Alan van den Arend

ALI Postdoctoral Associate

Cat Lambert

Assistant Professor

Publications

  • "Forging Lesbians: Sappho and The Songs of Bilitis" (2024) Classical Receptions Journal 16.2: 162-177.
  • "The Ancient Entomological Bookworm" (2020) Arethusa 53.1: 1-24.

Daniel Gallagher

Professor of the Practice

Courtney Ann Roby

Associate Professor

Publications

Books:

  • Technical Ekphrasis in Ancient Science and Literature: The Written Machine between Alexandria and Rome. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria: Strategies of Reading from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press)

 

Edited collection:

  • Unruly Objects: Material Entanglements in the Arts and Sciences, edd. Lucia Dacome, Meghan Doherty, Dahlia Porter, and Courtney Roby (special issue of Nuncius: December 2020)

 

Selected articles and book chapters:

  • “Strange Loops: Experiment and Program in Hero of Alexandria’s Automata,” in Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity, edd. Bur, Gerolemou, Ruffel (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023)
  • “Archimedes for the Rest of Us,” in The Place of Archimedes in World History (special issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews), ed. Karine Chemla and Reviel Netz, forthcoming 2022
  • “Learning from Mistakes: Constructing knowledge in late antique mathematical texts,” in Knowledge Construction in Late Antiquity, ed. Monika Amsler (De Gruyter (Trends in Classics), forthcoming 2023)
  • “Cultural and Cognitive Anchoring in Hero of Alexandria,” in Anchoring Technology, edd. Miko Flohr, Stephan Mols, Teun Tieleman (Brill: Euormos, forthcoming 2022)
  • “Terminology in the wild: enactive meaning-making in the Roman surveyors,” in Approaching Terminologies in Ancient Science(s), ed. Markus Asper, forthcoming 2022
  • “Theorizing technology: theōria, diagram, and artifact in Hero of Alexandria,” in The Epistemic Functions of Vision in Science, edd. Giulia Giannini and Matteo Valleriani (Brill, forthcoming 2022)
  • “Model wars: theorizing war in Greek and Roman tactical manuals,” in Visualising War: Interplay between Battle Narratives across Antiquity, edd. Alice König and Nicolas Wiater (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022)
  • “Popular Mechanics: Hero of Alexandria from Antiquity to the Renaissance,” in A Genealogy of Popular Science. From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality, ed. Jesús Muñoz Morcillo (transcript Verlag, 2021)
  • “Moving wood, man immobile: Hero’s Automata at the Urbino court,” in Material world: The intersection of art, nature, and science in ancient literature and its Renaissance reception, ed. Guy Hedreen (Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell’Arte, Firenze (NIKI), (Brill, 2021)
  • “Making comets sensible: experience, ekphrasis, and exemplarity in Roman cometary observations,” in Les comètes entre ciel et terre de l’Antiquité à la Renaissance, ed. Joelle Ducos (Les Belles Lettres, forthcoming 2022)
  • “Belopoeica,” in the Brill Companion to Greek and Roman Military Literature, ed. Philip Rance (Brill, forthcoming 2022)
  • “Ekphrasis,” in Oxford Companion on Literary Theory and Criticism, edd. Nancy Worman and Joy Connolly (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2022)
  • “Technology,” in A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity, ed. Robin Osborne (Bloomsbury Press, 2021) 
  • “Parasite, Infused: Pliny on Leeches,” in Pliny the Elder and Materiality, ed. Anna Anguissola (Brepols (Art and Materiality), 2021)
  • “Geometer, in a landscape: Hero’s embodied mathematics,” in Revolutions and Continuity in Greek Mathematics, ed. Michalis Sialaros, De Gruyter, 2018
  • “Physical sciences: Ptolemy’s extended mind,” in A History of Distributed Cognition, ed. Douglas Cairns, Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
  • “Animal, vegetable, metaphor: Plotinus’s liver and the roots of biological identity.” The Comparable Body: Imagination and Analogy in Ancient Anatomy and Physiology, ed. John Wee, Brill (Studies in Ancient Medicine), 2017.
  • “Framing technologies in Hero and Ptolemy.” The Frame in Classical Art: A Cultural History, edd. Michael Squire and Verity Platt, Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  • “Embodied meaning in Latin technical texts,” in Embodiment in Latin Semantics, ed. William Short, John Benjamin (Studies in Language), 2016: 211-238.
  • “Galen on the patient’s role in pain diagnosis: sensation, consensus, and metaphor.” Homo Patiens: Approaches to the Patient in the Ancient World, edd. Thumiger and Petridou. Brill (Studies in Ancient Medicine) 2016: 304-324.
  • “Seneca’s Scientific Fictions: Models as Fictions in the Natural Questions.” The Journal of Roman Studies 104 (November 2014): 155–80.
  • “Experiencing Geometry in Roman Surveyors’ Texts,” in Nuncius 29.1 (2014): 9-52
  • “Natura machinata: artifacts and nature as reciprocal models in Vitruvius,” in Apeiron, 46.2 (2013).
  • “L’ekphrasis e l’immaginazione scientifica in Tolomeo,” in Estetica: Studi e Ricerche 2013.1: 109-125.

 

 

Eric Rebillard

Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities

Publications

Books

  • The Early Martyr Narratives: Neither Authentic Accounts Nor Forgeries. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
  • Greek and Latin Narratives about the Ancient Martyrs. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Transformations of Religious Practices in Late Antiquity. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014.
  • Christians and their Many Identities in Late Antiquity, North Africa, 200-450 CE. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012 (paperback 2016).
  • The Care of the Dead in Late Antiquity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009 [English translation of Religion et sépulture: l’Église, les vivants et les morts dans l’Antiquité tardive (IIIe-Ve siècles). Civilisations et sociétés 115. Paris: Éd. de l’EHESS, 2003].
  • Musarna. 3, La nécropole impériale. Collection de l’École française de Rome 415. Rome: École française de Rome, 2009.
  • In hora mortis: évolution de la pastorale chrétienne de la mort aux IVe et Ve siècles dans l’Occident latin. Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 283. Rome: École française de Rome, 1994.

Edited volumes

  • Group Identity and Religious Individuality in Late Antiquity. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2015.
  • Les frontières du profane dans l’Antiquité tardive. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Rome: École française de Rome, 2010.
  • Economie et religion dans l’Antiquité tardive. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel.  Special issue of Antiquité tardive 14 (2006): 15-116.
  • Hellénisme et christianisme. Edited by Michel Narcy and Éric Rebillard. Lille: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2004.
  • Orthodoxie, christianisme, histoire = Orthodoxy, christianity, history. Collection de l’École française de Rome 270. Edited by Susanna Elm, Éric Rebillard and Antonella Romano, Rome: École française de Rome, 2000.
  • L’évêque dans la cité du IVe au Ve siècle: image et autorité. Collection de l’École française de Rome 248. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Rome: École française de Rome, 1998.

Verity Platt

Professor, on leave 2023-2024

Publications

Monographs

Edited Volumes

Articles:

  • “Undisciplining the University through Shared Purpose, Practice, and Place,” Nature: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9, no. 172 (2022), with A. Freiband et al.

  • “Ancient Relief: Terminology, Medium, Ontology”, in J. Elsner, M. Gaifman and N. Jones (eds.), Rethinking Classical Relief, Yale Classical Studies/Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

  • “Art, Nature, and the Material Divine in Roman Landscape Painting,” in J. Powers, (ed.), Art, Nature, and Myth in Ancient Rome, exhibition catalogue, San Antonio Museum of Art. Forthcoming October 2021.

  • “Bodies, Bases and Borders: Framing the Divine in Greco-Roman Antiquity,” in R. Wood and J. Elsner (eds.), Imagining the Divine: Exploring Art in Religions of Late Antiquity across Eurasia, British Museum Press, 2021: 19–36. 

  • "Beeswax: The Natural History of an Archetypal Medium," in A. Anguissola and A. Grüner (eds.), The Nature of Art: Pliny the Elder on Materials. Brepols series on "Art and Materiality", 2021: 51–64.

    • Translated into Italian as "Cera d’api: la storia naturale di un medium archetipico," transl. C. Ballestrazzi, Journal of the Istituto universitario olandese di storia dell’arte. Forthcoming.

  • “Re-membering the Belvedere Torso: Ekphrastic Restoration and the Teeth of Time,” Critical Inquiry 46 (Autumn 2020): 49–75.

  • "Color in Ancient Religion and Ritual," in D. Wharton (ed.), A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity. Bloomsbury, 2020: 63–80.

  • “The Seal of Polycrates: A Discourse on Discourse Channel Conditions,” in P. Michelakis (ed.), Classics and Media Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, series on “Classical Presences”, 2020: 53–76.

  • “De l’original perdu aux séries de répliques : nouvelles approches des multiples gréco-romains,” transl. G. Mélère, invited contribution to Perspective: actualité en histoire de l’art, special issue on Multiples. 2019.2: 165–78.

  • ​"Ecology, Ethics and Aesthetics in Pliny the Elder’s Natural History," Journal of the Clark Art Institute 17, special issue on Ecologies, Agents, Terrainsed. C. P. Heuer and R. Zorach, Yale University Press, 2018. 219-42.​

  • "Orphaned Objects: Pliny’s Natural History and the Phenomenology of the Incomplete," Art History 41.3 (June 2018), special issue on The Embodied Object, 492-517.

  • "The Embodied Object," Introduction to Art History 41.3 (June 2018), special issue on The Embodied Object (co-authored with M. Gaifman), 402-19.

  • “Ex votos in the Ancient World”, in I. Weinryb (ed.), Agents of Faith: Votive Giving Across Cultures. Bard Graduate Center Gallery Publications, Yale University Press, 2018, 2-19.

  • "Silent Bones and Singing Stones: Materializing the Poetic Corpus in Hellenistic Greece", in N. Goldschmidt and B. Graziosi (eds.), Tombs of the Poets: Between Text and Material CultureOxford University Press, 2018, 21-49.

  • "Of Sponges and Stones: Matter and Ornament in Roman Painting," in N. Dietrich and M. Squire (eds.), Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art: Rethinking Visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity. De Gruyter, 2018, 241-78. 

  • "Double Vision: Epiphanies of the Dioscuri in Greece and Rome," Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 20.1, March 2018, 229-56.

  • "Framing the Visual in Greco-Roman Antiquity: an Introduction," in V. Platt and M. Squire (eds.), The Frame in Classical Art: A Cultural History. Cambridge University Press (2017), 3-99 (co-authored with M. Squire).

  • "Framing the Sacred,"  in V. Platt and M. Squire (eds.), The Frame in Classical Art: A Cultural History. Cambridge University Press (2017), 384–91.

  • "Framing Pictorial Space," in V. Platt and M. Squire (eds.), The Frame in Classical Art: A Cultural History. Cambridge University Press (2017), 102–16.

  • "Getting to Grips with Classical Art: Rethinking the Haptics of Graeco-Roman Visual Culture," in A. Purves (ed.), Touch and the Ancient Senses. The Senses in Antiquity, Vol. 6. Routledge (2017), 74-100 (co-authored with M. Squire).

  • "The Matter of Classical Art History”, in What’s New About the Old? Reassessing the Ancient World, special issue of Daedalus edited by M. Santirocco (Spring 2016), 5–14.

  • "The Artist as Anecdote: Creating Creators in Ancient Texts and Modern Art History," in J. Haninck and R. Fletcher (eds.), Creative Lives in the Ancient World. Cambridge University Press (2016), 274-304.

  • "Epiphanies," in The Oxford Handbook of Greek Religion, eds. E. Eidinow and J. Kindt, Oxford University Press (2015), 491-504.

  • "Agamemnon's Grief: on the Limits of Expression in Roman Rhetoric and Painting," in J. Elsner and M. Meyer (eds.), Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture. Cambridge University Press (2014), 211-31.

  • "Likeness and Likelihood in Classical Greek Art," in V. Wohl (ed.), Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought. Cambridge University Press (2014), 185-207. 

  • "Sight and the Gods: On the Desire to See Naked Nymphs," in M. Squire (ed.), Sight and the Ancient Senses. The Senses in Antiquity, Vol. 4, Routledge (2015), 169-87. 

  • "Framing the Dead on Roman Sarcophagi," RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 61/62 (Spring/Autumn 2012), 213-27.

  • "Art History in the Temple," Arethusa 43.2 (Spring 2010), 197-213. 

  • "Viewing the Past: Cinematic Paideia in the Caverns of Macedonia," in P. Cartledge and F. Rose Greenland (eds.), Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander. Film, History and Cultural Studies. University of Wisconsin Press (2010), 285-304. 

  • "Where The Wild Things Are: Locating the Marvellous in Augustan Wall-Painting", in P. Hardie (ed.), Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture. Oxford University Press (2009), 41-74. 

  • "Virtual Visions: Phantasia and the Perception of the Divine in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana," in E. L. Bowie and J. Elsner (eds.), Philostratus. Cambridge University Press (2009), 131-54. 

  • "Burning Butterflies: Seals, Symbols and the Soul in Antiquity", in L. Gilmour (ed.), Pagans and Christians - from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, British Archaeological Reports series, Archaeopress (2007), 89-99. 

  • "Honour Takes Wing: Unstable Images and Anxious Orators in the Greek Tradition," in Z. Newby and R. Leader-Newby (eds.), Art and Inscriptions in the Ancient World. Cambridge University Press (2006), 247-71.

  • "Making an Impression: Replication and the Ontology of the Graeco-Roman Seal Stone", Art History, special edition on Replication in Ancient Art, 29.2 (April, 2006), 233-57. 

  • "Shattered Visages: Speaking Statues from the Ancient World," Apollo (July, 2003), 9-14. 

  • "Evasive Epiphany in Ekphrastic Epigram," Ramus 31 (2002), 33-50.

  • "Viewing, Desiring, Believing: Confronting the Divine in a Pompeian House," Art History 25.1 (Feb, 2002), 87-112.

Online articles and journalism

Curated exhibitions

Hayden Pelliccia

Professor

Publications

  • Mind, Body, and Speech in Homer and Pindar (Hypomnemata 107 [Göttingen 1995]
    • Reviews:
      • A. Bonnafé, L'Antiquité Classique 67 (1998)
      • B. K. Braswell, Museum Helveticum 53 (1996) 308
      • P. Hummel, Revue de Philologie 69 (1995) 339-341
      • J. Lidov, BMCR 96.6.3 http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1996/96.06.03.html
      • E. Polomé, Journal of Indo-European Studies 25 (1997) 426-7
      • D. F. Wilson, Religious Studies Review 23 (1997) 397
      • N. Yamagata, Classical Review 46. 2 (1996) 215-216
  • "As Many Homers As You Please", review of G. Nagy, Poetry as Performance and Homeric Questions, New York Review of Books 44. 18 (November 20, 1997) 44-48 (available at http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html )
  • "The Transposition of Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1203-1204 and the uses of môn", Mir Curad: Studies in Honor of Calvert Watkins (Innsbruck 1998) 561-572
  • Selected Dialogues of Plato: The Benjamin Jowett Translation, substantially revised by Hayden Pelliccia (The Modern Library, 2000), with preface and brief notes by the reviser (Ion, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Symposium, Apology)
  • "Was Jason a Hero?", review of The Argonautika by Apollonios Rhodios, translated from the Greek by Peter Green, New York Review of Books 48. 12 (July 19, 2001) 53-56 (available at http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html )
  • "The Interpretation of Iliad 6.145-9 and the Sympotic Contribution to Rhetoric", Colby Quarterly 38.2 (2002) 197-230
  • "Two points about Rhapsodes", in Homer, the Bible, and Beyond: Literary and Religious Canons in the Ancient World , edited by M. Finkelberg and G. Stroumsa (Leiden, 2003) 98-116

Andrew Hicks

Associate Professor, Dale R. Corson House Professor and Dean, Hans Bethe House

Publications

Books

  • Composing the World: The Harmony of the Medieval Platonic Cosmos. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • Iohannis Scotti seu Eriugenae Homilia et Commentarius in Euangelium Iohannis. Ed. Édouard Jeauneau and Andrew Hicks. Corpus christianorum. Continuatio mediaeualis, 166. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. 
  • The Broken Harp: Listening Otherwise in Classical Persian Literature (book project in progress).
  • Guillelmi de Conchis Glosulae super Priscianum. Ed. Andrew Hicks and Édouard Jeauneau. Corpus christianorum. Continuatio mediaeualis. Turnhout: Brepols (in progress).
  • Guillelmi de Conchis Glosae super Macrobium. Ed. Irene Caiazzo and Andrew Hicks. Corpus christianorum. Continuatio mediaeualis. Turnhout: Brepols (in progress).

Articles

Reference works, reviews, and miscellaneous

Nicole Julia Giannella

Assistant Professor

Publications

“The Cost of Ingratitude: Freedmen, Patrons, and Re-enslavement,” R. MacLean, S. Bell, and D. Borbonus (eds.), Freed Persons in the Roman World: Integration, Diversity, and Representation, forthcoming.

“Two Ex-Slaves of Cicero: Tiro and Chrysippus Beyond Reach,” D. Meticic and J. Rogers (eds.), Working Lives in Ancient Rome, Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming.

“¿Honor entre esclavos?: desigualdad frente a la ley en el Imperio romano,” M. Campagno, J. Gallego, C. García, and R. Payne (eds.), Desigualdades Antiguas. Economía, Cultura y Sociedad en el Oriente Medio y el Mediterráneo, Miño y Dávila Editores, 2023.

“Between Slave Catchers and Slave Harborers: Trust on a Roman Road,” C. Moatti (ed.), The Experience of Mobility: Situations In Between, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2021.

“Free in Fact? Legal Status and State in the Suits for Freedom,” C. Ando and W. Sullivan (eds.), The Discovery of the Fact, University of Michigan Press, 2020.

“The Freedom to Give: The Legal Basis of Seneca’s Treatment of Slaves in De Beneficiis,” Classical Philology 114.1, January 2019.

 

Mike Fontaine

Professor

Publications

For a complete list, click here. Book reviews are here. Popular press writings are here.

Latest Books

1. 2024. Ovid. How to Get Over a Breakup: An Ancient Guide to Moving On. Princeton University Press.

Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse’s death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is there any treatment for a breakup? The ancient Roman poet Ovid thought so. Having become famous for teaching the art of seduction in The Art of Love, he then wrote Remedies for Love (Remedia Amoris), which presents thirty-eight frank and witty strategies for coping with unrequited love, falling out of love, ending a relationship, and healing a broken heart. How to Get Over a Breakup presents an unabashedly modern prose translation of Ovid’s lighthearted and provocative work, complete with a lively introduction and the original Latin on facing pages.

Ovid’s advice—which he illustrates with ingenious interpretations of classical mythology—ranges from the practical, psychologically astute, and profound, to the ironic, deliberately offensive, and bizarre. Some advice is conventional—such as staying busy, not spending time alone, and avoiding places associated with an ex. Some is off-color, such as having sex until you’re sick of it. And some, for modern readers, is, simply and delightfully, weird—such as becoming a lawyer and not eating arugula. 

But far more often, How to Get Over a Breakup reveals an Ovid whose advice—good or bad, entertaining or outrageous—can sound startlingly modern.

2. 2024 or 2025 (in press). Plutarch and Prudentius. How to Resist: An Ancient Guide to Coping with Pressure. Princeton University Press.

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Latest Articles

  1. 2023. “The Stanford Prison Experiment of 200 BC  The Lucifer Effect in Plautus’ Prisoners.” In Gregor Vogt-Spira and Bernhard Zimmermann (eds.), Plautus Revisited: Problemstellungen und Perspektiven der Plautusforschung (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 344-358.
  2. 2023. Ut Pictura Po(e)sis? Wine, Women, and Song in Plautus’ Gorgylio (Curculio).” In Gregor Vogt-Spira and Bernhard Zimmermann (eds.), Plautus Revisited: Problemstellungen und Perspektiven der Plautusforschung (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 375-391.
  3. In press. Verba Genuina: Parole autentiche e parole “cheeky” in Plauto.”
  4. In press. "L'arte del prologo." (In Roman drama)
  5. In press. “How to Make a Joke Without Getting Cancelled: Plutarch’s Survival Guide to Jesting Safely.” (On some passages in Table Talk and Macrobius' Saturnalia).
  6. (Just for fun)2024. How to Steal From Homer: Duplicative Language in Ancient Greece and Rome. Classical Wisdom.
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