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) (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 (forthcoming) | ||
| 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" Paolo Di Leo,
"Augustine"s Interpretation of Genesis" Michael Klaassen,
"Cassiodorus" Chronica" David Urban,
"The Rhetoric of Masculinity and the Public Formation of Roman Identity" |
(past) |
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 |