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Series Writer And Presenter
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 Professor
Peter Toohey
Department of Greek and Roman
Studies
University of Calgary
Distant Mirrors Dimly Lit was written and presented
by Peter Toohey. He is Professor and Head of Greek and
Roman Studies at the University of Calgary. Prior to
that he was at the University of New England in Armidale,
New South Wales, Australia.
Books by Peter Toohey:
Melancholy,
Love, and Time: Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming
2002.
Gender
and Sexuality in the Ancient World, Readings On the
Ancient World
with Mark Golden (editors)
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, Periodization
and the Ancient World
London and New York: Routledge, (1997) with Mark Golden
(editors)
Epic Lessons: An Introduction to Ancient Didactic Poetry
London & New York: Routledge, 1996 (cloth)
Reading Epic: An Introduction to the Ancient Narratives
London & New York: Routledge, 1992 (cloth and paper)
Further info:
http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/grst/
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Contributors
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Professor
Susanna Braund
Yale University
Susanna Morton Braund moved to Yale University in summer
2000 to take up her appointment as Professor of Classics.
She previously taught at the Universities of Exeter,
Bristol and London (Royal Holloway College) in the UK.
She is the author of books and articles on Roman satire,
Roman epic and other aspects of Roman literature, including
Beyond Anger: A Study of Juvenal’s Third Book of Satires
(Cambridge University Press, 1988), Roman Verse Satire
(Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics no. 23, Oxford,
1992) and The Roman Satirists and Their Masks (Bristol
Classical Press/Duckworth, London, 1996).
She produced a verse translation of Lucan’s Civil War
(Oxford World’s Classics, 1992). Her edition and commentary
on Juvenal Satires Book 1 appeared in the Cambridge
Greek and Latin Classics series in 1996.
She has edited or co-edited four volumes: Satire and
Society in Ancient Rome (Exeter, 1989), The Passions
in Roman Thought and Literature, co-edited with Christopher
Gill (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Vile Bodies:
Roman Satire and Corporeal Discourse, co-edited with
Barbara Gold, published as a special volume of Arethusa
in autumn 1998, and a Festschrift for E.J. Kenney co-edited
with Roland Mayor, entitled amor : roma. Love and Latin
Literature (supplement to the Proceedings of the Cambridge
Philological Society, 1999).
Further info:
http://www.yale.edu/classics/facultystaff/braund_s.html
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Assistant
Professor Ruth Caston
Assistant Professor of Classics
UCDavis
Ruth's main teaching interests are Latin literature,
especially. Augustan poetry, the passions and literature,
ancient rhetoric, the Roman family, food and dining
in the ancient world
Research Interests Latin love elegy, Roman satire, Roman
comedy, ancient theories of the passions, and Hellenistic
poetry.
Publications:
The Fall of the Curtain (Hor. S. 2.8), TAPA 127 (1997)
233-56.
Review of E. Gowers, The Loaded Table: Representations
of Food in Roman Literature (Oxford 1993) in Food and
Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of
Human Nourishment 7.3 (1997) 211-13.
Papers Presented:
The Ball of Eros: Apollonius Rhodius Argonautica 3.31-44
APA, New York, December 1996.
The Role of Cybele in the Aeneid
CANE, Kingston, RI, March 1996.
Elegiac Passions: Love as Sickness
Department of Classics, University of Exeter, March
1995.
Conference on Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind
Helsinki, August 1994
The Fall of the Curtain (Horace, Satires 2.8)
APA, New Orleans, December 1992
The Character of the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum
APA, Chicago, December 199
Actium and Aemulatio: Propertius 4.6
CAMWS, Hamilton, Ontario, April 199
Catullan Self-Identification with the virgo
CAMWS, Columbia, Missouri, April 1990
Further info:
http://classics.ucdavis.edu/content/Ruth%20Rothaus%20Caston
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 Elaine
Fantham
Elaine
Fantham was born in UK and educated at Oxford. She emigrated
with her
husband to Canada in 1968 and became Canadian citizen
1976.
Elaine taught at Univeristy of Toronto 1968-86, then
at Princeton University where she was Giger Professor
of Latin from 1986-2000.
She has published a number of books on Latin Literature,
and is co-author of Women in the Classical World: Image
and Text (Oxford UP New York 1994)
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Mark Golden
University of Winnipeg
Mark Golden was born in Winnipeg in 1948 and has taught
at the University of Winnipeg since 1982. He is the
author of Children and Childhood in Classical Athens
(1990), Sport and Society in Ancient Greece (1998),
Sport in Greece and Rome from A to Z (2003) and the
co-editor (with Peter Toohey) of Inventing Ancient Culture
(1997) and Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and
Rome (2003).
Further info:
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/academic/as/womenstd/mark.html
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 David
Healy
North Wales Deparment of Psychological
Medicine
University of Wales College of Medicine
David Healy studied at University College Dublin and the University
of Cambridge. He became a Reader in Psychological Medicine
in University of Wales College of Medicine, Director
of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine
from 1992.
David is a former Secretary of the British Association
for Psychopharmacology. He is author of over 120 peer
reviewed articles and 12 books, including the reference
history of the antidepressants - The Antidepressant
Era, Harvard University Press, and The Creation of Psychopharmacology,
Harvard University Press.
Other books include The Psychopharmacologists Volumes
1-3, a series of interviews with leading figures in
the field. University of Wales at Bangor.
Further info:
http://www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk/~david_healy
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 Lisa
Hughes
Assistant Professor
University of Calgary
Lisa completed her Masters and undergraduate studies
at Alberta, before
completing her doctorate at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Her specialities are Roman art and archaeology, Roman
family, and Roman law.
Further info:
http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/grst/staff/lisahughes.htm
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Professor
David Konstan
Professor of Classics and
the Humanistic Tradition
Brown University
David Konstan's B.A. was in mathematics. In his senior
year of college he began ancient Greek and Latin and
went on to obtain a doctorate in classics.
He is also a Professor in Comparative Literature and
in the Graduate Faculty of Theatre, Speech and Dance.
Previous to coming to Brown he taught for 20 years at
Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He has held visiting
appointments at the University of Otago in New Zealand,
at the University of Edinburgh, at the Universidade
de São Paulo, the University of La Plata in Argentina,
the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa, the
University of Sydney, Monash University in Melbourne,
Australia, and at the American University in Cairo.
He is an Associate Editor of Arethusa, and on the Editorial
Boards of Scholia, Intertexts, Apeiron, the series "Writings
from the Greco-Roman World Series" of the Society of
Biblical Literature, Phaos (Universidade de Campinas,
Brazil), Logo: Rivista de Retórica y Teoría de la Comunicación,
the Cincinnati Classical Series, and Ordia Prima (Córdoba,
Argentina).
Books by David Konstan:
Some Aspects of Epicurean Psychology.
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1973 (= Philosophia Antiqua #25)
Catullus' Indictment of Rome: The Meaning of Catullus
64.
Amsterdam: A.M. Hakkert, 1977 3. Roman Comedy. Ithaca
NY: Cornell University, 1983; paper ed. 1986
Simplicius on Aristotle's Physics 6 (translation).
Ithaca NY and London: Cornell University and Duckworth,
1989; winner of the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic
Books, 1989-90
Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related
Genres.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994
Greek Comedy and Ideology. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1995
Friendship in the Classical World.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Key Themes in
Ancient History), 1997
Philodemus On Frank Criticism: Introduction, Translation
and Notes.
With Diskin Clay, Clarence Glad, Johan Thom, and James
Ware.
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature Texts and Translations
(Greco-Roman Religion), 1998 Commentators on Aristotle
on Friendship: Aspasius, Anonymous, Michael of Ephesus
on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics 8 and 9 (translation).
Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Duckworth,
2001
Euripides Cyclops. Translated by Heather McHugh; introduction
and notes by David Konstan.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
Pity Transformed.
London: Duckworth ("Classical Inter/Faces"), 2001
Further info:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Classics/Konstan.html
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Associate
Professor Chris Mackie
Centre for Classics and Archaeology
University of Melbourne
Chris Mackie studied Classics at the University of
Newcastle (NSW) and did his
doctorate at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
His earlier research was on
the Roman poet Vergil, but more recently he has focused
on the Homeric epics,
and on various mythical narratives in the early Greek
sources.
He is currently finishing a book on Achilles in Homer
(and other sources). His main teaching
responsibilities are in Ancient Greek and Latin, Classical
Mythology, Greek and
Roman Epic, Underworld and Afterlife and Comparative
Mythology.
Further info:
http://www.cca.unimelb.edu.au/research/candastaf.html
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 Hanne
Sigismund Nielsen
Associate Professor
Department of Greek and Roman Studies
University of Calgary
Specialities:
Greek and Roman social history and family history with
special interest in pagan and early Christian inscriptions
as evidence for daily life and private morals of ordinary
people.
Ancient medicine.
Latin poetry, especially Catullus and the elegiac poets.
Further info:
http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/sigismun/
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Roger
Pitcher
Roger Pitcher taught Classics at the University of New England in northern NSW
before taking up the position of Master in charge of Classics at Sydney Grammar
School. He is also Vice President of The Australian Society for Classical
Studies.
Further info:
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/Classics/ASCS/
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Associate
Professor Lars Svendsen
Dept. of Philosophy
University of Bergen.
Editor of Norsk filosofisk tidsskrift [Norwegian Journal
of Philosophy]
Lars Svendsen's main areas of interest are the History
of philosophy (especially Kant), phenomenology, hermeneutics,
aesthetics, ethics, philosophy of science (especially
the philosophy of biology), metaphilosophy.
He has published numerous books, articles and reviews
in various journals and anthologies. In 2002 he co-hosted
a weekly talkshow with a cultural profile on national
TV in Norway. Among his present projects is a monograph
on the philosophy of fashion. He is also the lead singer
of a pop band, UBIK, which is currently recording its
debut album.
Books by Lars Svendsen:
Kant's Critical Hermeneutics - On Schematization and
Interpretation.
Ph.d. diss. Oslo: Unipub 1999. 338 pp.
Kjedsomhetens filosofi [The Philosophy of Boredom].
Oslo:
Scandinavian University Press 1999. 196pp. Has been
translated (or is currently being translated) to English,
German, French, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Danish and
Swedish.
Kunst - En begrepsavvikling [Art - A Conceptual Unwinding].
Oslo: Scandinavian University Press 2000. 154 pp. Has
been translated to Danish.
Wittgenstein og den europeiske filosofien [Wittgenstein
and European Philosophy].
Anthology edited with Ståle R.S. Finke. Oslo:
Akribe 2001. 272 pp.
Mennesket, moralen og genene - En kritikk av biologismen
[Man, Morals and Genes - A Critique of Biologism].
Oslo: Scandinavian University Press 2001. 197 pp.
Ondskapens filosofi [The Philosophy of Evil].
Oslo: Scandinavian University Press 2001. 289 pp. Has
been translated to Danish and Swedish.
Hva er filosofi? [What is Philosophy?].
Oslo: Scandinavian University Press 2003. 154 pp. Has
been translated to Danish.
Further info:
http://www.hf.uib.no/i/Filosofisk/staff.html
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Dr Kathryn
Welch
University of Sydney
Kathryn Welch has taught Ancient History at the University
of Sydney, the University of her undergraduate and postgraduate
days, since 1991. Before that she taught and studied
at the University of Queensland and before that at Kogarah
High School in Sydney.
Books and Papers:
Welch, K. The Romans
Lansdowne Press, 1998
Powell, A. and Welch, K. (eds) Sextus Pompeius,
Duckworth in association with the Classical Press of
Wales, 2002.
Welch, K. and Powell, A. (eds), Julius Caesar as artful
reporter: the war commentaries as political instrument
Duckworth in association with the Classical Press of
Wales, 1998.
Cicero and Brutus in 45' in Hillard, T.W., Kearsley,
R.A., Nixon, C.V.E., Nobbs, A.M. (eds), Ancient History
in a Modern University
William Eerdmans, Michigan, Cambridge UK, 1998, vol
1, 244-256
Atticus, a Banker in Politics?
Historia, 40, 1996, 450-471.
The Career of M. Aemilius Lepidus 49-44 BC
Hermes, 123, 1995, 443-454
The Office of Praefectus Fabrum in the late Republic
Chiron, 25, 1995, 131-145
Antony, Fulvia, and the Ghost of Clodius in 47 B.C.',
Greece and Rome, 62, 1995, 182-201
The Praefectura Urbis of 45 B.C. and the Ambitions of
L. Cornelius Balbus', Antichthon, vol. 24, 1990, 53-69
HSC Textbook contributions:
Athens in the Classical Age', 'Sparta', 'Early Imperial
Rome' in Lawless, J. (et al), Societies from the Past
Nelson ITP, 1998, 149-298
Cleopatra VII' in Lawless, J. (ed), Personalities from
the Past
Nelson ITP, 1997, 161-187
Further info:
http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/anchistory/staff.shtml
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 Professor
Ian Worthington
Department of History
University of Missouri-Columbia
Ian
is Professor of Greek History at the University of Missouri-Columbia,
USA. But he's no stranger to Australia, having completed
his PhD at Monash University, he was Senior Lecturer
in Classics at the Universities of New England (NSW)
and Tasmania.
For the past dozen years he has published several books
and numerous articles on Alexander the Great, Greek
history, and Greek oratory. These include a collection
of ancient sources and modern scholars' views on various
aspects of
Alexander's reign in "Alexander the Great: A Reader"
(Routledge: 2003) and a
collection of articles on the Athenian orator Demosthenes
in "Demosthenes:
Statesman and Orator" (Routledge: 2000).
Ian is also the founder of the biennial Orality and
Literacy in Ancient Greece
conference series. He was also co-founder in 1993 of
Electronic
Antiquity, the first electronic international
refereed journal for Classics and Ancient History, and
was its joint-editor
until 2001.
His biography of Alexander, "Alexander the Great:
Man and God", will be
published by Pearson in October 2003. He is married
and has a son, Oliver, aged
five.
Further info:
http://www.missouri.edu/~histwww/Pages/Worthington.html
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