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JUNO'S PEACOCK
Or the Eyes Have it
The Newsletter of the Wesleyan University
Department of Classical Studies
Issue
2
July 1996
When Argus, the hundred-eyed guard animal (and also the name of Wesleyan's
student newspaper) was killed by Hermes (Jupiter's hit-man, and the name
of Wesleyan's alternative campus paper), some part of him survived death.
His eyes were saved by Juno and set in the tail of her peacock.
Argus, you lie low; the light you had in so many
eyes is extinguished,
and your hundred points of light are now all dark.
But Juno saved the eyes, and set them in the feathers of
her peacock:
she filled its tail with jewels as bright as stars.
(Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.720-73)
This is the second issue of our annual newsletter from the Wesleyan
University Department of Classical Studies. The title is a bit weird, but
at least it's different, and is in the best tradition of naming Wesleyan
newspapers/newsletters. We hope to include information about faculty and
student doings each year at Wesleyan, about foreign study programs -- the
Centro and College Year in Athens programs -- and about alumnae and alumni.
Please let us know what else you would like to see in Juno's Peacock, and
thanks to all of you who sent in information for this issue. Keep the news
coming, to the address listed below or to e-mail. Thanks to Cindie Cagenello
('88) for our logo.
FACULTY
DOINGS
CARLA ANTONACCIO was on sabbatical and leave in Washington
DC while holding a Junior Fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies
(Harvard University). In Washington she pursued her research on and publication
of excavations at Morgantina, Sicily, since 1955, working mostly on the
ceramics and inscriptions (forthcoming papers will be "An Inscribed
Stele from Archaic Morgantina," "Graffiti from Archaic Morgantina,"
and "Kypara, a Sikel Nymph?"). She worked on two articles resulting
from conference papers in the last two years (one on Greek domestic architecture,
to appear in Classical World, the other on hero cult in the Greek
colonies, to appear in a collection published by the Swedish School at
Athens). Carla has several reviews in the works (in American Journal
of Archaeology, Classical World, New England Classical Journal and
Journal of Hellenic Studies). She also served as a consultant for
a Discovery Channel show on the Odyssey, to air sometime in the
fall. Carla was a guest of the Program in the Ancient World at Princeton
University for a week, where she gave two lectures: "Greeks and Sikels
at Archaic Morgantina" and "Homer and Lefkandi". She also
lectured at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Cincinnati,
the University of Virginia, and the Center for Hellenic Studies. She was
an invited participant in the joint AIA/APA Presidential Panel ("Classics
and Archaeology in the New Millenium") in San Diego as both speaker
and discussant. She also spoke to the Washington Wesleyan alumnae in May
on her work in Sicily. This summer she will be in Morgantina for a month,
before returning to teaching in the fall.
MARILYN KATZ is the new departmental chair for '95-'98. Marilyn
has been busy working on two manuscripts, "Ideology and the Status
of Women in Ancient Athens" and "Women and the Polis in Ancient
Greece." "Women, Children and Men" is an invited contribution
to The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece, ed. Paul
Cartledge (forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 1997). Her other publications
are: "Review: Commentaries on the Odyssey" in the Classical Journal
1995 and "A Brief Response to Skinner ('Twice Silenced') and Yarnall
('Daring to Sing')" in Thamyris 1995. Next November Marilyn will give
the annual George M. Walsh Memorial Lecture at the University of Chicago;
her talk will be entitled, "Did Athenian Women Attend the Theater
in the Eighteenth Century?"
JIM O'HARA is waiting for the July publication of his book True
Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Traditon of Etymological Wordplay,
University of Michigan Press, which he notes is much more reasonably priced
than Chris Parslow's book. Jim gave papers on "The Interpretation
of Inconsistencies in Roman Epic" at Holy Cross and Boston University,
and on "Teaching Roman Law as a Non-Specialist" at the meeting
of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in Nashville,
where he "heard a good paper on Theocritus by Kristina Milnor '92,"
and saw both Beth Calamia '90 and the recent publication she co-authored
on Plautus. Recent publications include reviews of Hardie's Aeneid Book
IX for Bryn Mawr Classical Review and Clausen's Eclogues
for American Journal of Philology, and "Vergil's Best Reader?
Ovidian Commentary on Vergilian Etymological Wordplay" in Classical
Journal. Forthcoming are "An Unconvincing Etymological Argument
about Aeneas and the Gates of Sleep," in Phoenix, and "Sostratus,
Suppl. Hell. 733: A Lost, Possibly Catullan-Era Elegy on the Six
Sex Changes of Tiresias," in Transactions of the American Philological
Association. The last article started with a question that came up
when Jim was reading Catullus 63 with Dian Gray in 1990. A Spring-break
trip to Rome featured dinner at the Centro, where he saw Ted Pena, Pauline
Dyson, Centro Prof. Alison Griffith '84, Josh Borenstein '87 and Heather
Marciniec '88. Jim will be on sabbatical Fall of '96; "around Halloween"
he will be speaking on "Callimachus and Vergilian Etymological Wordplay"
at the Leeds (U.K.) International Latin Seminar.
CHRIS PARSLOW is currently working on archaeological fieldwork
and research in preparation of a book length manuscript on the art, architecture,
and function of the Praedia ("Properties") of Julia Felix
in Pompeii. He will spend the summer of '96 in Pompeii excavating in the
Praedia, with some help from Josh Borenstein ('97). Chris has presented
the following papers: "The Rediscovery of the Theater of Herculaneum
and the Origins of Scientific Archaeology," given as a Sesquicentennial
Lecture at Grinnell College and for the Iowa City chapter of the Archaeological
Institute of America; "Karl Weber and the Rediscovery of Herculaneum
and Pompeii," presented to the Archaeological Associates of Greenwich,
CT; "The Praedia Iuliae Felicis in Pompeii: Fieldwork Report
for 1994-95," at the 1995 AIA/APA General Meeting in San Diego; and
"Patrons and Bathers in the Praedia of Julia Felix in Pompeii,"
presented at the fall meeting of the Classical Society of Connecticut,
held at Wesleyan University. His book, Rediscovery Antiquity: Karl Weber
and the Excavation of Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Stabiae (Cambridge
University Press, 1995) appeared last summer.
MICHAEL ROBERTS has just been appointed to a three-year term
as dean of the Arts and Humanities, beginning in '96-97. He has also accepted
a position on the Editorial Board of the journal Traditio, and is
book-review editor for New England Classical Journal, and president
of the Classical Association of Connecticut. He has completed several articles
and reviews. Articles: "Fortunatus' Elegy on the Death of Galswintha
(Carm. 6.5)"; "Windows of Order: The Epitaphs of Venantius Fortunatus";
"Bishops and Ceremony: Three Poems of Venantius Fortunatus (5.3, 2.9,
3.9)"; encyclopedia entries for the late Latin poems "Carmen
de Martyrio Maccabaeorum" and "In Genesim ad Leonem PapamÓ
for Der Neue Pauly. The first two Fortunatus articles were the subjects
of papers delivered respectively at the 22nd New England Medieval Conference,
Trinity College, Hartford and the University of Toronto.
ANDY SZEGEDY-MASZAK has been elected vice-chair of the faculty
for 1996-97 and chair of the faculty for 1997-98, and at this yearÕs
commencement received one of Wesleyan's "Awards for Teaching Excellence."
This year he has several publications: "Forum Romanum/ Campo Vaccino,"
History of Photography, Vo. 20, no. 1 (1996); "Review of Alan
Boeghold and Adele Scafuro, eds. Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology,"
New England Classical Journal, Vol. 23, no. 3 (1996); "A Figure
and a Landscape," in Dissolving Landscapes: the Photographs of Jungjin
Lee, Mansfield Freeman Center Wesleyan University (1996), "Demeter
and Persephone," forthcoming in Ralph Lemon and Philip Trager, Persephone
(NEFA/Wesleyan University Press: 1996); and "Greek History in the
Video Age," forthcoming in Classical Bulletin. Andy lectured
on "Every Stone Tells a Story: The Roman Forum in the Nineteenth Century,"
Washington University (St. Louis) Art History Series, and "Clear Light
and Shining Ruins: Athens in the 19th Century," 8th Annual AIA George
Mylonas Memorial lecture, Washington University. With Philip Wagoner and
Shu-Mei Chan '96, he also curated an exhibition, "Dissolving Landscapes:
the Photographs of Jungjin Lee," Mansfield Freeman Center for East
Asian Studies/Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Galleries. He is serving on the Wesleyan
University Press editorial board and on the executive committee of the
Classical Association of New England. See elsewhere in this newsletter
for his work for NBC television.
STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENTS
Four students graduated this year with majors in Classics or Classical
Civilization: Anne Dougherty, Hrissi Haldezos, Lindsay Nichols, and
Charles Vance. Congratulations and best of luck to all of them. Hrissi
recieved a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship as well as Honors in General Scholarship.
Lindsay and Chip both wrote senior theses, and were both awarded Honors,
in Classics and Classical Civilization, respectively:
Lindsay Nichols -- "Women in the Comic World of Menander
and in Ancient Athens"
Charles Vance -- "Cavere, Agere, Respondere: The Role of
the Roman Jurists in the Development of Law from Q. Mucius Scaevola to
Hadrian"
Special congratulations to Lindsay Nichols for being elected
to Phi Beta Kappa and for receiving the Ingraham and Spinney academic prizes.
Lindsay is planning on starting the UCLA Graduate Program in Classics next
Fall; she has won a five year fellowship/TAship. Charles "Chip"
Vance also received the Spinney prize and Bret Mulligan '97
was awarded the Sherman prize. Chip hopes to work as a paralegal next year.
We had one M.A. student finish up this year. Charbra Jestin completed
her masterÕs thesis entitled, "Ovid: Advanced Placement Selections
from the Metamorphoses with Questions for Guided Reading and Commentary."
Her oral defense was in February.
Small grants of $50 - $500 are available each year from the Squire Fund
to cover part of the cost of summer study or projects, and programs such
as those at the American Academy at Rome or American School at Athens.
Bret Mulligan, Josh Arthurs, and Josh Borenstein have been awarded
grants for the summer of '96. Bret is planning on attending a 6-week course
on reading German at NYU, which will cover a year's worth of material.
Josh Arthurs will do research in Italy for his senior thesis on Mussolini.
Josh Borenstein will be spending one week in June at Pompeii assisting
Chris Parslow in excavating and surveying the Praedia of Julia Felix.
STUDY
ABROAD
ATHENS AND ROME
Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome: This year
Josh Borenstein and Heather Marciniec were our representatives in
Rome. Josh and Heather talk about their experiences. "Although Heather
and I are staying in Italy for part of the summer, we are watching our
friends leaving for the early flights and are reflecting on our past semester.
It has been an incredible experience for many reasons. Heather and I haven't
slept since January 29th, working hard and going to classes at the Forum,
the Colosseum, the top of Trajan's Column, various Mithraea. We got the
opportunity to study with the main man Steve Dyson, a former Wes professor
who is now at SUNY -- Buffalo and Alison Griffith, a Wes alum who is currently
a professor at the University of Evansville. We've learned a lot about
the archaeology and the history of Rome, and we can now appreciate tufa
as never before. Also, we've traveled all over Italy, and we saw areas
most people do not get the opportunity to see like Palestrina and Nemi.
The weather was quite unfortunate, as we stood in a thundershower at Cosa
and saw the first snowfall in thirty years at Morgantina in Sicily. Sicily
was one of the highlights of the trip, not only for its educational value
and the great pasta, but also for the bonding experience for the students
and professors as we climbed on the ruins of Selinunte during the Mediterranean
sunset. Also, we had many adventures ordering coffee and combating Italian
men at dance clubs. Also, Heather and I took art history, which we found
to be an excellent complement to the Cities class, and we recommend it
to all future Centristi. Most of all, being in Italy has really made us
appreciate our studies at Wesleyan, and we are looking forward to returning.
This program has been one of the best experiences we've had. On that note,
ciao and buona notte." Centristi forever, Josh and Heather.
A special goodbye
to Dominique Andrews '96 who has been with the department for four
years. She has been an invaluable part of the office staff, an excellent
student in Greek Tragedy and advisee (major in African American Studies)
, and has been a wonderful babysitter for Katie and Andrea. After graduation
she plans on living in New York with hopes of returning to Zimbabwe (where
she spent a semester). She also plans on attending cooking school in the
future. But first she'll do a stint for us here in the department, holding
down the fort for the summer hours when Debbie is off. WeÕll be
sorry to see her go, but are happy to hold on to her for just a little
while longer! We wish her the very best.

Fairwell Party for two of our majors and for Dominique
held in the Classics Seminar Room. In the above picture from left to right,
top row, are the Faculty and Administrative Assistant: Andy Szegedy-Maszak,
Michael Roberts, Chris Parslow, Marilyn Katz, Debbie Sierpinski, and Jim
O'Hara. In the picture above and below from left to right: Dominique Andrews,
Lindsay Nichols, and Chip Vance.

In July of 1995 the NBC series "Lost Civilizations" focused
on "Greece: A Moment of Excellence." Among the talking heads
alternating with host Sam Waterston ("Jack McCoy" on NBC's "Law
and Order") was our own ANDY SZEGEDY-MASZAK. Andy travelled to Nashville
where he was filmed inside that cityÕs scale model of the Parthenon,
alongside the three-story reproduction of the lost statue of Athena Parthenos.
Writers consulted him during the filming of the show, he told a reporter
from the Hartford Courant, but most of what was shown on air came from
a session in which a producer fired random questions at him about various
aspects of Greek civilization. Much of the show fit popular conceptions
of the glory that was Greece, but the Szegedy-Maszak segments tended to
bring in more up-to-date questions about the strengths and weaknesses of
Athenian society. Time-Life, the producers of the series, contacted Andy
because of the success of his video-taped "Modern Look at Greek Civilization"
put out by the Teaching Company; there is probably no truth to the rumor
that he will be added to the cast of "Law and Order" next Fall.
SPEAKERS
A reception followed most lectures, and after that the speaker and a
group of faculty and students met at a Middletown restaurant for dinner.
Thomas McCreight, Loyola College (MD), November 9, "Dirty
Words in Court: Obscene Fish, Etymological Word Play, and Bilingual Puns
in Apuleius' Apology"
Chris Faraone, University of Chicago, February 28, "Courtesans
and Erotic Magic: A Reversal of Traditional Gender Roles in Ancient Greece"
Mich*le Lowrie, New York University, February 29, "Civil
War in Horace's Cleopatra Ode"
Jan M. Ziolkowski, Harvard University, Medieval Studies Visiting
Fellow, April 10: "The Cambridge Songs" and April 11: "The
Dangerous Words of Aging Women: Old Wives' Tales from Socrates to the Brothers
Grimm". Co-sponsors: Academic Affairs, College of Letters, English
Department, Medieval Studies Program, Romance Languages and Literatures,
and WomenÕs Studies.
Karen Van Dyck('83 COL), Columbia University, May 2, "Authors
and Authority: Translating Contemporary Greek Women's Poetry"
ALUMNAE/ALUMNI
NEWS
Jeffrey Benton ('74) After graduating from Wesleyan Jeff
attended Graduate School at J.C. Kellogg, receiving a Masters in Management
Degree in June 1996. He then joined Arthur Andersen CCP's Chicago Office
and now is an experienced Manager/Assistant to the Worldwide Director of
Arthur Andersen's Financial markets practice. Jeff is active in Wesleyan's
Alumni association, having served as President of the Wesleyan Chicago
Alumni Club for the last two years.
Deborah J. Lyons ('76) Deborah is teaching at the University
of Rochester, but will be at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington
DC next year. Her book Gender and Immortality: Heroines in Ancient Greek
Myth and Cult is coming out with Princeton University Press, she hopes
by December. She would love to hear from members of her Classics major
cohort. Her e-mail address is DELY@DB1.cc.rochester.edu. She writes "Twentieth
reunion, anyone?"
Mary Downs ('82) Mary is currently editor with the Classical
Atlas Project (a.k.a. "The Great Map Project"), based at UNC,
Chapel Hill, where she also teaches in the History Dept. She writes, "The
Atlas of the Greek and Roman World will be published in 1999 by Princeton
University Press. It includes approximately 100 maps, spanning the areas
covered by Greek and Roman civilization (Britain to India), is being compiled
by about 70 specialists world-wide and will, when published, fill a huge
void in the cartographic representation of ancient settlements and place
names. I am also currently starting up some excavations in Italy at a Roman
colony site by the name of Fabrateria Nova (in Lazio, about 70 miles S
of Rome). First season this May (next week!); we'll also be there in September
and will hopefully continue for a couple of years. Any Wes Classics alumni
are welcome to join us and can find out more by contacting me at: mdowns@email.unc.edu.
Article: "Spatial Conception and the Ancient Geographers: the Mapping
of Hispania Baetica" will be out in the summer issue of Classical
Bulletin. Plans for the short-term future: While the Atlas job is great,
it's also a little too time-consuming, and in fact am going to be moving
on to bigger and better things (like the excavation). For the coming year,
I will be in Tokyo (part of the time) with my husband who has a fellowship
there. San Diego AIA/APA meetings linked up with a number of reunions:
Kate Cooper (also '82) and I cruised up California's Route 1 to Big Sur
and San Francisco and Berkeley where we met up with John Robinson (also
'82, but probably History). Bumped into Steve Dyson at the Getty Museum
in Malibu. I will meet up with Dyson and Alison Griffith ('84) in Rome
next week. Both of them are teaching at the Centro."
Alison B. Griffith ('84) Alison taught at the Intercollegiate
Center in Rome in '95-96. She says: "This place has been Wesleyan
East lately. Steve Dyson was the Mellon Professor-in-Charge and I was one
of the Assistant Professors for 1995-96. During the spring semester we
had with us Josh Borenstein and Heather Marciniec, both of whom did Wesleyan
proud. We have even had several Wesleyan visitors including Jim O'Hara
and Diane Juffras, Winthrop Dahl, Andy Goldman, and Mary Downs, who is
now off excavating with Josh and other students at Fabrieteria Nuova. This
year has flown by and I think I have learned as much as the students. Alison
has just accepted a new job at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch,
New Zealand (the Department of Classics) and is looking forward to a lower
teaching load, and 12-month fully paid sabbatical every five years. One
final note, and this for John Moynihan ('83). Mary Downs and I are glad
to hear that you are doing well, and we congratulate you on your marriage.
You may be pleased to know that your legend lives on (although we are unsure
what Helen will think). I can state with confidence that neither Mary,
Steve, nor I, in several years (even decades) of teaching have ever heard
a late paper excuse that tops 'I had to ship out with the Merchant Marines.'
Here's hoping that you have ceased to ignite shoelaces while they are still
on the feet of the wearer."
Thomas G. Oey ('84) Tom is soon to be lecturing on Asian Church
History, Asian Theology, and the New Testament Gospels at Baptist Theological
Seminary, Singapore.
Andrew Goldman ('88) Andy passed his Ph.D. oral exam and dissertation
prospectus in Classical Archaeology last September at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Four days later he was on the plane to Turkey where he is spending the
last half year as a Fulbright Fellow where, he reports, he will be "studying
Turkish, travelling to sites and museums, schmoozing unashamedly with the
local scholars, and even writing a bit of my dissertation. I must recomend
Turkey to anyone who has not yet been: I've been made to feel extremely
welcome here, especially in Ankara, where I am living and working at the
American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT). There is a huge amount to
do: last weekend I visited the site of Pessinus, and this week I'm leading
a group of people out to Gordion, the Iron-Age site where I'm working in
the summers. Actually, it's Hillary Rodham Clinton's Advance Team -- she's
coming next week -- and I'm possibly going to help tour her around Ephesus,
or at least part of her entourage (knowing my luck, I'll get the press
contingent). As for other Wes people, the only one I've been keeping in
close contact with is Holly Campbell Ambler '87, who is still working with
her husband in Boston, teaching at an Outward Bound school on an island
in the bay. Beth Calamia is presumably still down in Chapel Hill, but I
haven't heard from her lately. And Andy is doing his best spreading the
Good Wes Name."
Robert J. Featherstone ('89) Rob is in the field of cinematography
where he must undertake a series of tedious labors before he is allowed
to assume the mantle of "Director of Photography". He has passed
the first round and is now known as a "Forus pullen". This past
summer he worked on a film called "Walking & Talking" which
is an independent art film. He says "I saw Andy Szegedy-Maszak's name
beneath a Robert Frank photograph at the Whitney. Anyways, I still read
Catullus, if not Euripides, in the original."
Beth Calamia ('90) Beth is finishing up her MA in museum studies
to go along with her MA in Latin from UNC Chapel Hill. She is co-author
of a volume for Bolchazy-Carducci on producing Plautus' Pseudolus.
David Petti ('90) David is currently working as an attorney in
New York.
Dian Gray ('90) will receive her M.A. in Classics from Brown
University this summer and has been admitted to Harvard University Law
School for the fall.
Amanda B. Howell ('92) Amanda is in Boston, going on her second
year at Consulting For Architects, a job placement service for architects.
She says "I talk with some Wesfriends sporadically -- everyone has
such radically different schedules that it's difficult to connect. My job
is great, my apartment is miserable, my cat has doublepaws, I'm just finishing
a wonderful book, Mating, by Norman Rush. Grad school is surfacing
in my head occasionally; I'm tentatively thinking about possibly investigating
Missouri's School of Journalism. I've done a Wesleyan Alumni interview
with a Greek-American student from Boston. We had a great time breaking
the ice by talking about Crete, Athens, and Thessalonika. Has anyone been
back to HeMas recently?"
Carol A. Jackmauh ('92) After teaching Latin and French to middle-schoolers
at Thayer Academy in Massachusetts for one year, Carol moved to California
back in September of 1993 and in 1994-95 worked at Sybase, a client/server
software company. In the summer of 1995 she moved back to Boston where
she is taking classes towards her master's in education at Boston University.
Carol definitely wants to work in higher education; she is not sure about
the teaching field, but is interested in areas such as curriculum development,
educational policies, or possibly admissions and counseling. And, she says,
"Believe it or not I miss Latin translations."
Kristina Milnor ('92) Kristina is in her fourth year of work
towards a Ph.D. in Classical Studies and Women's Studies at the University
of Michigan. She is working on her dissertation with Sara Myers, David
Potter, and Susan Alcock, and she has won a fellowship at the Michigan
Institute of Fellows for '96-97. She co-authored an article entitled "P.
Mich. Inv. 29: Two Astrological Treatises" in Zeitschrift f*r Papyrologie
und Epigraphik (the journal in which two current members of the Wes
Classics faculty had their first publication). At the Spring '96 meeting
of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in Nashville,
she gave a paper on "The Poetics of Time: Polyphemus and Galatea in
Theocritus VI and XI;" our sources tell us it was very well received.
Cathy Keane ('92) Cathy is still in the graduate program at Penn.
She has one more year of classes and teaching to go, but starting this
summer she will be thinking about a dissertation.
Ben Milligan ('93) has been living in Brooklyn and working in
publishing in New York, and in the Fall will begin the post-baccalaureate
pre-med program at Mills College.
Lauren Wainwright ('94) has been working in Northampton, MA and
is attending law school in the fall.
Jon Bernstein ('94) is finishing up his two years with the Peace
Corps in Kyrghyzstan and is passing through Morgantina, Sicily on his way
home this summer.
Holly Bennet ('94), daughter of the new president at Wesleyan,
Doug Bennet, will begin an MBA program at Columbia University in the Fall.
Sean Mazer ('94) Sean is finishing his second year of medical
school at Columbia University. At the end of last summer ('95) he married
a fellow medical student. They are looking forward to the beginning of
their third year clinical rotations in June. Last fall Sean ran the Hartford
Marathon, which qualified him for the 100th Boston Marathon in April '96,
which our sources tell us he completed in a very spiffy time despite the
huge crowds.
Lisa Taylor ('94) Lisa has been taking courses in linguistics
at the University of Rochester, and will start on the Ph.D. program in
linguistics at the University of Chicago in the fall.
Eric Schnabel ('95) Eric has been taking intensive introductory
courses in both Greek and German at Columbia University, and plans to take
courses for another year before applying to graduate programs.
Maria (Molly) Swetnam-Burland ('95) Both Molly and her husband
Dave have been admitted to the University of Michigan Graduate School --
he in Philosophy and Molly in Classical Art and Archaeology. They are planning
on moving there in late summer. Molly is currently working for Household
Credit Services in the capacity of a Credit Analyst.
Elizabeth (Lisa) Hastings ('95) Lisa is finishing up her masters
at Smith College and will be searching for a teaching position at the secondary
level.
Nicholas Paul ('95) is working at the National Gallery in Washington,
DC and contemplating law school.
Matt Edes-Pierotti ('95) is working in Virginia for a telecommunications
firm and living in Washington.
WHERE
ARE THEY NOW
Mario Erasmo taught LAT 242 Elegy: Propertius and Tibullus for
the department in the fall of '95. He spent the spring semester at Georgetown
University in Washington D.C. and has just accepted a position at Wellesley
for next year.
Elizabeth Bobrick, who taught in the department from 1989 to
1992, will be teaching for us in the Spring of 1997: Greek Drama and Intermediate
Greek. She has an essay in a new volume of critial studies on Aristophanes,
forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press. She is continuing
her new career as a professional writer.
Judith Tarr taught Intermediate and Advanced Latin courses here
in 1990, 1991, and 1992. Her success and even fame as a writer of fantasy
and historical novels continues to grow. Among her most recent books are
Pillar of Fire (New York: Forge, 1995) on Akhenaton and Moses, Throne
of Isis (New York: Forge, 1994) on Cleopatra, and Lord of the Two
Lands (New York: TOR, 1993) on Alexander the Great; all are highly
recommended.
Sarah Peirce, who taught here from 1986 to 1988, will be a Junior
Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC in 1995-96;
she is currently teaching at Fordham University.
WESCLASSICS on the WWW
The home page of the Classical Studies Department
on the World-Wide Web features information on faculty, current course offerings
and requirements for the Classics and Classical Civilization major, the
Old World Archaeology Newsletter, summer programs and study abroad. There
are also links to other Wes pages, and to Resources for Archeological and
Classical Studies on the WWW. The URL (Universal Resource Locator, or www
address) is http://www.wesleyan.edu/classics/home.html; if you lose this
info you can just go to www.wesleyan.edu and poke around. We hope to make
further improvements on the home page in the near future.
All of the Wes faculty are on electronic mail
as well: for most, the address is the first initial plus last name with
no spaces, followed by @wesleyan.edu; this holds for cantonaccio, mkatz,
johara, cparslow, mroberts, and dsierpinki. Use no apostrophes or hyphens,
and if a name is too long, stop after the second ÒzÓ: aszegedymasz@wesleyan.edu.
Editor: Deborah Sierpinski;
Tel: (860) 685-2070; Fax: (860) 685-2089; Middletown, CT 06459-0146
Department
of Classical Studies / Wesleyan University / dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu
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