2015

Jackie Elliott - Winner of the 2015 Goodwin Award

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Jackie Elliott - Winner of the 2015 Goodwin Award Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 12/10/2015 - 10:57

Goodwin Award - Jackie Elliott

In the world of Greek philology, the beginnings are the wellspring of everything to follow: the ocean of Homeric poetry flows through and around every subsequent expression of creative thought in Greek literary tradition. The scholars who devote themselves to the Homeric tradition look back to two monumental texts, preserved and obsessively reread through the centuries, and offering limitless opportunities to find new meanings in them and in the literary culture they have endowed.

In Latin philology, the situation is quite different: we begin with fragments. Through assiduous labor and accumulated learning, scholars over the centuries have managed to identify, classify, and understand the verbal remains of early Latin literacy and the even rarer bits of early literary language. Unlike the ocean of Homer, these fragments produce at best a trickle, temperamental and random in its flow, from what was once a fresh spring of youthful creativity. Only the great scholarly editions of fragments produced over the last century and a half have allowed us to make some sense, however scant, of the literary origins that would lead eventually to Livy, Virgil, and the other surviving representatives of a remarkable creative past.

The single figure regarding whom questions of interpretation are perhaps most fundamental is Ennius, who with his Annales inaugurated an authentically Roman epic tradition. Fragments of this great work survive scattered throughout the extant corpus of Latin texts, both pre- and post-Virgilian, and are substantial enough—but barely so—to make clear the formative influence of Ennius on Virgil. Ironically, the significance of this influence is also indirectly responsible for the disappearance of Ennius’ great poem from the literary record; thus, while the centrality of Ennius to precise features of Virgil’s diction and style can be clearly seen, far less clear is the nature of Ennius’ poem itself.

In a remarkable book that combines painstaking scholarship with brilliant intuition, Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales (Cambridge, 2013), Jackie Elliott dissects the intricate layers of learned opinion that have surrounded not only Ennius and Virgil but also their receptions. The result is a work both meticulous in its acuity and daring in its willingness to take on the question of how little we really know, but how much we may with caution be able to infer, about the content, organization, sophistication, and ideology of the Annales. Near the beginning of the book, she advises her readers as follows: “This study will have served its purpose if to any extent it promotes the open toleration of ambiguity among the community of interpreters who have a stake in what we find to say about the fragments of Ennius’ Annales.” On behalf of this community of interpreters, the SCS is proud to award the Charles Goodwin Award of Merit to Jackie Elliott for her groundbreaking achievement, Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales.

Barbara Weiden Boyd, Chair
Fritz Graf
Mark Griffith
Sheila Murnaghan

https://classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/2015/goodwin-award-jackie-elliott

Jackie Elliott's book, *Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales* (Cambridge 2013), is being recognized by a Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit! Three Goodwin Awards are granted annually for an outstanding contribution to classical scholarship published by a member of the Society for Classical Studies during the three years before the current calendar year.

This is a magnificent achievement -- many congratulations, Jackie!

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Provost's Faculty Achievement Award to Professor Cain

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Provost's Faculty Achievement Award to Professor Cain Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/19/2015 - 14:38

Professor Andy Cain has been granted the Provost's Faculty Achievement Award!

Beautifully framed, and with embossed gold decoration on the certificate! This is a very prestigious award granted by our Provost to a select few faculty each year to recognize outstanding contributions to research. Professor Cain won it for his extraordinary 2013 book with Oxford, "Jerome's Epitaph on Paula: A Commentary on the Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae". Critics have described this book, which includes a critical edition of the Latin text, a facing English translation, and an extensive commentary (drawing on ancient sources in Latin, Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew as well as modern sources in a similarly broad array of languages) as a "monumental achievement," "breathtaking" and "fascinating," one of "vast erudition" that secures Professor Cain's position as "the preeminent scholar on Jerome."

Now Available at Norlin Library!

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Now accepting applications for field school in Greece!

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Now accepting applications for field school in Greece! Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/19/2015 - 14:36

Professor Sarah James is now accepting applications to join her archaeological field school in Greece!

The Western Argolid Regional Project provides an amazing opportunity to do archaeological fieldwork in Greece and get six upper-division credits.

See the brochure for the Study Abroad Program and description of this Global Seminar

Also visit the Facebook page and watch the Video.

For more information, please contact Professor James at sarah.a.james@colorado.edu

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Dimitri Nakassis selected as MacArthur Fellow!

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Dimitri Nakassis selected as MacArthur Fellow! Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/19/2015 - 14:32

It is with great excitement that we announce that Classics' Visiting Scholar, Dimitri Nakassis, has been selected as a MacArthur Fellow!

Widely known as the "Genius" grants, the MacArthur fellowships are awarded to only a very select few people chosen for their extraordinary creativity and achievements, talent and dedication, and "a marked capacity for self-direction."

For the official description of Nakassis' work and the overwhelming reasons for his selection, see: https://www.macfound.org/fellows/940/

And for a brief description of his work while with us last year as a Visiting Associate Professor, in the 2015 Newsletter

Congratulations Dimitri!

Dimitri Nakassis (Ph.D. Texas 2006) studies the material and textual production of early Greek communities, especially of the Mycenaean societies of Late Bronze Age Greece. His book, Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos (Brill 2013), developed new methods for investigating individuals named in the administrative Linear B texts and argued from this evidence that Mycenaean society was far less hierarchical and much more dynamic than it had been considered in the past. He has published articles and book chapters on Homer and Hesiod, Greek religion and history, archaeological survey, Linear A, and the economy, society and prosopography of the Mycenaean world. He is currently writing a second book on political authority in Mycenaean Greece. He is co-director (with Sarah James and Scott Gallimore) of the Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP), a diachronic archaeological survey in southern Greece, and co-director (with Kevin Pluta) of the "Digital Nestor" project, which involves the digital documentation of all the administrative documents from the "Palace of Nestor" at Pylos. In 2015 he was named a MacArthur fellow.

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Now Hiring Assistant Professor in Roman History

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Now Hiring Assistant Professor in Roman History Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/19/2015 - 14:24

Assistant Professor in Roman History, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER

The Department of Classics at the ��«��Ƶ invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. by August 19, 2016, will have strong research interests within the field of Roman history, and will be qualified to teach a broad range of topics and levels in Roman history and culture as well as Latin language classes.

Letter of application, curriculum vitae, a short sample (c. 30 pages) of scholarly work, a brief teaching dossier, and at least three letters of recommendation should be submitted via https://www.jobsatcu.com, Posting #F02836. Information about our program can be found at http://www.colorado.edu/classics. Any questions may be directed to Peter Hunt: peter.hunt@colorado.edu. Review of applications will begin on November 4, 2015 and continue until the position is filled. Applicants wishing to submit any material after November 4th should submit it via www.cu.edu/careers and should inform the department, on account of a software transition scheduled for that date. The department will interview candidates at the SCS/AIA annual meeting in San Francisco, January 6-9, 2016.

The University of Colorado is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from women, racial and ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans. Alternative formats of this ad can be provided upon request for individuals with disabilities by contacting the ADA Coordinator at: hr-ada@colorado.edu.

See here for full job description.

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2015 Fountain Symposium

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2015 Fountain Symposium Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 04/04/2015 - 00:00

Sixth annual
Celia M. Fountain Symposium

“Power and Politics in the Greek World”
Saturday 4 April 2015

Location:

British & Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St, ��«��Ƶ, CO 80309, ��«��Ƶ

Schedue of Events:

11:00 a.m - Leslie Kurke, Gladys Rehard Wood Chair, Department of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of Berkeley, California: "The Materiality of Politics: A Pindaric Case Study"

1:45 p.m - Ian Morris, Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics, Stanford University: "The Sources of Social Power in Ancient Greece"

3:30 p.m. - Robin Osborne, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cambridge: "The Power of Images in Democratic Athens"

Power and Politics in the Greek World

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Jackie Elliott - Winner of the 2015 Goodwin Award

Goodwin Award - Jackie Elliott

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Provost's Faculty Achievement Award to Professor Cain

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Now accepting applications for field school in Greece!

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Dimitri Nakassis selected as MacArthur Fellow!

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Now Hiring Assistant Professor in Roman History

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2015 Fountain Symposium

Sixth annual Celia M. Fountain Symposium

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Sixth annual
Celia M. Fountain Symposium