SPEAKERS

Alessandro Barchiesi teaches Latin literature at the University of Siena and at Stanford University, where he is Gesue and Helen Spogli Professor of Italian Studies. He is the author of numerous articles, and his books include The Poet and the Prince (1994, trans. 1997) and Ovidian Transformations (1999). He will deliver the Jerome Lectures at the University of Michigan in the fall of 2002.

Peter Bing teaches classics at Emory University. With interests in theater, modern German literature, and translation, his research has focused on Hellenistic poetry. He is the author of The Well-Read Muse. Present and Past in Callimachus and the Hellenistic Poets (Göttingen 1988) and Games of Venus: An Anthology of Greek and Roman Erotic Verse from Sappho to Ovid, co-authored with R. Cohen (Routledge Press 1991). His Early Hellenistic Epigram in the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series is forthcoming.

Marco Fantuzzi is a member of the staff of the Graduate School of Greek and Latin Philology of the University of Florence and Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Macerata. A prolific scholar of Hellenistic poetry, he has published a number of books in the field: Bionis Smyrnaei “Adonidis Epitaphium” (1985); Ricerche su Apollonio Rodio (1988); Struttura e storia dell’esametro greco, with R. Pretagostini (1995-96); and Muse e modelli: la poesia ellenistica da Alessandro Magno ad Augusto, with R. Hunter (2002).

Kathryn Gutzwiller teaches Classics at the University of Cincinnati. Her research interests include Hellenistic poetry and Latin elegy, women in antiquity, and literary theory, about which she has produced various articles and books. Her longer studies include Studies in the Hellenistic Epyllion: A Literary Re-evaluation; Theocritus’ Pastoral Analogies: The Formation of a Genre; and Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context, for which she received the Goodwin Award of Merit in 2001. She is currently writing a commentary on the epigrams of Meleger for Oxford University Press.

William A. Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Cincinnati. His research has focused on the phenomenon of reading in antiquity, and his numerous articles include the winner of the 2000 Gildersleeve Prize, "Toward a Sociology of Reading in Classical Antiquity" (AJP 121). His book entitled Bookrolls and scribes in Oxyrhynchus will be published in 2003 by the University of Toronto Press. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Packard Humanities Institute, the Board of Directors of the American Society of Papyrologists, and various committees of the American Philological Association.

Nita Krevans teaches in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include the ancient book as artefactual object and Hellenistic poetry. Her book entitled The Poet as Editor: the Poetic Collection from Callimachus to Ovid, a study of the rise of the poetic book in Greek and Latin literature is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

Ann Kuttner has taught at the University of Toronto and, since 1992, at the University of Pennsylvania in the dept of History of Art, and in the Graduate groups in Ancient History, in Art & Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, and Classical Studies. Her research interests in Hellenistic, Roman and Late Antique art tend to political arts and patronage, landscape architecture, sculpture, and painting - and, in recent years, the relations between visual and verbal language. Her book is entitled Dynasty and Empire in the Age of Augustus: The Case of the Boscoreale Cups.

Frank Nisetich is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston; visiting Professor of Classics at Boston University (2002-03). His main publications are Pindar's Victory Songs (Johns Hopkins U.P., 1980), Pindar and Homer (Johns Hopkins U.P., 1989), Euripides: Orestes (Oxford U.P., 1995), and The Poems of Callimachus (Oxford U.P., 2001). His published articles deal with Pindar and Euripides; also with the influence of Pindar on modern poetry. Original poems have appeared in Partisan Review and other magazines. The Recidivist and Other Poems is currently under editorial consideration.

Dirk Obbink teaches papyrology and Greek literature at Christ Church, Oxford where he is a Fellow of Oxford College. He is well known for developing an original method for reconstructing the carbonized scrolls from Herculaneum and serves as co-editor of The Philodemus Translation Project. He is also a recent recipient of a prestigious MacArthur Felllowship. Among his many books and articles is a text and commentary of Philodemus’ On Piety, Part 1 (Oxford, 1995).

Alexander Sens, Professor of Classics at Georgetown University, is well known for his studies of allusion in Hellenistic poetry and as the author of a number of commentaries: Theocritus: Dioscuri (Idyll 22); Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century BCE (with S. D. Olson); and Archestratos of Gela: Text, Translation, and Commentary (with S. D. Olson). He is currently working on a commentary on the epigrams of Ascleipiades of Samos for Oxford University Press.

David Sider, Professor of Classics at New York University, writes on Greek poetry and philosophy, and is the author of The Fragments of Anaxagoras (Meisenheim, 1981; second edition forthcoming), The Epigrams of Philodemos (Oxford, 1997), and (as coeditor with D. Boedeker) The New Simonides (Oxford 2001).

Andrew Stewart is Chancellor's Research Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology at the University of California at Berkeley. His books include Skopas of Paros (1977); Attika: Studies in Athenian Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age (1979); Greek Sculpture: An Exploration (1990); Faces of Power: Alexander's Image and Hellenistic Politics (1993); and Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece (1997). His Little Barbarians: A Tale of Ten Statues, a study of the so-called Lesser Attalid Dedication on the Athenian Akropolis and its impact on Roman and Renaissance art, is currently in press. In addition, he has led the UC Berkeley excavation team at the Canaanite, Phoenician, Israelite, Persian, Greek, and Roman seaport at Tel Dor in Israel since 1986.

Dorothy J. Thompson teaches ancient history at Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of Girton College and Isaac Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics. Her research is mainly on Egypt in the period following its conquest by Alexander of Macedon, on which she has written books, including Memphis under the Ptolemies, and scholarly articles. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and President of the International Society of Papyrologists.

Susan Stephens, a Professor of classics at Stanford University, has interests in the areas of ancient novel, Attic prose, Greek prose composition, and papyrology. Her publications include Ancient Greek Novels: The Fragments with Jack Winkler (1995). Her current research focuses on Hellenistic poetry, particularly in its cultural context, and her book Double Vision on Egyptian elements in Hellenistic poetry, is forthcoming from the University of California Press.