AUTUMN NEWSLETTER 2016

Letter from the Chair

Stanford University’s celebration of 125 years has been a time to reflect on one-and- a-quarter centuries of Classics on the Farm. This is exactly what our recent PhD Mark Pyzyk has done in his exhibit, which evocatively showcases the first five or so decades of the department’s history. How different those times seem compared to our own, even as we classicists revisit some of the very same material with new perspectives and fresh approaches. (continued) DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS i East Coast. At the end we took leave of Lori Lynn Taniguchi, Student Services Farewell, Prof. Barchiesi and Lori Lynn Taniguchi Officer since 2009. Both were integral and beloved members of our community; both This year we said good bye to Prof. Alessandro Barchiesi and are sorely missed (not least by myself); our student services officer, Lori Lynn Taniguchi. and both receive our best wishes in their future endeavors. Prof. Barchiesi started a full-time appointment at NYU earlier this year. In September 2016 we welcomed Claudia Thank you for nearly sixteen years of service Alessandro. Lori Lynn helped Ortega, who joined us as our new all Classics undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty with academic Student Services Officer. Her job is not one I envy—keeping tabs on just about administration and advising for nearly seven years. She is now busy starting all our undergraduate and graduate student matters. her own business teaching swing dance around the Bay Area. One topic is not covered in these pages, Thank you for all of the support you provided to so many of us, Lori Lynn. despite its importance both to the students concerned and as a measure of how we are doing as a department. For some time now the academic job market has been Of those 12.5 decades I’ve spent only the public. It is pleasing, therefore, that the very tight, and so we are hugely gratified last one on the Farm, and in any case my department could host the Ludi Octobres, that so many of our recent PhDs have space is limited, so let me be brief now which brought nearly 500 high schoolers found positions. On the last count no up front. to campus to celebrate all things Roman fewer than five of ours were taking up It has been, even by our own standards, a and Latin. tenure-track positions this past August, busy year. Apart from the usual range of We continue to take enormous pride to say nothing of another 7 or so with classes in the many fields we cover, our in our own students and in their contract employment and fellowships. department hosted no fewer than three manifold engagements with the ancient Such success is, I believe, unmatched by workshops. Among our many visitors, Mediterranean and its languages, any other Classics department in the US, Michael Squire (King’s College London) literatures, and cultures. Last academic and equally unmatched by any Stanford and Bernhard Woytek (Austrian Academy year, 12 undergraduates and 14 graduates humanities department. Of course there of Sciences) stayed the longest, both spent time in Mediterranean countries, are other kinds of success as well, as for making a huge impact on our intellectual learning experientially about ancient example when our graduates choose other life via their teaching and winning new societies. Their stories are to be found career paths. Nonetheless, the number converts for their brands of research—art in this newsletter in the sections titled of academic positions our PhDs have historical and numismatic, respectively. “Undergraduate Stories” and “Graduate garnered is surely a sign that we are doing something right. As the saying goes, it Outreach continues to be important to us: Student News.” takes a village. we need to sustain and increase our efforts The year was not without its losses. At to bring ancient Greece and Rome to the the start we bade farewell to our senior GRANT PARKER attention of current undergraduates, of Latin colleague, Alessandro Barchiesi, potential undergraduates, and of the wider who after 16 years with us opted for the

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Courtesy of University Archives Commencement...... 2 Alumni Updates...... 28 Stanford Historical Photograph Faculty News...... 4 Lyric Mapping Project...... 29 Collection. Stanford Museum basement, 1953—Professor Hazel Numismatics...... 12 Eitner Lectures...... 30 Hansen and Alice Roydean [Forbes] Fairclough's Mediterranean...... 14 SCIT...... 31 reassembling Cesnola Collection Undergraduate Stories...... 18 Remembering Mark Edwards...... 33 pots damaged in 1906 quake. Graduate Student News...... 22 ii STANFORD UNIVERSITY Faculty and Staff We celebrated 125 years via an exhibit at Green Emeriti: Library with objects and documents on loan from Marsh McCall, Jr. (Recalled for 2016-17) University Archives. This exhibit, co-curated by Mark Susan Treggiari Pyzyk, a recent Stanford Classics Ph.D., examined Chair: the early history of Stanford Classics. Today, the Grant Parker Classics Department at Stanford University is a Director of Graduate Studies: major center of American classics, and a world Walter Scheidel leader in the study of ancient Greece and Rome. Director of Undergraduate Studies: The century and a quarter that intervenes between us and its foundation is often a John Klopacz sort of ever-advancing black box—that is, we seldom have an institutional memory Professors: that extends any further back than the recollection of the faculty's most senior Andrew Devine member. This exhibit was an attempt to shed some light on that earlier place and Richard P. Martin time. We thank Stanford University Libraries’ Department of Special Collections Ian Morris Reviel Netz and University Archives which provided access to primary source materials and Andrea Nightingale guidance in support of research needs and the creation of the exhibit. Josiah Ober Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi Rush Rehm THE DEPARTMENT hosted the California Junior Classical League’s Richard Saller (Dean, Humanities & Sciences) Walter Scheidel autumnal Ludi on October 31, 2015. What began as a gathering of 200 students and teachers from Michael Shanks local schools soon grew to almost 500 participants. At the request of our high school colleagues Susan Stephens John Klopacz recruited undergraduates, several inspired by fond memories of Associate Professors: their own JCL days, to serve as volunteers and campus guides. Four of them presented a Giovanna Ceserani panel on their experiences as Stanford classics majors. This event filled the center nave of Christopher B. Krebs Jody Maxmin Memorial Church. Special thanks are due to Valerie Kiszka, Richard Martin and Grant Parker Grant Parker for arranging and participating in Ludi Octobres. As Leonard Cassuto reminded us in a recent Jennifer Trimble Chronicle article, “High schools are the only possible supply lines to keep the liberal arts Assistant Professor: going. We ignore them at our peril.” Justin Leidwanger Courtesy Professors: Fabio Barry Chris Bobonich Alan Code Charlotte Fonrobert Ian Hodder Bissera Pentcheva Caroline Winterer Yiqun Zhou Lecturers: Maud Gleason John Klopacz Research Scholar: Adrienne Mayor Administrative Staff: Valerie Kiszka (Academic Operations Mgr.) Claudia Ortega (Student Services Officer) Eager sixth through twelfth graders begin their full day of Latin-based Lydia Hailu activities inside Memorial Church. (Administrative Coordinator) DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 1 Stanford Classics Commencement Quotations from the 2016 Commencement Speech

Commencement speech by Patrick Gomez (BA, 1991), Department Chair of World Languages at The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, California.

“I’m impressed that despite all the challenges confronting the humanities, this department has continued to thrive and to grow. This excellence is in no small part due to the brilliant efforts of the faculty here, but also to the enduring voices from antiquity that find expression anew as we seek to understand and reshape our own rapidly changing world.”

“Graduates, you possess the skills and knowledge to lead humanity forward in all of its challenges and struggles.”

“Learning languages is an act of empathy. It is an attempt to leave my normal mode of understanding, of operating, the way I instinctively see and perceive things—and to perceive them in a different way, to function in another’s world.”

“The discipline [of Classics] has prepared you to become our future leaders, peacemakers, entrepreneurs, doctors, artists, schoolteachers, scholars, and much more.”

2 STANFORD UNIVERSITY 2016 Presentation of Graduates and Awards

BACHELOR OF ARTS DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Iris Prize for Ambassadors of Classics to the Julia Anne Anderson Jacqueline Michelle Arthur-Montagne Wider Community Megan Louise Chin Artemis Leah Brod Meaghan Ann Carley Tyler Alexander Gonzalez* Megan Johanna Daniels Muses Prize for Senior Combining Excellence in Liam O’Hart Kinney Thea Sabrina De Armond Classics with the Arts Jonathan Augustus Martin David Franklin Driscoll Andreas Walker Amarotico Corinne Miller Mark Alexander Pyzyk Miriam Julia Pollock Alan Joshua Raphael Sheppard Olympia Prize for Stanford Athletes Christine Rose Rogers Demonstrating Excellence in Classics Natalie Cristina Sánchez MASTER OF ARTS Julia Anne Anderson Sona Sulakian Tyler Alexander Gonzalez Corinne Miller Santiago Melo Arias BACHELOR OF ARTS WITH HONORS Meaghan Ann Carley* DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS Christina Emily Cowart Smith*Φ Senior Prize Christina Emily Cowart Smith MINOR IN CLASSICS Junior Prize Andreas Walker Amarotico James Gross Richard Ramon Falcon Amanda Reeves Albert William Tomasso Katherine Jane Toothman Asclepius Prize for Senior Combining Excellence in Classics with Medicine Megan Louise Chin

Hieronymus Prize for Senior Combining Excellence in Classics with Theology Tyler Alexander Gonzalez

*Distinction Φ Phi Beta Kappa Society DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 3 Faculty News

GIOVANNA CESERANI digital project brought me back to deep who received grants have written about My past year has been dominated by archival research in London, Salisbury, their experiences for this newsletter. We the Grand Tour Project, the digital and Edinburgh—both to understand approved and monitored senior honors humanities research that I direct focused better the history of the printed reference thesis proposals from Meaghan Carley on eighteenth-century travelers to Italy work at the foundation of our database and Christina E. C. Smith. Both Christina and its antiquities. Work on the large (the 1997 Dictionary of British and Irish and Meaghan presented their research at database that I have been developing Travelers to Italy 1701–1800), and to study a well-attended department event during (with the help also of numerous students, the interesting travels to Sicily, as early as end-quarter week in June. graduate and undergraduate, many 1766, of the classicist and agronomist John Our new chair suggested we do some of whom are wonderful members of Symonds in the company of a Neapolitan cohort building among the undergraduate our department) has culminated in doctor. Beyond this Grand Tour work, majors and minors, and to that end, I an interactive digital tool that allows I have developed two articles on the organized three off-campus dinners where various searches and visualizations of modern historiography of ancient undergrads could get to know a faculty the travels and biographies of more than Greece and have enjoyed tremendously member better. Justin Leidwanger and 5,000 travelers. This tool, the Grand Tour discussing ancient historiography Dean Richard Saller, as well as department Explorer, is now in beta form, and the goal (whether in Latin or in translation) with Chair Grant Parker, each shared a meal and their interests with a small group of majors and “classics curious” freshmen. “Work on the large database that I have been developing (with the help In addition to sampling some fine also of numerous students, graduate and undergraduate, many of California Avenue cuisine, our students whom are wonderful members of our department) has culminated in an enjoyed learning what had attracted their interactive digital tool that allows various searches and visualizations of professors to Classics. At least two of the the travels and biographies of more than 5,000 travelers.” students considering Classics have since declared it as a major.

is to release it a year from now. Out of the our most engaged and inspiring students, The most rewarding aspect of my new beta version of the Grand Tour Explorer I who make ancient texts brim with rich role was getting to know the seniors better have developed a case study on eighteenth- new meanings in every class. and introducing them at the department century architects and archaeologists commencement ceremony. I had met in Italy, and I presented this study last JOHN KLOPACZ several of our most recent graduates During the past academic year I deepened November to Brown University’s Italian during their very first days on The Farm my involvement in the undergraduate Studies Colloquium. In March I organized when they took their language placement program by assuming the role of a workshop about the project, calling to tests, and I am delighted that I had the Director of Undergraduate Studies while Stanford a number of world-class experts opportunity to work with all of them also reaching out to the wider Classics on the Grand Tour and on the eighteenth during their senior year. I think it speaks community. I must thank Lori Lynn century—including not only art historians well for our department that several Taniguchi and Valerie Kiszka for keeping and cultural historians, but also historians double majors as well as classics minors me on track and Giovanna Ceserani and of economy and of social classes—to chose to graduate at our ceremony. All of Maud Gleason for their collective wisdom present original research developed in our recent graduates will represent the as past directors. Richard Martin and interaction with the Grand Tour Explorer; best in the classical tradition in whatever Justin Leidwanger served as members the results were fascinating. In the spring career they eventually pursue. of the undergraduate committee along the project received a Roberta Bowman I also served as local arrangements co- with Professor Ceserani. The committee Denning award and became a core project chair for the Archaeological Institute approved 12 requests for grants for of CESTA (Stanford’s Center for Spatial of America–Society for Classical activities including summer intensive and Textual Analysis), an affiliation Studies (AIA–SCS) 2016 joint annual language courses, participation in that secures ongoing support for this meeting in San Francisco, and I enjoyed archaeological programs, and self-directed research. This summer, moreover, this this opportunity to work with SCS study in Greece and Italy. The students

4 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Executive Director Adam Blistein one CHRISTOPHER B. KREBS historians from near and far; a second last time before his retirement from I am writing this “look backward” in such “Historiography Jam” is scheduled the organization. During late autumn France, where, for the third consecutive to take place in April of 2017. The next I recruited volunteers to staff the summer, I spent two weeks studying year also awaits, with the first part of the registration center. Volunteers came from Caesar with 17 high school teachers of Latin Survey for our graduate students as far away as Spain (our own Bárbara Latin. Along with the Paideia Institute for and a new course on “Great Books, Big Rodríguez), but most were Bay Area Humanistic Study, which runs “Caesar in Ideas from Antiquity,” a part of Stanford’s teachers and students. The guide to the Gaul,” my co-instructor Luca Grillo and ongoing effort to make the humanities host city that I compiled and edited is still I have by now worked with almost 60 more interesting to students majoring available online: https://classicalstudies. teachers to make Caesar’s Latin come in other areas of the human mind. Then, org/scs-news/guide-san-francisco-local- alive in classrooms all over the US; in the winter, I will follow up with an arrangements-committee. Much of the we’re all set to take that total closer to a advanced Latin course on Caesar as well as information is still current, should you hundred next year. the graduate dissertation workshop. need a guide for an upcoming visit to San On leave this past academic year as a JUSTIN LEIDWANGER Francisco. I especially appreciated the fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, It’s hard to believe three years have already generosity of Peter Holliday and Gray I was able to send off the manuscript of passed since I arrived at Stanford, but Brechin, who contributed short essays on The Cambridge Companion to the Writings the towering messes of books, pottery the classical tradition in California’s past. of Julius Caesar to Cambridge University drawings, and student projects scattered Back in the classroom, I continued to teach Press; here’s hoping that I can mention about my lab and office attest to this and, the beginning Latin sequence. In the spring its publication next year! I also continued more generally, to the fast pace of life I taught the intermediate Vergil class and working on my commentary on the around the Main Quad. A fall of mostly had the opportunity to read, among other seventh book of Caesar’s Gallic Wars research and writing allowed good selections, the Camilla passages in Book as well as what is shaping up to be an progress on several projects, including a 11. Adrienne Mayor co-edited volume on maritime networks graciously agreed to “Along with the Paideia Institute for Humanistic currently under review. This collection present some of the Study, which runs ‘Caesar in Gaul’, my co- instructor reflects the culmination of a conference I organized with Carl Knappett and features results of her own Luca Grillo and I have by now worked with almost cross-cultural study contributions to the debate over modeling 60 teachers to make Caesar’s Latin come alive in of women warriors seaborne connectivity from around the classrooms all over the US; we’re all set to take that to this all-female ancient Mediterranean and beyond. class. I discussed total closer to a hundred next year.” This project also leads directly into my curriculum and current monograph on Roman maritime assessment with and observed the classes socioeconomic networks in the eastern of teaching fellows Ronnie Shi and Ted intellectual biography of said man. Among Mediterranean. Among a mix of academic Kelting. I was impressed both by the care last year’s publications are “Thucydides and public lectures I’ve given on aspects each took in preparing for class and by in Gaul: The Siege of Plataea as Caesar’s of this research, the spring brought two the easy rapport they had with their Model for his Siege of Avaricum” (in particularly rewarding workshops: one on students. Shortly after commencement, Histos), “A Nation Finds its People: modeling global shipping networks and I flew to Austin for the American Freidrich Kohlrausch, New Readers and maritime flows at the Centre national de Classical League’s annual institute. If Readings of Tacitus’ Germania, and the la recherche scientifique (CNRS)’s Institute the many recent graduates who are Rise of a Popular German Nationalism” for Complex Systems in Paris and another preparing to teach at all levels did (in Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of on “Quantifying Problems in Ancient not convince me that classics is alive Nationalism in the 19th Century), and several History” as part of the Yale Economic and well, a session on curriculum and lemmata in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, History Workshop. including one for rebellare. For talks and resources for teaching Greek from pre-K My research on well-preserved ceramic seminars I travelled to Ohio, Mississippi, (yes, really!) through university level cargos from shipwrecks recently gave and England, as well as, more locally, to sent me back to campus confident in the rise to an allied project on ancient various high schools. A two-day workshop future of our discipline. volumetric standardization funded by a on ancient historiography in April Hellman Faculty Scholar award. How, brought together a dozen philologists and why, when, and where did it become

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 5 Faculty News complexities of owning, writing about, Marzamemi’s cultural heritage resources, and working with the ancient past. My especially public archaeological dive trails important for ancient producers and interests in technology, ethics, and the sea and a Museum of the Sea. We are thrilled consumers to transport goods in vessels all came together in a course on ancient to report the recent award of a large of standard volumes? The study aims ships and seafaring, which has also three-year Collaborative Research Grant to reveal the intersection of economic served as a terrific recruitment forum for from the National Endowment for the institutions with shifting social, political, summer fieldwork. Humanities, ensuring the continuation and other determinants from the Bronze and expansion of our work at Marzamemi Age through the Byzantine era. A two- Our 2016 field research off the southeast over the seasons ahead. day workshop kicked off this research coast of Sicily at Marzamemi saw the in January. Work continues in several largest, longest, and most successful RICHARD MARTIN directions, including collaborating with season to date. The so-called “church From manuscript submission to a local potter to examine precision and wreck”—a sixth-century AD ship publication in May 2016, Classical technique in the production process, and carrying a large cargo of prefabricated Mythology: The Basics took only nine adapting different 3D technologies for architectural and decorative elements months—the only way in which my large-scale data collection of volumes from for a church (see https://marzamemi. latest book resembles a human being. The both intact and fragmentary ceramics. stanford.edu and www.facebook.com/ Routledge folks are to be praised for their marzamemiproject)—continues to reveal Ancient technology forms the basis of one amazingly efficient production; I owe its secrets from under the mounds of of my favorite courses developed over the thanks especially to Lizzi Thomasson boulders and marble columns. A team of last few years, “Engineering the Roman there and to freelance art permissions guru more than 30 archaeologists, students, and Empire,” a course that has brought the Jim Guida. Whether it gets distributed logistical support staff have a wealth of most unexpected intellectual rewards to airport bookstores, Starbucks, and new and interesting finds to show after from an insightful group of students with Athenian street kiosks remains to be seen. more than two months on the site: not diverse backgrounds—and, incidentally, only more marble cargo but also dozens nearly enough student-designed scaled of cooking and tableware ceramics from Vitruvian catapults to organize an exhibit. the sailors, as well as boxes upon boxes of (One of this year’s 30-centimeter models metal fasteners from the ship. Alongside could hurl a projectile over 20 meters!) A our fieldwork, various initiatives in stellar group of young classicists joined collaboration with local stakeholders me in our Majors Seminar on the ethical and regional authorities are developing

May Peterson and Elle Ota excavate a small marble column from the cargo of the Marzamemi “church wreck”. 6 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Having entrusted that book to the press a few weeks Clarin-COFUND Postdoctoral Researcher before classes BÁRBARA ÁLVAREZ RODRÍGUEZ began, I spent the The second year as a “Clarin-COFUND” postdoctoral researcher at Classics academic year started well, with new and big challenges. In September, I was a Visiting 2015–16 writing Scholar at the Center for Hellenistic Studies that Harvard University has pieces of varying in Washington, DC. I was there for a brief but intense week. I had the length on subjects opportunity to meet and to converse with great researchers in Classics including the constellation of sanctuaries in studies, and I was delighted to have nonstop access to any book in the Classics the ancient Greek city of Dion, at the foot world you could think of. of Mt. Olympus; the theology underlying the poems attributed to Hesiod; Poseidon’s During the fall quarter, I gave my first talks in the US. The first one was at myths and cults in relation to the Odyssey; San Francisco State University. It was entitled “Building the Self through Sappho as a poet of reprimand and abuse; κλέος: The Importance of the Gift and War Prize for Homeric Heroes.” and the Seven Sages. Two earlier efforts In this talk I tried to show the importance of the prize of war and guest- finally saw the light of day: “Competencia friendship gifts for the heroes. These served as a way for them to build their encontrapunto: performance y poética Self by obtaining fame and glory among their contemporaries and future en los Skolia” in ΑΓΩΝ: Competencia y generations. Secondly, I took part in the 2015 LUDI Octobres “Monster Cooperación, edited by Graciela Zecchin Mash: Mōta Monstrōrum,” giving the seminar “Cyclops, Laestrygonians, and de Fasano et al. (La Plata, Argentina) and Sirens: Building the Monster in the Odyssey.” It was an amazing experience “Against Ornament: O. M. Freidenberg’s to watch all these kids so interested in Odysseus’s adventures! Lastly, I gave Concept of Metaphor in Ancient and a research talk at the Classics department at Stanford titled: “Understanding Modern Contexts” in Persistent Forms, the Past through the Present: The Reading of Homer’s Poems through the edited by Boris Maslov and Ilya Kliger Lens of Alterity Studies.” I intended to summarize the point and motivating (Fordham). I managed to keep up my Celtic force of my research. I felt that the understanding of the Homeric texts, from side in a minor way by writing about an a philosophical point of view, provides an intriguing and important light intriguing collection of essays on Classics by which to understand the social structures of the world in which we live. I and Medieval Irish literature for the Bryn truly appreciate all the feedback that I received and the interesting questions Mawr Classical Review. that were raised. In spring quarter, I traveled to the East Coast again, this time to the beautiful and historic Williamsburg, VA, where I gave a conference An enjoyable year of teaching our eager paper in the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West undergrads and grad students (Archaic and South (CAMWS). Utilizing Levinas as a starting point, I studied different Greek Survey, Greek and Roman Satire, scenes of both the Iliad and the Odyssey in which shame and acknowledgement Herodotus, and Myth) ended on June 12 appear governing the relationships with the “contemporaneous others,” those when I saw some of the former receive the with whom the heroes share time and community. The paper was entitled BA, and “hooded” two of the latter, who had “Rethinking Homer from a Theory of Alterity: αἰδώς as a Function grabbed the shiny brass ring of the PhD: of the Other”. Alan Sheppard and David Driscoll. Keep an eye out for future installments of their In August, I was published by Eidolon with an article in Spanish entitled “La excellent work on (respectively) poetic vergüenza en Europa: αἰδώς homérico y los refugiados,” in which I addressed inscriptions and Homeric interpretation. the ethical and philosophical consequences of the “agreement of shame” between the EU and Turkey in regard to Syrian refugees. In a few weeks, JODY MAXMIN another Spanish work will be published in the Spanish journal Daimon, I continue to learn from collaborating titled “Papel e imagen social de las mujeres en los poemas homéricos desde with the Cantor Arts Center’s Art + la perspectiva de su alteridad.” This work is an analysis of the role played by Science Learning Lab, the Getty Center’s women within the communities depicted by Homer. Currently, I am working Conservation Institute, and Stanford’s on a proposal for a book in which my PhD and postdoctoral research will Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource be gathered. (SSRL) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The exhibition Hidden Elements: Two Greek Vases Reveal Their Stories features

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 7 Faculty News scriptwriter of a possible TV series based further toward leaving the EU. That on my book. Among my publications this wasn’t quite what I’d intended. two of the Cantor’s Athenian lekythoi in year were forewords for Golden Menagerie addition to the recent research of Susan In January I gave several talks at the World by Temple St. Clair and for Nart Sagas Roberts-Manganelli and her students in Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. from the Caucasus by John Colarusso; a Materials Science. It opens in September. This too was a lot of fun, although I’ve chapter on the archaeology of Amazons (For more information, see http://news. never been through so many metal for Women in Antiquity (Routledge); and stanford.edu/features/2016/slac/art.) detectors in my life. It was also the first articles in World Financial Review, Aeon, conference I’ve ever been to that asked me I have also enjoyed working with Ancient Warfare, Ancient-Origins.net, and whether I’d be bringing my own Elizabeth Mitchell, Ali Gass, security detail. and Jenny Carty, as well as on “Since the last newsletter, I’ve been interviewed the antiquities included in Object Another novel experience was by Time, CNN, Russia’s REN TV, and ABC Lessons: Art & Its Histories, the speaking at a conference in Beijing Cantor’s new reinstallation of the Australia on various topics, including the history for AliResearch, the research wing collection designed around the of trousers and ancient poisons.” of the online platform Alibaba. I art history curriculum. (For more put in one of the longest workdays information, see https://museum.stanford. Encyclopaedia Iranica. I continue to be in my life while I was there, which edu/news_room/Cantor_Fall.) a regular monthly contributor to the included an epic banquet accompanied by Uighur music and an ocean of fermented In the autumn, I addressed the Cantor Arts Wonders and Marvels history of science mare’s milk, and which culminated in the Center’s Advisory Board at the installation website. In 2016 I was invited to speak traffic jam from hell. of Mining the Ancient (https://museum. about Amazons at Emory, UC Davis, San stanford.edu/news_room/exhibitions. Diego State, and the California Classical I didn’t publish any new books last year, htm), lectured at Structured Liberal Association. but I did manage a few articles and kept up Education (SLE), and began work on a my monthly columns on long-term history new seminar for autumn 2016: “Artists, IAN MORRIS and current events for Stratfor, a strategic I spent 2015–16 teaching, traveling, and Athletes, Courtesans and Crooks.” forecasting company. I’ll be spending doing a lot of talking. With the exception 2016–17 on leave on an Andrew Carnegie of the undergraduate survey of ancient ADRIENNE MAYOR Fellowship, though, and I hope to come This past year my book The Amazons: Lives Greek history, which I’ve taught almost back from it with another book done. and Legends of Warrior Women across the every year since 1987, all my classes were Ancient World came out in paperback. It new—a freshman course on the history ANDREA NIGHTINGALE was a finalist for the London Hellenic Prize of war in the Thinking Matters program, I spent the summer hiking in the Santa and won the 2016 Women in Mythology an undergraduate survey of world history Cruz Mountains, writing poetry, and Sarasvati prize for nonfiction; it was also from the beginning to the 14th century AD, reading books on ecological issues. Mark named one of Foreign Affairs’s best books and a graduate seminar on ancient empires. and I announced our “eternal engagement”: of 2015. Since the last newsletter, I’ve I also had the pleasure of seeing Megan we decided to stay engaged for life (rather been interviewed by Time, CNN, Russia’s Daniels, whom I’ve been advising on her than to marry). This year, I have three new REN TV, and ABC Australia on various PhD on ancient Mediterranean religion, babies in my extended family—Melanie topics, including the history of trousers successfully defend her dissertation and Dyson, Lucia Slate, and Ellery Dyson. My and ancient poisons. The Amazons will head off to a postdoctoral fellowship at the academic book on chaos and the abyss soon be translated into Spanish, Italian, University of Puget Sound. turned—quite surprisingly—into a book of and French. I’m delighted to be finished I saw some interesting places. I made poetry (not yet sent out to press). In terms of with my arduous duties as one of the five four trips to Britain during the academic my academic work, I have gone back to the nonfiction judges for the 2015 National year to deliver the Philippe Roman Greek side and am writing essays on Plato. Book Awards. I visited wonderful lectures in international relations at the JOSIAH OBER museum collections in Edinburgh last fall London School of Economics, which was I spent the fall term of 2015–16 as and Paris this spring, and I investigated a tremendous experience. I also wrote Leventis Visiting Professor of Classics dinosaur fossil tracksites and petroglyphs a series of columns on the history of at the University of Edinburgh, in Wyoming this summer. Now I am a Britain’s relations with Europe for British where I organized a conference on the consultant for a forthcoming documentary and American newspapers and websites, theme “Ancient Greek History and film on Amazons (Urban Canyons/ although each time I published something, Contemporary Social Science” (see Smithsonian); I’m also consulting with the British public opinion seemed to swing 8 STANFORD UNIVERSITY http://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics- of the Classics departments at UCLA and the spring, “Theater of War: Violence and archaeology/news-events/events/ at San Francisco State University. I am the Technologies of Death”; and in the events-archive/events2015/leventis- also happy that the first two volumes summer, “Acting Short Narrative.” conference-2015.) Participants included from the Network for the Study of In June–August 2016, Stanford Repertory Stanford professors Ian Morris (via Skype) Archaic and Classical Greek Song (of Theater (SRT) presented its 18th summer and Barry Weingast (Political Science) which I am a founding member) were festival, “Theater Takes A Stand.” As SRT as well as current or former graduate published this year, one on The Look of Artistic Director, I oversaw the festival, students Scott Arcenas, Federica Carugati, Lyric: Greek Song and the Visual and one on including productions of Naomi Wallace’s James Kierstead, and Mark Pyzyk. While The Newest Sappho. My own contributions Slaughter City and Clifford Odets’s Waiting in residence in Edinburgh I gave papers to these volumes represent some of my for Lefty. The Classics department joined at several other British and European thinking of the last few years regarding many departments, programs, and schools universities. In October I delivered the J. the visual force of Greek lyric poetry as (H&S, Education, Business) as a sponsor. R. Seeley Lectures in Political Thought well as newer ways of understanding lyric Our SRT symposium on Theater and at Cambridge University on the topic poetry’s focus on the re-imagination and Labor featured scenes from the Federal “democracy before liberalism”; a book representation of one’s current reality. My Theater Project’s Injunction Granted, based on those lectures will be published broader (and older) interest in comparing Brecht’s The Exception and the Rule, and next year by Cambridge University Press. Dutch painting of the Golden Age with Wesker’s Chicken Soup with Barley, as well In January, along with a number of other some recurrent Greek lyric tropes as lectures by Stanford emeritus professors Stanford faculty and grads, I participated surfaces in my contribution to the Newest Peter Stansky and William Eddelman, UC in a colloquium on new directions in Sappho volume, where the Dutch painter Berkeley Vice-Provost Shannon Jackson, classical scholarship, organized by grad Pieter de Hooch and his domestic scenes and University of Washington Professor student Matthieu Abgrall and supported provided a stimulating comparandum for of Theater (emeritus) Barry Witham, by the Stanford-France Program. contemplating the context within which who delivered the keynote on the Federal The colloquium brought a number of Sappho’s poetry about her family could Theater Project. Our free film series on senior and younger scholars from the have been culturally vital in her times. labor films (Kule Wampe, Modern Times, Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes The Grapes of Wrath, Matewan, American Antiques (ANHIMA) program in Paris to RUSH REHM In August and September 2015, I directed Dream, Cradle Will Rock, Man of Iron, and Stanford. I also attended the follow-up Stanford Repertory Theater (SRT)’s Pride) included post-screening discussions colloquium held this June in Paris. My Clytemnestra: Tangled Justice on tour in by Stanford professors Tobias Wolff, recent book, The Rise and Fall of Classical New Zealand and Australia. This one- Kenneth Fields, Jan Krawitz, Branislav Greece, was awarded the Douglass North woman show explores the character Jakovljevic, Peter Stansky, and myself. Research Award (best book or article of Clytemnestra as she appears across in the past two years) by the Society Following the SRT summer festival, I Aeschylus’s Oresteia trilogy. The show for Institutional and Organizational played Friar Laurence in We Players’s traveled to Wesleyan University (hosted Economics, and is currently a finalist for production of Romeo and Juliet, at the by Stanford Classics PhD and now Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Petaluma Adobe and then at Montalvo Art Associate Professor Eirene Visvardi!) in book prize. Center in Saratoga, where the company February then to the Trianon Theater spent six weeks as artists in residence. in Nafplion, Greece, and the Hellenic- ANASTASIA-ERASMIA PEPONI I contributed “Eclectic Encounters: Staging A sabbatical fellowship provided free time American Union in Athens in March Greek Tragedy in America, 1973–2009,” for research this year. I was particularly 2016. In April–May 2016, I directed SRT’s to The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama delighted to spend time familiarizing production of Words and Images to End All in the Americas, edited by K. Bosher, F. myself with areas other than my main Wars, part of the ongoing commemoration Macintosh, J. McConnell, and P. Rankine interests, especially with Minoan painting of the centenary of World War I. (Oxford University Press), and authored and twentieth-century philosophy. I In the winter quarter, I taught a freshman a review of Space, Place, and Landscape hope that fruits of my engagement with seminar “To Die For: Antigone and in Ancient Greek Literature and Culture, these areas will show up in new and Contemporary Dissent,” and a sophomore edited by K. Gilhuly and N. Worman, for forthcoming projects. seminar, “Noam Chomsky: The Drama Classical Philology. In the spring, I immensely enjoyed of Resistance” (which included taking In fall 2016 I will be on leave, looking lecturing on and discussing issues relevant 16 students to see the new Chomsky forward to the appearance of several to aesthetic experience in ancient and documentary Requiem for the American articles in the pipeline and to a new edition modern times with faculty and students Dream at the Roxie in San Francisco); in DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 9 Faculty News of how the sciences are enriching and visuality of slave sales, slave gladiators’ transforming our understanding of the graffiti, and themes of visibility and of my now 25-year-old Greek Tragic classical world, and the two-volume transformation in the tombs of ex-slaves. Theatre, retitled Understanding Greek Tragic Oxford World History of Empire that I have Paying close attention to slave visibility Theatre (Routledge). been developing together with Peter gives us insight into both the lives of slaves RICHARD SALLER Bang and the late Chris Bayly. This fall and the workings of Roman visual culture. 2015–16 has been a year of transition for I returned to the classroom, co-teaching A first attempt to explore these issues the university, which has taken some of a graduate seminar on ancient state within a specific case study came out as an my time. We have a new President, Marc formation with Josh Ober. I also continue article this summer: “The Zoninus Collar Tessier-Levigne, who is committed to the to lecture for Human Biology’s Core and the Archaeology of Roman Slavery,” humanities. He asked me to chair the search sequence. I have tried to stay away as much in the American Journal of Archaeology committee for a new Provost. I believe as possible from academic conferences and (July 2016). In the article, I first trace the that the university will be in good hands have reaped considerable benefits in terms history of ancient slave collars in mid– to continue the remarkable success of the of time and sanity by turning down most 18th-century antiquarian collecting and Hennessy-Etchemendy years. invitations for speaking engagements—but publishing. This antiquarian scholarship In the midst of the anxiety generated by I am glad I made exceptions for old friends was characterized by a profound split change on campus, my wife, Professor at the University of Victoria, Evergreen between text and object that has had Tanya Luhrmann, and I taught a three- College (where I gave the annual keynote lasting effects on the material we have week Bing Overseas Studies Program lecture for the Classical Association of the and on how we think about it. In the (BOSP) summer seminar in Florence on Pacific Northwest), and the Universities of second half of the article, I propose a two- science and spirituality in the Renaissance, Copenhagen and Lund. I greatly enjoyed a part remedy for this text-object split: 1) starting from Lucretius. Most of the 16 whirlwind lecture (and dining/sightseeing) reintegrating the collars’ visual, material, students were in engineering, science or tour of Shanghai, Xi’an, and Beijing and textual aspects, and 2) exploring the math. They devoured the seminar and organized by the trailblazing Jinyu Liu and very different perspectives on the same talked about how it was different from her local collaborators. I spent the spring object of slave owners, audiences, and any other course they had taken—in a few quarter as a visiting professor at the Saxo collared slaves. cases they talked about how it was life- Institute of the University of Copenhagen, Teaching is a wonderful way to changing for them. It made me ache to give where I participated in my good friend contextualize our research more broadly all of our students a similar experience in Peter Bang’s seminars and sampled stellar and to involve students in cutting-edge the humanities. and multi-starred New Nordic cuisine. discussions in the field. This past year WALTER SCHEIDEL JENNIFER TRIMBLE I taught a graduate seminar on “The I am happy to report that I spent most of My research and teaching energies this Archaeology of Roman Slavery,” looking last year on sabbatical. This allowed me to past year have focused primarily on the at the history of scholarship and at the complete my latest book, The Great Leveler: material and visual culture of Roman dynamism of comparative work in the Violence and the History of Inequality from slavery. Slaves are notoriously among archaeology of slavery in other times and the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, the least visible people of antiquity; by places. We are seeing a proliferation of which will come out in 2017. Together definition, they did not control many methods in the study of Roman slavery, with John Bodel at Brown, I published a physical resources or leave a substantial including not only well-established collection of essays in honor of Orlando material footprint. This poses a serious approaches like the study of inscriptions Patterson’s pathbreaking comparative methodological problem for modern or built spaces but also newer techniques study Slavery and Social Death of 1982. scholars. Even more intriguing is the way like the isotopic analysis of bones and Entitled On Human Bondage: After Slavery in which issues of visibility and invisibility teeth. With this range of evidence and and Social Death, it offers the most wide- shaped slaves’ lives within ancient Roman methods in mind, this year I taught a ranging critical engagement with his work society. In September 2016, I will have the new undergraduate course on “Roman to date. I am now putting the finishing chance to workshop my book-in-progress Gladiators,” most of whom were slaves. touches on two other edited books, The on these issues, Seeing Roman Slaves, as the Studying gladiators requires us to Science of Ancient History: Biology, Climate Townsend Lecturer in Classics at Cornell think with texts, architecture, funerary and the Future of the Past, in which experts University. The lectures will explore, inter evidence, bone evidence, and more. on areas such as paleoclimatology, ancient alia, issues of slave visibility in Seneca Together with my exceptional Teaching DNA, and isotope analysis give us a sense and in the ritual of the Compitalia, the Assistant, third-year Classical Archaeology

10 STANFORD UNIVERSITY PhD student Gabrielle Thiboutot, we had versus ritual models of communication our students learn how to do everything helps clarify what is at stake. Building from reconstructing gladiators’ training on Carey’s ideas, I argue that the Roman Visiting Scholars regimens to analyzing ancient texts empire’s enormous size, diversity, and MICHAEL SQUIRE and images critically to learning how connectivity fostered creative new Early Career Visiting Fellow to decipher the Latin inscriptions developments in image communication. on gladiators’ tombstones—without How this worked can be traced in three Michael Squire (Ph.D. Trinity necessarily knowing any Latin! The latter very different images of men wearing the College, 2006) was in residence from lesson was one of Gabie’s most memorable Greek himation (cloak) in the “armsling” January through early February contributions to the course. scheme, images from very different places 2016. He specializes in Graeco- Roman visual culture, the history I continue to write and teach also about and contexts in the empire (Asia Minor, of aesthetics, and representations Roman art, especially in relation to the Black Sea coast, and Egypt). Each image of the body in Greek and Roman portraiture and the body. In press now is drew on the same visual building block art. He is currently Reader at an article on “Framing and social identity of the armsling himation scheme; each King’s College, London. While at in Roman portrait statues,” written for image communicated at both transmission Stanford he received the honor of Framing the Visual in Greek and Roman and ritual levels; and each image created giving the fifth annual Herbert W. Art, edited by Verity Platt and Michael a specific local identity and community Benario lecture in Roman Studies Squire (Cambridge University Press). situation in relation to the larger at Emory University: “Troy Story: In this article I ask: what is a Roman imperial world. Miniaturizing Epic in Roman Art” portrait? Does it include the carved face Advising students is one of the most on January 21, 2016. In addition, alone, the head, the body, the inscribed rewarding aspects of my job. This year, he gave a research talk in our base, the sculptural assemblage, the together with Professor Emeritus of department on January 25, 2016 built environment, the broader societal English George Brown, I co-advised the entitled “How to read a Roman context? Changing scholarly perspectives honors thesis of Christina E. C. Smith. portrait? Optatian and the face have repeatedly redefined what a Roman Christina wrote about the Venerable of Constantine” which brought portrait is, and each shift of the frame Bede and his attitude toward the visual together two research themes: changes what can be seen. Drawing arts. This is an important topic: the First on the one hand, the ‘semantic’ on Jacques Derrida’s discussion of the Byzantine Iconoclasm was brewing workings of Roman portraits “parergon,” I ask what is at stake in each during Bede’s lifetime, and he was the (signa); and on the other the unloved reframing and how Roman portraits first western author to write about the and overlooked ‘picture-poems’ constructed social identity. The social emerging struggle over the permissibility of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius identity on display was not singular of sacred images. Christina did a brilliant (writing in the first decades of the and separated from its surroundings but job; her thesis won a Robert M. Golden fourth century A.D.). extended well beyond the person depicted, Medal for Excellence in the Humanities through space and time. and the Creative Arts. I also want to honor WILFRED MAJOR Also in press is “Communicating with the talent, hard work, and achievements of Prof. Wilfred (Willie) Major joined Images in the Roman Empire,” in Mercury’s two recent PhDs, both of whom finished the department this summer as a Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in 2015 and both of whose dissertations Visiting Scholar. He is an associate in the Ancient World, edited by Fred Naiden I co-advised together with Alessandro professor at Louisiana State and Richard Talbert (Oxford University Barchiesi. This fall, Dr. Matthew Loar University in the Department of Press). Here I try to think about how begins a tenure-track position in Classics Foreign Languages and Literatures. Roman images communicated. What at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, He specializes in Greek and they communicated has been brilliantly and Dr. Carolyn MacDonald begins a Roman comedy as well as in Greek studied in recent decades: visual images tenure-track position in Classics at the pedagogy. He is working on his in the Roman world expressed values, University of New Brunswick in Canada. monograph entitled Love in the Age constructed identity, transmitted political Congratulations to all three! of War: The Soldier in Menander. ideas, shaped religious experience, affirmed social belonging, and more. How they did so is a more difficult question. Here, James Carey’s classic definition of transmission

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 11 Numismatics Classics 177: Describing and Identifying Ancient Bernhard Woytek was a Visiting Associate Coins Professor of Classics for the spring quarter. He is the head of the division “Documenta Antiqua” (a In numismatics, as in all other research center for numismatics, epigraphy, and disciplines dealing with documentary papyrology) at the Institute for the Study of Ancient sources of the ancient world (like Culture at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, epigraphy and papyrology), it is Vienna. Dr. Woytek specializes in the study of essential to work hands-on with ancient numismatics, financial history of the ancient the primary material. This course, world, and the history of classical scholarship. He an optional accompaniment to earned his PhD in 2002 from Vienna University. the graduate seminar in ancient He taught the two courses described on this page and was the keynote speaker at numismatics, will focus on practical the opening celebration, in appreciation of donors and benefactors, of the Frank L. work with ancient coins from the Kovacs Numismatic Library on May 9, 2016. His talk was entitled “Numismatics collection at the Cantor Arts Center: and the Mind of Man: The Study of Ancient Coins from the Renaissance to the students will learn how to describe 21st Century.” and identify ancient coins and how to properly catalogue and classify them. A special focus will be on the The Opening of the Frank L. Kovacs identification of fakes. Participants will be trained to use the main Numismatic Library

reference works on ancient coinages in BY DAVID A. JORDAN the Frank L. Kovacs library, recently donated to Stanford University. The Frank L. Kovacs Numismatic Library, undoubtedly one of the largest and most complete reference collections on ancient numismatics situated on the West Classics 214: Proseminar: Coast of the US, is now housed at the Stanford Libraries and was immediately Ancient Numismatics put to use by students and a visiting professor in spring quarter seminars. Graduate proseminar. Introductory Comprising more than 2,700 catalog records and occupying 325 linear overview of the heterogeneous coinages feet of shelving in the Raubitschek Room in Cecil H. Green Library, the of antiquity, from the earliest coins collection has been named the Frank L. Kovacs Numismatic Library. of the Mediterranean to classical “The Kovacs Library has dramatically broadened Stanford’s collections,” and Hellenistic Greek coins, Roman said University Librarian Michael Keller. “The overlap with the Republican, Imperial, and provincial Libraries’ preexisting holdings was less than 30 percent, making it a coinages as well as various ancient highly valued addition.” Oriental coinages. Topics include: In merely months after the collection’s arrival, Dr. Bernhard Woytek, numismatic terminology; techniques head of the division Documenta Antiqua, a research center for of coin production in antiquity; numismatics, epigraphy, and papyrology at the Institute for the Study numismatic methodology (die studies, of Ancient Culture at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, took up an hoard studies, metrological analyses); appointment as visiting associate professor of Classics and offered two quantifying coin production and numismatic courses. ancient financial history; coins vs. other forms of money in antiquity; the study The Kovacs Library along with Dr. Woytek’s courses has raised the of ancient coinages in the Early profile of numismatics as an academic discipline at Stanford University Modern world. and created new opportunities for interdisciplinary research across all of the humanities and across a broad geographical and historical range.

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DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 13 Fairclough’s Mediterranean

MARK PYZYK Henry Rushton Fairclough was well “Classical scholarship has for its chief field this ancient Mediterranean area; into his seventies when he set out some and the student who is to devote himself to the cultivation of that field has thoughts on the importance of the before him a life that will be lived on a high intellectual level and that will also Mediterranean Sea. He has now mostly have close relationship with the social trends and the varied interests even of sunk into obscurity (with the exception this twentieth century.” of his Loeb editions of Horace and Virgil, —H. R. FAIRCLOUGH, WARMING BOTH HANDS (1940) which are still in print). But his memoir, Warming Both Hands—of which Stanford’s Classics Library thinking about Germany for the has not one, but two, copies— rest of his life. He then arrived along with his voluminous in Paris, and thence on to Rome. correspondence in Green Rome, he says, “aroused in me a Library’s Special Collections, spirit of adoration. Here I seemed reveals an engagement with to read the whole history of the Mediterranean that was Europe in epitome.” It stood in not merely scholarly, but distinct contrast to California, at also—especially with respect to the leading edge of the American the former Yugoslavia—deeply frontier, where everything personal and humanitarian. was new, nothing old (with On the 125th anniversary of native American civilizations, Stanford Classics, we might of course, excluded or ignored). look back and ask whether This helps us to understand Fairclough’s experience has any why Stanford’s 1902 production remaining relevance for the of Antigone—produced by 21st-century classicist. Fairclough and his colleague Augustus Murray—should have Born in the Dominion of been so successful: it oozed “high Canada, educated at the culture,” something for which University of Toronto, western robber barons (like the Fairclough arrived at Stanford Stanfords) were desperately University in 1893. He would thirsty. And like the Panama spend the vast majority of his Pacific Exposition of 1915, on career here, taking up American H. R. Fairclough in uniform after returning from Montenegro. whose classical architecture citizenship only in 1917 because, Palo Alto, c. 1921. Fairclough wrote an article, it he wrote, “I had sworn allegiance allowed frontier elites to imagine to Queen Victoria, and so long as themselves at the center, rather than at the periphery. she reigned nothing could have induced me to give up my British status; but under her successor I did…” In addition to becoming Fairclough claims in Warming Both Hands that “all pilgrims to American, he also styled himself a “Californian.” His memoir and Rome become archaeologists”: at any rate, for him, it was the correspondence show a quasi-religious enthusiasm for the natural beginning of a lifelong alliance with archaeology. It was on the beauty of the Golden State, and throughout his life Fairclough same trip that he met Arthur Evans and toured the ruins of compared it to the sea of the Greeks and Romans. Knossos, taking high tea with him in the Palace of Minos. Besides a gradual attraction to archaeology, Fairclough’s trip marks His first visit to the Mediterranean, however, came only in another line of demarcation in his scholarship: his turn to Latin. It 1903, nearly twenty years after Leland Stanford Jr. succumbed was only on his return to America, responding to a departmental to typhus in the middle of his own Grand Tour. Rather than need, that he began to teach classes and to write scholarship on go straight to the source, Fairclough traveled to Berlin, where Latin literature. He had previously been a Hellenist (writing he encountered anti-English sentiment that would mark his 14 STANFORD UNIVERSITY H. R. Fairclough and an unknown man in a Red Cross relief vehicle. Montenegro, 1918–21. his dissertation on “Attitudes of the Greek Tragedians Toward be seen around London, red book in hand. But the war touched Nature”), and he would regret the move away from Greek for the him nevertheless, and Fairclough lost several family members rest of his life. in these years—one, James Fergusson, was a Stanford graduate His second trip to the Mediterranean came seven years later, in (his memorial can be seen opposite the Burghers of Calais, in the academic year of 1910–11, when he was invited to spend a Stanford’s outer quadrangle). year at the American School of Classical Studies in Rome. On When Fairclough finally crossed the Atlantic, in 1917, it was the way there, he visited Berlin again, representing Stanford at with the Red Cross, which was organizing relief for American the centennial celebration of the University of Berlin. Kaiser POWs. He was asked to do so by Atholl McBean, a “Stanford Wilhelm II spoke at the gala dinner, and his voice—“very harsh”— Man” and San Francisco businessman who was helping to made a poor impression. In Rome, Fairclough taught, of course. direct relief operations in Europe. It is indicative of business But he also had the chance to consult the Vatican’s manuscript theory in the early 20th century that training in philology was collection, and in particular, took the opportunity to work with considered adequate preparation for this kind of work, but the Bembine Manuscript of Terence, something that would Fairclough himself is adamant that such training made all the otherwise have been much more difficult for him than it was difference when he first arrived. In his memoir, he compares for European colleagues. Very far from home, he nevertheless the task of collecting, ordering, answering and reporting on his felt comfortable in Rome, working and socializing with Italian, office’s long neglected correspondence to the task of taking up a French, Austrian, and German scholars. disputed passage of Virgil or Theocritus, with their long trails of At least some of these contacts would come under severe competing manuscripts, commentaries, and scholarly disputes. strain when the Great War broke out in 1914. Fairclough was In any case, he seems to have impressed his superiors. When the unambiguous in his sympathies—he blamed Germany from the war ended in 1918, he was asked to coordinate relief efforts in beginning—and seems to have maintained or broken friendships Montenegro, an area he claims not to have been able to find on a on this point. Fairclough, too old to be drafted by the Canadians, map before the war. Here too, he seems to have excelled—at least, sat out the war working on his Loeb edition of the Aeneid. It according to his memoir. This period consumes many hundreds would be his most enduring work—the preferred translation, of pages in Warming Both Hands, and rather than summarize here, reportedly, of J. G. Frazer (author of The Golden Bough), who could I simply urge readers to visit Green Library’s Special Collections

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 15 and see the prizes Fairclough has dedicated there. I was surprised, His most vivid account of this trip, however, comes from upon opening a box of correspondence, to find a silver cigarette Yugoslavia, where he visited people and places familiar to him case—given to him by Queen Elizabeth of Belgium—containing from his humanitarian relief days. What he found pleased him. Red Cross commemorative pins, along with several large medals The country was no longer swamped with bandits (comitadji) bestowed on him by King Alexander I of Serbia (which only as it had been, and it seemed to be more prosperous. He came became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929). face to face with Montenegrins who remembered him as the Fairclough’s research suffered during this period, but did not stop. foreigner who had saved them from starvation. Lazar Kalezić, He familiarized himself with the Roman sites of Montenegro for instance, grew up at a state-run facility that Fairclough had and wrote several articles on the subject, making sure to explore founded in order to educate young Montenegrin war orphans. Diocletian’s palace in Spalato, where he imagined the old man A letter in Serbian, discovered in Fairclough’s archive, records happily growing cabbages their encounter in 1930: “You rather than running an simply asked: ‘Do you know empire. But though he me?’ and I firmly replied that I published several articles on know You and that I remember these sites, I’ve been unable to everyone who was part of the find any evidence that they administration of this Home were ever cited. Ironically, from the USA. Then You took a Fairclough’s impact was pencil and started marking down likely more significant on the data about me such as: what’s contemporary policy toward my name, how old I am, which Montenegro and the Kingdom grade I am in, and so forth. I said of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes that I was in the second grade of (as it was then called): here the gymnasium, and You were too, he wrote several papers, glad about that, and You showed and these certainly were the will for me to contact You read by friends of his in the after I finish higher gymnasium, American foreign service, the promising that You’ll take care of most important of whom was my future university education” Herbert Hoover, a (I must thank Vladimir V. friend and Stanford alumnus, Mihajlović for his assistance in who led the American Relief translating the letter, along with Administration and in 1929 his expertise in heraldry, which became president of the helped identify Fairclough’s United States. H. R. Fairclough in civilian clothing. Probably after 1930. Serbian medals). Fairclough died on February 12, 1938—almost Life after the Red Cross was eight years after meeting Kalezić more or less the same as it had been before (though Fairclough for the second time. Unfortunately, I was unable to discover was shocked to see that Stanford students now smoked openly). whether Kalezić attended the University of Belgrade, as both Fairclough did visit the Mediterranean one more time, in 1930, had hoped. in what he calls his “archaeological tour.” He began with Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Athens. But for the first Fairclough’s Mediterranean—the “magic Mediterranean,” he calls time, he also crossed to North Africa. He did so by the new it in his memoir—reveals itself most clearly in some of his late Athens-Alexandria air connection, and it came as a shock when, writings, in which he articulates his views on its nature and on somewhere high over Crete, his pilot invited him to take the its relationship with Classical Studies. The epigram placed at the wheel of the aircraft, an experience that Fairclough compared start of this article, for example, is part of Fairclough’s response, in his memoir to the voyage of Daedalus and Icarus. Once in in 1936, to the pedagogical ideas of Clarence Darrow, the lawyer Alexandria, he visited Gizeh and Luxor, and from there he moved most famous for defending John T. Scopes (of “Scopes Trial” on to the Holy Land. He flew back to Greece—seeing Troy from fame). Fairclough’s problem with Darrow had nothing to do with above—and toured the Peloponnese. His memories of Spain, set evolution, but instead focused on Darrow’s dismissal of Greek and down in the mid-to-late 1930s, are intermixed with nagging Latin studies in favor of practical and vocational training. But questions about the fate of colleagues and friends who were now Fairclough insisted on the discipline’s utility, and on its relevance caught up in the Spanish Civil War. in their contemporary world. 16 STANFORD UNIVERSITY H. R. Fairclough and an unknown man on camels. Luxor, Egypt, 1930.

Fairclough had made the case for the mental discipline that And where do Fairclough and his magic Mediterranean leave Classics taught in his account of his Red Cross work. But his us? We have seen, since the end of World War II, a succession training in Classics also helped to untangle some problems of of scholarly Mediterraneans, very different from his. For his own age. This was most obvious, for example, in debates Fernand Braudel and his colleagues in the Sixième Section, over race and 20th-century nationalism. One of the final articles the Mediterranean was a clockwork diorama, whose hidden published by Fairclough was 1939’s “Early Racial Fusion in the mechanism was the object of study. For Peregrine Horden and Eastern Mediterranean Lands,” in which he laid out the case for Nicholas Purcell, the sea is a timeless zone of connectivity and a multi-racial, mixed Mediterranean. This was aimed at ongoing difference—a grid on which to map social phenomena—but not a debates in archaeology and anthropology on Aryanism and racial place where much changes. Fairclough treated the sea as the stage purity, an ideology that Fairclough considered to be absurd. In his for a continuous drama, a place where he might do God’s work article, he described a Greek and Phoenician Mediterranean that (or President Wilson’s). Our contemporary approach to history, was, and always had been, entangled and mutually constituted: and to Classics, has made it uncommon to insist either on such a his conclusion was that there had never been a racially pure continuity or on any ethical imperative in scholarship (though state. This was important, and might have comforted Fairclough archaeologists, especially in heritage studies, come closest). But after, having observed a fascist rally in Rome, he caught sight of at a time when refugees continue to wash up on the shores of Mussolini flanked by a beaming Douglas Fairbanks: it seemed, in Lesbos or Crete, Fairclough’s moral vision of the Mediterranean 1939, that even Robin Hood had turned against liberal democracy. might have some power left. In reading his works—his Aeneid, To Fairclough a firm understanding of classical history, which his memoir and letters—one finds oneself shifting, almost require good knowledge of Greek and Latin, was an antidote to imperceptibly, from the simple historical question “what fascist lunacy. happened?” to the harder one “what should I do?” The answer may ultimately be “nothing”—but asking the question has meaning of its own.

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 17 Undergraduate Stories

RALEIGH BROWNE (CLASS OF 2019) far more confident in my mastery of GABI RHOADES (CLASS OF 2017) all the Greek syntax and morphology that was (supposedly) stored in my head. Jumping feet-first into the deep water of Greek literature, although intimidating, was by far the most rewarding part of my experience at Berkeley. Certainly, the people of the Greek Workshop were outstanding in their own right—dedicated instructors and diligent students alike. In the end, however, it was Euripides himself who solidified my grasp over the Advised by my high school Latin teacher complex and fascinating language I had I started each day by walking to the that Greek was the “coolest thing since just conquered. excavation site, striding briskly to keep sliced bread,” I was more than ready for I’m still a long way from truly mastering pace with the sun as it began to filter my ten weeks at UC Berkeley’s Greek the Greek language, but with the help of through the fog that rolls across the Valle intensive. Another ancient language, older the Classics departments at Stanford and D’Ombrone. Often, I would pause at a than Latin? With spicy new elements like Berkeley, I’ve taken a huge step in the right clearing of hay and wildflowers halfway the middle voice, and a definite article to direction. I’ve finally filled a major gap in up the hill to marvel at the glorious vista boot? What more could I ask for? my knowledge as an aspiring classicist; of Tuscan landscape stretched out below It turned out that these “spicy” figures although Latin maintains a special place in me. The rolling hills were a physical were more of a thorn in my side than the my heart, Greek has settled in comfortably representation of da Vinci’s iconic painting apple of my eye. As I stared blankly at the alongside its younger counterpart. Most technique of atmospheric perspective. interminable verb endings in my notes, critically, this workshop has opened the The hills in the distance were a hazy I found myself silently cursing whoever door onto a vast and exciting world that shade of blue, while the bold silhouette decided that the optative mood was a has heretofore been closed to me: that of of those nearby towered above me. With good idea. Any comfort I’d found in the Hellenistic studies. My study of the Greek each stride down the well-trodden path, familiarity of the genitive absolute had language has reminded me just how little I grew closer to my final destination and been wiped away by the impossibly long I know about the world of Classics; seven finally emerged onto a site shrouded under charts of –μι conjugations. This language, years of Latin had made me complacent a canopy of overgrown trees that are however “cool” it might be, was no walk in in my knowledge, but learning a new presently preserving the Etruscan ruins of the park. language has quickly told me how much Poggio Civitate. It was only during the seventh week of I have left to learn—in terms of language, Since 2016 marks the 50th year of class that I finally began to feel that I just history, culture, and the whole host of continuous excavation at Poggio Civitate might make it out in one piece. We had— other features that make up the field we in Murlo, Italy, this was a particularly mercifully—finished the grammar portion call “Classics.” I’m incredibly grateful to exciting time to join the team. After half of the course and moved on to reading the departments at Stanford and Berkeley a century of inquiry, investigation, and “Greek in the wild,” as our instructor for allowing me to experience the ancient excavation, we are still making crucial called it. Tackling the Medea after only world afresh through the eyes of a and enlightening strides in our quest six weeks of training was a bit daunting, beginning language-learner, and I look to understand the enigmatic Etruscans. to say the least, but I was ready for all the forward to continuing this journey with Last season, excavation uncovered a drama and gore that Euripides had to offer. all of the mentors and friends I’ve met monumental building that is now referred He didn’t disappoint. along the way. to as the Early Phase Orientalizing Complex 4 (EPOC4). This edifice predated Working through the lines of Euripides’s what was previously thought to be the text, I not only had a blast deciphering earliest phase of development at the site. the odd language of tragedy, but I grew This season, excavation of EPOC4 as

18 STANFORD UNIVERSITY well as the Hellenistic site in Vescovado of the inhabitants of Poggio Civitate. In Greece and Italy to come face to face with continued. Complementing my experience addition to work on-site, first-years also how the present interacts with the past. In working at a first-century Roman fort in completed conservation and archival work class, we get the opportunity to interact England, these six weeks of archaeological once per week in the “magazzino,” the with the past through the limited lens of field work and lectures provided me with garage that had been repurposed for lab texts. While it is important to analyze an opportunity to familiarize myself with space. In the lab we were given the chance ancient texts and their interpretations, the material record of an earlier culture— to conserve artifacts that we discovered we have access to so much more from the Etruscans. ourselves, tracing them from context the past. I set out to explore these other After just a few days in Vescovado di through preservation to cataloguing. relics, namely ancient Roman monuments, Murlo, it became clear to me just how We also assisted with data entry and in the same way that we study texts. I fiercely the inhabitants of Murlo cling organization, becoming familiar with visited monumental structures to gain to their Etruscan heritage. Back in the countless records and documents from past an understanding both of what we can early 2000s, a genetic test conducted by years of excavation. Because we worked so learn about the past through its surviving the Institute of Genetics of the University closely with the staff, we witnessed their structures, and to try and grasp what of Torino confirmed what the locals had evolving interpretation of evidence. Being draws hundreds of thousands of people known for millennia: that the Etruscans a part of this investigative process allowed from across the globe to these places. are their direct ancestors. Using DNA me to hone my own interpretive skills Walking around the modern cities evidence from bones recovered from beyond the setting of a classroom and to that house memories of the past was an the excavations at Poggio Civitate, the focus on archaeological methodology in a incredible experience. In class it is so researchers were able to prove that the new region. easy to think of our studies as if they are inhabitants of Murlo have a genetic as well HANNAH SHILLING removed from the world. But when you as a physiognomic link to the Etruscans. (CLASS OF 2017) actually get to see the objects of that study, Seeing the faces of their descendants get to stand and stare up at them, they served as a tangible reminder of the fact really become alive. Even the most eroded that I was living and working in the building offers a chance to imagine past midst of true Etruscan posterity. Never worlds while remaining firmly rooted was this connection so visible as during in the present. I would get lost thinking the Bluetrusco festival. During this about the Roman Empire or ancient month-long affair, the residents of Murlo Athenian politics, but I could never displayed their deep pride in their past divorce those thoughts from the fragments and ancestry. Not only is it a celebration in front of me. It brought me so much joy of the Etruscans, but also of the 50 years to gaze at and contemplate the past in the of partnership and collaboration on the same way that I’ve only been able to with excavation of Poggio Civitate. texts. These ancient monuments allow Poggio Civitate was very much a In Rome you can walk down a small street us to see the passing of time. Originally collaborative intellectual exercise in which lined with gelato stands and souvenir built to house emperors, host government the students and staff assumed roles as shops and suddenly find yourself staring meetings, or serve the masses, they have active interpreters of the past. During up at the Pantheon. On another small lived many other lives in their journeys fieldwork, we engaged firsthand with the street, lined with trees and small homes, to reach us. I loved getting to learn remnants of the Etruscans, and we were you can make your way to a race track about these histories and how they have charged with identifying key evidence of on the grounds of the ruined baths of contributed to the survival or destruction their occupation. Each fragment of bone, Caracalla. You can push your way through of the archaeological sites I visited. speck of bronze, chunk of terracotta, piece the exit of a grimy metro station and see While all of the places I visited were of charcoal, and fragment of bucchero, the Colosseum and the ghost of Palatine amazing, none felt as alive as the ruined impasto, or coarseware added to the Hill. The site of Julius Caesar’s bloody city of Pompeii. As I walked through the material record. Individually, these finds assassination is now a sanctuary for the entrance to the archaeology site, the sky held little significance; however, when city’s cats. began to fill with thick, grey storm clouds. viewed in tandem with the other finds Thanks to a generous grant from the Within minutes, all of Pompeii was bathed and information about their context, they Classics department, I was able to travel to in a thunderstorm and I was forced to offer unparalleled insight into the lives take cover. I found shelter in a villa lined

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 19 Undergraduate Stories respective interests within Classics, and I learned so much from both my teachers with gardens and beautiful murals, and I staff) and the professors all helped me to and my peers. We had stimulating daily couldn’t help but feel like I was back home feel comfortable and welcome, and the conversations at meals about many in Portland, listening to the thunder and Centro felt like a little piece of home in the different subjects ranging from philosophy watching rain fall on my own garden. For middle of Rome. My professors had diverse to politics to favorite classical authors. a short time, a site that is normally filled backgrounds within the field of Classics, with throngs of people was empty except and each brought a unique perspective Though the academics were certainly for me. I got to sit inside a house filled with to whatever we studied. The course was important, one of the most influential beautiful, decaying murals and treat it as certainly intense and at times exhausting, aspects of studying abroad was the though it were my own. It was my shelter but well worth it to see so many amazing personal change it inspired. The city for just a morning of its long life, and I feel artifacts and places! One of the best parts of became my classroom as I explored, since all the more connected to history for the ICCS was having a community of Classics I had to navigate not only the ancient time I spent there. majors who not only studied together, but sites but the modern Roman world as well. Rome is a flourishing city filled Although it was often difficult to travel by lived together as well. We all bonded over with art, history, and culture that I had myself and be the sole person responsible our shared interest in Classics, and each never experienced before. I had to learn for my trip, my advisor Justin Leidwanger of the students brought an enthusiasm a new language and figure out how to did an incredible job helping me plan my to the courses that inspired me to be the get around in a new place. I had never project from the beginning by giving best student I could be. Between all the been in a big city like Rome, let alone a me the tools to succeed on my own. I traveling, learning, and living together, different country. Being abroad helped me also feel prepared for my final year of I made lifelong friends at ICCS whom I to grow as a person, gaining a new level of undergraduate studies, and I’m excited to considered my Centro family. independence and confidence as I learned bring my personal understanding of these ICCS fostered a studious and fun academic to find my way in the world. sites into the classroom. This project has environment, which helped me to given me the tools I need to think critically improve my study habits to get the most Through this program I have learned so about how physical space creates meaning, out of my classical studies. Furthermore, much about myself, the modern world, and I can’t wait to combine this with having classes based at archaeological sites, and ancient Rome. ICCS fosters a fantastic textual analysis to come up with new ways monuments, and museums meant that I learning environment full of students to look at the past. developed a disciplined routine of waking who are seriously interested in the ancient up early and starting my day—a practice world. Being able to visit so many sites ALANNA SIMAO (CLASS OF 2017) that I hope to continue throughout my and see the physical city allowed me to The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Stanford career in order to make the most gain a better understanding of Rome Studies (ICCS) in Rome was truly an out of my time here. Everyone at ICCS and the classical world at large. I walked incredible, unique, and influential was extremely knowledgeable about their into the Colosseum and experienced its program. Franco and Pina (the Centro immensity. I strolled through the Forum and could imagine daily life for Romans from all walks of life. I saw temples and sat in theaters in Sicily. I explored fully preserved houses in Pompeii and Herculaneum. The whole program gave me a three-dimensional experience that I could never have had in the classroom. I know my understanding of Rome and the ancient world has become more well-rounded thanks to ICCS. It was an experience that I will cherish for the rest of my life.

Alanna Simao spent a semester at the Centro. 20 STANFORD UNIVERSITY ROLAND CENTENO (CLASS OF 2017) JAKE GOULDER (CLASS OF 2017) DAN RUPRECHT (CLASS OF 2017)

Learned introductory syntax, morphology and vocabulary at UC Berkeley’s Intensive Latin Workshop. Explored an interest in religious life from ancient times in Athens, Pompeii and Rome. MAY PETERSON (CLASS OF 2017)

ELLE OTA (CLASS OF 2018)

Attended UC Berkeley’s Summer Greek Intensive (to find out what Aeschylus really meant). Analyzing on shore at the Marzamemi Maritime Heritage Project.

Underwater off the coast of Sicily Aisthesis: Undergraduate Journal investigating shipwreck. of Classical Studies, Vol. 5 was

HALI MO (CLASS OF 2017) published in fall quarter 2016. The selected articles are engaging and informative investigations in the fields of Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and Classical Literature in Art. This year’s staff included:

Senior Editors Reader Meaghan Carley Robert Shields Kevin Garcia Faculty Advisor Editors John Klopacz Noah Arthurs Raleigh Browne Alexandra Myers Myth-inspired travel through Athens, Delphi, Mycenae, Epidaurus, and Knossos. classics.stanford.edu/projects/aisthesis-undergraduate-journal

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BRANDON BARK as in Berkeley and San Francisco I spent most of the summer with closer to home. I am also delighted wife and dog-daughter here in Palo Welcome New that the digital humanities project Alto, though I also participated in Graduate Students! Mapping Greek Lyric is now live three short seminars: introductory to a wider audience (see http:// paleography at UVA (taught by KEVIN ENNIS, PHD CANDIDATE lyricmappingproject.stanford.edu). Consuelo Dutschke, at Columbia) Classical Archaeology I am looking forward to remaining and "Textual Mobilities" at UPenn AMANDA GAGGIOLI, PHD CANDIDATE at Stanford this fall, where I am (with Roger Chartier), both with the Classical Archaeology serving as a lecturer. Rare Book School, and a seminar in KEVIN GARCIA, MA CANDIDATE ANNE DURAY Lyons on Italian incunabula, headed Language & Literature I had the amazing privilege to spend by the Institut d’Histoire du Livre. NICHOLAS GARDNER, PHD CANDIDATE this past school year participating I hope to apply the new knowledge Language & Literature in the Academic Year Program at and techniques I picked up over HYUNJIP KIM, MA CANDIDATE the American School of Classical the summer to Stanford’s own Language & Literature Studies at Athens (ASCSA) as a vast collection of manuscripts Regular Member and the Michael and incunabula. CORINNE MILLER, MA CANDIDATE Language & Literature Jameson Fellow. The Academic Year LEONARDO CAZZADORI CATHERINE TEITZ, PHD CANDIDATE Program brings together around 15 In 2015–16, I completed the Classical Archaeology students from graduate programs requirements of the Greek and Latin across North America each year to VERITY WALSH, PHD CANDIDATE Survey sequence. I also attended a study the history and archaeology Language & Literature few seminars outside Classics with of Greece on the ground, as it the intention of pursuing a minor VLADIMIR ZUCKERMAN, PHD CANDIDATE were. The practice of traveling Language & Literature in Comparative Literature, for I around “ancient lands” has a long find it particularly productive to history—as many Stanford graduate research topics in classical literature students can attest from their on the cultural significance of athletic by connecting them with larger time in Giovanna Ceserani’s “Words and imagery in Callimachus, and it is going to issues in the fields of literary theory and Things” course—but was institutionalized be published in a forthcoming collected philosophy of literature. Furthermore, I in Greece within the foreign archeological volume on Hellenistic athletics. In my assisted Professor Ceserani as a TA for her schools and institutes during the late 19th piece, I systematically investigate any seminar on Tacitus. Later in the year, I was and early 20th century. possible reference to athletic imagery in the the sole instructor for a course on Attic Aetia and its significance in relation to the Today, the ASCSA is the only foreign orators. We read the funeral orations of Ptolemaic cultural and ideological agenda. school in Greece to offer such a Gorgias, Lysias, Thucydides, and Plato’s comprehensive yearlong program. The Menexenus. While translating these texts, DAVID DRISCOLL year is broken down into three terms—fall, we discussed their literary features and I had a productive year as a Geballe winter, and spring—and each term offers the cultural relevance of their content in Dissertation Prize Fellow at the Stanford different opportunities for students. The the context of Athenian society. Upon Humanities Center, where I completed fall term includes the majority of the trips successful admission, I attended a summer and defended my dissertation, “Acting to different regions of Greece: Northern master class in memory and culture studies the Exegete: Homeric Quotation and and Western Greece, Central Greece, the in Germany. The theory sessions about Interpretation in Imperial Literary Deep Peloponnese, and the Corinthia and the process of canonization for literary Symposia.” Though the Humanities Center Argolid. These trips are 10 days to two authors and about the role of archives imposed the draconian requirement of weeks in length with a 7am–7pm schedule and libraries in the process of memory- attendance at four lunches each week, I in order to see as many sites and museums formation were especially relevant for my found time to sneak away to give papers as possible in all imaginable weather research. Finally, I submitted an article in Clermont-Ferrand and Nice, as well conditions, and students participating in

22 STANFORD UNIVERSITY in two field projects this summer programming aimed at students and young before returning to Athens to resume professionals at the annual meeting of my dissertation research. In June, I the AIA. At this past year’s meeting in excavated at the Middle–Late Bronze San Francisco I co-chaired two sessions: Age transitional site of Malthi in a professionalization workshop on the Messenia. During the initial 2015 season, publication process and a session of short we completely re-mapped the site, and presentations where scholars could receive planned possible excavation areas based feedback on research projects in their on our goals of reassessing Natan Valmin’s nascent stages. original excavations in the first half of Thanks to the generous funding of the 20th century and of situating Malthi the department, the Semitic Museum within the broader context of the Middle at Harvard University, the Classical to Late Bronze Age transition—that is, Association of Canada, and the Social the so-called “rise of the Mycenaeans.” Sciences and Humanities Research Council Consequently, during this summer’s of Canada, I was able to undertake several season, I supervised excavation of a trench trips to conduct or present research. With Anne Duray at the Temple of Apollo at immediately outside of the fortification my Mediterranean summer I spent a sixth Didyma on the ASCSA Turkey Trip. wall in hopes of recovering enough year on staff at the Leon Levy Expedition pottery to assist in the creation of a to Ashkelon, researching the architecture the trips are required to report on topics ceramic chronology and to attempt to and stratigraphy of the city in the Roman ranging from entire sites to an object date the construction of the fortification and Byzantine periods and preparing a in a museum. In the winter, the focus wall. Given the presence of prominent synthesis of all such material excavated turns to Athens and Attica, with a trip Late Bronze Age centers such as Pylos and from 1985–2016 for publication. Later to Crete in between. During the spring Iklaina in Messenia, the contextualization in the summer I spent time conducting term, I had the incredible opportunity to of Malthi within Mycenaean state travel to both Ethiopia and Turkey (the formation in this region has significant optional trips the ASCSA offered this past implications, especially since Malthi year), as well as to excavate at ancient represents one of the most complete Corinth in the Roman phases of the settlements from this time period on the South Stoa. The Academic Year Program mainland. After the season wrapped up at the ASCSA is an irreplaceable way to at Malthi, I traveled to Naxos to assist in learn about the history and archaeology the last two weeks of the field season of of Greece (especially for someone the Stélida Naxos Archaeological Project. writing a dissertation on the history of The hill of Stélida is a chert source with archaeology in Greece). My own work evidence for some of the earliest (if not will doubtless benefit not only from my the earliest) stone tool working and Simeon Ehrlich reviewing plan and peers in the program, with whom I spent quarrying in the Cyclades. This upcoming section drawings at Ashkelon. nine eventful months, but also from the year I’m looking forward to defending my broader community of scholars at the dissertation proposal and continuing with research at museums and sites in Spain. I ASCSA, who are all generous with their my research. also presented aspects of my dissertation time and knowledge. Last but not least, SIMEON EHRLICH research at the annual meetings of my experiences traveling around Greece, Year four revolved around the dissertation the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Ethiopia, and Turkey underlined the ways (tentatively titled “The Morphology of Conference (Rome), the Classical in which archaeology is always practiced Mediterranean Cities c. 800 BCE–600 CE). Association of Canada (Quebec City), the in the present, and this is something I defended my prospectus, achieved TGR International Seminar on Urban Form archeologists must remain mindful of, status, and began writing at long last. (Nanjing), and the European Association both while reflecting upon our own for Urban History (Helsinki). disciplinary history, and while looking Outside the department I began a term as This year also saw the public into the future. chair of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)’s Student Affairs Interest announcement of the Philistine cemetery After the academic year at the ASCSA Group, which is responsible for organizing excavated at Ashkelon from 2013–16. wrapped up in May, I participated

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 23 Graduate Student News Panoramic view of La Villa Romana di Poggio Gramignano from the Tiber Valley to the excavation area. Photo courtesy of David Pickel.

I was the square supervisor of the first of Roman Slavery” with Professor Jen its contributions to our archaeological test trench excavated in the cemetery in Trimble and “World Heritage in Global understandings of the living (as opposed 2013. Work resumed on a larger scale in Conflict” with Professor Lynn Meskell in to the funerary) worlds of the Etruscans 2014, 2015, and 2016, but discreetly, so as Anthropology. Having found the latter in the Orientalizing and Archaic periods to ensure security and prevent looting. and several other anthropology courses (ca. late eighth to sixth centuries BCE), this It is hoped that DNA from the burials over the past two years particularly summer I had the opportunity to excavate excavated will answer the question of stimulating, I applied to and was accepted a nearby but later (ca. late fourth- / early where the Philistines came from. It was into the Stanford Department of third-century BCE) structure that was exciting to play even a small part in this Anthropology’s MA program. potentially associated with ceramic and important discovery. This year I also served as a teaching textile production. Second, I joined the All in all, it was a busy but productive year. assistant for two departmental courses: Cosa Excavations, which are currently Now back to writing… “Introduction to the Archaeology of working to uncover and explore an Greece” and “Ten Things: An Archaeology Imperial bath complex (ca. early first of Design,” for both of which Michael to third centuries CE) at Cosa, a Roman Shanks was the primary instructor. colony 140 kilometers north of Rome. Between these I had a multitude of This upcoming year, I look forward opportunities to discuss everything from to completing the rest of my PhD the archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age coursework, as well as my Anthropology to 21st-century American product design MA coursework and thesis, which will with my students. examine the political and social agency of In a similarly exciting vein falls the ancient Roman statues rediscovered and Stanford Archaeology Center’s weekly displayed in the city of Rome during and after the Renaissance in Italy. I am also Grace Erny and Matthieu Abgrall had workshop series, which I co-coordinated an impromptu Stanford reunion at the with Anthropology PhD student Camilla excited about beginning to explore more archaeological site of Dreros in East Crete. Mazzucato. This workshop provided intensively current debates in the visual attendees the opportunity to hear and cultures of Greece and Rome as I prepare to write my dissertation prospectus. DILLON GISCH discuss firsthand the geographically, In 2016 I completed my second year of PhD temporally, and methodologically diverse TED KELTING coursework on the Classical Archaeology work of well-regarded archaeologists from My third year proceeded nicely, and was track, which consisted of coursework, the US, Mexico, Peru, England, Italy, an excellent (and overarchingly comedic) serving as a teaching assistant, co- and India. exclamation point on my coursework, coordinating the Stanford Archaeology And finally, I participated in two with attention paid to the Roman novel, Center (SAC)’s weekly evening workshop archaeological excavations in Tuscany satire, and the Confessions. This year and series, and carrying out archaeological (Italy). First, I returned to the Poggio summer was wonderfully pedagogic, and fieldwork. Civitate Archaeological Project (which I am thrilled to have taught two classes in Among the courses I took this year, recently celebrated its 50th anniversary!) the Beginning Latin sequence this spring a significant portion of my time was along with two Stanford alumnae, and summer, together with Egyptians in occupied by the obligatory survey Cara Polisini (MA, 2014) and Kate the fall. Teaching Latin back-to-back was a sequence of Greek literature, which I Kreindler (PhD, 2015) as well as two very wonderful opportunity to reflect on and to found to be challenging but rewarding. enterprising Stanford undergraduates, hone my language pedagogy. Throughout, Beyond this, I had the pleasure of taking Gabi Rhoades (2017) and Alli Emge (2019). I have been impressed by the keenness two exciting seminars: “The Archaeology While this project is best known for and kindness of our undergraduate

24 STANFORD UNIVERSITY majors; it’s been great to have them in my experience. Through the department’s (intellectual) life. generous Edwin J. Doyle Memorial This past year has also been my turn Fellowship for Dissertation Research as gubernator of Stanford Classics in in the Mediterranean, I spent most of Theater (SCIT), a position whose auctoritas Spring Quarter in Athens, Greece, where and maiestas are second to none. When I worked in the libraries of the American one stages the Greek comic fragments, School and the British School. During the one does not have to do much to outdo summer break I gave a presentation at the previous attempts, but I can say with World Congress of Archaeology in Kyoto confidence that SCIT leapt over that very on maritime interactions in the Eastern low bar. Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the Archaic Period. ANJA KRIEGER I received a Mellon Foundation This academic year was my fifth year of Dissertation fellowship for the upcoming grad school and was mostly spent working academic year, in which I plan to complete on my dissertation about seafaring and my dissertation. maritime connectivity in the Eastern Alyson Melzer visiting the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion during the ASCSA Mediterranean. I also had the opportunity KILIAN MALLON Summer Session. to work as a TA in Winter Quarter This year I finished my third year, and I for Justin Leidwanger’s class on “The am now moving from coursework into understanding of the literature I study Classical Past in a Modern World.” This dissertation work. I gave a paper at the here was also deeply enriched by being on was my first time TAing for a Majors AIA conference in San Francisco on the the ground. Seminar, and it was a most rewarding subject of housing in Late Roman Greece and another in Philadelphia on security in During the academic year, along with Ostia. I had the pleasure of TAing for two the undergraduate classes I thoroughly Roman archaeology classes this year and enjoyed TAing, the work I did on my got to take some wonderful seminars. I am own research through Greek survey now very excited to be looking forward to and through various seminars, and the the dissertation stage of the program. Ancient Sound conference I attended at the University of Missouri to give a paper, ALYSON MELZER I also produced and acted in SCIT’s most This summer I was fortunate enough recent production The Republican Party in to spend six weeks with the American Pieces: A Comedy (In Fragments), in which School of Classical Studies in Athens we tackled the comical frustrations of as a member of their summer session. modern American politics and Greek We traveled throughout Attica, the comic fragments. Peloponnese, Crete, and Northern Greece, visiting every museum and site that DAVID PICKEL beautiful country could throw at us. Not This year I completed my first year as a only did my knowledge of Greek history PhD student in the Department of Classics, focusing in Classical Archaeology. I had Anja Krieger gave a paper on maritime and archaeology (and cuisine) grow leaps interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean and bounds, but my appreciation for and never been so challenged. But with the from the Late Bronze Age to the support of the faculty and all of my new Archaic Period.

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 25 Graduate Student News Homer's “heroic” poetry and Hesiod's “theogonic,” “didactic” poetry. And though friends in the department—especially and, although the days were long, difficult, I did not travel to the Mediterranean this my fellow first-year cohort—it was and often too hot, I have never learned past year, I did give a paper at the Society certainly fulfilling! so much. I am extremely grateful for the for Classical Studies in San Francisco advice and encouragement I received from For sure, my time was dominated by on an intertextual relationship between the faculty—especially Justin Leidwanger, reading and writing on many diverse Hesiod’s monster Typhon in the Theogony Jen Trimble, Susan Stephens, and Ian topics, ranging from post-Classical Latin and Lucan’s necromancer Erichtho. In Morris—as well as for support from the poetry to medical anthropology. But I this venue Stanford Classics in Theater department itself, which helped to fund made sure to make the most of my first (SCIT) also re-performed our 2015 play, this and other research conducted this year, exploring the Bay Area and attending The Nerds, to an enthusiastic audience. summer. I also want to thank Lori Lynn, the many lectures and events sponsored SCIT’s 2016 production, which I helped Lydia, and Valerie for helping me to by the department. In January I presented co-direct, featured fragmentary Greek navigate my first year at Stanford! a paper at this year’s AIA–SCS Annual comedies performed on stage for the first Meeting in San Francisco on my work at With renewed energy and the benefit of time in well over a millennium, all in the Tróia, Portugal. And in the spring I began my first-year experience I am looking service of panning the current drama of to work with some computer engineers forward to my second year! I will be US presidential elections. Check the SCIT here at Stanford, with whom Justin TAing undergraduate classes, helping website ( https://classics.stanford.edu/ Leidwanger and I hope to develop novel to coordinate lecture series in both the projects/stanford-classics-theater-scit) 3D digital imaging technologies to study department and the Archaeology Center, soon for a full video of the performance! ancient volumetric standardization. and further pursuing my own interests in PETER SHI I was also fortunate enough to contribute health, disease, and the environment in the ancient world. This summer, I joined the bioarchaeology to this year’s SCIT performance, The field school in Vagnari, Puglia, held Republican Party in Pieces: A Comedy STEPHEN SANSOM by McMaster University. The whole (In Fragments), for which I helped With all exams and coursework behind excavation is an experience that mixed in the translation and direction of me, this year I began my dissertation, “The laborious digging, parching Italian our interpretation of Aristophanes’s Poetics of Style in the Shield of Herakles.” sunshine, friendly people, and delicious Banqueters. Moreover, opposite Brandon The Shield, attributed to Hesiod in both food and wine. This field school gave me Bark (George W. Bush) and Bobby Pragada the papyrological record and manuscript firsthand archaeology experience as well as (Paul Ryan), I was given the honor to act as tradition, has long been the subject bioarchaeological knowledge. I hope I will that calamity, Donald Trump. of debate concerning its authorship, have more opportunities to participate in In July I directed renewed excavations of style, and quality. Often the discussion archaeological programs in the future. La Villa Romana di Poggio Gramignano, surrounding the poem disparages its an Augustan period villa rustica located similarity to the Iliad's “Shield of Achilles” RONNIE SHI I have had a terrific second year (and near the Umbrian town of Lugnano in or its extreme aesthetics (gruesome battles first full year in the Ancient History Teverina. Our small team included both scenes, overuse of similes, et cetera). program) here at Stanford. Atop regular American and Italian archaeologists. We The goal of my project is to assess its coursework, I began learning Arabic and focused on the mid–fifth-century CE style in its archaic, oral-poetic context, much enjoyed my first two quarters of infant cemetery discovered within the matching unique features of discourse teaching: Greek history in the winter, the many rooms of the villa’s storage area (rare particles, innovative formulae) letters of Cicero and Pliny in the spring. and thought to be the result of a malaria with narrative trends and type scenes. In I gave two papers, one last November at epidemic. This first season was short pursuit of this, I spent the past year as a the University of Michigan on warfare (only three weeks were dedicated to fellow in Stanford's Center for Spatial and and the Greek slave trade, the other at digging), but with the support of the local Textual Analysis (CESTA) where I began the annual SCS meeting in San Francisco community we were able to uncover two co-developing software that will allow in January on the fragments of Rhianus’s rooms. Next year we will continue our full-scale formulaic analysis of Greek lost epic Messeniaca. Up next in 2016–17: excavation of the cemetery and hopefully hexameter poetry. This information, more Arabic, a first foray into Persian, and conduct preliminary survey work of the along with a close reading of the poem turning a year’s research on the long-term immediate area. itself, will better illuminate the Shield's crucial intermediary position between history of religion’s role in the state into It was my first time in such a position, the beginnings of a dissertation.

26 STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIZZY TEN-HOVE The past year has been a busy and productive one for me. In addition to passing several program milestones, including two general exams and the much-dreaded German Reading Exam, I had the pleasure of teaching for the first time. In the fall quarter, I was a teaching assistant for Andrea Nightingale’s “Transformation of the Self” course, an intensive freshman seminar that forms part of the wider Education as Self-Fashioning program. I couldn’t have asked for a better first teaching experience than four hours a week spent discussing metaphors in the Confessions, writing Symposium-style speeches on friendship, and holding heated debates on the relative merits of Manichaeism Scott Weiss investigating inscriptions in Rome. and Neo-Platonism for building a society. In the winter, I taught the first half of the department’s Biblical Greek sequence, onstage, and to whatever hilarity SCIT for her Origins of History class and had another wonderful experience with comes up with in 2017. a lot of fun discussing authors ranging fantastic students. Plans for the upcoming year include three from Herodotus and Thucydides to Ammianus and Eusebius with a bright and My own coursework has been equally quarters of teaching, the last of my general enthusiastic group of students. The spring stimulating: I took several seminars exams, a fond farewell to coursework, and, term also saw my stage debut, in Stanford outside the department, including deo volente, my proposal defense. Many Classics in Theater (SCIT)’s production of “Literature, Narrative, and the Self” thanks to all—students, faculty, and staff— The Republican Party in Pieces: A Comedy (In with Joshua Landy of the DLCL and a who make this department such a lovely Fragments). wonderful TAPS course on “The Chorus place to learn and work! and the Digital Crowd” that culminated As part of my Med Summer, I spent most SCOTT WEISS in the performance of a devised piece, of July studying Latin epigraphy in courses My third year in the PhD program facetiously dubbed “Parodos Lost.” Directed at the American Academy and British concluded my time in coursework, which readings with Rush Rehm and Susan School in Rome. These courses gave me included ventures into the English, Stephens have been extremely helpful in the opportunity to continue working on Philosophy, and Comparative Literature shaping plans for my dissertation proposal. research I had begun in my first year at departments. In addition to those classes Stanford in an archaeology seminar with Off campus, I presented at several outside the department, I took three Jen Trimble and had since presented at conferences, including a conference on seminars in the department: Petronius a conference at Berkeley. While in Italy, Classics and/in Performance at Notre and Apuleius with Grant Parker, Words I also conducted independent research Dame and Feminism and Classics VII at and Things with Giovanna Ceserani, and on Roman wall paintings in the Bay of the University of Washington. At this Satire with Richard Martin, the last of Naples. I look forward to next year and year’s SCS in San Francisco I was delighted which produced a paper that I will present beginning to work on my dissertation! to direct the Committee on Ancient and at the SCS meeting in Toronto next year. Modern Performance’s annual production, In the winter term, I had the great pleasure this year a reboot of SCIT’s adaptation of to teach an intermediate Latin class and Aristophanes’s Birds, the Nerds. I’m looking to introduce Petronius and Martial to a forward to rejoining CAMP in Toronto small group of committed students. In the next January for the Truculentus, this time spring, I taught with Giovanna Ceserani

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 27 Alumni Updates

Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne (PhD, 2016) accepted by Google in 2012; Bizo, acquired by LinkedIn during August a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of History at High of 2014). The year 2016 brings him back to his hometown of Point University in North Carolina. Washington, DC, where he will be leading politically right-of- center engagements for Marketing Solutions and helping his (PhD, 2016) accepted a one-year renewable Artemis Brod team apply its tools and data to the DC ecosystem. The team aims Visiting Assistant Professorship in the Department of Classics at to change fundamentally the way trade associations, political Indiana University, Bloomington. campaigns, and other groups execute their public relations and Federica Carugati (PhD, 2015) accepted a three-year communications efforts. position as Associate Director of the Ostrom Workshop and Mark Pyzyk (PhD, 2015) accepted a postdoctoral fellowship Visiting Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the Pearson Institute at the University of Chicago. and Maurer School of Law at Indiana University, Bloomington. Robert Stephan (PhD, 2014) accepted a Lectureship in the (BA Philosophy, 2009, minor in Classics) Thaddeus Chase Department of History and the Department of Religious Studies is now Associate at Thompson and Knight, Dallas, practicing and Classics at the University of Arizona. corporate and securities law. He earned his JD in 2013 at The University of Texas School of Law. Vincent Tomasso (PhD, 2010) accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Classics at Trinity College (PhD, 2016) accepted the Lora Bryning Megan Daniels in Connecticut. Redford Postdoctoral Fellowship in archaeology at the University of Puget Sound. Darian Totten (PhD, 2011) accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of History and Classical Studies at (PhD, 2015) accepted a tenure-track position Matthew Loar McGill University. as Assistant Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Chierika Ukogu (BAH Human Biology, 2014, minor in Classics) rowed at the Olympics in Rio under the watchful eyes of (PhD, 2015) accepted a tenure-track Carolyn MacDonald Cristo Redentor. She finished 20th overall and had the best races position as Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient History at of her career to date. Chierika is currently studying medicine at the University of New Brunswick (Fredericton). the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and putting her Latin Prentice Miller (BA Classics and History, 2008), since skills to good use while learning about anatomy. Spinus erectus, joining KreagerMitchell, has concentrated her practice on longissimus, pectoralis major...it's Latin 101 all over again! business and real estate transactions, including commercial real Ben Vaughan (BA Classics, 1986; MA International Policy, estate leasing, commercial ranching operations and divestiture, 1987) is associate professor of Economics at Trinity University easements, title and surface use issues, commercial business and in San Antonio, Texas. His daughter Rachel began her freshman asset divestitures, and entity formation and governance. Prentice year at Stanford in the autumn. credits the rigorous execution that she brings to her law practice, along with a focus on detail and critical thought, to her lifelong Donni Wang (PhD, 2015) accepted a postdoctoral interest in language, the Classics, and the fine arts. She earned fellowship at Shanghai University. her JD from the University of Texas Law School in 2013 and is a James Wetmore (BAH Classics, 1991) joined the faculty of member of the state bars of both Texas and New Mexico. She also Hennepin County Medical Center in 2013. He is currently an Associate belongs to the Austin Young Lawyers Association. Professor of Medicine and the Medical Director for Nephrology Research Dan-el Padilla Peralta (PhD, 2014) started his appointment for the Chronic Disease Research Group at HCMC. as Assistant Professor at Princeton University this autumn. Hans Wietzke (PhD, 2014) accepted a one-year Visiting Andrew Phillips (BA Classics, 2011) works for LinkedIn Assistant Professorship at Carleton College in Minnesota. in Washington, DC, on its Advocacy and Campaigns Team. As Mark Zeigler (BA Classics, 1985) was a sports reporter for a student-athlete at Stanford, he was a leader and 3-year starter The Stanford Daily as an undergraduate. He is now an award- on a team that made one of the most historic turnarounds winning sportswriter for The San Diego Tribune. Mark has in college football, culminating with a BCS victory and a #4 covered 14 Olympics and seven World Cups of soccer, and he ranking in the country. Between 2012 and 2015 he took part in traveled to Rio to report on the 2016 Olympics. His primary beat two major marketing software acquisitions (Wildfire, acquired is San Diego State basketball.

28 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Mapping Greek Lyric: Places, Travel, Geographical Imaginary

lyricmappingproject.stanford.edu

Created by: David Driscoll, Israel McMullin, Stephen Sansom Headed by: Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi

This digital tool charts the geocultural activity and imagination of archaic and classical lyric in a dynamic online map. Which were the predominant cities, islands, or regions for lyric performance? Where were lyric artists traveling to and from according to ancient sources? What are the geographical references in the extant lyric narratives? To provide answers to these questions we have carefully sifted through ancient and modern sources and prosopographies to create a database that contains 140 lyric poets and performers from the eighth century BC to the beginning of the fourth century BC, 225 places, and 839 links between performers and places. Each data point includes the relevant ancient source, ranging from papyri and manuscripts to Lyric poets travel to and from Athens. ancient quotations and Byzantine encyclopedic compilations such as the Suda. Using SQL and GIS mapping software, we display this dataset in an intuitive map that allows the user to see which places were lyrically active (or inactive) in different periods and which were chosen as imaginary settings in melic, iambic, and elegiac poetry. We have created this map as a basic tool that allows researchers, teachers, and students to envision data more clearly and thereby rethink cultural production in the Hellenic world in its relation to geopolitical structures. We have chosen two intriguing examples for illustration: a map that shows movement of lyric poets to and from Athens, and one that shows traveling activity of lyric poets associated with the island of Lesbos (an island that has drawn Far more poets travel from Lesbos than to Lesbos. international attention recently in connection with the ongoing refugee crisis). Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions or would like to share a comment or suggestion!

DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 29 Eitner Lectures

The LORENZ EITNER LECTURES on Classical Art and Culture publicize classics and classical scholarship. The series has been endowed by Peter and Lindsay Joost, great friends and benefactors of Stanford Classics, in honor of the late Lorenz Eitner, Director of Stanford’s art museum, now known as the Cantor Center. Prof. Eitner was a distinguished expert of French Photography: Jose Mercado / Stanford News / Stanford Jose Mercado Photography: Romantic painting, and the author of a dozen books on art and art history. In naming these annual lectures after him, we honor the memory of a renowned scholar, teacher and writer who oversaw the expansion of our art museum to a leading regional art collection.

Tony Freeth Edith Hall The Antikythera Mechanism: A Shocking Discovery Master of Those Who Know: Aristotle as Role from Ancient Greece Model for the 21st-Century Academician November 6, 2015 February 18, 2016 Without two chance storms, two thousand years apart, the Of all the great minds of antiquity, Aristotle’s is the one which Antikythera Mechanism would never have been discovered most clearly celebrated curiosity for its own sake and has most and our view of ancient Greek technology would be entirely profoundly affected how we all do literature, philosophy and different. With its extraordinary bronze gear trains, it has been science. There was no constituent of the universe in which he the subject of impassioned controversy for more than a hundred was not interested, whether it was empirically discernible to the years. Initially, its structure and purpose remained hidden in a senses (plants, animals, planets), or lying beneath and beyond corroded tangle of fragmentary gears, scales and inscriptions— the perceptible surface of things (ethical impulses, principles and there were many confusions and mistakes. Research in the of logic, time, chance). This illustrated lecture first traces some last decade has made huge progress in understanding its true key moments in the history of the reception, perception, identity. As part of an international team, Dr Tony Freeth has representation and influence of the man whom Dante called been a central figure in an extraordinary voyage of discovery: simply ‘master of those who know’, il Maestro di color che every new revelation has reinforced a sense of shock about this sanno. As we approach his 2,400th birthday, it then asks highly sophisticated ancient Greek astronomical calculating whether celebrating certain aspects of Aristotle’s thought and its machine. It is one of the true wonders of the ancient world. reception could bolster all our academic endeavours today. Dr. Tony Freeth is a founding member of the Antikythera Edith Hall is Professor in the Department of Classics and Centre Mechanism Research Project and an Honorary Senior Research for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London and Chairman of Associate at University College, London. He holds degrees the Gilbert Murray Trust. Her research interests cover ancient in Mathematics from Cambridge University (UK) and Bristol Greek literature, thought, politics and culture and their reception University (UK). His work on the Antikythera Mechanism in modern times. She taught at the universities of Oxford, has been published in Nature (Freeth et al, Nature 2006 and Cambridge, Reading, Durham and Royal Holloway before taking Freeth et al, Nature 2008) as well as other prominent journals. up her present position; she has also held visiting appointments In 2012 he produced and appeared in an award-winning TV at Swarthmore College, PA, Northwestern University, IL, documentary about the Antikythera Mechanism, broadcast in Leiden and Erfurt. She has published over twenty books, both the USA as “Ancient Computer” (WGBH Nova) and distributed monographs and edited volumes, most recently Introducing the internationally by the BBC, ARTE, NHK and many other major Ancient Greeks: From Bronze Age Seafarers to Navigators of the TV channels. Western Mind (2014, Bodley Head). Her monograph Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides’ Black Sea Tragedy (OUP 2013) won a Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association. In 2015 she was awarded the Erasmus Prize by the European Academy for her contribution to international research. 30 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Stanford Classics in Theater (SCIT) The Republican Party in Pieces: A Comedy (In Fragments) Scraps of ancient Greek comedy were mashed up with crumbs of modern political sound bites and set at the 2016 Republican National Convention, where GOP elite looked to the audience in choosing the candidate best suited to make America great again. May 13–14, 2016 SCIT is generously sponsored by ASSU Arts Grant Program, Stanford Arts Institute, and the Department of Classics.

NOTA BENE: IN ADDITION TO THESE EVENTS, THE DEPARTMENT HOSTED OVER TWENTY RESEARCH TALKS, CONFERENCES, AND WORKSHOPS. DETAILS CAN BE FOUND AT HTTP://CLASSICS.STANFORD.EDU/EVENTS/PAST-EVENTS.

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32 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Two and a Half Recollections of Mark Edwards DONALD LATEINER (MA 1971, PHD 1972) JOHN R. WRIGHT PROFESSOR OF GREEK, EMERITUS, OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY October 5, 2016

In December 1971, my fellow recent PhD or ABD tapes that Mike Jameson had made of long interviews Classics friends and I faced a grim job market. I was with Toni. (Mike had been my teaching colleague for fortunate to obtain interviews for teaching positions four years at Penn before he moved to Stanford.) Like at the meetings of both the American Historical all of us, Toni had favorite anecdotes related in nearly Association and the American Philological Association identical form in more than one medium, but it was (as it was then fondly known). These meetings were precious to hear them in that unique timbre and accent. in different cities, of course, and a graduate student- lecturer had no jetsetter budget. Mark was full of surprises like those (In those days of the previous tapes, if one accidentally had century, there were no university access to a lever to pry them out. travel stipends or aid from He seemed to me a very private professional organizations.) After person, and I always regretted interviewing at the AHA, I dragged not getting to know him better. myself to the second East Coast I had hoped to see him this past venue, but I was out of money January at the SCS (as the APA is and had no credit card, much less less fondly known now), or at the credit. Mark, who was then chair, Stanford Party in San Francisco, informed of my problem, invited but he begged off due to failing me to sleep on his room’s couch. (night) eyesight. Here is an excerpt It does not sound like much, from my last communication from perhaps, but it practically brought Mark (2 December 2015): me to tears, since prospects seemed not bright. “Don—Thanks for the dinner invitation, but I’m afraid Because Mark had come to Stanford after I had finished I shall not be able to attend. At my age I try to avoid with coursework and because I was studying in Greece driving at night as much as possible, and coming back that year, I never had a chance to take a course from from S.F. isn’t too good after dark. But I hope you have him. My loss. His generosity to a comparative stranger a good time. was typical of his large-hearted helpfulness. I promised you Ned Spofford’s obit, and then could not When I was collecting information and annotations find it. Now I have a copy, and it’s attached.” on Toni Raubitschek’s autobiography—written for me in examination “bluebooks” (see Histos, So, once more, Mark supplied me with information supplementary vol. 1, http://research.ncl.ac.uk/histos/ about a mutual friend: Ned, once my teacher at Cornell HistosSupplements.)—I asked Mark some questions in 1967, who, like Mark, had helped me out in a dark about his long friendship with Toni. He surprised me hour, offering a tutorial on Horace’s Satires. Mark was by reporting that he had a similar set (and there were a kind figure of stability for many caught in a quandary others). He also shared with me copies of cassette and a good friend. I will miss his voice and collegiality.

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