THE
CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION
OF
One
Hundredth Annual Bulletin
2005
2005-2006
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
CANE
Executive Committee
President: : John McVey, 110A
Immediate Past
President: Jacqui Carlon,
President Elect: Cynthia
Damon, Classics Department, AC #2257, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002,
413-542-8126 (W), 413-549-7471 (H), cdamon@amherst.edu
Executive Secretary:
Rosemary A. Zurawel, c/o
Treasurer: Ruth
Breindel,
Curator of the Funds: Donna Lyons,
Editor, New England Classical Journal: John M. Lawless, History Dept., Providence College,
Providence, RI 02918-0001; (401) 865-2548; necj@earthlink.net.
Coordinator of Educational Programs: Rosemary A. Zurawel,
Editor, CANE Instructional Materials: Gilbert Lawall,
Classics-in-Curricula Coordinator: Allen M. Ward, Department of History, Box U-103, University
of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-2103; (860) 228-4681 (h); (860) 486-4266 (o); ward@uconnvm.uconn.edu.
At-Large Members
Katy Ganino,
Mark R.
Pearsall,
State Representatives
Committee on Scholarships
Edmund F. DeHoratius 45
Ellen
Perry, College of the Holy Cross, PO Box 130A, Department of Classics,
Worcester, MA 01610; eperry@holycross.edu.
Chris
Richards,
Webmaster
Raymond J. Starr,
Department of Classical Studies,
Finance Committee
Donna Lyons (Chair),
Ruth Breindel (ex officio),
Paul Properzio,
Thomas A., Suits,
Membership Committee
Ruth Breindel (Chair), 617 Hope
S6treet,
Kathleen L. Braden,
Katy Ganino,
Stephany Pascetta,
Emil
Penarubia,
Raymond J. Starr,
Department of Classical Studies Wellesley College,
Other Committees as
Established by the By-Laws
Nominating Committee
Jacqui Carlon (Chair),
Roger Travis, University of
Rebecca Chodes,
Barlow-Beach Distinguished Service Award
John McVey (Chair), 110A
Jacqui Carlon,
Z. Philip Ambrose,
Dept. of Classics, UVM,
Committee on Discretionary Funds
Jacqui Carlon (Chair),
Katy Ganino,
Mark R.
Pearsall,
Program Committee (2006 Annual Meeting)
John McVey (Chair), 110A
Jacqui Carlon,
Cynthia Damon, Classics
Department, AC #2257, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 01002, 413-542-8126 (W), 413-549-7471 (H), cdamon@amherst.edu
Local Arrangements Coordinator
Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.
Auditors
Stephen Pingree,
Thomas A. Suits,
Resolutions Committee
Francis R. Bliss, Beata Arva, 375 Taylor Hill Rd., New
Vineyard, ME , 04956, (207) 652-2232, FRBLISS@tdstelme.net
Richard E. Clairmont, Murkland Hall, University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH , 03824, (603) 886-1319, RICHARDC@cisunix.unh.edu
Classics in Curricula
Oversight: State
Representatives (or the designees)
Working Group:
Allen M. Ward, Department of
History Box U-2103, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT , 06269, (860) 429-2503, WARD@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Margaret G. Cook, ,
Stephen A. Brunet, Classics Program Murkland Hall,
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 03824, (603) -868-2007,
SABRUNET@cisunix.unh.edu
Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.,
Director, CANE Summer Institute
Ellen E. Perry, College of the Holy Cross, PO Box 130A, Dept of Classics, Worcester, MA, 01610; 508-476-0169, EPERRY@holycross.edu
Steering Committee, CANE Summer Institute
Shirley G. Lowe,
John M. Higgins,
Kenneth E. Wheeling,
Alison Harvey,
Joe
Delaney, 44 Western Promenade,
Daniel T. , Russo, Austin Prep. School,
Other Officers and Services
Coordinator for CEUs
Donna Lyons,
Writing Contest
President-Elect (Chair, ex
officio); Executive Committee State Representatives (ex officio)
Student Paper Award
President (Chair, ex officio)
Weincke Prize
At-Large Members of the Executive
Committee (ex officio)
Phinney Scholarship
Nina Barclay (Chair),
Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr.,
Alison Harvey,
Vincent J. Rosivach, Classics Dept., Fairfield University,
Fairfield, CT , 06824, (203) 336-1011, ROSIVACH@mail.fairfield.edu
CANE Certification Scholarship
Classics-In-Curricula working
group (ex officio)
Emporium Romanum
Donna Lyons,
Newsletter
Emil Penarubia,
CANE Centennial Committee
John Lawless (Chair), History Department/Libr. 112,
Z. Philip Ambrose, Dept. of Classics UVM,
Representative on the Council of the American
Classical League
Paul Properzio, ,
Alternate to the Council of the American Classical League
Deborah Rae Davies, ,
Delegate to the National Committee for Latin
and Greek
Deborah Rae Davies, ,
Delegate to the American Council on the
Teaching of Foreign Languages
Mark R.
Pearsall,
MEMORIALS, 2004-2005
ALISON BARKER
It is often said that those
of us who teach bring to our work the imprint of those who taught us. Ironically, that imprint seems to grow more
distinct with the passage of years than it was when first impressed upon
us. Alison Willard Barker bore many of
the hallmarks of the classicists who taught her at
Alison and I first met when
we were graduate students at the
When I told my
To her husband, Lloyd, who is
with us today, on behalf of the Association we extend our deepest sympathy
Sum digna merendo
Cuius honoratis ossa vehantur avis. (Propertius
4.11.101-102)
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2005 Barlow-Beach Citation
We now come to the presentation of CANE’s highest award - the
Barlow-Beach Distinguished Service Award.
Traditionally the identity of the recipient is kept secret, known only
to the members of the committee until the citation has been read, with the name
of the honoree held until the very end.
But this year, I will begin by announcing that tonight we will honor the
service to CANE and to the wider Classics Community of Alison Willard Barker.
Alison received her B.A. from
For Alison, all that learning, as satisfying as it was for
its own sake, was made infinitely richer by the sharing of it with her
students. Starting in 1971 at the
Lincoln School in Providence, Alison taught Latin and Greek continuously until
her illness in November - moving from Rhode Island to the Laurel School in
Shaker Heights, Ohio, then returning to New England and the Beaver Country Day
School, the Middlesex School, the Derryfield School and then St. Paul’s where
she held the Cochran Mastership in Greek.
Finally, last Fall she tried her hand here at
Alison’s teaching extended far beyond the walls of her
classroom, as she embraced new technologies and the possibilities they bring
for students who might not have access to the study of the Ancient World
otherwise. She was, for example, a major
contributor to the Vroma website, offering her photographs and developing with
her dear friend and Wellesley classmate Ann Wilkins an on-line Attic Greek
course employing Thrasymachus.
With all of her other activities, I cannot imagine how Alison
found time for her equally remarkable service to CANE - as an At-large
Representative, on the Steering Committee for the CANE Summer Institute on the
Nominating Committee more times in the last 12 years than I would have believed
possible or bearable and, of course as President just last year. All of these roles are part of the records
of this organization. What you may not
know is that Alison never said no to the endless requests of the Executive
Committee, and CANE particularly relied on her in times of crisis. Indeed, she was our leading diplomat, able to
smooth ruffled feathers, to enable compromise or to find creative solutions to
difficult problems with her grace, humor, intelligence and dignity.
Choosing the words inscribed on the bowl that embodies this
award was not difficult. For this
consummate teacher and lifelong learner, a passage from Seneca’s letters to his
student Lucilius:
aliquid gaudeo discere, ut doceam;
nec me ulla res delectabit,
licet sit eximia et salutaris,
quam mihi uni sciturus sum.
I am profoundly honored to present the Barlow-Beach Award for
Distinguished Service, awarded this day to Alison Willard Barker, to her
husband Lloyd Hunt.
Jacqueline M. Carlon
President of CANE, 2004-5
2005 Matthew Wiencke Award
The Matthew I. Wiencke Teaching Award was established
to honor the
outstanding
teaching of Matt Wiencke whose ?infectious wit, boundless
enthusiasm,
optimism and loyalty? were a daily part of his classes
throughout
his career. Tonight we present Aaron Fuller with this
excellence
in teaching award. From his Latin beginnings in grade 7 to his
graduate
work at
Middle
School in
classics
and in sharing his love of Latin with his students. According to
one
of his nominators, ?Aaron is passionate about teaching Latin to all
students.?
His classes are filled with a variety of activities which
foster
success. ?He knows that happy, stimulated children want to learn,
so
dressing in togas, playing ingenious language games, serving Roman
feasts
and even enacting a Roman funeral procession are among his students
favorite
activities.? His optimism and belief that all students should
experience
the joy of learning Latin and classics led him to work a special
needs
teacher to create a program for students with special needs. Aaron?s
principal
says that this was an ?exceptional program that proved more
successful
that I ever could have imagined.? A fellow teacher wrote:
?These
special students were very aware that they were experiencing
something
magical: success in learning with a creative, caring, and
entertaining
teacher ?
Aaron is also an advocate for the classics in his
district. When he
arrived
in
two
in another. Now there is a full-time Latin teacher in each of
as
the Foreign Language Curriculum Committee and is co-chair of the New
It is my great pleasure tonight to
present the Matthew I. Wiencke
Teaching Award to this caring and enthusiastic
teacher, Aaron Fuller.
2005 Writing Contest
1st Place Michael
Dombek (Grade 11)
3rd Place Danica
Van Horn (Grade 11)
Maine
1st Place Maggie
Roth,
2nd Place Max
Beauregard,
3rd Place Brenton
Toubo,
1st Place Jonathan
Poggi, The
1st Place Daniel
J. O’Brien,
2nd Place Daniel
Keegan,
3rd Place Alex
McIntosh,
Massachusetts
1st Place Theo
Frechette,
2nd Place Rachel
Taylor,
3rd Place Ian
Sloane,
Connecticut
1st Place Zoe
Kosoff,
Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of
2005
Abstracts
“Lustral Basin: Womb of the
Goddess” – Karen Mower
The functions of
My hope, even if time proves my ideas incorrect, is to lead the study of Lustral Basins further by examining possible functions through examination of the archaeological evidence rather than ignoring it and arguing for the sake of arguing, as has been done in the past.
“Saving Herself,
Preserving her Story: Re-reading Ariadne in Heroides 10”
– Elizabeth
Johnson
In this paper I examine the character of Ariadne in Heroides 10. I argue that Ariadne, far from wishing for the return of Theseus’ love, is in fact most concerned with the preservation of herself, her fama, and her story, all of which she sees as being wholly bound up in the person of Theseus. Ovid envisions Ariadne stuck in a transitional state, left in suspense as she waits to see whether her story will continue, and desperate for it to be preserved at all.
“Female Gaze and
Reading Resistance in the Galatea Episode of Ovid’s Metamorphoses” – Patricia
Salzman-Mitchell”
The purpose of this paper is to study the visual (and other) constructions that a female narrator, Galatea, creates in her speech about how she was wooed by Polyphemus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Two major points will be developed: first, that Galatea deprives the Cyclops of his gaze and second, that she resists the masculine outlook displayed throughout Metamorphoses.
Critics have shown that Ovid’s Cyclops appears as a “feminized” quasi-elegiac lover/poet. In this inversion, we also find that the Cyclops’ gaze has little power because Galatea has “stolen his eye” (‘altera iam rapuit [lumen]’ (Met.13.775)). This “stealing” of Polyphemus’ eye has profound implications for the narrative because we never really hear Polyphemus’ voice or perceive his gaze directly but his vision is always mediated by Galatea’s gaze as narrator. In a way, Galatea has actually robbed him of his power to see and leave his own testimony in the poem, thus producing an inversion of the traditional gender parameters for the gaze.
In the
description of Galatea in the Cyclops’ song there is a long list of comparisons
that defines her and assimilates her to landscape. Landscape has much to do
with femininity in the poem and females as victims of sexual violence are often
identified with landscape. Galatea, in the eyes of the Cyclops (still narrated
by Galatea), is a pastiche of Ovidian topoi
employed in the description of natural sites throughout the poem. Galatea is then, symbolically, the
landscape (and surface of the poem), into which male characters (and readers
who focalize with these characters) intrude. But Galatea, as goddess and
independent woman does not enjoy being fixed in this topos. The gaze of Galatea rejects this reading of Metamorphoses and its fixation of women
and thus she can be seen as a critical reader of the gender stereotypes that Metamorphoses proposes
“Orion” – Stephen
R. Wilk
The constellation of Orion is one of the largest in the Northern sky, and the one most familiar, even to non-astronomers. Yet the legend associated with this constellation is obscure, even to students of myth. It is generally admitted that we must be missing much of the mythology of Orion. I suggest that there are direct connections between the behavior of the stars and elements of the myth of Orion. In addition, I propose links between the figure of Orion and other classical myths, and those of other cultures.
“Augustus
and Christianity in Myth and Legend” – Paul Burke
The story of the miracle of Aracoeli is among the best known
of the tales making up the large corpus of Latin and Byzantine traditions
concerning the Miracles of Mary. It is of interest to us because it links
themes of Roman, Sibylline divination and an ancient biography of Augustus with
the foundation of one of
The Aracoeli myth, like the larger body of tales as a whole,
had a very wide diffusion by the 12th century, in
The Aracoeli account consists of the following elements:
(1) Augustus refused divine honors which the Roman people wished to grant him; this element derives from chapters 52 and 53 of Suetonius’s Life of Augustus.
(2) Augustus consulted the Tiburtine Sibyl who gave him an oracle in three verses which tells him that there is, in fact, to be a divine ruler of the world—these are the first three verses of a much longer prophecy delivered by the Eritrean Sibyl, quoted by Augustine (De civitate Dei, 18.23)—which I translate as: “In token of judgement, the earth shall drip with sweat. A king destined to rule forever will arrive from heaven, present in mortal flesh, in order to judge the world.”
(3)
Following the delivery of the oracle, a miracle takes
place: a ring of light surrounds the sun (this too derives from Suetonius [Aug.
95]). In most versions of the story,
including the Arabic and Ethiopic, the emperor sees, inside the golden ring, a
vision of a young woman holding a small child, clearly Jesus and Mary. He asks the Sibyl who they are and is told
that the boy is the king of heaven and earth. Augustus tells the Senate about his
remarkable vision and orders an altar to be dedicated in his palace (which is
assumed in the story to be on the
(4)
The altar, later known in legend as the Ara Coeli, is
claimed to have stood on the site of the medieval Roman
(5) The altar in the Chapel of St. Helena bears an inscription recording the emperor’s prophetic vision and an effigy of Augustus and the Sibyl, linking Augustan Rome with the Christian Middle Ages.
“What Happened to
Latin among the Romans” – Douglas Domingo-Forasté
This paper is a suggestion for ways
colleges and universities can help restore Latin in public secondary schools
from which it has long been absent by the use of cooperative education. I
propose a partnership of schools of post-secondary Classics departments,
university schools of education and public high schools to return Latin to
schools with long traditions of it. I plan to pursue NEH funding for this
project that involves initially using talented and specifically trained
graduate students to teach beginning Latin for college credit to high school
seniors on their own campuses. This program would then eventually expand to
include prior levels of Latin not for credit so that seniors can continue to
receive advanced language college credits.
From its founding in 1871 Los
Angeles High was probably the premier public high school for the teaching of
Latin and Greek outside of
Can we
restore Latin lost from public schools in southern
“In sua templa furit:
Caesar and Jupiter in Lucan’s Bellum Civile” – Sarah Nix
In his epic poem The Civil War, Lucan characterizes Caesar as a quasi-Jovian force by comparing him to the thunderbolt (fulmen). As the fulmen, Caesar rages against other cults of Jupiter, in what I argue is a paradigm of civil war, in which like battles against like.
To support my claim, I examine
passages from Bellum Civile 1 and
3. In the opening simile of Book 1,
Lucan compares Caesar to a thunderbolt (fulmen)
that rages against its own temples, in
sua templa furit (1. 155). I see the phrase as suggestive of Caesar’s
divinity and claim that Caesar-as-Jupiter rages here against his own temples,
that is, other temples of Jupiter in Rome.the Temple of Jupiter Optimus
Maximus. Later in Book 1 Caesar, as fulmen,
‘strike[s] the head of
“Jeeps and Hummers
in Antiquity? Crossover Vehicles and Conspicuous
Consumption” – Elizabeth
Tylawsky
To anyone
who has used the Ecce Romani series the raeda stuck in the ditch
for several chapters to be ultimately abandoned and forgotten is a passing
frustration. But to the Cornelius family the raeda may not only have
represented a significant expense but a conspicuous social statement as well.
The raeda was a Roman equivalent of an SUV, a crossover vehicle, adopted
from Roman military ventures among the Gauls and Germans Raeda is not a
Latin word. Caesar describes how the Germans use this heavy, four-wheeled
conveyance (Caesar BG 1. 51). Did he wonder what role such a vehicle
might play in a possible triumph when he returned to