Posted on January 3, 2012 by lkoelle and saved under Nuntius
One of the papers from the Eta Sigma Phi panel at the 2011 APA Rhiannon Gladys Ellington Knol and Eric B. Struble Randolph College The jump between elementary and intermediate Latin is one of the most difficult challenges of Latin instruction: the students have basic linguistic tools but lack the…
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Posted on January 3, 2012 by lkoelle and saved under Nuntius
One of the papers from the Eta Sigma Phi panel at the 2011 APA Hannah Rich University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This paper studies the relationship between the Cena Nasideni from Satire 2.9 of Horace and the Cena Trimalchionis from the Satyricon of Petronius. A close reading of…
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Posted on January 3, 2012 by lkoelle and saved under Nuntius
One of the papers from the Eta Sigma Phi panel at the 2011 APA Lauren Gribble Hillsdale College Although the prostitute has long been listed among stock comedic characters as the mala meretrix, Donatus maintains that Terence’s courtesan represents a departure from the stereotype, termed the bona meretrix, a line…
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Posted on January 3, 2012 by lkoelle and saved under Nuntius
One of the papers from the Eta Sigma Phi panel at the 2011 APA Caleb E. Scholle New York University In this paper, I argue that Diogenes the Cynic’s abuse of Plato, recounted by the biographer Diogenes Laertius, is not, as scholars have generally assumed, a mere literary invention. Rather,…
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Posted on January 3, 2012 by lkoelle and saved under Nuntius
One of the papers from the Eta Sigma Phi panel at the 2011 APA Mara Kutter University of California, Los Angeles Before the Athenians had democracy, they lived under tyranny. The Peisistratids ruled Athens consecutively from 546/5 B.C. until 511/0 B.C. The sources concerning the Peisistratids, including Herodotus, Thucydides, the…
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Posted on January 3, 2012 by lkoelle and saved under Ecce
The 83rd annual Eta Sigma Phi convention took place in Austin, Texas at the invitation of Gamma Sigma at the University of Texas at Austin on March 25–27, 2011. After registration on Friday afternoon, the convention opened with over 85 delegates from around 26 different chapters gathering outside the Union…
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Posted on January 3, 2012 by lkoelle and saved under Ecce, Nuntius
Eta Sigma Phi will sponsor its third undergraduate panel at the 143rd Meeting of the American Philological Association in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 5–8, 2012 (Saturday, January 7, 1:30–3:30 PM, room to be announced). The following papers were elected by an anonymous committee of chapter advisors. “Humility, Humiliation, and Mock-epic: Horace…
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Posted on January 3, 2012 by lkoelle and saved under Nuntius
Learning to Speak and Pray in Confessions, Book 1 Theodore Harwood of Eta Delta at Hillsdale College St. Augustine opens his Confessions with a very simple statement: magnus es, domine (“You are great, Lord”; 1.1.1). Yet, as Christian Lotz notes, Augustine’s invocation, in bringing into speech the invisible, intangible, and…
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Posted on January 3, 2012 by lkoelle and saved under Magistratūs Dicunt
Xαίρετε! My name is Christopher Rios and I am a member of the Theta Upsilon chapter at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Born and raised in Plano, Texas, I initially attended UNT as a Pipe Organ Performance major, but, after some guidance from my mentor, Dr. Dean…
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Posted on January 3, 2012 by lkoelle and saved under Magistratūs Dicunt
I grew up near Bemidji, MN, and moved to Iowa in middle school. After graduating high school, I lived and worked on my own for five years, spending a lot of my free time in study. I wanted to give myself a liberal education, so I read a lot of…
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