SUMMER 1998

WHATS NEW IN THE CLASSICS 1 here are new faces in the Classics Depamcnt. Sprsan St-& our new office m g e r , has come to Classia from Meteorology. She is an FSU veteran - and an

*mn. Susan b married, has a loveiy daughter and is withom quaion one of the best-orgmized peaple in the wdd. YOU will find her in the new Classics office, which is on the ground f loor of- Hall. There you will aIso find ow newPmgmm&&stant, John B, who is himself a student, in the xi-, at F5U. Another recent change is that JdTatum is the new chahnan ofthcdqmment. Naacyde&umswm8'stenn hasended, and she will spend much of the coming academic year on a well- deserved fexwch Itave.

In April, 1997, the Bqmmmt dedicated the M. Lynette Thompson Classicp Libmy in a s p i d emmnyauended by the President, the Pmvost, the Dean and by m y former students of L m Thompson, who was also present. 7he Thompson Ubmy houses the Department's collection and has become an imprtant rewmx for majors and for graduate m&nts.

TEACHING PRIZES e flatter ourselves that dumns remember FSU for its exdenceintexhhg The past two years h a v e h g h t our deparbnat ample recognition for its ta&g

effedivcnw. E r n b e n t s have k e n better than ever. And several faculty have arried off prizes for their classrmm perf-: Nancy & Gmmmmnd won a 1997 University T a c h g Award (her second!); W Pagm &ved a 1998

, Unive&y Teaching Award; JM Tatmu was awded the ' American PM010g.ical Association's 1997 ExceUence in Teaching

Award and also received a 1998 University T e a h g Award (his

1 in the Hummities program but nwtured in WCS (and he t fmpndy teaches courses, especially Latin, for Classics) re-

ceived a 1998 Oumding Teaching Asshunt Award

THE LANGFORD SCHOLARS he past two years have brought two distinguished visitors to FSU, I 3 h & Rtdgway? the Ieadmg authority on ancient sculpture, and Anne Bumert, whose work

mGWpmsy , e s p e c i a U y I p i c ~ , i s ~ - I m o w h Each was the Gear$$ R b g f d Eminent Schohr in Classics, a pition that the Department owes to the generosity of George Larigford and his family. This is what each of our visitors had to say about their time with us:

BRUNI RlDGWAY ON FSU he academic year 1 M-97 was a peripatetic one for me. I spent the fmt semester at the Univ. of Wwnia at Berkeiey as the Sather Professor and the second at PSU

as the Langford Eminent Scholar. Not only did this schedule m g e to make me miss the winter -, but it took me totwo of the most attractive places in the USA. In mpxt I clamat say whether I found Florida more beautifui than h e Bay area, but certainly its fauna is more varied: I loved the -tees, the alligators, the pelicans, the peculiar anhhgas "hangiog outa to dry, and the many &r water birds - and apedally the dolphins swimming off the cwst of St. George Xshd as we too swam happily on Eastff Sunday!

I hall admit outright to a cerwin amount of s@seemg: my husband and I drove to the Florida Keys, and made other excursions in the more immediate vi&Q of TalIahassee, But mme travel was conwad to scholarly enterprises: we drove to see the splendid Macedonh Exhi ion at St. Petrimbug, and in April I d e k r d a ledwe in Gaimwille at the Udv. of Florida. My husband and 1 also Eried to share in campus lift: we anended

. a baskahall game @SU versus Duke); unbmmately football, my passion, was over by ttre time we arrived. We also went ro the FSU Circus for n s~1dm-m' pfonmnce.

1 taught two courses, an undergraduate class on the Athenian Akropolis and a graduate seminar on Second Century BC sculptwe, this lauer selfishly geared to my own resarch in preparation for writing volume two of H & n W Sm@tute. It was also background for the Langford C o n f a n e and for our trip to Berlin, which I, along with students and faculty from FSU, took during Spring Break. Both events wue enommusly success-

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NEXT YEAR The Department continues to enjoy healthy eml I -

ments and excellent shrdents. W e look f m d to the visit of our 1999 hngford Wmlar, Profwar E d b Simon, whose presence will enhance our p m p m in archaeology. The 1899 langford Confere~lce will focus on tIx theme of Emscan and EarIy Rormn R&gion.

PleasevisitusmDoddHallwhenyuua~einT~, or visit our weMe at www.chdcs.fsu.edu. And do phse d m p u s o l i r a e C w i t h o r ~ a ~ e m u s ~ ~ u s k m w h o w l i k i s ~ y o u a n d h o w ~ h a s ~ a ~ i n w h a r y o u d o a n d w h o y o u a r e !

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T h e o t h e r s p e d c v e m d t h e s e m e s t e r w a s a n ~ o f reciration and rd@p in Gm& and Lath, spmsad by the u ~ ~ ~ c 8 c M , ~ a t ~ r l i w ~ ~ e w a s driven fmm the amphi-.

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THE LANGFQRD CONFERENCE F x h ~ t ~ r m t h c ~ o r d ~ b r f n g s b f S U a n

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High School in Melbume. ltettie hss1tar @A 29) mired from teadug Latin fn 1972. She enjoys rravehng a b d Shl Webb a T D i s w h e W r d t h e G h C h r i s t i a n m i n g Center in Georgia. Robyn W p n 73) miid from the miJitay in 1995 and is now bculty coodinzuor d the Special Forces Language S d m 1 at Ft. Bragg.

W e are grateful to the following alumni for their generous concributlons: Makorn I)on;zlson, A h Douglas, Rob G M t , Joyce jury, Lettie W e r , l k b d a Dunford Urqatza OM 76; MA 78); Sid Webb, Robyn Wynn.

GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON THE ANCIENT

MEDITERRANW WORLD The Dqxrtment continues to sponsor its Graduate sympo-

sium, whirh, under the &mion of M Pullcn, allows graduate seudenrs in any depmmm to present their d to the students and f a d r y of the university at a s p e d occasion. The pmgmm for Apd 1997 was:

Jm Curry ~ ~ e s > , "Herxnes, Orphew and the Gaod Shepherd in Early Christian Art." G h T m (Religion), 'Why Termlllan Says You're Going to Hell.*

Mark lbncace IReligion), Trials and Tributes: The DeutmmornIstic Evaluati~nofJudahlteKhgs.~ J-R Knapp O-!Idties), The Sadm of lphigenia in D - m Nuturn 1. 8@101. EWrida WXW (Religion), 'W-held Anatulian F e d e Figurines, WOO 3CE.' Edm% Bmmun (~lassicsj, 'Aegeans in Egyptian Tombs." Edward I)andt.low CClassicd, 'The Philosophical and Religious Backgwnd of Aristonims' Revolt" lkm&ySkover(CIassIcs), ' C i m and the Catihmjans in Plutarch's Life of Cim."

The program for April 1898 was: JcffKnapp Wumanities], %metius in the Fssris 'Invoa-

tion to Jmus'." R O W Bowman (Classics), "The Mycenaean Migration to Cyprus at the End of the Bronze Age."

Hut* MfMurmy (Religion), % Cult of the D a d in Ancient Israel." Sophia (Clam), 1"Jhe 'Almr of Domitius Ahenobarbus': A New Interpretation," Timothy * ver (Classics), 5ome Aspects of Valerius Maximus's Use of Cicero." Harry Mihion {Cbssim), Geometric Carpet Mosaic at --La Tufa." hl;cmnanSadridge (Ciassics), "Pious Aeneas, Piteous Dido: A Charmer Srudy in V w s Am&" K h b d y

(Classics), Wadrim's Roma Aeterrm and Her Legacy.' The Keynote Address was given by &Ida Ymh Cob of he University of Chiago, on "Ilae Thff>rPe of Satan: Pefgmmn in EEay Christian Literature"

STUDENT N W S FSU was well-represented at this yafs CAMWS meeting:

five faculty mmbm and five students rad papers at the conference. The students who presented papers were A h l a

(The InfrOduction of the Aqua Marcia: A Note on the Use of the Wmd P e r d W ) , K i m h k y

VHaddan as Ktlstes in the Greek M: His Athenian Arch in C o n t d , J& 5 p p Wvid's Use of L u d u s in the M s Invowion toJanus"), Harry Ndkrum { e Pharos of Claudb3 and T?m Chdadous Conspirators, Effeminate Consul: Plutarch's &em 19239. TIm Stover's p a p won a W i c a t e of Honorable Mention in the competition for Oumadhg Papw by a Graduate Student.

Each year &e department holds its own gradation cer- emony in Dodd Hall to honor its minors, maw and graduate students. Graduates receive a -ental diploma, in latin, and there is a departmemal supper afterwards. The Department would U e to congratulate irs recent graduates. Recipients of the B A d e ~ i n c l u d e : ~ ~ ~ ~ I b * J ~ G o ~ , U d r m C o ~ , ~ D e a n , ~ ~ , F c l l c f a ~ % ~ ~ ~ J ~ , d ~ ~ A m p Melllear, mymod Mensing, Basil MomMsoB, Jslnice - - - ,Jda- , - - w I - - , R - - b - and- Yekmwkh Recipients of the MA degree include: =m -m, -tensen, Jill Curry, - Damdrow, Chad H-, IIandant EIhdxm& Rob J o w , W - m J e f f a y l m ~ P , ~ l a M a l t l a n d , A n l l l ~ , ~ S f ~ M w y L o u Vmda&mg, and-Whid&n. There were two recipients of the PhD in Huinanities with a concentration Clasia: Ekhad BdMn and Brmadall S-.

Each year the Department aw& the HElnlun PrizRs for the Outstanding Undergraduate and che Outscanding Pmgraduate. The Rankin Prize, named fur Dr. Kathleen Rankin, is the highst honor the department can M o w on one of its students. At the 1998 ceremony, adltb and Msmy Zbnkh, Dr. Rankin's daugh- refs, were present for the ;1-: Tbe 1997 Rankin Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate was awarded to Psrul 1Dean, who

dated to enter Iaw school. The 1997 Rankin Prize for Outstanding Posrgraduate was awarded to Ttmothy Rover, who will emer the doctoral program in Qassim at the University of Texas. The 1998 Rankin Prize for Outstanding Undagmduslte was awarded to Boy and the 1998 R;mkin Prize for Outsmdng P w g d w t e was awarded to S i d k y WhWnm who has taken in position in public relations. 1

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FACULTY NEUVS Nsmcy & Gmmmmnd continues to diFen: the FSU Fxava-

tiom at C e m m and to en= in mearch on Emisan mti and on Roman imperial iconography. Nancy delivered a paper on Emsan graftti at the recent CAMWS meeting. She will have research leave for much of the 199899 amdemic yar, but looks fo- to working dosely with Er&a Simon in organizing the Iangford conference on Emscan and Eady Roman religion.

WrW* & puMished a paper, The Diana lkprience: A Study of the Viaims d Diana in V@s A w " in C. Demux (d.1, S t t d s in h t i n Dmatutlp and Rrnwan Himy, mi. 8, and he continues to work on Xenophon and on Srarius (he read a paper on the AcbfWdat the recent m-g of CAMWS).JlzstlnGlenoedits the L d i p z ~ a n d oontinues to be active in JCL d other aspects of Larin in Florida's s h h . He has papers f- on the w a n d on Camflus. He is mrrendy working on V i e c k in Einhard's Llfs of Cbdmagm bun Gddw recently p u b M , with O.B. fIardison, ~ f b r ~ ~ f ~ ~ m : r n e A ~ M k c 7 #?Id its T A He mgankd a panel and read a paper on Horace at the reem CAMWS meeting. H e continues to serve as the director of the unimsitfs program in the Humanities, and he is finishing a book w the miationship b e e n h e I W &XI ~ e ' ~ c o r e c e p t i w t o f t h e h e r r > . ~ ~ ~ i s t h e ~ m o f G m d u a e S t s m ~ , which keeps him very busy. He

veqauive in mdiag pa- at a ~ a $ e m l ~ meethp (he read a paper on Valerius Maximus ar the most recent CAMWS), and he has artid= foahcoming on religion m Vderius Mdmw, on Ephialtes, and on cruelty in he writtags of Seneca. Hans is w6dng a book on h e uses d w o n in Vakrius. -is the Director of Admisiom. He recendy published a piece on *Curvature in the Tempk of Apolio at Cortnrh and in the South Stoa and Classical Temple of Hera at the Argive Heraion," in L Hasehrger (4.1, A p p ~ m c u P d & m m R@mmwtof Cdr+- &a1 A ~ b ~ ~ ~ He has papers fwthmmiag on the

W a r Building of the kgive Hadon and on the archhmral history of Gotinth in the sirah cenauy. W s is Mshing a b m k on the d r m r e of h e Classid Temple of Hera In the m e Hedon. Joseph Plesda has just put out a second edition of his bmk, 70e Bill of RQbts atxi B o r n W. His monogmph, % Docw'w oiL&biZi@ in Roman h w is foahcoming in rbe series W f s s in Rotftcln Law. He is cumdy writing a bwk on hremational law in andent Rome. Dantel Fdkm continues to work on seveml fronts at once. His most recent project is his participation in h e aduedogical survey of the Korktbk. He is a h studying the Early Bmnze Age setdemem at ancienf Nernea, the EBB materials from Sardis, and the Nmhhc a d EBA materials from Weis. famw S w is the Directw of Unchpduate Wdb. He recently diremd the summer session of h e American Sd.1001, and he has been aaivt in the Athenian Agora Exavations. He published "A Horns Stone in the C o k - tion of the American School," In XI- and his book, Bhk & a m & a t f d A ~ h P ~ ~ i s ~ r n a n d his wife Katherine are expecting heir second child JeBTslum recently published a paper emitled Trknddip, Politics and Litencure in Catullus: M 1, 65 and 66, 11c in Classfcal Qwrwiy, vd. 47 and a ttmual note on Cicero in h%einhdm M w m Hc has papers forcficoming on Horace, Iuaetius and P l u d . At the recent CAMWS meting, he read a paper on Horace's His forthcoming book, 'Ibe P e n Tnkne Rddfus -#us Rkhq will be out by next summer. He is now working on a commentary on the Corn- M&nk

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