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A in This Issue Volume Twenty Summer 2013 http://chass.classics.utoronto.ca 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 Classics, 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 ancient Greece. 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 London) 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, University of Michigan) 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
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