilia of the department), Zoe Anthony (graduate student in the Department for the Study of Religion), Barbiero, Vichi Ciocani, Susan Dunning, Katie Sutor, Jen Oliver, Melanie Racette-Campbell, Brad Hald, and April Ross. Photo credit: Nathan Gilbert, Jessica Higgins, John Maria Anna Oberlinner. MacCormick, Robert McCutcheon, Janet Mowat and Melanie Racette-Campbell) Egypt” in Cairo, and Patrick Hadley gave for her excellent 2011 dissertation on and at various other conferences: Emilia a talk in Innsbruck, where he spent a good “Discours de la corruption dans la Grèce Barbiero and Miranda Robinson spoke part of the year working on his disserta- Classique”. We also congratulate our at the last meeting of the APA in Seattle, tion at the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut for three winners of APA Outstanding Student Vichi Ciocani presented a paper at this Neolatin Studies. Awards (Robert McCutcheon for research, year’s CAMWS meeting in Iowa, Miranda Mariapia Pietropaolo for teaching, and Robinson participated in a conference on Our heartfelt congratulations go to our Sarah McCallum for service). The recipi- Greek tragedy at McGill, Alex Kirby took recent graduate Marie-Pierre Krück as the ents of this year’s CAMWS Outstanding part in a workshop on “The Greeks in first winner of the newly established CAC Student Awards are Megan Campbell dissertation award, which she received (service), Susan Dunning (research) and Janet Mowat (teaching). Last but not least, it is our great joy to announce that Jen Oliver won two prizes for her work: the “Graduate Student Paper Award” from the Lambda Classical Caucus of the APA for her paper “Oscula iungit, nec moderata satis nec sic a virgine danda: the Callisto episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the typology of female homoeroticism”, which she presented at a conference in Durham in 2012, as well as the “John J. Winkler Memorial Prize” for her essay on Amazons in Seneca’s Phaedra, which she will give at Oberlin next fall. Congratula- tions to everyone!

Regina Höschele May 2013

Classics MA graduates Alexander Kirby and Katherine Clarke at the Fall 2012 Convocation. Photo credit: Madeline Northcote. 5 fluence the message, this dissertation also and the social, cultural, and political Recent PhD facilitates a more nuanced understanding change of the Augustan era. issertations of Cicero’s epistolary relations with such D figures as Atticus, Caelius, Plancus, and Laura (Mawhinney) Hope’s thesis, Antony. Sympotic and Rhapsodic Discourse in the Cara Jordan’s dissertation, Voicing Homeric Epics, examines the relationship Power through the Other: Elite Appropria- Mariapia Pietropaolo’s thesis on The between sympotic and rhapsodic discours- tions of Fable in the 1st-3rd Centuries CE, Elegiac Grotesque, examines the role of es and the Homeric epics in her thesis, and examines why the Aesopic fable, although grotesque imagery in Latin love elegy, fo- specifically considers how an understand- often argued to accurately reflect the voice cussing on its destabilizing function in the ing of sympotic discourse can affect an of the Other, is found in élite literature aesthetics of the genre. Such imagery ap- external audience’s perception of events written by and for highly educated adult pears to intrude into the logic of elegy and within the narrative. She analyses both the males. What ultimately emerges is the to disrupt the ideal refinement to which the symposium and rhapsodic performances as élite use of the othered figure and genre to genre conventionally aspires. This thesis discourses, using literary, archaeological, examine marginal areas where élite dis- shows, however, that both the grotesque epigraphic, and iconographic evidence, in course and the élite author cannot go, but and the sense of intrusion that accompa- order to discuss implicit meanings con- ultimately as the product of an élite text, nies its appearance in elegiac poetry are veyed in specific passages of the epics. the figure and genre reinforce their privi- themselves products of the logic of elegy, leged attitudes about proper socio-political whose complexity incorporates principles In the Philebus, Socrates undertakes a behaviours. Thus, in our extant sources, of self-subversion. lengthy investigation of the nature of plea- at least, fable remains an élite tool, like sures in order to determine which deserve the body of the slave, for expressing their In her dissertation, The Construction of a place in the best life. Commentators anxieties, fears and, in the end, their own Masculinity in Propertius, have long been frustrated in their attempt power. Melanie Racette-Campbell read Prop- to uncover a single, unified account that ertius’ lover-poet as a subject who seeks explains in a plausible way the extraordi- Despite its explicitly martial focus, the to build a new masculine identity from nary variety of pleasures analyzed in the second half of the Aeneid features a num- within the structures of the dominant cul- dialogue. Emily Fletcher argues, in her ber of episodes that contain the generic ture, but without either fully accepting or dissertation Plato on Pleasure, Intelli- language and motifs of erotic elegy. In rejecting these structures. In each chapter, gence and the Human good: An Interpre- each chapter of her dissertation Taking Melanie looks at a different aspect of tation of the Philebus, that this search for a Love Seriously: Amor and Erotic Elegy in Propertian elegy (fides, women’s speech, generic account of pleasure is misguided, Vergil’s ‘Italian Iliad’, Sarah McCallum seruitium amoris, and militia amoris) and because one of the main purposes of substantiates and explores Vergil’s exten- considers how it acts to destabilize the Socrates’ division of pleasure is to expose sive and sustained engagement with erotic gender identity of the lover-poet and call its essentially heterogeneous nature. elegy from the proemial invocation of the gendered constructions of both elegy Erato to the closural death of Turnus. She and Roman argues that Vergil uses elegiac language elite culture and motifs to delineate the intimate con- into question. nection between amor and arma, and to She concludes identify passion as a direct cause of death by arguing that and destruction. the existence of similar themes Rob McCutcheon’s dissertation, An and critiques Archaeology of Cicero’s Letters: A Study in the non- of Late Republican Textual Culture, ex- Cynthia poems, amines the semiotic role that the material especially those epistula played in the correspondence of that ostensibly the Roman elite at the end of the Republic. praise Augus- Through close readings of descriptions of tus, suggests the physical letter in Cicero’s Letters and the importance with reference to the papyrological record of further in- and later epistolary cultures, he demon- vestigation into strates that physical aspects of the epistula the connec- could help to delineate the epistologra- tion between pher’s status in the community and his Propertius’ relationship with the letter’s addressee. PhD graduate Sarah McCallum at Fall 2012 convocation with Professors (from construction of By examining how the medium could in- left) Regina Höschele, Victoria Wohl, and Brad Inwood. Photo Credit: Tony masculinity Baker. 6 In Memoriam It is with profound sadness that we learned of the death, from metastatic lung cancer, of Kathryn (Kate) Grace Bosher on Satur- day, 23 March, just five months after she was diagnosed. Kate took her BA (1997) and MA (1998) in Classics at the Universi- ty of Toronto before going on to complete her PhD (2006) in Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. The following is taken from Globe and Mail obituaries on 27 March and 17 April respectively.

The beloved wife of LaDale Winling, mother of Ernest Winling; daughter of John Bosher and K. Cecil (Berry) Bosher; sister of George Henry Francis (Hal), Sylvie, and Lise Bosher. Having been inspired by a Latin teacher at Branksome Hall and travel through Greece in her youth, Kate studied Classics a the Univer- Kate Boscher in Ann Arbor (2006) as she finished graduate school and left to join the Northwest- ern faculty. Photo credit: LaDale Winling. sity of Toronto, earning a BA, followed by an MA while a fellow at Massey College home with the raunchy, sexually charged doctoral thesis, Theater on the Periphery. and a PhD in Classics at the University humour of Aristophanes as with the crys- “In recent years, however,” she wrote, of Michigan. She researched the ancient talline melodies of Sappho’s poems. “significant discoveries have been made origins of comedy in Sicily and Southern “Tragedy grew up in Athens but comedy by archaeologists, papyrologists and Italy and traveled to nearly every known grew up in Sicily,” explained her husband, philologists, and, by drawing on all these excavated theater in Sicily. In 2006, Kate LaDale Winling, an American history pro- kinds of evidence, it is possible to piece joined the faculty of Classics at North- fessor at Virginia Tech. “She documented together the outlines of the development western University where she taught this process by looking at theatres that of western theatre [in early Sicily].” Greek and Latin courses. have been excavated, and clay fragments, to illustrate that as great as Athens was, it In 2009, Prof. Bosher helped win a Mellon As a teen, Kate rowed with Canada's ju- wasn’t the birthplace of everything. There Foundation grant for a two-year series nior national rowing team, participating in were cultural products coming from Sic- of conferences called Theater Outside the 1991 World Junior Championships in ily.” Athens, focusing on new research and Barcelona, Spain. A competitive sculler in bringing together scholars of theatre and graduate school, she won the Royal Cana- Prof. Bosher preferred the drama and trag- antiquity. A resulting book of the same dian Henley championship women's single edy of the ancients to their comedy, which, title she edited sought to produce a wide- scull and the women's elite single scull at by today’s measure, tended to be laced ranging study of “this hitherto neglected the U.S. Rowing National Championship with crude bathroom humour. “She was history,” she wrote in the introduction. Regatta in 2004. faced with these jokes about bodily fluids She was sometimes called on to comment and excreta, but she was much more high- on what seemed a greater trend toward Very unlike the popular image of the brow and enjoyed a lofty plotline,” her ancient Greek culture, as seen in the mov- tweeded geezer who pores over dusty, husband said. “Some of the jokes we just ies 300, Troy and the Clash of the Titans half-forgotten tomes, Prof. Bosher was don’t get anymore; they speak to a time remake. “It seems people are using Greek a vibrant, energetic young woman who and place and set of issues that no longer myth to think about the modern world, as could make the Greek classics crackle. resonate or apply. She thought comedy people have always done,” she told the Or- “Students were just blown away by her could offer compelling and unique insights lando Sentinel in 2010, “but there seems knowledge and passion,” noted one of her into a society.” to be an extra swing toward Greekness.” colleagues. But a social and political history of theatre Most recently, she directed a project called Among a handful of scholars to research in Sicily from around 500 to 200 BC had Classicizing Chicago, a website and ar- the ancient origins of comedy in Sicily not been examined in great detail be- chive that intends to investigate and docu- and southern Italy, then western outposts cause the evidence seemed too sparse and ment a wide range of aspects of Chicago’s of the Greek empire, she was equally at fragmentary, Prof. Bosher wrote in her continued on page eight 7 In Memoriam Ex Cathedra continued from page seven continued from page one engagement with Greco-Roman antiquity Roman politics and law is of long stand- from 1830 until the present day. ing and his Robson Classical Lectures explored the theme of Roman Social Unfinished business included editing, with Imaginaries from the perspectives of “Be- three colleagues, the Oxford Handbook of longing,” “Cognition,” and “The Ontology Greek Drama. “Kate was very much the of the Social.” driving force behind this volume and we will complete it very much in her honour,” Our superb undergraduate program in relayed Prof. Justine McConnell of Oxford Greek and Latin language has been nation- University. ally recognized again this year with six awards to our students in the Classical Prof. Bosher started getting headaches and Association of Canada National Sight Jen Oliver at conference in Durham 2012. feeling neck pain last summer. The pain Translation Competitions: First Prize and worsened. In October, it was diagnosed Honorable Mentions in both Senior Latin next fall. as lung cancer that had metastasized to and Senior Greek; Second Prize in Senior several bone sites, including her cervical Latin; and Second Prize in Junior Greek. The Department was devastated to learn spine. The elite athlete had never smoked. Congratulations to Mufei Jiang, Neal Por- of the death of a recent undergraduate She fought to the very end, a stoic like so ter, Sonya Tors, and Jessica Zung! and graduate (MA) alumna, Dr. Kathryn many of her study subjects. (Kate) Grace Bosher, in March 2013, Congratulations are also owed to our and has endowed the Dr. Kathryn Bosher “When doctors at Ohio State University doctoral students who completed their pro- Memorial Graduate Award in her memory. indicated there was nothing more they grams this past year: Laura E. Mawhinney, Kate was an extraordinarily talented could do, she said to me, ‘Screw them. Christopher R. Wallace, Sarah L. McCal- scholar, teacher, and director of dramatic I don’t plan on dying in the next few lum, Emily Fletcher, Melanie Racette- productions, whose untimely passing has weeks,’” Prof. Winling recalled. “I still Campbell, Mariapia Pietropaolo, Robert cut short a stellar and innovative career. cannot believe that Kate could not beat McCutcheon, and Cara Jordan. See p. 6 She offered unflagging support to her cancer, because she was the toughest for the titles and descriptions of their dis- students, from those first encountering person I have ever met.” She packed much sertation projects. We wish them well as the ancient world through the magic of into a life that was cut short at the age of they embark on careers in the profession: classical theatre to those struggling with 38. Laura has spent the year teaching at The the ancient languages. Her meticulous and Royal Grammar School at Newcastle and accurate handling of both philological and (part-time); Chris has archaeological evidence, coupled with her Contact & Credits been teaching at York University; Sarah intellectual tenacity and scholarly daring, If you have suggestions for newsletter features or taught at Brock University this past year and her personal warmth and generosity any news to report please contact us by email to: made her a thoroughly inspiring critic and and will take up a two-year SSHRC post- mentor. The generosity of Kate’s friends, [email protected] doctoral fellowship at Harvard University in June 2013; Emily has finished her first students, and colleagues will enable us to or by traditional mail to: year in a tenure-stream position in the De- ensure that her legacy lives on in the De- partment where she began her career. Kate Department of Classics partment of Philosophy at the University University of Toronto of Wisconsin; and Melanie will take up a is profiled on p. 7 & 8. 125 Queen’s Park visiting position at Concordia University Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C7 in August. Congratulations as well to Jen Let me close by thanking the execu- tive, Professors Ben Akrigg and Regina Past issues are available on line at: Oliver, PhD-2, who this year won both the Graduate Student Paper Award from the Höschele, and the administrative staff, www.chass.utoronto.ca/classics Lambda Classical Caucus of the APA (for Mrs. Ann-Marie Matti and Ms. Coral

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May we recognize you in published donor listings?

 Yes, please recognize me as ______ No

2.) YOUR GIFT: (Please select one option)

a.) Here is my single donation of  $______

 Visa  MasterCard  Amex

Card Number: ______Exp:______/______

Name on card: ______Signature: ______

 Cheque, which is enclosed (payable to the University of Toronto)

b.) Here is my monthly donation of  $______

Please charge my credit card on the 1st day of each month:  Visa  MasterCard  Amex

Card Number: ______Exp:______/______

Name on card: ______Signature: ______

 Blank cheque marked VOID, which is enclosed. I authorize the University of Toronto to deduct the amount I have specified from the account number on the cheque, on the 1st day of each month.

 Payroll deduction (please enter your personnel number here ______)

Signature: ______Date: ______

3.) HOW TO DONATE: (Please select one option)

 Donate online: Visit https://donate.utoronto.ca/classics to make a secure online gift. (Please select the Departmental Trust and indicate that the gift is in memory of Kathryn Bosher in the special instructions section.)

 Return this completed form (with enclosed cheque if applicable) to: University of Toronto, Donations Management 21 King’s College Circle Toronto, ON M5S 3J3

Your Privacy: The information on this form is collected and used solely for the administration of the University’s advancement activities, undertaken pursuant to the University of Toronto Act, 1971. If you have any questions, please refer to www.utoronto.ca/privacy or contact the University’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Coordinator at 416.946.7303, McMurrich Building, Room 201, 12 Queen’s Park Crescent West, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8. Monthly Donation: You have certain recourse rights if any debit does not comply with this agreement. For example, you have the right to receive reimbursement for any debit that is not authorized or is not consistent with this PAD Agreement. To obtain more information on your recourse rights, contact your financial institution or visit www.cdnpay.ca.Charitable Registration #: BN 1081 62330-RR0001 Project ID: 0560001591 Solicitation ID: 0570048056

Thank you for your generous support!