Annual CAM meeting at the Campus Center, University of
Minnesota, Saturday, November 1st, 2003
The annual meeting of the
Classical Association of Minnesota will take place at the Campus
Center of the University
of Minnesota.� Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.� See
directions on last page.� Our keynote
speakers are Richard Thomas of Harvard
University and Greg Daugherty of Randolph
-Macon College.
Program
8:30-9:00: Registration & continental breakfast�� (coffee, OJ, muffins) CAM Annual Dues: $10 for regular members, $5 for
emeriti and students. Meeting registration fee:�
$15 (includes coffee, rolls, lunch and reception) or $5.00 without
lunch.� Please update your addresses.
****To
assist the University in preparing the proper lunch, we ask that you indicate
via email to Stephen Smith whether or not you will be taking lunch, and any
dietary restrictions: smith504@umn.edu
Please RSVP by October 29th.
9:00: Call to
Order
9:00-10:00:� Reports (each school represented has 2-3
minutes to describe the state of Latin/Greek/Classics there and to announce any
special upcoming events)
10:00-10:15:� Presentation of CAM Latin Teacher of the
Year award
10:15-11:15:� Guest lecture by Prof. Richard Thomas, Harvard University (�Translating the Odes of Horace�)
11:15-12:00:� Discussion I: Electronic resources for
teaching Latin, Greek, Classical civilization (with presentation by Robert
Neslund, Shattuck-St. Mary's School)
12:00-1:00:� Lunch (box lunches, sodas, water)
1:00-1:15:� Business Meeting (election of new officers
for 2003-05)
�1:15-2:15:� Guest lecture by Prof. Gregory Daugherty, Randolph-Macon College (�Her Infinite Variety: Cleopatra in
American Popular Culture�)
2:15-3:00:� Discussion II: Latin teacher shortages,
licensure issues (see update below), careers for
Classicists
3:00:� Adjournment
ABOUT
THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Richard Thomas, Professor of Greek and Latin, was educated at the University of Auckland (B.A. 1972;
M.A. 1973), and at the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1977).
He taught at Harvard as Assistant and Associate Professor, 1977-84; as
Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati, 1984-6; as Professor at
Cornell University, 1986-7; and has been Professor of Greek and Latin at
Harvard since 1987; he was visiting Professor of Latin, University of Venice (Spring, 1991). He is currently Chair of the Department of
the Classics, and has served as Director of Graduate Studies and of Undergraduate
Studies, is Chair of the Graduate Placement Committee, and Co-chair of the
Seminar on "The Civilizations of Greece and Rome", in Harvard's Humanities
Center. He has served as Director of the American Philological Association
and as Trustee of the Vergilian Society, of which he is currently a director.He
has published a monograph, Lands and Peoples in Roman Poetry: The
Ethnographical Tradition (Cambridge 1982), a two-volume text and commentary
on Virgil's Georgics (Cambridge 1988), a collection of his articles on
the subject of Virgilian intertextuality, Reading Virgil and his Texts
(Michigan 1999), and most recently a study of the ideological reception from
its beginnings through the twentieth century, Virgil and the Augustan
Reception (Cambridge 2001). He is currently working on a commentary on
Horace, Odes 4 (Cambridge). He co-edited
and contributed to Widener Library: Voices from the Stacks, a special
issue of Harvard Library Bulletin (1996). He has published articles,
notes and reviews on Menander, on Hellenistic Greek poetry, on Roman poetry,
particularly of the Republican and Augustan periods.
In his teaching and research he is interested in a variety of
critical approaches (chiefly philological, intertextual, narratological), and
in literary history, metrics and prose stylistics, genre studies, translation
theory and practice, and the reception of Classical literature and culture,
particularly as it relates to Virgil.
Gregory N. Daugherty, a native of Dallas,
Texas, earned his bachelor's degree in Latin from the University of Richmond in 1970, and, after spending a year at the Collegio Ghislieri of the University of Pavia
in Italy on a Fulbright Scholarship, he received his M.A.
(1975) and Ph.D. (1977) in Classical Studies from Vanderbilt University. He came to Randolph-Macon College in the Fall of 1976, and
currently Chairs the Department of Classics. Although he has primarily taught
classes on ancient Greek language and literature, his research interests have
recently been centered on public safety in the ancient city, with particular
reference to the Imperial Roman fire brigades, the Cohortes Vigilum,
especially their role in the Great Fire at the time of Nero. Dr. Daugherty has
served on numerous committees, but he counts as his proudest achievements his
role in helping to establish the Honors Program (and in serving as the first
Director of the Program), and the success of the Saturday Seminars for Latin
Teachers which the Department of Classics has run for the past fourteen years.
He also helped to create and run the Summer School, and chaired the committee
which developed the current Code of Academic Integrity. He twice received the
Thomas Branch Award for Excellence in Teaching.�� Most recently he won the APA's Award for
Excellence in the Teaching of the Classics (2002).� He has also been very active in regional and
national organizations devoted to the field of Classics:� he has served as Executive Secretary of the
National Committee for Latin and Greek and edited their Newsletter, Prospects;
he has been Secretary of the Richmond Society of the Archaeological Institute
of America and President of the Foreign Language Association of Virginia; he is
the current Secretary-Treasurer of the Classical Association of the Middle West
and South and a member of the American Philological Association's Education
Committee.�
Our thanks to the outgoing
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
Welcome to
the new Executive Committee:
Slate of officers - 2003-2005
(pending approval):
President - Eric Dugale (Gustavus)
Vice President - Steve Smith (U. of MN)
Secretary - Matt Panciera
(Gustavus)
Treasurer -
Ellen Sassenberg (Mayo H.S.)
Other members:
Member at Large - Amanda Wilcox
(U. of MN)
Past President - Anne Groton
(St. Olaf)
CAM Web Site Manager - Beth Severy-Hoven (Macalester)
Mercurius Editor - Chris Nappa (U. of MN)

Upcoming events
Additional lectures by CAM
keynote speaker Richard Thomas
Gustavus Adolphus (Thur., Oct. 30):�� "Hellenistic and Roman Poetry.� The Case Renewed"
info:� 507.933.8000 or wfreiert@gustavus.edu
U.of Minnesota (Fri., Oct.
31):�� "Horace's Apollos: The Bow,
the Lyre and the Princeps"
info: 612-625-5353
or cnes@umn.edu
Student symposium on ancient
sculpture - Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Sheila McNally (University of Minnesota) and Mireille
Lee (St. Thomas and Macalester)
will be organizing a student symposium on ancient sculpture to accompany the
exhibition of the Miller Collection of Roman portraiture at the MIA in March,
2004.� This is open to college and
graduate students of all area institutions.�
For more information contact Professors McNally or Lee: mcnal001@maroon.tc.umn.edu, leem@macalester.edu.
2003-2004 MN-AIA Lecture Schedule
Minnesota Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (MN-AIA)
�Anne
Salisbury, President
All lectures are free and open to the public.
Lectures at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) are held at 6:00 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. This year one lecture (in May) will be held at the
Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul on the Thursday of Minnesota's Archaeology Week.
Dinner with the speaker at a local St. Paul restaurant will precede the 7:30 lecture.
1. October 23, 2003, 6:00 p.m., Pillsbury
Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Speaker:
Elizabeth Simpson
Topic: "Celebrating Midas: Reconstructing the Burial of a Great
Phrygian King"
2. November 6, 2003 6:00 p.m., Pillsbury
Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Speaker:
Timothy McAndrews
Topic: Sacred Symbols and Everyday Life in the Moche Civilization of the
Peruvian Andes
3. January 8, 2004 6:00 p.m.,
Pillsbury Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Speaker:
Will Lindesay
Topic: "Great Wall of
China"
website http://www.friendsofgreatwall.org/
4. February 26, 2004 6:00 p.m., Pillsbury
Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Speaker: Dr. Barbara A. Barletta, Professor of Art History, University
of Florida
Topic: "The Western
Greeks and their Neighbors"
5. March 11, 2004 6:00 p.m.,
Pillsbury Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Speaker:
Dr. Andreas Konecny from the
Austrian Institute of Archaeology, Vienna
Topic: "Recent research in the living quarters of a Roman
provincial capitol: Excavating Houses 1 and 2 at Carnuntum / Pannonia"
6. April 1, 2004 6:00 p.m., Pillsbury
Auditorium, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Speaker:
Dr. Elizabeth Bartman
Topic: Barbarian Portraits.
7. May 6, 2004 7:30 p.m., Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul on the
Thursday of Minnesota's Archaeology
Week
Speaker:
Kevin L. Callahan, University of
Minnesota Department of Anthropology M.A., Ph.D. candidate
Topic: "The Rock Art of Minnesota"
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.
The findings, conclusions, etc. of the
lecturers do not necessarily represent the views of the Minnesota Humanities
Commission or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For more information on the
speakers and lecture outlines visit the Minnesota AIA web page at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5579/mnaia.html

Summer Latin
Class for Middle Schoolers
Pending funding, Teresa Roguski will conduct her second summer
Latin class for middle school students in 2004.�
Last summer the class ran from July 7-18, weekday mornings at Fair School in Crystal.� Details are not yet finalized for this
summer, but stay tuned. Students will read stories in Latin, do lots of vocab
and derivatives, learn about Roman life, play games, sing songs, create some
art, and anything else to have fun with Latin.��
Not too much grammar, no grades � after all, it�s
summer!� But they�ll finish the class thinking
they�ve learned a lot.� And the class is
free!
Other
announcements
Mercurius
The third issue of Mercurius--CAM's newsletter
for Minnesota Latin students--will soon be available.� If you are not already on our mailing list,
please contact Christopher Nappa (cnappa@umn.edu) to request it.� Please note that we have begun to distribute
a master copy only; this includes a separate answer sheet for games and
puzzles.� Teachers may make as many
copies as they need and may distribute at will.
Latin
Teacher of the Year
The Classical Association of
Minnesota has chosen the Latin Teacher of the Year for 2003 and will reveal the
award recipient�s identity and background at the annual meeting, November 1st.
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 Eric Dugdale, Gustavus Adolphus College 800
West College Avenue, St. Peter, MN 56082-1498.�
Deadline for nominations is May 1, 2004
Latin added to Waldorf school curriculum:
Waldorf school is looking for a Latin teacher for about 4 hrs a week
at a salary of $22 an hour to teach Grades 6-8 Latin. Contact:� Dan Odegard, Administrator, 651-487 6700, ext
206. "The position would be available immediately, and credentials are not
required.� This position would be appropriate
for either a graduate student or an undergraduate with strong Latin skills and
an interest in teaching."
Downloadable
posters (free!)
Through the website of CAMWS and CPL, Ginny Lindzey and
Michelle Vitt have been collaborating on a series of downloadable posters for
Latin classrooms.� The website is: http://www.promotelatin.org/camwscpleducators.htm
Latin Exam and Awards
The National Latin Exam
sponsored by the American Classical League and Junior Classical League was
taken by over 126,000 students this year.�
Several hundred Minnesota
students were among those taking the exam.�
Minnesota Latin teachers should notify CAM
vice-president Stephen Smith. 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, 2004.�
www.nle.aclclassics.org.

Congratulations to the Minnesota National
Latin Exam Winners � 2003!
�
Mitch Taraschi
compiled and reported the following NLE results:
Saint Thomas
Academy
(Mitch Taraschi)
45 STA students
took the NLE
Latin I: 15
took exam, 1 gold, 4 silver, 3 magna, 4 cum laude
Latin II: 13
took exam, 2 gold, 2 silver, 2 magna, 1 cum laude
� (John Boyle = 39, Michael Fahey = 39)
Latin III
Prose: 10 took exam, 1 gold, 1 silver, 3 magna, 1 cum
laude
Latin IV Prose:
6 took exam, 3 gold
Latin V: 1 took
exam, 1 silver
Benilde-St. Margaret's High School (Rob
Epler)
48 BSM students
took the NLE
Latin I:� 3 took exam
Latin II:� 20 took exam, 2 silver,
1 magna, 4 cum laude
Latin III
Prose:� 6 took exam, 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 magna
Latin IV
Poetry:� 13 took exam, 2
silver, 4 magna
Latin V:� 6 took exam, 2 gold, 1
silver
John
Marshall
High School
(Krista Osmundson)
75 JM students
took the NLE
Latin I: 16 took
exam, 1 silver, 4 cum laude
Latin II: 46
took exam, 1 gold, 1 silver, 8 magna, 4 cum laude
Latin III
Prose: 13 took exam, 1 magna, 1 cum laude
Minnehaha
Academy
Middle School
(Michelle Breuer Vitt)
67 MA (MS)
students took the NLE
Latin intro: 32
took exam, 11 outstanding, 13 certificates of achievement
� (Jessie Wright = 40, Jessica Simmons = 39,
Thomas VerHage = 39)
Latin I: 35
took exam, 3 gold, 4 silver, 7 magna, 4 cum laude�� (Benjamin Binder = 39)
�
Cretin Derham Hall (Sister Judith Kavanaugh)
25 CDH students
took the NLE
Latin I: 7 took
exam, 1 gold, 4 silver, 1 cum laude� (John Buckeye = 39)���
Latin II: 8
took exam, 3 silver, 2 magna, 2 cum laude
Latin III
Prose: 7 took exam, 1 silver, 2 magna
Latin IV Prose:
3 took exam, 1 silver, 2 magna
�
Edina
High School
(Emese Pilgram)
11 EHS students
took the NLE
Latin II: 10
took exam, 1 silver, 2 magna, 1 cum laude
Latin IV Prose:
1 took exam, 1 gold
Schaeffer
Academy
(James D Kluth)
30 SA students
took the NLE
Latin I: 23
took exam, 2 gold, 5 silver, 6 magna, 2 cum laude
Latin II: 7
took exam, 4 gold, 1 silver, 1 cum laude
� (Stephen W. Rose = 40, Christopher N. Steer =
40)�
Spring Grove (Mary Deters)
27 SG students
took the NLE
Latin I: 15
students took exam, 1 magna, 1 cum laude
Latin II: 9
students took exam, 1 gold, 1 magna, 1 cum laude
Latin III: 3
students took exam, 1 magna

New� SCL chapters in Minnesota
A Macalester chapter of the Senior Classical League has been formed.
Contact Anna Everett: everett@macalester.edu.� A chapter at St. Olaf is in the works.
Contact Lisa Gulya:
gulya@stolaf.edu.
�
K-12 Latin
Licensure update
From CAM president Anne Groton......
"In recent years Minnesota Latin teachers in pursuit of a
teaching license have found themselves trapped in a catch-22 situation:� on the one hand, as full-time Latin teachers,
they were not free to take day-time education courses at institutions with
Latin licensure programs; on the other hand, they were not allowed to enroll in
evening or weekend education courses because all of those are offered at
institutions *without* Latin licensure programs.� During the past year many people have worked
hard to devise collaborative, alternative routes to Latin licensure in Minnesota, and now, at
last, solutions appear to be close at hand.�
A discussion of this issue will close the CAM meeting on
November 1."
"On a related note, Concordia College and the University of North Dakota have agreed to
combine forces so that UND students earning a B.S. or B.A. in Latin/Classical
Studies can enroll simultaneously in the UND and Concordia teacher education
programs and earn a Minnesota K-12 Latin teaching license by the time they
graduate from UND."�
Res Gestae
Schaeffer Academy of Rochester
James Kluth writes....
�(Schaeffer Academy) was proud to report two perfect papers
on level 2 of the 2003 National Latin Exam.�
The papers belonged to sophomore Latin students Stephen W. Rose and C.
Nicholas Steer.� The two perfect papers
came from a class of seven students.� Six
of the seven were honored in some way on the exam.......... My second son,
Aidan Michael Kluth, was born September 18, 2003 at 12:30 p.m.�
His older brother, Evan, almost three,can chant
four tenses of verb endings in the indicative mood and is working on pluperfect
endings at this time.
Gustavus
Adolphus
Will Freiert writes�.
After a
quarter-century of inspiring students to be Philhellenes and challenging his
colleagues to be equally inspiring, Stewart Flory followed Pat Freiert's
example and took advantage of Gustavus' early retirement policy this
year, moving his office to Folke Bernadotte Library.�� Joining the Classics Department this year,
in the position held by Stewart, is Bronwen Wickkiser.� Bronwen grew up in Baltimore and
graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with High Honors from Oberlin. She also studied at
the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome and at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.�
After working as a legislative editor in Madison, Wisconsin, Bronwen attended graduate school at the University of Texas, where she held numerous fellowships,
taught a wide range of courses, and won an important teaching award.� Her dissertation was on The Appeal of
Asklepios and the Politics of Healing in the Greco-Roman World.� Bronwen is a practicing archaeologist who
has participated in excavations in Sardinia, in the Ukraine, at Corinth, and at Metaponto and Ostia in Italy.�
She is a wonderful addition to the Department and we are delighted to
welcome her to Gustavus.
��������������� In other news,� last year was incredibly busy.� In October, Mike Adkins, '02,
who teaches at Trinity School, visited Matt Panciera's Latin and
Roman History classes to talk about the excitement he finds in numismatics.
Susan Schumacher, '02, is very excited that she has joined
Mike at Trinity teaching Ancient History, Art History, a seminar on ancient
authors, and Greek. Ashwini Keswani, '85, was on campus to talk
to Pat Freiert's First Term Seminar on bicultural experience.
��������������� The fall lecturers last year
were Jim May and David Jordan.� In March,
Rachel Blunk, '04, organized a public reading of Aristophanes Lysistrata,
to coincide with the world-wide anti-war demonstration on March 3.�� Among those joining Rachel in the cast were Matt
Panciera and Eric Dugdale.� The
year's major lecturer was Miranda Marvin.�
Her lecture, "Exploding the Copy Myth: Rethinking Roman
Sculpture," was dedicated to the memory of Marleen Flory and
coincided with the alumni reunion to honor Stewart upon his retirement.
The Gustavus
Classics Department will undergo tenth-year review during the coming spring
semester.� Leslie Day and David Porter
will conduct the review.� Advice from CAM members is welcome.

�
�University of Minnesota
From Doug Olson......
My news is that
I'm on leave this year with grants from the NEH and the Loeb Classical Library
Foundation and am working on completing an edition of Aristophanes'
Thesmophoriazusae for OUP with Colin Austin.
George
Sheets has been appointed
an Associate Member of the Univ. of Minnesota Law School Faculty, and will be giving a talk at a
colloquium there in October.� The subject
of the talk will be "Making Sense of Death in the Law," which
considers a number of problems in defining and adjudicating legal interests
that arise in connection with deceased persons and their remains, including
examples from various legal systems--contemporary and (ancient) Roman.
The U
of M Classics department is pleased to welcome Michael de Brauw as Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
this year.�� He received his PhD this
past summer from the University of Texas, on the "Rhetoric of Litigiousness and Legal
Expertise in Cicero and the Attic Orators."�
Oliver
Nicholson writes...
I have been
demob-happy after completing five years running Mediaeval Studies and the
College gave me a single course teaching relief for a term in the spring in
order to make headway with the three sets of Mediaeval Center conference
proceedings (on Lactantius, Conversion and Pilgrimage) which are inching their way
into print.� The Oxford Dictionary of
Late Antiquity continues to proceed though at the speed of the slowest
contributor.��� I
was the
runner-up in the Single Semester Leave Sweepstakes for this autumn, but my
horse squeaked past the post at the last minute, so until January I am in
England breathing life into the embers of my persecution book, which
has been
on ice (to vary the metaphor) since I started running the Mediaeval Center !���
College in the Schools is going well (so far as I can tell from this
distance) ....�
Keep warm - I shall be back in January.
�
Concordia
�
Barbara
McCauley writes...
Enrollments in
beginning Latin continue to hold steady. We had 6 sections this fall for a
total of 162 students. We did have to switch to the North American version of
the Oxford Latin Course when the British version became too expensive to
justify. Our beginning Greek class broke all records with 34 students enrolled.
There are several changes in the department that should be mentioned. Stan
Iverson has stepped down as chair and has stepped up to the position of
Division Head in our new college division structure. His teaching load has
dropped to half time and he sorely misses the classroom contact with students,
while not exactly being thrilled about the increased administrative workload. I
am now chair of the department, but since I am on sabbatical for 2003-2004, Ed
Schmoll is currently serving as interim chair. While on sabbatical I will continue my research on
Greek hero cult and its political ramifications, particularly the concept of
moving a hero's bones. On a visiting one year appointment with us is Richard
Stanley, a newly minted Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Richard's dissertation was entitled
"Literary Constructions of Youth in the Early Empire:� The Case of Nero," and he plans to
expand his research to include Caligula and Domitian. Richard is serving as a
full-time replacement for Stan and teaching Mythology to 45 very appreciative
students. Filling in for me is Rebecca Brown, a Concordia graduate with a
Master's degree from the University of Iowa. We are currently in the process of
developing a search for a replacement for Stan, who will be retiring in the Spring of 2005.
From Olin Storvick....I want to
tell you that at the fall faculty dinner on August 21, 2003, it was announced that Stanly A. Iverson
had been elected by the faculty senate to the Wije Professorship.� This election is held every two or three
years and is the most prestigious award for faculty here at Concordia.� (for more
information contact
Olin Storvick storvick@gloria.cord.edu)
Macalester
Joseph L. Rife directed the second season of the Kenchreai Cemetery
Project this past June-July.� This
interdisciplinary archaeological study, which involves a team of international
scholars and student volunteers mostly from Macalester, aims to document and
study the remains of a major burial ground of Roman date near the ancient habor
of Kenchreai, eastern port of Corinth, Greece.� Currently Joe
is working on short studies on the social and cultural context of Imperial
Greek literature, particularly the novels and Philostratus.� His monograph on the Roman and Byzantine
graves and humans remains from the Isthmian Sanctuary (Greece) is under review for publication by the American School of Classical Studies.�
Mireille Lee writes....
I'm teaching
Classics part-time at Macalester and Art History full-time at the University of St. Thomas.�
My article "The Peplos and the 'Dorian Question'" just
appeared in A.A. Donohue and M. Fullerton, eds., Art and its Historiography.� I have two other articles forthcoming:
"Evil Wealth of Raiment: Deadly Peploi in Greek Tragedy" will appear
in early 2004 in The Classical Journal; and �Constru(ct)ing Gender in
the Feminine Greek Peplos� is forthcoming in M. Harlow and L. Lewellyn-Jones,
eds., The Dressed Body (Oxbow, 2004).�
My review of S. Lewis, The Athenian Woman: An
Iconographic Handbook (London and New York, 2002) is BMCR, and a review of L.
Llewellyn-Jones, Aphrodite�s Tortoise: The veiled women of Ancient Greece is forthcoming in the AJA. I will be
speaking this December to the AIA Society of Western Michigan - the title of my
talk is: �Clothing Makes the (Wo)man: Dress and Gender
in the Ancient Mediterranean.�� Finally,
I will give a paper entitled �A River-god in Drag?� Interpreting a male
peplophoros� at the AIA/APA Meetings in January as part of a panel on
"Cross-Dressing in Antiquity."
The career, past, present and future, of Jeremiah Reedy was celebrated last April in a weekend of study and feasting.� On the occasion of Jerry's retirement, on
honorary lecture was given by Thomas Robinson, University of Toronto, on
the narrative design in Platonic dialogues.�
Jerry was toasted and roasted in subsequent dinners by friends, family,
colleagues and students. In an early semester departmental gathering Classics
faculty and students honored newly published (and newly married) Beth Severy-Hoven.� Her book Augustus
and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire is out this fall both in the UK and the US. Beth is serving as department chair this year
during the sabbatical of Andy Overman.� �She will also lead a three-week Macalester course in Rome in January 2004, assisted by departmental colleagues
Overman and Nanette Scott Goldman.�� Students will survey and tour 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.�� Thanks also to Beth for taking over the duties of managing the CAM website.
Andy Overman �is on sabbatical this year preparing site reports and
other publications on Macalester's excavations of 1st century
Herodian temple to Augustus in Northern
Israel.� A full season of excavations in the summer of
2004 is being planned. Any and all aspiring archaeologists are welcome, no
experience necessary. For more information on the excavations and how to
participate, visit http://www.macalester.edu/~classics/omrit.html
��
Last spring we hosted the St. Olaf troupe's delightfully irreverent
performance of Plautus' Rudens. This year we look forward to guest speakers Andrew Riggsby,
speaking on Roman conceptions of time and
Marilyn Skinner, speaking on ancient sexuality. Professors Skinner and Riggsby
will also be speaking at the University of Minnesota. Skinner will also
speak in Northfield for Carleton and
St. Olaf. Our majors have reached record numbers this year, ca. 32 at last
count and still climbing.��
Minnehaha Academy�
Michelle Vitt organized the Ludi Romani at Minnehaha Academy in December of 2003.�
Plans for Ludi this coming year have not been finalized.�����
St. Thomas Academy
from Mitch Taraschi...
We are in our
2nd year of CIS (College in the Schools) Latin here at STA and all is going
well.����
Minneapolis South
Teresa
Roguski reports
about the summer exploratory Latin class for middle school students....
About a dozen
middle school students read stories from Ed and Mary Catherine Phinney's Salvete!,
made bullas and paper mosaics, and ate globi (Roman donut holes), to name a few
of the highlights.� If the WMEP summer
program is funded for next summer, I'll be teaching the class again.� (I'm already gearing up for another season of
promoting my Latin program at South and I'll also be advertising the summer
class.)
St. Olaf
Anne Groton writes�
We are delighted to have
Jon Bruss and Christopher Brunelle back with us for another year.
Jon is replacing Jim May, now in his second year as Provost
& Dean of the College (but still kindly teaching a Latin course for
us in his spare time). Chris is filling in partly for Steve Reece, whose
courses are divided this year between Classics and the Great Conversation
humanities program, partly for Anne Groton, who will be on sabbatical in
Semester II. By next spring the new CAMWS office at St. Olaf should be fully
operational, but you don't have to wait until then to send your dues to Anne,
the hapless Secretary-Treasurer Elect.
After a successful
production of Plautus'�
Rudens� last March,
our students are taking a year off to recover. St. Olaf's Class of '03 included
3 Classics majors, 2 Latin majors, 2 Ancient Studies majors, and 1 Medieval
Studies major. One of the Classics majors will be going to graduate school at
the University of Texas-Austin after spending this year at the University of Basel.
In 2002-03 we enjoyed talks
by Chris Faraone (U. of Chicago) and Dan Hooley (U. of Missouri-Columbia). Now we are looking forward
to a guest lecture by Jack Peradotto (SUNY-Buffalo). We are also engaged in a
departmental self-study, ably overseen by Jon, which will include a campus
visit by two outside evaluators. Meanwhile Chris has livened up the place with
a weekly conversational Latin breakfast and an adorable baby, Julian Arthur,
born on July 8 to Chris and his wife Serena Zabin.
��������������� We continue to have a �problem�
with too many students in our Latin courses. With 60-70 students enrolled in
Beginning Latin and more than 50 in Intermediate Latin, we lack the space (not
to mention the FTE) to accommodate them all. The numbers in our Greek and
Classics courses are excellent, too, so we have nothing to complain about.
Because of all the museum renovation going on in preparation for the Summer '04
Olympics in Athens, we decided to take a one-year break from offering our
established (this would have been the 30th year) January-term course in Greece.
��������������� Our department's major scholarly
achievement of 2002-03 was the publication by Brill of Jim's Companion to
Cicero: Oratory and Rhetoric. We celebrated by having the entire Classics
faculty, along with family members, lead St. Olaf's Homecoming parade, riding
in the Mays' antique fire truck! The tradition continues this fall.

College of� St. Benedict and St. John�s University
Scott Richardson writes......
Emily Holt,
classics major of the class of 2002, has begun a PhD. program in classical
archaeology at the University of Michigan.�
Lynn Cornell, classics major of the class of 2003, has begun an MA
program in comparative literature at Purdue.� Scott Richardson has agreed to show up at the
APA in San
Francisco to read a paper in the Homer session called "Indirection in
the Odyssey," which he hopes to be the beginning of a long-term
study of that epic in terms of indirect communication, coded messages, and
espionage.
A personal
note from Joyce Penniston..........
�........�
I've retired from teaching at Crossroads College (formerly Minnesota Bible College) in Rochester and am now living in Cambridge, Mass.�
I'll be back in Rochester each month since I'm still doing administrative work for
the college and have my 97 year old mother to visit.� My husband John is also semi-retired.� He'll continue his research at Mayo part
time.
.......� My Cambridge address is 19 Sacramento Place, Cambridge, MA 02138.�
I'd love visitors from my many friends in CAM.�
My email address continues as joyce.penniston@prodigy.net
� �������I wish I could make the fall CAM meeting, but it isn't at a time when I'll
be in Rochester.�
Please keep me on the mailing list!
-Joyce Penniston.
Items of interest from the regional classics
organization - CAMWS ���
on the website at http://www.camws.org
Calls
for Papers
Summer Programs
�AP Catullus in Rome and Verona
Date: June 28-July 9, 2004
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
MCTLC:�
Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures: http://www.mctlc.org/
CAMWS (Classical Association of Middle West
and South):� http://www.camws.org
APA (American Philological Association):
www.apaclassics.org
ACL (American Classical League):� www.aclclassics.org
NCLG (National Committee for Latin and
Greek):� www.promotelatin.org
AIA (Archaeological Institute of America):� http://www.archaeological.org/
Directions to CAM meeting
The meeting is
being held in the Campus Club, on the 4th floor of Coffman Memorial Union (on
the East Bank of the U of M campus).
The best place
to park is in the East River Road Garage, located just off East River Parkway, which has a flat rate of $5 all day
Saturday.� The garage is directly south
of Coffman, and there should be plenty of signs to direct people.� Do NOT use the "contract parking"
entrance!
(There is some
metered parking, but not much, scattered around the East Bank near
Coffman.� Non-metered street parking seems to be non-existent.)
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GETTING TO EAST RIVER PARKWAY
�From the West Bank, via Washington Avenue:�
Immediately after you cross the Washington Avenue Bridge heading east, take the exit on the
right.� At the foot of the exit make a
left onto E. River Pkwy.�
The garage will be on the left, about 1/3 mile down the road.� (NOTE:�
This exit curves around the garage for the Weisman Museum.�
There may be parking available there, but there seems to be no direct
access to Coffman.)
�From the West Bank, via Franklin Avenue:� Immediately after you
cross the Franklin Avenue Bridge heading east, make a left at the light
onto E.
River Pkwy.� The garage will be on the
right, about 3/4 mile down the road.
�From St. Paul, via University Avenue:� Make a left onto Washington Ave.; take Washington to Oak St. and make a left.� Take Oak St. to E. River Pkwy. and make a
right.� Garage 4/10
mile ahead on the right.
�From Minneapolis, via University Avenue:�
Make a right onto Oak St. (next to McNamara Alumni Center).�
Take Oak St. to E. River Pkwy. and make a
right.� Garage 4/10
mile ahead on the right.
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A general
parking map can be found at <http://www1.umn.edu/pts/maps/ebcolr.htm>.
If
anyone needs more specific directions, they can contact Stephen Smith at
<smith504@umn.edu> BEFORE OCTOBER 30.��
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