Departmental Papers (Classical Studies)
For over two centuries Penn has offered a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs representing all aspects of the broad field of Classical Studies, from languages and literature to history, archaeology and cultural studies. The Department encourages interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to teaching and research and maintains productive ties with a variety of programs, including Religious Studies, English, Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Linguistics, Italian Studies, History of Art, and the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Papers from 2017
Iamblichus on Divination: Divine Power and Human Intuition, Peter T. Struck
Papers from 2016
Review of Marianne Govers Hopman, Scylla: Myth, Metaphor, Paradox, Sheila Murnaghan
A Cognitive History of Divination in Ancient Greece, Peter T. Struck
Classics: Curriculum & Profession, Peter T. Struck
The End of the Lecture?, Peter T. Struck
Papers from 2015
Homer's Daughter: Graves's Vera Historia, Sheila Murnaghan
Papers from 2014
Christians in the Amphitheater? The «Christianization» of Spectacle Buildings and Martyrial Memory, Kimberly Bowes
Caesar and the Bellum Alexandrinum: An Analysis of Style, Narrative Technique, and the Reception of Greek Historiography, Cynthia Damon
Suetonius the Ventriloquist, Cynthia Damon
Philosophy in Vergil, Joseph Farrell
The Poet in an Artificial Landscape: Ovid at Falerii, Joseph Farrell
ΠΟΛΙΤΕΙΑ in Aristotle's Politica: An Annotated Catalogue, J. J. Mulhern
Naming Names, Telling Tales: Sexual Secrets and Greek Narrative, Sheila Murnaghan
The Misadventure of Staying Home: Thwarted Nostos in De Chirico and Rebecca West, Sheila Murnaghan
The Nostalgia of the Male Tragic Chorus, Sheila Murnaghan
Animals and Divination, Peter T. Struck
A World of Multiplicity and the Core Mission of the Liberal Arts, Peter T. Struck
Plato and Divination, Peter T. Struck
Papers from 2013
The Emperor's New Clothes, or, on Flattery and Ecomium in the Silvae, Cynthia Damon
Complementarity and Contradiction in Ovidian Mythography, Joseph Farrell
Introduction to Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic, Joseph Farrell and Damien P. Nelis
The Choral Plot of Euripedes' Helen, Sheila Murnaghan
Comic Parrhêsia and the Paradoxes of Repression, Ralph M. Rosen
Galen on Poetic Testimony, Ralph M. Rosen
Galen, Plato, and the Physiology of Eros, Ralph M. Rosen
Iambos, Comedy and the Question of Generic Affiliation, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 2012
Joyce and Modernist Latinity, Joseph Farrell
The Canonization of Perpetua, Joseph Farrell
The Latinate Tradition as a Point of Reference, Joseph Farrell
Efficacy and Meaning in Ancient and Modern Political Satire: Aristophanes, Lenny Bruce, and Jon Stewart, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 2011
Christian Worship, Kimberly Bowes
Reimagining Ancient Italy: New Directions in Italian Archaeology, Kimberly Bowes
Choroi Achoroi: The Athenian Politics of Tragic Choral Identity, Sheila Murnaghan
Classics for Cool Kids: Popular and Unpopular Versions of Antiquity for Children, Sheila Murnaghan
Papers from 2010
Intestinum Scelus: Preemptive Execution in Tacitus' Annals, Cynthia Damon
Pliny's Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History, Cynthia Damon
The Historian's Presence, or, There and Back Again, Cynthia Damon
Apuleius and the Classical Canon, Joseph Farrell
Goethe's Elegiac Sabbatical, Joseph Farrell
Literary Criticism, Joseph Farrell
Review of Katharina Volk, Manilius and his Intellectual Background, Joseph Farrell
The Six Books of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura: Antecedents and Influence, Joseph Farrell
Virgil (70–19 BCE), Joseph Farrell
Sophocles (496–406 BCE), Sheila Murnaghan
Allegory and Ascent in Neoplatonism, Peter T. Struck
Papers from 2009
The Main Chapel of the Durres Amphitheater: Decoration and Chronology, Kimberly Bowes and John Mitchell
The Impermanent Text in Catullus and Other Roman Poets, Joseph Farrell
H.D., Daughter of Helen: Mythology as Actuality, Sheila Murnaghan
Myths of the Greeks: The Origins of Mythology in the Works of Edith Hamilton and Robert Graves, Sheila Murnaghan
Penelope's Agnoia: Knowledge, Power, and Gender in the Odyssey, Sheila Murnaghan
Socratism in Galen's Psychological Works, Ralph M. Rosen
The Invention of Mythic Truth in Antiquity, Peter T. Struck
Papers from 2008
Introduction to Private Worship, Public Values and Religious Change in Late Antiquity, Kimberly Bowes
Review of L. Lavan, L. Özgenel, A. Sarantis, Housing in Late Antiquity. From Palaces to Shops, Kimberly Bowes
II Commento Virgiliano di Domizio Calderini, Joseph Farrell
Review of M. C. J. Putnam and J. Ziolkowski (Eds.), The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years, Joseph Farrell
Servius and the Homeric Scholia, Joseph Farrell
Papers from 2007
“Christianization” and the Rural Home, Kimberly Bowes
Tacitus (Ancients in Action), Cynthia Damon
The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture, Cynthia Damon
Horace's Body, Horace's Books, Joseph Farrell
Lucretian Architecture: The Structure and Argument of the De Rerum Natura, Joseph Farrell
Review of: Charles Martindale, Richard F. Thomas, Classics and the Uses of Reception. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006., Sheila Murnaghan
Learning to Teach in the 21st Century, Peter T. Struck
Papers from 2006
Frontinus and the Curae of the Curator Aquarum, Cynthia Damon
Potior utroque Vespasianus: Vespasian and His Predecessors in Tacitus's Histories, Cynthia Damon
Women in Groups: Aeschylus's Suppliants and the Female Choruses of Greek Tragedy, Sheila Murnaghan
Aristophanes, Fandom and the Classicizing of Greek Tragedy, Ralph M. Rosen
Comic Aischrology and the Urbanization of Agroikia, Ralph M. Rosen
Review of Luc Brisson, How Philosophers Saved Myths, Peter T. Struck
Papers from 2005
Personal Devotions and Private Chapels, Kimberly Bowes
Eduard Fraenkel on Horace and Servius, or, Texts, Contexts, and the Field of "Latin Studies", Joseph Farrell
Precincts of Venus: Towards a Prehistory of Ovidian Genre, Joseph Farrell
Whose Story Is It? Issues of Narrative Control in the "Odyssey", Sheila Murnaghan
Aristophanes, Old Comedy and Greek Tragedy, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 2004
Review of Nicholas Horsfall, Virgil, Aeneid 7: A Commentary. Mnemosyne Supplement 198, Joseph Farrell
Review of Philip Hardie (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ovid, Joseph Farrell
Roman Homer, Joseph Farrell
Review of: James P. Holoka (ed.), Simone Weil's The Iliad or The Poem of Force: A Critical Edition. New York: Peter Lang, 2003., Sheila Murnaghan
Aristophanes' Frogs and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 2003
Classical Genre in Theory and Practice, Joseph Farrell
Review of: Irene de Jong. A Narratological Commentary on the Odyssey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001., Sheila Murnaghan
Revisiting Sophocles' Poimenes: Tragedy or Satyr Play?, Ralph M. Rosen
The Death of Thersites and the Sympotic Performance of Iambic Mockery, Ralph M. Rosen
The Andreia of the Hippocratic Physician and the Problem of Incurables, Ralph M. Rosen and H.F. J. Horstmanshoff
Viscera and the Divine: Dreams at the Divinatory Bridge between the Corporeal and the Incorporeal, Peter T. Struck
Papers from 2002
Metamorphoses: A Play by Mary Zimmerman, Joseph Farrell
Legal Action: The Trial As Theater in Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sheila Murnaghan
The Trials of Telemachus: Who Was the Odyssey Meant For?, Sheila Murnaghan
Cratinus' Pytine and the Construction of the Comic Self, Ralph M. Rosen
'I Am Whatever You Say I Am': Satiric Program in Juvenal and Eminem , Ralph M. Rosen
Papers from 2001
“...Nec Sedere in Villam.” Villa-Churches, Rural Piety, and the Priscillianist Controversy, Kimberly Bowes
Forward to Special Issue of Vergilius on "The Vergilian Century", Joseph Farrell
The Nature of Latin Culture, Joseph Farrell
The Vergilian Century, Joseph Farrell
Papers from 2000
Rebellion and Reconstruction, Galba to Domitian: An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio's Roman History Book 64-67 (A.D. 68-96), Cynthia Damon
Review of Deborah H. Roberts, Francis M. Dunn, and Don Fowler (Eds.), Classical Closure: Reading the End in Greek and Latin Literature, Joseph Farrell
Review of: Mary Beard, The Invention of Jane Harrison. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000., Sheila Murnaghan