Tobias Anthony Myers

TOBIAS ANTHONY MYERS

724 Williams St. Connecticut College New London, CT 06320 Department of Classics 860-439-5293 Campus Box 5447 [email protected] 270 Mohegan Avenue New London, CT 06320

RESEARCH INTERESTS Homeric Studies; Greek and Latin Literature; Ancient Magic and Religion; History of Ideas

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor of Classics, Connecticut College, 2013 - present Lecturer in the Core Curriculum, Columbia University, 2011 - 2013

EDUCATION PH.D. (with distinction) in Classics, Columbia University, 2011 Dissertation Title: Models of Reception in the Divine Audience of the Iliad Sponsor: Deborah Steiner; Readers: Helene Foley, Elizabeth Irwin, Laura Slatkin, Katharina Volk M.Phil. in Classics, Columbia University, 2008 M.A. in Classics, Columbia University, 2005 B.A. in Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004

PUBLICATIONS

MONOGRAPHS Homer’s Divine Audience: The Iliad’s Reception on Mount Olympus (finished manuscript, under review)

The Mirror in the Song: Self-Knowledge and the Odyssey (in progress)

ARTICLES “The Shepherd Sings the Witch: Magic and Narrative in Vergil’s Second Eclogue” (in progress)

“Simaitha’s Daemones.” In Locating the Daimonic: Daimones, Spaces and Places in the Greek World, ed. by Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe and Emmanuela Bakola (volume under contract with Ashgate Publishing)

“Ō Poimēn: Addresses and the Structure of the Theocritean Bucolic Milieu.” Classical Philology 111: 1 (Jan. 2016), 19-31

“ ‘What If We Had a War and Everybody Came?’: War as Spectacle and the Duel of Iliad 3.” In War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict, ed. by Anastasia Bakogianni and Valerie Hope. London: Bloomsbury, 2015, 25-42.

ESSAYS “Does Homer’s Odysseus Know Himself?” In Self-Knowledge, ed. by Ursula Renz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp 19-24.

“Representations of Causation in the Iliad.” In Efficient Causation, ed. by Tad Schmaltz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp 48-53.

REVIEW N. Yasumura, Challenges to the Power of Zeus in Early Greek Poetry (Bristol, 2011). Hermathena 190: Summer 2011, pp 123-26.

PRESENTATIONS OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH

“Temporal ‘Distance’ and Intimacy: Evoking the Eternal in Iliadic Warfare”

- University of Chicago. Invited talk, October 2017 - University of Virginia. International conference, September 2017

“The Proem’s Promise” – Boston College. MACTe. Regional conference. September 2016.

“With What Eyes?” - Columbia University. MACTe. Regional conference, April 2015

“Simaitha’s Daemons” (revised version) - King’s College London. International conference, March 2015. See http://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/daimonic/

“Simaitha’s Daemons” – Harvard University. MACTe. Regional conference. December 2013

“The Role of Addresses in the Theocritean Bucolic Milieu” Boston College, MACTe, Regional conference. April 2013

“The Race for the Life of Hector” - Cornell University, The George Washington University, The University of California at Davis, Boston College, and Connecticut College. February-March 2013. Invited talks

“Spectatum Veniunt…: Homeric Enargeia and the First Spectacular Duel” – The Open University, UK. International conference. June 2012

“What If We Gave a War and Everybody Came?” - Columbia University, December 2011, and The University of Wisconsin at Madison. February 2012. Invited talks

“Let Us Take Thought How These Things Will Be: Poet-Audience Dynamics in Iliad 4” - Columbia University. Invited talk. September 2010

OTHER TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

Invited Speaker, “On Teaching the Iliad” (for the Literature Humanities Lecture Series), Columbia University – September 2015

Invited Speaker at the Afterwords Post-Performance Talk of An Iliad with Denis O’Hare and Stephen Spinella by the New York Theatre Workshop – March 2012

Invited Speaker, “On Teaching the Iliad” (for the Literature Humanities Lecture Series), Columbia University – September 2011

Welcoming Talk at the Orientation for the 2011-2012 Literature Humanities Preceptors, Columbia University – Spring 2011

CLASSES TAUGHT

... AT CONNECTICUT COLLEGE (Fall 2013- Present)

Socrates (first-year seminar) Classical Epic (advanced seminar) Beauty Stand Still Here (advanced seminar, on ancient literature and reception) The Roman World (Roman History Survey) Greece (Greek History Survey)

Elementary Greek I and II Int/Adv Greek: Euripides’ Bacchae Int/Adv Greek: Archaic Hexameter Poetry Int/Adv Greek: Herodotus

Elementary Latin II Adv Latin: Horace and Ovid Adv Latin: Vergil’s Eclogues

... AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (Fall 2006-Spring 2013) Literature Humanities C1001-2 (Core Curriculum) Intermediate Greek II 1202 (Homer’s Iliad) Intermediate Greek I 1201 (Plato and Lysias) Elementary Latin I and II 1101-1102 Teaching Assistant for Intensive Elementary Latin 1121

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Preceptor for the Core Curriculum: 2009-2011 Polychronis Fellowship for Excellence in Greek Studies: 2008-2009

SERVICE AT CONNECTICUT COLLEGE Interdisciplinary Pathway Approval Committee (IPAC), Elected Member – Fall 2015- present Pre-health Committee, Member – Spring 2016 Class of ‘57 Teaching Seminar Organizing Committee, Member – Fall 2014- Spring 2015 Search Committee for a tenure-line hire in Classics, Member – Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Search Committe for a one-year sabbatical replacement hire in Arabic Studies, Member – Spring 2014 Co-organizer of MACTe Conference at Yale University, Co-sponsored by Connecticut College, May 2014

ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Literature Humanities Final Exam Committee, Member (designing the final exam for the Columbia-wide Literature Humanities course) – Fall 2010 Contributing editor for the Literature Humanities website for Columbia’s Core Curriculum (editing and organizing artworks, articles and historical information for the literary texts studied) – Fall, Summer 2010 Acting roles in Aristophanes’ Birds (Spring 2007), Euripides’ Iphigeneia at Aulis (Spring 2005), and Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (Spring 2004) – Barnard/Columbia Classical Drama Society – productions in original Greek

REFERENCES Marco Fantuzzi, Professor of Classics, University of Macerata, Italy Helene Foley, Professor of Classics, Barnard College Elizabeth Irwin, Associate Professor of Classics, Columbia University Christia Mercer, Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy Deborah Steiner, John Jay Professor of Greek and Classics, Columbia University Katharina Volk, Associate Professor of Classics, Columbia University