Department of University of Colorado Boulder assicsFall 2011 C2011–12 AnnlNichols Undergraduate Scholarships From the Chair he department has enjoyed another strong year Twith several exciting developments that you’ll find in the various articles in this newsletter. Our greatest successes, however, are often not the ones that a chair can easily list in a column or that are newsworthy in the traditional sense. A student writes a top-notch paper or simply appreciates a great work of literature on a deeper level; after sev - eral semesters of hard and consistent work another student suddenly finds that translating seems easy and the meaning clear; instead of coasting with a well-established course a professor puts in many extra hours to revamp it and it works better than ever; another writes a short article that changes the way scholars understand a puzzling yet crucial passage in an ancient author. The students and faculty of Classics have been doing all these Ann Nichols Scholars: Kristin Bruner, Leslie Fowler, Cameron Hutchins, things and more. I hope you read all the items in Lisa Ridge, Jesse Barkalow (left to right) this newsletter—which are indeed important—but remember that some of our best moments are silent ones, noticed only by the people concerned. And hanks to the generosity of Fowler, and Natalie Vitozsky often that’s all that really matters. Tour Classics alumna and were each awarded Ann Nichols Last year I talked about the difficulties the budget long-time donor Ms. Ann Scholarships for their outstand - crisis here forced upon us. These have not disap - Nichols, the Undergraduate ing course performances as Clas - peared, but the department has, nonetheless, fared Studies Committee was sics majors. Many congratula - well recently. One positive development is that the delighted to award seven tions to all of our exceptional administration began putting more weight on the 2011–12 scholarships. With a Classics scholarship awardees! number of student credit hours taught by each focus in classical art & archaeol - department’s tenure-stream faculty. We don’t gener - ogy, Cameron Hutchins was ally like such counting games, but we liked this awarded a Grant. This one! By this criterion, Classics was easily the most past June, Cam joined a team of CU graduate students and continued on page 2 alumni excavating at the Villa of Maxentius in Rome. Jesse Barkalow and Lisa Ridge also received Romulus Grants to attend the Spoken Latin in Rome program this past sum - mer. They report that the Rome program was both challenging Taylor DeLaura, Ann Nichols and highly rewarding. Kristin Scholar and co-president of the Bruner, Taylor DeLaura, Leslie Classics Club Classics page 2

The Villa of Maxentius: Field Notes from Rome

n June 2011, the Department of Clas - Isics returned to the field after two years of study seasons. Professor Diane Conlin and four Classics students joined three Classics alumni and a small team of Italian archaeologists to conduct the fifth season of excavations at the subur - ban archaeological site known as the Villa of Maxentius on the Via Appia Antica in Rome, Italy. The Classics par - ticipants included undergraduate major Cameron Hutchins and MA classical art & archaeology graduate students Andrew Carroll, Lauren Brooks, and Britt Johnson. They worked alongside Classics alumni Sarah Herkes (MA ’11), Jacob Morton (MA ’09, currently a PhD student at the University of Pennsylva - nia), and Matthew Mandich (BA ’06, currently an MA student at the Univer - sity of Leister). They were joined by their Italian colleagues, Dr. Gianni Ponti (co-director), Daira Nocera (PhD stu - dent at the University of Pennsylvania), Alessandro Delfino, and Valerio De Carli, as well as Camie Mess, a student staff member at IES.

Following substantial vegetation clearing The 2011 team outside of a breakfast cafe on the Via Appia Antica. Bottom row, left to conducted by the Comune di Roma, the right: Valerio Di Carli, Ale Delfino, Daira Nocera. Middle row: Britt Johnson, Diane team established and excavated a trench Conlin, Sarah Herkes, Camie Mess, Lauren Brooks, Andrew Carroll. Back row: Cam to the east of the grand late Roman Hutchins, Matt Mandich, Jake Morton.

From the Chair , continued from page 1 productive among the university’s lan - In another positive development, last ships to allow students to focus on their guage and literature departments. We do year the administration began to allocate studies for one or two years, but the RA not have the armies of TAs and instruc - additional funding to three outstanding program lets us do this regularly and tors that some departments use to gener - graduate programs in the humanities also helps us recruit better students with ate student credit hours, but all of our including Classics. This funding allows the attractive promise of a year without tenure-stream faculty regularly teach us to support two entering doctoral stu - teaching duties. Graduate students at Ivy large courses and thus provide an impor - dents each year as research assistants League graduate programs, for example, tant service to the university. In return (RAs) for a year instead of requiring often only need to teach half of the time for this virtuous behavior, long per - them to begin teaching as soon as they that they are in a doctoral program, formed and recently noticed, we have arrive. Doctoral students need to be which is probably close to an ideal mix. been allowed to run the occasional small experienced teachers to do well in the The RA program is a step toward class without the threat of cancellation— brutal academic job market, but they enabling our graduate students to com - knock on wood! also need time to hone their language, pete on an equal footing. research, and writing skills. We some - times are able to win university fellow - Classics page 3

Basilica Hall. The goal was to learn to investigate this curious space. As with more about the portico building con - earlier seasons, students and staff uncov - structed in the second century CE that ered much brick and mortar architec - was partially destroyed by the Maxent - tural debris, fresco fragments, mosaic ian construction workers. A substantial tesserae, and pottery sherds. The results portion of this portico was previously from seasons ’07, ’08, and ’11 are cur - uncovered by the CU team in 2008, rently being prepared for publication. including the vestiges of the portico Professor Conlin will share the results stylobate and three columns in situ. of this season at a lecture for the Boul - Their preliminary hypothesis is that the der Society of the Archaeological Insti - portico was constructed as part of the tute of America on the Boulder campus enormous villa and funerary park proj - in November. ect of Herodes Atticus, an intimate and The 2011 project was one of the most sophist at the court of the Antonines in delightful seasons to date, with fabulous Rome. In 2011, excavations revealed weather, intriguing discoveries concern - that the portico building was substantial, ing architectural process, and a great and that the building continued north - crew of talented and enthusiastic stu - ward along the exterior of the eastern The 2011 Villa of Maxentius circus race win - dents. The team received several visitors ners celebrating on the victory podium. wall of the later basilica. They discov - this year, including the American Acad - Matthew Mandich (BA Classics ’0 6, bronze), ered that the anticipated fourth column, emy in Rome archaeology summer Andrew Carroll (current Classics grad, gold however, had been removed, confirming school participants led by Professor Nic fennel crown), Jacob Morton (MA Classics that some of the architectural elements ’09, silver). Terrenato (University of Michigan) as of this covered walkway were deliber - well as Professor Ann Kuttner (Univer - ately dismantled and reused by the early graduate student Andrew Carroll won sity of Pennsylvania), a distinguished fourth century workers in the course of this season’s fierce competition by sev - historian. The season con - later imperial construction. Another eral strides. Congratulations to all of the cluded with the now legendary Circus of interesting discovery was a small stretch students for a wonderful field season! Maxentius Race, with participants run - of white marble floor that appears to CU will return to the site for further ning the long trek around the ancient belong to a room located just to the excavations in June 2012. track in full excavation gear, including east of the portico. The CU team in- steel-toed boots! Jackrabbit archaeology tends to expand operations next year

Our library lecture series for the public, winner will receive well-earned recogni - such wonderful people—including, of funded by a generous gift from Mary tion and a welcome addition to their course, our hard-working administrative McClanahan, was a great success last graduate student stipend. The winner staff, Lynne and Nancy. A slightly mys - year and we will be continuing to run it will also get to present his or her paper terious clause in our bylaws requires this year. This year Mary is continuing at a department lecture open to the pub - that our chair be elected almost a full to support the library series—which is lic. Feel free to come! We hope also that year before taking office. Thus Noel now also sponsored by the Boulder Pub - other students who revise and submit Lenski has already been elected to be lic Library—but has also sponsored the their best papers will at least benefit by chair again beginning next summer. I am first annual Mary McClanahan Graduate having a polished writing sample at hand, sure the department will continue to Essay Contest with a prize of $1,500. when they apply to PhD programs. prosper under his very capable and experienced guidance. We hope that this contest, judged by a This will be my last year as chair. I will panel of three faculty members, fosters be happy to return to doing more teach - Peter Hunt a greater sense of intellectual seriousness ing, but I will miss chairing such a great Chair among the graduate students. The department and working closely with Classics page 4

Public Lectures at the Boulder Public Library ast year the Classics Department November 16: Portraits of the Lbegan a Wednesday night series of Artist: from to Dali—Carole public lectures at the Boulder Public Newlands Library, thanks to the generous spon - Writing poetry was a dangerous art sorship of Mary McClanahan. A in the Roman world. Those who large and interested audience heard offended the emperor could have Peter Hunt talk on the Trojan War their books banned and burned, and and whether it actually happened, the authors themselves exiled or exe - Noel Lenski on possible causes for cuted. Perhaps the most high profile the “decline” of the , author to fall foul of the emperor Diane Conlin on the first, decidedly was Ovid (43 BCE – ca. 17 CE), who unscientific, excavations at in was exiled for his poetry by the 18th and 19th centuries, and to the furthest frontier of the Roman Tyler Lansford on the fascinating his - empire. His most famous work was a tory of the Capitoline Hill in Rome. mythological poem called the Meta - This year we will have lectures on morphoses; several of its myths con - Greek drama and religion, the cern the persecution or failure of Alexander Sarcophagus, and the artists. This lecture will focus on the classics in art from Pompeii to Dali. various interpretations of these myths All lectures start at 7 p.m. in the by later visual artists who grappled, Canyon Theater. like Ovid, with the questions of artis - tic freedom and the power of the October 26: Alexander the Great, state. the Alexander Sarcophagus, and the Problems of Power—Elspeth February 1: From A(phrodite) to Z(eus): An Introduction to Dusinberre Ancient Greek Religion—Lauri Reitzammer Alexander the Great was never buried in the Alexander Sar - The ancient Greek polytheistic system—characterized as it is cophagus, but it is a monument that serves as a nexus for by jealous gods and goddesses who fight amongst them - understanding the impact of his personality on his world. selves—appears deeply strange to our way of thinking. This Alexander was born in 356 BCE in Macedonia and died in lecture offers a survey of a few fascinating aspects of the 323 BCE in Babylon. He was barely 20 when he succeeded to “twelve Olympians” (certainly one of the more peculiar fami - the throne, and it was but two years later, having already lies to be documented by any culture) and suggests that an secured all of Greece, that he invaded the vast neighboring examination into such a radically different system might cause Persian empire that reached from the Aegean to the Indus, us to look at our own religious concepts with fresh eyes. from Egypt to the Central Asian Republics. In the course of a few years, he overthrew the Persian kings and their enormous March 7: Performing Antigone —John Gibert empire. The Alexander Sarcophagus, named because the Macedonian conqueror appears twice in the sculptures that This lecture will talk about theater and production in conjunc - decorate its sides, was carved around 320 BCE for the ruler of tion with the performance of Antigone by CU’s Theatre and Sidon, in modern Israel. It shows Alexander as a vital, forceful Dance department. As the main spring production of its warrior, as ruler, as semi-divine figure. It creates links between 2011–12 season, CU’s Department of Theatre and Dance will Alexander as king and the prior Persian kings. And it does all stage Sophocles’ Antigone (March 15–18 and 20–23) . In of this by melding Persian and Greek traditions. It is a monu - this lecture Professor Gibert, who will serve as Director ment that itself exemplifies many of the traits Alexander was Tamara Meneghini’s dramaturg for the production, explores seeking to attain in his brief time as King of Kings, King of the ways of making Greek tragedy meaningful for a contemporary Four Corners, King of the Achaemenid Persian empire and of audience. Topics to be covered include masks, the role of the Greece. This one object thus demonstrates conquest, glory, chorus, and the use of theatrical space and music. Excerpts of sycophancy, propaganda, and actual administrative practice. It earlier productions will be screened, and CU student actors allows us to understand both the power of images — and the will be on hand to give a sample of their performance. power of Alexander himself. Classics page 5

Undergraduate News ith approximately 90 majors and a and plans to apply to law school. Wvery active Undergraduate Classics With a focus in classical art and Club, the undergraduate program in archaeology and Latin, Emily Classics at CU continues to be one of Baker plans on pursuing career the strongest programs in the country. opportunities in publishing and Our highlight activity this year was the teaching Latin. Grant Barber opportunity to visit the travelling King focused his studies in history, Tut exhibit, “Tutankhamun: The Golden mythology, and art & archaeol - King and the Great Pharaohs,” at the ogy. Grant plans to attend grad Denver Art Museum. Our undergradu - school after a much-needed short Elspeth Dusinberre, Mary McClanahan, and Diane ate enhancement fund covered the ticket break, while Skylar Cragg, a dou - Conlin at Graduation costs for all interested Classics majors to ble major with anthropology and attend the exhibition. The CU Classics classics and a proud member of major in anthropology and classics, is Club continued to meet regularly this the CU marching band, plans to pursue pursuing a museum internship with past year for chats and snacks under the a career in archaeology, perhaps through plans for attending graduate school in co-consulship of Classics Club presidents CRM work, and will continue to classical archaeology. Kathryn Reidy’s Taylor DeLaura and Adam Tabeling. develop his career as a musician. Angela interests are Greek art and Latin. She This year, the inaugural Classics Club Funk graduated with honors in classics will pursue her master’s in education (magna cum laude). Angie and a teaching license. Adam Tabeling, a focused her studies on history double major in anthropology and clas - and archaeology and she will sics, graduated with honors in classics be teaching English in South (cum laude). Adam is attending the Uni - Korea this fall. Christopher versity of British Columbia in Vancouver Gilson, a double major with this year to begin work on his master’s anthropology and another degree in classical archaeology. Finally, proud member of the CU Chase Thompson graduated with dis - marching band, plans on apply - tinction. Chase will be attending UC- ing to a graduate program that Hastings College of Law in San Fran - specializes in underwater cisco for a law degree specialty in archaeology. Most interested in intellectual property law. In 2011, the Roman history and Latin, Classics Department also graduated Graduates Adam Tabeling (cum laude), Angela Funk Brian Hughes will be attending minors Benjamin Brown, Amanda Epp, (magna cum laude), and Daniel Armour (history and graduate school at Franciscan classics) with honors advisor Jackie Elliott. Natalie Kaiser, Courtney McCall, University of Steubenville to Christopher Sichko, and Bryony Walter. t-shirt was designed for club members. pursue a master’s in theology. Kathryn Kudos to Taylor and Adam for their Kleinkopf, a double major in history and excellent leadership and contagious classics, graduated with honors in his - enthusiasm! tory (magna cum laude). Katie’s interests in classics include Latin and early Chris - In 2010–11, the undergraduate program tianity, and she will be studying German in Classics graduated 19 majors and 6 in Vienna this year in preparation for minors. This year we bid farewell to graduate school. Robert Kopperud, a classics majors Jacquelyn Akmakjian, double major in history and classics, Daniel Armour, Emily Baker, Stacey Ball, also graduated with honors in history Grant Barber, Madina Buhendwa- (magna cum laude). In classics, Bob’s Ntiara, Skylar Cragg, Leslie Elgin, interests are in Roman social history and Another year-end celebration: the annual Hellenists-versus-Latinists volleyball game at Angela Funk, Christopher Gilson, Brian he plans on pursuing graduate work. Hughes, Kathryn Kleinkopf, Robert the spring picnic. The Hellenists won this Chantel Osborne, a double major in year in an epic five-game battle. Kopperud, Chantel Osborne, Alexandra anthropology and classics, plans to pur - Pipp, Kathryn Reidy, Adam Tabeling, sue a graduate degree in archaeology and Chase Thompson. Daniel Armour, a with hopes for a career in museum stud - double major in history and classics, ies. Alexandra Pipp, another double most enjoyed studying Roman history Classics page 6

Graduate News Faculty News Andy Cain ’s book Jerome’s Commentary on Galatians (Catholic University of America Press) appeared in print late last fall, along with six articles on various topics. He has enjoyed the past year on post-tenure sabbatical, sup - ported by a CU Faculty Fellowship. During this time he has completed and submitted to press substantial commen - taries on two of Jerome’s most famous writings, for which he also prepared new Latin critical editions and English trans - lations. He has since been focusing on Greek patristic literature and is writing a book on the History of the Monks in MA class of 2011 (left to right): Caitlin Purcell, Joshua Newton, David Morphew, Emily Egypt , an account of the visit that seven Martin, Jessen Jacobsen, Sara Herkes, Zachary Fischer, Emily Maus, and Courtney Tobin (not Palestinian monks made in 394 to the pictured) famed monks of Egypt.

he past year was an important one in track are now benefiting from a pilot Diane Conlin spent this past June Tmany ways for our graduate pro - program offered through CU’s Graduate co-directing the CU excavations at the gram. Of course, we were delighted to School which supplies funding in the Villa of Maxentius in Rome [see Field award MA degrees to nine students at first year as a research assistant. Students Notes from Rome]. In addition to her commencement ceremonies in May: in this program will work closely with a current works in progress, she recently Zachary Fischer, Sara Herkes, Jessen faculty member with compatible aca - received a contract for a co-authored Jacobsen, Emily Martin, Emily Maus, demic interests, but will be also able to book (with Paul Jacobs), tentatively David Morphew, Joshua Newton, focus on completion of their course titled “The Campus Martius: The His - Caitlin Purcell, and Courtney Tobin. In requirements and preliminary examina - torical Topography of Rome’s Field of addition, the department awarded one tions. Two students currently in the pro - Mars” from Cambridge University Press, PhD to Amanda Sherpe for a thesis enti - gram, Reina Callier and Chris Ostro, are and she is completing the online bibliog - tled “The Power of Prayer: Religious the first recipients of this highly competi - raphy entry on the Ara Pacis Augustae Dialogue in ’s Aeneid,” which was tive award. They will be joined this year for Oxford Online Bibliographies. In supervised by Peter Knox. In the fall, the by Danielle Washington, who comes to 2010–11, Diane taught courses on department will welcome another cohort us from Baylor University. The depart - Roman sculpture and Roman art and of new graduate students, several of ment was one of only three in the Col - architecture. She also finished up her whom are intending to pursue the PhD. lege of Arts and Sciences selected for this third year as the associate chair for Along with returning stu - funding on the basis of undergraduate studies in the Department dents, they will find a the excellence of their of Classics. When not playing in Roman revamped degree program, programs. In spite of the dirt, she most enjoys spending time with designed to make the tran - difficult economic cir - her husband, Michael, and their two sition from an MA pro - cumstances that con - children, Kevin (18) and Julia (15). gram to the PhD more tinue to afflict the uni - Beth Dusinberre returned to teaching in seamless. Students who versity, we are excited at 2010–11 after her sabbatical leave. wish to enter the PhD pro - the prospect of continu - Teaching the 300-person introductory gram will now have a clear ing to build a nationally lecture class Trash & Treasure, Temples track from the point at ranked graduate pro - & Tombs was familiar and fun for her which they begin their MA gram to prepare the in the fall, with five talented graduate studies, which will allow teachers and scholars of students ably handling the demands of for the possibility of com - the next generation. leading discussion sections. The graduate pleting the entire program seminar on Hellenistic art and archaeol - within six years. In addi - ogy that she taught for the first time that tion, students in the PhD Amanda Sherpe, PhD semester seemed at the opposite end of Classics page 7 the spectrum, with a small number of and Latin Classics. He wrote a short which provided him a teaching release in advanced students who could focus on article on the Roman satirist Lucilius fall 2010 to enable him to focus on his discussion and interpretation in class. and reviews of two books on Aeschylus book-in-progress on Greek and Roman Her book on Anatolia when it was part and a third on lyric poetry. In the spring, slavery. He was promoted to full profes - of the Achaemenid Persian empire was he gave guest lectures on Greek tragedy sor in spring 2011. Back to teaching that accepted by Cambridge University Press and myth at Kenyon College and semester, he greatly enjoyed one of his and should appear in 2012, and she has Franklin & Marshall College. The myth - favorite courses, Alexander the Great now turned her attention full-time to the ical subject matter was timely, as he was and the Rise of Macedonia—during seal impressions on the Persepolis Forti - also teaching a large lecture class on which the class conducted the famous/ fication Archive. This consists of about Greek myth for the first time. In the notorious “spear exercises” on the Nor - 20,000 clay tablets dating ca. 500 BCE coming year, he looks forward to taking lin Quadrangle—see picture below. that were excavated from the Persian up the role of graduate advisor again, Peter’s last book, War, Peace, and capital city, Persepolis. They are govern - returning to the Latin classroom to teach Alliance in Demosthenes’ Athens (2010), ment receipts, documenting disburse - ’s Odes and Epodes, and teach - received favorable notice in the (Lon - ments made in foodstuffs and beverages ing Homer’s Iliad as well as a new don) Times Literary Supplement and to those engaged in imperial business at course on Greek prose composition. won the Kayden Book Prize here. Most and around Persepolis. Beth is responsi - of the prize money is to be devoted to In addition to the publication of two of ble for deciphering and publishing bringing speakers to campus for a mini- his chapters, “Athenian Militarism and (online and in hard copy) the impres - symposium on the book, which will be the Recourse to War,” and “Slavery in sions left by ancient sealstones on those open to the public. Greek Literary Culture,” Peter Hunt tablets of the archive written in Aramaic, won a LEAP grant (Leadership Educa - and is excited by the insights into impe - tion for Advancement and Promotion), rial administration, social history, and continued on page 8 the tastes and activities of individuals that the seals can afford. Jackie Elliott worked primarily on two projects this year: completion of her book manuscript on ’ Annales, Hoplites in the Quad now in submission with CUP; and a contribution to a volume on geography, his spring Peter Hunt took his One student, Heidi Short, posted a topography, and landscape in Greek & Tclass on “Alexander the Great and YouTube video spoof with sound Roman epic. She enjoyed teaching the Rise of Macedonia” onto the from “300” and “World of Warcraft” undergraduate language courses focusing quad with PVC spears for memorable at www.youtube.com/watch?v= on Roman Elegy and ’s Jugurtha, and educational “spear” excercises. I3pUETmv5MU. but the highlight of her teaching year was a seminar on universal history with a very able and engaging group of grad - uate students. Her new research projects involve some of the historians on the seminar syllabus, such as Trogus-Justin and Velleius Paterculus. She also plans to continue work on areas of interest devel - oped in the course of her Ennius project, such as editorial procedure and com - mentaries. John Gibert completed a chapter on “Euripides and the Development of Tragedy” for A Companion to Euripides (ed. R. Mitchell-Boyask) and a handful of entries for The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy (ed. H. Roisman), both forth - Hoplites were well protected with armor and deadly at hand-to-hand combat. But, coming from Blackwell, while continu - when hoplites fought armies that relied on archery, they tried to get through effective ing to work on his annotated edition of archery range (about 200 meters) and to close with the enemy as quickly as possible Euripides’ Ion for the Cambridge Greek while maintaining a tight formation. Classics page 8

Faculty News , continued from page 7

Peter Knox enjoyed spending a year as the history of slavery in the Late Antique ting much sleep, she is enjoying Lucas the graduate advisor. He also had the period. He also completed revisions for immensely. During the spring semester, opportunity to teach some of his favorite a new edition of the Cambridge Com - she benefited from a teaching release courses during the past year, including panion to the Age of Constantine and and was able to work on her book man - Latin prose composition with an enthu - revisions to his translation of book seven uscript (an investigation into representa - siastic group of students. Several articles of the Codex Justinianus , which will tions—visual and literary—of the Adonis and book reviews of his appeared in appear with Cambridge University Press. festival). She also wrote an essay on print after a prolonged period of gesta - He finished a draft of a monograph on Euripides’ Bacchae for Blackwell Com - tion. In the meantime Peter completed the emperor Constantine, which he is panion to Euripides (ed. Robin Mitchell- the last of his 101 entries for the The now revising, and continued to work on Boyask) and gave a talk at the University Virgil Encyclopedia, which is now in his large-scale study of Late Antique of California, Davis on Bacchae. She is press, as well as a few other articles and slavery. Noel reports that he has enjoyed looking forward to returning to the reviews. He also completed his portion the freedom to focus on his own classroom in Fall 2011 when she will of The Oxford Anthology of Literature research for two years but has greatly teach Greek Mythology, as well as a in the Roman World, which he is co- missed teaching and students and is very third-semester Greek course on Plato’s editing with Jim McKeown of the Uni - eager to return to the classroom this fall. Apology. versity of Wisconsin. He is currently at Hallie Meredith enjoyed teaching Clas - Eckart Schütrumpf spent six and a half work on an edition of Angelo Poliziano’s sics courses this year on topics ranging months in Madrid as a recipient of the Greek and Latin epigrams for the I Tatti from Paganism to Christianity, Roman Cátedra de Excelencia (chair of excel - Renaissance Library, which he hopes to art and architecture, and Late Antique lence) at the Universidad Carlos III de complete before the end of the year. He art and society. She was invited to par - Madrid. This award allowed him to is also in the early stages of a new edi - ticipate in CU-Boulder’s student-run focus exclusively on research. He com - tion of Ovid’s Metamorphoses for the Consortium conference and journal. The pleted four articles there (of which he . His work on topic was the introduction to a recently proofread two). In addition to three lec - Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto continues in published volume edited by Dr Meredith tures he gave at the Universidad Carlos fits and starts. He will be on sabbatical entitled Objects in Motion: The Circula - III de Madrid, he presented seven papers in 2011–12, spending the year in Atlanta tion of Religion and Sacred Objects in at international conferences, ranging at Emory University with Professor San - the Late Antique and Byzantine World from “Plato on Slavery in the Laws” dra Blakely, whom he married in May. (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2011). She is (Naples, It.), “Justice and Right in Aris - Tyler Lansford continues to enjoy the currently working on a comprehensive totle’s Politics” (Academy of Sciences of challenge of adding new courses to his study of Roman and early Christian the , Prague), “Melan - teaching portfolio. Last year, the focus of open-work vessels. choly of Extraordinary Men” (Cologne) his efforts was Roman Architecture; this to “Phaenias on Murder of Tyrants” In 2011 Carole Newlands published her summer, he taught The (Trier). Eckart experienced Madrid as a commentary on Statius Siluae 2 with for the first time; and in spring 2012 he vibrant city with an architecture that Cambridge University Press. In late will teach another new course—the reflects the imperial past of Spain and spring she gave invited lectures at confer - Topography and Monuments of the sentiment that its capital should ences at the Aristotle University, Thessa - Medieval and Modern Rome—as a show off these aspirations with magnifi - loniki, Greece, and at the University of sequel to the Topography and Monu - cent buildings, palaces, churches, and Udine, Italy. She also taught a four-day ments of in the fall. beautiful parks. The pleasant climate of faculty seminar on imperial literature for Madrid makes its people who are Noel Lenski enjoyed a second year of Sunoikisis, a consortium of liberal arts friendly and very relaxed spend a lot of research leave thanks to the generosity colleges who design curriculum by work - their time outside. On each of the many of the John Simon Guggenheim Founda - ing with faculty in graduate programs. big or small plazas in the city there are tion. During this period, Noel completed Lauri Reitzammer did not teach last aca - tables set up, and during the summer it several articles on various topics: Con - demic year. During the fall semester, she is difficult to find a seat before 11:00 stantine’s establishment of a temple to was on maternity leave in Berkeley, CA, p.m. Madrid is an incredible place to Tyche in his new city of Constantinople; and she is happy to report that she is the live and work, and Eckart was privileged captivity and slavery among nomadic proud mother of a little boy named to be there for half a year, and grateful Arabs in the Late Antique period; a Lucas Antonio Ranucci (born October for the contacts and friendship estab - reading of Jerome’s “Life of Malchus” 3, 2010). Although she hasn’t been get - lished there with wonderful colleagues. as a slave narrative; and an overview of Classics page 9

Alumni News Danielle S. Fatkin ( BA ’98) for church, and various other dens in Pompeii. Kevin Roman History at the Uni - received her doctorate from places. She really enjoys the Ballestrini (MA ’06) is mar - versity of Michigan in Ann Stanford in 2007 and is now process of educating children ried and teaching Latin and Arbor. She has been exploring a visiting assistant professor and observing how they classical mythology at the aspects of emotion and mem - in the History Department at learn, and is amazed by how Norwich Free Academy in ory in Roman historical nar - Knox College. During the differently every child learns, Connecticut; he has devel - rative as the foundation of summer, she also co-directs a even within the same educa - oped a game-based introduc - her dissertation. Joanna dig at Dhiban in Jordan: for tional system. Courtney Roby tory Latin curriculum called Schmitz (MA ’06) is living in details see www.dhiban.org. (MA ’05) defended her disser - “Operation LAPIS” and Longmont, happily married Zachary Biles (PhD ’99) is tation at Stanford in Novem - together with colleagues is and the mother of three chil - enjoying his first sabbatical ber, and in June moved from developing additional educa - dren all in school for the first after a promotion to associate sunny California to not-so- tional software for learning time this fall. She splits her professor at Franklin and sunny Ithaca to begin a posi - about classics (see www professional time between Marshall College. The year tion as an assistant professor .practomime.com ). Jeff Gin - being a research assistant on began with a visit to the Uni - in the Classics department at gras (MA ’06) is at the Uni - a manuscript on the Campus versity of Sydney to partici - Cornell, where she will spe - versity of Arkansas teaching Martius, running a successful pate in a conference on cialize in ancient science and Latin, and he will co-lead a Mary Kay business, and pri - Fourth Century Theater; . Rachel Goth - study abroad tour in Italy for vately teaching French, as together with his colleague at berg Fuller (MA ’05) is thriv - the University of Arkansas in well as working with the F&M, Jed Thorn, he pre - ing, working in the Jefferson summer 2012. He also works Archaeological Institute of sented a paper on the adapta - County Public Library sys - on the CORONA Satellite America and continuing tion of Athenian choregic tem, continuing her interest Imagery Digital Atlas project active research into such iconography in Apulian vase in archaeology, and looking that uses Cold-War-era satel - issues as the cult of Artemis of painting. For the rest of the after her two marvelous dogs. lite imagery to create 3D Ephesus. Jessika Akmenkalns year, he and Douglas Olson, Megan Aikman (MA ’05) images of sites and land - (MA ’07) has completed her with the support of a Loeb lives in Golden, where she scapes in Egypt and the Near MA in Anthropology at UC Foundation fellowship, will has worked as the curator at East (see cast.uark.edu/home Santa Barbara and is begin - continue work on a commen - the Rocky Mountain Quilt /research/geomatics/photogra ning work toward her PhD. tary on Aristophanes’ Wasps, Museum, continued her inter - mmetry/corona-satellite- In summer 2010 she was a play he first started think - est in fiber art and in knit - imagery-based-digital-archae - part of an archaeological ing about seriously while a ting, spinning, crocheting, ological-atlas-of-the-near- project in southwestern Ger - student at CU. Chad and sewing, and where she east.html ). Rob Nichols (MA many looking at Paleolithic/ Hutchens (MA ’01) is the now has two energetic and ’06) is a PhD candidate in the Mesolithic settlements, while electronic resource librarian wonderful children. Sarah Department of Classical Stud - during the winter of 2011 in the collection development Thomas Bloom (MA ’05) has ies at Indiana University in she worked on a Nubian and department of the University left her positions at the Getty Bloomington, writing a dis - Egyptian cemetery in north - of Wyoming at Laramie, and Pacific Asia Museums sertation that investigates ern Sudan that will also form where he spends time work - and will return to school in Athenian social values the focus of her dissertation ing out contracts, licenses, 2011, pursuing a PhD in through Attic orators’ use of fieldwork. Henry Colburn and price negotiation with museum anthropology at the the term “timoria” and the (MA ’07) is in the Inter- publishers and vendors for University of Washington. way it illuminates tensions departmental Program in electronic content. In addition She is interested in studying between private vengeance Classical Art and Archaeol - to exploring the exploding the commodification of art and collective values. Rob ogy at the University of options e-resources can offer, and culture, the role back - will return to the American Michigan in Ann Arbor, he also enjoys hiking and ground plays in perceptions School of Classical Studies at where he has completed his fishing with his two dogs. of art, and the ways museums Athens in 2011–12 as the exams and begun work on Holly Scripter (MA ’04) is relate to their local cultures. Edward Capps Fellow, to a dissertation exploring the immersed in children’s educa - Summer Trentin (MA ’05) is complete research on his dis - complexities of Egypt within tion, volunteering at her twin in the PhD program in art sertation. Jessica Stephens the Achaemenid Persian girls’ school and helping them history at the University of (MA ’06) is completing her empire. This summer he learn at home, as well as vol - Iowa and is working on her last exams in the Interdepart - unteering at a nursing home, dissertation on peristyle gar - mental Program in Greek and continued on back page Classics page 10

Gideon Bohak Visit

he bastardized Latin phrases Expecto Magic amulet with Hebrew inscription in Greek characters Tpatronum and crucio are now com - mon in the everyday speech of teenagers. J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has “technologies” of communication changed the way we think about with the divine. The evidence pool Latin and magic, simultaneously is abundant, in no small part reviving an interest in both but because magical devices—curse also distorting our understanding tablets, magical bowls, of how they were used in the amulets—were sometimes lived contexts of the past. made of durable materials like lead or glass and were often This summer, CU was fortu - buried as part of their usage. nate to have Professor Gideon We thus have a great abun - Bohak of Tel Aviv University dance of material with which to help us set the record to reconstruct a picture from straight. Like Rowling, Bohak the practitioners’ perspective. is also a specialist in magic, This helps us to counterbal - but magic as it was practiced ance outsiders’s views on the in Antiquity and the Middle subject, which were almost Ages rather than as it is re- uniformly negative. Magic, it imagined in the modern world. turns out, was omnipresent He has published widely on the and was particularly inclined field, including many articles and to show up in certain contexts the authoritative Ancient Jewish or situations: to attract or Magic (Cambridge, 2008). His repulse a lover, to defeat an enemy work has been facilitated by a for - in a chariot race, to silence a liti - midable knowledge of ancient and gant in court, to curse a hostile modern languages, including Latin and neighbor or ward off thieves and brig - Greek, but also Hebrew, Aramaic, and ands. Ancient magicians were not mas - Arabic. Bringing these skills and knowl - ters of prestidigitation (à la David Cop - edge to the Boulder campus, Bohak perfield) nor bespectacled schoolchildren taught a course on pagan, Christian and (à la Harry Potter), but skilled profes - Jewish magic in the summer B term to among religious systems of antiquity and sionals who worked with quite precise 12 eager students. how magical practices often constituted formulas consisting of words, potions, The course is designed to show how a sort of cultural koine through which symbols, and objects that they manipu - widespread the practice of magic was the various religions exchanged ideas and lated in order to compel various deities to do their bidding. Their tool kits included age-old magical phrases, among them the authentically ancient Abra - cadabra. With Bohak’s guidance, stu - Sharon James Visit dents are learning the ancient roots of Harry Potter’s craft and learning the n April the department was visited by Professor Sheila Dillon, and Women in sociological and religious contexts that IProfessor Sharon L. James of the Uni - Roman Drama with Professor Dorota led to the rise and flourishing of this versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dutsch of the University of California, almost universal human phenomenon. Professor James is the author of Learned Santa Barbara. Professor James spent They are learning, in other words, that Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and time meeting with students and on the Rowling’s success stems not just from Reading in Roman Love Elegy (Univer - evening of April 12 delivered a lecture her abilities as a writer and storyteller, sity of California Press, 2003), and is entitled “Fallite Fallentes: Rape, Decep - but from her skill at tapping a cultural currently co-editing two books: Black - tion, and Intertextuality in ’s vein that runs very deep in human soci - well’s Companion to Women in the Eunuch and Ovid’s Ars Amatoria.” eties across time and place. Ancient World with her colleague Classics page 11

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Alumni News , continued from page 9 participated in the American Philodemus to the fifteenth age 8, is eager to learn every Greek and Roman archaeol - Numismatic Society’s Sum - century. He is currently detail about Greek mythol - ogy, and by Apple Inc. as a mer Seminar, and he will be working on the letters of the ogy. Jake Morton (MA ’09) is business specialist. This presenting the results of his fifth-century Nilus of Sinai, in the Graduate Group in makes for a busy but happily research there at a conference a prolific correspondent, as Ancient History at the Univer - diverse and challenging life. in Sydney in September. printed in the Patriologia sity of Pennsylvania and con - Emily Wilson (MA ’09) is in Stephanie Smith (MA ’07) Graeca. This is a satisfying tinues his involvement with the Program in the Ancient lives and works in England, project because the letters are Diane Conlin’s work at the Mediterranean World at the having earned a second grad - quick to read and engaging, Villa of Maxentius in Rome. University of Chicago, which uate degree in artefact studies and because dubious readings He is interested in social his - she loves. She spent the sum - at University College Lon - in the Greek can often be tory and the study of food in mer of 2011 traveling in Italy, don’s Institute of Archaeology resolved with the facing-page the ancient world and posts Sicily, and Turkey studying in 2011. She is the finds liai - Latin translation. So the some of the fruits of his Greek colonial sites as part of son officer for East and West knowledge of Greek and leisure-time investigations preliminary dissertation Sussex, where she works for Latin that he developed in into ancient foods and recipes research; she is also working the British Museum and the graduate school is paying off. at http://ancientfoodstoday with Beth Dusinberre on seal Sussex Archaeological Society He’s also enjoying the south - .blogspot.com . Erin Pitt (MA impressions on the Persepolis to identify, date, catalogue, ern California beaches. Brent ’09) is in the Program in Fortification Archive and and report all chance archae - Schmidt (PhD ’08) has been Ancient History and Mediter - preparing to take her compre - ological finds in an effort to teaching ancient history at ranean Archaeology at Berke - hensive exams in 2011–12. identify and protect sites and Weber State University for ley, where she continues her Megan Gorman (MA ’10) is objects of archaeological the past two years (and is interests in Roman urbanism the Latin and Mythology spe - interest ( http://finds.org.uk/ ). currently exploring the and economy. She has cialist at the Ricks Center for Ben Gracy’s (PhD ’08) job at national job market). He will recently been examining the Gifted Children at the Uni - the TLG is to shepherd texts be teaching New Testament southern coast of the Black versity of Denver, where she through the process of digiti - courses full time at Brigham Sea, detailing the primary works with children from zation, so that hard-copy edi - Young University starting in influences on urbanism and preschoolers through eighth- tions become electronic files January 2012 and he has urbanization there from the graders. She will also be of searchable text. The TLG been working as an editorial Classical to the Late Antique teaching the Introduction to corpus already contains a half fellow of BYU Studies. Study - period. Travis Rupp (MA Art History as adjunct faculty million more words than ing classics opens doors in ’09) is employed by the Clas - at the Rocky Mountain Col - when he started earlier this many diverse fields. Brent is sics Department at the Uni - lege of Art and Design in year, in texts ranging from overjoyed that his son, Derek, versity of Colorado to teach 2011–12.