A taste of the Aegean

A semester in Greece simply cannot be properly described in a blog, but I hope this overview gives readers at least a taste of the Aegean. Its people are friendly, the land is beautiful and the history is overwhelming. Whether it is ancient or medieval, the scenery of Greece is still a wonder for those willing to make the trip to the land of the Olympians.

My semester in Greece started out in Athens, which, thankfully, had a warmer climate compared to the snow storm I dodged. I stayed in Kolonaki, a section of the city based on the side of Mt. Lycabettos.

As part of the class on the archeology of Athens, we took several trips to the Acropolis. I had a presentation to do for the Parthenon.

To the Peloponnese:

We traveled to the Palace of Mycenae, where Agamemnon is said to have ruled. Its lions’ gate warn anyone with ill will to keep at bay. There is a reason why theirs are called Cyclopean walls. It is not the walls’ size, but the very rocks they are made of, that says something about the determination of the ancient Mycenaeans to protect themselves.

Olympic Games, anyone?

We went to all the ancient stadiums. “Just look out for vipers,” my professor  told us reassuringly as we walked into the dark narrow entrance of the Nemean stadium. Olympia wasn’t the best preserved of all sites, its importance remains, with its several striking temples (namely the Temple of Zeus) throughout the grounds. Statues surrounded the entrance to the stadium.

Heading North to the land of Alexander the Great

To the North, there is Thessaloniki, and what was once Ancient Macedonia. There is also Roman architecture there, like the Arch of Galerius and what is left of the baths. The White Tower on the waterfront was formerly known as the Blood Tower due to wars with the Turks. The city itself is quite beautiful, especially because of its parks.

Of course, how can I speak of Macedonia without mentioning Alexander the Great? We went to the remains of Aristotle’s school, built with Alexander’s support. As Professor Karavas put it: it is incredible to stand there and realize who stood there thousands of years before: Aristotle and Alexander. We also went to the supposed underground tomb of Alexander in Aigai, then to the first and second capitals of Macedonia (Vergina and Pella respectively). I did a presentation on the latter’s agora.

Honoring the 300: This is madness

On the way back, we stopped at the Hot Gates (so named because of the hot springs nearby), where the 300 Spartans fought the Persians. You know the rest of the story. It smelled of sulfur, but it felt nice when I accidentally stepped into a stream. Strangely, it is still debatable where the treacherous goat path which the Persians used actually was. A monument, on the hill, marks the place where the last 30 Spartans made their stand. The Greek on the Spartan Monument reads: “Come and get them.”

The Greek islands:

A trip to Greece would be pointless if you do not go to the islands. We went to Crete, arriving in Heraklion. We first went to Knossos, legendary palace of King Minos and the Minotaur. While mostly gone and partly repainted by Sir Arthur Evans, I can see why outsiders would call it a Labyrinth. The place was a maze on the outside. I only wish I could have gone inside.

 

Going East: From Lesbos…

For spring break, we visited the islands to the East. Our first stop was Lesbos, where we stayed in Mytilini. There, we visited a massive castle filled with both mosques and Greek Orthodox churches. The roads provided good scenic views of the ocean, which redefined the word blue. We climbed the mountains and walked along the beautiful fields.

A brief stay at the island of Chios:

This was the island that Homer is said to have been born on. The inn we stayed in had a nice rustic feel, despite being in the city, and the owner was a gentleman named Alex (sadly, I have pictures of him). He was in the Navy and had all sorts of stories to tell. He told us of his visits to the Soviet Union and other countries. It was a fitting encounter for the home of Homer.

To Rhodes

On Rhodes, we visited the medieval section of the city: a massive castle, stretching to the ports from a central part of the Rhodes. Then a monastery, atop a mountain (which was covered in peacocks). On Greek Good Friday, we went to another monastery, on the island of Symi. It was dedicated to St. Michael, and was crowded. The procession went around the sanctuary, its line stretching to shore.

On Symi, we did some climbing and stopped for lunch. That’s where this picture of me looking at the view was taken.

Frank Curley ’11

Rutgers Classics at CAAS 2010 Annual Meeting

Once again, Rutgers Classics put on a good show for the 2010 annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, 7th-9th October, held at the scenic Hilton Newark Airport Hotel in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Not only was there a strong turn-out of Rutgers classicists attending the meeting, but plenty of well-known RU faces appeared on the program as well. Katherine Wasdin, Visiting Assistant Professor, spoke on “Jason and Medea in Lucan’s Bellum Civile”; Lisa Whitlatch, a Rutgers Classics PhD candidate, spoke on “Altera Templa: Ovid’s Strategic Topography in Tristia 3.1”; and Katheryn Whitcomb, a graduate student making her first formal conference appearance, discussed the question “Alcaeus’ Fragment 34a: Religious Hymn or Metaphor for Self?” In an unusual twist to the normal program, Liz Gloyn, another Rutgers Classics PhD candidate, showed off her other accomplishments during ‘A Musical Evening in Honour of David Porter’ with a selection of songs with classical themes.

RU alumnae and friends were also in attendance. Marice Rose (Fairfield University), who completed her PhD in art history at Rutgers, spoke on classical reception in the architecture of Caesars Palace (apostrophe deliberately omitted) in Atlantic City. What’s more, Sarolta Takács, once Professor of Classics at Rutgers and now Dean of the Sage College of Albany, was elected as CAAS President during the business meeting of the Association in its Saturday session.

The annual meeting was, as ever, a wonderful opportunity to get together with colleagues from the region, hear exciting new research, and spend time with others who are passionate about the classics. Roll on 2011!

Rutgers Classics Down Under: A Travelogue

From April 5th-April 12th, Lisa Whitlatch, PhD Candidate, headed down to Sydney, Australia, for the conference “Genre in the Ancient World.”  She was happy to trade the unpredictable New Jersey weather for sunny Sydney, and reports back on the environment of the conference and Sydney–

Lisa Whitlatch at the Chinese Gardens in Sydney

The time difference is not easy to get over.  To arrive on a Wednesday, I needed to leave on Monday and travel, in essence, for 24 hours.  But other than the length of the flights, everything was good.  No crashing on a deserted time traveling island or something, after all.  I stayed at the Ardmore House (http://www.ardmorehouse.com.au/) which is a cute, elegant, but affordable B&B.  It’s in the heart of Newtown, which is one of the two main residential areas around the University.  So it’s what you would expect from a college town–many cheap restaurants and shops.

That day, I was able to do some sightseeing.  I went into downtown (CBD). I started at the Circular Quay, where I saw the Opera House and wondered around the Royal Botanical Gardens. There are so many strange birds in Australia! Then I took the ferry to Darling Harbor and walked around there. I spent some time in the Chinese Gardens, then had dinner and went back to Newtown.

Statuary at the Royal Botanical Gardens

The majority of the next three days was spent at the conference at the University of Sydney, Madsen Building, at the Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia.  There were introductory remarks by Frances Muecke and the keynote from a comp lit professor at Melbourne, John Frow. It was a very interesting thought about what it means and if it’s possible to translate genre. The other speakers were: Professor Bernhard Kytzler (“Conditions Apply: On Limitations of Ancient Literary Genera”), Ms. Peta Greenfield (“The Normalisation of Violence? Sexual Violence in Modern Fiction and Ancient Poetry”), Ms. Rachel Yuen-Collingridge (“The physicality of Genre in the Papyri: the Expression and Subordination of Content”), Dr. Michael Champion (“Performing and Transforming Cultures and Genres in Late-Antique Gaza”), Dr. Marcus Wilson (“You Are What You Read: Genres in Seneca’s Reading”), Associate Professor Matthew Semanoff (“Avoiding Cliffs: Reserving Strategies of Seduction in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria”), Associate Professor Damian Stocking (“Generic Dysfunctions: The Political ‘Work’ of Aristophanic Comedy”), Dr. Scott Farrington (“Polybius and Biography’s Missing Link”), Dr. Graham Miles (“Genres of Painting and Genres of Text in the Imagines of Philostratus”), Ms. Helena Bolle (“The Proverbial Body: Genre and Physiognomy”), Dr. Astika Kappagoda (“From Grammar and Genre to Science in Herodotus’ Account of the Flooding of the Nile”), Ms. Britt Sarah Paul (“Crossing Gender, Crossing Genre: Muliebris vestis as a Generic Marker of Identity in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (7.4-10)”), Professor Harold Tarrant (“Computer analysis of Common Greek Vocabulary as an Aid to the Recognition of Genre and Sub-genre”), Ms. Judy Goodsell (“Generic Experimentation in Ovid’s Heroides”), Dr. Jonathan Wallis (“quam bibistis aquam? Questioning Elegiac Identity in Propertius Book 3”), Mr. Murray Dahm (“Genre and the Breviarium of Festus – A Cautionary Tale of Neglect”), Ms. Sarah Gador-Whyte (“The Genre of the Kontakion: Poetry, Homily or Hymn?”).

Thus there were a variety of approaches and works considered.  The questions and comments were always thoughtful and constructive, and overall it was a nicely done conference.  To encourage discussion, there was a roundtable discussion at the end of the first day.  The participants were Marcus Wilson, Michelle Borg, Lindsay Watson, Damian Stocking, and Anne Rogerson.  We did not, in fact, come to a conclusion about what genre was or is, but the best work is in the discussion, right?

I presented my paper in the first panel of the second day.  It was nerve-wrecking in that expected sort of way.  There were some other graduate students there, but there were also junior faculty as well as senior faculty.  Thankfully, everyone was polite, and the feedback on my paper (” ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It?’: The Subversion of Hunting Imagery in Ovid’s Ars Amatoria“) was useful.

University of Sydney, Madsen Building, home of the Centre for Classical and Near Eastern Studies of Australia

A conference dinner was held at a nice Lebanese restaurant (Hannibal’s) on Saturday.  I only need say four words: belly dancing and Classicists.

The Classics community that I witnessed in Sydney was such a breath of fresh air (e.g. someone made a comment about how formally I was dressed for my paper, which would be expected in America.).  It was a great opportunity for both them and me to engage with an international crowd (mostly Australian/New Zealanders, but with a few Americans and a German scholar for good measure).  It’ll be worth keeping an eye on the Pacific Rim Latin Literature Seminars, just to see is any are held closer to us!

Then I went on holiday. I saw Town Hall, St. Andrew’s Cathedral and Queen Victoria Building, which is a fantastic mall. Then I walked over to Sydney’s Hyde Park (I really like going to parks) and the Australia Museum.  I ended the day at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Pompeiian wall painting in the restroom of the Ardmore House

On my last day, I went into the city, wandered around the shops at the Rocks, then took the Ferry over to the Zoo.  It was lovely with an excellent view of the harbor.  Then I went back to Darling Harbor for dinner.  I had dessert at the Lindt Chocolate Cafe, which mostly I needed to see to verify that it existed.  Let’s just say I wanted to eat everything there.

All in all, Sydney might be the nicest city I’ve been to (although with the current economy, it was not cheap).  It didn’t have the rushed feeling of many cities, and it was well kept.  If anyone can have an excuse to go there, GO.  But beware the giant and tiny spiders…

Love and Strife at Rutgers Day 2010

Rutgers Classics has done it again. In the midst of a hugely successful second edition of “Rutgers Day,” drawing crowds from all over the Garden State — no fewer than 75,000 people this year —the Classics department at Rutgers followed in the footsteps of the big splash made by last spring’s Greek and Roman Fashion Show.

On April 24, under clear blue skies and a blazing sun, students (and even some faculty!) from Rutgers’ Classics department took central stage on College Avenue’s Brower Commons, offering the crowds a fully-costumed, classically-themed show.

Up and down the signature red carpet, students dressed in ancient attire — including original designs by New York designer Jessica Deschamps — enacted scenes of love and strife from Greek and Roman myth, written by an outstanding team of undergraduate and graduate students from Classics and other departments (including English — and even Computer Science).

Spectators laughed as they watched the hairy cyclops Polyphemus woo Galatea with cheese, and mythical couples squabble in an ancient version of the dating game that pitted Dido and Aeneas against the likes of Oedipus and Jocasta. Go to youtube to see it all.

They gasped as a cohort of traitors, guided by Brutus, stabbed Julius Caesar within the Roman Senate – and spouted red ribbon with his last breath.

But that’s not all. On a mat just a few steps below, a full-on pankration was re-enacted in a no-holds-barred fight, followed by an intensely emotional performance of Medea’s painful deliberations regarding her children.

Of course, the spectacular fighters of the Ludus Magnus Gladiatores, the world’s #1 most authentic gladiatorial reenactment team, were back in full gear,  and performed throughout the day, flanked by the equally eye-catching Legio XXIV of Philadelphia, who added to the day’s authentically classical cachet.

Capping the program of the day’s classical festivities was a one-man recitation performance of selections from Sophocles’ Antigone — in meter, if you please, and yes, in the original — intriguing passersby (mostly not versed in ancient Greek) and drawing them to the stage by the sheer rhythm and strangely familiar musicality of the language.

Thanks especially to the RU Classics assistant professors Emily Allen-Hornblower (Galatea), Andrea De Giorgi (MC), and Timothy Power (ironic Cyclops), and to our department’s administrator, Kathryn Neal; to graduate student Lisa Whitlatch for the home-made drinking cup (something between a kylix and a kantharos) and to fellow graduate student Misty Kammerman, who provided essential props and costumes for the day; to John J. Ebel Esq. and every one of the other men and women of LVDVS MAGNVS GLADIATORES (particularly the one who broke his father’s nose for verisimilitude’s sake), and George Metz (Legion XXIV) .

Representing Rutgers (directly or indirectly) on the runway:

Alan Akao (’11); Kevin Apodaca’11; Kendall Blake (computer science graduate program); Shayna Faraday’11; ; Margaret Green; Malik Khalifa ’10; Anthony Lodato; Chris Mercurio ’11; Yash Patel; Shane Press; Tom Radtke; Amelia Scruggs ’11; Etel Sverdlov’10; Farrah Zaidi ’10; Chris Marchetti (PhD RU Classics ’10).

Click here to go to the Classics Rutgers Day 2010 facebook page.

Rutgers Graduate Alumnus Sean Jensen joins Harvard as a College Fellow for the year 2010-2011

Sean Jensen has accepted a position as a Harvard College Fellow in Greek history for the 2010/11 academic year. He will be teaching 2 undergraduate courses and a graduate seminar in Greek history while pursuing further research in the Athenian Empire at Harvard. Sean will receive his PhD this May with a dissertation entitled “Rethinking Athenian Imperialism: Sub-Hegemony in the Delian League”.

Sean’s faculty profile page can be found here.

 

Sean Jensen, Rutgers Classics 2010

 

All Roads Lead From Rome… to Classics graduate conference

Rutger Classics graduate students Liz Gloyn, Ben Hicks and Lisa Whitlatch are delighted to announce that the 2010 graduate student conference was a huge success! Held on 9^th April at the Busch Campus Center, the conference gave graduate students interested in reception issues a chance to listen to cutting-edge scholarship and discuss their own research.

Front row, left to right: Liz Gloyn, Benjamin Hicks, Sheila Murnaghan, Jorie Hofstra, Katharine Piller, Sophie Klein. Back row, left to right: Vincent Tomasso, Andrew McClellan, Patrick Burns, Michael Sullivan.

The conference had three panels, each of which showcased some fascinating new work. In the first panel, Vincent Tomasso, Stanford University, spoke on “The Iliad in the Original: Theorizing Classical Reception in Filmic and Televisual Texts”, providing a valuable theoretical underlay to the rest of the day’s papers. Katharine Piller, University of California at Los Angeles, gave her paper, entitled “ ‘As You Wish’: The Reception of the Greek Romance in The Princess Bride”; she provided a new way to think about the themes found in the Greek novels as well as fresh approach to a favorite cult film. Patrick Burns, Fordham University, closed the panel with “The Hyper-Alexandrianism of Virgilian Centos and Girl Talk’s ‘Mashups’ ”; although this was a field few of the conference attendees were familiar with, the paper showed a clear parallel between the artistic strategies involved in creating a cento and a mash-up.

After a brief coffee break, the conference’s keynote speaker, Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania, spoke on “Classics for Cool Kids: Popular and Unpopular Versions of Antiquity for Children”. Professor Murnaghan’s paper traced the use of classical themes in American children’s literature, particular the reworking of myths; she began with the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the mid-nineteenth century, and tracked developments in the genre up to the present day and the Percy Jackson novels.

The second panel resumed after lunch. Michael Sullivan, Rutgers University, began with “Europa Barbarorum and the Rehabilitation of Historical Accuracy”; he emphasized the popular audience for computer games which market themselves as historically accurate, and the huge appeal that the classics still has to the digital generation. Sophie Klein, Boston University, followed with “Animaniacs and Ancient Greek Satyr Drama”; her sophisticated handling of the common themes in satyr plays and the cartoon The Animaniacs gave us a new way of approaching a challenging body of texts and of using reception to understand the ancient world. Midori Hartman, University of British Columbia, had her paper read in absentia by Liz Gloyn. Although she was unable to attend personally due to the timing of her comprehensive exams, her paper, “Transformation as Disease, Reincorporation as Cure: A Comparative Case-Study of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses & C.S. Lewis’ The Horse and His Boy”, used medical and cultural anthropological models to compare the themes in the two works.

After a final coffee break, the third and final panel began. Jorie Hofstra, Rutgers University, and Jan Verstraete, University of Cincinnati and Montclair State University, provided a fascinating analysis of how medicine deploys classical material in their paper, “The Classics and the Pursuit of Legitimacy in Modern Medicine”. Finally, Andrew McClellan, University of British Columbia, closed the formal proceedings with his paper “Creating the Grotesque: Zombification in Lucan’s Bellum Civile, Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Romero’s Day of the Dead”; his analysis helped to explain the continuing power of the zombie trope through ancient to modern culture.

The informal part of the conference now began with a reception to thank the speakers and give the audience an opportunity to follow up conversations begun earlier in the day or pursue thoughts arising from the final panel. For those who were able to stay, there was pizza and a showing of the 1913 silent film Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeii, with English intertexts. This occasion for relaxed networking attracted a good turn-out, and rounded off the conference with an enjoyable opportunity for conversation.

Ben, Liz and Lisa would like to thank everyone helped make the conference such a resounding success. They would especially like to mention the Rutgers Graduate Student Association and the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, for their generous funding support; and Rutgers graduate students Amy Bernard-Mason, Lyndy Danvers, Andriy Fomin, Charles George, Eleanor Jefferson, Rachel Loer, Constantin Pop and Kate Whitcomb for their invaluable help throughout the day.

Left to right: Amy Bernard, Lyndy Danvers, Leah Kronenberg, Katherine Wasdin.

 

Now in its 6th year, Rutgers Summer Program in Greece taking applications for 2010

From Gary Farney, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers—Newark, and Director of the Rutgers Summer Program in Greece:

“Rutgers University is running its Summer Program to Greece again this coming Summer 2010 for the sixth consecutive time (from ca. July 6 to August 10). In this undergraduate program we travel around Greece, spending about half the time in Athens itself and half in the rest of Greece (in three discrete trips, to Crete, the Peloponnese and northern Greece). Students earn 6 credits, 3 in history and 3 in classics. While in Athens we stay in and use facilities provided by College Year in Athens, and outside of Athens we stay in hotels and overnight ferries, traveling around by bus. You can download the full program description here.”

“An estimate of the costs this coming year is a bit more than $5500 for New Jersey residents and $6500 for out-of-state residents (this figure does not include food costs in Greece or airfare to and from Greece). The program was rated as one of the most affordable by Let’s Go Greece on a Budget 2008.”

“For more information and an application, students can go to the program’s website, or they can contact me, Gary Farney, the Director of the program, directly via email.”

Preregister now for RU Graduate Student Classics Conference “All Roads Lead From Rome: The Classical (non)Tradition in Popular Culture”

Rutger Classics graduate students Liz Gloyn, Ben Hicks and Lisa Whitlatch are happy to report that pre-registration is now open for the Graduate Student Classics Conference, “All Roads Lead From Rome: The Classical (non)Tradition in Popular Culture.”

It will be held on Friday 9 April 2010 at the Busch Campus Center, Room 122 ABC, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.

Please contact Liz Gloyn or Lisa Whitlatch for the registration form, to be returned to Liz Gloyn by March 12th. And as always, please visit our Facebook page.

Registration begins at 9 AM on the 9^th of April, and the program is as follows:

Panel I (10:00-11:30 AM)

“The Iliad in the Original: Theorizing Classical Reception in Filmic and Televisual Texts” Vincent Tomasso, Stanford University

“‘As You Wish’: The Reception of the Greek Romance in The Princess Bride” Katharine Piller, University of California at Los Angeles

“The Hyper-Alexandrianism of Virgilian Centos and Girl Talk’s ‘Mashups’” Patrick Burns, Fordham University

Keynote Speaker (11:45-12:30 PM):

“Classics for Cool Kids: Popular and Unpopular Versions of Antiquity for Children” Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania

Panel II (1:30-3:00 PM):

“Europa Barbarorum and the Rehabilitation of Historical Accuracy” Michael Sullivan, Rutgers University

“Animaniacs and Ancient Greek Satyr Drama” Sophie Klein, Boston University

“Transformation as Disease, Reincorporation as Cure: A Comparative Case-Study of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses & C.S. Lewis’ The Horse and His Boy” Midori E. Hartman, University of British Columbia

Panel III (3:15-4:45 PM):

“The Classics and the Pursuit of Legitimacy in Modern Medicine” Jan Verstraete, University of Cincinnati/Montclair State University, and Jorie Hofstra, Rutgers University

“Brought to You Live or in Living Color: The 1960’s Reinterpretation of a 1950’s Socrates Portrayed in Maxwell Anderson’s Barefoot in Athens”, Charles Castle, Northwestern University

“Creating the Grotesque: Zombification in Lucan’s Bellum Civile, Shelley’s Frankenstein, and Romero’s Day of the Dead” Andrew McClellan, University of British Columbia

Photo (detail): Margaret Bourke-White, 1944. Source: LIFE/Google

Rutgers Classics in effect at CAAS 2009 Annual Meeting, McMaster “Cross Cultural” conference

Representation of Cato the Censor, from an 18th century edition of Plutarch’s Lives. Source: LIFE

Rutgers Classics turned out in force for the 2009 annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, 8-10 October, at the storied Doubletree Hotel in downtown Wilmington Delaware.

The conference program featured Liz Gloyn, a Rutgers Classics PhD candidate, presenting her talk “Life in Plastic, It’s Fantastic: Classical Reception and Barbie”. Gloyn, currently the holder of a University and Bevier dissertation fellowship, is now back to working on her PhD thesis on the ethics of the family in Seneca. But she has promised the RU Classics blog a peak at her “Plastic, Fantastic” conclusions—watch this space!

RU alumnae also made a considerable contribution to the papers at the meeting. Deborah Lemieur (Saint Joseph’s University), MA 2006 spoke on using Apollonius, King of Tyre as an intermediate Latin text. Marice Rose (Fairfield University), who completed her PhD in art history at Rutgers, spoke on how to use current events in archeology to encourage significant learning.

As if that wasn’t enough, Sarolta Takács, Dean of the SAS Honors Program and Professor of History at Rutgers, was elected CAAS First Vice President during the business meeting of the Association in its Saturday session.

Also seen: Katherine Wasdin, Rutgers Classics visiting assistant professor, and RU Classics graduate students Charles George and Kate Whitcomb. The 2010 CAAS meeting will be in Newark, NJ, right in Rutgers’ home territory—we look forward to seeing an equally strong turnout then!

But that’s not all. In Hamilton, Ontario, on 3 October 2009, Eleanor Jefferson, a second year graduate specializing in Roman history, presented a paper “United We Stand?: Cultural Negotiation in Cato’s Origines” at the McMaster University graduate student conference “Cross Cultural Influence In The Roman World.” The keynote speaker at that conference was Emma Dench of Harvard University, who spoke on “Roman and Local Conceptualizations of Time”.

Left to right: S. Takács, K. Wasdin, E. Gloyn, at the 2009 CAAS annual meeting

The Peripatos lives! The latest biennial conference of Project Theophrastus

What’s new with Rutgers Classics Professor Emeritus William W. Fortenbaugh—founder of Project Theophrastus and of Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities (RUSCH)?  He writes,

“From September 10-12 a well-attended conference on the philosopher and musical theorist Aristoxenus was held at DePauw University.  The organizer and host was Carl Huffmann.“

“Thanks to his efforts, Project Theophrastus pulled off a first: there had never been a conference devoted entirely to Aristoxenus, but now there has been. The old boy must be pleased, and he will be even happier when the conference proceedings are published in RUSCH. Biography and musical theory will be well covered, and there will be a new and complete edition of the fragments together with an English translation and notes.”

The next biennial conference for Project Theophrastus is already scheduled for 24-27 July 2011. It will be held in Germany, at Trier, where it is being organized by Georg Wöhrle and Oliver Hellmann. The title of the conference is “Phaenias of Eresus and the Early Peripatos: Specialization and Differentiation in Research.”

Professor Fortenbaugh continues, “Papers focused on Phaenias will be most welcome, but presenters may also consider other members of the early Peripatos like Theophrastus and Aristoxenus. ‘Research’ suggests natural science, but presenters need not confine themselves to science narrowly construed. They may take an inclusive approach, so that other areas of research are covered.”

Persons interested in the conference should contact Oliver Hellmann: his email address is hellmann@uni-trier.de.