| Department of Classics | University of Colorado at Boulder | May 2003 |
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Faculty News
In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on Roman art and archaeology, Prof. Diane Conlin divides her energies between archaeological fieldwork in Rome and art historical analysis of Roman marble relief sculptures. As the co-director of the Colorado/Kalamazoo/Comune excavations and field school at the Villa of Maxentius in Rome, Diane and her colleagues have finalized plans for the first survey season to be conducted this summer. The team of professors, specialists, and students was awarded a generous grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation at Harvard University to cover a portion of the expenses for the 2003 season. Contributions from GCAH and the Department of Classics also will help cover some of the costs of the 2003 survey project. In addition to the Villa of Maxentius excavations, Prof. Conlin continues to develop her publication on the production, iconography, and stylistic languages of Flavian marble relief sculptures displayed in Rome. New findings from extensive technical and stylistic analyses of the Cancelleria Reliefs in the Vatican Museums conducted in July of 2002 have contributed important data to her study of Flavian sculptural imagery.
This year Prof. Beth Dusinberre has been tying up loose ends on a number of scholarly works. She finished copyediting her book manuscript (Aspects of Empire in Achaaemenid Sardis, which is being published by Cambridge University Press and is due out this spring) and a number of articles focusing on ancient imperialism and the ways this has affected art. She also was able to return to Turkey for active fieldwork for the first time in several years, thanks to the generosity of her husband and parents, who looked after Sam, now two and a half. She is now at work on a new book, a publication of the seals and seal impressions excavated from the site of Gordion (as in the Gordion knot that Alexander cut through the ancient capital city of Midas of the Golden Touch, now a spectacularly beautiful site high on the Anatolian Plateau). This work is turning out to be particularly interesting because the material represents an excavated corpus of material, an unusual feature for ancient seals, which are often illegally looted and sold on the art market. At CU, Prof. Dusinberre has very much enjoyed teaching two new courses in the last year (one on the art and archaeology of the Ancient Near East and one on Greek Vase Painting) as well as teaching Greek (Xenophon) and Latin (Vergil). In May 2002 she assumed the mantle of President of the Boulder Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Prof. John Gibert finishes up his term as Graduate Advisor and becomes Chair of the Department on July 1. While continuing to work on his edition of Euripides’ Ion, he has recently been engaged in collaborative work (with C. Collard, Swansea; and M. J. Cropp, Calgary) that will lead to a volume of texts, translations, and commentarys on Euripides: Selected Fragmentary Plays (Aris & Phillips). He is looking forward to traveling to Delphi this summer for a conference on Apollo and performance of Ion.
Senior Instructor Barbara Hill continues to serve as Coordinator of the Latin Program and the Modified Foreign Language Program. This year she has given pedagogical presentations at meetings of the UCB Graduate Teacher Program, the Ohio Classical Caucus and the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). This July she will join UCB M.A.T, Sherwin Little, who is vice-president of the American Classical League, in giving a workshop at the Illinois Classical Caucus-National Louis University Latin Pedagogy Workshop.
Prof. Peter Hunt organizes the students in his class on “War and Society in Ancient Greece” during their formation and “spear” exercises on the Norlin Quad.
In a ceremony on Flagstaff Mountain last June, Prof. Peter Hunt married Prof. Mitzi Lee, who does Greek Philosophy at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Their honeymoon in the idyllic Greek islands (Crete, Santorini, and Paros) included a visit to the University of Crete, Rethymno, where Peter delivered a paper on “Thinking with Slaves in the Athenian Assembly” at an international colloquium there. Earlier in the year, Peter traveled to the Hague to give an invited talk about “Slave Culture in Classical Athens” at the European Social Science History Conference and had a chance to visit the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, which was taking place next door. Peter used his teaching release this fall to draft several chapters of his new book, War, Peace, and Allegiance in Demosthenes’ Athens, which is now under contract with Cambridge University Press. He also gave an invited lecture based on this research at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and reviewed a book for the Classical Review.
Prof. Peter Knox’s paper on “Representing the Great Mother to Augustus” appeared in G. Herbert-Brown, ed., Ovid’s Fasti: Historical Readings at its Bimillenium (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). He also published three book reviews while working on his commentary of Ovid’s Epistulae ex Ponto and travelled to Wisconsin to lecture on Tibullus. Once again, Peter participated in the University’s joint annual symposium with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
This year Prof. Noel Lenski and his family have been living and working in Munich, Germany. Prof. Lenski obtained a Humboldt Fellowship from the German government, which has allowed him to work at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität on a book about slavery in Late Antiquity. Simultaneously he is editing a book on Emperor Constantine I, which was commissioned by Cambridge University Press. He reports that his family is adapting to German life quite handily. His children Helen and Paul are both attending German schools and coming along well with the language. Most important of all, the Lenskis have welcomed a third child, Chloe, into their family on March 29. She is at home now with mother Alison and thriving with all of the attention being lavished on her by her family. Prof. Lenski is looking forward to his return to Boulder this August to resume his teaching.
Prof. Susan Prince continues work on her book on Antisthenes the Socratic. She has recently reviewed one book on a similar topic and is working on the review of a second, but she happily observes that justice is yet to be done for Antisthenes and the Minor Socratics. She is also preparing chapters for the Blackwell Companion to Ancient Greek History: Classical Greek World (called “The Organization of Knowledge”) and the Blackwell Companion to Socrates (called “Antisthenes”), due to be published in 2004 and 2005. At home, Susan and her husband Matthew are proud parents of the 18-month old Christopher, who is recently calling himself “Criffer” and wears shoes in extra wide.
Prof. Eckart Schütrumpf saw his entry on “Xenophon” and another one on the Pseudonym Xenophon appear in “Neue Pauly”. In June he will give the keynote address at a conference on “The Greek Strand of Islamic Thought” at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He will give a paper on Heraclides Ponticus’ dialogue “On Pleasure” at a conference in Leeds (UK), and later present a paper at the Phillips University, Marburg.
Prof. Christopher Shields visited Yale for the autumn semester. He recently gave talks at Umass/Amherst, St. Louis University and the University of Sao Paolo, all on Aristotle or Plato. His edited collection, The Blackwell Guide to Ancient Philosophy (Blackwell) and his Classical Philosophy: a Contemporary Introduction (Routledge) have now appeared in print. He has also recently authored sundry encyclopedia articles and reviews, including “Aristotle: Psychology” for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (on line).
Prof. Ariana Traill spent the academic year working to complete her book manuscript Those Obscure Objects of Desire: Looking at Women in Menander’s Comedy and communicating with potential publishers. An article entitled “A haruspicy joke in Plautus” is forthcoming in Classical Quarterly. She organized a panel of five distinguished scholars for the three-year Colloquium “Menander and Hellenistic Society” at the 2004 APA meeting. She is looking forward to starting a new book project on Roman Comedy this summer and celebrating her first wedding anniversary. Her husband, Brian DeMarco, is an atomic physicist working on a quantum computing experiment at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).
