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1997 07 31

Published by e-mail by the Classical Association of Canada/

Publie par courrier electronique par la

societe canadienne des etudes classiques

President: A. Daviault, Universite Laval

ANDRE.DAVIAULT@FL.ULAVAL.CA

Secretary/Secretaire: I.M. Cohen, Mount Allison University

ICOHEN@MTA.CA

Treasurer/Tresorier: C. Cooper, University of Winnipeg

CRAIG.COOPER@IO.UWINNIPEG.CA

Edited by/redige par

K.H. Kinzl, Trent University

KKINZL@TRENTU.CA

Acting Editor/Editeur par interim

J.R. Porter, University of Saskatchewan

PORTERJ@DUKE.USASK.CA

ISSN 1198-9149

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CONTENTS: [1] CALLS FOR PAPERS / [2] CALL FOR REVIEWERS

[3] SEMINARS, LECTURES, CONFERENCES, AND OTHER EVENTS

[4] POSITIONS AVAILABLE / [5] FELLOWSHIPS

[6] DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS / [7] E-MAIL ADDRESSES: NEW AND UPDATED

[8] WWW PAGES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC RESOURCES OF INTEREST

[9] STUDY PROGRAMS AND TRAINING EXCAVATIONS

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[1] CALLS FOR PAPERS

(a) ATTIC AND KOINE IN THE TEACHING OF ANCIENT GREEK

94th Annual Meeting of CAMWS

Submissions are requested for a panel session entitled "Attic and Koine in

the Teaching of Ancient Greek," to be held at the 94th Annual Meeting of

CAMWS in Charlottesville, VA (April 15-18, 1998). I am interested in

papers on curricular initiatives that incorporate (and integrate) Koine

Greek into the traditional Classical Greek language sequence. Please

submit five (anonymous) copies of the abstract, neatly typed on a single

sheet of paper. The author's name, affiliation, address (both surface mail

and e-mail), and the title of the paper should appear on a separate cover

sheet. Submissions must arrive by August 11, 1997. The length of

individual presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes. All

presenters must be members of CAMWS. Please send abstracts to:

Constantine T. Hadavas

Dept. of Classics

Beloit College

700 College Ave.

Beloit, WI 53511

U.S.A.

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(b) VIRGIL IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Special Session

33rd International Congress on Medieval Studies

Kalamazoo, Michigan (USA), 7-10 May 1998

With the publication of a number of recent studies on the subject (most

notably Baswell's study of annotated manuscripts in Virgil in Medieval

England), and the reprinting of an old one (Comparetti's Vergil in the

Middle Ages), our knowledge of Virgil's medieval Nachleben has expanded

considerably in the last three years, as has interest in such topics as

the poet's role as a spokesman for, or critic of, imperial ideology in

medieval political theory; the definition of "empire" in the middle ages;

the enigmatic figure of Lavinia; and, as always, the significance of the

Roman poet for Dante.

Interested parties are invited to submit abstracts of papers on these and

other related topics to the session organizer:

David Wilson-Okamura

5200 S. Woodlawn Ave. #1

Chicago, IL 60615-4419

U.S.A.

email: ds-wilson@uchicago.edu

Abstracts, along with AV/Computer Needs Forms, must be received by 15

September 1997, and should conform to the following rules, established by

the Board of the Medieval Institute:

1. Papers submitted will be essentially new and will not have been

presented in public before.

2. At top of front page include:

- Title of paper

- Subject area

- Name of author; institutional affiliation; complete mailing

address; phone and fax numbers; and email address; confirmation

of 20-minute reading time.

3. Abstracts must be typed, double-spaced, not more than 300 words in

length, and must clearly indicate the paper's thesis, methodology, and

conclusions.

4. Two copies of the abstract must be received by 15 September 1997.

5. An AV/Computer Needs Form must be stapled to each abstract, even if no

AV or computer is needed. Late AV requests cannot be met. NB: if you need

a copy of this form, you can get one at

http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/dswilson/kalamazooform.htm

Papers submitted may not require more than 20 minutes reading time.

Submission of an abstract will be considered agreement by the author to

attend the Congress if the paper is accepted. No one else may be

designated to read your paper.

Further information is available at:

http://www.wilsoninet.com/hydepark/kalamazoo.htm

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JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ALLC/ACH '98

ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING

ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES

JULY 5-10, 1998

LAJOS KOSSUTH UNIVERSITY, DEBRECEN, HUNGARY

ALLC/ACH '98 invites submissions of between 1000 and 2000 words on any

aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined as the point of

intersection between computing methodologies and problems in humanities

research and teaching, encompassing both traditional and new, and

discipline-specific and inter-disciplinary, approaches.

Appropriate discipline areas include, but are not limited to, languages

and literature, history, philosophy, music, art, film studies,

linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, creative writing, and cultural

studies. We particularly encourage submissions from non-text-based areas

and from library science, both of which have been under-represented in the

past.

Other areas of interest include the creation and use of digital resources

(what has been characterized as 'extending the scale and breadth of

scholarly evidence') and the application to humanities data of techniques

developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences

and engineering (including neural networks and image processing).

We are interested in receiving:

- technical proposals that focus on new computational tools and approaches

to research in humanities disciplines;

- proposals that focus on traditional applications of computing in

humanities disciplines, including (but not limited to) text encoding,

hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, statistical models,

and syntactic, semantic, stylistic and other forms of text analysis;

- proposals which present and discuss applications of computing

methodologies and tools to audio and visual materials;

- proposals that focus on significant issues of creation, representation,

discovery, delivery, management and preservation of digital and other

resources relevant to the humanities;

- proposals that either present or evaluate software applications and uses

for humanities-based teaching;

- proposals dealing with the role of humanities computing in undergraduate

and graduate training and institutional support for humanities computing.

Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit proposals. Those describing

finished research may be submitted as papers. Ongoing dissertation

research may be submitted as poster proposals. See below for details.

Students and young scholars should also read the note on bursaries later

in this document.

Papers may be given in English, French, and German, but to facilitate the

reviewing process we ask that proposals for papers in a language other

than English are submitted with an English translation.

The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is 20 NOVEMBER

1997. The deadline for submissions of poster/demo proposals is 31 JANUARY

1998.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Detailed information on the conference, the university, and the city may

be obtained at the conference web page:

http://lingua.arts.klte.hu/allcach98

Queries concerning the goals of the conference or the format or content of

papers should be addressed to:

ALLC/ACH '98

Center for Applied Linguistics

Lajos Kossuth University

Debrecen POB 24

Hungary

H-4010

Tel.: +36 52 316 666 ext. 2116

Fax.: +36 52 418 733

E-mail: allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu

Laszlo Hunyadi

hunyadi@llab2.arts.klte.hu

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[2] CALL FOR REVIEWERS

The editors of Echos du Monde Classique/Classical Views are seeking

reviewers for the following books; prospective reviewers should

communicate their interest and their qualifications to: J.L. Butrica or M.

Joyal, c/o Department of Classics, Memorial University, St. John's,

Newfoundland A1C 5S7 or by e-mail: jbutrica@morgan.ucs.mun.ca or

mjoyal@morgan.ucs.mun.ca.

C. M. Antonaccio, An Archaeology of Ancestors: Tomb Cult and Hero Cult

in Early Greece

E. J. Bakker, Poetry in Speech: Orality and Homeric Discourse

A. Barrett, Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire

W. Martin Bloomer, Latinity and Literary Society at Rome

A. L. Boegehold and A. C. Scafuro, Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology

J. Bouffartigue et al. (eds), Lalies 16 (Carthage, 21 août - 2 septembre

1995)

A. K. Bowman, E. Champlin, and A. Lintot (eds), The Cambridge Ancient

History, Volume X, The Augustan Empire, 43 BC-AD 69

S. M. Braund, The Roman Satirists and Their Masks

F. Brown, E. H. Richardson, and L. Richardson Jr, Cosa III: The

Buildings of the Forum: Colony, Municipium, and Village

J. B. Burton, Theocritus's Urban Mimes: Mobility, Gender, and Patronage

R. Buxton, Imaginary Greece: The Contexts of Mythology

W.M. Calder III (ed), Further Letters of Ulrich von

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

J. J. Clauss and S. I. Johnston (eds), Medea

L. H. Craig, The War Lover: A Study of Plato's Republic

R. D. DePuma and J. P. Small, Murlo and the Etruscans: Art and Society

in Ancient Etruria

S. B. Downey, Architectural Terracottas from the Regia

R. Drews, The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the

Aegean and the Near East

M. Eaverly, Archaic Greek Equestrian Sculpture

B. Eder, Staat Herrschaft Gesellschaft in frühgriechischer Zeit

C. R. Fitch and N. W. Goldman, Cosa: The Lamps

C. Fitter, Poetry, Space, Landscape: Toward a New Theory

N. Felson-Rubin, Regarding Penelope: From Character to Poetics

B. Hughes Fowler, Vergil's Eclogues

E. Garver, Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character

S. Goldhill, Foucault's Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the

History of Sexuality

R. Drew Griffith, The Theater of Apollo: Divine Justice and Sophocles'

Oedipus the King

M. Gualtieri (ed), Fourth Century BC Magna Graecia: A Case Study

C. Haas, Alexandria in Late antiquity: Topography and Social Conflict

E. Hall (ed and tr), Aeschylus: Persians

B. Halpern and D. W. Hobson, Law, Politics, and Society in the Ancient

Mediterranean World

N.G.L Hammond, The Genius of Alexander the Great

H. Heftner, Plutarch und der Aufstieg des Pompeius

M. Henig, The Art of Roman Britain

K. Herbert, Roman Imperial Coins. Augustus to Hadrian and Antonine

Selections

P. Hoffmann and P.-L. Rinuy (eds), Antiquités imaginaires: La référence antique dans l'art occidental de la Reniassance à nos jours (Etudes de littérature ancienne 7)

R. Hunter, The Argonautica of Apollonius: Literary Studies

D. Kovacs, Euripidea

N. Loraux, The Experiences of Tiresias: The Feminine and the Greek Man

G.V. Lalonde, M.K Langdon, and M.B Walbank, The Athenian Agora V. XIX:

Inscriptions: Horoi, Poletia, Records, Leases of Publications

M. Owen Lee, The Olive-Tree Bed and Other Quests

C. Lévy (ed), Le concept de nature à Rome: La physique (Etudes de

littérature ancienne 6)

C. C. Mattusch, The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from

North American Collections

M. M. McCabe, Plato's Individuals

F. Mencacci, I fratelli amici: la rappresentazione dei gemelli nella

cultura romana

G. P. R. Métraux, Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth Century Greece

D. Meuoli, La Vocazione di Sallustio

P. C. Miller, Dreams in Late Antiquity: Studies in the Imagination of a

Culture

I. Morris (ed), Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern

Archaeologies

R. Padel, Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness

A. Powell, Athens and Sparta: Constructing Greek Political and Social

History from 478 BC

W. Richardson, Reading and Variant in Petronius: Studies in the French

Humanists and their Manuscript Sources

O.F. Robinson, Ancient Rome: City Planning and Administration

R. M. Rosen and J. Farrell (eds), Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of

Martin Ostwald

K.N. Rutter, Thucydides Books 3-5 (a companion to the Penguin

translation)

R. P. Saller, Patriarchy, Property, and Death in the Roman Family

J. L. Sebesta and L. Bonfante (eds), The World of Roman Costume

B.D. Shaw, Rulers, Nomads, and Christians in Roman North Africa

N. Shumate, Crisis and Conversation in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

P. L. Phillips Simpson, The Poltics of Aristotle

E. Spinelli (ed), Sextus Empiricus: Contro Gli Etici

H. Staten, Eros in Morning: From Homer to Lacan

E. Stehle, Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece

S. A. Stephens and J. J. Winkler (eds), Ancient Greek Novels: The

Fragments

D.F.S. Thomson, Catullus

S.C. Todd, Athens and Sparta

F. VanKeuren (with M. A. Jacobsen and K. Kilinski II), Jupiter's Loves

and His Children

T.B.L. Webster, Monuments Illustrating New Comedy (3rd edition, revised

and enlarged)

G. D. Williams, Banished Voices: Readings in Ovid's Exile Poetry

S. Williams and G. Friell, Theodosius: The Empire at Bay

M.R. Wright, Empedocles: The Extant Fragments

F. I. Zeitlin, Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek

Literature

J.E.G. Zetzel (ed), Cicero: De Republica (selections)

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[3] SEMINARS, LECTURES, CONFERENCES, AND OTHER EVENTS

(a) THE CLASSICS AND SCOTTISH CULTURE - A CELEBRATION

The Classical Association Of Scotland

27 September 1997

Edinburgh University

Speakers: Iain Crichton Smith, Allan Massie, Thomas Clark, Alexander

Stoddart

Conference Fee: stlg12 (CONCESSIONS stlg7.50)

For details, please contact:

Hon. Sec., Cas (E & Se)

Dept. of Classics

David Hume Tower

George Square

Edinburgh EH 8 9JX

E-MAIL: CLAJNSS@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk

FAX: 0131-332 0204

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(b) NAWEB '97 - SHORTENING THE DISTANCE TO EDUCATION

October 4th-7th, 1997

University of New Brunswick

Fredericton, NB

This 3rd International Conference is a single stream conference for any

educator/trainer who is either delivering courseware over the WWW or is

developing courseware for delivery over the WWW. It is a user's conference

- for users by users.

Please look at:

http://www.unb.ca/web/wwwdev/naweb97

for registration, general information, the complete schedule and the list

of papers and presenters.

Email will get to us at hall@unb.ca or by phone at (506) 453-4646.

The Conference Registration fee is:

Before September 1: $275 CDN / $225 US

After August 31: $345 CDN / $275 US

One day and half day pre-conference sessions are also available, see the

web site for details.

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Department of Classics

University of Reading

2-4 April 1998.

Organisers: J.N. Adams (Reading), M. Janse (Gent), S.C.R. Swain

(Warwick)

Speakers to include:

J.N. Adams (Reading) Bilingualism at Delos

F. Biville (Lyons) Greco-Romains et greco-latin

C. Brixhe (Nancy) Echanges greco-phrygiens

H. Cotton (Jerusalem) Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek in the documents from

the Judean desert: languages, law and society

P. Flobert (Paris) A case of bilingualism in Gaul: Romani and Franci in

the VIth century

P. Glare (Keele) From text to speech: arguing the case for bilingualism

in Roman Egypt

M. Janse (Gent) Contact-induced change: two case studies from the

history of Greek

J. Kramer (Trier) Greek papyri from Egypt and the history of the Latin

language

D. Langslow (Oxford) Approaching bilingualism in corpus languages

M. Leiwo (Helsinki) From contact to mixture: bilingual inscription from

Italy

Z. Rubin (Tel Aviv) Res Gestae Divi Saporis: Greek and Middle Iranian in

a document of Sassanian, anti-Roman propaganda

I.C. Rutherford (Reading) Bilingualism in the Roman Dodecaschoenus

S.C.R. Swain (Warwick) Bilingualism and biculturalism in Cicero

D.G.K. Taylor (Birmingham) Bilingualism and diglossia in Late Antique

Syria and Mesopotamia

K. Versteegh (Nijmegen) Dead or alive: the status of the standard

language

H. von Staden (title to be announced)

The conference will start at 12 noon on 2 April and finish at 1pm on 4

April. The conference fee is L15 (pounds sterling) per day, to include

lunch, tea and coffee (L7.50 for postgraduates), or L40 for the full three

days (L20 for postgraduates).

Accommodation, which must be booked by 31 January 1998, will be available

in a modern University Hall of Residence.

All inquiries should be addressed to Prof J.N. Adams or S.R.D. Wallis

(Conference Secretary), Department of Classics, University of Reading,

Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, Reading, RG6 6AA (e-mail

lkpwalis@reading.ac.uk), from whom booking forms are available.

Up to date information will be on the World-wide Web at:

http://www.rdg.ac.uk/AcaDepts/lk/Classics/bilingualism.html

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[4] POSITIONS AVAILABLE

A. POSITIONS IN CANADA

MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND

The Department of Classics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, invites

applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant

Professor, commencing 1 January 1998. A completed Ph.D. is required. Area

of specialization is Greek poetry. The successful candidate should be

qualified to teach undergraduate courses in Greek and Latin; an ability to

teach Greek and Roman art and architecture would be an asset. There may

be an opportunity for graduate-level teaching. Applicants must submit a

curriculum vitae and the names of three referees. Evidence of teaching

ability is desirable.

Send applications before 15 September 1997 to:

Head, Department of Classics

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John's, NF A1C 5S7

Fax: (709) 737-2135

Email: ckieley@morgan.ucs.mun.ca

In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements this advertisement is

directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. This appointment is

subject to budgetary approval. Memorial University of Newfoundland is

committed to employment equity.

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B. POSITIONS OUTSIDE OF CANADA

NOTE: The APA Placement Service's "Positions for Classicists" is now

available via the WWW at:

http://scholar.cc.emory.edu/scripts/APA/frontpage/positioninfo.html

Only those non-Canadian positions that have yet to appear in that forum

will be listed here.

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BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY

The Classical Studies section of the Department of Romance Languages of

Bowling Green State University invites applications for a one-year

instructorship in Classical Studies, beginning 27 August 1997. A

generalist, Ph.D. or A.B.D., is sought with an ability to teach four

sections per semester of Latin, Greek, or Classical Civilization courses

at all undergraduate levels. As soon as possible, send letter of

application, curriculum vitae, three 1997 letters of recommendation, and

transcripts to Classics Search Committee, Romance Languages Department,

Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403. Applications

will be accepted until position is filled. BGSU is an Affirmative

Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

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[5] FELLOWSHIPS

The Center for Hellenic Studies (Trustees for Harvard University) invites

applications for up to twelve resident Junior Fellowships to be awarded

for the academic year 1998-99. The Center will consider awarding

one-semester Fellowships to a limited number of applicants who are unable

to apply for the full academic year.

With its 45,000-volume specialized library and serene wooded campus in

Washington, D.C., the Center offers an opportunity for full-time research

on a major project in a collegial, international environment.

Prerequisites for a Fellowship are the Ph.D. (or its equivalent) at the

time of application and professional competence in ancient Greek studies

as documented by published work. The Center is designated for scholars in

the earlier stages of their careers (generally up to about ten years

beyond the doctorate). The maximum stipend is $22,000 U.S., depending on

individual circumstances such as the number of dependents, plus some

support for professional travel and research expenses; in addition,

fully-furnished housing on the Center's grounds is provided without charge

to Fellows and their families.

Applications include a detailed project description, samples of previous

publications, and up to three letters of recommendation. Applications must

be postmarked by October 15, 1997. Further information and application

forms are available from: Office of the Directors, Center for Hellenic

Studies, 3100 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20008, USA. Email:

cd99@umail.umd.edu. Telephone: (202) 234-3738. Fax: (202) 797-3745.

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[6] DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS

UNIVERSITY OF NATAL (DURBAN)

APPEAL FOR NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT TO RETAIN THE CLASSICS

DEPARTMENT

On 1st July 1997 (the beginning of the vacation period) a delegation from

the Executive of the University of Natal (South Africa) paid a visit,

along with the University's Human Resource Consultant, to the Department

of Classics on the Durban campus. Without any prior consultation having

taken place, the delegation stated its intention to recommend to the

Senate of the University in three months' time (later revealed in fact to

be 18th August 1997, the first day after the end of the winter vacation

period) that the Department of Classics, Durban be closed and its

permanent, tenured academic staff be retrenched or redeployed. Not only

did the Executive reveal a lack of knowledge about the discipline of

Classics generally and the Department's growth in student enrolments this

decade during this meeting, but a draft document also demonstrated that it

was unaware of the full range of the Department's course offerings and the

proper titles of its courses. The Executive simply did not do its homework

carefully and failed to approach the Department to ascertain the precise

nature of the Department's contribution to the University and community

before embarking upon its course to close it and to retrench or redeploy

its staff. If the Executive were to succeed in shutting down the

Department, we believe it could then argue that it was impossible to

redeploy tenured staff, since all other Departments at the University are

in the process of being disbanded and are being amalgamated into new

Schools from which Classics could be excluded. The University Executive's

intention to recommend to Senate that the Classics Department on the

Durban campus be closed is unjust because the Department has not only

experienced a growth in its student numbers in recent years, but it also

ranks as one of the top research Departments in sub-Saharan Africa.

CLASSICS TEACHING PROFILE

In 1996, the latest year for which complete records are available, the

Department of Classics on the Durban campus of the University of Natal had

528 students enrolled on a semester basis in its undergraduate courses and

for postgraduate degrees (65 undergraduate FTE; 12 postgraduate FTE). This

compares with 376 in 1995 (46 undergraduate FTE; 9 postgraduate FTE) and

with 333 in 1989 (40 undergraduate FTE; 4 postgraduate FTE), the last two

years in which the Department was reviewed. From these figures it can be

seen that the Classics Department has seen a steady growth in its student

enrolments this decade, despite the dropping of the compulsory Latin

requirement for law students in 1995. Many of the Department's students

enrol in 'Words and Ideas', an innovative course that serves as the

foundation for the Department's present Classical Civilisation major (see

The Classical Outlook 72.4 [1995] 122-25); the Department also

coordinates 'Skills and Concepts for Medical Studies', which is taught in

conjunction with the Departments of Philosophy and History. Although final

student numbers are not yet available for 1997, the Classics Department

should maintain its 1996 student enrolment figure (unless the present

publicity regarding its future adversely affects its final enrolments for

the second semester), since it has contributed to the teaching (and

writing) of both Humanities core courses 'Language, Text and Context 1A'

and 'Language, Text and Context 1B'.

CLASSICS RESEARCH PROFILE

The Classics Department on the Durban campus of the University of Natal

has had one of the strongest research records of any Department in the

Faculty of Humanities and of any Classics Department on the African

subcontinent during the last six years. During this period the six members

of the Department have had published, accepted or commissioned for

publication overseas and within South Africa 138 printed items, including

10 books (including edited books), 7 journal volumes, 15 chapters and

articles in books, 44 articles and notes, 43 reviews and notices, and 26

other publications. The members of the Department have delivered 60 papers

and talks at conferences and workshops overseas and within South Africa

during this time. The Department also publishes the SAPSE-accredited

journal Scholia: Natal Studies in Classical Antiquity, which is

presently distributed to universities, libraries and scholars in 38

countries. Members of the Department have received numerous research

grants and awards. In addition, they have served as referees for various

international and national journals and for the Centre for Science

Development; one member presently serves as a referee for various overseas

monograph boards. Further evidence of the Department's commitment to

research is its fostering of Classics at the postgraduate level, as

evidenced in its current number of 14 students at the Ph.D. and MA levels

(some of whom have been awarded scholarships from the Centre for Science

Development and are not due to finish their courses until 2001) and its

Graduate Colloquium, which meets about 15 times per year. During the past

5 years the Department has also hosted 3 international conferences.

CLASSICS SERVICE PROFILE

(PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY)

Within the discipline of Classics, the Department has provided external

examiners in Classics internationally at the University of Malawi and

nationally at the Universities of the Witwatersrand, Cape Town, Rhodes,

Port Elizabeth and Natal, Pietermaritzburg. Members of the Department have

served as assessors for tenure and promotion overseas and at the

University of Natal. Some have served as examiners in Latin for the Joint

Matriculation Board and the Natal Education Department. Members of the

Department have been variously elected Vice-President of the Classical

Association of South Africa and Chair of the Natal Branch of the Classical

Association for 6 of the past 7 years. The Classics Department has

regularly mounted Adult Education and Extension lecture series jointly or

individually, has offered lectures to schools, and has set up school

competitions relevant to the discipline. The Museum of Classical

Archaeology also has performed a valuable outreach function. The

Department makes a substantial contribution to committee structures at the

Faculty, Inter-faculty, Senate and University-wide levels.

We appeal to you to send an e-mail letter of protest to the Vice-

Chancellor and University Principal of the University of Natal regarding

the Executive's decision to recommend to Senate in mid-August 1997 to

close the Durban Department of Classics, which by any general

international standard has proven itself to be a viable and proactive

Department. Please address your e-mail letter of support for the Classics

Department to Professor B. M. Gourley, Vice-Chancellor and University

Principal (e-mail gourley@admin.und.ac.za), and distribute copies to

Professor A. C. Bawa (e-mail: maritz@admin.und.ac.za), Deputy

Vice-Chancellor (Durban Principal), Professor D. A. Maughan Brown (e-mail

maughan@ exec.unp.ac.za), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Pietermaritzburg

Principal), and to me (dominik@classics.und.ac.za). Although all of the

aforementioned members of the Executive are presently on leave or are

overseas, any e-mail letters of support awaiting their return will prove

helpful to us in our attempt to defeat their recommendation at the Senate

meeting to close the Department. (It is especially important that you send

a copy of your e-mail letter to me so that I can produce documentary

evidence regarding the extent of national and international support for

our case.)

Yours sincerely,

(Prof.) William J. Dominik

Department of Classics

University of Natal

Durban 4041

South Africa

E-mail (Office): dominik@classics.und.ac.za

Fax (Department): +27 (31) 260.2698

Phone (Office): +27 (31) 260.1306

Phone (Secretary): +27 (31) 260.2312

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[7] E-MAIL ADDRESSES: NEW AND UPDATED

UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY

David C. Mirhady mirhady@acs.ucalgary.ca

UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE

Franco De Angelis deanf0@hg.uleth.ca

QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY

Caroline L. Falkner falknerc@post.queensu.ca

Anne M. Foley greenfie@post.queensu.ca

R. Drew Griffith griffitd@post.queensu.ca

Dietmar K. Hagel dkh@post.queensu.ca

Ross S. Kilpatrick kilpatri@post.queensu.ca

Frederic M. Schroeder schroedr@post.queensu.ca

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Michael J. Dewar mdewar@chass.utoronto.ca

Margaret C. Miller margaret.miller@utoronto.ca

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REMINDER: FOR A COMPLETE E-MAIL DIRECTORY SEE

http://www.trentu.ca/faculty/cac/cacemail.html

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[8] WWW PAGES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC RESOURCES OF INTEREST

THE VERGIL PROJECT

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded $175,000 plus

$10,000 in federal matching funds to the University of Pennsylvania for

development of The Vergil Project. The award is part of the second round

of the Endowment's "Teaching with Technology" initiative. The Vergil

Project was begun in 1995 with the aim of creating a resource that would

be distributed freely over WWW and that would facilitate learning,

teaching, and research about Vergil at all levels.

The project has plans to create a variety of on-line resources including

texts, commentaries, and interactive classroom support. We will coordinate

our efforts with the two classics projects that were funded in the first

round of the "Teaching with Technology" initiative, Roman Perseus and

VRoma. A major portion of the grant to The Vergil Project will be expended

on two summer institutes that will take place under my direction at Penn

during 1998 and 1999. Participants in those institutes will work together

to create some of these resources themselves during each of the

institutes, and will acquire skills that will enable them to lead their

students in further contributions to the project. A formal announcement

and call for applications to the first of these institutes will be made

during later this fall.

More information is available from the Project home page:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~joef/courses/project.html

A working prototype of the resource that we have in mind is available at

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~joef/vergil/edition.html

Comments welcome.

Joe Farrell

Department of Classical Studies

University of Pennsylvania

jfarrell@mail.sas.upenn.edu

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~joef

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/clst/clst.html

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Virtual Reality Tour of the Athenian Acropolis and Lato (Crete)

http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/classics/gradstud/bhartzler/VR/index.html

Ploutarchos (International Plutarch Society)

http://www.usu.edu/~history/plout.htm

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[9] STUDY PROGRAMS AND TRAINING EXCAVATIONS

(a) LEARN TO TEACH ANCIENT ITALY:

A Study Tour Designed For Teachers

June 30 - July 14, 1998

Program Directors:

Cindy Pope, TI IN Television Network, San Antonio, TX

Jay Hellmuth, Pulaski Academy, Little Rock, AR

Leslie Noles Flood, Germantown High School, Memphis, TN

Have you ever wondered what Quintus', Caecilius' or Cornelius' home in

Southern Italy looked like? Or what Aeneas saw when he landed at Cumae?

Take a study tour that will introduce you to the Campanian area of Italy,

to Rome and to Florence. While in Campania you will see villae with their

fabulously recreated gardens. Baiae is located on the Bay of Naples. You

will be able to visit the Roman resort towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii

which were destroyed ONLY ONE YEAR before the Cornelian's story began,

during the time of Caecilius and shortly after the family farm of Quintus

was confiscated.

Travel along the Via Appia like Quintus and the Cornelii do on the way to

Rome. You, too, will see the Tomb of Caecilia Metella. Once in Rome, take

the same walking tour that Marcus Sextus, Uncle Titus and Eucleides took

in Ecce Romani and that Quintus and his Dad take in the Oxford Latin

Course on their first night in Rome (The Servian Wall, Circus Maximus,

Palatine Hill, Forum, the Curia, et multa alia aedificia!).

Three master teachers and experienced travelers will lead a group of

teachers to Italy to gather the experiences and materials necessary to

teach Latin from the most popular Latin texts available (Cambridge,

Longman, Oxford and Jenny). The leaders of this study tour have over

fifteen years of teaching experience with the above texts as well as other

series no longer in print.

Throughout the tour every effort will be made to point out how certain

places, artworks, etc. fit into the curriculum of the different textbooks

so that every teacher will leave Italy not only with pictures but also

with successful lesson plan ideas used by the teachers involved. A

secondary purpose of the program is to acquaint teachers with travel in

Italy so that hey can bring their own students in the future.

As a closing gesture, the leaders will collect pictures and sample lesson

place from the participants and make them available for downloading on

their own WWW page.

Program Includes:

Transatlantic flight: New York/Rome/New York. Add-On Fares

available from other cities in USA and Canada.

All lodging: Naples, Rome, Florence.

Continental breakfast daily, 6 dinners, 1 lunch.

Transportation throughout session.

All entrance fees: museums and sites.

Study Guide and Reading Lists.

For daily itinerary, prices and additional information contact:

Campanian Enterprises Inc.,

PO Box 167

Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA

Telephone: (513) 524-4846

Fax: (513) 523-0276

E-Mail: campania@one.net

WebSite: http://w3.one.net/~campania/

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(b) THE CLASSICAL HERITAGE IN AMERICA:

Museums, Monuments, Churches, Gardens and Music

September 3 - 11, 1997

A special program designed especially for the blind and visually impaired

which will include the followings sites:

NEW YORK: Metropolitan Museum of Art, St. Patrick's Cathedral, The

Cloisters, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, The Museum of Modern Art,

Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty.

BALTIMORE: Walter's Art Gallery.

WASHINGTON: National Gallery, American Museum of History, Capitol,

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Cathedral, Arlington

Cemetery, Monticello, Library of Congress.

Limited number of participants (several places are still available).

Family members and friends of the Blind are welcome to participate.

For details and itinerary contact: campania@one.net

Web Site: http://w3.one.net/~campania/

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(Milan, Lugano, San Bernadino, Verona and Florence)

April 26-May 8, 1998

This program has been designed especially of the Blind and

Visually-Impaired. Tactile experiences and hands-non opportunities are a

special feature of this unique program. Family members and friends of the

Blind are welcome of participate in this program. This program will be

limited to 16 participants. For details and itinerary contact:

campania@one.net

Web Site: http://w3.one.net/~campania/

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