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Volume XXV<br />

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA Fall 2005<br />

Letter from the Chair<br />

Voula Aldrich, Four Seasons in <strong>Santa</strong><br />

<strong>Barbara</strong> Watercolor collage, 1982<br />

GREEK SUMMER PROGRAM 2005<br />

2<br />

IMAGINES OF UCSB<br />

4<br />

DEPARTMENTAL PRIZES<br />

AND AWARDS 5<br />

FACULTY NEWS<br />

5<br />

GRADUATE STUDENT NEWS<br />

6<br />

RECENT AND UPCOMING<br />

LECTURES 8<br />

VOULA ALDRICH<br />

8<br />

NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS<br />

9<br />

GIFTS TO CLASSICS<br />

9<br />

This was an important year for the <strong>Department</strong>. Every decade or so, each<br />

department at UCSB undergoes a rigorous review process, in which a bewildering<br />

variety <strong>of</strong> campus <strong>of</strong>ficers and committees assesses virtually every aspect<br />

<strong>of</strong> our undergraduate and graduate programs with the expert advice <strong>of</strong><br />

an External Review Committee made up <strong>of</strong> three leading scholars in the discipline.<br />

No stone went unturned in this effort, and the result was a rather exhausting<br />

year; the <strong>Department</strong>’s students and faculty became quite used to<br />

the bright but salutary glare <strong>of</strong> publicity as we prepared the many written<br />

documents and attended the many meetings demanded by the process. But I<br />

am pleased to say that when the dust had finally settled, it turned out that we<br />

had done very well. The faculty’s research was commended, our teaching (by<br />

faculty and graduate students alike) lauded, the <strong>Department</strong>’s “climate” found<br />

to be friendly and supportive, our important place in the <strong>University</strong>’s broad<br />

educational mission affirmed. We can all take pride in the steady rise in appreciation<br />

<strong>of</strong> our programs both within the <strong>University</strong> and nationwide.<br />

Any such assessment <strong>of</strong> course points up areas where we have more work to<br />

do—work that we have already begun. This fall we initiated a new, intradepartmental<br />

research forum, the Lunch-Hour Colloquium (suggestions for a<br />

more glamorous name are welcome!) with three presentations, two by faculty<br />

members (Pr<strong>of</strong>s. Dunn and Dutsch) and one by our most recent Ph.D.,<br />

Dr. Benjamin M. Wolkow. Colloquia will continue throughout the year, <strong>of</strong>fering<br />

an opportunity for us to share results <strong>of</strong> current research and to engage<br />

graduate students as well as faculty members in a more vibrant intellectual<br />

community. Reviewers also suggested that we develop further our current<br />

Teaching-Assistant Training Program, which we are now in the process <strong>of</strong><br />

doing. A more controversial matter is the question whether we should lower<br />

our relatively high Classical language requirement for our undergraduate Civilization<br />

and Archaeology tracks, or even (as some campuses have done) drop<br />

it entirely. We have started our research by gathering data from other large,<br />

public universities; a committee will study the matter through the year with<br />

The UCSB <strong>Classics</strong> <strong>Department</strong><br />

Tel: 805-893-3556 Fax: 805-893-4487<br />

Email: classicsinfo@classics.ucsb.edu<br />

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an eye to making a recommendation<br />

to the <strong>Department</strong><br />

in May. (Any readers<br />

who have strong views on<br />

these matters are very welcome<br />

to make them known<br />

to me.)<br />

Our undergraduate program<br />

is certainly in robust health,<br />

to judge from our rapidly<br />

rising number <strong>of</strong> majors. I am<br />

happy to report that we are<br />

up to nearly 50—an increase<br />

<strong>of</strong> nearly 2/3 over the last five<br />

years! As we look forward, it<br />

is clear that our greatest challenge<br />

is to develop further<br />

our PhD program while maintaining<br />

the high standing that<br />

our MA program enjoys nationwide.<br />

I see no contradiction<br />

between these goals either<br />

at the curricular or funding<br />

level. The new research<br />

colloquium should help draw<br />

departmental attention toward<br />

our scholarly achievements,<br />

while the new position<br />

in Greek literature for which<br />

we are hiring this year will—<br />

together with our two successful<br />

new hires over the<br />

past four years—add valuable<br />

“new blood” to our teaching<br />

and scholarship. The research<br />

programs <strong>of</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> our<br />

faculty are coming to fruition.<br />

There are good grounds for<br />

optimism as we look toward<br />

the next “review cycle” in<br />

this <strong>Department</strong>’s life.<br />

Robert Morstein-Marx<br />

Greek Summer Program 2005<br />

Apostolos Athanassakis and B. Erickson<br />

In the morning <strong>of</strong> June 19, we were all assembled in Athens and went on a magnificent<br />

walking tour <strong>of</strong> Europe’s oldest cities. Classes started immediately on<br />

the following day. The pace was demanding, but the students were excited and<br />

learned a great deal from their visits to the ancient sites. At the Agora, John<br />

Camp, director <strong>of</strong> the excavations, gave an unforgettable presentation on the<br />

commercial and political heart <strong>of</strong> ancient Athens. The students also visited the<br />

great museums and they were taught on-site at Brauron, Sunion, and Marathon.<br />

On July 2, the group divided in half for the next stage <strong>of</strong> the program: a month<br />

<strong>of</strong> classes on a Greek island, with Pr<strong>of</strong>. Athanassakis leading the group bound<br />

for Paros and Pr<strong>of</strong>. Erickson at the head <strong>of</strong> the expedition to Crete.<br />

The Parian group sailed the broad back <strong>of</strong> the sea on a great boat. As the color<br />

<strong>of</strong> the sea and the color <strong>of</strong> the sky blended into a blue composition, the bonedry<br />

islands danced all about them. After landing on Paros, the group formed a<br />

procession to their new home, the Aegean Village. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dmitrios Skilardi,<br />

Director <strong>of</strong> Excavations at Paros, taught the archaeology <strong>of</strong> Paros and the Cyclades,<br />

while Pr<strong>of</strong>. Athanassakis taught the history <strong>of</strong> women in Classical antiq-<br />

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uity. The archaeological museum was very close to the Aegean Village, and we paid it<br />

frequent visits. The students were also immersed in modern Greek life. At the local<br />

folk museum, we were treated to a combination <strong>of</strong> instruction and Parian hospitality.<br />

The mayor <strong>of</strong> Paros allowed us to use the city's magnificent conference room as our<br />

classroom. Also, our landlord gave us two beautiful receptions, complete with live<br />

music and delectable food. It was not easy to see the students <strong>of</strong>f at the harbor.<br />

Also unforgettable was the other group’s journey to Crete. We stayed at a charming<br />

seaside town, Rethymno, with a rich history as a Venetian and Ottoman port. This<br />

was our base <strong>of</strong> operations, and we traveled far and wide across the island, visiting<br />

ancient sites and learning about the history <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the oldest and richest civilizations<br />

in the Mediterranean world. Students took classes on the archaeology <strong>of</strong> Crete<br />

and Greek painting. The mayor <strong>of</strong> Rethymno provided us with a classroom to delve<br />

into archaeological and historical topics and prepare for our trips. Most <strong>of</strong> the time,<br />

the island itself served as our classroom. Students will never forget the strong smell<br />

<strong>of</strong> herbs as they hiked through the bramble in the clear mountain air on the way to<br />

some remote site. In the picture at left you see us gathered atop a 2,000-year old<br />

bridge at Eleutherna, one <strong>of</strong> the island’s most powerful ancient cities. It is now almost<br />

inaccessible except to the most devoted students <strong>of</strong> archaeology. We also visited<br />

the ruins <strong>of</strong> Knossos and other rich Bronze Age palaces. What we learned in<br />

the classroom the sites made real and tangible. Under our watchful eye, archaeologists<br />

went about their work and brought to light objects from sites abandoned centuries<br />

ago. The joys <strong>of</strong> modern Greek life were also part <strong>of</strong> what drew us to Crete.<br />

Students picked up Greek phrases, spent time at the local markets, and enjoyed the<br />

local lyre players’ songs. It was an unforgettable experience.<br />

Children Singing<br />

Greek Mandolino<br />

ink on paper, 1966<br />

Listen to your own beat<br />

Linocut, 1972


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Imagines <strong>of</strong> UCSB<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Walter Englert<br />

Reed College<br />

MA UCSB ‘76<br />

Epicurus founded his philosophical school, called the Garden, in Athens at the<br />

end <strong>of</strong> the 4 th cent. BCE. He designed it to be a place where students could<br />

study, become friends, and change their lives. Like the ancient Garden, modern<br />

academic institutions can be life-changing places. If we are lucky, when we<br />

are students they challenge us, encourage us, and make us grow intellectually<br />

and emotionally. If we are even luckier, and become teachers ourselves, the<br />

schools we studied at provide us with models <strong>of</strong> scholarship and teaching that<br />

last a lifetime. UCSB was such a place for me. I came to the <strong>Classics</strong> <strong>Department</strong><br />

at UCSB in fall 1974, fresh from my undergraduate experience as a double<br />

major (<strong>Classics</strong> and Integral Liberal Arts) from St. Mary’s College <strong>of</strong> <strong>California</strong>. I knew<br />

that I loved reading Latin and Greek, but had only the vaguest notion about the wider field <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Classics</strong> or what a career in <strong>Classics</strong> might involve. The <strong>Classics</strong> department at UCSB<br />

changed all that.<br />

The <strong>Classics</strong> program at UCSB provided me with standards <strong>of</strong> scholarship and teaching that<br />

are still alive for me today. I took a number <strong>of</strong> excellent seminars, including courses on Plato’s<br />

Symposium and Pindar with David Young, Lucretius with Jo-Ann Shelton, Greek epigraphy with<br />

Borimir Jordon, Comparative Greek and Latin morphology with Apostolos Athanassakis,<br />

Propertius with Alva Bennett, Theocritus with Keith Aldrich, Tacitus with Michael Grant, Aristotle’s<br />

Poetics with H.D.F. Kitto, and Roman History with Hal Drake. I learned a lot about<br />

the authors and works we studied in each course, and what it meant to be scholar and<br />

teacher. I learned how to read an author closely, how to pose interesting questions about<br />

them, how to research a topic, and how to write critically. Just as importantly, though, I<br />

learned what a complex thing “good teaching” is. My pr<strong>of</strong>essors at UCSB made it clear that<br />

good teaching requires more than just knowing one’s scholarly specialty and field well. Perhaps<br />

appropriately, the only word I can find that adequately describes what I felt from the<br />

UCSB <strong>Classics</strong> faculty is a Latin one: humanitas.<br />

Youth singing<br />

(after an image on an ancient<br />

Greek Vase), 1972<br />

It is this combination <strong>of</strong> knowledge, teaching ability, and humanitas that inspired me to go on<br />

in <strong>Classics</strong>. My work at UCSB made prepared me to earn a Ph.D. in <strong>Classics</strong> at Stanford, and<br />

then teach, first for a year at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Michigan, and then at Reed College, where I<br />

have been for 25 years. The lessons I learned from my teachers at UCSB are still alive today<br />

in my interaction with students inside and outside the classroom, and I try to embody the<br />

humanitas that they demonstrated so memorably to me. Though Portland <strong>of</strong>ten feels very far<br />

geographically from <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Barbara</strong> (especially in the winter when it is so rainy here in Oregon!),<br />

UCSB is always close to my heart. Epicurus, whom I mentioned earlier, would have<br />

had a ready explanation for this. Memories, he taught, are nothing but atomic images (Gr.<br />

eidôla, Lat. imagines) <strong>of</strong> people and places that fly through the air all around us, and that pass<br />

through our minds as we focus on them when we want to remember something. I feel very<br />

fortunate that the atomic imagines <strong>of</strong> the experiences I had at UCSB in 1974-1976 have made<br />

the 1000-mile journey between Portland and <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Barbara</strong> and are still in the air flying<br />

around me so that I can continue to focus on them. They continue to be a source <strong>of</strong> great<br />

inspiration and joy.


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Faculty News<br />

Apostolos Athanassakis writes: “Just as I was leaving for Greece back in June, I received<br />

a copy <strong>of</strong> my article ‘Akhilleus's Horse Balios: Old and New Etymologies.’ I<br />

was so very happy to see my article in Glotta, but here is a detail I want to share with<br />

everybody. The <strong>of</strong>ficial date <strong>of</strong> publication date given is 2002; the actual date <strong>of</strong> publication<br />

is 2005. Clearly, Glotta is not a journal to send articles which must be published<br />

with some urgency. It was not so easy to teach Summer School and write.<br />

However, a translation <strong>of</strong> the life <strong>of</strong> Saint Paisios, which I am doing with the Reverend<br />

Dr. Tim Vivian, is perhaps in the final stage. Since our students will read this letter, I<br />

want to mention that some <strong>of</strong> the lives <strong>of</strong> the Saints contain precious references to<br />

culture in the very late Roman Empire. During the second half <strong>of</strong> the Summer, I<br />

stayed with my parents. Our house is like a monastery lost in the woods. It is a beautiful<br />

place for reading and writing, a true secessus. By the time I left, I finished the written<br />

version <strong>of</strong> my article on the catalogues <strong>of</strong> Homer and Hesiod. I am about to send<br />

this article to Greece for publication. During the Summer, Dr. Theony Condos translated<br />

a rather sizable collection <strong>of</strong> my poems. It is rather early for me to say anything<br />

about this. On a more exciting note, in mid-November, I went to Finland to give a<br />

paper at a conference held at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Turku. The subject <strong>of</strong> the conference<br />

was ‘The Bear as a Sacrificial Animal and a Constellation.’ My talk covered the Greek<br />

side.”<br />

Francis Dunn reports that he spent the spring and summer getting reacquainted with<br />

his bicycle after years <strong>of</strong> separation; no saddle sores yet, just sore legs. During the<br />

same period three articles made their way into print: “Narrative, Responsibility, Realism”<br />

in The Bakhtin Circle and Ancient Narrative (Groningen), “On Ancient Medicine<br />

and its intellectual context” in Hippocrates in Context (Leiden), and “Trope and Setting<br />

in Electra” in Sophocles and the Greek Language (Leiden). And he is happy to report<br />

that the long-awaited feature-length movie created by his sons, The Twilight <strong>of</strong> Troy, had<br />

its world premiere this summer at Embarcadero Hall.<br />

Dorota Dutsch writes: “As everyone knows, I spend my days tending to the infamous<br />

‘book monster.’ It now has grown to ten chapters, but still requires a huge amount <strong>of</strong><br />

grooming. A <strong>University</strong> Press (I will not name it to avoid bad luck!) expressed interest<br />

in the project so there is some hope that one day I will be free. Meanwhile two other<br />

texts I have produced have been accepted for publication: a short article on Plautus’<br />

Miles, subtitled “On Mice and Vampires,” will be forthcoming in Mnemosyne; an entry<br />

on Virgil’s Eclogues will appear in the <strong>Classics</strong> volume <strong>of</strong> an award-winning series entitled<br />

World Literature and its Times. Two more, an article on gesture in the Parisian<br />

manuscript <strong>of</strong> Terence and an essay on the Latin dirge, are currently under review.<br />

And there is theater. Last spring, I had the chance to stage Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousai<br />

with a wonderful group <strong>of</strong> students from the College <strong>of</strong> Creative Studies.<br />

(Many thanks to the generous souls who sat through our eccentric performance and<br />

laughed at the right moments!) Now the time has come to stage a classical play in the<br />

original language. Latin 114/214 (we will be reading Plautus’ Casina this year) seems the<br />

perfect opportunity to enlist a cast <strong>of</strong> readers who will recite the Latin as the saltatores<br />

mime the action. I hope I can count on your support!”<br />

<strong>Department</strong>al Prizes and<br />

Awards for 2004-2005:<br />

Keith Aldrich Memorial Awards<br />

for outstanding academic<br />

achievement in <strong>Classics</strong><br />

Christine Maisto<br />

(Graduate)<br />

Christopher King<br />

(Undergraduate)<br />

Nicholas and Lena Dumas Prizes<br />

for outstanding essay in Greek<br />

mythology<br />

Patricia Bobek<br />

(Fall ’04)<br />

Alexia Ferracuti<br />

(Winter ’05)<br />

Nicholas and Lena Dumas Travel<br />

Scholarship for study <strong>of</strong> Greek<br />

antiquities<br />

Charlene C. Clingman<br />

Isla Vista<br />

Linocut, 1979<br />

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Portrait <strong>of</strong> a girl<br />

Charcoal on paper, ca. 1970<br />

Graduate Student News<br />

Congratulations are in order<br />

to our newest Ph.D., Benjamin<br />

M. Wolkow, who defended<br />

his dissertation on<br />

Pratinas <strong>of</strong> Phlius in December;<br />

and to Daniel Hu, who<br />

passed his final qualifying<br />

exam for the PhD at the end<br />

<strong>of</strong> November. Daniel plans to<br />

write his dissertation on the<br />

style <strong>of</strong> Aeschylus.<br />

Tracy Jamison writes that<br />

over the last year she gave a<br />

paper on “Literature in Art:<br />

Reflections on South Italian<br />

Vase Paintings” at the meeting<br />

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“Rebetika performer”<br />

Linocut, 1978<br />

Brice Erickson has had a busy year.<br />

When he arrived at UCSB, Brice revised<br />

the archaeology program, and this year<br />

will see the debut <strong>of</strong> the last <strong>of</strong> a new set<br />

<strong>of</strong> archaeology courses, Greek Painting<br />

(<strong>Classics</strong> 165). Students in all archaeology<br />

classes now have the benefit <strong>of</strong> a<br />

rich study collection <strong>of</strong> Greek and Roman<br />

antiquities, a recent donation to the<br />

<strong>Department</strong> by Mrs. Lena Dumas (see<br />

the Fall 2004 Newsletter). On the research<br />

front, Brice’s book on Late Archaic<br />

and Classical Cretan archaeology and<br />

Children playing the flute<br />

Linocut, 1979<br />

history is nearing the final editing phases.<br />

This book establishes the first chronological sequences <strong>of</strong> pottery for the island from<br />

600 to 400 B.C. and draws historical conclusions from this evidence. During these periods,<br />

Crete aligned itself through trade routes and cultural connections with the conservative<br />

Dorian societies <strong>of</strong> southern Greece. In addition, an article on the impact <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Athenian empire on Cretan trade ca. 450 B.C. has come out in the November 2005 issue<br />

<strong>of</strong> the American Journal <strong>of</strong> Archaeology. Over the summer, Brice led the Crete component<br />

<strong>of</strong> the UCSB study abroad program on Crete (see article, p.2). This program<br />

enlisted a record 48 students, who divided their time between Athens and a Greek island.<br />

Also, Brice’s field study <strong>of</strong> Early Iron Age material (ca. 900 to 300 B.C.) from<br />

Lerna, a coastal village on the edge <strong>of</strong> the Argive plain in mainland Greece, is proceeding<br />

as planned, and this will be his next book project.<br />

Ralph Gallucci received a non-Academic Senate Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Development Grant to<br />

deliver a paper, “The Oligarchic Government That Never Was: Athens 411/10 B.C.,”<br />

in Athens Greece on December 28 at the 3rd International Conference on European<br />

History. In addition, Ralph completed his second summer as Director <strong>of</strong> the Freshman<br />

Summer Start Program (FSSP), which now brings some 285 new first year students to<br />

campus for Summer Session B to get an early start academically and to enhance their<br />

transition to UCSB. This past summer Jo-Ann Shelton taught a Freshman Seminar<br />

(Animals in Antiquity) for the Program; Dorota Dutsch taught Cookery and Nutrition in<br />

Antiquity the previous summer. Dr. Gallucci and William Jankowski were awarded a<br />

Theresa Neil Memorial Research Grant from the AUSS, NAASS, NCCSS, and WASSA<br />

Research Consortium to evaluate the Program’s effects on such issues as grade point<br />

average, student retention, time to degree, grades, and involvement in undergraduate<br />

research.<br />

This summer Frances Hahn produced a chapter entitled ‘Performing the Sacred:<br />

Prayers and Hymns’ for the Blackwell Companion to Roman Religion. In addition to providing<br />

an introduction to the style, characteristics, and political significance <strong>of</strong> prayer in ancient<br />

Rome, the chapter examines the ancient emphasis on the power <strong>of</strong> prayer language<br />

with insights gained from studies in performance and ritual. Through the fall quarter,<br />

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Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Hahn hid in her home and department <strong>of</strong>fice writing the introductory and concluding<br />

chapters to her book on rituals <strong>of</strong> thanksgiving, with the support <strong>of</strong> the Interdisciplinary<br />

Humanities Center.<br />

Borimir Jordan refereed a proposal for a book on religion and mythology submitted to<br />

Oxford <strong>University</strong> Press (the Clarendon Press in England, he notes, not the one in New<br />

York) by a scholar at Oxford <strong>University</strong>. He also reviewed a book, Seafaring in the Ancient<br />

Mediterranean by A. Tilley for the Mariner's Mirror, an English scholarly journal about seafaring.<br />

Sara Lindheim reports, “In February I got my first dose <strong>of</strong> east coast winter in about seven<br />

years. I was reacquainted with my long winter coat, with snow, and with slowly losing all<br />

feeling in my fingers and toes. The purpose <strong>of</strong> my trip to the land <strong>of</strong> snow and ice was to<br />

give a paper at Yale <strong>University</strong> in a colloquium about gender in Ovid. My paper, entitled<br />

‘Terminal Anxiety: Exploring the Boundaries <strong>of</strong> Gender and Empire in Ovid's Metamorphoses,’<br />

marks the beginning <strong>of</strong> my new research project on the changing conception <strong>of</strong><br />

physical, imperial space in the Augustan Age and how the poetry <strong>of</strong> the period figures the<br />

new ways <strong>of</strong> thinking about space so clear in political, social and cultural discourses. It was<br />

much warmer in November at Pepperdine (in Malibu), where I delivered another talk on a<br />

similar topic at the meeting <strong>of</strong> the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, this one<br />

entitled ‘Imperium Sine Fine: (Un)limited Gender and Empire in Ovid's Metamorphoses.’<br />

Robert Morstein-Marx is too busy with departmental business to have very much to report.<br />

However, his Blackwell Companion to the Roman Republic (co-edited with Nathan<br />

Rosenstein) is in production and slated for publication in 2006. In November he gave a lecture<br />

entitled “Was Roman Voting a Consensus Ritual?” at New York <strong>University</strong>’s 2005<br />

Ranieri Colloquium on “Conditions <strong>of</strong> Democracy: Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Iraq.”<br />

He hopes to publish a version <strong>of</strong> this piece somewhere and also to write up an earlier lecture,<br />

“Place, Monument, Memory: The Problem <strong>of</strong> the Gracchi.”<br />

Robert Renehan writes: “I am working on a paper on the Greek novelists (where good<br />

work continues to appear; B. P. Reardon's excellent edition <strong>of</strong> Chariton is now out and J.<br />

N. O'Sullivan's Xenophon Ephesius is due to appear anytime now, both from Teubner). But<br />

I am chiefly occupied, when time permits, with preparing a copy-ready version <strong>of</strong> my collected<br />

writings on the early Greek poets and on Greek philosophy for publication by Teubner.<br />

I am being enormously assisted in this tedious task by the splendid efforts <strong>of</strong> Ben<br />

Wolkow who can make computers dance. And oh yes — I have taught my five-year-old<br />

grandson, as I taught his uncles before him, to say his first Latin words: rex montis sum. (Yes,<br />

in his mother's case it was regina montis sum.)”<br />

Jo-Ann Shelton’s most recent publication is “Putting Women in their Place: Gender, Species,<br />

and Hierarchy in Apuleius' Metamorphoses,” published in Defining Gender and Genre in<br />

Latin Literature, edited by William Batstone and Garth Tissol (Peter Lang, 2005). She taught<br />

a summer freshman seminar on “Animals in Ancient Greece and Rome” and in July attended<br />

the annual meeting <strong>of</strong> ISAZ (International Society for Anthrozoology), where she<br />

gave a paper and chaired a session. She is also pleased to report that she has a new dog.<br />

(Graduate Students News<br />

continued from page 6)<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Classical Association<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Middle West<br />

and South (Southern Section)<br />

at Winston-Salem,<br />

North Carolina, and another<br />

one on “Euripides’<br />

Elegiac Helen” at the Text<br />

and Presentation Comparative<br />

Drama Conference<br />

in Northridge, <strong>California</strong>.<br />

She also gave a<br />

lecture on Modern and<br />

Ancient Greek History at<br />

Antioch <strong>University</strong> in<br />

<strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Barbara</strong>. She is currently<br />

hoping to go to<br />

Greece next year to pursue<br />

a project entitled<br />

“Modern Context, Ancient<br />

Text: Euripidean<br />

Theatre.”<br />

Doug Lucey tells us that<br />

Riley (Batchelder) and he<br />

got engaged this summer<br />

at the Mission “<strong>of</strong> all<br />

places” and are to be wed<br />

next summer in Amesbury,<br />

Massachusetts.<br />

Music in a Taverna<br />

Linocut, 1972


Fall 2005<br />

<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Classics</strong><br />

Page 8<br />

Recent and Upcoming Lectures<br />

Child’s dream<br />

Acrylic on paper, ca. 1967<br />

Voula Aldrich, MA UCSB 1974<br />

This year’s Newsletter is graced by<br />

the artwork <strong>of</strong> Voula Aldrich, a UCSB<br />

alumna whose husband, Keith Aldrich,<br />

was a founding figure <strong>of</strong> this <strong>Department</strong>.<br />

Keith Aldrich’s memory is commemorated<br />

by our annual Aldrich<br />

Awards for outstanding achievement<br />

in <strong>Classics</strong>. Voula arrived here from<br />

her native Greece in 1966 to pursue a<br />

bachelor’s degree in the College <strong>of</strong><br />

Creative Studies, after which she<br />

earned an MA in <strong>Classics</strong> in our young<br />

department. She has remained a warm<br />

and kindly presence in the <strong>Department</strong>,<br />

and recently returned to the<br />

classroom to teach Modern Greek for<br />

us for two years. Only a few <strong>of</strong> us,<br />

however, knew <strong>of</strong> her artistic work,<br />

which she has presented in several<br />

exhibitions. We are very pleased to be<br />

able to decorate the Newsletter with<br />

these remarkable images, many <strong>of</strong><br />

them dating to her student days here,<br />

which will also serve as a reminder <strong>of</strong><br />

the many contributions <strong>of</strong> the Aldrich<br />

Lectures by distinguished visitors enrich our program by bringing fresh perspectives<br />

from outside the <strong>Department</strong> and provoking stimulating conversations<br />

shared by our whole community, faculty, graduate students and undergraduate<br />

majors alike. In 2004-05 we had an unusually busy lecture season. David Konstan<br />

<strong>of</strong> Brown <strong>University</strong> and Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study set the bar<br />

very high at the outset with an excellent paper on “Good Vengeance: Euripides’<br />

Athens and Other Cities.” Jörg Rüpke <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Erfurt (Germany)<br />

<strong>of</strong>fered a novel interpretation <strong>of</strong> the Roman triumph in his paper, “Immortality<br />

and Senatorial Control: Statue-rituals in Republican Rome, and the <strong>Classics</strong> <strong>Department</strong><br />

joined with our friends in Philosophy to hear Brad Inwood (<strong>University</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> Toronto and the Center for Advanced Study, Stanford) talk on “‘Rich Man,<br />

Poor Man:’ the Problems <strong>of</strong> Letter 87 <strong>of</strong> Seneca.” Christopher Pelling, Regius<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Greek at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Oxford, swung north during a brief visit<br />

to Los Angeles to address us on the subject <strong>of</strong> the varying accounts <strong>of</strong> Caesar’s<br />

assassination. Our two AIA lecturers were Brian Rose <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Cincinnati,<br />

who gave the Fourth Annual Sandra Church Lecture on “The Ancient<br />

Greeks in Persia (Iran), Iraq and Afghanistan,” and Jack Davis, also <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> Cincinnati, who spoke on the Palace <strong>of</strong> Nestor at Pylos. Four excellent<br />

talks by candidates in addition for last year’s Greek Poetry position helped to<br />

make this a particularly exciting year. We owe special thanks to Frances Hahn,<br />

then Chair <strong>of</strong> the lectures committee, and our AIA chapter President Jo-Ann<br />

Shelton, for this extraordinary line-up and for the careful planning that went into<br />

these highly successful events.<br />

This fall we initiated our new Lunch-hour Colloquium with informal presentations<br />

on work in progress by our own faculty and graduate students: this quarter,<br />

Francis Dunn, Dorota Dutsch, and Benjamin Wolkow. The series will continue<br />

through winter and spring. As for visitors from outside, we have already<br />

been honored by the visit <strong>of</strong> this year’s Sather Pr<strong>of</strong>essor at Berkeley, Roger<br />

Bagnall <strong>of</strong> Columbia <strong>University</strong>, who spoke on “Greek and Syriac in the Roman<br />

Near East”; and the Fifth Annual Sandra Church Lecture was delivered in November<br />

by Albert Leonard, Jr. (<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Arizona) on the subject <strong>of</strong> “Wine-<br />

Making in the Ancient Mediterranean World.” Our second AIA-sponsored visitor<br />

will be Trevor Hodge (Carleton <strong>University</strong>), to lecture in February on<br />

“Massilia, The Oldest City in Western Europe.” Expect a lively winter quarter as<br />

we entertain at least three candidates in our new Greek Literature search, followed<br />

in the spring by an AIA lecture and at least one visitor TBA.<br />

Meditation<br />

Watercolor and collage on paper,<br />

ca. 1983


Fall 2005<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>California</strong>, <strong>Santa</strong> <strong>Barbara</strong><br />

Page 9<br />

New Graduate Students<br />

We welcome to the department three new<br />

graduate students:<br />

Jeffery Clackley<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Washington<br />

Stan Rauh<br />

GIFTS TO CLASSICS<br />

The <strong>Classics</strong> <strong>Department</strong> is grateful for all gifts, large and small,<br />

that help us in our mission <strong>of</strong> teaching and research, and that promote<br />

the study and understanding <strong>of</strong> the ancient world and the<br />

classical tradition. Donations to the department can help buy<br />

books for our Reading Room, provide fellowships or travel support<br />

for graduate students, or bring distinguished scholars to campus.<br />

We are very grateful for recent gifts from:<br />

<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Washington<br />

Robert Schwieger<br />

College <strong>of</strong> William and Mary<br />

Mrs. Voula Aldrich<br />

Dr. Noah C. Croy<br />

Mrs. Rosemary A. Lackow<br />

Mr. William Arthur Lockwood, III<br />

Ms. Pamela D. Mays<br />

Ms. Denise E. Morones<br />

Mr. Daniel J. Nelson<br />

Ms. Linda A. S. Poling<br />

Mr. Michael J. Quinette<br />

Mr. Armand R. Ramirez<br />

Mr. John Renehan<br />

Ms. Thorne O. Still<br />

Raytheon Company matching gifts<br />

for Education Programs<br />

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-Seneca<br />

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