Faculty News/Updates

2007/2008

Professor Lateiner will make two presentations at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel in Lisbon, Portugal, the week of 21 July. He will be part of a roundtable discussion of Sexuality and the Ancient Novel. He will also present a paper on fictional proxemics, "Gender and Space in the Novels of Heliodoros and Anonymus, *Apollonius King of Tyana*. He will visit several principal archaeological sites of Portugal and Spain during his stay, thanks to the generous support of an OWU T.E. Wenzlau research grant. He is reviewing Irwin and Greenwood's *Reading Herodotus Book 5* for *Classical Review*. He has also been asked to produce a joint review-essay of Clarke's *Looking at Laughter: Humor, Power, and Transgression in Roman Visual Culture* and Roller's *Dining Posture in Ancient Rome: Bodies, Values, and Status* for the *International Journal of the Classical Tradition*. He is engaged in studies of oaths formal and informal, one on oaths in the fifth-century historians and the other on oaths in the ancient novels. These oaths can be casual or legal or religious words and gestures. Less certain are trips to conferences in Cork, Ireland for Herodotus and the Spartans, Regensburg, Germany for Thucydides' views on War, and to Philadelphia next January for a panel examining intertextuality between Herodotus and Thucydides.

Professor Fratantuono's book, "Madness Unchained: A Reading of Virgil's Aeneid", was published in the summer of 2007. In January of 2008, he contracted a sequel, "Madness Transformed: A Reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses", which is due for completion sometime in 2009. Final revisions of his "A Commentary on Virgil: Aeneid XI" were accepted by the Collection Latomus in Brussels in February, 2008; publication is anticipated for late 2008 or sometime in 2009. In articles, "Velocem potuit domuisse puellam: Propertius, Catullus, and Atalanta's Race" appeared in the 2008 "Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, Volume XIII" from the Collection Latomus. "Laviniaque venit litora: Blushes, Bees, and Virgil's Lavinia" was submitted to the Italian journal Maia. In preparation for his fall advanced Latin course on Tacitus' Annals, work commenced on "A Tacitus Reader". The first volume of his critical edition (with translation and brief commentary) of the Latin sermons of Peter the Lombard (co-edited with Stephen Maddux) is due out in 2008 or 2009 from Louvain. Professor Fratantuono continued his advising (with Professor Vogt of the chemistry department) of the Delta Upsilon Chapter of Delta Delta Delta, who named him their Faculty Member of the Year. In the fall of 2008, besides his Tacitus course, he will offer Elementary Greek, Intermediate Latin, and "Women in Antiquity", which will present a study of women in the Roman world.

 
 
Back to the top Humanities-Classics page

Department Info | Courses | Syllabi | Faculty and Staff
 
Students | How-To Guides | News and Events | Prizes and Awards
 
Readings | Resources and Links | Alumni
 
OWU Home | Search | Directories | Campus Map | Libraries | News | Sports | Jobs | Fun Stuff
 
Humanities Classics | Tel: 740-368-3570 | E-Mail: hmcl@owu.edu
Ohio Wesleyan University, 61 S. Sandusky St., Delaware, OH 43015
 
What do you think about this site? Fill out a quick feedback form.
 
Copyright © 2005 Ohio Wesleyan University. All rights reserved.
Send Web site questions and comments to websrvcs@owu.edu.
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Copyright Issues | Affirmative Action