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Classics Convivium The Department of Classical Studies University of Michigan Classics Convivium Classics Spring ‘10 | Volume XXII The Department of Classical Studies Ruth Scodel Chair Constantine Cavafy: Administrative Staff PUBLISHED MAY 2010 Classics Convivium is published bi-annually online Mark Antony Confronts Robin Axelrod Contact Information By Bruce Frier, Recipient of the Distinguished Undergraduate Program Coordinator Department of Classical Studies His Mortality University Professorship Award, 2010 2160 Angell Hall Michelle Biggs 435 S. State St. n two poems, “The End of Antony” (from 1907) and “The God Abandons Antony” (1910), the Graduate Program Coordinator Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 Greek poet Constantine Cavafy deals with the last two days of Mark Antony’s life, as Octavian’s Phone: (734) 764-0360 I Mariette Davis Fax: (734) 763-4959 forces were closing in on Alexandria in 30 BCE and forcing the great general toward suicide. Department Administrator email: [email protected] These poems make an arresting contrast. Kimberly Johnson lsa.umich.edu/classics “The End of Antony,” a poem unpublished in Cavafy’s lifetime, is based on a passage of Plutarch (Antony 77.3-4). Public Relations Coordinator In Plutarch’s account, Antony, moribund as a result of a botched suicide attempt, had been drawn up on a litter into Cleopatra’s Newsletter Editor mausoleum in Alexandria. The Queen began to wail uncontrollably, but he “stopped her lamentations” and calmly “advised Debbie Walls Regents of the University her to consult her own safety . not to lament him for his last reverses, but to count him happy for the good things that had Julia Donovan Darlow, Ann Arbor Executive Secretary Laurence B. Deitch, Bingham Farms been his, since he had become most illustrious of men, had won greatest power, and now had been not ignobly conquered, a Denise Ilitch , Bingham Farms Roman by a Roman.” Olivia P. Maynard, Goodrich Andrea Fischer Newman, Ann Arbor Andrew C. Richner, Grosse Pointe Park Cavafy follows much of this account occupation of Alexandria, a raucous “listen[s] with deep emotion” as “a final S. Martin Taylor, Grosse Pointe Farms, closely, but sidelines Cleopatra, throng of Bacchic revelers passes entertainment.” This music is heard, Katherine E. White, Ann Arbor Mary Sue Coleman (ex officio) described only tangentially as through the city (depicted by Plutarch not by Alexandrians, but by Antony “madame with her Oriental flailings”; it as “quiet and depressed through himself. The poem proceeds rather as is mainly the sobbing of “the womenfolk” fear and expectation of what was though Antony’s high-minded Super- that awakened “the lofty pride within coming”). The throng was interpreted, Ego were admonishing him to take his soul” so that “it all seemed strange by those “who sought the meaning of courage in the face of adversity, to “go to him, indifferent, / everything he’d the sign,” as an omen “that the god to without faltering toward the window” blindly worshipped until then— / all whom Antony always most likened and and drink in the “exquisite instruments” his frenetic Alexandrian life—.” It is attached himself was now deserting of the passing throng; but the poem is reasonable to presume that Cavafy him.” This god is Dionysus, with whom phrased so broadly that, were it not for was fascinated by the clash of cultures Antony had identified himself at least its title, the same exhortation might have in Antony’s soul, and that he has since 39; Plutarch had previously been directed toward any Alexandrian deliberately chosen to accentuate this described other omens to the same confronting the reality that he must conflict rather than the farewells with effect (60.2-3). Cavafy completely eventually, at least through death, lose Cleopatra. re-imagines the final omen. In the first the beloved hurly-burly of the city. place, although, as in Plutarch, the Three years later, in his justly celebrated primary emphasis is on the eerie sound In Cavafy’s narrative, there is, in poem “The God Abandons Antony,” of the procession, the throng itself is fact, no longer any distinct omen that Cavafy has altered and greatly no longer discernible, but instead “an is construed. Rather, the “invisible deepened his thinking. The poem is invisible procession” of an “initiate company” that passes below Antony’s based on another passage of Plutarch crew”—a mysterious band perceived window is, in a way, Alexandria itself, (Antony 75.3-4), in which, during the not through vision, but entirely through an “Alexandria, who is leaving,” or middle of the night before Octavian’s sound, its “exquisite music” to which one alternatively an “Alexandria, whom continues on pages 6 & 7 Letter from the Chair Dear Friends, I was at work on a conventional chair’s letter about our external review last fall, the budget, and the various opportunities and challenges we face. But on the afternoon of Monday, April 26, I learned that our dear friend and colleague Traianos Gagos had been found dead in his home. He had fallen down the stairs and struck his head. I don’t need to write an obituary here. There is one on our website [lsa. umich.edu/classics] and on the library’s [lsa.umich.edu/library], since he was both Professor of Greek and Papyrology in the department and an archivist in the University Library. We hope soon to post a recording of his memorial, which was attended by over four hundred people, including papyrologists from around the United States and many members of the Greek community of Southeastern Michigan. A fund to support student work in the papyrological collection has been established in his memory. Traianos Gagos 2 • University of Michigan | Department of Classical Studies Classics Convivium Spring 2010 | Volume XXII • 3 Featured in Save these this Issue Important Dates …Constantine Cavafy Frier | Cover & p. 6 & 7 Fall 2010 …Letter from the Chair Gerald F. Else Lecture Scodel | p. 3 & 4 in the Humanities …Archaeology Conference Professor Francois Hartog Terrenato | p. 8 …Fiat/Chrysler Scholars - Sept. 29, 2010 at 4:00PM Gabii Project Kuenzel Room, Michigan Union Terrenato | p. 8 Details to come… ___________________________________ …Greeks and Barbarians Ratté | p. 9 Teaching Papyrology: The Legacy of Traianos Gagos …Thomas Spencer Jerome October 29 & 30, 2010 Lecture Series Details to come… Potter | p. 7 & 8 ___________________________________ …Gerald F. Else Lecture Forsdyke | p. 9 & 10 Ancient Philosophy Lecture …Study Abroad 2009 Report November 1 or 2, 2010 (tbd) Pallazo | p. 11 Martha Nussbaum …Acknowledgements Ernst Freund Distinguished p. 12 Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago …Classics Staff Back Cover Details to come… The fall 2010 Platsis Symposium on the Greek Legacy will be held Sunday, November 7, at 2PM in Rackham Auditorium, on the topic Winter 2011 “Why Teach Thucydides?” The symposium will address ways in which Thucydides matters in liberal arts education today. It will feature two Thomas Spencer Jerome Sunday distinguished scholars of Thucydides who have also played significant Lecture Series public roles: W. Robert Connor, who besides his scholarly work on Thucydides and other Greek historians has been director of the National March 30 – April 7, 2011 Nov. 7, 2010 at 2PM Humanities Center and president of the Teagle Foundation, and Clifford Orwin, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Toronto Leonard Barkan Rackham Auditorium has written The Humanity of Thucydides and is a regular contributor to Princeton University Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail. We will also have some local respondents, and many first-year students from Classical Arthur W. Marks ‘19 Professor of Save the Date! Civilization 101 and Great Books 191 will be there to ask the questions Comparative Literature and Director of the Society older people often avoid. Everyone curious about how an ancient Greek of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton historian can help us understand the world we live in is welcome to Details to come… attend. __ 4 • University of Michigan | Department of Classical Studies Classics Convivium Fall 2009 - Volume XXII |5 Constantine Cavafy continued [he is] losing,” even as his life ends. ultimate defeat. (In fact, the judgment Both city and man are thus agents of ancient historians, like Plutarch, runs in this process of mutual separation: much along this line.) the city proceeds ineluctably onward, Απολείπειν ο θεός away from him, while from his window But in the second half of the poem Aντώνιον Antony bids it “farewell.” Antony successfully fights against this temptation as “one who’s long Σαν έξαφνα, ώρα μεσάνυχτ’, ακουσθεί Cavafy’s presentation leaves it prepared, like someone brave, / as αόρατος θίασος να περνά Read the entire lecture on the indeterminate whether the “God” befits a man who’s been blessed with με μουσικές εξαίσιες, με φωνές— Modern Greek Program’s of his title, who abandons Antony, is a city like this.” In this respect, Antony την τύχη σου που ενδίδει πια, τα έργα σου web site: intended (as some have thought) to be is correctly regarded, so Cavafy που απέτυχαν, τα σχέδια της ζωής σου the eponymous deity of Alexandria, suggests, not as one led astray from που βγήκαν όλα πλάνες, μη ανωφέλετα θρηνήσεις. lsa.umich.edu/modgreek/cvcavafy substituted for Plutarch’s Dionysus. a better (more Roman) course by the Σαν έτοιμος από καιρό, σα θαρραλέος, Perhaps, instead, Antony’s acceptance allure of the luxurious East. Instead, in αποχαιρέτα την, την Aλεξάνδρεια που φεύγει. of his fate is, within a larger his very succumbing to the enticements Προ πάντων να μη γελασθείς, μην πεις πως ήταν framework, only an epiphenomenon of Alexandria he has proven himself ένα όνειρο, πως απατήθηκεν η ακοή σου· of the withdrawal of divine favor. worthy of the city; and even as the μάταιες ελπίδες τέτοιες μην καταδεχθείς.
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