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Vergilian Society President's Report, 2012 As I Look Back Over the Past Sortes - Fall 2012 Vergilian Society President’s Report, 2012 As I look back over the past twelve months, I am struck by what a good year we have had: the finances are under control again, the villa is being restored to its former glory, and our academic programs are strong. We turned a slight profit in the last fiscal year, which is especially satisfying given the economic slow- down. In addition we have now received three of what are intended to be five very substantial checks from Mr. Harry Wilks. These contributions have rescued us from the brink of insolvency and allowed the officers to move from crisis management to the sort of long-term planning that we have been wanting to do. Our financial needs remain substantial—a point to which I shall return—but thanks to Mr. Wilks, the villa has been transformed and an important new scholarship program has been established. First, the villa. Plans have been drawn up for both the interior and exterior renovation of the building, and substantial progress has already been made on the outside. I was able to visit this summer, at which time the roof, tower, and rear façade had been totally transformed. We were able at that time to start on the two exte- rior sides, and I understand that good progress is being made there as well. Pictures are available at the website (http://www.vergil.clarku.edu/repair.html), and I encourage you to have a look if you have not done so already. We hope to be able to get going on the front façade and the interior work soon. The situation with the lease remains unresolved, but we have significant support at the highest levels within the Italian government and our ability to do substantial renovations on the building strengthens our hand considerably. The current fiscal crisis has diverted most of the responsible authorities to more pressing matters, but we continue to make our case and will press forward more vigorously again when the opportunity allows. The first group of Wilks scholars, a dozen high school students from Hamilton, Ohio, visited the villa this summer, and we are expecting another group in 2013. Our secondary school exchange program continues, and we have a new vice president for secondary school relations, so you should be seeing several new initiatives at this level soon. To my knowledge the Vergilian Society is unique in having a mission that extends from the schools through the university, and we intend to continue developing programs at all levels. Our scholarly endeavors remain extensive and successful. The 2012 symposium, under the direction of Professor Pat Johnston, took place last June, and planning is well underway for the 2013 symposium on “Aeneid 6 and Its Cultural Reception,” coordinated by Prof. William Gladhill. The panel on “Teaching Vergil’s Aeneid” at the 2012 APA went very well, “Virgil’s Detractors, Grammarians, Commentators, and Biographers: The First Fifteen Hundred Years” is scheduled for the 2013 meeting, and we are now circulating a call for papers on “Ver- gil’s Commentaries: La Cerda to Horsfall” for 2014. The Vergilian Society continues to maintain its presence at regional classics meetings, especially at CAMWS, where we will be having a reception, business meeting, and breakfast, as usual. I would also like to draw your attention to Vergilius, which is sporting a new look and has grown substantially in size over the last couple of years. Contents: President’s Letter, p. 1 Tour Report: The Italy of Caesar and Vergil, p. 2 Reflections: Nancy Antonellis, p. 4 Reflections: Nathan Wade, p. 6 Reflections: Angie Bohon, p. 7 Reflections: Matt Lindbloom, p. 7 Tour Report: Roman Jordan, p. 8 Tour Report: In the Footsteps of Poets and Painters, Proletarians, and Princes, p. 9 Tours for Summer of 2013, p. 12 Membership Form, p. 13 The tours remain a central part of our mission, and we are continuing our efforts in this area. We ran four tours in summer, 2012: “Roman Jordan,” directed by Philip Stanley and George Perko; “In the Footsteps of Poets and Painters, Proletarians and Princes: Rediscovering the Bay of Naples in Greek and Roman Times,” by Ann Koloski-Ostrow and Steve Ostrow; “The Italy of Caesar and Vergil: A Workshop for Teachers,” by Steve Tuck and Amy Leonard; and “The Archaeology of Identity in Coastal Campania: How Ancient Italians and Greeks became Romans on the Bay of Naples,” by Anne Haeckl and Christopher Gregg. For 2013, we will offer four tours: “Sicily,” directed by Beverly Berg, “Vergilian Turkey,” by Andrew and Amy Goldman, “From Neapolis to Apragapolis: The Greco-Roman Bay of Naples,” by James Andrews and Randall Colaizzi, and “Vergil the Poet and Medieval Wizard: Literary Magic,” by Chris Ann Matteo and Ray Clark. Plans for the 2014 tours are under- way as well, with further information forthcoming. I have been making a special effort to strengthen our relationships with scholarly groups abroad during the past year. The Dipartimento di filologia classica Francesco Arnaldi at the Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II will be co-sponsoring our symposia starting in 2013 and working with us in other ways over the coming years. I had a good meeting with the past president of the Accademia Vergiliana in Mantua in October; they, too, will be co-sponsoring our symposia, and we are exploring other ways in which we might cooperate as well. Finally I have made contact with the British Vergilian Society, and we are beginning to discuss what we might do together. So, this has been a good year, but it was a good year in bad times, at least economically. Unlike many scholarly organizations, we do not have a large endowment on which to rely, and the depressed interest rates have cut into our income for things like scholarships. The Wilks bequest is meeting our most pressing needs in terms of building renovations and is offering some help with funding scholarships, but we could do more if we had more, in high school programs, scholarship, and tours. Please consider a gift, at any level, from a small one- time contribution to a larger bequest (I should note that we have an excellent finance committee that is able to deal professionally with the latter). Sincerely, Craig Kallendorf President The Italy of Caesar and Vergil: A Workshop for Teachers On this, our third tour collaboration, Steve Tuck and I led a record number of friendly, smart, and tal- ented high school teachers to sites both old and new. Of the 24 teachers (plus one mother, one husband, and one friend), several had not traveled to Italy before, so everything was a new experience for them. Of the remaining “seasoned travelers,” the site lectures and Latin readings made the trip a very different one from what they’d ex- perienced before. In fact, several participants began to dub Steve “the Mythbuster” for his frequent and unapolo- getic challenges to the popular notions of life and events in the ancient world (many of which are perpetuated in the very textbooks we use with our students): the Flavian Amphitheater was NOT built with the labor of Jewish prisonsers; thermopolia did NOT serve hot food. The workshop followed a daily pattern of morning classroom sessions followed by afternoon excursions to sites in Rome and on the Bay of Naples with additional sojourns to Lavinium and Paestum. One might assume that coming all the way to Italy to sit in a classroom for three hours each morning would be not the best use of one’s otium, but the group devoured every morsel of pedagogy material, ever eager for more. Much of this enthu- siasm was fueled by the upcoming changes in the AP Latin syllabus which now includes readings from Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum, a work that many teachers have omitted from their curricula for the past few decades. Classroom sessions were devoted to successful methods in teaching at the AP level, guiding students to write literal translations, developing good sight reading strategies, and composing well-organized and insightful analytical essays about the writings of Vergil and Caesar. Having two experienced AP readers in the group 2 added wisdom to the discussions on grading translations and essays. In addition, we broke into small reading groups to translate the new syllabus lines of both Vergil and Caesar. Finally, each day allowed for small group discussions on textbook approaches, structure of a typical class period, assessment strategies, and methods to make Caesar “enjoyable” to the modern student. Fortunately for those who were lamenting the syllabus change, there were many avid readers and teachers of Caesar in the group to act as cheerleaders for Commentarii. In Rome, we enjoyed the thoroughly modernized classroom facilities at the Univeristy of Washington Rome Center. Each morning, our army of teachers would meet in front of the hotel each morning, walk around the corner, through a charming frescoed tunnel, and trek up three flights to our classroom above the Ristorante Pancrazio nella Curia del Teatro di Pompeo. Sound familiar? You guessed it: the very site of Caesar’s assassina- tion. We strove for thematic integration in all aspects of the tour! The first day in Rome was devoted to defining and building the city as narrated in Book VIII of the Ae- neid. We retraced the footsteps of Evander and Aeneas along the Tiber, through the Forum Boarium, and to the lupercal on the slopes of the Palatine. Each stop was accompanied by Latin readings from the Aeneid, as partici- pants performed their best dactylic hexameter in the heat of the afternoon sun.
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