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Elaine Fantham 1933–2016 Page 14 Letter from the Chair in the aftermath of another political watershed celebrated friendship as both the means and the substance of memory surpassing all change and loss. George’s example will teach everyone who knew him how to live a better life. The reason for this letter’s obsession with changing times is not far to seek. The consequences of last year’s presidential election have been deeply felt by faculty and students alike. Since the majority of our faculty (10 of 17) are not US citizens by birth, and the ability to travel freely and bring students and scholars from abroad is vital to our mission, prospective changes to immigration policies especially unite political and professional concerns. Larger questions about the best ways for us all to integrate our roles as students and teachers and as citizens formed the topic ’m never sure what verb to use to mark the retirement of a of an inspiring and unprecedented town hall meeting for faculty, colleague. “Honor” seems impersonal, and we will not be administrative staff, graduate students and undergraduates last I“celebrating” even the slightest displacement from our daily November, spearheaded by Brooke Holmes. One of the starting professional lives of any of the three friends whose “transfer to points for our conversation was grad alum Donna Zuckerberg’s emeritus status” has happened or looms on the horizon. Last year article “How to Be a Good Classicist Under a Bad Emperor”, it was my predecessor as chair and quondam JP advisor, Ted in the online journal Eidolon, which she also edits. Donna’s Champlin, and 2017 is the turn of Brent Shaw. One aspect of the courageous documentation of the way our field’s image has been transition that we can look forward to with unmixed anticipation manipulated online for political ends deserves special praise and is the conference being organized for him (with the support of commendation. so many other departments and programs that have profited by Those who visit us online will soon encounter a very different Brent’s time at Princeton that to name them all would exceed web face (“dynamic”, “vibrant”, “classical”), since the department my word-limit). “Subjects of Empire” (aka “Brentmania”) will has just commissioned a re-design of our website. But the changes take place on May 12-13, and I hope all of Brent’s friends and go deeper than the retinal LCD skin. We hope to make the anyone interested in Roman history will join us to hear the roster new website nothing less than a new medium for sharing our of distinguished scholars who jumped at the chance to pay him work and teaching with a wider community. The human faces tribute. I am sharpening many arrows of praise for the occasion, of the department have been changing as well: we said goodbye but one of Brent’s accomplishments, and the one I suspect gives to our long-time friends Donna Sanclemente and Stephanie him the most pleasure, is too good to keep. As I write this, it looks Lewandowski as they moved on to new career opportunities. But, as though every single doctoral student Brent has advised during since all loss is rebirth, we welcome three new staff members: Kai his 12 years with us has now secured a tenure-track academic job. Laidlaw, technical support specialist, Eileen Robinson, events & Having just taught Lucretius reminds me that departing faculty assistant, and Brittany Masterson, program coordinator atoms are always replaced by new arrivals from the cosmic (a position formerly held by Jill Arbeiter who has assumed the stream. And this year all three of our recently hired faculty graduate program administrator role). And if the Lucretian members have joined us in East Pyne: our new medieval Latinist, cosmos is presided over by the divine spirit of Nature who Daniela Mairhofer, Joshua Billings, whose prize-winning book I maintains harmony in change, the equivalent for us this year has mentioned last year, and Dan-El Padilla Peralta ’06 (‘nuff said). been our department manager, Nancy Blaustein, who has seen To continue a moment in this “runners handing on the lamps us through all these transformations with a truly superhuman of life” vein, when I was an undergraduate here, several of my mixture of dedication and professional judgment. own professors had joined the department in the 1950’s, when its major figures included the likes of Whitney Oates and George Duckworth. At this moment it becomes just possible to imagine Inside this issue who the comparable eminences will be in 2050. The continuities of literary culture and poetic commemoration Faculty News...... 3 were major themes in the work of Giger Professor Emerita Faculty Publications...... 6 Elaine Fantham. Elaine died last July 11 in Toronto, where she had lived since her retirement in 1999 to be with her children Alumni Spotlight...... 7 and grandchildren and from where she continued to pour forth Fall Course Preview...... 8 her own cosmic stream of publications (there is also a memorial tribute published in this newsletter). Her contributions to Senior Theses 2016...... 8 knowledge of the ancient world (no more specific term does her Graduate Student News...... 9 justice) are matched only by the indefatigable loyalty she showed Dissertations 2016...... 10 her students. Whenever I have had the chance to remember Elaine with friends, the conversation almost always includes their Summer Travel Report...... 11 reflection, “I wouldn’t be where I am today if it weren’t for her.” I Student Awards...... 12 feel the same myself. We also lost George Zeitlin, Froma’s husband, on January 19. In Memoriam...... 14 His contribution to the life of the department over the last forty Lectures & Events...... 15 years can be summed up in one word, friendship. Cicero writing

2 comprehensive, systematic study of Greek Faculty News gift giving exists. Having addressed the Yelena Baraz an Oxford research seminar entitled “Who first question in various publications, including my book Benefaction and Last June I revisited (and what) are the sophists?” I am looking Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: my work on Cicero’s forward to discussing all these issues at The Origins of Euergetism (Cambridge philosophy as a cultural a workshop this summer with colleagues University Press, 2016), I plan to turn and social phenomenon, at the Humboldt in Berlin on “Ancient now to the broader topic of gift giving, when I was invited to Knowledge.” on which I have already published some speak at a panel “Cicero preliminary work. In my book, I will Across Genres” at the Emmanuel Bourbouhakis attempt to identify regularities, patterns Celtic Classics conference in Dublin. The This installment of the and principles underlying the wide range talk I gave read Cicero’s De Amicitia as newsletter finds me of human actions related to Greek gift a response to Cicero’s tense epistolary further along the arc of giving. I begin with the assumption that exchange with Gaius Matius over the ongoing projects with some degree of generalization is both proper balance between obligations to a different trajectories, possible and desirable in historical inquiry. friend (Caesar) and the state. I arrived in including a monograph My sources are diverse. Historians offer Dublin from Leiden, where I spoke at the on the union of aesthetics considerable information on gift-exchange. Penn-Leiden colloquium on ancient values and social formation in medieval Greek But I also draw on philosophical texts, dedicated to competition in antiquity. letter writing, and editing of the volume forensic speeches, lyric, elegiac and tragic This paper looked at the development of “Orality in Byzantine Texts and Contexts” poetry, inscriptions, and archaeological contests in bucolic poetry from Theocritus based on a conference held at Princeton material. to Calpurnius Siculus and is part of my in 2015. In addition to articles on the continuing interest in ancient pastoral. ideological function of Time in Byzantine Denis Feeney I also presented my work on Calpurnius historiography and on the evolution of at Princeton, to the interdisciplinary Homeric scholarship in Byzantium, I am I aim to keep exploring audiences at the Society of Fellows and to writing an essay on the conflict between the culture of the Roman the Behrman Fellows. Non-classicists are medieval reception and modern perception middle republic, which always pleased to hear that many classicists of Classical culture in Byzantium, intended I examined in my latest have not heard of him either. As I continue to inaugurate a forthcoming project titled book, Beyond Greek, and working on my book on Roman pride, an ‘Beyond Mimesis: Medieval Responses to which was the subject of invitation to speak at the Chicago Biennial Antiquity’. I have returned to my abiding a graduate seminar that Ancient Philosophy conference, “Evil: passion for paleography with a study of I co-taught with Dan-el Padilla Peralta in the Bad, the Ugly, and the Depraved in dramatic vs. grammatical punctuation in Fall 2016. The Romans’ organization and Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy,” medieval Greek manuscripts as an index conceptualization of space is a subject that gave me a welcome opportunity to present of the changing nature of literacy in has interested me for a long time: without the most recent portion: I gave a talk on Byzantium. In collaboration with Firestone anything like modern maps, how did they pride as a paradigmatic tyrannical vice Library’s David Jenkins, I am preparing plan their road network, and how did they in Roman culture, with a focus on early a critical edition for Teubner of essays plot out the siting of colonies at crucial republican pretender figures. by the 11th c. polymath, Michael Psellos, strategic locations? I also aim to investigate under the title Rhetorica et grammatica; the remarkable rethinking of the nature Joshua Billings as well as new editions, with translation of the Roman citizenship that began around 338 BCE. The formulation of the I am deep into work on and commentary, of a poem on the Psalms “citizenship without the vote” was a crucial Greek intellectual culture, by the same Psellos and a cultural history part of a revolution in political thinking which has been proceeding of ‘Hypocrisia’ by the 12th c. scholar that proved to be the launching pad for along two related lines: Eustathios. the Romans’ phenomenal military success the main project is a in the immediately ensuing generations. book that places dramatic Marc Domingo Gygax Over a hundred years ago the great Italian myth at the center of The main project that I historian Gaetano De Sanctis identified intellectual history. I am interested in the will work on next year is a 338 BCE as “the turning point of Roman relation between drama and what we now book-length study of gift history”, and that year looks as if it will be call “philosophy,” and the presentation of giving in the Greek world. the main focus of my next book. myth in the later fifth century provides My interest in the topic an interesting case of cross-fertilization, derives primarily from my Andrew Feldherr as traditional narratives respond to new work on Greek euergetism conceptual impetuses. I have been working (the phenomenon of voluntary donations While I can’t say that on a chapter on the figure of Prometheus by wealthy citizens and foreigners to city- being chair has speeded and ideas of progress and cultural states, and the reciprocal recognition of along my research, I have development, which I am presenting at the these services as benefactions). Early on been able to make at least University of Pennsylvania, and Yale this in my research on that subject, I arrived enough headway with my year. At the same time, I am continuing at the conclusion that euergetism was book on Sallust not to feel to think in more historiographical terms best examined as an institution based on that the ship is doomed to about the way that we understand early gift-exchange. I also discovered that no end up on the rocks. The chance to present Greek thought, which led to a paper for work from this project at a seminar in

3 of mokhthêria at Poetics 1461b19-21 Faculty News (cont.) (stemming from my Seminar in Spring Cambridge in the fall, and then recently in may be the only election I have ever won). 2015). Other essays being incubated are on Charleston, provided both incentive and I also was invited to become the Associate Homer, Sappho, and Poetics Ch. 25. inspiration. In terms of inspiration, the Editor for Ancient History for the wonderful group of students for my class American Journal of Philology, beginning Brooke Holmes on Lucretius in the fall gave me plenty, and in 2017. But my heart is in teaching, and I devoted considerable I hope to be able to return to some of the this fall I was extraordinarily fortunate to energy this year to an ideas we developed there. A final classical be able to co-teach with Joshua Billings unusual project called high point of 2016 came with a family the graduate Survey of Greek Literature. “Liquid Antiquity.” trip to Naxos, a magnificent island with It has always been my strong conviction The resulting book, an eye-opening museum, Oxymandias-like that ancient historians need to be deeply to be published by the toppled kouroi, and a Byzantine church, as versed both in the corpus of verse texts and DESTE Foundation for it seemed, in every field. I can’t recommend in the current modes of literary criticism, Contemporary Art in March, includes my it enough if you have the opportunity for and this course proved a wonderful essay on the concept of “liquid antiquity,” a classical themed vacation—and be sure opportunity to put that conviction into nearly thirty short “lexemes” written by to spend some time with the feral dogs on practice. On the publication front, my scholars, ten interviews I conducted with Stellida beach. edited volume, The Cambridge Companion prominent artists about their engagement to Xenophon, was published just in time with antiquity, and a visual essay Harriet Flower for copies to be displayed at the Society juxtaposing ancient and contemporary art. of Classical Studies meeting in Toronto. In 2016 I continued to The filmed interviews will be exhibited at In my introduction, which is bookended serve as Head of College in the Benaki Museum in Athens this year. by an eloquent epilogue by Edith Hall, I Mathey College, which is An article on the reception of Lucretius in try to make the case for taking Xenophon a four-year undergraduate Michel Serres finally appeared; another seriously as a major intellectual who has residential college that on the river Scamander as a site of exerted a tremendous influence from houses about 550 students “natureculture” in the Iliad was published antiquity to the present (see, for instance, each year. This position in a special issue of Ramus; and other the introduction to Edmund Spenser’s The means that I split my time between the texts on tragedy, plants, “cosmopoiesis” Faerie Queene). Classics Department and my role in and comparatism, and self-reflexivity saw Mathey College. During the summer I the light of day. My work on sympathy made the final revisions to my manuscript Andrew Ford continues apace—an article on animals’ about the lares (Roman gods of home, I was happily surprised to knowledge of sympathies and antipathies neighborhood and journey), which is now note that “The Purpose in Pliny will appear soon, and in October, in press at Princeton University Press. of the Poetics” in Classical I gave a keynote on the transmission of My book will be called The Dancing Lares Philology 110 finished pain in antiquity. I also gave keynotes and the Serpent in the Garden: Religion at 2016 as that Journal’s at the annual meeting of the Ancient the Roman Street Corner and is due to be most read article. Other Philosophy Society and a conference on published in September 2017. I lectured work on ancient criticism sex and gender in the ancient world at the on related topics in Toronto, Erfurt, and includes “Catharsis, Music, and the Norwegian Institute in Athens. Finally, the Philadelphia. My new research project will Mysteries in Aristotle” in SKENÈ: Journal nine of us working on a jointly authored explore the emergence of autobiographical of Theatre and Drama Studies 2:1 (2016) “Postclassicisms” book are now very close writing in Latin during the first half of the 23-41 and several essays in-process: to submitting our collaborative experiment first century BC (culminating with the 22 “Alcibiades’ eikôn of Socrates and the to the press. book “memoirs” of Sulla, published soon Platonic Text” for Plato and the Power of after his death in 78 BC) as a symptom of Images, edited by R. G. Edmonds III and Robert Kaster the political and cultural shifts that marked P. Destrée (Brill) and “Mythographic It’s been a busy and the decay of traditional republican political Discourse among non-Mythographers: productive year. In May, culture in Rome. I was deeply honored to Pindar, Plato and Callimachus” for Oxford University Press- receive a Graduate Mentoring Award from Mythographers and their Contemporaries USA published the volume the university at Commencement in June in the Late Classical and Hellenistic on which Ruth Caston 2016. Periods, edited by J. Marincola and Allen and I collaborated—what Romano. On the poetry side, my editions a pleasure!—honoring Michael A. Flower and commentaries on Ariphron “On David Konstan’s work on the ancient Health” and Aristotle “Hymn to Virtue” During the 2016 academic emotions by taking up a suite of ‘positive’ have appeared in David Sider’s Hellenistic year I continued as emotions, Hope, Joy, and Affection in Poetry: A Selection from Michigan (pp. Director of Graduate the Ancient World: kudos to all the 152-57, and 164-69); in-process is my Studies (which is proving contributors for their fascinating papers “Afterword” to Paths of Song: The Lyric much easier the second and impeccable cooperation. Then in July Dimension of Greek Tragedy, edited by time around), and I was my OCT edition of Suetonius’ De uita Rosa Andujar and Thomas Coward. elected to the Policy Caesarum and De grammaticis et rhetoribus Immediate plans include a lexical study, Committee (2016-2017) of the Faculty appeared, along with the companion “Metron, Meter and Genre in Plato,” and Committee on the Graduate School (which monograph Studies on the Text of Suetonius a note proposing a new interpretation ‘De uita Caesarum’, both beautifully

4 produced by OUP-UK. By summer’s end I so much in a seminar. In the fall I team- will accompany the planned monograph. had finished doing what needed to be done taught the PAW seminar on acculturation In addition to that, I am co-organizing to complete and prepare for publication in the Ancient Mediterranean alongside a manuscript and papyrus exhibition at of Charles Murgia’s edition of Servius (or maybe better, in the shadow of) Brent the National Library in Vienna and am on Aeneid 9-12: I’m thrilled equally that Shaw, and it was another memorable editing an essay volume accompanying the Charles’s magnificent scholarship will see learning experience, in the company show, to which I am contributing myself. the light of day—first from OUP-USA, of a group of graduate students from In my first academic year at Princeton, I then in the Digital Latin Library—and three different departments. In between, have been teaching classical and medieval that for the first time in over 50 years we’ll I activated my alternate identity as a courses, which I enjoy very much. This have a new volume of what began as the tour guide and organized the seminar spring, I am offering a new course in “Harvard Servius”, became the “APA / trip to Magna Graecia and Campania translation on the reception of Plato in the Harvard Servius”, and is now (I imagine) during the fall break, and in spite of its Middle Ages. the “SCS Servius”. Meanwhile, I’ve begun devastating effect on my research projects, work on a new annotated translation of I feel enormously privileged to have had Dan-el Padilla Peralta Cicero’s Brutus and Orator, also to be a chance to visit sites from Taranto all By the time you read this, published by OUP-USA. the way to Cuma under the guidance the manuscript of Divine of generous and knowledgeable local Institutions:­ Religion Joshua T. Katz archaeologists and in the company of a and State Formation bunch of brilliant students (and of my The year 2016 saw in Republican Rome indispensable colleague Yelena Baraz). the appearance of the should be in the hands With this embarrassment of richness on Festschrift for the Indo- of Princeton University the side of teaching, I should probably Europeanist and Indo- Press; and Rome, Empire of Plunder—a not be too annoyed that the contributions Iranist Stephanie W. volume of essays on Roman appropriation on Hellenistic Athens I submitted in Jamison, which I edited that I co-edited with Matthew Loar (U. 2015 and expected to see out in 2016 are together with three Nebraska) and Carolyn MacDonald (U. still in the pipeline (although I am a bit colleagues, and four articles on topics that New Brunswick-Fredericton)—will be nervous, I admit). Meanwhile, my papers nearing the banks of published light at range from Latin poetry to Old Norse on Herodotus and the Pentekontaetia have Cambridge University Press. Varro and prose. Papers in press include one on the made good progress, and will see their his delectable Res Rusticae are the focus of first two words of theIliad (a revision way to a journal in the spring, after a last a short piece forthcoming with Classical of “Gods and Vowels,” first published in rehearsal at Tel Aviv University, where I Philology; another essay on Varro and 2013 and newly solicited for a forthcoming will have the honor (and great pleasure) Verrius Flaccus sits silently among the volume titled Sound and the Ancient of being the Shaoul Fellow at the Sakler shadows in edited-volume land; an article- Senses) and another on the third (for a Institute for Advanced Study. length exploration of the religious life volume on language and meter); a paper of Roman slaves is swiftly metastasizing on the sixth word is in preparation. (I into a short monograph; and my growing regret that I have nothing original to say Daniela Mairhofer obsession with “copropolitics” has yielded about words four and five.) In a rather I joined the Classics a short contribution to my colleague different vein, Michael Gordin (History of Department in September Brooke Holmes’ Liquid Antiquity and an Science) and I have sent off a contribution 2016 after two years unruly long essay disciplined by talks at on what we call “non-intrinsic philological at the Department of Cornell, Colgate, and Johns Hopkins. My isolates,” a concept we illustrate by means Classical Philology, work on classical reception has turned its of examples from 20th- and 21st-century Medieval and Neo-Latin gaze to the Hispanophone Caribbean, with fiction written in languages that may or Studies in Vienna, where a chapter on the politics of reception in may not be English. I expect in the months I taught the Classics. Since coming to Santo Domingo dispatched to the Oxford ahead to produce work on the concept of Princeton, I have given talks at Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory the soundbite, the teaching of wordplay, and Princeton, and put final touches on and another one slotted for Classicisms the Greek lexicographical tradition, and my manuscript of a co-authored book of the Black Atlantic (also OUP). Thanks much more. entitled Der Oxforder Boethius. Edition to the migratory gods, the two papers I und Studie, which is scheduled to appear was scheduled to present at the January Nino Luraghi in 2017. I also have a two-volume book on 2017 SCS Annual Meeting in Toronto— medieval Mainz Charterhouse manuscripts The most pleasant one on social-scientific approaches to in print (the result of one of my research recollections of 2016 Republican religion, the other on classicists projects at Oxford, where I worked prior are associated to team and contemporary immigration policy to Vienna), which will appear later this teaching with some of (oh, the irony)—had to be delivered in year, too. Currently, I am working on my wonderful Princeton absentia. In the flesh I participated in a nothing. To be more precise, on a whole colleagues. In the spring, conference on “Religion before Religion” lot of nothing: I am preparing a book on Helmut Reimitz and I at Bowdoin, gave a paper on “Black and a hitherto unknown medieval Latin text taught for the first time our undergraduate Brown Classics” at Reed, and delivered with the charming title Totum nihil, which seminar on Ethnicity and History, working the Grimshaw-Gudewicz lecture at I discovered several years ago and have with a memorably gifted and diverse group Brown. This summer I will be traveling been devotedly working on ever since. of undergraduates—no kidding: we had to Scotland to participate in a workshop A separate volume including edition, six different ethnicities in the classroom on probabilistic modeling in pre-modern commentary and translation of the text by a conservative count. I seldom learnt history at St. Andrews.

5 Faculty News (cont.) REUNIONS 2017

Brent Shaw lost the bid for inclusion into the Western The Department of Classics is Although I reassure the canon: sophists, cynics, and philosophers pleased to host the annual alumni Chair that I am continuing of late antiquity. Apart from that, I have breakfast during reunions weekend. to do research, I must been asked to revisit the question I mulled confess that not a lot of it over when I first came to Princeton: the Friday, June 2 actually has appeared in meaning and function of the gods in 10 –11:00am print in the current year. Euripidean tragedy. The last two decades Prentice Library 143 East Pyne Much time and effort was have seen a lot of new work in this area, consumed simply in re-doing productions and it may be time for second thoughts. We look forward to welcoming you from the past. The whole team of authors back to classics! from the History Department, of which I am part, has spent the past year and a half producing a fifth edition of our global history textbook Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, which should appear sometime this year. I have also been working on a second Faculty Publications edition of my sourcebook/reader on the rebel slave Spartacus. Although neither of Denis Feeney these projects constitutes research, both Beyond Greek: The Beginnings of Latin Literature do consume real work time. One new item Harvard University Press (2016) that I managed to publish this year was an article entitled ‘Lambs of God’ on the end of human sacrifice in Roman Africa, Beyond Greek traces the emergence of Latin the termination of the Carthaginian or literature from 240 to 140 BCE, beginning with western Phoenician practice of immolating Roman stage productions of plays that represented living infants for the god Ba’al Hammon. the first translations of Greek literary texts into Potentially a rather distressing subject, I another language. From a modern perspective, nevertheless found tracking the gradual translating foreign-language literature into the abandonment of this lethal ritual to be a vernacular seems perfectly normal. But in an ancient fascinating investigation of a deep cultural Mediterranean world made up of many multilingual transformation, one that happened in the heart of high Roman imperial history. In societies with no equivalent to the text-based addition to research on the problem of literature of the Greeks, literary translation was ethnicity in a piece being prepared for a unusual if not unprecedented. Feeney shows how book celebrating the work of Ben Isaac, I it allowed Romans to systematically take over Greek forms of tragedy, am working on a problem connected with comedy, and epic, making them their own and giving birth to what has Christian bishops, preaching, and the use become known as Latin literature. of metaphor for a similar venture dedicated to my old friend Raymond van Dam. I am also preparing a Hyde lecture for Penn and Marc Domingo Gygax a Rostovtzeff talk for Yale. I have some Benefaction and Rewards in the Ancient Greek City: general ideas of what I might do, but at The Origins of Euergetism this point next year, hopefully, I shall have Cambridge University Press (2016) something to report to you on both of these fronts. This volume presents for the first time an in-depth analysis of the origins of Greek euergetism. Derived Christian Wildberg from the Greek for ‘benefactor’, ‘euergetism’ refers In terms of research to the process whereby citizens and foreigners projects in the immediate future, I plan to finish my offered voluntary services and donations to the polis edition and translation of that were in turn recognised as benefactions in a the Corpus Hermeticum formal act of reciprocation. Euergetism is key to our and, together with a understanding of how city-states negotiated both the collaborator from Norway, internal tensions between mass and elite, and their prepare a companion volume of the conflicts with external powers. This study adopts the Hermetic fragments extant in Stobaeus. standpoint of historical anthropology and seeks to This project turns out to be part and parcel identify patterns of behaviour and social practices deeply rooted in Greek of a developing broader research interest of society and in the long course of Greek history. mine, the appreciation and rehabilitation, as it were, of those authors and text that

6 Alumni Spotlight By Emma Shoucair ’07

he decision to major in Classics at Princeton was previously unseen set of facts, which should sound familiar an easy one for me: I had loved Latin in high because that is basically a sight exam. I felt comfortable Tschool, so my freshman year I went to the Classics immediately, unlike many of my fellow students. Skills senior thesis symposium, where, in addition to traditional in close reading have been extremely handy, as has literary and historical projects, students also discussed my proficiency with linguistics: much of law is textual their innovative interdisciplinary theses. The enthusiastic interpretation, and there is room for arguments based faculty response to one of these projects in particular, on the synchronic vs. diachronic meaning of words and which involved the development of an epidemiological constructions, in ways I did not anticipate when I decided model of diseases in order to determine what, exactly, the to study law. My education in Classics and linguistics plague of Athens described by Thucydides was, told me all at Princeton has served me very well, and none of my I needed to know about the character of the department. education, which has sometimes bordered on the arcane, Over the next three years, I explored history, language, and has been wasted time. linguistics, culminating in my thesis on the development of I would like to be a voice in favor of studying what you the Proto-Indo-European pluperfect into Greek. I still hold love, especially when you have access to a faculty as fine that thesis among my proudest accomplishments. as Princeton Classics’, and I encourage current students to think about their careers in flexible terms. It’s cliché to say that you never know where life will take you, but it’s oft-repeated because it’s true. In the wake of the November “Greek and Roman history was a 2016 election, I am seeing huge numbers of people on both perfect primer for the endless petty sides of the aisle become interested in political engagement, people who were not previously interested. If that describes conflicts endemic to local politics…” you, I would like to tell you that your education in Classics at Princeton has prepared you better than you know to jump into the fray and get involved, and whatever your My studies in Classics and linguistics have, unexpectedly, political leanings, you should do it. And come check been nothing but helpful in the twists and turns my out law: I promise eventually you get used to lawyers career path has taken since my time at Princeton. I mispronouncing all the Latin. initially thought I would go into academia and began a PhD program in linguistics at Harvard. After completing the coursework there, however, my growing interest in politics made me realize that I wanted a career with more political engagement than teaching would allow. I began volunteering on campaigns, starting with Hillary Clinton’s 2008 primary run, followed by Barack Obama’s campaign in the general. From there, I jumped into professional political involvement as the Executive Director of the Allegheny County Democratic Party (the largest committee in Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia.) Greek and Roman history was a perfect primer for the endless petty conflicts endemic to local politics, so I was well prepared. I have since worked on judicial and congressional races, seeing a large cross-section of electoral life in America. I have recently moved from direct electoral political involvement to law school at the University of Michigan. (I could not entirely disentangle myself from politics, though, and served as the Michigan statewide law school coordinator for Hillary Clinton, in which capacity I recruited and organized lawyers and law students for the campaign’s voter protection efforts.) I realized belatedly that my deepest regret from my time at Princeton was not We want to hear from you. taking Roman Law with Professor Champlin when I had Send your news to: the opportunity. It turns out that majoring in Classics was [email protected] the perfect preparation for law school: law school exams involve taking a legal framework and applying it to a

7 Fall Course Preview Senior Theses 2016

John A. Balletta Fandom on Display: An Anthropological Analysis of Epigraphical Evidence in Ancient Athletics

Jill Elizabeth Barton Lessons in Disobedience: CLA219/HIS219 The Roman Empire, 31 B.C. to A.D. 337 Negotiations of Authority in Harriet Flower Roman Declamation

To study the Roman Empire at its height; to trace the transformation of government from a republican oligarchy to monarchy; to study the changes wrought by multiculturalism Stuart Chessman on the old unitary society; to trace the rise of Christianity from persecution to dominance; The Case for Diodorus: A and to assess Rome’s contributions in historical context. Historical Commentary on Book XVIII

Elizabeth J. Dolan The Papyri in the Desert: An Examination of Women’s Access to The Legal System in the Roman Near East

Samantha Rose Flitter CLA244/CHV244/POL337 Greek Politics in Practice and Theory Entomology and Etymology: Nino Luraghi Insects in Classical Latin Poetry

This course will approach select classics of Greek political thought (Plato’s Statesman and Hannah Hirsh Republic, Aristotle’s Politics) through a scrutiny of Greek social and political institutions. Oppositional Poets: Latin Love Students will be introduced to basic principles such as the distinction between free and unfree, the social and political status of male and female, and the distribution of political Elegy as a Response to Lucretius power and access to political participation in the Greek polis, in order to be in a position to observe how the ideas of Greek political thinkers map onto this reality. Daniel S. Kim Studies of Oral Poetics and “Imitation” in the Theognidea

Savannah K.S. Marquardt The ‘Thracian Artemis’ and Other Fictions: Ethnicity, Religion, and Syncretism in the Cult of Bendis

Andrew D. Steele Nature’s Moral Worth: The MED227/HUM227 The World of the Middle Ages Natural Foundations of Stoic and Daniela Mairhofer Epicurean Ethics

An introduction to medieval culture in Western Europe from the end of the classical world, to ca. 1400. The course focuses on themes such as the medieval concepts of self, Ariana N. Tsapralis humanity, and God; nation building, conquest and crusade; relations among Christians, A Southern Cornelia? A Critique Jews, and Moslems; literacy, heresy, and the rise of vernacular literature; gender, chivalry, of the Comparison of Cornelia and the medieval court. Mother of the Gracchi and the Antebellum Plantation Matron images courtesy of SASKIA Ltd. Cultural Documentation

8 combination of linguistic and cultural Graduate Student News interactions. Alongside this, I am refining Katie Dennis entitled “Episteme and Techne in the my research on the Hellenistic epigraphical poem called ‘The Pride of Halikarnassos’, I arrived in Princeton Republic” as well as in January at the SCS which I carried out in the last three years this fall, after having with a paper entitled “Philosophia and at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa completing a BA in Philotechnia: Hephaistos in the Platonic and at the University of Pisa: my first Classics and English Dialogues.” article on the inscription appeared in at Williams College November 2016 in the Annali della Scuola and an MSt in Greek Brahm Kleinman Normale di Pisa, and I submitted the final and Latin Literature at It’s been a busy and version of my second piece, which will University College, Oxford. This semester, exciting year. I continue to appear in Studi Classici e Orientali in 2017. I participated in the PAW seminar on work on my dissertation, acculturation, and was able to travel to tentatively titled Scandals Bryson Sewell both Italy and Oxford with the class; it and Sanctions: Holding was exciting to be able to experience the Roman Republican After completing my first geography and archaeology of the area, and Officials Accountable year in the program I the colloquium with Oxford was productive (202–50 B.C.). Meanwhile, my first began preparations for my for all. After completing my paper for that publication, on jury reform in the late General Exam in Latin course, a study of political undercurrents Republic, was released in the volume Literature, which I passed in the history of scholarship on Sappho, Money and Power in the Roman Republic. this January. My interest I look forward to the Roman History In the summer, I had the opportunity in post-classical Greek Proseminar and Greek Prose Composition to travel to Greece for the first time, continues to grow, and I’m thankful to have in the spring, as well as returning to my participated in a rewarding class on Latin the opportunity to take a two-semester MSt dissertation (a consideration of purity Epigraphy at the American Academy in survey course on medieval Greek. A course and pollution in Horace and Catullus) with Rome, and most importantly, swam at the taken under Professor Joshua Katz on new eyes. beach where Aeneas is said to have landed the History and Grammar of Greek has in Italy. After having the chance to co- reaffirmed my passion for the study of Kay Gabriel teach Latin through the Prison Teaching Greek syntax, especially in post-classical prose. I’m looking forward to my spring Last September I Initiative in Fall 2015, I continue to enjoy courses: Greek Prose Composition, Textual collaborated with Talitha tutoring for the program. In the last Criticism, Medieval Greek Survey, and Kearey, a visiting student semester at Princeton, I had a lot of fun as Modern Greek for Classicists. As always I from the Cambridge an instructor for the intermediate Catullus am very grateful to all department faculty, classics faculty, on and Caesar, mustering as much enthusiasm staff, and my fellow students for making organizing the “Modernist from my students as I could about Catullan Princeton a wonderful place to learn. Fragmentation and After” invective, Helvetian politics, and Caesar’s graduate conference here at Princeton, many grain supply problems. In the next which engaged the modernist aesthetic year, I look forward to continuing to Mathura Umachandran of the fragment as a form of classical teach in history and language courses, The year started at the reception as well as the determining effect submitting a couple articles for publication, SCS meeting in San of this aesthetic over both literature and and working towards the completion of my Francisco, collaborating the contemporary practice of classics as a dissertation. with Jessica Wright and discipline. I’m now blissfully post-generals. Nancy Rabinowitz to Up next, the dissertation prospectus: my Marco Santini organize a performance th project is to tackle the 20 -century critical I joined Princeton’s by Rhodessa Jones and and performance traditions of Euripides, Graduate Program in the Medea Project for HIV affected and in particular the structure of Euripidean Classics in Fall 2016 as a incarcerated women. The performance reception according to which Euripides is, member of the Program opened up space to work out how antiquity in some sense, already modern. in the Ancient World. can be part of social justice movements. In Pursuing my interest spring, I taught Latin language, both at Emily Hulme in early Greek-Near the university and in a prison classroom. A highlight was a student’s translation I have begun writing my Eastern interactions, for this year’s PAW into Latin: does ‘Virida ova et pernam’ dissertation on Plato’s Seminar I wrote and presented at the sound familiar? In November, I taught my knowledge vocabulary Princeton-Oxford Colloquium a paper on own introductory course to the Frankfurt and the techne theme in a supposed Phoenician unguent factory in School in Philadelphia for the Brooklyn the Platonic dialogues. I Knossos, reassessing the material evidence Institute of Social Research. Progress on was fortunate to receive and investigating the fascinating world the dissertation came along too, though the department support of production and trade of perfumes in path of true research never did run smooth. for my research this summer in Greece, antiquity. My interest in the languages I presented research on Eric Auerbach at which particularly focused on the cult of of the ancient Mediterranean led me to a summer workshop at Central European Hephaistos in Athens. I presented my work write a seminar paper on Greek-Lycian University, Budapest and on Theodor this November at a meeting of the Iberian bilingualism, with a focus on funerary Adorno at the Pacific Association Society of Greek Philosophy in a paper bilingual inscriptions from Lycia: a good of Ancient and Modern Languages

9 Graduate Student Dissertations 2016 News (cont.) Emilio Capettini conference in Pasadena, for which I won An Improbable Symphony: a graduate award. I responded to a paper Genealogy, Paternity, and Identity in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica on Deleuze in Cambridge under the Heliodorus’ Aethiopica, the latest and most sophisticated of the extant Greek aegis of the Postclassicisms network and novels, has attracted the attention of scholars in recent years because of the chaired a panel at the fantastic ‘Modernist hybridity of its female protagonist, Charicleia, a fair-skinned Ethiopian who, Fragmentation and After’ graduate unaware of her true lineage, grows up in Delphi as the quintessential Greek conference, organized on home turf by Kay pepaideumen . Unsurprisingly, her story has been read as an example of the Gabriel. ē negotiation, transformation, or contestation of Greek ethnic and cultural identity in the third and fourth centuries CE. Little attention has been paid, however, to Clem Wood Heliodorus’ presentation of the dynamics whereby personal identity is formed. This 2016 was a busy and is exactly what I explore in my dissertation by pairing a careful examination of the varied year for me. Last Aethiopica’s literary texture and narrative sophistication with recent research on the spring, my article on ontological, social, and experiential dimensions of the self in antiquity. As I argue, Herodotus, “‘I am going the complex interaction of genealogical inheritance, parental influence, and lived to say...’: A sign on the experience in the delineation of the characters of both Charicleia and Theagenes, road of Herodotus’ logos,” her beloved, makes the Aethiopica a fascinating document not just of the cultural which began life in politics of the Imperial period but also of the development of the ancient reflection 2013 as a presentation in Joshua Katz’s on selfhood. course on Greek linguistics, appeared in CQ. I had the pleasure of going to K. Scarlett Kingsley Rome and Campania with Yelena Baraz and the 11 students in our seminar on The New Science: Herodotus’ Historical Inquiry and Presocratic Philosophy landscape and topography in the Aeneid My dissertation explores the relationship between the first extant historiographical and Augustan culture, along with Nancy work, Herodotus’ Histories, and contemporary Presocratic intellectual culture. Blaustein and Bob Kaster. Professor In it, I destabilize the assumption that Herodotean historiē is impervious to the Kaster kindly asked me to proofread his philosophical intellectual milieu. Juxtaposing the Histories with the fragmentary new Oxford Classical Text of Suetonius’ remains of sixth- and fifth-century philosophers reveals that the traditional divisions De uita Caesarum and De grammaticis of generic boundaries must be reassessed in the context of Herodotus’ inquiry. et rhetoribus, a job I happily took on and While previous scholarship stressed the differences between philosophy and very much enjoyed. At LatinFest, which historiography, noting the opposition in particular between the prior’s abstraction Princeton hosted, I presented on Vitruvius’ and the latter’s empiricism, in a series of case studies on epistemology, nature, and generic self-definition in the prefaces of De relativism, I reinscribe philosophy into the narrative of the rise of historiography. architectura. This year, I have participated Further, I demonstrate the extent to which this intellectual milieu shapes specific in new reading groups on “antiquity in narrative features of the Histories. This reading of philosophy and historiography antiquity” and post-Vergilian Latin epic as side-by-side challenges their generic separation in the fifth century, and instead well as the Classical Literature Workshop, mandates an interdisciplinary methodology that contributes to contextualizing the which is thriving with Erik Fredericksen history of philosophy as much as it does the history of historiography. as the new graduate student organizer. Dissertations 2016 Otherwise, I have been working on my Mali Skotheim dissertation, “Exemplarity in Tacitus: Literary, Cultural, and Political Contexts,” The Greek Dramatic Festivals under the Roman Empire and taking care of our puppy, Siena (who Participation in agonistic festivals was central to civic life in the Roman Empire. In could learn a thing or two from canine role the Greek East, as well as in Southern Italy and even Rome, Greek festivals drew models). large crowds, eager to see international celebrities perform. Benefactors poured money into these festivals, rivaling expenditures on public building projects. At over 30 festivals in the imperial period, competitions included drama, the topic of my dissertation, The Greek Dramatic Festivals under the Roman Empire. Working from epigraphic and literary sources, I established that new tragedies, comedies, and satyr-plays were composed for and performed at Greek festivals through the second century CE, and re-performances of classical drama lasted into the third century CE. The endurance of the festivals, major cultural institutions, must be understood in relation to the motivations of each group who participated in them. Traveling actors and performers, whose livelihoods depended on festival victories, theater audiences, who used the space of the theater to negotiate hierarchies, shopkeepers and inn owners, who benefitted from the crowds, and elite benefactors, whose investments were returned in the form of social and economic rewards for themselves and their families, all stood to gain from the festivals, and all contributed Spring 2016 trip to Rome and Campania to their success.

10 Undergraduate Summer Travel: Global Seminar in Greece by James Boyd, class of 2019

his summer, I went to Greece for a Global Seminar twice, thrice before the silver was settled, gathered, and hot with Professor Wildberg. It is a rich place, so that hammers struck it into coins on an anvil. Tbeing there I only started to map out its modern Sounion was right around the bend. Mountains on the cityscape, much less the culture, language, or for that left and the sea to the right and sloping islands like lazy matter any of its countless mythologies histories dating sea monsters frame the road that takes you there. You find back to antiquity and beyond. After six weeks in Greece, I yourself looking over the steep cliff that held King Agaeas can’t be sure even that the Acropolis bears the memory any hurling down, and let us hope he was the last to die that more than a relatively modern desire to recall an ideal past. way, so stiff are the winds that batter about the Temple So I can only speak surely about the impressions of images of Poseidon and unpredictable the shawls that push skiffs the Greek countryside, seaside, peninsulas, and islands in foamy, churning whitecaps back away from the shore. made on my mind. They are the images I carry in my mind Anyone venturing around the coast to the nearby small as doors to the Classics. island in skirts, would do well to mind the winds. Urchins make their home in the waters that lap against the clay and rocky cliffs, where rare birds I have never seen move about mildly in the rocks. From above, you will see what once had formed the proud pillars of the temple, columns strewn about the rocks. They fell too, and now the temple stands a little awkwardly, not with its old straight symmetry, and it is a wonder how the old dignity of the monument remains. When I remember Greece, it is often through texts. The images enlarge the story; place it in a memory of place, no matter how fare distended from time. So perhaps places hold some memory of the past. At any rate, they are good for thinking.

Students in Greece, Global Seminar, summer 2016 Lavrio, the silver mines responsible for Athens’ naval superiority, was a hot place inaccessible by dusty road and off the beaten path. The impossibly deep and bright James Boyd with Greek teacher, Greece 2016 blue sea framed the road sloping down. Green grime had pooled in the panning place where slaves removed dirt with spades. A dead seagull was bobbing in one of the pools that engineers had ingeniously designed to hold water to To make a contribution to the Department quench the worker’s thirst minimally, probably not wanting of Classics, please contact the Office of to give more than was necessary. Even the water was made Development at 609-258-8972. to work double time, streaming through the sluices once,

11 Student Awards

Pyne Prize in her many extracurricular activities on campus, an by Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications exceptional kind of support for the benefit of her alma mater. In fact, her support, engagement, and creativity olveig Gold, a senior in the border on devotion to this institution. department of classics, was “I never witnessed such a potent combination of grace, Snamed co-winner of the intelligence, intellectual independence, well-thought-out University’s 2017 Moses Taylor views, and the ability to articulate them beautifully—all of Pyne Honor Prize, the highest this presented consistently with a disarming and refreshing general distinction conferred on combination of wit, humor, and impressive self-confidence,” an undergraduate. She shared Wildberg said. “In my 20 years teaching at Princeton, I the honor with Marisa Salazar, have not seen a more well-rounded and promising senior.” a senior in the department of At Princeton, Gold is a member of the Edwards chemistry. Collective—a group of approximately 35 students who The Pyne Honor Prize, celebrate the humanities and creative arts and live together established in 1921, is awarded to the senior who has in a residential community at Mathey College. She also most clearly manifested excellent scholarship, strength serves as a guide with Orange Key Tours, giving campus of character and effective leadership. Previous recipients tours to prospective students and visitors; a staff writer include the late Princeton President Emeritus Robert F. for the Princeton Tory; and co-founder of the Princeton Goheen, former U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes and U.S. Supreme Open Campus Coalition. In spring 2016, she directed and Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. played the title role in a production of Euripedes’ “Medea,” Gold, of New York City, is a concentrator in classics and performed in Greek in Princeton’s Chancellor Green is also pursuing certificates in Hellenic studies, values and Rotunda. public life, and humanistic studies. In summer 2015, she “I am so grateful to be honored by the institution that was awarded a Stanley J. Seeger Summer Fellowship for has challenged, inspired, and emboldened me at every study in Greece. In summer 2016, she studied in Rome turn,” she said. “This award is particularly meaningful to through a program of the Paideia Institute for Humanistic me because it bears the name of Moses Taylor Pyne, who, Study. by founding the Princeton Alumni Association, ensured Her senior thesis looks at theatrical language and that the Princeton community lasts a lifetime. As I say at imagery in the writings of St. Augustine and his the conclusion of every Orange Key tour, I am so proud to Neoplatonic predecessor Plotinus. After graduation, be a Princetonian not just for these four years, but for the she plans to continue her study of classics and ancient rest of my life, and today, I am prouder than ever.” philosophy and hopes to become a classics professor and a public intellectual. Keasbey Scholarship Gold—who has been a member of the a cappella group by Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications the Princeton Tigerlilies, the Princeton Triangle Club, the Princeton University Glee Club and the Princeton enior Ayelet Wenger has University Chamber Choir during her four years at been awarded the Keasbey Princeton—said her thesis grew out of her performative and SScholarship, which academic work, and was inspired by a paper she wrote for provides the opportunity to study the yearlong, team-taught Humanities Sequence she took as at selected British universities. a freshman. Wenger, of Columbus, Ohio, “According to Plotinus, we are all actors on a world- is a classics major who is also stage, performing a play that is scripted by divine pursuing certificates in Judaic providence,” said Gold, who attributes her interest in studies and Hellenic studies. philosophy and theater to her grandfather, a theologian, She will pursue an M.Phil. in and her father, a playwright. “Exploring the world- Judaism and Christianity in the stage metaphor allows us to address questions of moral Graeco-Roman World at the University of Oxford. responsibility, aesthetics and free will—questions we still At Princeton, she received the Program in Creative wrestle with today.” Writing’s award for outstanding work by a sophomore. “It is a manifest fact that Solveig has accomplished the Since fall 2015, she has been a member of the Behrman highest academic standing in her chosen field, classics, Undergraduate Society of Fellows, a group of juniors and which is a fiendishly difficult humanities major,” said seniors who are committed to the study of humanistic Christian Wildberg, professor of classics and director of the inquiry. She received a Rothberg International School Program in Hellenic Studies. “She has also demonstrated, Merit Scholarship in fall 2015.

12 In addition to spending a semester abroad in Israel in fall Hyde Fellowships in the Humanities are awarded to 2015, she has also spent time in Germany, Greece and Italy outstanding doctoral students in the departments of Art and in conjunction with her studies. A member of Whitman Archaeology, Classics, East Asian Studies, English, French College, one of Princeton’s six residential colleges, she spent and Italian, German, Near Eastern Studies, and Spanish her junior year living in another residential college, Mathey and Portuguese. These travel grants allow for summer or College, with the Edwards Collective, a group of around 35 full-year travel. Applicants must be enrolled full-time in students who have applied to live together in a residential doctoral studies in one of the eight departments listed above community that celebrates the humanities and creative arts. and have passed their General Examination by the start of Wenger’s senior thesis, for which she received Princeton the award period. Students conducting dissertation research grants to pursue archival research in Jerusalem, “offers abroad must be registered as in absentia for the duration of evidence for conversation between medieval rabbinic and the award period. Preference is given to projects requiring Christian scholars by pointing out Latin and Byzantine residence in England. Greek influences in an 11th-century rabbinic dictionary,” Wenger said. Joshua Katz, the Cotsen Professor in the Humanities and professor of classics, commended Wenger’s scholarship in the classroom and in independent work. He is her senior Liquid Antiquity: thesis co-adviser, with Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History, and taught Wenger in two Book Launch and classics courses: “Topics in Greek Literature: Hesiod” in Installation Opening spring 2016 and “Historical and Comparative Grammar of Greek” in fall 2016. Conceived by Brooke Holmes, Robert F. Goheen “Ayelet Wenger’s engagement with the material and Professor in the Humanities and Professor of easy capacity for seeing and neatly articulating things Classics, in collaboration with Polina Kosmadaki, that as far as I know no one had seen or quite articulated curator at the Benaki Museum, and Yorgos before—and to do so in almost every class meeting and in Tzirtzilakis, artistic advisor to the DESTE each of the three essay assignments—was nothing short of Foundation, Liquid Antiquity explores the possibility astonishing,” said Katz. of reinventing classicism and argues for its enduring “Ms. Wenger has a scintillating sense of humor, an influence on contemporary art. The project includes eye for the absurd, and genuine kindness, affection and a publication, co-edited by Brooke Holmes and empathy for the people around her. She is already in a real Karen Marta, which consists of critical contributions sense my colleague rather than my student,” Katz said. Wenger also studies ancient Greek, Latin, Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic and German, is fluent in modern Hebrew, and is self-taught to read Syriac, a dialect of Aramaic. Ultimately, she plans to study and teach ancient texts. Outside the classroom, Wenger founded the Undergraduate Judaic Studies Conference, co-organized Muslim-Jewish writing events and served on the Princeton Orthodox Jewish Student Board. She is also an assistant poetry editor for The Nassau Literary Review. Since 1953, selected colleges and universities on the East Coast have been invited, on a rotating basis, to nominate graduating seniors for the Keasbey Scholarship. The four British institutions that reserve places for Keasbey Scholars are: the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh and the University College of by renowned scholars and ten conversations with Wales-Aberystwyth. prominent artists, as well as a site-specific video installation which places six interviews with the Hyde Fellowship artists who contributed to the publication in dialogue with the Benaki Museum’s permanent licia Ejsmond-Frey was awarded the Donald and collection. the video installation is designed by Diller Mary Hyde Academic-Year Fellowship for Research Scofidio + Renfro and will be on view at the Benaki Abroad in the Humanities for 2017–18. Alicia Museum, Main Building, beginning April 4 through A September 17, 2017. plans to use the fellowship to begin her dissertation on fifth century Greek history and epigraphy at Oxford.

13 chapters she wrote for Women in In Memoriam the Classical World: Image and Text (Oxford 1994). Elaine Fantham, Forthright and wonderfully former faculty member entertaining, Elaine became a popular Elaine Fantham, Giger Professor commentator about all things classical of Latin Emerita, died on July 11 in for National Public Radio’s Weekend Toronto at the age of 83. She came Edition, and memorably used that to Princeton from the University of context in 2003 to challenge the Toronto in 1986 and returned to that wisdom (or highlight the folly) of city, where her family lived, to make American military engagement in Iraq. her home after her retirement in Elaine never stopped learning or 2000. Before Toronto, she had held teaching, producing no fewer than positions at Indiana University and seven monographs and commentaries at St. Andrews, receiving her B. Litt just since her retirement. She and MA from Oxford in 1957 and her continued to offer graduate courses at Ph.D from Liverpool in 1965. Toronto until 2008. During her time Elaine seemed to have had at her at Princeton, her presence brought instant command everything that us many students who have gone on could be known about any aspect of to become leaders in the field. She Elaine in 1989; photo by Robert Matthews Latin literature or Roman life, and an possessed a fierce devotion to these inexhaustible energy for translating that knowledge into students and took great pride in their many successes. Her scholarship that was as engaging and original as it was love of scholarship was matched by the enjoyment she took authoritative. From her early work on Plautus, she re- in the many friends, on literally every inhabited continent, drew the map of Latin studies. The renewed interest in with whom she shared it. My colleagues at Princeton Senecan tragedy, Lucan, and Ovid’s Fasti in particular extend our deepest condolences to these friends and to her owes much to the guidance and inspiration provided by children and grandchildren. her commentaries. She was a pioneer both as a scholar of Among her many services to the university, Elaine Roman women and as a woman scholar at times and places served as Chair of Classics from 1989–93, as Director of where women were scarcely represented in our field. Her Graduate Studies from 1996–98, and as Director of the articles on aspects of the representation and realities of Program in the Ancient World during the same period. women at Rome remain fundamental for all work on this She was President of the American Philological Society subject, and many students had their first introduction in 2004, having held the office of Vice-President of the to the lived experience of Roman women through the Classical Association of Canada from 1982–84.

David H. Porter *62 Retirement did not slow David down: above all, he David H. Porter (PhD 1962) came to Princeton from served as Chair of the Development Committee of the Swarthmore College, and wrote his doctorate on Horace APA from 2000 until just two months before his death. with George Duckworth. He began his career at Carleton His indispensable role in modernizing the Society’s fund- College, coming back to Princeton in 1986 as a Visiting raising and ensuring the success of the transformative Professor, where he put the finishing touches on his major Gateway Campaign earned him the APA’s Distinguished contribution to our field, Horace’s Poetic Journey: A Service Award in 2013. Reading of Odes 1-3 (Princeton University Press, 1987). David was an extraordinarily accomplished person. He This book made a powerful case for Horace’s artistic could have pursued a professional career as a pianist, and arrangement of the odes within his collection; gave many public recitals. He published on Virginia Woolf together with Matthew Santirocco’s Unity and Design in and Willa Cather as well as on Latin poetry. Those who Horace’s Odes (UNC Press, 1986), the book established knew him came to value highly his warmth and candor as a new field of investigation in Latin poetry. He returned well as his actual wisdom about how to run institutions to Carleton as President for one year before moving to and get people to work well together. He will be greatly Skidmore College in 1987 as their fifth President, retiring missed by the profession and by his many friends. from that post in 1999.

14 Classics Lectures & Events 2016–2017

September 26 February 14 Lisa Maurizio Miriam Leonard Bates College University College London “A Reconsideration of the Pythia’s Use of Lots at Delphi: “Hannah Arendt’s Revolutionary Antiquity” Nymphs, Dice, and Second Chances” Sponsored by the Department of Classics and the Humanities Council October 6 Duncan Kennedy February 28 University of Bristol Prentice Lecture “Plato and Lucretius on the Theoretical Subject: A Catherine Steel Metaphysical Inquiry” University of Glasgow “Populism and the Roman Republic: demagogues, October 18 democracy and the limits of debate” Faber Lecture Emily Greenwood March 7 Yale University Ruth Webb “Seeing Citizens: re-reading the ring of Gyges’ ancestor Université Lille 3, Visiting Professor in the Humanities in Plato’s Republic” Council; Old Dominion Fellow in the Department of Classics Sponsored by Department of Classics and The Eberhard L. Faber 1915 Memorial Fund in the Humanities Council “Roman pantomime and Greek tragedy: reperformance and embodied knowledge” November 9 Sponsored by the Humanities Council and the Department of Suzanne Marchand Classics Louisiana State University “How Herodotus Saved World History” May 2 Darja Šterbenc Erker November 10 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Shadi Bartsch “Augustus’ religion in the mirror of Ovid’s Fasti” University of Chicago “Read the Aeneid, Go Straight to Hell? How Fulgentius May 12-13 Saved a Classic for the Christians” A Conference in honor of Brent Shaw “Subjects of Empire: Political and Cultural Exchange in November 29 Imperial Rome” Peter Meineck New York University Sponsored by the Department of Classics, Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity, Humanities Council, Program in the “Prediction, Peripeteia and Practice. A new cognitive Ancient World, Department of History, Department of Religion approach to ancient dramatic narrative” and the Stanley J. Seeger ‘52 Center for Hellenic Studies

January 20 May 15 Workshop Richard Hunter Trinity College, University of Cambridge Sophocles, Ajax “Callimachus and the description of rhetorical style” Sponsored by the Department of Classics, the Humanities Council, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund

February 13 Colloquium “Vergil in Action, Performances in and of the Aeneid” Sponsored by the Department of Classics, David A. Gardner ’69 Magic Project in the Humanities Council, McCarter Theatre

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Faculty Dan-el Padilla Peralta Advisory Council Yelena Baraz Brent Shaw Scott Clemons ‘90 Joshua Billings Christian Wildberg Joan Breton Connelly ‘76 Emmanuel Bourbouhakis Joy Connolly ‘91 Marc Domingo Gygax Staff Carol Cronheim ‘86 Denis Feeney Jill Arbeiter Lydia Duff ‘81 Andrew Feldherr Graduate Program Administrator James O’Donnell ‘72 Harriet Flower Nancy Blaustein Josiah Ober Michael Flower Department Manager Andrew Porter ‘03 Andrew Ford Kai Laidlaw Harry Schmidt Brooke Holmes Technical Support Specialist Nancy Worman Ph.D. ‘94 Robert Kaster Brittany Masterson Wesley Wright ‘90 Joshua Katz Program Coordinator Nino Luraghi Eileen Robinson Daniela Mairhofer Events & Faculty Assistant