Mary Danisi
Visiting Lecturer
Education
Ph.D., Classics, Cornell University, 2024
B.A., Classics, Barnard College of Columbia University, 2017
Alan van den Arend
ALI Postdoctoral Associate
Publications
143 Klarman Hall
arv24@cornell.edu
Education
- Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins (2022)
- M.A. w/ distinction, History, Johns Hopkins (2020)
- M.A., Classics, University of Kentucky (2017)
- A.B., Classics, Cornell (2010)
Departments and programs
Cat Lambert
Assistant Professor
Publications
- "Lucian's Queer Book User in the Adversus Indoctum" (forthcoming) American Journal of Philology 145.4: 563-592.
- "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.
120 Goldwin Smith Hall
cjl299@cornell.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Classics, Columbia University (2022)
- B.A., Classics, Princeton University (2015)
Departments and programs
Daniel Gallagher
Professor of the Practice
Departments and programs
Courtney Ann Roby
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)
- “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.
120 Goldwin Smith Hall
er97@cornell.edu
607/255-8640
Education
Professor Rebillard received his PhD from the Sorbonne (Paris, France) in 1993 and is a former member of the Ecole française de Rome. He came at Cornell in 2004 after having held a research position in the French CNRS between 1996 and 2003.
Departments and programs
Links
Keywords
Roman History
Verity Platt
Professor
Publications
Monographs
- Pliny the Elder's Aesthetics of the Overlooked. In progress.
- Epistemic Objects: Making and Mediating between Classical Art and Text. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
- Facing the Gods: Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion. Cambridge. 2011 (paperback edition, 2016).
Edited Volumes
- Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder. Catalogue of a 2023 exhibition at the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, co-edited with A. Wieslogel. 2024.
- The Embodied Object in Greek and Roman Art, special edition of Art History, co-edited with M. Gaifman and M. Squire, issue 41.3, June 2018.
- The Frame in Greek and Roman Art: A Cultural History, co-edited with M. Squire, Cambridge. 2017.
- The Art of Art History in Graeco-Roman Antiquity, special edition of Arethusa, co-edited with M. Squire (Vol. 43.2, Spring 2010).
Articles:
- “‘Intimate Immensities’: Posidippus’ Poems on Stones (AB 13)”, in C. Knappett and E. M. Kavaler (eds.), Miniatures as Narrative: Small Worlds and Dream Worlds, Brepols, forthcoming.
- “Protogenes’ Sentient Sponge: Pliny on the ‘Truth’ in Painting”, in V. Naas et al. (eds.), Plinio Oggi, forthcoming.
- “Ancient Relief: Terminology, Medium, Ontology”, in J. Elsner, M. Gaifman and N. Jones (eds.), Rethinking Classical Relief, Yale Classical Studies/Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- “Introduction” Reassessing Pliny the Elder at 2000”, in V. Platt and A. Weislogel (eds.), Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder, Johnson Museum of Art exhibition catalogue, 2024.
- “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Gems: Myth, Matter, and Value”, in V. Platt and A. Weislogel (eds.), Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder, Johnson Museum of Art exhibition catalogue, forthcoming.
- “Earth, Terra-Cotta, and the Plastic Arts”, in V. Platt and A. Weislogel (eds.), Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder, Johnson Museum of Art exhibition catalogue, 2024.
- “Undisciplining the University through Shared Purpose, Practice, and Place,” Nature: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9, no. 172 (2022), with A. Freiband et al.
- “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. 2021.
- “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, Terrains, ed. 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 Culture. Oxford University Press, 2018, 21-49.
- Also published in an abridged version as "Des os muets et des pierres sonores : matérialiser le corpus poétique en Grèce hellénistique," Mètis special issue on Place aux objets! Présentification et vie des artefacts en Grèce ancienne, edited by M. Brouillet and C. Carastro, 2019, 15-42.
- "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.
- Revised and updated version published in V. Platt and M. Squire (eds.), The Frame in Greek and Roman Art: A Cultural History. Cambridge University Press (2017), 353–81.
- "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
- “Why People are Toppling Monuments to Racism”, Scientific American, July 2020.
- "Picturing Poets," Living Poets (Durham, 2016).
- "Classical Cover-Ups" (on ancient statuary, censorship, and fashion), Eidolon, May 2016.
- "Reinventing Pygmalion: Tracey Emin’s “Rocky Marriage," Ms. Magazine, April 2016.
- "The Empty Chair and the Silent Voice: Symbols of Loss, Grief – and Hope?" Eidolon, Feb. 2016.
Curated exhibitions
- “Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder”, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (with Andrew Weislogel), Spring 2023.
- “The Sculpture Shoppe at Ithaca Mall”, a contemporary art exhibition featuring the Cornell collection of plaster casts (with David Nasca), Spring 2022.
- “Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy,” Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Spring 2015 (with Annetta Alexandridis and Andrew Weislogel).
- “Firing the Canon: the Cornell Casts and their Discontents,” Cornell Sesquicentennial Celebrations, Cornell Chilled Water Plant, Fall 2014 (with Annetta Alexandridis).
- “IthaCasts. Plaster Casts of Ancient Sculpture from the Collections of Cornell University,” Tompkins County Library, Ithaca, Fall 2012 (with Annetta Alexandridis).
120 Goldwin Smith Hall
vjp33@cornell.edu
Education
Prof. Platt received her DPhil in Classics from Oxford University, and also has a Masters in Classical Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She joined the Classics and History of Art departments at Cornell in 2010 having previously taught at the University of Chicago, following a post-doctoral research fellowship at University College, Oxford. She has held fellowships at the Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton); the Franke Institute for the Humanities (University of Chicago); Trinity College, Cambridge; the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies; the Society for the Humanities (Cornell); and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future (Cornell).
Departments and programs
Links
- academia.edu page
- Profile of current work
- Radical Collaboration Initiative for the Humanities and the Arts
- Humanities Scholars Program
Keywords
The history and historiography of Greek and Roman art; text and object/word and image; Roman wall-painting and sarcophagi; seal-stones/glyptics; art and religion; Hellenistic and Imperial Greek literature; Pliny the Elder; cast collections; classics and media studies; environmental humanities; classical reception studies; classicism and contemporary art.
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
- Reviews:
- "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
G27 Goldwin Smith Hall
hnp1@cornell.edu
607/2553354
Departments and programs
Keywords
Greek Literature
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
- (co-authored with Jonathan Morton) “Philosophies: Cosmos and Politics, Harmony and Disharmony.” In A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages, ed. Helen Deeming and Elizabeth Eva Leach, 55–79 (Bloomsbury Press, 2023).
- "Music and the Pythagorean Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages." In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , ed. Aurélien Robert, Irene Caiazzo, and Constantinos Macris, 82–110 (Leiden: Brill, 2022).
- “Reading Texts within Texts: The Special Case of Twelfth-Century Lemmata.” Glossator 12 (2022): 69–92.
- “Power, Nature, Body, Soul, Music” In Powers: A History, ed. Julia Jorati, 49–55. Oxford Philosophical Concepts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- "Mysticism’s Musical Modalities: Philosophies of Audition in Medieval Persian Sufism." In The Music Road: Coherence and Diversity in Music from the Mediterranean to India, ed. Reinhard Strohm, 103–125. Proceedings of the British Academy 223. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- "The Regulative Power of the Harmony of the Spheres in Medieval Latin, Arabic and Persian Sources.” In The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind and Well-being, ed. Penelope Gouk, James Kennaway, Jacomien Prins, and Wiebke Thormählen, 33–45 (New York: Routledge, 2018).
- “Hisdosus Scholasticus, De anima mundi Platonica: An Edition.” Mediaeval Studies 78 (2016): 1–64.
- “Editing Medieval Commentaries on Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii: A Synopsis Traditionis.” In The Arts of Editing Medieval Greek and Latin: A Casebook, ed. Elisabet Göransson, Gunilla Iversen, et al., 138-159. Toronto: Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, 2016.
- “Re-interpreting an Arithmetical Error in Boethius’s De institutione musica.” Music Theory and Analysis 3 (2016): 1–26.
- “Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.” In A History of Pythagoreanism, ed. Carl Huffman, 416–434. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- “Martianus Capella and the Liberal Arts.” In The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature, ed. David Townsend and Ralph Hexter, 307–334. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
- “Musica speculativa in the Cambridge Commentary on Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis.” Journal of Medieval Latin 18 (2008), 292–305.
Reference works, reviews, and miscellaneous
- “In Memoriam Edouard Jeauneau (1924–2019).” Journal of Medieval Latin 30 (2020): ix–xv.
- “Preface” to Iohannis Scotti Eriugenae Carmina et De imagine, ed. Michael W. Herren and Giovanni Mandolino, v–vi. Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaeualis 167. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020.
- “Bernardus Silvestris.” In The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, ed. Karla Pollmann, Willemien Otten, et al., 174–176. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Entries on Alypius, Aristides Quintilianus, Bacchius Geron, Barbad, barbat, chang, Gaudentius, huniyagar, music, organ, qayna, surnay, and tanbur for the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, ed. Oliver Nicholson and Mark Humpheries (Oxford University Press, 2018).
- “Aribonis De musica,” “Aureliani Reomensis Musica disciplina,” and “Claudii Ptolemaei Harmonicorum libri tres” for Lexikon Schriften über Musik, Band 1: Musiktheorie von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, ed. H. Grimm, M. Fald-Fuhrmann, et al., 35–37, 49–51, and 402–403. Kassel: Baerenreiter, 2017.
- Review of Sinéad O’Sullivan, Glossae aevi Carolini in libros I–II Martiani Capellae de nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis 237, Turnhout: Brepols 2010. The Journal of Medieval Latin 22 (2012): 323–328.
- “Editing the Glosulae super Prisciani Librum constructionum of William of Conches.” Ars Edendi Workshop Proceedings.
101 Lincoln Hall
ajh299@cornell.edu
Education
PhD, Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Departments and programs
Keywords
- medieval music theory
Nicole Julia Giannella
Assistant Professor
Publications
“Two Ex-Slaves of Cicero: Tiro and Chrysippus Beyond Reach,” D. Meticic and J. Rogers (eds.), Working Lives in Ancient Rome, Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming.
“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, Cambridge, 2024.
“¿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, Michigan, 2020.
“The Freedom to Give: The Legal Basis of Seneca’s Treatment of Slaves in De Beneficiis,” Classical Philology 114.1, January 2019.
Goldwin Smith Hall 125
njg68@cornell.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Classics, University of Southern California, 2014
- B.A., Political Science and Latin, Vassar College, 2006