ClassicalDEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL STUDIES ALUMNI NEWSLETTER Studies • VOL. 21 • SUMMER 2017

From the Chair position. We wish him the very Visiting Assistant Professor by Matt Christ best in his new endeavors. in Classical Archaeology. Nick Martin Shedd, who just has just completed a two- ur students and faculty received his Ph.D. this spring year postdoctoral teaching have enjoyed a great in the Department, will step fellowship at North Carolina Oyear in Bloomington in to cover Adam’s courses in State, which he took up after and abroad. As a special feature 2017-18 as Visiting Assistant serving three years as Assistant of this newsletter, we include Professor. Director at the American several students’ firsthand We also bid a fond farewell to School of Classical Studies accounts of the wonderful Noah Kaye, who as Visiting at Athens. His specialty is experiences they have had Assistant Professor for the the Bronze Age Aegean and over the past year in their past two years has made it Cyprus, and he is working on a studies and travels outside possible for us to offer a range monograph, Before Daedalus: Bloomington. You will also of stimulating courses in Greek Tools and Elite Stone Working find two memorial tributes, material culture. Noah has in the Mycenaean World. one to Tom Jacobsen, an also had a significant impact Archaeologists may recognize emeritus faculty member of the outside the classroom, not least him as the author of a major Department, who died this past in taking students with him article, “Making the Lion January at age 81, the other to to conduct fieldwork on Dana Gate Relief at Mycenae: Tool Derek Vint, our departmental Island in Turkey (check out the Marks and Foreign Influence,” office manager for over forty lovely photos of Dana Island in in the American Journal of years, who died in June at age this newsletter). Noah will be Archaeology (118.3 [2014] 62. We will miss both Tom and taking up a tenure-line position 451-488). Derek greatly. in the History Department at Our department owes a As in past years, there are a Michigan State in 2018-19, special debt to a number of number of faculty transitions but will spend the coming people who have helped it to to report. First, Adam year as Senior Fellow at Koç operate smoothly this past Gitner, Assistant Professor, University’s Research Center year. Jon Ready took on will be leaving IUB to take for Anatolian Civilizations the duties of DGS this year up a continuing position in Istanbul; the research while simultaneously serving at the Thesaurus Linguae project he will be pursuing is as Director of the Ancient Latinae in Munich. Adam “Overnight Empire: Attalids of Studies Program, and among held a prestigious Humboldt Pergamon and Anatolia.” his many contributions he has Postdoctoral Fellowship for This fall we will welcome recruited a strong incoming 2016-17 at the University in Noah’s place Nick class of new graduate students. of Cologne, Institut für Blackwell (Bryn Mawr, Ph.D., Cynthia Bannon served Altertumskunde, and will stay 2011), who will serve as the not only as supervisor of our on in Germany in his new department’s first Schrader elementary Latin program, but (continued on page 2) From the Chair (cont.) as DUS, a position she knows officer for the department in Highlights of the thoroughly, after thirteen place of Derek Vint since early Graduate Year years of experience in this February. Yvette Rollins 2016 - 2017 office (it should also be noted likewise deserves our gratitude that Cynthia won her fourth for her many years of service by Jon Ready Trustees Teaching Award to the department, and her Associate Professor and Director this year!). Kim Hinton, heroic efforts to keep the of Graduate Studies our undergraduate staff office operating in this time of he department’s advisor, continues to guide our transition. We wish Yvette a graduate program students expertly through their very happy retirement as she thrived in 2016–17. The course selections and timely enters this new phase of life in T graduate students returned completion of their graduation July 2017, and rides off into from their exile on the sixth requirements. the sunset on Star. floor of Ballantine Hall: now Running our department Please let us know if you have both faculty and graduate office is a major task. We any news you would like to students reside on the fifth have been fortunate to have share with your classmates and floor. A spacious three-room Carol Glaze, our neighbor in former teachers, and do look us suite, including a proper the American Studies office, up if you are in Bloomington! seminar space, allows the stepping in as acting fiscal students to work in peace. Several students were on the conference circuit. Mitch Arceneaux and Charles Castanon gave papers at the meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in Kitchener, Ontario, and Martin Shedd delivered a talk at the Society for Classical Studies convention in Toronto. Peter Kotiuga presented at the Classical Association of New England meeting, and Ron Orr spoke on Polybius at a conference in Germany. On the fellowship front, Eric Beckman spent the year at the J. Paul Getty museum in Los Angeles (see his account of his time there in this newsletter). Sean Tandy won a Dissertation Completion fellowship from the College for 2017–18. We bid farewell to six students. Lindsay Pappas (M.A.T., 2017) will start teaching at Bedford North Lawrence High School. Sean Yvette Rollins rides into retirement on Star 2 2017–18 as Visiting Assistant Professor. The program will continue to flourish despite these departures. Tom Pappas is beginning his dissertation on how Aegean city-states survived in the period of shifting hegemonies between the end of the Peloponnesian War and the emergence of Alexander the Great. Tom seeks to bring out the importance of micro-networks of city- states that banded together to project strength and ward off aggressors, “similar to a beehive.” Sean Tandy will bring his dissertation to a close. His project argues that Sean Miranda (far left) accepts an Outstanding Future Educator Award during the Ostrogothic Era (ca. from the Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 489–554 CE), Roman elites used their poetic competence— Miranda also finished the Authority and Genre in the the reading, writing, and work for his M.A.T. this past Historia Augusta” under the performance of erudite Latin year and already has garnered direction of Professor Cynthia verse—to maintain class recognition for his skillful Bannon. Martin’s research cohesion and to exert political pedagogy: he received an explores how authors cope power: poetry did not simply Outstanding Future Educator and write under authoritarian reflect the sociopolitical Award from the Indiana regimes. He will be staying struggles of the day but played Association of Colleges for on with the department in a significant role in shaping Teacher Education. Charles them. Using both major works Castanon heads off with from the period, such as those an M.A. in Latin (2017) to of Boethius, Ennodius, Arator, teach as well, and Aleda and Maximianus, and minor Krill has accepted a position poems culled from various at American Preparatory in sources, Tandy shows how Draper, Utah. Peter Kotiuga, poetry was a medium uniquely having taken an M.A. in Greek suited for the creation of (2016), will continue his identity and propagation of graduate work in classics at ideology during the final phase Boston University. of the Western Roman Empire. Martin Shedd earned We welcome five new his Ph.D. in May 2017. Sean students who arrive in the fall: Tandy’s predecessor in holding Grace Anthony will pursue a Dissertation Completion an M.A.; Zoe Barnett and fellowship, Dr. Shedd authored Abby Pullen, the M.A.T.; a dissertation entitled and Ben Leach and Maddie “Inventing Free Speech: Martin Shedd, Ph.D., with Professor Cynthia Bannon Parrish, the Ph.D. 3 Report on the Susanna Shelton who Journal, one of the tangible Undergraduate studied Latin at IUB while rewards of his CAMWS Award Program 2016 - 17 completing her M.A.T. in for Outstanding Undergraduate Comparative Literature. Achievement in Classical by Cynthia Bannon Studies. Eleni Georgiadis Professor and Director Travel leads to academic graduates with two degrees— of Undergraduate Studies adventures. Rome was the Latin from the College of destination for both Alissa Classical Studies majors are Arts and Sciences and horn, Haas, who studied at IES all about academics and from the Jacobs School of Rome in fall 2016, and adventures, and often the Music—and next year she Samantha Feistritzer, two go together, whether in continues her music career as who was at the Intercollegiate the classroom or traveling to graduate assistant in the Horn Center for Classical Studies Greece and Rome. Department at the Cincinnati in Rome during spring 2017, Conservatory of Music. Liam Academic laurels continue to supported by a Pratt Traveling Perry plans to travel as much pile up for Classical Studies Fellowship. This summer, two as he can next year! majors. Seniors Brooke students take off for the eastern Bradley and Samuel Mediterranean. Over the Our courses are also taking Stubblefield were elected to summer, Emily Getz will join new directions, such as women Phi Beta Kappa, along with Noah Kaye’s archaeological and gender in the section of junor Samantha Feistritzer. team on Dana Island off the C360: Roman Literature in During 2016-17, six of our coast of Turkey, supported by Translation taught by Katie majors made the Dean’s list: a Schrader Grant, while Luis De Boer, Visiting Assistant Samantha Frazier, Ellie Hernandez, the winner of this Professor, and the brand-new Roach, and Richard Taylor, year’s Pratt Fellowship, will course on Ancient Athletics along with our three new participate in the Food Cultures (C211) designed by Adam PBK members. For the first of Greece Summer Program Gitner and Noah Kaye that time in many years, our Latin in Athens, where he will learn will debut in spring 2018. students participated in the about all aspects of Greek food, In fall 2016, our civilization CAMWS Latin translation ancient to modern—we hope he courses were certified for contest. Anne Larsen earned will enjoy sampling it, too! the College’s new Global a commendation for her Civilizations and Cultures After graduation our performance on the exam. distribution credit, proving yet seniors will head out on We welcome her among our again that Classical Studies new adventures. Samuel students while she is still a is both a timely and timeless Stubblefield will begin junior at Bloomington High discipline for exploring the graduate study in history at School South, where she world. UC Berkeley, where we hope completed AP Latin with he will enjoy The Classical

4 Bill Hansen’s new book is a hit by Matt Christ, Professor and Cicero, usually Chair remembered for his elevated Professor Emeritus William rhetoric, turns Hansen is in the limelight out to have had a after the publication of his penchant for tales most recent book, The Book of the strange of Greek & Roman Folktales, and supernatural. Legends & Myths, with We encounter Princeton University Press Greek and Roman in 2017. Rave reviews in prototypes diverse venues recommend it of numerous to both scholarly and general elements of audiences as a fascinating fairytale that most read. Some excerpts convey the of us associate enthusiasm of reviewers: with the Nordic Michael Dirda writes in the and Germanic Washington Post (May 2, traditions of 2017): Märchen: a glass sarcophagus and “William Hansen, a professor magical rings emeritus of classics and of invisibility, folklore at Indiana University, a sorcerer’s has extracted from a lifetime of apprentice, in previous lives. My own reading seemingly all of ancient and stories of the capture of personal favourite in the literature’s most wonderful ‘real-life’ wondrous beasts— whole collection is the tale anecdotes, eerie stories, werewolves and mermaids. of the Tirynthians and their Aesopian fables, trickster tales, There is a prototype of the (unsuccessful) attempts to cure and philosophical parables. story of Cinderella, elegant an epidemic of unquenchable The resulting anthology is an missing footwear and all. The laughter. ... Taken as a whole, extraordinarily entertaining ancients enjoyed accounts of the collection is as appealing bedside book. ... It will soon be boys who cross the oceans to the advanced scholar as the end of the school year, and riding dolphins, women to a teenager first falling “The Book of Greek & Roman who give birth to monkeys, in love with the classics or Folktales, Legends & Myths” ghosts, revenants, ghouls, to an aspiring author. ... would make an ideal, if rather and a remarkable variety Hansen has succeeded in unexpected, graduation gift. of female bogey figures, conveying to the reader his After all, these anecdotes aren’t used by ancient nursemaids own love of and fascination just classical, they’re classic, and mothers to frighten with ancient storytelling, and as much a part of our culture children into good behaviour. his enthusiasm is infectious. as Grimm fairy tales or stories The august philosophical The book is perfect reading from the Bible.” sect of Pythagoreans, who for a summer holiday under studied mathematics and Mediterranean skies. I cannot Edith Hall writes in Literary harmonics, were also believers recommend it highly enough.” Review (June 5, 2017): in metempsychosis; their school produced a seam of Be sure to buy a copy before it “Surprises are in store on stories about people who sells out! almost every page. The high- had been bears or monkeys minded Republican orator Amazon.com Link 5 A Semester at the Centro in Rome by Samantha Feistritzer, undergraduate student

n the spring semester of 2017, I lived on the Janiculum with my twenty-seven Ifellow students and four professors at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (ICCS), eating, sleeping, and breathing in the Ancient City. With Monday morning and Wednesday afternoon lectures, Tuesday full-day and Thursday half-day field trips on site, Monday and Thursday Latin classes focusing on the Ars Amatoria, and Friday art history field trips, this semester delivered exactly what I was promised—an intensive study of Classics. I had class in the Colosseum and the Pantheon, in the Forum, in the Circus Maximus, in gladiator barracks, in a tiny, cold Roman town in the mountains, and (my personal favorite) in an aqueduct. I took notes in every Doric temple in Sicily, Etruscan tombs, Pompeii, Greek theaters and Roman amphitheaters, an ancient quarry, ancient churches, more villas than I can count, and once even in a volcano. I could write pages about all the cool things I got to experience this semester, but I’ll focus here on a few Samantha (center) with two friends in front of the Pantheon highlights. The first highlight is my absolute favorite is the inclusion of two week-long field trips, site in Rome, the Pantheon. What a testament one to Sicily (by way of Paestum) and one to to Roman architecture and ingenuity! I have Campania. I loved both trips, but Sicily was no words to adequately describe how it feels to truly amazing. The week there was filled with stand in the dome of a monument constructed days where I swore the sites couldn’t possibly some 2,000 years ago that is still standing today. get any more impressive and breathtaking, and Not only did I get to learn about this site and then was proved wrong repeatedly. In nine days, the Piazza Navona in my Ancient City course, we stayed in a different hotel every night as we but we had an art history lecture discussing visited Paestum, Taormina, Siracusa, Ortigia, the importance of the Pantheon in relation to Morgantina, Agrigento, Selinunte, Segesta, Renaissance and Baroque art. The Pantheon’s Palermo, Cefalu, and Solunto, with an impressive continuity and evolution of use shows how culinary experience at every meal of every single ancient monuments continue to be culturally day. Two words for you: Sicilian wine. Three relevant throughout the ages. And, let’s face it, more words for you: Sicilian olive oil. From the inscription that features Agrippa only adds a historical standpoint, I don’t think you can to the allure: we all know he deserved a lot more appreciate the influence of Hellenization until credit than history gives him! you’ve visited Sicily and seen the way the Greek One of the more unique aspects of the ICCS and Roman elements intertwine.

6 Standing next to a beautiful, modern Icarus statue with the Temple of Posing along the Aqua Claudia aqueduct Agrigento in the background

I spent a majority of my Tuesdays this semester another way Ancient Rome weaves itself into on a charter bus, exploring areas just outside modern civilization, playing a vital role in the city of Rome. One memorable Tuesday was everyday life. devoted to Vicovaro, hiking inside the Aqua The true attraction of the classics for me, Claudia. During my time at IUB, I had the however, is human connection. Through pleasure of taking Professor Bannon’s Ancient studying ancient culture I find myself relating Roman Law course, in which we spent an entire to humans across a span of thousands of years, unit talking about aqueducts and my final group while also opening up doors for connections project was on the Aqua Appia. While I had within the modern classics community. I spent several other run-ins with aqueducts throughout this semester with thirty classics-obsessed people the semester, my absolute favorite was the Aqua (see our group photo below, with a rainbow Claudia. Getting to walk along the channel that behind us!), and I could not be more grateful. I once transported water to Ancient Rome was an am forever indebted to my fellow Centristi and experience I’ll never forget. Cooler still, several professors for helping me learn and grow as a of these aqueducts are still in use today—yet person and as a classicist. I am also grateful to the ICCS committee at Duke and all the staff at the Centro for helping me through this process and making Italy feel like home. Last, but not least, I’m thankful for the Pratt Traveling Fellowship that made this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity a possibility for me, and to the Department of Classical Studies at IUB for helping foster my love for the ancient world and for their continued support.

7 (Nearly) A Month of Turkish sherds of amphoras, vases, and plates, Phocaean Delight Red Slip, African Red Slip, and Cypriot Sigillata wares, while my nights were half in Turkish and by Peter Kotiuga, graduate student full of beer. After about a week, a kilometer swim to shore, and an amazing barbeque, we finished he days leading up to my departure at Boğsak and moved on to Dana Adasi. on July 20, 2016, were schizophrenic, Boğsak had its challenges, but these paled Twith one side in favor of staying safely in comparison to those of Dana Island. Unlike in Indiana and the other in favor of going to a Boğsak’s third-of-a-mile length, Dana is 1¾ country where a coup had taken place just five miles long and at least four times as tall, and days before. In the end I decided to join Nick while Boğsak had only hidden wildlife and a few Rauh of Purdue and Noah Kaye, the visiting shrubs, Dana’s goats and snakes passed us by archaeologist of IUB, far from Istanbul and as they made their way through the thick and Ankara on a Turkish beach north of Cyprus, even sharp vegetation. My backpack became a new though I had to connect through Ataturk airport. kind of tool kit: along with the tape measure and I landed in Adana around 11 P.M. on Thursday, water I already carried were added a collapsible July 21, and found Nick Rauh in the bus-station- walking stick, a small knife, and an iron sickle to sized airport. I didn’t have to worry about make my path through the transects. We stayed carrying my luggage either, since we had arrived in Mavi Kent, waking up before the sun to cross late enough in Amsterdam that though I had two miles of water on a boat driven by an old made my connection, my bags were left behind. mariner. We quickly abandoned his broken dock My boots and hat with all my gear purchased and instead used the pier of the swimming area. specifically for this project were somewhere in Sure, it was marked off by a buoyed rope and Denmark or Istanbul (they eventually arrived people yelled at us as we came back before lunch, in Silifke a few days later). In the meantime, I but I didn’t mind jumping from the boat to hold folded a handkerchief under a baseball cap and down the line if it meant cooling off after a long wore sneakers during our first few days in the day of walking and chopping brush. field. On August 14 we left Mavi Kent to drive back We began on Boğsak Island, finishing up to Adana, where Noah, Lucy, and I stayed for some of the work from the previous year. Our a few days while we traveled around the sites days began backwards, doing grunt work after of southern Turkey. I arrived in Istanbul on breakfast (cataloguing and categorizing) and August 16, where I met up with Fatih, one of going out to the island in the afternoon by boat. the students working with us and whose house We stayed right on the water and ate looking I stayed at that night before my return flight. out on Boğsak bay. I spent my days studying We wandered Taksim Square, ate çiğ köfte,

Dana Island from the roof of our house in Mavi Kent

8 Left: Fragments of an amphora neck Center: Reconstructed amphora neck Right: My backpack for Dana Island and found a couple of souvenirs for my family. travel like an archaeologist. I am grateful for the Early the next morning, I was on my way back support of a Pratt Traveling Fellowship from the to Indiana after almost a month in Turkey, with Department of Classical Studies, which made a bit of Turkish under my belt and a desire to this great learning experience possible. get into archaeology, at least for the chance to

A shot of the morning ride to Dana Island (back right) leaving from the swimming dock

9 A Year at the Getty Villa from some of the most respected members of the field and having access to one of the best by Eric Beckman, graduate student antiquities collections in the country. My internship started quickly, as I jumped headfirst into a curatorial department that was deep into the process of planning out gallery spaces and designing labels as part of the Villa’s re-installation project. The purpose of this redesign is to change the layout of the galleries from a thematic approach (Gods and Monsters, Heroes, Trojan War, etc.) to a chronological narrative. I was asked to help with materials for the Etruscan gallery, and my first project involved researching a pair of Etruscan bronze statuettes in order to learn more about their A view overlooking the Villa toward the Pacific inscriptions. Now, since Etruscan bronzes was not a subject I’d spent much time with, the ach morning as I drove up the Pacific sea of Italian articles and Etruscan linguistics Coast Highway, the ocean to my left and seemed daunting, but this turned out to be a fun the sun rising straight ahead over the E and rewarding research project as I traced the Santa Monica Mountains, I was reminded of the lineages of the families and the variations of the unique opportunity that I had had during the deities named in the inscriptions. I also worked past year. From September through May, I had on Etruscan gems, and ultimately contributed to the good fortune to serve as the Graduate Intern the development of the labels and didactics for in Antiquities for the J. Paul Getty Museum in the Etruscan gallery. Los Angeles. Working out of the scenic Getty Over the next few months, the number and Villa, the branch of the Getty Museum that variety of my projects increased. I collaborated focuses on ancient art, I collaborated closely on the development of two upcoming with the curatorial staff on projects such as exhibitions: one centered on Palmyran collections research and exhibition development. sculpture, the other on the Villa dei Papiri. I also In addition, the start of my internship coincided worked on a possible exhibition of Romano- with the start of the Getty Villa’s undertaking Egyptian portraiture. Each of these projects to redesign gave me invaluable insight into the process of and re-install planning shows, as I worked with the curators, its galleries, registrars, conservators, designers, and others a process in in order to ascertain the specific needs for each which I was exhibition. The planning process also gave me involved an opportunity to explore facets of the ancient to varying world with which I was less familiar, such as degrees. My the traditions of Palmyran art and the breadth year at the Villa of Romano-Egyptian painting. I’m very excited provided me to see how these exhibitions turn out, and I’m the opportunity already starting to come up with reasons to find to build on the my way back to Los Angeles once they open. skills acquired My research at the Villa also gave me the during my time opportunity to employ the skills that I learned working for while studying Roman pottery at the American IUB’s Eskenazi Academy in Rome, thanks to a Pratt Fellowship. Museum of I developed and completed a project to update Art by learning The inner peristyle of the Villa the Villa’s records on its collection of Roman fine 10 wares by identifying the potter’s stamps that most of the fragments contained. This information allowed me to ascertain not only the workshop where the piece was produced, but also an approximate date and, in some cases, its place of The head of the Getty Bronze production. Where A mosaic that was on loan to the Eskenazi Museum and is I could, I further refined this information by now re-installed in the Villa identifying the type of vessel the fragment came various approaches to visitor experiences, from. Once I collected this data, it was entered museum didactics, and gallery presentations as into the Museum’s database in an attempt to well as providing me with a chance to see these provide the public with the most information storied collections. possible. I could not have asked for a better experience As an added bonus, the Getty provided each during my year at the Getty Villa. The of its graduate interns with a stipend to take opportunity to work on multiple exhibitions, a study trip. With this funding, I was able to contribute to ongoing research, and design spend nearly two weeks visiting museums in educational materials such as audioguide stops Copenhagen and London. In Copenhagen, I and gallery texts has pushed me to develop had the opportunity to meet with the sculpture professionally and learn more about the curator at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek and expectations and interactions in the museum speak with him about a multitude of topics, field. I am most thankful for the incredible including the Glyptotek’s research, approach to mentoring that I received from the curators, its collections, and the differences between U.S. conservators, and numerous other staff and European institutions. The chance to see and members at study the materials at not only the Ny Carlsberg the Getty. Our but also other museums, such as the Danish collaborations National Museum and the Thorvaldsen, was a and discussions truly enlightening experience. provided me In London, I met with the curators of the with new ways British Museum’s Greek and Roman Department to think about in order to learn more about their collections, approaching and I enjoyed an eye-opening discussion about my work and the planning and design of the Museum’s Sunken engaging with Cities exhibition. I spent a whole day roaming visitors, and the galleries and speaking with curators, and helped me learn it was not nearly enough time to see all the the methods wonders within that hallowed institution’s halls. by which I The staff at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian can continue Archaeology were also kind enough to meet with to improve as me and both show me their collections and talk an aspiring to me about their work. Likewise, visits to the museum John Soane House, the National Gallery, and professional. the Museum of London enabled me to consider The Lansdowne Herakles 11 NJCL Convention in Bloomington by Lindsay Pappas, M.A.T.

n the summer of 2016, 1,500 eager high school Latin students came to Indiana University’s Bloomington campus to participate in the 63rd National Junior Classical League (NJCL) IConvention from July 24 to 30, much to the delight of all of us in the Department of Classical Studies. Students and their adult chaperones stayed in dorms on campus and engaged in academic, athletic, graphic art, and creative contests. These took diverse forms: many students sat for several hours taking written tests, for which they could earn a variety of awards and ribbons; many others competed in Olympika and Ludi, such as Track and Field, Volleyball, Soccer, Marathon, and Swimming; still more students submitted visual projects of all sorts, which they completed throughout the year and carefully carted to the NJCL Convention; and yet other students competed against one another in a variety of performance arts in either Latin or English. Students gathered daily for General Assemblies, in which the Pledge of Allegiance was read in English, Latin, or Greek, and both the NJCL Creed and Song were performed with gusto. There were also numerous social events to enjoy at the NJCL Convention, from nightly mixers to an open market called the Bazaar, culminating in an audition-only talent show and a formal, farewell dance. Also noteworthy was Competitive Certamen, a quiz-bowl, type contest in which states competed against one another in teams of four, vying to answer questions as quickly and accurately as possible.Yet another highlight of the week was the march in togas of each state’s contingent from the IU Arboretum to the IU Auditorium, several photos of which appear with this article. The IU Department of Classical Studies was pleased to support the NJCL Convention in a variety of ways. Several faculty and graduate students presented colloquia that drew on their areas of interest and expertise. Professors Christ, Bannon, and Leach lectured on Democratic Athens, Roman Aqueducts, and Mythology, respectively. Tom Pappas and I talked about what students might do with a major or even graduate degree in the classics. Eric Beckman also lent his talents as a museum tour guide, drawing on his vast repository of knowledge and information about the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art and its collections. Even our alumni were well represented, including Steve Perkins of North Central High School in Indianapolis and Megan Grundtisch of Homestead High School in Fort Wayne. In addition, the Department was delighted to host a reception for teachers and chaperones at the Eskenazi Museum of Art. The NJCL creed states: “We believe an acquaintance with the civilization of Greece and Rome will help us understand and appraise this world of today, which is indebted to the ancient civilizations in its government and laws, literature, language and arts.” The committed teachers, chaperones, and

12 other supporters who make the NJCL such a success deserve great credit for fostering a deep and enduring love of classics in high school students, many of whom go on to study ancient languages and civilizations in college and beyond. The enthusiasm of these students for Latin and the classics gives us all confidence that study of the ancient world is alive and well and will remain so for the future. Those of us in the Department of Classical Studies were inspired and energized by the NJCL convention, and we look forward to hosting the NJCL again soon.

13 Alumni News planner, sign-maker, program Louisiana Scholars’ College designer, fun-fact finder (Natchitoches, Louisiana) by Eleanor W. Leach, about the location, gatherer she also holds the position Ruth N. Halls Professor of registrations, organizer of of T.H. Roberts Endowed exhibits, creator of nametags, Professor of Rhetoric and his year’s graduate tech organizer and trouble Debate in the Department of alumni/ae scandal sheet shooter, calmer of nerves and New Media, Journalism and Tstructures itself as a general ‘if you need something Communication Arts. In this travelogue that follows the let me know person’ ”). capacity, she is faculty mentor itinerary and the calendar of “Small” may in fact be a to the Demon Speech and the Classical Studies festival manner of speaking for this Debate Team, a traveling road year, as your reporter has year’s program, which offered show now in its second year of traveled from one to another three full days of 10 A/B/C existence that has been racking movable feast, catching up on sessions running from 8 a.m. up top ratings, as 23 out of 135 activities and hearing papers to 5 p.m. with a rich mixture of for the whole team in this year’s given by many of her former academic research, pedagogy, annual Scholastic Evaluations. students and your sometime and digital technology in panels Says Davina, “The students colleagues at one or another and independent sections—for really do it all”—except for way station. the spectator a buffet of hard the paperwork, the car rental choices. Always visible with her and the driving. Rhetoric also We begin with October 27-29 hard-working staff members, has been holding a central in Atlanta, Georgia (actually Davina was not IU’s only officer position in Davina’s research Decatur and Emory University) for this meeting. As 2016 life. Her paper “When Women for the 96th anniversary President, Julie Langford of Speak: The Persuasive Power meeting of CAMWS Southern the University of South Florida of Women’s Direct Speech in Section and coincidentally the assembled a Presidential Panel Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita” is 13th year under the experienced entitled “Ancient Ethnicities: due to appear by early 2018 chairmanship of our alumna Real and Rhetorical” and in Brill’s The Ancient Art of Secretary-Treasurer Davina presided at the Friday night Persuasion across Genres and McClain. Please note that, banquet where she delivered Topics. Also her paper “Cato owing to the theoretically her presidential address. vs. Valerius/ Men vs. Woman: smaller size of this biannual Rhetorical Strategies in the meeting, the Secretary- So what does Davina Oppian Law Debate in Livy’s Treasurer shoulders all the McClain do when not Ab Urbe Condita” has gained arrangements from preliminary preparing a CAMWS Southern a place on the program of an site inspections to the closing Section meeting? She is a International Conference at hour. (As Davina puts it, “I column and a half! Aside the University of Athens on am the site committee, the from her everyday life as November 23-24 on the topic program committee, menu- Professor of Classics in the “The Rhetoric of (dis)unity:

14 Community and Division in Greco-Roman Prose and Poetry.” But at this moment of writing she is in Tampa with the AP Latin scoring team, looking forward to a summer return to last year’s excavation site in Sinop Kale, Turkey. And come November, when she competes with Demosthenes in the shadow of the Parthenon, her student Zoe Barnett will be well settled in as a new member of our graduate M.A.T. program. A Snowy Road to CANE Skipping the meetings of the Classical Association of the Abuse in Ancient Greece and Professor at Kenyon College Atlantic States as outside the Rome”—a timely topic, says in Gambier, Ohio. During his normal trajectory, we move to Kenny, with abundant material last year’s sabbatical, lucky Toronto and the mega meeting for comparison offered by Micah spent time at the famed of the Society for Classical public discourse this past fall. Fondation Hardt in Geneva. Studies in the mega Sheraton Next fall the censorial theme Hotel, so labyrinthine that it continues with “Praise and Spring break fortuitously took a day’s route rehearsal Blame in Flavian and Trajanic coincided with the Spring to be sure of arriving at any Rome.” Bet we know what Meeting of the Classical session on time. Our alumnus two writers that will feature! Association of New England presenter was Kenny Draper, At the same time Kenny has (CANE) at the Phillips Exeter the title of whose reception produced an e-text of a 17th- Academy in New Hampshire, themed paper, “More Nobly century, English translation where cooperative weather Great than the Famed Iliads: of Horace for the Sorbonne’s cheered this nostalgic New the Rhetoric of Encomia to Renaissances d’ Horace England native with a three- Seventeenth-Century English project, the source of this foot snow fall. Although it Translators of Horace and year’s paper and also placed inhibited travel plans for Vergil,” landed him a place with AJP for next March the day while it was falling, in a Rhetoric session! First a paper from his Horatian this being New England, the paper, first session, final day of studies, “Putting the Wolf to following morning saw the the conference. Nevertheless, Flight: Horace’s Disavowal and highways clear and black rhetoric or reception, his fellow Deployment of Invective in again, bordered with frost- presenters and some audience C. 1.13-16 and C. 1.22.” This etched woodlands even on members came across with summer he will be traveling Highway 95, leading to an questions afterward. During his to Italy for a few days in initial overnight at Sue initial year at Williams College, Rome and presenting a paper Curry’s and Sarah Cornell’s Kenny has had the opportunity on Ausonius’ Commentary new Portsmouth cottage (with to teach some gratifyingly on Reading Vergil through dogs). Up the road at the diverse and subject-oriented Ovid in the Vergilian Society Academy, the next morning’s courses in Plato’ Symposium symposium at the Cumean program saw Sue’s paper, and Phaedrus, Augustan Rome, Villa Vergiliana, organized by “Gods on Stage: Rethinking Elementary Latin, and “Insult our one-time visiting colleague and (Reembracing?) the Deus to Injury: Satire and Comic Micah Myers, now Associate ex Machina.” Saturday’s (continued) 15 CANE. Had she done so, she would have encountered First Vice-President Megan Grundtisch, who has been taking active roles in the organization ever since entering into her post-graduation position at Homestead High School in Fort Wayne. Megan’s recent visit to Bloomington revealed that she will travel for two weeks in Italy this summer under the aegis of the Paedeia Program as sponsor of some of her own students. Peter Kotiuga and Sue Curry chat at CANE Omnes non possunt omnia. program featured still another Curry: “Classical Society, Occurring in Kitchener, Indiana paper, “Forever Politics and Ethics: Happiness Ontario, during the week after Alone: Petronius’ Encolpius and Ancient Views of the Good spring break regular CAMWS in Lucan’s Fractured Rome,” Life (“How do ancient concepts this year took a pass from your given by current IU Classical of the ‘good life’ influence later reporter, although it emptied Studies graduate student Peter views of human flourishing, some seats in my C501 for Kotiuga. For New Englander and how do specific historical persons to receive notice Peter this presentation marked circumstances alter utopian elsewhere. the beginning of a repatriation. visions of a life well lived?”). Come next fall he will be (re-) Also at CANE was Teresa Last of the season in mid- entering Boston University to Ramsby, whose position as April, the UK Annual Meeting continue his pursuit of Greek DGS of the famed pioneering of the Classical Association at Archaic Poetry. M.A.T. program at University Canterbury drew M.A. alumnus of Massachusetts, Amherst, Benjamin Howland, who Thursday evening dinner makes her a fierce competitor is now an advanced graduate with Sue and her department for desired candidates. On student in Comparative chair gave an account of their a recent sabbatical Teresa Literature at Louisiana State December post- semester completed a paper on Anna University. Ben’s paper, “He adventure in leading a study Perenna in the Fasti and has could destroy us: Oedipus, abroad group through two been at work on another about Palpatine, Vader and the Self- weeks of Italian (mostly the horrors of Ovid’s Black Fulfilling Prophecy,” shows the classical) travel, and now for Sea Barbarians at Tomis. She overall classical orientation the second year. What one also is also co-editing a volume of of much of Ben’s work in learned from Sue’s chair (and essays on Latin Letters with Comparative Literature. As what she herself would never our alumna Ann Vasaly of part of a four-paper panel have volunteered to tell) was Boston University. on Star Wars and Classics, the conferral of a UNH College Ben’s contribution explored of Liberal Arts Teaching This week also would be the paradoxical inevitability Award. From this same source the place for the Indiana of fate across generational of information I received a Classical Conference at tensions. As a TA, Ben has write-up in the UNH College Butler University, which your been entrusted for a second of Liberal Arts Newsletter of reporter was prevented from time next year with World Classics 520B taught by Susan attending by a conflict with 16 Literature, which he will perhaps most celebrated as News from Doyle organize around the theme of Hadrian’s tutor and life-long Stevick slavery. Has it really been three friend. And 2015 Ph.D. Kyle years since Ben left us! He has Grothoff will be trading Alumnus Doyle Stevick made rapid progress, creaming his last year’s Latin Chair at wrote in to catch us up on his prelims and is now well- Bedford North Lawrence High his latest activities. Doyle is launched into his dissertation, School for a seat in the Indiana currently Associate Professor The Exemplary Spartacus: Maurer School of Law. Last in Educational Leadership Reception, Adaptation and summer saw an alumni union and Policies at the College of Reconstruction, which he has of Kyle and third-year law Education at the University expectations of defending in student Emily Trygstad. This of South Carolina. This past January. summer Emily will serve as a September, he was invited clerk for a Circuit Court Judge by UNESCO to speak in Turning back to the non- in Dayton, Ohio, while Kyle Delhi, India, on “Addressing travellers: At the College of samples legal studies with a intolerance and extremism Charleston newly promoted summer class while keeping a through universal values Full Professor Noelle Zeiner close eye on baseball games. in curriculum” at the first Carmichael is about to begin International Conference a sabbatical with a project As for Bedford North Lawrence on the Prevention of Violent on M. Cornelius Fronto, the Latin, not to worry. It will Extremism through Education: second-century letter writer remain a secure possession Taking Action. He recently whose correspondence volume, of Indiana Classical Studies, co-edited a volume with Noelle will insistently tell having passed into the capable D. L. Michaels, Holocaust you, has been undeservedly hands of newly minted M.A.T. Education: Promise, overshadowed by those alumna Lindsay Pappas, Practice, Power and Potential other two. As a migrant from who completed her spring (Routledge: New York, 2016). Africa province, Fronto made internship at Bloomington a distinguished career in South under the guidance of Antonine Rome as senator, Susie Shelton, another Indiana orator, and amicus Caesaris, Classical Studies M.A.T.

17 In memoriam Thomas W. Jacobsen, 1935–2017 by Tracey Cullen and Kirsten Jacobsen

Thomas W. Jacobsen, 81, died peacefully on Sunday, January 15, in his home in St. Louis, Missouri, with his family by his side. Tom loved archaeology, jazz, and baseball. He turned the first two of those loves into vocations to which he made serious contributions that Tom Jacobsen led to significant recognition. The third, baseball, remained (ASCSA) in 1962–1963, he of prehistoric archaeology a lifelong tortured passion wrote his dissertation on in Greece and the eastern about which he just knew the prehistory of Euboia, an Mediterranean. His earliest too much. Add to this list of interest he later passed on to excavation experience was at loves a growing family that his students. Tom would go on Halieis, and also Kephala on he cherished and supported to play a vital role in the ASCSA Kea, where he formed a lasting unconditionally, a commitment community. He was the Jessie friendship with Colin Renfrew. to democratic principles, and Ball DuPont Special Research In 1966, Tom was invited a desire to laugh, and what Fellow in Athens (1980–1981), by the distinguished ancient emerges is a picture of a life served on the Managing historian Michael Jameson lived fully, adventurously, and (1974–1992) and Executive to co-direct the Argolid intentionally. (1980–1984) Committees, Exploration Project, a position Born on March 18, 1935, and was active in many other he held for a decade. During in Mankato, Minnesota, Tom ASCSA committees, including informal survey in the vicinity was raised and educated in two devoted to strategic of Halieis, local antiquarian Minnesota. After earning a planning. Adonis Kyrou introduced Tom B.A. in political science and Tom spent much of his career to a large cave on the headland classical languages at St. Olaf in higher education. He taught of Franchthi, the excavation College (1957) and an M.A. in for two years at Vanderbilt and publication of which was Classics from the University University and the next 26 to become the center of his life of Minnesota (1960), Tom years at Indiana University for over two decades. From moved to Philadelphia, where (Bloomington), where he was 1967 to 1993, Tom directed he received his doctorate in a beloved mentor, friend, and excavations at the site and classical archaeology from the colleague to many. He chaired oversaw the multidisciplinary University of Pennsylvania the Department of Classical research and publication (1964). It was there that he Studies (1975–1978), and program that resulted in the cemented his dedication to the founded and directed the series Excavations at Franchthi Philadelphia Phillies, begun in interdisciplinary program Cave, Greece, published by his youth. A regular member in classical archaeology Indiana University Press. at the American School of (1970–1985). Tom devoted his Franchthi became a Classical Studies at Athens scholarly efforts to the study profoundly important site for

18 our understanding of European to generations of graduate and contributor to periodicals prehistory. Tom’s background students in the Program in such as The Mississippi Rag in classical languages and Classical Archaeology in and The Clarinet. He and his archaeology scarcely prepared Bloomington. Visionary for wife Sharyn repaired their him for the excavation of the his time, he did not view home after it was damaged by deep stratigraphic sequence archaeology as subservient Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but found in the cave, the longest to Classics, art history, or moved to St. Louis in 2014 to and oldest then known at a anthropology, but as an be near family as Tom’s health site in Greece. Franchthi’s independent discipline, which, declined. location on the route between while it could profitably draw Tom Jacobsen will be greatly the Near East and Europe on other fields, had its own missed. His students remember and its nearly 40,000 years of set of requirements, method, him with enormous respect: intermittent occupation, from and theory. To that end, he his larger-than-life presence in the Palaeolithic through the urged students to take courses the Archy House at IU and the Neolithic, ensured that the site in many departments—not American School in Athens, would long play a leading role only Classics and art history, and the brown-bag lunches in discussions of early seafaring but also anthropology, soil and seminars he presided over, and population movements, sciences, geology, statistics, and full of earnest questioning, the origins of agriculture, so on—to craft a well-rounded arguing, and laughter. A and the advent of sedentary course of study. Although taskmaster in his insistence life. Tom’s pioneering Tom worried that his students on concise, clear writing, he approach to Franchthi set might struggle to find academic was also much loved for his a standard in the 1960s for employment, most Ph.D.s wry wit, wisdom, openness, multidisciplinary work, as from the program have gone and warmth, qualities to which he brought in specialists of on to rewarding positions in he held fast to the end. Upon many stripes, emphasized the academia, publishing, or the hearing of his death, one of his palaeoecology of the site as museum world. students mused that even now, well as the artifactual record, Tom retired from Indiana the memory—the vitality—of water-sieved sediments, saved University in 1992 at the age of Tom suggests that he would all finds, and established a 57, and moved to New Orleans, live forever. Perhaps he will, comprehensive sequence of where he lived for a quarter through his work on Franchthi radiocarbon dates. In entering of a century and, remarkably, Cave and New Orleans jazz, uncharted territory—little was developed a second career as a and through the unbreakable known of the Old Stone Age in jazz writer. He had loved jazz bonds he forged with family Greece when he began work since his teenage years, when and friends and students. at Franchthi—Tom looked to he played the clarinet and Tom is survived by his wife the work of archaeologists tenor saxophone, and listened of 20 years, Sharyn Jacobsen, he admired who came before to the broadcasts of the New her daughter, Deborah, and him: V. Gordon Childe, Robert Orleans Jazz Club over the their grandson Diego; his son, Braidwood, Graham Clark, Eric powerful Crescent City radio Mark Jacobsen (Teri) and Higgs, and his own professor station WWL. While living grandchildren, Kate and Sarah; at the University of Minnesota, in New Orleans, he became daughter Kirsten Jacobsen William McDonald, director deeply involved in the local (Rick), and grandchildren of the regional Minnesota music scene, devoted to the Sam, and Eliza; his son Messenia Expedition. music and musicians of his Chuck Freeland (Cheri) and Tom’s influence on Aegean adopted home. He published grandchildren Brett, Matthew, studies extends not only extensively on New Orleans and Heather. from his pathbreaking work jazz, writing three books (the Editor’s note: This was originally at Franchthi, but also from latest appearing in 2016), published at the ASCSA website. the inspiration he provided and serving as a columnist 19 In memoriam Derek Vint, 1954–2017 by Matt Christ, Professor and Chair

Derek Vint, who managed our departmental office for over forty years, died at home in Bloomington on June 5 at the age of 62. He is survived by his wife Kim (with whom he is pictured in the accompanying photograph from some thirty years ago) and a large extended family. The department held a reception in Derek’s honor on Saturday, June 24, at the University Club in the Indiana Memorial Union Building, in appreciation for his many Derek and Kim Vint in the late 1980s contributions to it over the years. department chair over the facto departmental historian Generations of students, past twelve years I worked who kept careful track of undergraduates and graduates, closely with Derek and came information concerning our and faculty remember Derek to appreciate him even department’s nearly two- fondly not only for helping more for his investment in, hundred-year history on them to navigate IU rules and and commitment to, the campus; he was a liaison with regulations (he was truly gifted department. He diplomatically the many alumni who passed at cutting through bureaucratic and politely showed me the through the department during red tape), but for making ropes as new chair, as he had his tenure; he was active in them feel welcome as part of done with many previous expanding the department’s the classics community here. chairs, and worked with endowment and scholarship His personal warmth and me throughout my years as funds, and was instrumental wonderful sense of humor set chair as a colleague seeking in securing commitments from all at ease, and helped create an to advance the department’s departmental benefactors. environment in which students best interests. Derek’s formal While Derek faced significant and faculty felt supported duties were substantial, as he health challenges, especially and appreciated. When served as scheduling officer in recent years, he cheerfully former students and faculty with responsibility for planning continued to carry out his returned to visit campus, they our course offerings each many tasks, formal and regularly sought out Derek semester and as fiscal officer, informal, and was a model of as an individual whom they who not only managed daily how to live a productive and identified closely with the transactions but departmental meaningful life. department, and their years at endowment and scholarship We are grateful to Derek for IUB. funds. But he went well beyond all he did for Classical Studies Although as a member of the the terms of his job description over the years, and cherish our faculty I always appreciated in supporting Classical happy memories of him. Derek’s contributions, as Studies. Derek was our de

20 Departmental Gertrude Johnson taught 2017 Departmental Scholarship Funds Latin at the secondary level for Scholarship Winners several years in Indiana and Lillian Gay Berry Latin was a pupil of Lillian Gay Berry Lillian Gay Berry Scholarship: Established by when she was a student at Scholarship Lillian Gay Berry, who taught Indiana University. Preference Brooke Bradley is given to students who intend Latin at Indiana University Matthew Guillot from 1902 to 1943, for to teach Latin at the secondary level. students majoring in Latin. David and Jenny Curry

Scholarship Norman T. Pratt Traveling David and Jenny Curry Samantha Feistritzer Scholarship: Established in Fellowship: Awarded in honor of Professor Emeritus Alissa Haas 1944 by Jenny Foster Curry Luis Enrique Hernandez in honor of her husband to Norman T. Pratt, this assist students interested in the award allows a qualified undergraduate or graduate Alice Fox Award study of Greek and Latin. Curry Ellie Roach scholarships are given for study major in Classical Studies at Indiana University to gain on the Indiana University Verne Schumann campus and also for study firsthand knowledge of the Scholarship abroad. people and monuments of classical lands. Preference is Matthew Guillot Alice Fox Award: Established given to candidates who have Norton-Mavor Latin Prize in 1996 by Philip A. Fox to not previously traveled to Savannah Hizer honor his mother, for students Greece or Italy. who intend to teach, preferably at the high school level. Verne Schuman Norman T. Pratt Traveling Awards are based on scholastic Scholarship: Established Fellowship accomplishment, merit, and in 1997 to honor Professor Luis Enrique Hernandez demonstrated financial need. Schuman, who taught in the Department from 1926 to Gertrude Johnson 1967, by one of his students. Scholarship: Established Schuman scholarships are for by Drs. Fred and Lola Case to Indiana residents majoring in honor Fred Case’s Latin teacher either Latin or Greek. at Logansport High School.

Scholarship winners (from left): Ellie Roach, Matthew Guillot, Luis Enrique Hernandez, Savannah Hizer 21 Graduating Seniors

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