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TABULAE Newsletter of the Department of Classics The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2007-2008

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR SPRING 2008

I had once thought that I And I would be delighted if would be retiring on July 1. we could offer a four-year Instead, I became chairman of scholarship similar to the one the department. I seem to have in honor of Kenneth Reckford swung abruptly from one end on the undergraduate level. of the spectrum to the other. This would not only bring us But I am not unhappy about at least one outstanding major the change. In fact, I am every year, but it would also actually enjoying being chair- call the program to the atten- man. This is a good depart- tion of other talented high- ment, with an excellent and the undergraduate program as a school students who might cooperative faculty and staff, training ground for our graduate also end up coming here, even many wonderful students at all students. That is not right. It is without support. levels, a long tradition in the not fair to our undergraduates, Most people, quite rightly, I university, and an administra- who are frequently being taught fear, look on the chairmanship tion that is well disposed by instructors teaching a course as a burden, something not to toward us. There are many for the first time. It is not fair to be wished on one’s worst things to be thankful for. There our graduate students, who are enemies. A very good friend of are also things to be done. Over constantly being asked to teach mine, however, told me last the last few years we have put a new courses. And it is not fair weekend that he actually felt a lot of time and energy into the to the department, which has a certain amount of envy of me graduate program, which is in long-standing reputation for for being able to be the head of good shape, and the Reckford taking undergraduate teaching a department like this. I look Scholarship will help us to very seriously. I want as many forward to working with all of continue to attract top notch of our undergraduates as pos- you. If any of you has ques- graduate students. I would like sible to be taught by regular tions, concerns, or suggestions to see us put the same effort faculty. I want to be sure that about the department, I hope into the undergraduate program, every year we offer a full range that you will communicate which has been somewhat of undergraduate courses. I them to me, and I send you all neglected recently, in spite of want the introductory and my best wishes. the excellent job that Donald Greek classes to be as small as Haggis has done as Under- possible and to be taught as Cecil Wooten graduate Advisor. I fear that we much as possible by experi- have been inclined to look on enced instructors. Job 35410 • proof 1

JAMES RIVES, KENAN Manches- material to keep me EMINENT PROFESSOR OF ter, interested for as where I long as I want to CLASSICS wrote keep going. And I my do think that When I was invited to apply second asrecently I’m for the position of Kenan book, a starting to be able Eminent Professor of Classics, I transla- to pull together was both very pleased and very tion, some of my ideas surprised; pleased, for obvious with on a large scale. reasons, and surprised, because exten- My most recent I certainly didn’t consider sive book, Religion in myself ‘eminent’. But I soon intro- the Roman Empire decided that if the search duction and commentary, of (2006), is an attempt to sketch committee considered me at Tacitus’ Germania (1999). I out what I see the major aspects least potentially eminent, who moved from Columbia to York of religious life in the imperial was I to tell them otherwise? At in 1998. period in all its variety; I try to the time I was at York Univer- My main research interests take into account both the sity in Toronto, where I had center on religion in the Roman numerous cultural traditions been for eight years. I was in empire, primarily the period of within the empire as well as the many ways very happy there, to Constantine. wide range of religious activi- since I had wonderful col- Because I’m very concerned ties that took place, from leagues, good students, and a with issues of religious change, simple expressions of personal supportive environment. But however, it’s important to me to piety to formal civic activities the Classics program at York is see things in a wide perspec- to abstruse mystical specula- a small one, with somewhat tive, and so my interests extend tion. And because the book is limited teaching possibilities, back into the archaic period and aimed primarily at undergradu- and the idea of teaching in a forward into late antiquity. ates and general readers, I’ve top-level program was naturally Working on religion is both worked to present the material very attractive. So I applied exciting and daunting, because as clearly and plainly as pos- and, again to my surprise, was religion pervaded almost every sible (something that was not offered the position. And I’m aspect of the Graeco-Roman always easy to do). delighted to be here. world. In order to pursue the I also have interests in Latin I received my BA in Classics topics and issues that interest prose, especially historiogra- from Washington University in me, I’ve had to learn something phy. In addition to my commen- St. Louis (1983), and PhD from about political and social tary on Tacitus’ Germania, I Stanford University (1990); as a history, philosophy, Jewish and have just finished a new edition graduate student I also spent a early Christian literature, of Robert Graves’ translation of year in Oxford, working on my , , and art Suetonius for Penguin Classics, dissertation, which eventually and architecture. The result is for which I revised the transla- became my first book, Religion that I often feel like a jack of all tion and provided a new intro- and Authority in Roman trades and master of none. This duction and notes. It’s kind of a Carthage (1995). My first job can be frustrating, since I’m kick to be doing an edition for was at Columbia University in constantly aware that I would Penguin Classics, since it was New York, where I taught for like to know a lot more than I largely through those black- eight years. During that time I do about the fields that I draw covered paperbacks that I got also held a Leverhulme Visiting on, but also exciting, since I my own introduction to Fellowship at the University of know there’s more than enough

II Job 35410 • proof 1 classical literature some thirty John and I weren’t sure how of the international conference years ago. I’m now under we’d adapt to what seemed to on “Apuleius and the Second contract with Penguin to do us a very small town environ- Sophistic: An Orator at Play” similar work for a new edition ment. At the very least, we has kept me busy throughout of Tacitus’ Agricola and knew we’d have to make some the academic year 2006/07. At Germania. My range of teach- adjustments (for one thing, the same time, I have been ing interests are fairly wide. I, neither of us had owned a car trying hard to drive forward my of course, hope to develop a for sixteen years). In the end, book project on violence in repertoire of courses on aspects we decided to settle in down- fourth-century BC Athens. A of religion in the Roman world, town Durham, partly because it great help was the Spray- and to teach a variety of Latin offers a bit more of the urban Randleigh Fellowship that I prose authors, especially setting that we’re used to, and was awarded in the spring of , Caesar, , Tacitus, partly because there are more 2006. It allowed me to dedicate Suetonius, and Apuleius. This opportunities for John (who’s the whole summer to writing year I’m teaching myth, some- an architect). We bought a approximately one third of the thing that I taught regularly at small two-story commercial book manuscript, mainly the York, and also the course that building right downtown on chapter on the curse tablets. Jerzy Linderski used to teach Main Street, which we’re In the fall of that same year, I on Roman law (although I renovating as both our home applied for outside grants to certainly won’t be able to fill and a storefront office for John. help me finish the study and I his shoes). It’s an exciting time to be in was lucky enough to be hon- I’ve very much enjoyed my downtown Durham, because ored by three grants. I had to first year at UNC. I’ve found there’s a lot of development decline a one-semester fellow- the department to be wonder- going on and the city really ship at the UNC Institute for fully congenial, and also an seems to be embarking on a the Arts and Humanities and a exciting place to be as we hire new phase. Rather than driving one-year Solmsen fellowship at new colleagues. The students to Chapel Hill, I take the the University of Wisconsin in have been great to work with, Triangle Transit Authority order to benefit from a full-year both undergraduate and gradu- buses, which are very conve- junior fellowship at the Harvard ate; last spring I taught a gradu- nient and give me a much Center for Hellenic Studies at ate seminar on sacrifice in the easier commute than I had in Washington, DC., where I am Graeco-Roman world that gave Toronto. And we ended up not currently working on my book me the sort of rewarding gradu- buying a car after all; we got a project (2007/08). ate teaching experience that I pickup truck instead (very My paper on tyrannicide in had often heard about but had useful for construction the Greek world of the fourth- never before experienced. And projects). century (delivered at the the place is very quickly start- So it’s been a great move for covegno of the Fondazione ing to feel like home. Although me. I’m delighted to be here, Canussio in Cividale, Italy) as before I came for my interview and looking forward to an well as my lecture on violence I had visited here only once, exciting future. Who knows, I in Euripides’ Bacchae (deliv- I’ve heard stories about Chapel may even become eminent! ered at the Catholic Academy Hill all my life, since my –James Rives of Bavaria at Munich) were parents were both students at published. My paper on the UNC and it was here that they A WORD FROM WERNER symbolic meanings of Athenian met (in the cafeteria of the RIESS homicide procedures that I Carolina Inn, no less!). A rich academic year is delivered at this year’s meeting Nevertheless, after living for coming to its close. Apart from of the Fondation Hardt in years in major cities, my partner my teaching, the organization Vandœuvre, Switzerland, went

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into print a few weeks ago. In organization on Crete in the The excavation has docu- addition, I could finish my Archaic period, and using mented contribution to the Oxford Azoria as a case study, details of Handbook of Social Relations toidentify the stages of the dy- in the Roman World (on “Ban- development of the settle- namics of dits”), edited by Michael ment from 1200 to 500 B.C. this Peachin from NYU, and the The main goal of the project culture entry “Banditry and Brigand- has been to examine the form change at age, Roman” in the Oxford of a small-scale Archaic Rachel McCleery, BA Classical Azoria at Encyclopedia of Ancient Cretan city, looking at Archaeology 2006, in the the end of storeroom of an Archaic house. Greece and Rome, edited by M. changes in the political the 7th Gagarin. economy in the 6th and early century, presenting a picture of Lectures for CAMWS and 5th centuries, periods that have nucleation of population, the Association of Ancient in the past been characterized reorganization of public and Historians brought me to by economic recession and private space, and the appear- Cincinnati, OH and Princeton, isolation from the wider Greek ance of new forms of architec- NJ. I also gave invited world. Coun- ture and systemic assemblages, lectures at Emory tering this very much in keeping with University, Atlanta, GA trend in the normative views of material and Penn State Univer- literature, the patterns in the wider Aegean, as sity, State College, PA. central well as in Crete itself. Evidence –Werner Riess argument of to date suggests a date near 630 the Azoria for significant changes in Melissa Eaby, Ph.D. 2007, excavating a Protogeometric Project has settlement mobility and struc- tholos tomb. been that the ture, which we can now con- NEWS ON AZORIA economic growth apparent in nect – through stratigraphic the later part of the Early Iron evidence at Azoria – effectively Donald Haggis continues Age and the early Archaic to polis formation. work at Azoria, an Early Iron period culminates in a period of In 2007, Work in the Service Age and Archaic site in north- urbanization at the end of the Complex of the Archaic Monu- eastern Crete. He completed 7th century, which is a phase of mental Civic Building revealed five years of excavation in sig- more evidence of an olive oil 2006, and this year, published nifi- workshop suggesting the two reports on the 2003-2004 cant likelihood of three small lever- field seasons in Hesperia.The growth type presses in the building’s work is conducted as a collabo- on main room. The press facility rative project between the Crete, was likely to have supplied fuel Departments of Classics and in- and food oil for the neighboring Anthropology, the Research volv- Monumental Civic Building. Laboratories of Archaeology at UNC students excavating the Late Geometric-Early ing Given the early fifth century UNC Chapel Hill, and the Orientalizing building. the destruction date for the struc- American School of Classical restructuring of settlement and ture, it is probably the only Studies at Athens. reorganization of emerging documented and securely dated The aims of fieldwork have centers while establishing the Archaic olive-press facility in been to document parts of a essential form and character of the Aegean. nascent Greek city that are Greek cities of the Classical Work on the architecture of relevant to reconstructing and Hellenistic periods on the the site revealed evidence for a sociopolitical and economic island. doorway in the north wall of

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the Monumental Civic Build- articles have appeared re- of Roman Questions appeared ing, connecting the structure to cently, one in GRBS and one in 1995 and was received very the open terrace in front of the (co-written with Keith Dix) in positively by the scholarly Archaic shrine. MEFRA. Three more community. The present collec- This would have been accepted tion contains 71 papers written suggest that and should appear mostly in English (with one while the within a year. paper in German and one in shrine terrace Latin) and predominantly would have Henry published in the last 20 years in been visible Immerwahr has been various leading journals in from the west, Altar and hearth in the Archaic working on an analy- Europe and America. They are shrine of the Monumental Civic the principal Building. sis of the material in all reset, and supplied with formal access his Corpus of Attic addenda. There are also five was directly from the Monu- Vase Inscriptions (a printout of inedita and addenda to the mental Civic Building. This which is in the Vase Room of previous volume. They deal close connection suggests a link the Sloane Library) to see what with Roman republican and between formal public assem- it can yield for the question of imperial history and constitu- blies and rituals involving a literacy. To this end he has tional law, prosopography, female divinity – indeed an written three papers: “Observa- epigraphy, Latin philology, association evocative of a tions on Writing Practices in Roman religion, and the history prytaneion and adjoining hearth the Athenian Ceramicus” (to of classical scholarship. They of Hestia. appear in a festschrift); “Non- ask questions, try to answer The project is currently sense Inscriptions and Lit- them, and do not avoid po- funded by grants from the eracy,” Kadmos 45 (2006); and lemic. They uphold the unity of National Science Foundation, “Aspects of Literacy in the Altertumswissenschaft: history the National Endowment for Athenian Ceramicus,” to cannot be understood without the Humanities, and the Univer- appear in Kadmos 46. philology, and philology is sity of North Carolina at Chapel blind without history; and Hill. Donations to support George A. Kennedy was history, law and literature are continuing work may be made elected a Fellow of the Rheto- infused with ideology and to the Azoria Project Fund ric Society of America for religion. And the tool to knowl- (www.azoria.org). Distinguished Service to edge is the painstaking linguis- –Donald Haggis Rhetorical Studies in 2006. In tic dissection of texts. June of the same year, the FACULTY NEWS second edition of his transla- Jim O’Hara is enjoying not tion of Aristotle on Rhetoric being chair. His book Inconsis- George Houston and his was published by Oxford tency in Roman Epic: Studies in wife Jean spent a delightful University Press. In February Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, August in Rome, visiting long- 2007, the George A. Kennedy Ovid, and Lucan came out last familiar sites (the Forum; a cafe Distinguished Professorship Spring from Cambridge. He on the Via Carini) as well as was created as an endowed continues to work on a school many they had never seen chair in our own College of commentary on Aeneid 4 for before (the Casino delle Civette Arts and Sciences. Focus, with versions to appear on the Via Nomentana, a as part of a volume on Aeneid wonderful confection). Jerzy Linderski had a book 1-6 and as a stand-alone com- George has been moving published in 2007 entitled mentary. ahead with research on Roman Roman Questions II. Selected Since he is no longer chair, book collections, and two Papers. The first volume of he is teaching more, including

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an undergraduate Greek course Herodotus, “History and GRADUATE NEWS on the Iliad in Fall 2007 and a Biography,” in The Blackwell graduate course on Horace in Companion to Greek and Beth Greene will be off in Spring 2008. Roman Historiography, and the Europe next semester, first at third, on Plutarch and Trajanic Vindolanda on a UNC Smith William Race has com- ideology, in Plutarco e la Research Grant and then in pleted his Loeb edition of cultura della sua etá. Despite Munich on a fellowship at the Apollonius Rhodius, which is all of this, he still finds time to Commission for Ancient scheduled to appear next fall. hike in the mountains of North History and Epigraphy of the He is presently working on an Carolina and visit grandchil- German Archaeological Insti- article, “Horace’s Debt to dren scattered from Philadel- tute, researching various parts Pindar,” for Blackwell’s A phia to Florida. of her dissertation. First she Companion to Horace, edited will be presenting at the AIA in by Gregson Davis. Bill West traveled to Greece Chicago in January on women in June 2007 and studied in the archaeological record at Philip Stadter filled in inscribed pottery at Azoria, Vindolanda. teaching a graduate course on Crete. He also attended the Herodotus in Spring 2007. He 13th International Congress of Ted Gellar attended the also gave a lecture in Rome, Greek and Latin Epigraphy in American Academy in Rome’s Italy, on the relation of charac- Oxford, England in September Classical Summer School and ter and governing, for the and presented a paper, “Virtues the Vergilian Society’s Cumae Istituto di storia antica, in of Moderation in Athenian III tour, thanks to support from November 2006. His business Honorary Decrees.” A paper the UNC Classics Department’s with L’Année philologique delivered at the 12th Congress, Berthe Marti fund and the continues: in May 2006, he in Barcelona, Spain, “Good CAMWS Mary A. Grant participated in a special meet- Will for the City: Development award. ing on the American Office of of a Formula in Inscriptions the AnPhil, then in November and Literature,” has now been he attended the annual meeting published in the Acta of the of the governing society, SIBC, Congress (2007). in Paris. Philip spent much of December preparing a memo- Cecil Wooten has two new rial note for his dissertation cats named Alice and Clara. director at Havard, Herbert They are brown tabbies, about Ted Gellar Bloch, an extraordinary scholar a year old, and cute as they can who made major contributions be. Also, his book, A Commen- On September 28, three gradu- to Greek historiography, Roman tary on Demosthenes Philippic ate students, one alumna, and a epigraphy and topography I with Rhetorical Analyses of professor from UNC classics (through the study of dated Philippics II and III has re- participated in the Southern brick stamps), and the history cently been accepted by Ox- Comparative Literature of Monte Cassino in the middle ford University Press and will Association’s annual confer- ages. It has appeared in the be published in the early ence in Raleigh, N.C. The two- Journal of Roman Archaeology Spring 2008 as part of the part panel “Female Bodies and 20 (2007) 716-19. Three arti- American Philological Female Places: Gender and cles of Philip’s came out this Association’s Texts and Com- Otherness in Graeco-Roman year, “Herodotus and the Cities mentaries Series. Poetry” was organized by Ted of Mainland Greece,” in the Gellar and included papers by Cambridge Companion to Professor Hunter Gardner

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(UNC Ph.D., now of University William H. Stevenson – Jersey, where Elizabeth will be of South Carolina), Ted Gellar, Classical Civilization & An- doing both research and clinical Amanda Mathis, Katerina cient/Medieval History care. Jonathan, for the time Ladianou (Ohio State Univer- Laura Sue Tuel – Classical being, will be unpacking boxes. sity), and Erika Zimmerman Archaeology Hunter Gardner (05) has Damer, and responses by UNC Austin Guyton Walker – accepted a tenure-track position Professor Sharon James and Greek and Latin & Compara- at the University of South Professor Micaela Janan of tive Literature Carolina in Columbia to teach Duke University. Christopher Keith Whipple – Augustan poetry. Matt Latin and Greek with Greek Henstridge (03) is now teach- emphasis, Chemistry Minor. ing Latin at Walnut Hills High School, a college prep school in The following students Cincinnati. Kathy McDonnell received M.A. and Ph.D. (05) is now an Assistant Profes- degrees: sor in Roman Material Culture Hilary Becker – Ph.D. Classi- at UCLA. Charles Platter’s L to R: Erika Zimmerman Damer, Ted Gellar, cal Archaeology Amanda Mathis, Hunter Gardner, and (89) book, Aristophanes and Micaela Janan. Jeffrey Alan Becker – Ph.D. the Carnival of Genres, was Classical Archaeology published by Johns Hopkins Melissa Suzanne Eaby – GRADUATION 2007 University Press in 2007. Ph.D. Classical Archaeology Lawrence J. Simms (74) has Walter Frank McCall – Ph.D. retired after 35 years as a On Sunday, May 13, 2007, the Classical Archaeology Department of Classics held its faculty member in Classics at Christopher Brian Polt – the College of Charleston. annual commencement in M.A. Latin Murphey Hall. The following Currently, he is working as a Elizabeth Carol Robinson – volunteer with the rare book students graduated with Clas- M.A. Roman Archaeology sics majors and minors: collection at the College of Derek Heath Smith – M.A. John Starks Rebekah Jane Buckner – Charleston library. Greek Philology Latin, with concentration in (04) is now a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the pre-medicine The following students Jennifer Ellen Cimaglia – Department of Classical and received Post-Baccalaureate Near Eastern Studies at Classical Archaeology certificates: Laura Downs Eddy – Classi- Binghamton University – Emily Grace Donaldson S.U.N.Y. Denis Sullivan (72) cal Civilization, English Minor Andrew Clark Spencer – Kirk Mark Keshishian – studies Byzantine history and is accepted into our graduate a professor in the Department Classical Civilization & Eco- program. nomics of Curriculum and Instruction Sarah Elizabeth Mercer – at the University of Maryland ALUMNI NEWS Jim English & Classical Civiliza- in College Park. Yavenditti tion (97) teaches Latin at Beth Calamia (92) and Anthony Chase Shelton – St. Luke’s School in New husband Will welcomed their Classical Humanities Minor Canaan, CT and is in his first son, Carl Thomas Calamia Joshua Michael Smith - Latin year as head of the Upper Scheckel on March 24, 2007. and Greek with Latin emphasis School. He and his wife had a They are fine but sleep-de- Williams Rudolph Smith V – baby in 2006 on April 21, the prived. Jonathan Clark (03) Philosophy & Greek, traditional date of Rome’s and wife Elizabeth recently Chemistry Minor founding. moved to Highland Park, New

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