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CURRICULUM VITAE

Harold C. Gotoff
harold.gotoff@uc.edu
Department of Classics
University of Cincinnati
P.O. Box 210226
Cincinnati OH 45221
Tel. (513) 556-1935, fax (513) 556-4366

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

1952-1956 Amherst College B.A. 1956 (major: English)
1956-1958 Cornell University M.A. 1958 (Classics)
1959-1962 Peterhouse, Cambridge University B.A. 1962, M.A. 1965
1963-1965 Harvard University Ph.D. l965 (Classics)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1962-1963   Assistant Classics Tutor Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
1965-1966   Department of Classics, U.N.C., (Chapel Hill)
1966-1973   Department of Classics, U. Mass. Boston
1977-1986   Department of Classics, U. of I. Urbana
1986-            John Miller Burnam Professor of Latin and of Romance Palaeography, Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati

HONORS

1958-1959  Fellow of the American Academy in Rome
1984-1985  Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, National Endowment for the Humanities.

PUBLICATIONS

A. BOOKS

 The Textual Tradition of Lucan in the Ninth Century  (Cambridge 1971)

 Cicero's Elegant Style (Illinois 1979)

Cicero's Caesarian Speeches - text, translation and commentary  (Chapel Hill 1993)                             

B. ARTICLES

"On the Fourth Eclogue of Virgil" Philologus 1967, pp.66-79.

"On the Concept of Periodicity in the Ad Herennium" HSCP  1973, pp. 217-223.

"Tibullus: Nunc levis est tractanda Venus" HSCP 1974, pp. 231-251. 

"Thrasymachus of Calchedon and Ciceronian Style" CP 1980, pp. 231-251.

"Cicero vs. Ciceronianism in the Ciceronianus" ICS  1980, pp. 163-173.

"Cicero's Style for Relating Memorable Sayings" Illinois Classical Studies 1981, pp. 294-316.

"Stylistic Criticism in Erasmus'  Ciceronianus  ICS 1982, pp. 359-370.

"On Analyzing Cicero's Style: A Reply" CP 1982, pp. 336-339.

"A Response to W. V. Clausen, On Virgil's  Eclogues', Colloquy 43, Center for Hermaneutical Studies (Berkeley 1982).

"Towards a Practical Criticism of Caesar's Prose Style" ICS 9.1 (1984), pp. 1-18.

"The Transformation of Mezentius" TAPA 1984, pp. 1-28.

"The Difficulty of the Ascent from Avernus" CP 80 (1985) pp. 35-40. 

"Cicero's Analysis of the Prosecution Speeches in the Pro Caelio: An Exercise in Practical Criticism" CP 81 (1986), pp. 122-32.

"Ciceronian Oratory: The Art of Illusion"  HSCP 95 (1993) 289-313.

"Caesar's Caesarian Orations" in Brill's Companion to Cicero: Oratory and Rhetoric ed. J. May (Leiden 2002) 219-271

C. REVIEWS

Solodow, J.  The Latin particle quidem  CP 1981, 159-62.

Aili, H. The Prose Rhythm of Sallust and Livy CP 1981, 335-40.

Kennedy, G. Classical Rhetoric: Christian & Secular Traditions CP 1982,  56-62.

Theoret, M.  Les Discours de Ciceron  Phoenix 1983, 183-84.

Fairweather, J. Seneca the Elder CP 1984, 166-67.

Entretiens Hardt 1982: Eloquence et Rhetorique chez Ciceron CW 1984, 262-63.

Gransden, K. W.  Virgil's 'Iliad'  CP 82 (1987), 168-74.

Wooten, C. Cicero's Philippics and Demonsthenic Model CR 84 (1989), 170-73.

Shackleton Bailey, D. R.  Philippics  CR 83 (1988), 256-58.3

Mitchell, T. N. Verrines 2. 1  CR  102 (1988), 37-38.

Mitchell, T. N. Cicero The Elder Statesman Classical Outlook 7- (1993) 74-75.

Courtney, E.  Archaic Latin Prose Classical World (forthcoming)

D. CONFERENCES AND PAPERS

"The Rhetoric of Politics" Swarthmore College 1974

"Erasmus'  Ciceronianus" International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies,    Bologna, Italy   1978

"Politics and Criticism at the End of Cicero's Career" University of California, Santa Barbara 1979

"Erasmus on Cicero and Isocrates" Mid-West Renaissance Conference  Urbana 1979.

"On the Style of Caesar" American Philological Association,  San Francisco 1981.

"Virgilian Theatrics: The Fall and Rise of Mezentius" Harvard University, Cambridge 1983.

"Oratory as Theater" American Academy in Rome May 1985.

"Cicero and the Single Judge" American Philological Association Wash., D. C. December 1985.

"The Use and Abuse of Invention in Virgil Aeneid IX" Workshop for Rhetoric, University of Chicago May 1986.

"Virgilian Invention" the University of Michigan, November 1987.

"Philosophical Prose: an Investigation"   University of Kentucky, February 1990.

"Rhetoric and Originality in the Aeneid"  University of Kentucky, February 1990.

"Critical Approaches to the Text of Homer" University of Kentucky, February 1990.

"The Art of Illusion"  James Loeb Lecture  Harvard University,  October 1991.

"L'Arte di imitazione in Virgilio" delivered at the University of Venice, the University of Milan, and the University of Padua in April 1994.

"La Voce del Narratore dell' Eneide" delivered at the University of Pisa and the University of Perugia in April 1997 and at La Sapienza, the University of Rome May 1994.

"Misplaced Deference" delivered at UCLA in November 1995.

"Comprehending Cicero" 1996 Carl Schlam Memorial Lecture at Ohio State University, May 1996.

Lo stilo di Cicerone - a series of eight lecture and discussion classes offered at the University of Venice, Ca' Foscari.  May 1998

"Cicerone e il unico judice" a public lecture given at the University of Venice, Ca' Foscari.  May 1998.