Volume 5 - Number 3

Brad Churchill has published two articles this year, one in AJP clearing up a textual controversy in Quintillian and another in CQ arguing for a new interpretation of the titles of two lost speeches of the Elder Cato and Cicero, respectively. Another article, on the text, interpretation and implications of a fragment of the Elder Cato, will appear in AJP late this year or early next, and a fourth, offering correction to the translation of a passage of Plutarch's Life of the Elder Cato, will appear in Phoenix at an as-yet-undetermined date. He is currently revising a note on the interpretation of Livy 6.2.13, on Camillus' subjugation of the Volsci on 389, for publication in CQ.

Diane Conlin spent last May in Rome examining the carving of several Julio-Claudian and Flavian relief sculptures on display and in storage in the Vatican, Terme and Capitoline collections. Her project, "Immigration, Importation, and Artistic Diversity in Early Imperial Rome" was supported by grants from CRCW and GCAH. Never tiring of tool marks, she also reunited with Italian and American colleagues and fellow carving specialists for collaborative technical analyses of the provincial reliefs from the Hadrianeum and the curious friezes from Basilica Paulli. While in Rome, Professor Conlin was invited to explore closed sections of the For a of Augustus and Trajan and discuss recent excavation finds in the Fori Imperiali. Between exhiliarating motorini rides and last minute permessi, she spent many hours back in the American Academy library preparing for this semester's team-taught graduate seminar in Roman numismatics. Currently she is planning a conference on Roman marble studies to be held in Boulder next spring, crafting a paper for her AIA workshop in San Diego this January and working with Professor Dusinberre on the revised classical art and archaeology curriculum. She plans to spend most of next spring sequestered in her office finishing several projects on Roman sculpture and iconography.

John Gibert has returned from sabbatical leave and resumed teaching and serving as Graduate Advisor. He recently completed "Apollo's Sacrifice: The Limits of a Metaphor in Greek Tragedy," forthcoming in HSCP. He continues work on his edition of Euripides' Ion and serving as Book Review Editor of The Classical Journal. In recent months he has given guest lectures at Union College, the University of Minnesota, and Harvard. He is currently organizing "Tantalus and the Greeks," a symposium to accompany Tantalus, the Denver Center of the Performing Arts' world premiere of John Barton's cycle of 10 original plays on Trojan War-related themes.

Barbara Hill is vice-president of CAMWS and co-president of the Colorado Classics Association. She presented a workshop in Latin teaching techniques at last June's ACL meeting in Bloomington, Indiana and is organizing a panel of Latin instructors for the spring CAMWS meeting in Provo, Utah. She is the author of a chapter on teaching Latin to weaker learners in a text to be published by APA.

Peter Knox lectured at Kenyon College in September on Ovid's exile. He has also been on the stump locally, delivering the Convocation Lecture for the Center for the Humanities and Arts on "Gods and Gladiators" and speaking to the Center of the American West on "Letters from the Wild, Wild East: A Poet's Life on the Roman Frontier". He also completed a chapter for Holy Days, Sacred Cows: Historical Perspectives on Ovid's Fasti, forthcoming with Oxford University Press and another chapter on the Heroides fpr the Companion to the Study of Ovid. Next year he will travel to Brazil to serve as the US representative on the Organizing Committee of the 2004 Congress of the Federation Internationale des Associations d'Etude Classiques.

Noel Lenski has recently published two articles: the first, another treatment of Isaurians, appeared in Phoenix and the second, on the election of the little known emperor Jovian, in Kilo. He is working on two more articles related to his forthcoming book on Valens and is beginning research on a larger project covering slavery in Late Antiquity.

Susan Prince continues to work on fifth- and fourth-century Attic prose writers and is looking forward to completing her book manuscript on Antisthenes in the spring.

In September Eckart Schutrumpf attended a conference on Plato's epistemology at the Goethe University Frankfurt and presented a paper on slavery in Plato's Republic. In December he will attend a conference in Munich at the occasion of the 100 anniversary of the birthday of E. Voegelin and will present a paper on Voegelin's understanding of Aristotle's political philosophy. A book chapter on Aristotle's Politics is expected to appear in December.

Ariana Traill spent the spring semester on leave continuing to work on her book "Ex aliarum ingeniis: Meander, Terence and the Good Hetaira". She has two articles forthcoming, "Menander's Thais and the Roman Poets, " Phoenix, vol. 55.1-2 (2001) and "Knocking on Knemon's Door: Stage craft and Symbolism in the Dyskolos," TAPA 131 (2001), a revised version of a paper delivered at the Knoxville meeting of CAMWS in April. She published reviews of D. Taylor. The Greek and Roman Stage, BMCR Aug. 1, 2000 and J. Barsby, Terence: Eunuchus, CJ 95.4 (April-May 2000) and she is currently reviewing K. McCarthy, Slaves, Masters and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy for BMCR. She initiated and helped to organize an upcoming Three Year Colloquium on "The Comedy of Menander in Its Social Context," to be held at the APA Annual Meetings 2002-2004. She also had the pleasure of speaking last February to an eager group of students at CU's School of Law about Menander as a source for Attic law.