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NEWSLETTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF Spring 2012 Letter from the ChairClassics spatium. Only two of the faculty of ’96 are will migrate there after renovation. So we still here: the rest we have lost to other will either be moving out of, or expand- jobs, to retirement, or to the Elysian Fields ing within, East Pyne, but our fate is still (the beloved Sam Atkins, John Keaney, uncertain. and David Furley). The following breath- Concurrently, Firestone Library is un- less remarks are simply bullet points mark- dergoing massive renovation. Every book ing 15 years of change: in the building has been moved to reorder the collection—nostalgic note: Richardson • 1999-2006 we averaged about 14 has disappeared—and the third floor is due majors per undergraduate class. for gutting and renewal next year, with the old study rooms being replaced by a large • 2007-2012, the average number of new one in a different location. undergraduates has leapt to about 21. The above headlong praeteritio doesn’t mention many other changes even in • Currently we have 24 Seniors and 24 passing. Fortunately one of them comes Juniors. This uptick has meant strain to the rescue. Our brand new, thoroughly Ted Champlin, Chair on faculty time, a restructuring of rethought departmental website went live advising, and a planned increase in of- last spring: http://www.princeton.edu/ s adumbrated last year, we were fice support hours. classics/. There you will find details about subjected in May to the sympathetic some of the above and much more. It is Ainspection of our Advisory Council. More broadly, under the energetic of course a work eternally in progress, With their report in hand, we convened a leadership of department representative intended to promote community within daylong retreat in September to go over Brooke Holmes, we are adding a third the department and communication with every conceivable aspect of the department track in Ancient History to the major, with friends outside: if you have any thoughts, and its possible futures. The autumn was a a fourth in Linguistics in the pipeline; please pass them on. Lector intende: blur of hyperactivity as committees buzzed beefing up offerings in translation; and laetaberis. ■ about preparing for discussion when we establishing a full-scale Majors seminar. reconvened in December. From that discus- Under the equally energetic leader- sion and the mass of material and recom- ship of director of graduate studies Bob Inside this issue… mendations submitted by all my colleagues, Kaster, the graduate program has been I distilled a confidential self-study of the carefully restructured to reduce time to News from the Faculty...... 2 completion while maintaining happiness; department for the Dean of the Faculty. Senior Theses 2011...... 5 With that in hand, our distinguished the various tracks have been rationalized Academic Review committee (Sue Alcock, and thoroughly revised; seminars have Faculty Bookshelf...... 6 Brown University; Kirk Freudenburg, been streamlined to offer a clear menu of An Excavation in the Yale; Ruth Scodel, ; introductory and advanced courses; and, Richard Saller, Stanford, chair) subjected as with the undergrad program, the effort Byzantine World...... 7 us to two long days of close scrutiny in late continues to provide clear written docu- Dissertations...... 8 January. Now that they have submitted mentation and advice. their report, it is time to breathe deeply East Pyne is bursting at the seams. Graduate Student News...... 9 and to plan. Within the year, Green Hall on the other Classics Alumni Spotlight...... 10 Our last such review was in 1996. of Washington Road will be vacated, 1996 to 2011: grande mortalis aevi and some of the departments in East Pyne Lectures & Events...... 11 2. Princeton Classics News from the Faculty

Yelena Baraz Emmanuel Bourbouhakis Ted Champlin Marc Domingo Gygax Janet Downie Denis Feeney

Yelena Baraz really quite thrilled to be here. I spent the signed up for another three years I spent the first half of 2011 as a visitor at better part of this past year on a fellowship as chair. the Institute for Advanced Study, a leave in Rome (where my wife Sara and I live), supported by Princeton and a grant from reading in the slightly rumpled library Marc Domingo Gygax the Loeb Classical Foundation. During of Palazzo Farnese, making headway on During the fall semester I served as the the spring, I was mainly occupied with various Byzantine projects, with occasional department’s seniors adviser for our 24 revisions of my book, A Written Republic: breaks to sail on weekends. The spring seniors concentrating in classics and clas- Cicero’s Philosophical Politics, which will saw me return to Dumbarton Oaks to pay sical studies. Together with AnneMarie be out from Princeton University Press in tribute to a doyen of Byzantine Studies, Luijendijk (Department of Religion) I the spring of 2012. I also wrote a paper on the inimitably erudite Ihor Sevcenko, with co-taught the Program in the Ancient “Discourse of Kingship in Late Republican a paper dedicated to his memorably witty World (PAW) graduate seminar, which Invective” for the Second Day of the Bad and insightful taxonomy of historians in this year was entitled “Weak belief, Dif- King conference, and presented expanded “Two Varieties of Historical Writing.” In fering Belief, Unbelief: Alexandria as a versions to a seminar at the Institute for early summer I bid a very fond farewell to Case Study”. We analyzed the interactions Advanced Study and the spring lecture of Freiburg and colleagues there after nearly between various religious groups and com- the New York Classical Club. Also in the three years of collaboration for which I munities in the city—Egyptians, Greeks, spring I accompanied Professor Nino will remain incredibly grateful. In my brief Pagans, Jews, and Christians—and had Zchomelidse and her freshman seminar, time so far at Princeton, I have taught as distinguished guest speakers Martha “Transformations of an Empire: Power, introduction to Classical Greek along with Himmelfarb (Princeton), Sandra Gambetti Religion, and the Arts of Medieval Rome”, a course in translation about the long cul- (CUNY-Staten Island), Christopher Haas on their field trip to Rome over spring tural legacy of Greek epic, titled “ (Villanova) and Ed Watts (Indiana). Our break. It was a fantastic trip: I learned a After Homer.” Post-classical and Byzantine partners in the parallel seminar offered at tremendous amount about medieval Rome, rhetoric and oratory, epistolography, and Oxford were Beate Dignas, Robert Parker visited the papal palace in Viterbo, and historiography are all sitting on my desk at and Guy Stroumsa, and in January we finally saw the Ara Pacis. After a summer present. If you think our interests inter- met with the graduate students from both spent mainly in copyediting and indexing, I sect, if you have questions, or better yet, sides of the Atlantic in Princeton for our was especially glad to get back to teaching answers, please drop by 034A East Pyne. traditional Oxford/Princeton workshop. In after a year of leave. In the fall, I taught November I participated in a round table a great group of students in a seminar on Edward Champlin at Yale, where we discussed Pierre Briant’s Plautus, where we had a lot of fun read- No excuses: Parkinson’s Law dictated Rostovtzeff lecture on Elias Bickerman. ing, laughing, and imagining how these the course of 2011 and chairman’s work Most of my recent research was devoted to things must have looked in performance expanded to fill the time available, as the study of modern historiography (the to the original audience. In November I hinted on the first page of this Newslet- generation of Bickerman as well as Catalan was invited to present some of my work on ter. The two papers mentioned last time historiography of the Enlightenment and Cicero at Northwestern University. The duly appeared. One, “Sex on Capri”, in the first half of the 19th century). During year concluded with a panel on “Intertexu- Transactions of the American Philologi- the winter break I had the chance to go to ality and Discontent” at the APA meeting cal Association, taking its start from two southern France to explore some Roman in . I co-organized this panel very naughty words supposedly invented archaeological sites. with a colleague from Amherst College, by Tiberius Caesar for private use, can Christopher van den Berg. The panel went best be described as hardcore philology. Janet Downie splendidly and was attended by over a The other, “Tiberius and the Heavenly After a refreshing and stimulating year of hundred people. Twins”, in the Journal of Roman Studies, leave, since September I’ve been back in explored the more romantic relationship the classroom—navigating the vast seas of Emmanuel Bourbouhakis of the second princeps with the gods Classical Mythology and dodging pirates My appearance in this newsletter as a Castor and Pollux, as performed for in a course on the Greek novel. Papers this member of the classics department could the Roman people in public. The latter academic year have included a contribution serve as an apt epilogue for 2011’s aca- will form a chapter in the much delayed to a Society for Biblical Literature panel on demic highlights. I came to Princeton last Tiberius on Capri, to be followed by a recently-discovered text by Galen—the fall, via Freiburg and Rome, in a bid to two others on mythological themes, one bio-bibliographic De Indolentia—and a broaden the post-classical and Byzantine portraying him as the wily Odysseus, contribution on narrative and divination repertoire of Classics and Hellenic Studies; the other as great Pan, the goat-god on in Graeco-Roman dreams for the meeting my abiding commitment to Greek, Latin, the margins of society who raises panic of the Midwest Consortium on Ancient and ancient history, as always, in tow. I am in mankind. Not coincidentally, I have Religions at Ohio State University. I have Princeton Classics 3.

Andrew Feldherr Harriet Flower Michael Flower Andrew Ford Constanze Güthenke Brooke Holmes also been busy with final revisions of my Harriet I. Flower causation). I also put the finishing touches book manuscript on Aelius Aristides’ In the spring of 2011, I taught the classics on my book on ’s Anabasis. It is Hieroi Logoi for Oxford University Press, department’s new pro-seminar in Roman scheduled for publication in June 2012 in happy to see it taking final shape. Mean- History, which is a course designed to the series Oxford Approaches to Classical while, my spring teaching is Attic-Greek- introduce incoming graduate students in Literature. The principal focus is to open intensive as I embark on the second half of the departments of classics and of art and up various new ways of reading and in- the introductory language sequence and an archaeology to Roman history as a subject terpreting Xenophon’s most famous work, exploration of eros, rhetoric, and the flight and a discipline. In a lively class of 19 which is the only autobiographical narra- of the soul in an undergraduate seminar on graduate students we discussed problems tive to survive from . My Plato’s Phaedrus. and methods related to Rome’s history hope is that my book might contribute to from early times to the end of the Severan bringing Xenophon back to the classroom Denis Feeney period in the 3rd century A.D. Topics (from which he mostly, and unjustly, was I am enjoying being back on a regular included material culture, literary history, banished in the 1970s). cycle of teaching four courses a year after politics and war, numismatics and epigra- being Chair for five years and then being phy, recent debates in the field and (in a Andrew Ford on leave in 2009-2010. Highlights of more practical vein) how to teach all of this I saw a lot of recent work come out in the teaching last year were a really enjoyable material to undergraduates. The summer past year. My book on as Poet 300 level undergraduate class on Horace’s brought a research trip to Rome in August, appeared in the summer from Oxford, and Odes in spring 2011, and the introductory with special opportunities to see sites and was described by David Konstan in Choice Survey of Latin Literature for first and monuments at a time when the city was as “a fascinating, elegant book that reads second year graduate students in the fall; less crowded. In October, I participated in like a philological detective story.” Among in the Survey you get to pick your top 12 an inspiring conference on Roman Memory recent articles I am most fond of my con- hits from Latin literature and read them at the American Academy in Rome. My tribution to the Festschrift for my former with the pick of the crop. I published in paper was about the beginnings of auto- teacher, Pietro Pucci: “‘A Song to Match Materiali e Discussioni the paper I had pre- biographical writing in Latin. In the fall my Song’: Lyric Doubling in ’ sented in Pisa, Florence, Rome, and Arezzo semester I was on academic leave from the Helen” appeared in Allusion, Authority, in spring 2010; the article is about the classics department, while still serving as and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek implications of the fact that ancient Latin master of Mathey College. This time was Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis from W. de texts had virtually no punctuation, and in spent researching the cult of the lares at Gruyter. I published “Sôkratikoi logoi in particular no quotation marks to signal the crossroads shrines (compita) of local Aristotle and Fourth-Century Theories the beginning and ending of speeches. I neighborhoods in Rome (vici) for a book of Genre” in Classical Philology vol. 105 also published reviews in Times Literary about local religion in the city of Rome. and “Plato’s Two ’s” for a collected Supplement, London Review of Books, and During 2011 both my recent books The Art volume on Plato and Hesiod from Oxford. Journal of Roman Studies. In the fall I was of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Ro- I also contributed a number of articles to elected president of the American Philo- man Political Culture (University of North M. Finkelberg’s new Homeric Encyclopedia logical Association, and will begin my term Carolina Press, 2006) and Roman Repub- from Oxford. Reviews have tackled some in office in January 2013. lics (Princeton University Press, 2010) big books, including Tim Power’s The Cul- were issued in paperback. ture of Kitharodia in Classical Journal On- Andrew Feldherr line (2011.11.1) and Leslie Kurke’s Aesopic A high point of last year was a week lectur- Michael Flower Conversations for the International Journal ing in Münster on the representation of During the spring of 2010 and the fall of the Classical Tradition vol. 18.4. Reviews the gods in Aeneid 8, work which planted of 2011 I was very fortunate to be able to of Richard Hunter’s Critical Moments in the seeds for my next large scale project. teach an ideal combination of my favorite Classical Literature in the American Jour- In the spring I will have the chance to take subjects, Greek history and Greek his- nal of Philology vol. 131 and Carlo Bril- my Ovid class to Rome and Pompeii for toriography. Last spring I offered both lante’s Il cantore e la musa in Bryn Mawr the week (thanks to the generosity of a the lecture course “Archaic and Classical Classical Review were in preparation for a Cotsen teaching fellowship and Princeton’s Greece” and an upper level reading course course I greatly look forward to this spring, 250th anniversary fund, and the industry on . And then this fall semester I a seminar on Ancient Literary Criticism of my teaching assistants Dawn Lavalle offered a graduate seminar called “The Art team taught with Denis Feeney. Academic and Madeleine Jones). After that I plan to of Historical Writing in Ancient Greece”. trips included Oxford, Cambridge for the spend the summer trying to coax seeds into Each week we read selections from Triennial, and Belgrade, a stimulating and saplings (en route to stout codices) in the Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon on inspiring presence of Clio. specific topics (such as characterization or Continued on page 4 4. 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Bob Kaster Joshua Katz Nino Luraghi Brent Shaw Christian Wildberg moving chance to make connections with Tauris/OUP). It will appear in 2012. I year has been and will be all undergradu- colleagues in Eastern Europe. also wrapped up articles on topics ranging ate: “Latin Language and Stylistics” (aka from the formation of society in Lucretius undergraduate Latin composition) in Constanze Güthenke to mind-body sympathy. the fall, with LAT 102 and upper-level In line with my comparative research on I traveled extensively over the course Cicero (before, during, and after exile) the practices of classicists and the creation of the year, giving talks at New York Uni- in the spring. Meanwhile some work has of classical knowledge, talks and lectures versity, Cornell, Stanford, the University of appeared in print: the beginning of the have taken me not only to other universities California, Santa Cruz, and the Institute of year saw the three-volume Loeb Classical in the States, but also abroad; I enjoyed Classical Studies in London and presenting Library edition of Macrobius’s Saturnalia, speaking on the formation of the discipline research from my project on sympathy at and the end of the year (at least in the UK: at Yale, Harvard, Birmingham, London, conferences in Berlin, Exeter, and Madrid. a bit later in North America) produced and Freiburg. Even at home, I was gladly I presented new work on Lucretius at a the OCT edition of the same. My travel- encouraged to poach in others’ territory, so conference at New York University and ogue for the University of Chicago Press’s to speak, when I was invited to participate had the opportunity to address physicians “Culture Trails” series, The Appian Way: in a series of workshops on philology in and psychiatrists at Weill Medical College Ghost Road, Queen of Roads, will be out in pre-modern East Asia. through the Richardson Research Seminar. March, in time for you to plan your travel In the spring, I taught a graduate One highlight of the year was the Trien- to Italy in summer 2012: there’s a mosaic seminar with my colleague Tony Grafton nial Conference at Cambridge University of a Vespa scooter on the cover, which from the history department on classical in July. should not be confused with anything I (or traditions and its scholars from the Renais- This fall I was delighted to have the any Roman) ever rode. sance to Romanticism. The mix of students opportunity to offer an undergraduate from classics, history, art, literature and course on Greco-Roman medicine for the Joshua Katz East Asian studies made for a heartening second time to a superb group of students. Two thousand eleven was a busy year for willingness to adopt new perspectives and Equally rewarding was an intermediate me. In January I led my second Princeton think through new forms of collaboration. course on Euripides’ Helen, which culmi- alumni journey to Egypt, flying back home One indirect result of my interest in nated with a visit to see an adaptation of the day before the start of the revolution; the history of scholarship is that this fall, I the Alcestis at the Brooklyn Academy of in February I was Senior Scholar-in- embarked on a research project to compose Music. My new role as departmental rep- Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy, an account of the history of the Princeton resentative has kept me especially busy, but teaching my heart out; I spent most of May classics department. This will hopefully be these are exciting times for the undergrad- in Paris (glorious!) as a visiting profes- a part of the newly developed website, and uate program. I have also enjoyed serving sor (“Directeur d’études invité”) at the in the process so far I have, with the good on the inaugural Executive Committee of École pratique des Hautes Études; and assistance of one of our undergraduates, the new Interdisciplinary Doctoral Pro- August found me in the Saussure archives been able to dig into the university archives gram in the Humanities, which admitted in Geneva. I also gave lectures at the City at Mudd Library, speak with former its first cohort of students—including our University of New York, the University members of the department, and learn in own Sam Galson—this fall. of Chicago, and the University of Oxford, general a good deal about the cultural his- as well as speaking to alumni in Vancou- tory of the Humanities at Princeton and in Bob Kaster ver, acting as a respondent at the Classics the in general. I recall that when I wrote last year’s “Triennial” at the University of Cam- A non-academic but equally long- update I was on manuscript number five bridge, chairing a session at the wonder- lasting adventure, finally, began in early of Suetonius’s Caesars, working toward ful colloquium “ΜΟΥΣΑ ΠΑΙΖΕΙ” at the December with the birth of our son Luc- an Oxford Classical Text edition; soon University of Warsaw, and traveling for the ien. Who is, in fact, such an easy-going I’ll start number 15, with three more to third year in a row to lovely Copenhagen, baby that we took him, aged four weeks, go—progress of a measurable sort. In other where I sit on a linguistics advisory board. to the annual APA in Philadelphia for a areas, the movement has been not so much My freshman seminar “Wordplay: A Wry few hours! straight ahead as from one interesting chal- Plod from Babel to Scrabble” was ranked lenge to another. For example: from the number two on mental_floss’s list of “Fas- Brooke Holmes APA’s Program Committee last year to this cinating and Bizarre Classes” and number Taking advantage of the peace and quiet year’s (and next year’s) turn as director of seven on The Daily Beast’s list of “Hottest of a second semester of academic leave, I graduate studies, where I hope I can help College Courses.” Among much else, I am completed the manuscript of my second the grads be all they can be. But while now running Princeton’s Creative Arts & book, Gender: Antiquity and Its Legacy my administrative energies are devoted to Humanities Symposium for high-school for the series Ancients and Moderns (I.B. the graduate students, my teaching this seniors (together with Michael Cadden Princeton Classics 5. and Jeff Dolven) and am delighted to have As for research and publication, it from 0 to 105 in 60 lectures, teaching CLG been appointed to the Educational Adviso- was a happy year. The lesser items aside, 103 turbo-Greek and 105 back to back and ry Board of the John Simon Guggenheim I can note that the years devoted to a large ending up with a close reading of Plato’s Memorial Foundation and the Executive work entitled Sacred Violence on sectarian Ion. Talking about divine possession: in Committee for Princeton’s Program in conflicts in late antique north Africa were a recently published article I discuss the Teacher Preparation. I have hopes for a finally rewarded when it was published by reception of Dionysus in Greek Philosophy. happy and productive 2012. Cambridge University Press in fall of the Broadening that horizon, I had enormous year. The excitement of that achievement fun in the fall semester teaching a gradu- Nino Luraghi was short lived, however, as I had to turn ate seminar on ancient iconographies and The year started under the best auspices: immediately to the middle stages of the modern interpretations of Dionysus. Ever on leave in the spring semester, I had the production of the next book, a perhaps un- read Nonnus? It’s a riot! good fortune of spending the month of usual foray into the problems of the reap- Members of the Program in Classical January doing research in the splendid ing of cereal grains. My teaching in the Philosophy traveled to Crete for another spaces of Palazzo Farnese in Rome, which year included courses in second-year Latin summer workshop in which faculty and houses the library of the Ecole Francaise. and a freshman seminar on the subject of graduate students from Greece and February and March brought new stimuli “Slavery: Ancient and Modern,” but my Princeton mulled over a text of Aristotle’s. in the form of a visiting appointment at particular and perhaps peculiar delight re- This year’s topic was the fantastic little the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, mained my volunteer stint in taking care of treatise On Dreams. Needless to say, I am Italy’s only elite academic institution in the Medieval Latin, whose texts and students still dreaming of Crete and cannot wait to humanities, where I lectured in my native both filled me with a sense of joy. go back this year, hopefully for longer than language for the first time in over a decade a fleeting week. Thanks to the award of and savored Gothic architecture and Tus- Christian Wildberg an NEH fellowship I look forward to the can food. The rest of the spring, from April This P-rade of academic exploits is ar- luxury of a sabbatical year 2012/13. through July, was spent as a fellow of the ranged in alphabetical order, so if you Last but not least, as of the current Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg - Institute read this, you must really be interested academic year I help our wonderful col- for Advanced Study of Konstanz Univer- in what we’ve all been up to. For me, last league Dimitris Gondicas direct the Seeger sity, where I enjoyed an office directly on year was as eventful as any. I gave invited Center for Hellenic Studies. Stepping into the Rhine and a refreshingly interdisciplin- lectures in Amsterdam, Halifax, Hamburg, the massive footprints left by my distin- ary environment, sharing thoughts and Mexico City, Stockholm, and Zurich on guished predecessor in this capacity, Peter discussions with colleagues from history, a salmagundi of fascinating authors and Brown, was out of the question; instead, sociology, politics, anthropology etc. After topics: Anaximander, Dionysus, Epictetus, I have been searching on eBay for Jacob’s so many months on the move, August Hermes Trismegistus, Simplicius, Plotinus, ladder to help me climb on that giant’s brought the usual relaxing dose of hik- and Proclus. In the classroom, I accelerated shoulder. So far, no cigar. ing in the Italian Alps, getting ready to a dozen talented Classics undergraduates ■ jump back into the classroom. In the fall I taught Greek tyranny, largely based on my research from the previous semester, and Raleigh A.G. Allison Vodou as the Means to a New Comparative Thucydides, an old favorite. I now look The Financial Crisis of AD33: A Historical Perspective back with pride and some nostalgia on a Analysis most productive year, while slowly the ten Julie Grace Gianakon or so articles I submitted for publication Jessica Anastasio Plutarch and Shakespeare: An Inquiry into (on topics ranging from Greek monarchy Dido and Aeneas: Two Works of Reception Virtue and Honor and tyranny to the historian Ephorus of Kyme) make their way through the press. Lindsey Karolina Breuer Tiernan Kane Plutarch’s πνευμα Potent Perfume of the Nec Erit Alia Lex Romae, Alia Athenis: Brent Shaw Delphic Oracle and an Inclination to Cicero and Natural Law Mid-year found me able to hand the Rationalize Mantic Prophecy administration of Program in the Ancient Inho Ko World back to the competent hands of Ashley Brisco Plot in the Time of Old Comedy: Nino Luraghi. In the spring term, before The Sound of Silence: The Transition of Aristophanes’ Incoherent Narratives and he took over, I had the joy of leading sever- Communication in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Their Effects al museum expeditions, most memorably to the Walters Art Museum where I and the Caroline Debevoise Clark Peter Martin graduate students thoroughly enjoyed both Seeds of Heaven: Classical Influences on the Lucius Iunius Brutus the marvels of antiquity and the pleasures mid to Late 19th C. American South with a of Leigh Lieberman’s favorite Baltimore Commentary on Seeds of Heaven Veronica Shue-Ron Shi haunts. Other travel for speaking engage- The Genealogy of Epic ments took me to Oxford and to Oberlin Elena K. Dillard Thu Ta —where I had the unusual experience of Win the Crowd, Win Students: The Resur- an accidental encounter with Mr. Stevie gence of Antiquity in U.S. Popular Cinema Romulus and Remus in the Roman Republic Wonder—as well as to my old homeland and What it Means for Classical Scholarship in the Canadian West, to the University of Calgary where I addressed the Clas- Nadirah Farah Foley Senior Theses sical Association. Planning for next year Reconstructing Roman Religion: Haitian includes the much more distant antipodean 2011 vistas of Australia. 6. Princeton Classics Faculty Bookshelf

Aristotle as Poet: Saturnalia, Volume I: The song for Hermias Books 1-2 and its contexts Saturnalia, Volume II: by Andrew Ford Books 3-5 Oxford University Press, by Macrobius. 2011 Edited & Translated by Robert A. Kaster Aristotle is known as a philoso- Loeb Classical Library, pher and as a theorist of poetry, 2011 but he was also a composer of songs and verse. This is The Saturnalia, Macrobius’ the first comprehensive study encyclopaedic celebration of of Aristotle’s poetic activity, Roman culture, has been prized interpreting his remaining since the Renaissance as a fragments in relation to the treasure trove of ancient lore, earlier poetic tradition and to the literary culture of his time. Its much of it otherwise unattested. Cast in the form of a dialogue and centerpiece is a study of the single complete ode to survive, a arranged (by modern editors) in seven books, it treats subjects song commemorating Hermias of , Aristotle’s father-in- as diverse as the divinity of the Sun and the quirks of human law and patron in the 340’s BCE. This remarkable text is said digestion, and above all the poetry of Vergil, whom it presents as to have embroiled the philosopher in charges of impiety and so the master of all human knowledge, from diction and rhetoric to is studied both from a literary perspective and in its political and philosophy and religion. This new edition provides a significantly religious contexts. improved text and critical apparatus.

Macrobii Ambrosii Sacred Violence: African Theodosii Saturnalia Christians and Edited by Sectarian Hatred in the Robert A. Kaster Age of Augustine Oxford University by Brent D. Shaw Press, 2011 Cambridge University Press, 2011 The Saturnalia, Macrobius’s encyclopedic celebration of One route to understanding the Roman culture written in the nature of specifically religious early fifth century CE, has been violence is the study of past prized since the Renaissance conflicts. In this book, Brent as a treasure trove of otherwise Shaw provides a new analysis unattested lore. Cast in the of the intense sectarian battles form of a dialogue, the Saturna- between the Catholic and Do- lia treats subjects as diverse as natist churches of North the divinity of the Sun and the Africa in late antiquity, in quirks of human digestion while showcasing Virgil as the master which Augustine played a central role as Bishop of Hippo. The of all human knowledge from diction and rhetoric to philosophy development and deployment of images of hatred, including that and religion. The new Latin text is based on a refined understand- of the heretic, the pagan, and the Jew, and the modes by which ing of the medieval tradition and improves on Willis’s standard these were most effectively employed, including the oral world edition in nearly 300 places. The accompanying translation—only of the sermon, were critical to promoting acts of violence. Shaw the second in English and the only one now in print—offers a explores how the emerging ecclesiastical structures of the Chris- clear and sprightly rendition of Macrobius’s ornate Latin and is tian church, on one side, and those of the Roman imperial state, supplemented by ample annotation. A full introduction places the on the other, interacted to repress or excite violent action. Finally, work in its cultural context and analyzes its construction, while the meaning and construction of the acts themselves, including indexes of names, subjects, and ancient works cited in both text the Western idea of suicide, are shown to emerge from the conflict and notes make the work more readily accessible than ever before. itself.

■ Princeton Classics 7. An Excavation in the Byzantine World by Emily Kirkegaard ‘12

his summer I traveled to to tion house, and spent the work on an Arab-Byzantine excava- following day training for Ttion and to study archaeological sites the beginning of excavation. of the Classical and Byzantine periods. Under our fearless leader, After several interdisciplinary courses Asa Eger, we (five Turkish combining archaeology with history, I had and American students) spent the previous summer working on an were to supervise our own early Byzantine excavation in Spain. This trenches, each equipped summer I aimed for the opposite end of the with a team of local work- Mediterranean, pursuing my interest in the men. Archaeology is not for Arab-Byzantine border. the faint of heart: we rose I arrived in in June and spent at 4:30 a.m. and remained four days hunting down the remnants of in the field until 2:00 p.m. Byzantine Constantinople. While the Ha- Tea, I learned, is very gia Sophia was relatively easy to find, some important to the Turks—the sites required more detective work, like hotter the sun, the more hot Kinet Hoyuk and Tüpraş Field excavation team. the Myrelaion, which not only had been tea we were to drink to cool converted to a mosque long ago, but is down. now completely surrounded by a shopping The site, called Tüpraş center. I spent a day at the Archaeological Field, was a military forti- Museum, and one afternoon I hiked along fication known in Arabic the length of the Byzantine sea-walls and sources as the Castle of land-walls, appreciating the immense size Figs; it was important for of the city and noting inscriptions and its strategic location linking palaces built into the walls. Syria and , and for I soon gained a new appreciation for its location at the foot of the the size of Anatolia, as well—I boarded an Amanus Mountains. Since overnight train across Turkey to Adana, the medieval settlement forgoing the speed of air travel for the was located directly on the opportunity to view the Anatolian land- Islamic-Byzantine frontier, it scape. Before sunset the next day my train changed hands from Islamic crossed over the Amanus Mountains into to Byzantine around the the Cilician Plain, a fertile strip of land tenth century. Among our At work on site. between the mountains and the sea, and finds were monogrammed the site of the great battle between Alex- floor tiles, a handful of ander and Darius. I arrived at the excava- coins, and an intact late antique stele that had been built into a wall. Over the course of the excavation I was able to visit Antakya several times, a site familiar from many hours of working on the coins housed at Princeton; a particular highlight was hiking along the Byzantine fortifications of the city which run along the crest of the mountain. After we closed the excavation, I traveled solo to other classi- Emily on site. cal and Byzantine sites in western Turkey, including , , and . summer for the site’s final study season. The American excavation at gave My experience last summer also solidified me a particularly warm welcome, gracious- my desire to pursue medieval archaeology ly allowing me to shadow their team for in graduate study, and I am grateful to the the day. My final day in Turkey was again Department of Classics and the Center for spent in Istanbul, visiting the Museum of Hellenic Studies for making this opportu- Islamic Arts and the Great Palace Mosaic nity possible. Museum. Fortress wall from site, showing Although I eventually had to leave [Ms. Kirkegaard is a senior in the Depart- classical spolia the Byzantine world, I plan to return next ment of Classics, Princeton University.] ■ 8. Princeton Classics Dissertations Rosa M. Andújar Rome during the period of the Republic. and the reign of Nero. I show how the im- The Chorus in Dialogue: Reading Lyric It aims to demonstrate that women, far age of , as it changes over time, serves Exchanges in Greek Tragedy from being excluded from public religious as a window into how Rome continually service, fulfilled a wide variety of important re-imagined its past to fit contemporary From the “Ode to Man” to songs of praise, and even prominent roles in civic cult. The circumstances. the Greek tragic choruses are readily asso- dissertation begins with a consideration of ciated with the odes that they sing. Critical the Vestal Virgins, the only priestly college Anna S. Uhlig accounts, however, overlook their perfor- composed entirely of women. The middle Script and Song in Pindar and Aeschylus mances in a different mode: lyric dialogues chapters examine religious offices requir- in which they engage with actors through ing the joint service of a married couple, My dissertation begins from the simple song or a lyrical mixture blending speech. including the rex and regina sacrorum, the fact, often obscured by political and social In this dissertation, I argue that these flamines (priests of individual deities) and distinctions, that Pindar and Aeschylus exchanges were sites of active and self- their wives, the flaminicae, and religious were poetic contemporaries. Both were ac- conscious experimentation in fifth-century couples in the curiae. The final chapter tive in the first half of the fifth century B.C. Athenian tragedy, in which tragedians not investigates a variety of less prominent and found success with the same audi- only tested the performative capabilities officials as well as the support personnel ences across the Greek Mediterranean. My of both chorus and actor but also explored who worked alongside the priests and often aim is not to make positive claims about the conditions under which interactions be- performed religious rituals. The number the overlapping careers of the two poets; tween a group and an individual succeeded and visibility of women serving in an of- rather, I use the fact of their contemporane- or failed. ficial capacity is striking, as is the variety ity to bring into focus a poetic outlook that In addition to defining and providing of their roles. Women were not permitted reflects large-scale shifts in the conceptual- a taxonomy of lyric dialogues, I show that to vote or hold political office at Rome, but ization of poetry during the historical pe- these exchanges, which blend choral and they were full members of the community riod in which they worked. Specifically, my solo voices in song at critical junctures in whose participation in public religion was investigation focuses on the unique ways the plot, tend either to dramatize reactions essential. Rather than delimiting another in which Pindar and Aeschylus structure to horrific revelations or to reenact ritual area of exclusion, the religious sphere their compositions in order to explore the laments for the dead. In both cases the provided women with opportunities to interface of physical text and mimetic per- tragedians stretch the boundaries of - exercise authority, leadership and ritual formance, exhibiting what I have termed a logue, often by staging curious exchanges expertise at every level of society. shared “scriptory” poetics. that blend song and speech, at times even This scriptory outlook stems from reversing the fundamental tragic pattern of Brigitte B. Libby the fifth-century poets’ awareness of a speaking actor and singing chorus. These Telling Troy: the Narrative Functions of written poetic tradition that was by then highly emotionally charged dialogues pro- Troy in Roman Poetry several centuries old and which produced vide an opportunity to study how tragedy a corresponding concern for the future represents the strains placed on interper- In Roman poetry, telling a Trojan story was material longevity and reperformability sonal communication, in particular the a way of talking about Rome. My disserta- of newly created poetic objects. Poetry’s expression of strong emotion in a commu- tion combines philological and cultural- ability to speak to future generations had nal setting, while at the same time allowing historical approaches to write the history of always been crucial to its position within us to see the experimental and self-reflexive Troy in Roman poetry, tracing its evolution Greek culture. However, as scholars have nature of the genre. through changing cultural contexts. As the long noted, the idea of a poem’s future Combining philological attention to pivot between East and West and between life underwent significant changes as the the theatrical and metrical qualities of history and myth, Troy’s fall breached tem- traditional culture of oral poetry began to these moments with the insights of social poral, cultural, and geographical boundar- respond to the effects of literacy, and the theory and performance studies, I argue ies. Troy’s interpretive flexibility made it promise of repeat performances came to that their frequency and dramatic sophisti- an ideal tool for introducing and exploring unsettle the occasional nature of one-off cation suggest a persistent interest among complexities in the cultural narratives of oral composition. Whereas fully oral poetry the tragedians in the conditions under Rome, which traced its origin to Troy. The is always subject to revision and re-com- which a group and an individual are able sack of Troy could be seen equally as the position in performance, writing allows to communicate and successfully perform first step in the teleological advance of Ro- poetic texts to be reperformed countless rituals. I contend that the questions of man Empire or as the first phase in a cycle times, and in a multitude of places, without communicative and ritualized action ex- of destruction that claimed Rome’s mother- significant verbal variation. I argue that plored in these moments capture tensions city and threatened Rome as well. one decisive stage in this development can fundamental both to Greek theatre and to As Rome reaches different watershed be discerned in the poetry of Pindar and the emerging Athenian democracy. moments in its history, its poets reinterpret Aeschylus as they deliberately adjust their the original watershed moment at Troy to compositional style to reflect and reveal Meghan DiLuzio explain, accept, and question the new age their poetry as fixed in writing, thus inhab- Female Religious Officials in Republican at hand. The dissertation’s four chapters iting a temporality shaped by the physical Rome each focus on a key moment of transforma- text as well as the presence of an author or tion: the emergence of Roman power after an audience. This dissertation examines the evidence the Second Punic War, the crisis of the late for female religious officials in the city of Republic, the foundation of the Principate, ■ Princeton Classics 9. Graduate Student News Anna Dolganov presenting my first paper at the CA Con- to promoting the classics and humanities 2011 was an adventurous year of dis- ference in Exeter. through educational programming in the sertation research abroad. I spent sev- U.S. and Europe. I will be taking over as eral months in Rome, where I worked on Thomas Miller director of the Institute next year. Tertullian at the École Française de Rome, Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, I an excellent collection for patristics and am a third-year student in the Program Mali Skotheim all things North African. I then spent in Classical Philosophy. This year I am This summer took me to Polis, in the North- two months at the Scuola Normale di taking my last round of general exams and west of Cyprus, where I worked with an Pisa, where I did epigraphic research and making plans for my dissertation, a history undergraduate computer scientist to make received a crash course in papyrology, then of the idea of the immortality of the soul three-dimensional scans of objects found on a month in Oxford, where I read through in the Platonist tradition. In the spring I the site. I then traveled around Greece, and and examined documentary papyri from will precept for a course in Roman social visited Athens, Mycenae, Tiryns, Argos, Oxyrhynchus. After Oxford, I relocated history. Along the way, I am trying to Epidauros, Corinth, on Santorini, the to Konstanz, Germany, where I taught a keep alive side interests in contemporary marble quarries on Naxos, and Knossos on seminar on Roman law. In September, I philosophy and linguistics. In October I Crete. A day spent breathing the lovely air participated in a 10-day technical training married Julian Petri, a graduate student in in Epidauros, fragrant with pine and thyme, course in papyrology at the Vitelli Institute the German Department. surely cured any travel fatigue. I spent a in Florence, Italy. rainy August in Berlin, splitting my time I took part in two major conferences Mallory Monaco between German lessons and the philologi- in 2011: the first entitled “Recht haben I began this year by organizing Classic cal library at the Freie Universität, a library und Recht bekommen im Imperium Villains: A Princeton Graduate Student ingeniously designed in the shape of a hu- Romanum,” part II of a tripartite project Colloquium with Simon Oswald (Classics) man brain, with chairs in the shape of blood spearheaded by R. Haensch, where I gave and Geoffrey Smith (Religion), a wonder- vessels. The classics collection, for future a paper on the enigmatic ban on divina- fully successful and fun two-day affair in reference, is located in the right temporal tion under Septimius Severus (P. Yale Inv. April featuring Adrienne Mayor as the lobe of the brain-library. I am currently 299 = P. Coll. Youtie I 30). The second keynote speaker. Over the summer, I used knee-deep in generals exams, and enjoying conference took place in November, 2011 my newly acquired Turkish in Istanbul the excuse to read new things and re-read in Vienna, as part of an ongoing interdisci- and Ephesus, visited the Vatican Museums old things in new ways. plinary project on law and administration, in Rome, and briefly returned to excava- entitled “Imperium und Officium”. There, tions at Morgantina. During this Eurasian John Tully I presented a paper on Roman and Egyp- odyssey, I traveled to Oxford University I have rejoiced in the freedom to work on tian law in the Dionysia papyrus (P. Oxy. to deliver a paper on humor in Plutarch’s my dissertation in a variety of delightful II 237). The highlight of the year, how- Demetrius at the Playful Plutarch confer- libraries and locations: for Trinity Term ever, was the arrival of my second daugh- ence. Not only was the conference a great 2011, I was fortunate to be able to take ter, Caterina Giulia, on July 26, 2011, in way to meet many of the top Plutarch advantage of the PAW Oxford-Princeton Muensterlingen, Switzerland. Altogether, a scholars, but it also produced two forth- exchange to work with John Ma at Corpus, very productive year! coming publications: an article in the In- and, while there, to be able to visit the ternational Plutarch Society’s Ploutarchos Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the Scarlett Kingsley journal based on the conference paper, and British Museum to consult their numis- I am a second-year graduate student. a collaborative article with Mark Beck of matic and epigraphic archives. This summer found me in Berlin—per- University of South Carolina on the use of I then continued to the American fecting my German by attending daily humor in the Demetrius-Antony pair to be School of Classical Studies at Athens, with language classes, researching Seneca and published in the edited volume of confer- a short detour via the Institut für Nu- the Self in the Humboldt, sampling some ence proceedings. This fall I began coor- mismatik und Geldgeschichte in Vienna, lovely lagers, and cycling a great deal. dinating the Classics Department Senior and the Balkans en route. In Athens, I then spent six busy weeks in Taipei, Thesis Workshop with David Kaufman, besides taking advantage of the wonder- Taiwan, teaching very keen undergradu- and delivered a paper at the APA An- ful Blegen library, I was able to return to ates I, II, III, IV, and nual Meeting in Philadelphia on Athenian various museums I visited last summer to Plato’s Apology—and finding time on the statesmen in Plutarch’s Demetrius. I have, resolve queries since arising, and visited weekends to travel the island by scooter. most importantly, made extensive progress the islands of Tenos and Santorini to study Following this, I spent three scholastically on my dissertation on Plutarch’s Hellenistic various inscriptions on which I have been fruitful weeks in Heidelberg’s University Lives, and expect to complete a full draft working. It was hot work in the August Library, while living in the oldest Catholic by the end of the upcoming summer. sun, but worth it: one small result of the ‘Verbindung’ in the city. The summer was Santorini work was the paper I gave at the rounded off by a trip to the Ionian islands Jason Pedicone APA this year, “Encountering the Divine Corfu and Paxos, where I enjoyed a few I am in my sixth and final year of the grad- on Hellenistic Thera”. This discussed the days of reading Thucydides on the beach uate program. My dissertation is on the social and religious dynamics encoded in before making my nostos to Princeton. birth of Latin Lyric poetry and investigates a rock-cut sanctuary just outside ancient Since returning, I have attended the how Roman Poets began to use Greek lyric Thera. Leventis Conference at the University meters as the idea of lyric developed in I would like to thank the many cura- of Edinburgh and my first APA Classics Rome. In 2010, I cofounded the Paideia tors and colleagues for their unfailing help Conference, and look forward to Institute, a non-profit organization devoted Continued on page 10 10. Princeton Classics Classics Alumni Spotlight: Noel Lenski

ide eyed and more than a little 2011). And of late I have spent consider- nervous, I came to Princeton able effort on late ancient slavery, an inter- Win the autumn of 1989 from est sparked by a brilliant seminar taught by Colorado. Ten years of Catholic school had Brent Shaw my first semester. trained me in Latin without preparing me I was fortunate enough to have found for independent thought. A liberal arts employment not far from where I grew background at Colorado College sharpened up, at the University of Colorado, Boulder. my critical skills, but the fine edge was Here I feel very much at home with my still lacking. Immediately upon arrival I wife Alison Orlebeke (Ph.D. Classics ‘99), encountered many friendly faces on many whom I met my first day at Princeton, my very serious people. These were people three children, and my extended family. I who practiced their minds daily, people I also feel like something of an ambassador could admire and emulate, people willing out on the edge of the Rockies, where to share their intellectual technē in the people are as excited about learning as they spirit of any master craftsman training up are about the great outdoors. This summer an apprentice. I will take up the Chair of my Department, I had arrived hoping to work on reli- an honor I’m proud to hold for the second gion, possibly in classical Greece, possibly time in my career. Noel Lenski GS’95 late antiquity. Only sitting in East Pyne on Princeton taught me so much about those cold autumn evenings as the fourth my own thoughts and studies. how to think sharply. Each day I try to hour of Froma Zeitlin’s Euripides seminar Ultimately I chose to focus on the live up to the standards set by my men- passed did I come to realize the true power end of antiquity, both because of the sheer tors there and to pass on their craft—our of mental acuity. I was watching the schol- wealth of the texts and, of course, because craft—to my own students. ar in action, synapses whirring, a model of of Peter Brown. For my dissertation I [Noel Lenski is associate professor of classics what it is to think keenly. I set myself to wrote on the emperor Valens, a simple man at the University of Colorado.] ■ the grindstone, honing my craft. As I la- who tried to manage a very complex world. bored, often until I fell asleep in my books, This grew into Failure of Empire: Valens I gained sympathy for Cicero’s Tiro as well and the Roman State in the Fourth Century Graduate Student News as an inkling of what it took to achieve AD (Berkeley 2002), a study in late impe- Continued from page 9 erudition: a finely tempered admixture of rial foreign and religious policy that shows in my travels and with my work, and, in recklessness and discipline. Over the years, how badly things turn out in the absence particular, John Ma, and the members of as I read Augustine with Peter Brown, of strong leadership. I have since focused the Faculty of Classics at Oxford for their Livy with Jim Luce, Virgil with Elaine attention on a more striking figure, Em- kind welcome! Fantham, Thucydides with Josh Ober, peror Constantine, on whom I’ve edited a Poliziano with Tony Grafton, Roman law Cambridge Companion (2006) and written with Ted Champlin, I began to sense the a forthcoming monograph. My strong in- Mathura Umachandran effects of this extraordinary environment terest in pedagogy spawned co-authorship This year I completed a one year Mas- on me. I began to see some glimmer of the of the second edition of The Romans: From ters degree at the University of London brilliance cast by my teachers reflected in Village to Empire (Oxford University Press, in Reception of the Classical world. This stimulating course led to a thesis entitled “Managing the Subject: Christa Wolf’s Cassandra’”exploring her powerful critique of Communist Germany via an explo- sive engagement with the Agamemnon. I submitted this in September and started the Ph.D Programme in Classics, following the literature track. My first semester was by turns demanding, exciting and totally contrary to my expectations. Amongst other ‘firsts’, I made my first graduate level presentation at the Oxford-Princeton Exchange Colloquium, with a paper en- titled “A Case of Archive Fever: the Great Library of Alexandria”, which looked at the conflicting traditions around the founda- tion of the Library and made the argument that antiquity too rendered the Library as a contested site of fantasy. Having been for- Nicholas Bellinson stands outside the Sibyl’s cave in Cumae, Italy near Naples where he tunate to visit the Bibliotheca Alexandrina studied Latin in summer of 2011. The inscribed passage is from Book VI of Vergil’s Aeneid (the Library’s modern successor) over the and gives a short history of the land through which Aeneas and his companions travel to Winter break, I am looking forward to the reach the prophetess—and in which the reader stands. Nicholas is a junior in the department coming semester. of history and certificate program in classics. ■ Princeton Classics 11.

Classics Department Lectures & Events 2011-12

October 11 March 7 April 30 Lecture Lecture “Towards An Archaeology of “Introducing African Athena and Parsing Faber Lecture Performance: Ritual Movement the Classical Toni Morrison” “Familiaris reprehensio quasi errantis. through Greek Sacred Space” Tessa Roynon Looking for Utopia between Plato and Joan Connelly St. Peter’s College, Oxford Epicurus” New York University Giulia Sissa University of California, Los Angeles

October 18 March 10 Lecture Conference “Aorist and Augment: New Light on Ancient Philosophy Graduate Student the Early History of the Greek Verb” Conference Timothy Barnes Keynote Speaker: REUNIONS 2012 Professor Charles Kahn University of Pennsylvania The department of classics is pleased to host an alumni November 29 breakfast during reunions Lecture March 16 “Bearing Up: Jupiter, Callisto, and weekend. Classics Technology Conference Ovid in Exile” Deciphering Papyri Julia Dyson Hejduk Baylor University New Techniques for Reconstructing the Friday, June 1 at Herculaneum Papyri 10-11 a.m. December 6 Background & History Prentice Library Lecture David Armstrong “Novel ways to be(come) a heroine. The Professor Emeritus, The University of 143 East Pyne curious case of Heliodorus’ Chariclea” Texas Austin and Visiting Research Koen De Temmerman Scholar, Seeger Center for Hellenic Stud- Ghent University ies, Princeton University We look forward to welcoming you back “The Case of Philodemus’ On the Good King according to Homer” to Classics! December 13 Jeffrey Fish Prentice Lecture Associate Professor of Classics “Cornelia: On Becoming and Being Baylor University ‘Mother of the Gracchi’” Matthew Roller Johns Hopkins University March 27 Lecture February 14 “The Problem(s) of Archaic Latin Versification” Lecture Angelo Mercado “Watching the Fighters: Exploring the Grinnell College Roman Fascination with Gladiatorial Combat” Garret G. Fagan Penn State University April 4 Lecture February 16 “The Reach of Athenian Tragedy” Lecture Oliver Taplin “Dionysus and Divine Violence: University of Oxford Theatricality and Spectatorship in The Bacchae” Olga Taxidou Department of Classics Princeton University 141 East Pyne Princeton, NJ 08544

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