Research in Cultural and Intellectual History
Faculty
| History of scholarship | Rita Copeland, Cynthia Damon, Joseph Farrell, Peter Struck |
| Literary theory | Rita Copeland, Ralph Rosen, Peter Struck |
| Medicine | Ralph Rosen |
| Philosophy | Charles Kahn, James Ker, Susan Meyer, Ralph Rosen, Peter Struck |
Seminars
| Spring 2010: | Ancient Greek Aesthetic Theory (Rosen) |
| Spring 2009: | The Second Sophistic (McInerney) |
| Spring 2008: | Greek Magic (Struck) |
| Spring 2008: | Hellenistic Philosophy (Meyer) |
| Spring 2008: | Sophists (Copeland and Rosen) |
| Fall 2008: | Medieval Education (Copeland) |
| Fall 2008: | Middle Plato (Kahn) |
| Spring 2007: | Ancient Medicine (Rosen) |
| Spring 2006: | Allegory (Struck) |
| Fall 2006: | Late Plato (Kahn) |
| Spring 2005: | Greek Divination (Struck) |
| Spring 2005: | The Second Sophistic (McInerney) |
| Spring 2005: | Presocratic Philosophy (Kahn) |
| Spring 2004: | Ancient Literary Theory (Struck) |
| Spring 2004: | Servius and Vergilian Criticism (Farrell) |
| Fall 2002: | Pre-modern Rhetoric (Copeland) |
Publications
| Rita Copeland | Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages (2001) |
| (ed. with P. Struck) The Cambridge Companion to Allegory (forthcoming) | |
| Cynthia Damon | "Pliny on Apion," in Pliny the Elder: Visions and Contexts, edd. R. Gibson and R. Morello (forthcoming) |
| "The Mind of an Ass and the Impudence of a Dog': A Scholar Gone Bad," in KAKOS: Badness and Anti-values in Classical Antiquity, edd. R. Rosen and I. Sluiter (forthcoming) | |
| Joseph Farrell | Latin Language and Latin Culture (2001) |
| "Servius and the Homeric Scholia" in Servius: Layers of Exegesis and Cultural Models, ed. F. Stok and S. Casali (2008) | |
| "Il commento virgiliano di Domizio Calderini" in Esegesi dimenticate: esperienze di ricerca, ed. F. Stok (2009) | |
| Charles Kahn | Plato and the Platonic Dialogue (1998) |
| James Ker | The Deaths of Seneca (2009) |
| "Seneca on Self-Examination: Rereading De ira 3.36," in Seneca and the Self, ed. S. Bartsch and D. Wray (forthcoming) | |
| "Roman Repraesentatio," AJP 128 (2007) 341-65 | |
| "Nocturnal Writers in Imperial Rome: The culture of lucubratio," CP 99 (2004) 209-42 | |
| Susan Meyer | Ancient Ethics: A Critical Introduction (2008) |
| S. Murnaghan | "How a Woman Can be More Like a Man: The Dialogue Between Ischomachus and His Wife in Xenophon's Oeconomicus," Helios 15 (1988) 9-22 |
| (ed. with S. Joshel), Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture: Differential Equations (1998) | |
| R. Rosen | edition of Galen, edition of Galen, "That the Faculties of the Soul Follow the Mixtures of the Body," Corpus Medicorum Graecorum et Latinorum (in progress)/td> |
| (ed.) Time and Temporality in the Ancient World (2004) | |
| (ed. with I. Sluiter) Publications of the Penn/Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values: | |
| KAKOS: Badness and Anti-Value in Classical Antiquity (2009) | |
| City, Countryside and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity (2006) | |
| Free Speech in Classical Antiquity (2004) | |
| Andreia: Manliness and Courage in Classical Antiquity, (2002) | |
| P. Struck | The Birth of the Symbol (2004) |
| (ed. with S. Johnson) Mantike: Studies in Ancient Divination (2005) | |
| Divine Signs and Human Nature (in progress) | |
| (see also R. Copeland above) | |
| E. Wilson | The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007) |
Dissertations in Progress
Caroline Bishop,
"Interpreting Cicero: Exegesis in the Latin Tradition"
Committee: Joseph Farrell, Rita Copeland, James Ker, Cynthia Damon, Peter Struck
Paolo Di Leo,
"Augustine"s Interpretation of Genesis"
Committee: Joseph Farrell, Copeland, James Ker, Ann Matter, James O"Donnell, Peter Struck
Michael Klaassen,
"Cassiodorus" Chronica"
Committee: Richard Burgess (Univeristy of Ottawa), Jeremy McInerney, Cam Grey
David Urban,
"The Rhetoric of Masculinity and the Public Formation of Roman Identity"
Committee: Joseph Farrell, Cynthia Damon, James Ker, Sheila Murnaghan
Dissertations Completed
Roshan Abraham, "Sophos and Sophia: Philostratus" Defense of Apollonius of Tyana," 2009
Jacques Bromberg, "Tragic Persuasion and Early Greek Rhetoric, 2009"
Daniel E. Harris-McCoy, "Varieties of encyclopedism in the early Roman Empire: Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder, Artemidorus," 2008
William Josiah Edwards Davis, "Latin texts and Latin culture at Praeneste: 700 BC - 14 AD," 2007
Kevin Tracy , "The developoment of dialectic from Aristotle to Chrysippus," 2006
Bryce England Walker, "Moralizing discourse in Juvenal's later books," 2006
Meggan Jennell Arp, "Pre-socratic thought in Sophoclean tragedy," 2006
Amanda Ruth Wilcox, "The epistolary habit: representation, participation, and exchange among the Roman elite," 2002
Daniel R. McLean, "Refiguring Socrates: comedy and corporeality in the Socratic tradition," 2002
Alex Claire Purves, "Telling space: topography, time, and narrative from Homer to Xenophon," 2002
Alexa Jervis , "Gallia scripta: images of Gauls and Romans in Caesar's Bellum Gallicum," 2001
Jennifer Valerie Ebbeler, "Pedants in the apparel of heroes? Cultures of Latin letter-writing from Cicero to Ennodius," 2001
Anne Elizabeth Duncan, "The hypocritical self: actors, acting, and identity in Greek and Roman culture," 2000
Rebecca Lynn Frost, "The rhetoric of authority in the Propertian Monobiblos," 1998
Samuel Alexander Hughes, "Salamis on the Tiber: readings of the Mars Ultor Temple's dedicatory games," 1997
Joy Connolly , "Vile eloquence: performance and identity in Greco-Roman rhetoric," 1997
Eric Scott Casey, "Identity, meaning, and accountability: names and naming in Greek culture," 1996
Robert Joseph Gorman, "Cicero and the Socratic method," 1995
John M. McMahon, "Representing impotence: systems of belief in ancient popular culture," 1993
Maria Suzanne Marsilio, "Dependence and self-sufficiency in Hesiod's Works and days," 1992
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