Annual
CAM meeting at the Humanities Education Center, Saturday, October 26, 2002 The annual meeting of the Classical Association of Minnesota
will take place at the Humanities Education Center, 987 East Ivy, St. Paul.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. See attached map and directions. The keynote
address will be given by Christopher Faraone, Professor
of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Chicago. Program Registration: 8:30-9:00 CAM Annual Dues: $10 for regular members, $5 for retired
members and students. Meeting registration fee: $10 (includes coffee, rolls,
lunch and reception). We welcome new members and invite you to take a newsletter.
Please update your addresses, especially your e-mail addresses and phone numbers
Identity of recipient
to be announced! Reports: 9:15-10:00 (each school represented
has 2-3 minutes to describe the state of Latin/Greek/Classics
there and to announce any special upcoming events): Keynote Addresss: 10:05-11:05 "The Wandering
Womb in Greco-Roman Magic and Medicine" Prof. Christopher Faraone,
University of Chicago Discussion/demonstration of electronic
resources for teaching Latin, Greek, Classics : 11:15-12:00 Bring your favorite
software or information about it. Papers by University of Minnesota
graduate students: 1:00 – 1:40 Aaron Poochigian:
"Rhetorical Questions in Demosthenes 37: The Speaker on Stage": 1:00-1:20 Anna Stelow:
"Menelaos on Trojan Insatiability: A Characteristic
Speech (Iliad 13.620-639)":
1:20-1:40 Christopher A. Faraone
is Professor of Classical Languages & Literatures at the University of
Chicago, having taught there since 1991. Before that he taught for three
years at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Classics from
Stanford University (1988). An expert on ancient Greek Magic and religion
and Near Eastern influences on early Greek culture, he has given guest lectures
all over the United States as well as in Canada, London, Madrid, Rome, Naples,
Milan, Munich, and Basel. He is the author of two books, Talismans and
Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Early Greek Myth and Ritual (Oxford
University Press, 1992) and Ancient Greek Love Magic (Harvard University
Press, 1999) and a host of articles with such intriguing titles as "Molten
Wax, Spilt Wine and Mutilated Animals" and "The Wheel, the Whip
and Other Implements of Torture"! Faraone is co-editor of Magika Hiera: Ancient
Greek Magic and Religion (Oxford University Press, 1991) and Masks
of Dionysus (Cornell University Press, 1993). His latest co-edited volume,
Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives,
will be published by Routledge in 2003. He is the former Associate Editor and
Book Editor of the scholarly journal Classical Philology. His awards
include a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEH Fellowship for University Professors,
an NEH Summer Stipend, a Junior Fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies,
and an ACLS Grant for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D. He has taught at two
NEH Summer Institutes for School Teachers (on the topic of Greek religion)
and led alumni tours to Greece. He and his wife Susan M. Hitchens
have two children, Alexander and Amanda. Executive Committee 2001-2003 Anne Groton – President, St. Olaf,
groton@stolaf.edu Dennis Rayl – Vice-President, Trinity School, drayl@attbi.com Jon Bruss
– Treasurer, St. Olaf, bruss@stolaf.edu Nanette Scott Goldman – Secretary,
Macalester, goldman@macalester.edu Christopher Nappa – Member at Large, University of Minnesota, cnappa@umn.edu Jeremiah Reedy – Past President,
Macalester, reedy@macalester.edu
CAM
is pleased to welcome to the executive committee Jon Bruss of
On Thursday, October 24, Prof. Faraone
will give a free public lecture at St. Olaf College announces a position in Ancient History,
starting in the fall semester of 2003. Teaching responsibilities include courses
in ancient Greek and Roman history, with an additional field in ancient Middle
East or early Medieval preferred. This is a tenure-track appointment at the
assistant professor level. Ph.D. must be in hand by September 2003. For details
visit our web site at http://www.stolaf.edu/offices/dean-of-college/.
Please send letter of application, c.v. and supporting materials by December
1, 2002, to: Professor Michael Fitzgerald Chair, African History Search Committee
St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, MN 55057 Semifinalist candidates
will be interviewed at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association.
Gustavus Adolphus
College invites nominations and applications for a tenure-track position
of Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics to begin September 1,
2003. All specializations will be considered, but priority may be given to
candidates with a strong interest in Greco-Roman history and/or art and archaeology,
as well as teaching beginning and advanced Latin and Greek. We seek candidates
who will have Ph.D. in hand by June, 2003, and who exhibit evidence of excellence
in teaching; willingness to contribute enthusiastically to the four-member
Classics Department's thriving beginning language program; promise of scholarly
activity; competence in teaching all levels of Latin and Greek at the undergraduate
level, as well as courses in translation and January-Term courses abroad;
interest in participating in the academic life of a liberal arts college;
and a familiarity with information technology. To apply, send letter of application,
curriculum vitae, statements of teaching philosophy and research interests,
and three to five letters from professional references to: Dr. William K.
Freiert, Chair Department of Classics Gustavus
Adolphus College 800 West College Avenue St. Peter, MN 56082-1498.
Tel # (507) 933-7639. Website: gustavus.edu/humanresources/index.cfm
or email wfreiert@gustavus.edu. Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2002, with a view toward
interviews at the APA/AIA meetings in New Orleans, and continue until the
position is filled. Gustavus Adolphus
College is a coeducational, private, Lutheran (ELCA), residential, national
liberal arts college of 2500 students. It is the policy and practice of the
College to provide equal educational and employment opportunities for all.
We specifically encourage applications from women, minorities, and persons
with disabilities. The Classical Association of Minnesota has
chosen the Latin Teacher of the Year for 2002 and will reveal the award recipient’s
identity and background at the annual meeting, October 26th. Latin Teacher of the Year Award: The nominee should
be a Latin teacher in an elementary, middle or high school and a member of
CAM. He or she must demonstrate excellence in teaching and foster in students
an interest in continued Latin study. The nomination packet must include
a resume prepared by the candidate, information about the nominee’s school
and Latin program, a letter of recommendation from nominator, and supporting
documentation from colleagues, students and administration. Materials should
be sent to Anne Groton, The National Latin Exam sponsored by the American Classical League and Junior
Classical League was taken by over 112,000 students this year. Several hundred
Minnesota students were among those taking the exam. Minnesota Latin teachers
should notify CAM vice-president Dennis Rayl, drayl@attbi.com. if they have students who receive
high scores on this exam. CAM acknowledges these students’ accomplishments
with a congratulatory letter and a gift certificate. Deadline for exam application
is January 10, 2003. Any requests for information should be sent to ACL/NJCL
National Latin Exam, P.O. Box 95, Mt. Vernon
VA 22121, and must be accompanied by a stamped,
self-addressed envelope. Website address: www.vroma.org/~nle Congratulations
to the Minnesota National Latin Exam
Winners – 2002! Dennis Rayl submitted the following results: Intro Level Exam Trinity School: 13 outstanding achievement, 23 achievement. 36
students received awards of 71 who took the test (36/71) Minnehaha Acad.: 12 outstanding achievement, 14 achievement.
26/40 Level I Exam Trinity School: 21 gold, 19 silver, 17 magna cum laude, 11 cum
laude. 68/74 St. Thomas Acad.: 1 gold, 3 magna cum
laude, 1 cum laude. 5/14 Minnehaha Acad.: 5 gold, 3 silver, 5 magna cum laude,
2 cum laude. 15/22 Detroit Lakes: 1 gold. 1/1 Spring Grove: 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 magna cum laude, 1 cum laude.
4/16. Schaeffer Acad.: 4 gold, 1 silver, 2 magna cum laude, 1 cum laude.
8/? Benilde-St. M.: 4 cum laude. 4/11 Level II Exam Trinity School: 20 gold, 15 silver, 10 magna cum laude, 4 cum
laude 49/66 St. Thomas Acad.: 1 gold, 3 silver,
2 magna cum laude, 2 cum laude. 8/10 Minnehaha Acad.: 2 gold, 3 silver, 3 magna cum laude, 5 cum laude.
13/? Spring Grove: 2 magna cum laude. 2/9. Schaeffer Acad.: 4 gold. 4/? Benilde-St. M.: 2 gold, 2 cum laude. 4/9 Level III Exam Trinity School: 3 gold, 13 silver, 4 magna cum laude, 6 cum laude.
26/55 St. Thomas Acad.: 2 silver, 1 magna
cum laude, 1 cum laude. 4/16 Minnehaha Acad.: 1 magna cum laude, 1 cum laude. 2/? Benilde-St. M.: 1 gold, 2 magna cum laude, 4 cum laude. 7/14 Level IV Prose Exam St. Thomas Acad.: 2 magna cum laude.
2/4 Level IV Poetry Exam Benilde-St. M.: 1 silver, 1 cum laude. 2/11 Level V Benilde-St. M.: 0/2 Shattuck-St. Mary's had 9 students take
the test. Students earned 1 gold medal and 2 silvers. The following schools had students who scored 39
or 40. These students receive a cash prize from CAM. St. Thomas Academy: 1 (39) Benilde-St. Margaret: 1 (39) Minnehaha: 9 [4 (40), 5 (39)] Detroit Lakes: 1 (39) Schaeffer Academy: 2 [1 (40), 1 (39)] Trinity School: 23 [12 (40), 11 (39)] Award winners’ names follow: Minnehaha Academy Hans Anderson (Level II, 39) Katherine Pavelich (Intro, 39) William Haffield (Intro, 39) Benjamin Binder (Intro, 39) Adrian Wood-Smith (Level I, 40) Sara Dwight (Level I, 40) Sam Reinhardt (Level I, 40) Peter Gawtry (Level I, 40) Kris Leitzke
(Level I, 39) Schaeffer Academy C. Nicholas Steer (Level I, 40) Stephen Rose (Level I, 39) Detroit Lakes Grant Remmem (Level I, 39) Benilde-St. Margaret John Cooney (Level II, 39) St. Thomas Academy Nicholas Deprey (Level II, 39) Trinity School Daniel McClure (Intro, 40) Christopher Geach (Intro, 40) Kate Meloche
(Intro, 39) Jonathan Gregg (Intro, 39) Leah Gross (Level I, 40) Anne Horst (Level I, 40) Molly Conway (Level I, 40) Megan Lowry (Level I, 40) Nicholas Schuster (Level I, 40) James Geach (Level I, 40) Colin Morley (Level I, 40) Angelica Tambornino (Level I, 39) Alyssa Rayl (Level I, 39) Anne Bulger
(Level I, 39) Madeline Salmon (Level I, 39) Abigail Olson (Level I, 39) Andrew Kieffer (Level I, 39) Michael Zimmel (Level I, 39) Matthew Shandorf (Level I, 39) Luke Fier (Level
II, 40) Mary Kaszynski
(Level II, 40) Abigail Berg (Level II, 40) Colleen Smith (Level II, 39) Latin students from five Minnesota schools gathered at Trinity School at
River Ridge (Bloomington), November 20, 2001, for the annual Minnesota Junior
Classical League Certamen. Students from Minneapolis
South High School, Minnehaha Academy (Minneapolis), Schaeffer Academy, Rochester,
Shattuck-St. Mary’s (Faribault) and Trinity School at River Ridge compete
in teams corresponding to their years of studying Latin. This year’s winning
teams will be presented with new traveling trophies provided by the Classical
Association of Minnesota. Members of first and second place teams will receive
certificates citing their accomplishments. Exam winners: Intro Level Schaeffer Academy-First Place ·
DANIEL DEFOSTER ·
ERIC WRIGHT ·
MIKE LACINE Intro level Schaeffer Academy-Second place ·
AARON CRES ·
CAROLINE ·
BECKY RITTER Intro level Trinity School at River Ridge-third place ·
KATE MELOCHE ·
ANNA BRINKMAN ·
ALI WYDER ·
EMMA JOHNSON First year Minnehaha Academy-First Place ·
ADRIAN WOOD-SMITH ·
SAM REINHARDT First year Schaeffer Academy-Second Place ·
GREG RICE ·
BEN HART First year Schaeffer Academy-Third Place ·
BEN ARANT ·
HEATHER RIFFLE ·
JOANNA VAUGHAN Second year Trinity School at River Ridge-First Place ·
COLLIN ANDERSON ·
KATHRYN-ANN GEIS Second year South High School- Second Place ·
STAR WEIVODA ·
DAN LEUSSLER Third year Shattuck-St. Mary's School-First Place ·
JENS JENSEN ·
NATHALIE SPRITZER Third year Trinity School at River Ridge-Second Place ·
ANDREW FRENZ The local chapter of the AIA announces the following lectures: Program Outline and
Schedule 1. Michael Fuller, October 17, Thursday 6:30, Pillsbury Auditorium,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts Michael Fuller discusses his daily life abroad as director of the excavation
at Tell Tuneinir in 2. Michael Nelson, November 14, Thursday 6:30, Pillsbury Auditorium,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts This paper examines and presents the Bronze Age history of the Pylos
palace based on changes in construction practices. 3. January 23, 2003 6:30 PM Thursday Minneapolis Institute of
Arts Lecture by John Larson, Oriental Institute Museum Archivist, University
of Chicago This illustrated lecture will survey highlights of the origins and
development of American scientific interest in ancient 4. February 20, 2003 6:30 PM Thursday Minneapolis Institute of Arts Francesco Roncalli, Professor of Etruscology and Italic Antiquities,
University of Naples, "Federico II," “Reading Etruscan Art” Through a series of well-known examples (among which are some of the
most famous painted tombs of Tarquinia) the
lecture aims at demonstrating that figures, gestures, themes are selected
and even blank spaces may be alternated to fully-figured ones, in accordance
with a code that needs to be "read" just like words - or parts
of them - as in a written text. 5. March 6, 2003 6:30 PM Thursday Minneapolis Institute of Arts Professor Karel Innemee, University of Leiden,
the “Mural Paintings in Coptic Monasteries, Problems of Dating and Conservation” In recent years a stratigraphy of four layers
of painting has come to light in the monastery-church of Dier
al Sourian. The presentation will include a comparison with other
monastic churches such as those in the Sohag vicinity. 6. April 24, 2003 6:30 PM Thursday Minneapolis Institute of Arts Professor David Pankenier, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA “The Archaeology of Orientation in Ancient This presentation, drawing on the latest evidence from archaeology
and the history of ideas in ancient 7. May 1/8, 2003 7:00 PM Thursday Discovery Hall Science Museum of
Minnesota Professor David Fox, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN “Ice Age Extinctions, Environmental Change and Humans” The lecture will present a historical overview of the debate of the
causes of extinction, describe some of the fascinating creatures that
are now extinct, and present some of the recent findings that support
the plausibility of humans as the main culprit. All lectures are free and open to the public.
Lectures at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) are usually held at 6:30
p.m. on a Thursday evening in the large
auditorium of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts located at 2400 3rd Avenue South .They are followed by a question and answer period and
also an opportunity to dine with the guest, usually at Christos
Greek Restaurant at 2632 Nicollet Ave. Some lectures are also held at the Science
Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul on Wednesday's or Thursday's at 7:30 pm. Dinner
with the speaker usually precedes the lecture on those dates. This program is made possible with funding
from the Minnesota Humanities Commission in cooperation with the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the Minnesota State Legislature. For more information on the speakers and lecture outlines visit the Minnesota
AIA web page at www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5579/mnaia.
html Look for a newly updated list of all programs in Minnesota schools, colleges,
and universities with Classics/Latin/Greek curricula. We are also in the
process of compiling a CAM membership list and email addresses only to post
on the web page. A certamen competition for
middle/high school students is being planned for November or January.
Plans are also in the making for a "Ludi Romani"
day for students to get together and have fun. Anyone who has suggestions
or ideas or is willing to help for either event can contact Michelle Vitt
at vitt@MinnehahaAcademy.net. A local chapter of the
Senior Classical League is being formed to assist with the state JCL contest,
conventions and general activities. We welcome any college student with a
background in Classics or an interest in promoting the study of classical
civilization in middle and high school curricula. For more information contact
Katie Gumpertz, kgumpertz@macalester.edu. National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week • Spring 2003 www.promotelatin.org/nltrw.htm Much has been said about
the shortage of primary and secondary school teachers. This year the American
Classical League, the American Philological Association,and various regional and state organizations are
launching a cooperative venture, National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week,
to engage all Classicists at all levels of instruction in the business of
insuring that Latin, Greek and Classics pre-college classrooms have the teachers
they need. Join them Spring 2003 by taking one day to talk to students about
becoming a primary or secondary school teacher. To see what is underway,
visit their website at www.promotelatin.org/ nltrw.htm. To request further
information, please contact Kenneth Kitchell at
kkitchel@classics.umass.edu. U of MN COLLEGE IN THE
SCHOOLS PROGRAMME IN LATIN There was a soiree for teachers interested in participating in the programme
in February of 2002. Nita Krevans and Oliver Nicholson
gave lectures for Ellen Sassenberg's Rochester classes,
and Oliver will give another in Rochester this October. Oliver also delivered
a lecture for “Latin Week” at Edina High. Plans are underway for another soiree, and information session later this
year or early next. If you would like to receive more information about Latin
College in the Schools, please contact Oliver Nicholson at cmedst@umn.edu
(putting College in the Schools in the Subject line) or telephone him at 612-625-5030. Ellen Sassenberg writes of the “College in the Schools” Latin program…..My involvement with the U is indeed continuing.
I have 13 brave seniors taking Latin 3113, Introduction to Latin Prose, as
their Latin IV course. They will be taking Latin 3300, Intermediate Latin
Poetry (Catullus and Ovid), in the spring. Depending
upon the enrollment numbers this spring, we will either be able to begin the
College in the Schools (CIS) program at Mayo, or we will continue our relationship
with the U through the Post Secondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program. Michelle Breuer Vitt writes… "Tired of not knowing what to say in
Latin? Need a pithy comeback at your fingertips? Send a blank e-mail to
latin-phrase-subscribe@Minnehaha Academy.net
and you will receive one useful phrase a day! Gratis!" Hailing the arrival of Mercurius The Classical Association of Minnesota
is pleased to announce the inaugural edition of the
student newspaper Mercurius, under the direction
of CAM executive committee member Christopher Nappa.
The newspaper will contain puzzles, jokes and riddles, movie reviews, etymologies,
a question and answer column, various articles of interest to and by school-age
Latin students. It is anticipated that the newspaper will be published biannually,
fall and spring editions. The first edition will be available at the fall
meeting. Direct inquiries and submissions to Christopher Nappa
at cnappa@umn.edu Ellen Sassenberg reports…. The overall size of the Rochester programs
continue to grow--so much that we've hired another teacher! Krista Osmundson
(a Gustie grad) now teaches Latin I, II, and III
at John Marshall high school as well as one section of Latin I at Mayo. I
am thrilled and delighted to have her on board. In addition to all that fun
and excitement, we are preparing for our next trip to Rome and Greece this
summer. And of all that isn't exciting enough...I'm getting married on Nov.
30. :) Will Freiert writes…. Pat Freiert Takes Early Retirement After thirty-five years in the classroom, twenty-eight of them at Gustavus
Adolphus College, Patricia Freiert
took early retirement in June to devote more time to her new career as a fabric
artist. Pat began teaching at Gustavus in 1974
and almost immediately introduced a course in Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology,
which had long been one of her major interests. In 1985 she edited the second
edition of the Garland Annotated Bibliography of Greco-Roman Art and Archaeology
together with William D.E. Coulson, the late Director
of the American School. Pat also continued her interest in language teaching methods and was awarded
a $35,000 grant from the Minnesota Council on Quality Education to produce
a Latin program for junior high-school vocabulary enrichment. She also served
for many years on the boards of state professional organizations and was President
of the Minnesota Humanities Council and President of the Classical Association
of Minnesota. In 1992, Pat was Exchange Professor at Kansai Gaidai University. That year renewed an old enthusiasm for
traditional Japanese art and introduced her to the Japanese technique for
dyeing kimono fabric known as shibori zome. Upon
returning to the U.S., Pat took a number of workshops in Japanese dyeing and
began to sell her work professionally under the Kotobuki label, which she
created. Pat spent 1997-98 in Sendai, Japan, where she studied with Wako
Korube, a local artist and teacher, and with Hiroko Ando,
one of the three most prominent shibori artists
in Japan, who exhibits internationally. That year of study produced a significant
improvement in the quality of her work and she was awarded an honorable mention
for excellence from the Silk Association of Japan. Back home, she garnered
the Pursuit of Excellence Award at the Minnesota Craft Council’s Fiber-Metal
exhibit and a Finalist Award at the Uptown Art Fair. She was also written
up in the national journal, “Surface Design”. Even though Pat is thoroughly absorbed in her new life as a fabric artist,
she still loves the involvement with students that all great teachers enjoy.
She is teaching a First Term Seminar this fall on bi-cultural experience and
will teach shibori in J-term and offer workshops at the St. Peter
Art Center and at the Minnesota Textile Center in Minneapolis. The Marleen Flory
Award Under the leadership of Mary Jaeger, ’82, Chair of the
Classics Department at the University of Oregon, The Gustavus
Adolphus College Classics Department established
an award in memory of Professor Marleen Flory (1944-2001), as a living reminder of the legacy of her
twenty-three years of teaching at Gustavus, her
influence on students, and her contributions to the college’s academic life.
The Award is given in alternate years to the student deemed by the Classics
faculty to have contributed the most to the advancement of Classics. The first recipient of the Award is Amy Sommer.
Amy won first prize in intermediate Latin on the Eta
Sigma Phi national exam in her sophomore year. As a junior, she delivered
a paper on Vergil at the Southern Section of CAMWS
and was a recipient of the Manson A. Stewart scholaraship
from CAMWS. She won the Gerhard T. Alexis Award for highest GPA after sophomore
year, was appointed Academic Assistant in both the Classics and English Departments,
and was an officer in our chapter of Eta Sigma Phi.
She was the only Gustavus student to graduate this
year with a 4.0 GPA. Amy is now enjoying grad school at Colorado. New Classics Faculty Joining the Classics Department this year, in the position held by Marleen
Flory, is Matthew D. Panciera.
Matt grew up in Toronto, where he did his undergraduate work at the University
of Toronto. He attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina,
where he wrote a dissertation titled, “Sexual Practice and Invective in Martial
and Pompeian Inscriptions”, under the direction of Kenneth Reckford.
Matt has acquired a lot of teaching experience, serving at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro, at the College of Charleston, and, most recently,
at Hamilton College. He also spent a year as an instructor at the Intercollegiate
Center for Classical Studies in Rome. The fall lecturer last year was Dan Levine, Professor of Classics at the
University of Arkansas. Dan’s public lecture, called “Barefoot in Athens:
Going Without Sandals in Ancient Greece”, was a humorous and informative discourse
on the various significances of unshod feet in art and life in ancient Greece.
Elizabeth W. Barber was the Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer at Gustavus
this year. Barber did Greek at Bryn Mawr and linquistics
in grad school, but she is probably the world’s best authority on ancient
fabric. In January, Professor Nita Krevans conducted a seminar for Will’s J-term course on
Women in Antiquity. In March, Eric Dugdale
organized a trip to Minneapolis to see a production of “Medea”
at Theatre de la Jeune Lune,
directed by Gustavus alum Steve Epp.
Steve met with our students after the performance to discuss the play. The
year’s major lecturer was Professor Kenneth Reckford,
who spoke on A.E. Housman. The first Classics alumni/ae
reunion in fifteen years centered around the lecture. About a dozen Classics
Department alums and their guests attended a reception and dinner to congratulate
Pat Freiert on her early retirement. Also present were faculty
members from Carleton, St. Olaf, Bethany, and St.
Catherine’s, as well as President and Mrs. Steuer
and a number of Gustavus faculty and staff members. Coincidentally, Eric
Dugdale’s parents happened to be in town that week,
visiting Eric on their way from England back to their home in Columbia. In
May, students from Eric’s Theater, Homer, and Beginning Greek classes performed
at the First Biennial Festival of Dionysus, staging scenes from Aeschylus’
Choephoroi and Eumenides,
Sophocles’ Electra and Philoctetes, Menander’s Dyskolos, Plautus’
Miles Gloriosus, and Homer’s Odyssey in
the idyllic al fresco surroundings of the Linnaeus Arboretum. The panel of
three judges from the faculties of Carleton, St. Olaf,
and Gustavus declared Sophocles’ Philoctetes
to be the winning production. Eric also launched the Pandora Project (prototype
at http://gustavus.edu/classics), an online database of digital images
designed to provide students with greater access to the material culture of
the ancient world. Minnesota Bible College
….. in Rochester will change its name to
Crossroads College on November 1, 2002. Joyce Penniston writes, “I'm currently moving
toward retirement after 20 years teaching at MBC (and 8 at St. Mary's University
in Winona). There are a number of competent young faculty members who can
teach Latin, New Testament Greek, and Hebrew at MBC. Martine Haglund (finishing her Master's in Theology from Lincoln Seminary
in Illinois) is teaching beginning Koine Greek and
doing some tutoring in Latin. Melinda Thompson (finishing her PhD at Luther
Seminary) is now teaching beginning Hebrew and Exegetical Method of New Testament
Greek (MBC's second year Greek course). Other faculty
who are able to Greek and Latin include Mark Weedman
(finishing his PhD from Marquette University) and Matthew Haglund
(finishing his Master's in Theology from Lincoln Seminary). I'm still teaching
beginning and second year Latin as well as performing some administrative
duties and studying beginning Hebrew. I'm planning to retire completely from
teaching after this academic year when my husband and I will move back to
Cambridge, Massachusetts and be near the grandchildren.” In August of 2002, Oxford University
Press published S. Douglas Olson’s new edition and commentary on Aristophanes'
Acharnians. Christopher Nappa
is readying his book on Vergil's Georgics
and preparing the inaugural issue of CAM's student newsletter Mercurius.
Professors Jonathan Paradise and Robert Sonkowsky
will be retiring at the end of this academic year. Stephen Smith has
just been hired as the Latin Language Coordinator for CNES (Classical and
Near Eastern Studies). Stephen reports… “ Latin enrollments have been booming
since last year; we are now up to 142 students in 6 sections of first semester
Latin (up from 88 in 2000) and 62 students in four sections of third semester
Latin (up from 42 in 2001). Andrea Berlin and Andy Overman
(Macalester) announce the publication of The First Jewish Revolt:
Archaeology, History, and Ideology, Andrea M. Berlin and J. Andrew Overman, eds., Routledge, 2002.
Andrea was the recipient of the 2002 Morse Alumni Award for Distinguished
Undergraduate Teaching. This past summer she directed American students,
including several from the University of Minnesota, in excavations at Nicosia,
Cyprus. Excavations yielded informaton about the
pre-Hellenistic history of the ancient city of Nicosia. Nita Krevans delivered a paper at the 6th Groningen Conference
on Hellenistic Poetry (this year’s topic – Callimachus)
entitled 'Callimachus and the Pedestrian Muse' and
dealt with Callimachus' prose works. She will
also be delivering a paper about editorial technique in the new Posidippus
papyrus at an international conference in Cincinnati early November. Philip
Sellew has been appointed to the Sundet Chair of New Testament Studies, 2002-2004. He also
has finished readying for publication his work on a pseudo-Cyprian manuscript.
He and departmental colleague Sheila McNally are finalizing arrangements
for an exhibition and symposium in early 2003 entitled “Living for Eternity:
Monasticism in Egypt” Please visit the following website for more details:
http://egypt.cla.umn.edu/eventsr.html. George Sheets
reports.. “For myself, my news is that I have become Chair of the Department
once again, and have recently published an article entitled "Rhythm in
Catullus 34" in Memoirs of the American Academy
in Rome 46 (2001) 11-21. Oliver Nicholson submits the following: “The
CMS/CNES Pilgrimage conference last March, was run by me and Lynn Jones and
partly sponsored by the department: March 9th 2002. "Holy Journeys, Holy
Places: Medieval Pilgrimage and Sacred Geography". More than 100 participants
were registered. 7 excellent papers were given and a palatable lunch provided.
Kent Gregory's thesis on Roman Metz, supervised by me, was successfully
defended. Kent is now a happy Visiting Asst. Professor at Tulane, and engaged
to be married. I helped to co-ordinate the committees which are organising
the Annual Meeting of the Mediaeval Academy of America to be held on the Mpls campus in April 2003. I was also liaison for those organising
the Smithsonian Vikings exhibition at the Science Museum of Minnesota. I
continue my editorial work on ODLA (Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity) on
the papers of the CMS conferences on Lactantius, Conversion and Pilgrimage and the Exeter conference
on Constantine. The Macalester classics department is delighted to welcome Joe Rife
and Mireille Lee to the faculty.
Joe accepted the tenure track position in early 2002 and began teaching courses
this fall. Joe and Mireille come to us from Ithaca,
NY where Joe was the Townsend Assistant Professor of Classics, Cornell Univeristy,
and Mireille was member of the Art History department
of Ithaca College. Joe has a chapter in an upcoming (2003) Cambridge University
Press volume on Philostratus edited by Ewen Bowie and Jas Elsner. He
has written on elite identity and the Greek sophists during the Roman Empire.
Joe is also finalizing plans for a major interdisciplinary study of historical,
epigraphical, and archaeological evidence for funerary
ritual and social structure in the Roman to Early Byzantine cemeteries of
the northeastern Peloponnese. The on-site study,
which will involve students from Macalester, commences in July of 2003. Mireille
has added another facet to the Classics department course offerings with
her expertise on ancient art and material culture. This fall she is teaching
Ancient Egyptian Art. She has two articles forthcoming in 2003: “The Ancient
Greek Peplos and the ‘Dorian Question’” in A.A.
Donohue and M.D. Fullerton, eds., Ancient Art and its Historiography
(Cambridge, 2003), and "Constru(ct)ing Gender in the Feminine Greek Peplos,"
in L.Lewellyn-Jones and M. Harlow, eds., The
Clothed Body in Antiquity ,(Oxbow, 2003). She is currently working on
the function of the peplos and other textiles in
Greek tragedy. Jeremiah Reedy was elected "Honorary President" of the
International Association for Greek Philosophy at the 14th International Conference
on Greek Philosophy held on the island of Samos
from August 2-7. Jerry is the first American to be so honored. The Honorary
President and former honorary presidents meet with Professor K. Boudouris, the founder of the organization, to select the
theme and site for future meetings. Jerry also delivered a paper entitled
"Utopias, Dystopias and the Kallipolis,
Plato's Republic in Context." Jerry is completing his final year of a
long and distinguished teaching career at Macalester. The Classic department
will sorely miss Jerry and can’t quite imagine life on third floor Old Main
without him... We wish him great success in his retirement and, knowing Jerry,
we anticipate from him a continuing stream of articles and books. Beth
Severy announces the publication of her book Augustus
and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire, due out from Routledge
in August of 2003. She also writes “I am moving on to a study of Livia's
posthumous reputation, particularly use of her portrait on the coins of Galba
and what that did for her 'career' under the Flavians.
Work on that project will continue during my leave next spring.” She
led a three-week Macalester course in Rome in January, 2002, assisted by departmental
colleague Nanette Scott Goldman. Students surveyed and toured the
major spaces, surviving monuments and artifacts of the city of Rome from the
earliest occupation of the Palatine hill around 1000 BCE to the construction
of the first major Christian buildings by the emperor Constantine in the 4th
century CE. Department chair Andy Overman hosted a
summit meeting at Macalester, this September entitled “Finding Common Ground:
Steps Toward a Mideast Peace”. The three prinicpal
speakers were Ami Ayalon, former commander of the
Israeli Navy and Director of the Israeli Internal Security, Sari Nusseibeh,
President of Al-Quds University and Political Commissioner
for the Jerusalem for the PLO, and George J. Mitchell, former Senate Majority
Leader and Northern Ireland and Mideast Peace Negotiator.
Andy is making preparations for the summer 2003 excavating seasons at Omrit
, Israel. Articles on this site’s 1st century Herodian
temple are forthcoming in Biblical Archaeology Review and the British
Museum’s publication. For more information on the excavations and how to participate,
visit http://www.macalester.edu/~classics/omrit.html.
The classics department is pleased to welcome for the fall semester
Gaby Mazor
(Israel Antiquities Authority). Gaby has focused his scholarly energies for
the past decade on the Hellenistic-period city of Beth She'an-Scythopolis
, where he is director of
excavations. He will be teaching an
advanced archaeology seminar. We will graduate 10 majors
and 2 minors in the spring. 10 junior class majors and minors bring the number
of declared majors to 22. Beginning language enrollments are high, Hebrew
–17. Greek – 17, Latin –18. Dennis Rayl, Michelle Vitt and Teresa Roguski took 19 middle and high school students to Italy
in June. Michelle writes…… Our intention was to visit Provence
and Rome/Bay of Naples. We were thwarted by air traffic control and were
forced to make it an all-Italy extravaganza. We landed in Turin then went
to Pisa and Florence. Then to Rome for two days, the Bay of Naples for three-
stayed in Sorrento with visits to Naples Museum, Pompeii and Capri then back
to Rome for the end. We took 19 kids from 14-18 years old and our focus was
museums, monuments and culture, i.e. no beach, no shopping. In Rome, we visited
the Forum, the Palatine, the Baths of Caracalla,
the Capitoline museums, the National Archeological museums housed
in and around the Terme di
Diocleziano. We were able to see Livia's
fresco which was super! Also we went to the Pantheon, the Piazza Navona,
the Circus Maximus, Santa Maria in Cosmedin,
the St. Peter's, Vatican Museum. Our hotel was located right next to the
Porta Maggiore. I think
the highlight of the entire trip was our dinner in a restaurant which is located
IN the Baths of Diocletian. There was great food, singing and a general good
time. Also, in Pompeii we were delighted to go to the house of our book's
hero (Cambridge Latin Course for MA and South). St. Olaf Anne Groton writes… On May 30 it was announced that Jim
May had been selected as St. Olaf's next provost
and dean; his term began two days later! Despite the press of his new duties,
he and his wife Donna were still allowed to leave the country and lead their
eighth summer study/travel program, this time focusing on "ancient oracles
and holy places" in northwestern Greece. In the midst of this whirlwind
Jim could not resist buying a 1942 red fire engine that he thought the department
could use in homecoming parades; he plans to decorate it with a sign saying,
"Get fired up for Classics!" To replace Jim, we were delighted to
be able to hire our former student Jon Bruss
(St. Olaf '89; Ph.D., Minnesota), who has ten years
of teaching experience at Bethany Lutheran College. Jon spent the summer
building a house in Northfield, where he now lives with his wife Kristine
(a Ph.D. candidate in communication studies at the U. of Minnesota) and their
lively three-year-old daughter Ingrid. A Greek epigram specialist, Jon gave
a paper at the Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry held in Groningen at the end
of August. Shortly after we hired Jon, Gwen Compton-Engle
accepted an offer of a tenure-track job at John Carroll University in Cleveland,
making it necessary for us to hire someone to teach the six courses left unstaffed by Anne Groton's and Steve Reece's teaching
commitments in St. Olaf's Great Conversation humanities
program. Once again, we were pleased to find an ideal candidate close at hand:
Christopher Brunelle (Carleton '89; Ph.D.,
UNC-Chapel Hill) has five years of teaching experience at Vanderbilt and Gustavus;
a talented musician and Latin composer, he is married to Serena Zabin,
who teaches history at Carleton. Our numbers continue to be healthy:
12 majors graduated last May; 16 are on the books to graduate next spring.
Beginning Latin has 65 students in it this fall, Beginning Greek 31, Intermediate
Latin 43, Intermediate Greek 16, Advanced Latin 8, Advanced Greek 7. We raised
the enrollment limit on our Greek and Roman Myth class from 30 to 60, and
it filled up instantly. In addition to our teaching, we're all busy attending
conferences, serving as officers of various associations, writing, editing,
translating, publishing--and occasionally even riding in fire trucks! From the Carleton Classics Newsletter….. In the fall, we added a Greek Investiture Ceremony to the Latin event that
is now a regular part of Winter Term….[Also in Winter Term]…we took a motley
crew of majors and friends up to Minneapolis for the Theater de la Jeune
Lune’s interesting if not universally admired production of
the Medea…And in the spring we put
on our most ambitious Classical Marathon to date: a full reading of Ovid’s
Metamorphoses which took just fourteen hour (10:00 a.m. to midnight)
to complete…Also in the spring we bid a tearful farewell to Keyne
Cheshire’94, [who has accepted a tenure track post at Davidson College
in North Carolina] by forcing him to give a lecture to a packed Leighton 402
(“Heracles Devoured: Layers of Deceit in Sophocles’ Trachiniae”)…We will miss Keyne
sorely, but are very much looking forward to the arrival of Matt Semanoff
’95, who will be joining us in the fall for a two-year stint as Mellon
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow….Incoming [Carleton] President Rob Oden
was a student of Jackson [Bryce] in a Greek class at Harvard.! So you can
imagine that the department generally is excited about the prospect of having
a president who reads more ancient languages than we do. Jackson Bryce writes…This summer I will go to Oxford, to work on a
text which I think is likely by my old friend Lactantius,
though that opinion is not in favor these days. It’s a collection of 100
three-line hexameter riddles, very elegant and clever, called Aenigmata Symposii or
Riddles for a Dinner Party. Clara Hardy writes…..I am excited
to have received a grant from the Mellon Foundation to spend next fall term
shadowing professor of Theater Arts and director Ruth Weiner around through
her Players’ production of As You Like It; what I learn about theater
directing, acting, staging, etc. I’ll bring to a new course cross-listed with
Theater Studies on the performance of ancient drama. Rob Hardy has
accepted a job teaching Latin at the Edina Middle School. Nancy Wilkie writes… I continue to serve as President of the
Archaeological Institute of America (my four-year term ends in January 2003).
I led several tours for the AIA during the past year ..[to Greece and the
Ionian islands] During winter term I offered the Archaeology Methodology
once again, which brought 20 students to dig in their sandboxes in the basement
of Goodsell at all hours of the day and night.
Alums [or anyone else] can check out my column in each issue of Archaeology
Magazine, where I write on issues connected with the protection of the
world’s archaeological and cultural heritage. Chico Zimmerman has
been promoted to full professor. He developed and taught a course on ancient
epic poetry in translation this winter. Our graduates from the mid-90s, Tim
and Johanna Beck, now graduate students at the University of Minnesota,
are spending the year studying at the American School of Athens. I know this
is U of M news, but we had them first and have a proprietary claim, we think. Our recent graduate, Emily Holt, is spending
this year at Ohio State University studying modern languages as well as classics
and archaeology. She plans on joining a PhD program in classical archaeology
next year. Ray Larson, still in his Ovidian exile in southern California,
has adopted the motto, "Non facile est viridem
esse, praesertim hic in deserto. Margaret Cook is in her last year as chair of the Modern and Classical Languages department,
the largest and most vociferous department we have here. The Thucydidean
factions she has studied so carefully are alive and thriving in our midst. Scott Richardson indulged the Scandinavian portion of his soul this
summer with his first trip to Iceland, with Norway thrown in on the side.
Convinced that the Icelandic sagas are a cross between the Iliad and
the Oresteia, he visited many saga farms,
most notably the site of the farm belonging to Burnt Njal. Web Addresses for Local and National Classics organizations: Classical
Association of Minnesota: www.macalester.edu/~cam Minnesota
AIA: www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5579/mnaia.html CAMWS (Classical
Association of Middle West and South: www.rmc.edu/~gdaugher/camwshp.html APA (American
Philological Association): www.apaclassics.org ACL (American
Classical League): www.aclclassics.org NCLG (National
Committee for Latin and Greek): www.promotelatin.org 
Welcome and presentation of CAM Latin
Teacher of the Year award: 9:00-9:15
Break: 10:00-10:05
Break: 11:05-11:15
Lunch: 12:00-1:00
Break: 1:40-1:45
Discussion of the logistics of taking
trips abroad with students: 1:45-2:30
Reception: 2:30-3:00
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER FARAONE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Additional Lectures by
Professor Faraone:
SEEKING APPLICANTS FOR TWO COLLEGE POSITIONS
Latin Teacher of the Year
Latin Exam and Awards
*Approximately 150 students
from Rochester schools took the National Latin Exam
, but the results were unavailable at the time of this letter’s printing.
Minnesota JCL Certamen Auctumalium
The Minnesota chapter of the AIA sponsors Archaeology Lecture Series
“Discoveries in the Dust”
“The Bronze Age History of the Palace
at Pylos”
“Egyptology in
Additions to the CAM web page
Certamen Auctumalium (Hiemale?): Latin competition for middle/high school students
College students - Become a member of the Senior Classical
League!
Subscribe to a ‘Latin Phrase of the Day’ List/Dictum Hodiernum
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