George W. Houston, Curriculum Vitae Department of Classics, CB 3145 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145 [email protected] Education B.A., Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 1963. Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1971. Dissertation: Roman Imperial Administrative Personnel During the Principates of Vespasian and Titus (A.D. 69-81), under the direction of T. Robert S. Broughton. Employment Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Instructor, 1969-71; Assistant Professor, 1971-76; Associate Professor, 1976-1993; Professor, 1993-2005; Bowman and Gordon Gray Associate Professor, 1986-1989; Assistant Chairman, 1974-78 and 1986-1991; Director of Graduate Studies, 1984-1991; Chairman, 1996-2001. Professor Emeritus, 2005-present. Vergilian Society of America, Summer Program in Italy: Associate Director, 1972; Director, 1976, 1982. Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome: Director, 1977-79. Istituto di Filologia Latina e Medioevale, Università degli Studi di Bologna: Visiting Professor (Professore à contratto), Autumn 1982. Fellowships, Grants, and Awards. Fulbright Grant for study in Italy, 1967-68. Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, 1967-69. Faculty Research Council Grants, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1974, 1982. Kenan Leave, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978-79. Course Development Award (to develop Classics 44, "Technology and Culture in the Roman Empire"), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 1981. American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1982. Bowman and Gordon Gray Associate Professorship (1986-1989, in recognition of excellence in undergraduate teaching). Lurcy Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina, Fall 1989. Publications. Book. Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Publications. Articles. "M. Plancius Varus and the Events of A.D. 69-70," Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 103 (1972) 167-80. "The New Milestones from Padilla de Abajo, in the Province of Burgos," Durius 2 (1974) 423-25. "P. Marius P.f., Cos. Ord. A.D. 62," Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 16 (1975) 33-35. "[Thronos], [Diphros], and Odysseus' Change from Beggar to Avenger," Classical Philology 70 (1975) 212-14. "Notes on Some Documents Pertaining to Flavian Administrative Personnel," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 20 (1976) 25-34. "The Duration of the Censorship of Vespasian and Titus," Emerita 44 (1976) 397-402. "Vespasian's Adlection of Men in Senatum," American Journal of Philology 98 (1977) 35-63. "Nonius Flaccus: A New Equestrian Career from Firmum Picenum," Classical Philology 72 (1977) 232-38. "The Administration of Italian Seaports During the First Three Centuries of the Roman Empire," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 36 (1980) 157-71. "CIL, XI: Index apparitorum et officialium magistratuum, imperatoris, vectigalium," Epigraphica 45 (1983) 158-62. "Limonite, Hematite, and Pompeian Red," Archaeological News 13 (1984) 68-69. "Tiberius on Capri," Greece and Rome 32 (1985) 179-96. "Lucian's Navigium and the Dimensions of the Isis," American Journal of Philology 108 (1987) 444- 50. "A Revisionary Note on Ammianus Marcellinus 14.6.18: When Did the Public Libraries of Ancient Rome Close?" Library Quarterly 58 (1988) 258-64. "Ports in Perspective: Some Comparative Materials on Roman Merchant Ships and Ports," American Journal of Archaeology 92 (1988) 553-64. "The State of the Art: Current Work in the Technology of Ancient Rome," (review article), Classical Journal 85 (1989) 63-80. "The Altar from Rome with Inscriptions to Sol and Malakbel," Syria 67 (1990) 189-93. "Two Conjectures Concerning Nero's Doctor, Andromachos the Elder," Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 6 (1992) 354-61. "The Other Spas of Ancient Campania," in The Two Worlds of the Poet: New Perspectives on Vergil, edd. R.M. Wilhelm and Howard Jones (Detroit, 1992) 356-370. "What Uses Might Roman Farmers Have Made of the Loans They Received in the Alimenta Program?" Rivista Storica dell'Antichita 22-23 (1992-93) 97-105. "FASTI BROUGHTONIANI: The Professional Activities and Published Works of Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton," in Jerzy Linderski, ed., Imperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 1996) 1-30. "Libraries in Roman Baths?" coauthored with T. Keith Dix. Balnearia 4 (1995) 2-4. "Broughton Remembered," in Jerzy Linderski, ed., Imperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 1996) 35-41. "Onesimus the Librarian," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 114 (1996) 205-208. "The Slave and Freedman Personnel in Roman Public Libraries," Transactions of the American Philological Association 132 (2002) 139-76. “The Latin Inscriptions,” in Bradley H. McLean, Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Konya Archaeological Museum (Ankara, 2002) 83-86. “Galen, His Books, and the Horrea Piperataria at Rome,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 48 (2003) 45-51. “How Did You Get Hold of a Book in a Roman Library? Three Second-Century Scenarios,” Classical Bulletin 80 (2004) 5-13. (with T. Keith Dix) “Public Libraries in the City of Rome from the Augustan Age to the Time of Diocletian,” Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Antiquité 118 (2006) 671-717. “Grenfell, Hunt, Breccia, and the Book Collections of Oxyrhynchus,” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 47 (2007) 327-59. “Tiberius and the Libraries,” Libraries & the Cultural Record 43 (2008) 247-269. (with Linda M. Gigante) “A Collection of Inscriptions from the Via Salaria Necropolis Now in the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 53 (2008) 27- 78. “Papyrological Evidence for Book Collections and Libraries in the Roman Empire,” in W. A. Johnson and H. N. Parker, Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome (Oxford 2009) 233-267. “The Non-Philodemus Book Collection in the Villa of the Papyri,” in J. König, K. Oikonomopolou, and G. Woolf, edd., Ancient Libraries. (Cambridge 2013) 183-208. "Using Sundials," in Lee L. Brice and Daniëlle Slootjes, edd., Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography. Studies in Honor of Richard J.A. Talbert (Leiden and Boston 2014). Bibliographies: From February 1972 to May 1980 I was editor of "Recently Published Articles in Ancient History," in The American Historical Review (1972 to 1976) and in Recently Published Articles (1976 to 1980), published by the American Historical Association. These bibliographies varied from twenty-five to thirty pages per year. Short Notes, Unrefereed Articles, and Miscellaneous: "A Course on the City of Rome: Problems, Solutions, Problems," Classical News and Views 18 (1974) 76-80. (Pedagogical) "The Lusus Troiae and Augustan Patriotism," The Augustan Age 1 (1981-2) 8-12. "Newsletter from Italy," The Augustan Age 2 (1982-83) 23-32. "New Light on the Ancient Romans' View of Librarians," (Satire)Wilson Library Bulletin 63 (June 1989) 28-29. "The Technology of the Ancient Romans," Prospects. Newsletter of the National Committee for Latin and Greek (Summer 1992) 4-5. “Teaching Roman Tech, or ‘Technology and Culture in the Roman Empire,” Classical Journal 95 (1999) 65-72. “The Ideal of Teacher Training within the Reality of the Ph.D. Program,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 132 (2002) 191-97. “Academe’s Aeneas Syndrome: Where in the World Are We Headed?” Classical Journal 98 (2003) 281-87. (with Jean V. Houston) “An Unpublished Note and Inscription of Stephen Crane.” Stephen Crane Studies 17 (2008) 13-15. Articles for the Wake County Physician: “Eben Alexander, Professor of Greek: A Personal Glimpse,” WCP 13 (2008) 17; “Amoebe and Stephanus on an Ancient Roman Tombstone,” WCP 14.4 (October 2009) 18; “Galen’s All-Purpose Antidote,” WCP 15.3 (July 2010) 44. Book Reviews: Review of Ernst Posner, Archives in the Ancient World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1972, in American Historical Review 78 (1972) 408-409. Review of G.J. Szemler, The Priests of the Roman Republic. A Study of Interactions between Priesthoods and Magistracies. Brussels: Latomus, 1972, in Classical World 67 (1973) 51-52. Review of David P. Jordan, Gibbon and His Roman Empire. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 1971, in American Historical Review 80 (1975) 81-82. Review of Herbert W. Benario, An Introduction to Tacitus. Athens, GA: University of Georgia, 1975, in Vergilius 22 (1976) 50-51. Review of Tapio Helen, Organization of Roman Brick Production in the First and Second Centuries A.D. An Interpretation of Roman Brick Stamps. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1975, in Classical World 72 (1978) 44-45. Review of Heikki Solin, Epigraphische Untersuchungen in Rom und Umgebung. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1975, in Classical World 72 (1978) 114. Review of Kenneth Wellesley, The Long Year, A.D. 69. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1976, in The American Historical Review 84 (1979) 130. Review of T.J. Luce, Livy: The Composition of His History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977, in Classical Philology 75 (1980) 73-77. Review of Arthur E. Gordon, Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California, 1983, in Classical World 78 (1984) 58-59. Review of Lionel Casson, Ancient Trade and Society. Detroit: Wayne State University, 1984, in Classical Outlook 63 (1986)