Gil H. Renberg Department of Classics and Religious Studies • University of Nebraska-Lincoln 331H Louise Pound Hall • P.O
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Gil H. Renberg Department of Classics and Religious Studies • University of Nebraska-Lincoln 331H Louise Pound Hall • P.O. Box 880337 • Lincoln, NE 68588-0337 E-mail: [email protected] https://un-lincoln.academia.edu/GilRenberg Teaching and Research Interests Teaching interests: Roman and Greek History; Ancient Religion (esp. Magic and Divination); Post-Augustan Greek and Latin Literature; Latin and Greek Epigraphy Research interests: Roman and Greek Social History; Ancient Religion; Latin and Greek Epigraphy; Material Culture; Greco-Roman Egypt Education Duke University, Ph.D. in Classical Studies (May, 2003) Dissertation, “Commanded by the Gods”: An Epigraphical Study of Dreams and Visions in Greek and Roman Religious Life (Advisor: Prof. Kent J. Rigsby) University of Pennsylvania, Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies (1995-1996) University of Michigan, B.A. in Greco-Roman Religion (individualized major) and History (1988-1992) Current Position Lecturer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Classics and Religious Studies (2017-) Teaching Experience 2016-17 Hillsdale College, Lecturer, Classics Department 2015-16 Harvard University, Lecturer, Department of the Classics 2013-14 Iowa State University, Lecturer, Department of World Languages & Cultures 2010-11 University of Arizona, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics 2007-08 Washington University in St. Louis, Lecturer, Department of Classics 2006-07 Case Western Reserve University, Lecturer, Department of Classics 2005-06 Johns Hopkins University, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics 2003-05 Ohio State University, Senior Lecturer, Department of Greek & Latin Spring, 2003 University of Kansas-Lawrence, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Classics Fall, 1999-Fall, 2002 Duke University, Graduate Instructor, Department of Classical Studies Courses Taught Undergraduate Latin: First-year Latin (2000-01, 2004-05, Fall 2007, 2013-14, 2016-17, 2017-18); Cicero and Cornelius Nepos (Summer 2000); Literature of the Republic: Cicero and Catullus (Fall 2006); Livy (Spring 2016); Martial’s Epigrams (Spring 2018); Pliny and Martial (Spring 2003, Spring 2017); Pliny’s Letters (Fall 2006, Fall 2017); Terence’s Phormio (Winter 2005); Vergil’s Aeneid (Winter 2004, Fall 2016) Undergraduate Greek: First-year Greek (Fall 2001, 2005-06); Intermediate Greek (Fall 2010); Lucian’s A True Story (Fall 2017) Civilization Courses: Greek Civilization (Fall 1999, Summer 2001, Fall 2002, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Fall 2016); Roman Civilization (Winter 2000, Summer 2001, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2007); Roman Culture and Civilization (Spring 2016); Ancient World (Fall 2006); Athenian Democracy at War (Winter 2004); Christianity in the Roman Empire (Spring 2014); Magic in the Ancient World/Magicians, Healers and Holy Men/Magicians, Healing Gods, and Holy Men (Summer 1999 (2x), Summer 2000, Summer 2001, Winter 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2011, Fall 2015, Spring 2018); Women & Men in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Fall 2013, Spring 2014) Literature Courses: Greek Literature (Spring 2004, Fall 2010); Latin Literature (Spring 2005, Spring 2011); Greek and Roman Epic (Fall 2003); Ancient Novel (Fall 2007); Classical Mythology (Fall 2010, Spring 2018); Greek Mythology (Fall 2007, Spring 2008); Heroes of Greece, Rome, and Today (Fall 2013); Ancient Religion Across the Literary Genres (Spring 2017) Graduate Seminars: Worlds of Lucian (Spring 2003); Petronius’s Satyricon (Fall 2004); Greek & Latin Epigraphy (Fall 2005); Epigraphy and Religion (Spring 2006, Fall 2015); Magic & Divination in the Ancient World (Spring 2011) Other Courses: Latin & Greek in Current English (Spring 2007) Other Teaching Experience Undergraduate Independent Studies Overseen: Two senior research papers on erotic magic and mystical revelations, respectively (Ohio State) Undergraduate Senior Theses Refereed: Senior theses on the operations of gold mines in the Roman world and religious disuse of land among Greeks and Jews (Harvard) Graduate Exams Directed: Greek History (Johns Hopkins); Attic Epigraphy (Johns Hopkins) 3rd-year Special Topic Directed: Greek Epigraphy (Eliza Gettel, Harvard) Masters Theses Refereed: “Veluti tabes : Plague, Civil Discord and Greed in Ancient Historiography” (Drew Stimson, Arizona); “Cultural Reception of Numa Pompilius and Evolving Attitudes toward Roman Religion” (Jared Copeland, Arizona) Guest Lecturer: International Summer Course in Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies, Ohio State University (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009) Awards and Fellowships Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, Society for Classical Studies, for Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World (2018) Research scholarship, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung, Historisches Institut (Abt. Alte Geschichte), University of Cologne (Oct. 2012-May 2013) Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies (Sept. 2011-Aug. 2012) Margo Tytus Fellowship, University of Cincinnati (Spring, 2010) Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities (Jan.-Dec., 2009; held while a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, Department of Classical Studies) Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society (Summer, 2006; for research in Greece) Research Fellowship, Fondation Hardt (July, 2006) Fellow, Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Studies, Ohio State University (July, 2004) Publications and Forthcoming Works Book: Where Dreams May Come: Incubation Sanctuaries in the Greco-Roman World , 2 vols. (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 184; Leiden & Boston, 2017) [https://brill.com/abstract/title/12558] Reviews: H. von Ehrenheim, Opuscula: Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 10 (2017), 193- 195 (https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-10-11); I. Petrovic, Greece & Rome 65.1 (2018), 143-144 (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383518000086); M.J. Geller, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 42.5 (2018), 214 (http://doi.org/10.1177/0309089218763023); J. Lamont, Classical Review (published online 10/15/2018, appearing in print 2019; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009840X18002202); M. Nutzman, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (1/23/2019; http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2019/2019-01-41.html) Article: “Dedicatory Paintings in Greek Religion: An Initial Assessment,” in J. Tae Jensen, G. Hinge, P. Schultz & B. Wickkiser (eds.), Aspects of Ancient Greek Cult II: Sacred Architecture - Sacred Space - Sacred Objects; An International Colloquium in Honor of Erik Hansen (Monographs of the Danish Institute for Mediterranean Studies 1; Copenhagen, forthcoming) Article: “Dreams and Other Divine Communications from the Isiac Gods in the Greek and Latin Epigraphical Record,” in V. Gasparini & R. Veymiers (eds.), Individuals and Materials in the Greco-Roman Cults of Isis: Agents, Images, and Practices; Proceedings of the VIth International Conference of Isis Studies (Erfurt, May 6-8, 2013 – Liège, September 23-24, 2013) (RGRW 187; Leiden & Boston), 649-671 Article: “Homeric Verses and the Prevention of Plague? A New Inscription from Roman Termessos and its Religious Context,” in K.M. Coleman (ed.), Albert’s Anthology (Cambridge, Mass., 2017), 165-171 Article: “Prosopographical Problems Associated with the Establishment of Asklepios’s Cult at Pergamon,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 201 (2017), 155-159 Article: “ I.GrÉgLouvre 11 and the Lychnaption : A Topographical Problem at Saqqâra,” ZPE 200 (2016), 215-218 Article: “The Role of Dream-Interpreters in Greek and Roman Religion,” in G. Weber (ed.), Artemidor von Daldis und die antike Traumdeutung: Texte – Kontexte – Lektüren (Colloquia Augustana 33; Berlin, 2015), 233-262 Article: “Unexplored Aspects of the Lycian ‘Twelve Gods Reliefs’,” Epigraphica Anatolica 47 (2014), 107-132 Article: “ Tabella Picta : Sources for Private Dedicatory Paintings at Greco-Roman Cult Sites,” in W. Eck & P. Funke (with M. Dohnicht, K. Hallof, M. Heil & M.G. Schmidt) (eds.), ÖFFENTLICHKEIT – MONUMENT – TEXT: XIV Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae 27.–31. Augusti MMXII: Akten (CIL Auctarium , 9th ser., vol. 4; Berlin, 2014), 629-631 Article: “The Greek and Demotic Sources for the Career of Eirenaios, son of Nikias ( Pros.Ptol. VI 14912/15262),” ZPE 188 (2014), 199-214 Article: “The Athenodoros Dipinto Reconsidered ( I.Deir el-Bahari 208),” ZPE 184 (2013), 103-115 Article: “The Epistolary Rhetoric of Zoilos of Aspendos and the Early Cult of Sarapis: Re-Reading P.Cair.Zen. I 59034,” ZPE 177 (2011), 169-200 (co-authored with William Bubelis, Washington University in St. Louis) Article: “‘I celebrated a fine day’: An Overlooked Egyptian Phrase in a Bilingual Letter Preserving a Dream Narrative,” ZPE 175 (2010), 49-71 (co-authored with Franziska Naether, Universität Leipzig, Ägyptologisches Institut) Publications and Forthcoming Works (cont.) Article: “Hadrian and the Oracles of Antinous (SHA, Hadr. 14.7); with an appendix on the so-called Antinoeion at Hadrian’s Villa and Rome’s Monte Pincio Obelisk,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 55 (2010) [2011], 159-198 Article: “Dream-Narratives and Unnarrated Dreams in Greek and Latin Dedicatory Inscriptions,” in E. Scioli & C. Walde (eds.), Sub imagine somni : Nighttime Phenomena in the Greco-Roman World (Pisa, 2010), 33-61 Article: “Incubation at Saqqâra,” in T. Gagos (ed.), Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Papyrology (Ann Arbor, 2010), 649-662 Article: “Public and